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Chitra Parayath
11/02/2004
Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions is
ready with it's next venture after the stupendously successful
"Munnabhai M.B.B.S." Based on Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's novel, the
new 'Parineeta' will be directed by Pradeep Sarkar and will star
Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Raima Sen and newcomer Vidya Balan.
Pradeep Sarkar was Chopra's assistant during the making of 'Mission
Kashmir'. A 65 day start to finish schedule is planned by Chopra
after the shooting's beginning in Darjeeling on October 30. One of
my favorite Bollywood players, Milind Junaji (Fareb, Devdas, Dev,
Asambhav and Ishq Qayamat) has accepted two Hollywood offers. The films
are titled Singularity and 'Backwater'. 'Backwater' will have Milind in
the role of a fisherman; the story is a murder mystery which will be
filmed in South India. Nicholas Irons and Gulshan Grover costar.
'Singularity' has Milind match talents with Ash Rai and Vivek Oberoi. Milind is currently busy with Vikram Bhatt's 'Elaan' and Dev Anand's 'Prime Minister'. Rumors also indicate Ash may play the lead role in director Kalpna Lajmi's film 'Sinhasan'. Renowned
film maker Shyam Benegal was presented the 19th Indira Gandhi Award for
National Integration for contributing to communal harmony and unity
through his films. Sonia Gandhi presented the award to Benegal, who is
also the recipient of Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri.
After
Rani Mukherjee opted out of Mira Nair's 'Namesake', Konkona Sensharma
is supposed to have bagged the role. It is now rumored that Abhishek
Bacchan will play the protagonist, Gogol, a Bengali NRI in the film.
Ravi
Chopra will have Amitabh Bachchan crooning a song along with Udit and
Alka in his new film Babul. Amit's songs in Baghban went down
well with the masses and music director Aadesh Shrivastav has
Sudesh Bhonsle pitch in with a few lines himself. Babul has Salman Khan
playing Amit and Hema Malini's son and the film also stars Rani
Mukherjee.
Zoya
Akhtar's 'Luck by Chance' will have Tabu and Saif in the leading
roles. Zoya says that she needs another actor to play the third
principal role in the film. The search is on since talks with Hrithik
did not work out.
Hariharan,
49 has been named the recipient of the the prestigious Swaralaya
Kairali Yesudas award. The award is jointly instituted by Swaralaya, an
organization that promotes music, Kairali TV channel and popular singer
KJ Yesudas and carries a cash prize of Rs. 100,000. Santha P Nair, a
popular female playback singer of yesteryears recieved the special jury
award and will receive a cash prize of Rs 50,000.
The awards will
be presented at a special ceremony on January 4, 2005. Winners of the
Swaralaya award in previous years include Jayachandran, SP
Balsubramaniam, Asha Bhonsle and KS Chithra.
Dev
Anand shoots a scene for his forthcoming film ' Mr. Prime
Minister' in Bal Thackeray's home' Matoshree'. The Shiv Sena
supremo must be so crazy about Bollywood films...what other
explanation could there be?
$100 for a Bollywood Tour! Sunil Shetty's company Popcorn Entertainment has hit upon a sure fire way to
bring in the bucks! $100 will get one a total Bollywood tour. A visit to
Filmistan, a chance to see your favorite stars throw tantrums, a peek into
post-production work, entertainment shows, the works. The idea is sure to
attract local as well as international film afficianados.
So,
what news of the talented Mr. Aamir Khan? While he is awaiting the
release of Ketan Mehta's 'The Rising', he is, we hear also ready to
take on Rakesh Mehra's Rangde Basanti that will also be in shot English
and is called Paint It Yellow.
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