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Chitrangada is now ready to do more work and strengthen in Bollywood.

20 December, 2010 (05:53) | Bollywood Gossips, Songs and Music | By: sara2002

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Dusky actress Chitrangada Singh says her golfer husband Jyoti Randhawa has no problems with her profession and rubbishes reports that there is trouble in their marriage owing to her career choice. Chitrangada, who is back with a film after a hiatus of three years, has put all speculation about her absence from the industry on the backburner. ’Jyoti is very encouraging. I’m very lucky to have a person who himself is very ambitious and he understands my ambition too. He understands that you want to do something with whatever god has blessed you with; if you have a talent you should utilise it. He is all for that,’ the 34-year-old actress told in an interview. She agreed that sometimes it becomes difficult to manage things, considering she also has a three-year-old son. But she is determined to make things work.
’Like any working woman, who has a family at home and a profession, I too have to manage things. Yes, it’s a little challenging at times, but I’m managing because I love acting and being in this industry so much, I want to make this work,’ she said. She was last seen on the big screen in the 2008 film ’Sorry Bhai!’. Chitrangada is now ready to do more work and strengthen her position in the industry. She will be seen in Sudhir Mishra’s ’Yeh Saali Zindagi’ slated to hit screens Feb 4. ’Now audiences wouldn’t have to wait for me for long because I am going to do films one after the other. There will be a lot more work now because I am dying to do more work,’ said Chitrangada, who has an uncanny resemblance to yesteryear actress Smita Patil.
Throwing some light on her character in the new film, the actress, who has earlier featured in films like ’Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi’ and ’Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow’, said: ’I play a girl who is a struggling musician, does gigs in a couple of clubs trying to get somewhere because she is ambitious.’ ’She is a very today’s girl, madly and blindly in love with a guy. She can’t look beyond him and is ready to go to any length to be with him and trusts him completely. What happens to her in the film is that she ends up being foolishly in love and the fact is that the guy is not in love with her,’ she added. For the role, the actress took cues from videos of international artists like Tina Turner.
’I did see a couple of videos of international singers performing to learn their body language on the stage and see how they perform. I also saw videos where they just sit down and sing,’ she revealed. The film also stars Irrfan Khan and newcomer Vipul Gupta. When asked about her experience of working with Irrfan, Chitrangada promptly said: ’I was nervous.’ ’I was very nervous and anxious working with Irrfan. His working style is amazing. He is such a subtle actor and he keeps working on his character all the time. He comes up with improvisations and pays attention to a lot of detail, questions, but all very quietly. He is also very spontaneous and totally a class apart,’ she told
One facet prominent in Chitrangada’s career graph till now has been her association with not-so-straight roles. The actress says simple roles don’t excite her. ’I like doing coiled roles.
It’s fun because it is very interesting for me. Simple roles are not my cup of tea and I like it that way. It’s far more interesting for an actress to play a character who has couple of aspects to her personality. Where she is nice but also a little selfish and jealous and also other things,’ said the actress. ’I think the situation is such now that if offered a simple role, I might find that challenging to do,’ she added. After ’Yeh Saali Zindagi’, Chitrangada will feature in Rohit Dhawan’s ’Desi Boyz’.

Shyam Benegal Biography

13 December, 2010 (09:27) | Bollywood Gossips, Songs and Music | By: GOWRI

Shyam Benegal Biography (Profile)

Name: Shyam Benegal
Date/Place: 14 Dec, 1934 ( Alwal, Hyderabad, AP, India )

About Shyam Benegal
Benegal originated what has come to be called "middle cinema". He was initially involved in the advertising industry and produced over 900 advertisements before his interest turned to films.

His film directorial debut was Gher Betha Ganga in 1962. Benegal shot to fame with Ankur 1973, which introduced Shabana Azmi, who also starred in Nishant 1975. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991.

The success that New India Cinema enjoyed in the 1970s and early 1980s could largely be attributed to Shyam Benegal's quartet Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977), which were artistically superior yet commercially viable films. Tapping fresh talent mainly from the FTII and NSD like Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Amrish Puri, Benegal has made several sensitive and stimulating films.

Benegal is related to the famous film director and actor Guru Dutt Padukone - contrary to what is generally believed. His paternal grand-mother and Guru Dutt's maternal grand-mother were sisters. Both are nominally Konkani speaking Chitrapur Saraswats. He is also the founder of the Hyderabad Film Society and a former Ad Filmmaker.

With Nishant, where a teacher's wife is abducted and gang-raped by four zamindars and officialdom turns a deaf ear to the distraught husband's pleas for help and Manthan, set against the backdrop of Gujarat's fledgling dairy industry, Benegal continued to address the viewer in a strict cinematic language bereft of commercial skills. (5 lakh farmers in the state, each of whom contributed 2 Rs, produced the latter film! They came in truckloads to see 'their film' once released thereby making it extremely successful at the box office!)

Bhumika looks at an individual's search for identity and self-fulfillment. The film is broadly based on the life of well-known Marathi Stage and screen actresses of the 1940s, Hansa Wadkar who led a flamboyant and unconventional life. To quote film critic Derek Malcolm

"…What Benegal has done is to paint a magnificent visual recreation of those extraordinary days and one that is also sensitive to the agonies and predicament of a talented woman whose need for security was only matched by her insistence on freedom."

Unlike most New Cinema Filmmakers Benegal has had private backers for many of his films. Following the success of these four films, he was backed by film star Shashi Kapoor for whom he made Junoon (1979) and Kalyug (1981). The former set in the turbulent period of the Indian Mutiny of 1857 is one of Benegal's most stylish films and one which is meticulously detailed and visually arresting and one that gave him much satisfaction but Kalyug, a complex narrative based on the Mahabharat in spite of some great moments doesn't quite come off.

In the 1980s however with the collapse of the New Cinema, Benegal's films have not had proper releases and the 1980s also saw him turn to TV where he directed serials like Yatra (1986) for the Indian Railways, and of course one of the biggest projects undertaken on Indian Television, Bharat ek Khoj (1988) a serial based on Nehru's Discovery of India.

Filmography
* Chamki Chameli(pre-production)
* Dus kahaniyan(pre-production)
* Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005)
* Zubeidaa (2001)
* Hari-Bhari (2000)
* Samar (1999) (also called The Conflict)
* Sardari Begum (1996)
* The Making of the Mahatma (1996)
* Mammo (1994)
* Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda (1993) (also called Seventh Horse of the Sun) based on a work of the same name by the late Dharamvir Bharati
* Antarnaad (1991) (also called The Inner Voice)
* Bharat Ek Khoj (1988) - TV Serial (also called The Discovery of India)
* Yatra (1986) - TV Series (also called The Journey)
* Trikaal (1985)
* Satyajit Ray (1984) - Documentary
* Mandi (1983) (also called The Market Place)
* Arohan (1982) (also called The Ascent)
* Kalyug (1980) (also called The Machine Age)
* Junoon (1979)
* Kondura (1978) (also called The Boon)
* Anugraham (1978) Telugu
* Bhumika (1977) (also called The Role)
* Manthan (1976) (also called The Churning)
* Nishant (1975) (also called The Night's End)
* Charandas chor (1975)
* Ankur (1973)
* Gher betha ganga (1962)

Telivision
* Yatra (1986)
* Bharat Ek Khoj (1988)
* Amravathi ki Kathayen

Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan @ Priyadarshni Awards

20 September, 2010 (11:09) | Celebrity Wallpapers, Songs and Music | By: Bharat

Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan was Priyadarshini Award at a grand ceremony that had Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan and many other personalities as guests. Priyadarshini Award to Ms Vidya Balan, Actress, India Smita Patil Memorial Prize Award for Best Actress 19.09 2010.

Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan @ Priyadarshni Awards

Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan @ Priyadarshni Awards

Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan @ Priyadarshni Awards

Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan @ Priyadarshni Awards

Bollywood Actress Vidya Balan @ Priyadarshni Awards

Nazrana (1987)

13 August, 2010 (08:40) | Online Movies, Songs and Music | By: DesiGujju3

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Starring:

Rajesh Khanna … Rajat Verma
Sridevi … Tulsi (as Sreedevi)
Priti Sapru … Sheetal Puri (as Preeti Sapru)
Gita Siddharth … Geeta (as Geeta Kak)
Jayshree Gadkar … Parvati
Shafi Inamdar … Shafi
Dalip Tahil … Banke
Smita Patil … Mrs. Mukta Verma
Abhi Bhattacharya … Prior – Principal psyhiatristik clinik
Brahm Bhardwaj … Judge
Savita Bajaj
Vandna Shashtri (as Vandhana Shastry)
Ved Prakash
Vinod Arora (as Vinod Aurora)
Ramesh Goyal … Punk (as Ramesh Goel)

Director:

Ravi Tandon

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Arth (1983)

11 August, 2010 (08:21) | Online Movies, Songs and Music | By: Stranger

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Starring:

Shabana Azmi … Mrs. Pooja Inder Malhotra
Gulshan Grover … Gulshan
Rohini Hattangadi … Pooja’s Maid
Siddharth Kak … Anil (Aparna’s Husband)
Mazhar Khan … Harish
Kulbhushan Kharbanda … Inder Malhotra
Raj Kiran … Raj
Dina Pathak … Kavita’s Mother
Smita Patil … Kavita Sanyal
Purnima … Hostel Principal
Shammi … Mrs. Bhalla
Om Shivpuri … Dr. Puri
Gita Siddharth … Aparna
Dalip Tahil … Dilip
Chand Usmani … School Adminstrator
Kiran Vairale … Pooja’s Hostel Room-Mate

Director:

Mahesh Bhatt

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Giddh: The Vulture (1984)

6 August, 2010 (13:37) | Online Movies, Songs and Music | By: DesiGujju3

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Starring:

Om Puri … Basya
Smita Patil … Hanumi
Nana Patekar … Virupakshi
Savita Bajaj … Sundri
Vikas Desai … Patil
Vijay Kashyap … Katra
Achyut Potdar … Desai
M.K. Raina … Masterji

Director:

T.S. Ranga

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Badle Ki Aag (1982)

21 July, 2010 (13:13) | Online Movies, Songs and Music | By: DesiGujju3

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Starring:

Sunil Dutt … Lakhan
Dharmendra … Sher Singh ‘Shera’
Jeetendra … Police Inspector Amar Verma
Reena Roy … Geeta
Smita Patil … Bijli
Sarika … Asha
Master Monish (as Master Munish)
Poonam Kapoor
Rajeev Anand … Suraj (as Rajiv Anand)

Director:

Rajkumar Kohli

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Pooja remake of Arth movie

19 July, 2010 (13:06) | Bollywood Gossips, Songs and Music | By: sara2002

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Pooja Bhatt wants to remake her father’s film Arth but with a contemporary take and a heavy dose of glamour, substance and drama. Pooja feels that the younger generation can learn a lot from a film like Arth. However, though she has made up her mind about making the film, she still has to decide the cast.
The original was made in 1982 and starred Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi and Kulbhushan Khar-banda.
The story of Arth was inspired from Mahesh’s own life. He was ashamed of having cheated on his wife. The real life incident formed the plot of his story.”

Mandi (1983)

16 July, 2010 (03:52) | Online Movies, Songs and Music | By: Stranger

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Starring:

Shabana Azmi … Rukmini Bai
Smita Patil … Zeenat
Naseeruddin Shah … Tungrus
Amrish Puri … Darvish
Kulbhushan Kharbanda … Mr. Gupta
Saeed Jaffrey … Mr. Agarwal
Om Puri … Ram Gopal
Sreela Majumdar … Phoolmani
Neena Gupta … Vasanti
Gita Siddharth … Shantidevi
Sunila Pradhan … Mrs. Gupta
Soni Razdan … Bordello girl
Anita Kanwar … Parveena
Ratna Pathak … Malti
Pankaj Kapur … Shantidevi’s assistant

Director:

Shyam Benegal

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Dilwaala (1986)

7 July, 2010 (03:52) | Online Movies, Songs and Music | By: Stranger

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Starring:

G. Asrani … Sub Inspector Sohan
Mithun Chakraborty … Ravi Kumar
Dulari … Chachi
Arun Govil … Mohan Kumar
Gulshan Grover … Raghu
Aruna Irani … Shanti
Renu Joshi … Mrs. Savitri Sitapuri
Goga Kapoor … King Kong’s Brother-In-Law
Shakti Kapoor … King Kong
Kader Khan … Sewakram Sitapuri
Viju Khote … Grocer
Shreeram Lagoo … Ganesh Vithal Kolhapure
Bandini Mishra … Champa
Murad … Judge
Raza Murad … Public Prosecutor
Suresh Oberoi … Madanlal Sharma
Paintal … Mr. Narayan
Supriya Pathak … Kamla
Smita Patil … Sumitra Devi
Pran … MLA Raj Shekhar
Sarika … Sapna
Meenakshi Sheshadri … Padma

Director:

K. Muralimohana Rao

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