Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The Biwi and Gangster's Second Tryst
Mahie Gill will play a socialite who has an affair with a male prostitute
They may have only just finished a film together -- Sahib Bibi Aur Gangster -- with a sequel in the pipeline, but Randeep Hooda and Mahie Gill have been signed up together for another film.
This one, titled Mayanagari is based on popular Hindi novelist Surendra Varma's Do Murdon Ke Liye Guldasta and will be made by Satish Kaushik.
While Hooda, along with actor Prashant Narayanan, (who earlier essayed a psychopath in Murder 3), will play two migrants living in Mumbai, Gill will play a rich socialite who starts an affair with both actors.
In the film, Narayanan will play the role of a gangster, and Hooda, a male prostitute. According to sources, Hooda is leaving no stone unturned in his attempt to get his performance correct. He has reportedly even met male prostitutes in Mumbai to prepare.
When contacted, Kaushik confirmed the casting of the film. He also said, "Mayanagari will focus on the seamy side of a migrant's life. Randeep's role is something never attempted before (in Bollywood). So far, our films have only focused on female prostitution."
Dilip Shukla, who earlier wrote Dabangg, is writing the script of the film.
They may have only just finished a film together -- Sahib Bibi Aur Gangster -- with a sequel in the pipeline, but Randeep Hooda and Mahie Gill have been signed up together for another film.
This one, titled Mayanagari is based on popular Hindi novelist Surendra Varma's Do Murdon Ke Liye Guldasta and will be made by Satish Kaushik.
While Hooda, along with actor Prashant Narayanan, (who earlier essayed a psychopath in Murder 3), will play two migrants living in Mumbai, Gill will play a rich socialite who starts an affair with both actors.
In the film, Narayanan will play the role of a gangster, and Hooda, a male prostitute. According to sources, Hooda is leaving no stone unturned in his attempt to get his performance correct. He has reportedly even met male prostitutes in Mumbai to prepare.
When contacted, Kaushik confirmed the casting of the film. He also said, "Mayanagari will focus on the seamy side of a migrant's life. Randeep's role is something never attempted before (in Bollywood). So far, our films have only focused on female prostitution."
Dilip Shukla, who earlier wrote Dabangg, is writing the script of the film.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
The winners of Apsara Awards 2012
The winners of Apsara Awards 2012
Ranbir Kapoor and Vidya Balan for the third time emerged as winners. For their rave performance in ‘Rockstar and The Dirty Picture, they bagged the Apsara best actor male and female awards. Hosted by Farah Khan and Karan Johar, Apsara Awards was held on Wednesday at Yash Raj studios.
The evening was memorable for Zoya Akhtar as she received the best director award for her film, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and at the same time, it also won the Best Film award. The evening saw some scintillating performance from the soon to be wed Genelia D’Souza and Riteish Deshmukh, Kareena Kapoor grooved to the song ‘Nakka Mukka’, ‘Ringa Ringa’ and the chartbuster ‘Kolaveri Di’. Amisha Patel danced to recent hit item numbers like ‘Chikni chameli’, ‘Ooh La La’ and ‘Madhubala’. Anushka Sharma set the stage on fire with popular telly actors.
Check out the complete list of winners of Apsara Awards:
Best Film
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Actor (Male)
Ranbir Kapoor for ‘Rockstar’
Best Actor Female
Vidya Balan for ‘The Dirty Picture’
Best Director
Zoya Akhtar for ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’
Best Supporting Actor
Farhan Akhtar for ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’
Best Supporting Actress
Parineeti Chopra for ‘Ladies V/s Ricky Bahl’
Best Debutant (Female)
Parineeti Chopra
Best Debutant (Male)
Rana Daggubati for ‘Dum Maaro Dum’
Best Performance in a comic role
Deepak Dobriyal (Tanu Weds Manu)
Best performance in a negative role
Prakash Raj (Singham)
Hindustan Times Readers Choice Award for best entertainer male
Shahrukh Khan
Hindustan Times Readers Choice Award for best entertainer female
Priyanka Chopra
Best Music
A R Rahman for Rockstar
Best Lyrics
Irshad Kamil for ‘Nadaan Parinday’ in ‘Rockstar’
Best Choreography
Bosco-Caesar for ‘Desi Boyz’
Best Singer Male
Mohit Chauhan for ‘Saada Haq’
Best Singer Female
Shreya Ghosal for ‘Teri Meri’ in ‘Bodyguard’
Best Sound Design and Sound Mixing
Ra. One
Best Editing
No One Killed Jessica
Best Cinematographer
Chirantan Das (Tanu Weds Manu)
Most Promising Director
Abhinay Deo (Delhi Belly)
Best Screenplay
Reema Katgi and Zoya Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
Best Story
Reema Katgi and Zoya Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
Guild honour for excellence On TV
Amitabh Bachchan (Kaun Banega Crorepati)
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Agreepath movie casting - 2012
Language
Hindi
Genre
Drama, Action
Cast
Direction
Production
Banner
Dharma Productions
Music Director
Lyrics
Executive Producer/Co-Producer
Apoorva Mehta
Cinematography
Ravi K. Chandran, Kiran Deohans
Action
Abbas Ali Moghul
Editor
Akiv Ali
Choreography
Brinda, Chinni Prakash, Rekha Chinni
Prakash, Saroj Khan
Prakash, Saroj Khan
Sound
Stephen Gomes
Agneepath – Movie Review
Agneepath is a revenge drama, which dwells on strong emotions and aggressive and forceful action. The stellar performances of Hrithik Roshan and Sanjay Dutt are the major highlight of the film. Ajay-Atul's music, Ravi K Chandran's cinematography, wonderfully choreographed fights and dance sequences, Piyush Mishra's commanding dialogues, beautiful costumes, locales and makeup work are its other attractions.
Except on big change, Karan Malhotra has remained very honest to the original movie Agneepath. Yet the film looks very fresh and entertaining. The director has dropped a character named Krishnan Iyer MA, which was played by Mithun Chakraborty in the original. Instead, he has introduced a negative role - Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor), who makes the narration more volatile and explosive.
Vijay Dinanath Chauhan (Hrithik Roshan) is an angry young man in a small village Mandwa. But he leaves the village after evil drug dealer Kancha (Sanjay Dutt) hangs his father (Chetan Pandit) to death. Vijay joins the team of gang lord Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor) in Mumbai. He makes necessary preparation to take revenge upon Kancha. His best friend Kaali (Priyanka Chopra) stands by him at every moment in his life. He returns to his village after 15 years. What happens next will form an interesting portion of the film.
As Vijay Dinanath Chauhan, Hrithik Roshan has given superb performance. He has not tried to copy Amitabh Bachchan from the original. He has his own distinct way of portraying this role. As brutal Kancha, Sanjay Dutt is electrifying and all thanks to his superb makeup. This role is yet another turning point in his career. Although Priyanka Chopra has less scope in the movie, she has used it to impress the audience. Rishi Kapoor has also delivered an exceptional performance. Zarina Wahab, Om Puri others are also good in their respective languages.
In the technical front, Ajay-Atul's music is the main highlight. The duo's compositions like Deva Shree Ganesha and Chikni Chameli are picks of the lot. Their background score is exhilarating. Abbas Ali Moghul's action, Ravi K Chandran's camera work and Piyush Mishra's dialogue are also plus point of the film.
In the nutshell, Agneepath can be described as a master piece and it is a fitting tribute to the original.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
'DAM 999' out (Oscar nominations)
"DAM 999" is out of the Academy Award race.
Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" leads this year's Oscar nomination pack with 11 nods and "The Artist" is close behind with 10 nominations, while India's only hope "DAM 999" is out of the Academy Award race.
The nominations were announced here Tuesday.
"Hugo", set in Paris of the 1930s, is about an orphan who lives in a train station, and is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. It is adapted from Brian Selznick's novel "The Invention of Hugo Cabret".
The movie has been nominated in the best picture, directing, sound editing, sound mixing, visual effects, writing (adapted screenplay), art direction, cinematography, costume design, editing and music (original score) categories.
India's other hope was the National award-winning Malayalam film "Adaminte Makan Abu" in the foreign language film category, but it failed to even find a place in the Oscar shortlist, released Jan 19. The final nominations for the category are "Bullhead" (Belgium), "Footnote" (Israel), "In Darkness" (Poland), "Monsieur Lazhar" (Canada) and "A Separation" (Iran).
Here's the list of other categories and their respective nominations:
Animated Feature Film
"A Cat in Paris" (Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli)
"Chico & Rita" (Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal)
"Kung Fu Panda 2" (Jennifer Yuh Nelson)
"Puss in Boots" (Chris Miller)
"Rango" (Gore Verbinski)
Art Direction
"The Artist" (Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould)
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" (Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan)
"Hugo" (Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo)
"Midnight in Paris" (Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Helene Dubreuil)
"War Horse" (Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales)
Cinematography
"The Artist" (Guillaume Schiffman)
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Jeff Cronenweth)
"Hugo" (Robert Richardson)
"The Tree of Life" (Emmanuel Lubezki)
"War Horse" (Janusz Kaminski)
Costume Design
"Anonymous" (Lisy Christl)
"The Artist" (Mark Bridges)
"Hugo" (Sandy Powell)
"Jane Eyre" (Michael O'Connor)
"W.E." (Arianne Phillips)
Documentary (Feature)
"Hell and Back Again" (Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner)
"If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front" (Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman)
"Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
"Pina" (Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel)
"Undefeated" (TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas)
Documentary (Short Subject)
"The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement" (Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin)
"God Is the Bigger Elvis" (Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson)
"Incident in New Baghdad" (James Spione)
"Saving Face" (Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy)
"The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom" (Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen)
Film Editing
"The Artist" (Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius)
"The Descendants" (Kevin Tent)
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall) "Hugo" (Thelma Schoonmaker)
"Moneyball" (Christopher Tellefsen)
Makeup
"Albert Nobbs" (Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle)
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" (Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng)
"The Iron Lady" (Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland)
Music (Original Score)
"The Adventures of Tintin" (John Williams)
"The Artist" (Ludovic Bource)
"Hugo" (Howard Shore)
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (Alberto Iglesias)
"War Horse" (John Williams)
Music (Original Song)
"Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets" (Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie)
"Real in Rio" from "Rio" (Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett
Short Film (Animated)
"Dimanche/Sunday" (Patrick Doyon)
"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" (William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg)
"La Luna" (Enrico Casarosa)
"A Morning Stroll" (Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe)
"Wild Life" (Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby)
Short Film (Live Action)
"Pentecost" (Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane)
"Raju" (Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren)
"The Shore" (Terry George and Oorlagh George)
"Time Freak" (Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey)
"Tuba Atlantic" (Hallvar Witzø)
Sound Editing
"Drive" (Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis)
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Ren Klyce)
"Hugo" (Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty)
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl)
"War Horse" (Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom)
Sound Mixing
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson)
"Hugo" (Tom Fleischman and John Midgley)
"Moneyball" (Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick)v "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin)v "War Horse" (Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson)
Visual Effects
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" (Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson)
"Hugo" (Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning)
"Real Steel" (Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg)
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" (Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett)
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier)
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
"The Descendants" (Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon and Jim Rash)
"Hugo" (Screenplay by John Logan)
"The Ides of March" (Screenplay by George Clooney and Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon)
"Moneyball" (Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin)
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (Screenplay by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan)
Writing (Original Screenplay)
"The Artist" (Written by Michel Hazanavicius)
"Bridesmaids" (Written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig)
"Margin Call" (Written by J.C. Chandor)
"Midnight in Paris" (Written by Woody Allen)
"A Separation" (Written by Asghar Farhadi)
The nominations were announced here Tuesday.
"Hugo", set in Paris of the 1930s, is about an orphan who lives in a train station, and is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. It is adapted from Brian Selznick's novel "The Invention of Hugo Cabret".
The movie has been nominated in the best picture, directing, sound editing, sound mixing, visual effects, writing (adapted screenplay), art direction, cinematography, costume design, editing and music (original score) categories.
India's other hope was the National award-winning Malayalam film "Adaminte Makan Abu" in the foreign language film category, but it failed to even find a place in the Oscar shortlist, released Jan 19. The final nominations for the category are "Bullhead" (Belgium), "Footnote" (Israel), "In Darkness" (Poland), "Monsieur Lazhar" (Canada) and "A Separation" (Iran).
Here's the list of other categories and their respective nominations:
Animated Feature Film
"A Cat in Paris" (Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli)
"Chico & Rita" (Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal)
"Kung Fu Panda 2" (Jennifer Yuh Nelson)
"Puss in Boots" (Chris Miller)
"Rango" (Gore Verbinski)
Art Direction
"The Artist" (Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould)
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" (Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan)
"Hugo" (Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo)
"Midnight in Paris" (Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Helene Dubreuil)
"War Horse" (Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales)
Cinematography
"The Artist" (Guillaume Schiffman)
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Jeff Cronenweth)
"Hugo" (Robert Richardson)
"The Tree of Life" (Emmanuel Lubezki)
"War Horse" (Janusz Kaminski)
Costume Design
"Anonymous" (Lisy Christl)
"The Artist" (Mark Bridges)
"Hugo" (Sandy Powell)
"Jane Eyre" (Michael O'Connor)
"W.E." (Arianne Phillips)
Documentary (Feature)
"Hell and Back Again" (Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner)
"If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front" (Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman)
"Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" (Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs)
"Pina" (Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel)
"Undefeated" (TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas)
Documentary (Short Subject)
"The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement" (Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin)
"God Is the Bigger Elvis" (Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson)
"Incident in New Baghdad" (James Spione)
"Saving Face" (Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy)
"The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom" (Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen)
Film Editing
"The Artist" (Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius)
"The Descendants" (Kevin Tent)
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall) "Hugo" (Thelma Schoonmaker)
"Moneyball" (Christopher Tellefsen)
Makeup
"Albert Nobbs" (Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle)
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" (Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng)
"The Iron Lady" (Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland)
Music (Original Score)
"The Adventures of Tintin" (John Williams)
"The Artist" (Ludovic Bource)
"Hugo" (Howard Shore)
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (Alberto Iglesias)
"War Horse" (John Williams)
Music (Original Song)
"Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets" (Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie)
"Real in Rio" from "Rio" (Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett
Short Film (Animated)
"Dimanche/Sunday" (Patrick Doyon)
"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" (William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg)
"La Luna" (Enrico Casarosa)
"A Morning Stroll" (Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe)
"Wild Life" (Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby)
Short Film (Live Action)
"Pentecost" (Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane)
"Raju" (Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren)
"The Shore" (Terry George and Oorlagh George)
"Time Freak" (Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey)
"Tuba Atlantic" (Hallvar Witzø)
Sound Editing
"Drive" (Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis)
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (Ren Klyce)
"Hugo" (Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty)
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl)
"War Horse" (Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom)
Sound Mixing
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson)
"Hugo" (Tom Fleischman and John Midgley)
"Moneyball" (Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick)v "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin)v "War Horse" (Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson)
Visual Effects
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" (Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson)
"Hugo" (Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning)
"Real Steel" (Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg)
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" (Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett)
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" (Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier)
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
"The Descendants" (Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon and Jim Rash)
"Hugo" (Screenplay by John Logan)
"The Ides of March" (Screenplay by George Clooney and Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon)
"Moneyball" (Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin; Story by Stan Chervin)
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (Screenplay by Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan)
Writing (Original Screenplay)
"The Artist" (Written by Michel Hazanavicius)
"Bridesmaids" (Written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig)
"Margin Call" (Written by J.C. Chandor)
"Midnight in Paris" (Written by Woody Allen)
"A Separation" (Written by Asghar Farhadi)
Source http://www.santabanta.com/cinema.asp?pid=52697
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