Articles tagged with: Mani Ratnam
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Some things are just not meant to be. Shahrukh Khan and Aishwarya Bachchan sizzled on screen as a twin brother-sister jodi in Josh. Then their pairing was accepted in Aditya Chopra’s Mohabbatein and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas too. They really had good chemistry.
But that was that. They were not supposed to act together after that. It all started when Aishwarya’s ex boyfriend Salman Khan barged into the sets of Chalte Chalte and Aishwarya ended up being chucked out in favour of Rani Mukherjee.
Ash never warmed up to Shahrukh Khan and …
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Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Bachchan had shot an intimate lovemaking scene for Mani Ratnam’s Raavan. But all of a sudden the director has decided to chop off the scene from the movie as it might hurt the religious sentiments of people. The movie is a modern day adaptation of the great ancient epic Ramayana and thus Mani does not want to invite protests from the religious groups.
In the movie Aishwarya plays the role of Sita who is being kidnapped by Abhishek who plays Raavana. Over time the two fall in …
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Aishwarya Bachchan’s role might not be that big in The Pink Panther 2 but she’s going on a world tour to attend the film’s premieres.
It’s been called a Steve Martin film with Ash not getting much mileage, but the lady is set to attend the film’s premiere in various cities across the globe, starting with the New York premiere alongside her hubby on February 3.
Her husband Abhishek Bachchan will be with her to celebrate his birthday and parents Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan would join them in NY. Ash would …
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Mumbai (IANS): It is going to be a very busy year for Aishwarya Rai. She not only has Mani Ratnam’s gruelling “Ravan” with husband Abhishek Bachchan to complete, she also begins work on Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next movie, with Hrithik Roshan, to be shot in Goa.
But before that she goes into filmmaker Vipul Shah’s next film with Akshay Kumar in the lead. Both Vipul and Akshay, who are co-producing the film, were very keen to get Aishwarya for what they describe as a genre-breaking drama.
Aishwarya has also signed up Excel …
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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 …
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Superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be the first Indian star to present an award at the Golden Globe, this Sunday at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Music maestro A R Rahman is also in the running for the Best Original Score for the Internationally
One of the best music composer in India he is in race for an award for his superb Slumdog Millionaire. In 1991, Rahman began his own music recording and mixing studio, attached to backyard of his house, called the Panchathan Record Inn, which was developed into …
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India’s renowned singer-music composer AR Rahman turned 43 on January 6, 2009.
Rahman, who has also been honored by the title ’Mozart of Madras’, was born as A. S. Dileep Kumar on January 6, 1966 in Chennai.
His birth name A. S. Dileep Kumar was turned to Allah Rakkha Rahman (AR Rahman) when his family in 1970 adopted Islamic religion.
Thise young land Rahman started his career in 1992, when he was approached by film director Mani Ratnam to compose the music for Ratnam’s Tamil flick Roja .
The movie also led Rahman to …
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Filmmaker Mani Ratnam has made another hit for South Indian cinema. Clickwalla reviews his latest offering – Alaipayuthey (Romantic Reckonings).
EVER heard of a messy, congested suburban railway station playing cupid? You’ll find one here, as filmmaker Mani Ratnam proves he can make even this drab backdrop look romantic.
There is suspense, romance and there is drama aplenty. Madhavan (the star of many noisy forgettable Hindi soaps) plays the male lead, Karthik. When offered the role by Ratnam he confessed he felt the same way a student would if he was asked …
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Starring: Vivek Oberoi, Rani Mukerjee
Special Appearances By: Shahrukh Khan and Tabu
Director: Shaad Ali
Music: A.R. Rahman
Lyrics: Gulzar
Screenplay: Mani Ratnam
Produced By: Kaleidoscope Entertainment
Released By: Yash Raj Films
Saathiya is a very light romantic drama, an old-fashioned story from the era of 70s & 80s where parents and social status used to come as an inseparable wall and the lovers usually have to run away from their homes and do secret marriages. The only so-called new or better thing shown is the real life drama which happens after the marriage. The ups and downs …

