NEW DELHI: Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has slammed Danny Boyle’s Golden Globe award winning underdog drama “Slumdog Millionaire” for
showing India in poor light.
“If ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ projects India as Third World dirty underbelly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations,” Amitabh said in a posting on his blog on Wednesday from Paris, France.
“Its just that the ‘Slumdog Millioanire’ idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by …

Barbara Mori is finally in town with her mom and sister to finish the final bit of shooting left for the film ‘Kites’, where she plays an important role opposite Hrithik Roshan. The film, which is directed by Anurag Basu has Kangana Ranaut in it and is due for release in May 2009. Hrithik has been doing his duty of taking care of his guests very religiously.
According to the sources, she is said to be the special guest of the Roshan family and hence Hrithik is taking special care of …

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 …

After bagging the title of the most controversial actor last year, Salman Khan seems to be working hard to take home the much-dreaded title this time too. The actor who left tongues wagging and throats dry with his drunken antics and birthday bash(ing) brawls beats his own records when it comes to whacky behaviour.
Most recently the actor abandoned his cushy luxury car and rode an auto-rickshaw, while his damsel in distress, Katrina Kaif followed him with the rickshaw driver in their car.
A little birdie told us that Salman and his …

Perhaps, Mr. Perfectionist would have been Big B’s sole choice for getting his biography launched. Yup! Book on living legend Amitabh Bachchan titled ‘Bachchanalia’ was launched by Aamir Khan, yesterday here in Mumbai.
‘Bachchanalia’ compiles the cherishing moments of Mr. Bachchan’s childhood days till his present-day life in tinsel town. The entire family of Bachchans including Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya were present for the most valued occasion.
Considering it to be a benignant function, Aamir never missed his chance of singing appraisals for Big B. On the pars, Abhi-Ash expressed …

Jagjit Singh said “People like him [Adnan Sami] should be sent back to Pakistan”. Adnan Sami now says he ‘can’t believe it’. HT City tried to get to the bottom of the mysterious rift brewing between the Ghazal maestro and the musician.
Reports say that when Sami decided to bring together stalwarts of Indian music for a particular track for the movie 1920, Jagjit was approached, but finally it was Kailash Kher who sang his part.
We spoke to the movie’s director Vikram Bhatt, who explains, “Initially he [Jagjit Singh] was a …

MUMBAI: Ram Gopal Varma’s visit to the terror ravaged Taj Mahal Hotel and Tower spiralled into a controversy, but despite that filmmakers have
gone ahead and registered about 30 titles to make movies on the incident that claimed many innocent lives.
“26 Taj”, “Operation 5 Star Mumbai” and “Bird’s Point of View: Taj Terror” are some of the titles that filmmakers have registered with the Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association (IMPPA) and Association of Motion Picture and Television Programme Producers (AMPTPP).
Bollywood producer-director B. Subhash, who has registered two titles for movies based …

Describing terrorists as ‘people who have no religion or God’, Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has strongly criticised political parties for targeting efforts by security forces to deal with these elements.
Strongly condemning the November 26 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Aamir Khan expressed his condolences to the family of the brave officers of Mumbai police, who lost their lives leading from the front to take on these terrorists.
He lamented the fact that some of the officials like Hemant Karkare of the ATS were recently targeted by various political parties for the work …

For two days now, the city of Mumbai has been subject to a kind of violence more real and shocking than anything that its film industry could ever show onscreen. No wonder that Bollywood is still trying to come to terms with the terror in its backyard.
Lyricist Javed Akhtar insists the only way to defeat terrorists is to defeat terror. Indians, he says, must unite in the face of adversity rather than play into the hands of those who want the country to fracture along communal lines.
“It’s not the time …

Aamir Khan was reportedly at loggerheads with Amitabh Bachchan thanks to criticism in his blog about Big B’s film Black and his acting in it. This was at the time when Aamir’s directorial debut Taare Zameen Par was about to be released. Much was later written in the media about each other’s comments to each other.
But then all mouths got shut when Amitabh Bachchan made an appearance at Aamir’s production Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na premiere at PVR Multiplex in Goregaon, Mumbai. He not only congratulated Aamir’s nephew Imran Khan …