Washington: Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor will be honoured at the seventh annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles next month.
The 49-year-old actor, who played the role of TV host in the Oscar winning ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, will be honoured with the screenings of two classic films in which he stars, 1991′s ‘Lahme’ and 1997′s ‘Virasat’, as well as ‘Gandhi, My Father’, which he produced.
“I am humbled and honoured that my work as an actor and film-maker has been chosen to receive such a fantastic tribute,” ‘Contactmusic’ quoted Kapoor as saying.
Meanwhile, he …

Director Danny Boyle’s tale of a boy from the Mumbai slums who reaches the jackpot question on gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? has swept all before it in the awards race.
It won four Golden Globes and is favourite to win best picture at the Academy Awards – an astonishing feat for a $15 million film with one-third of its dialogue in Hindi and a cast of relative unknowns.
Boyle summed up the audience’s reaction to the film when he spoke at the Globes of the “mad, pulsating affection” in …

Slumdog Millionaire: Simply Brilliant
Rating: 4 out of 5
Starring: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor and Irrfan Khan
Director: Danny Boyle
Slumdog Millionaire opens with 18-year-old slum kid Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) being arrested on suspicion of cheating after being one question away from winning Rs. 20 million on India’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? After enduring some rather nasty torture, he tells the police officer (Irrfan Khan) the story of his life, where incredibly, each episode holds the key to one of the questions he’s answered.
Jamal’s story begins in the Mumbai …

You seem to be the Queen of Big Budget films. After the super-duper ‘Race’ and ‘Singh Is Kinng’, you have yet another biggie lined up for release — ‘Yuvvraaj’. How does it feel?

It feels great but I don’t think budget has anything to do with the quality of a film. It’s the content and presentation which matters at the end of the day. Yuvvraaj being a musical drama, it calls for grand visuals and a certain larger than life canvas.
The film seems like a complete entertaining drama. Could you …

14790062_willsmith_nov0408_225x300.jpgHollywood actor Will Smith is determined to fulfill his promise to star in a Bollywood movie.
He has been taking advice from Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle, reports contactmusic.com.
Boyle turned his hand to making a film in India with his latest project, which was shot in Mumbai and the moviemaker is convinced that Smith is serious about trying his luck in a different genre of pictures as Smith made several trips to visit him onset in India.
“While we were filming there, Will Smith came over twice. There’s a massive coming together …

Film actress Meera is to star in Adnan Sami’s new music video. The actress told that she had met with Mr Sami on a recent trip to Bombay.
He offered me work in his next video and hopefully I will be working in it,” she said. Part of the video is to be shot in India and the rest abroad. Mr Sami is one of the most popular singers in India.
Meera said she would return to India in a couple of days for shooting of Nazar Kay Samnay, a film written …

Lahore is fast becoming the Mumbai crowd’s top holiday destination. From youngsters looking for a cheap vacation to film stars and writers, all are looking forward to crossing the Wagah border in the near future.
Bollywood’s Mr India, Anil Kapoor, revealed his old ties with Pakistan. “My mother is actually from Lahore and we still have a family home in Peshawar,” he said, adding that travelling to the NWFP and seeing the places where his mother spent her childhood were his main reasons for wanting to visit Pakistan. Anil admits that …

Producer: Vinesh Gandhi
Director, Story, Scripy: Honey Irani
Music: Shankar Ehsan Loy
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar
Starring: Amitabh Bachan, Anil Kapoor, Pretty Zinta, Gracey Singh, Anupam Kher & Randheer Kapoor

Anil Kapoor and Amitabh Bachan have never worked together in a movie before though it has been tried several times but never accomplished because of whatsoever reasons. The writer turn director Honey Irani (director) has very strong terms and relations with these two mega stars and both of them trust Honey Irani so much that they agreed to work in this movie without reading the script!
Honey …

Boney Kapoor sure has everything inhouse. With a production house that gives the best in the industry serious competition, Boney also has brother Anil who’s an actor to reckon with, even though all his contemporaries have long past given up the cinematic ghost. So Boney is now casting Anil in a film titled ‘Bewafa’ and his leading lady will be none other than Kareena Kapoor. Now if you think Kareena is too young to act opposite Anil, think again. Anil can compete with the youngest of the lot any day!

Despite a track record of flops, Kaushik has extracted remarkable performances from the star cast of this emotional saga.

Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai once again brings together the Taal duo of Aishwarya Rai and Anil Kapoor under the directorial baton of Kapoor camp favourite, Satish Kaushik.
Preeti (Aishwarya Rai) comes from a conservative middle class family. One day she witnesses the brutal murder of an innocent man and testifies against the assailant. This brave step changes the course of her life. Hunted down by the assailant’s brother, Puru Raaj Kumar, she …