Great news for all of us movie enthusiasts from the city of Berlin. Brilliant young director Najaf Bilgrami has made us proud! A movie that he co-directed, won the Berlin Award on Feb 9.
The Hamburg-based detail film Wagah by Supriyo Sen from India has been co-directed by Najaf and it has won the Berlin Today Award!
Wagah is a documentary about the parade and flag ceremony that takes place at a frontier post along the 1,000 km long border between India and Pakistan.
Wagah is all set to be shown during the …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - From shrinking their collections to slashing prices, Indian fashion designers are trying to cope with the global financial crisis, which has dimmed the appetite for haute couture internationally and at home.
The economic meltdown was a recurring theme at this month’s Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week, one of two premier fashion events that ran concurrently in New Delhi. A third major event, the Lakme Fashion Week, kicks off in Mumbai on Friday.
“The whole world is going on sale right now,” said designer Nitin Bal Chauhan, who has …

New Delhi, Mar 22 (PTI) As over 100 designers displayed creative clothing skills by making 56 models walk on the ramp at the five-day Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week (WIFW) ending today, they sent out a clear message: Fashion need not be expensive.
The Indian designers’ community, which has made a name in global high street, saw themselves converging on the bottom line — ‘Let’s make fashion affordable for the buyers hard-pressed for cash in a difficult environment’.
Brands like Liberty of London were missing at the bi-annual high street event in …

In his latest blogpost, Amitabh Bachchan has dismissed media reports that he had described Slumdog Millionaire as a film projecting the underbelly of India and thus getting the recognition from the West.
Blogging from Paris, Bachchan expressed strong disappointment and displeasure with the way his earlier blogpost on Slumdog Millionaire had been interpreted by the media. Articulating his consternation Big B writes, “What a colossal joke this is all turning out to be !! Without reading the text of my blog or the purpose behind the mention of ‘Slumdog’ an entire …

AR Rahman probably has a cupboard full of awards the way some Bollywood names have cupboards full of skeletons. In both cases, it’s usually a case of ‘what’s the big deal about one more’.
But the Golden Globe puts him, literally, in the global league. At this point, looking back, which is the first award that really meant something to him? “I think the first big award that I treasured was the National Award for Roja. That was a great feeling. It was also very unexpected.”
This one surely wasn’t. How …

NEW DELHI: Actor Aamir Khan’s debut directorial venture Taare Zameen Par, a sensitive story of an eight-year-old dyslexic child, has failed to
make to the foreign language category for Oscars at the 81st annual Academy awards.
The film based was selected as India’s entry to the foreign language category for Oscars. Written by Amole Gupte, the film was released in 2007 and received critical and box-office acclaim.
Aamir Khan said ‘Taare Zameen Par’ is a film which is very special to him and all the audiences of Indian cinema.
“Well, I suppose the Academy …

New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) Pakistani artist Adeel says he is hurt by the decision of the producer of ‘Jugaad’ to scrap the film’s promotional video featuring him - a move that came in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks.
‘I felt bad because I had worked hard on the song, ‘Kise awaz dun’, and the promotional video, which they have scrapped now. I was not even called for the music launch of the movie on Jan 2,’ Adeel told IANS on phone from Lahore.
‘I know that I was not …

Bollywood is all set to make its presence strongly felt at this year’s Golden Globes. AR Rahman is already a top contender for the Best Musical Score for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and now news has it that Shah Rukh may become the first Indian actor to present an award at the prestigious award ceremony.
The King Khan is said to have been invited by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).
Shahrukh is currently in Los Angeles, shooting for Karan Johar’s ‘My Name is Khan’. And the Golden Globes awards, organised by HFPA, is …

Ajmal Amin Kasab might be interested in meeting him but megastar Amitabh Bachchan has clearly said that he found the idea of meeting the lone terrorist caught alive in the Mumbai terror attack – ‘repulsive’. He’s said, “I read news reports that during investigation he expressed a desire to meet me and watch my films. I wrote about it on my blog and sought views from fellow bloggers. Fifty per cent respondents felt that I should meet him while the remaining were against such an idea.”
He’s also explained why he …

Even before its release, the Aamir khan starrer ‘Ghajini’ has made history of sorts, recording the highest ever advance booking for any film in bollywood.
Turing out to be early cash Godzilla at the box office, Ghajini has zoomed ahead with a record - fifty percent advance booking, despite legal hiccups and its shre of controversies.
The advance booking, in terms of money generated, is four times more than any other film in celluloid history. ‘Ghajini’ has recorded an advance booking of fifty percent for the weekend across all multiplexes. It …