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A case in the Supreme Court of India is going to set an important precedent in the way user generated content is looked at. Ajit D had started an anti-Shiv Sena community on Orkut, and following anonymous abusive comments on the community, a Shiv Sena member filed a police complaint under Sections 506 and 295 [...]
LIVEMINT.com article about Amitabh Bachchan (A really well written article)
One-man show
The angry young man, the reclusive family man, the TV host, the blogger, the global icon–what makes the Big B legacy? And what does it say about us?
Rachel Dwyer
Found this link while reading the blog Beth loves Bollywood (superb blog by the way!).
Shahrukh’s Twitter account
Not sure if it’s real or a fake one.
The background is simply beautiful…
TEHELKA LINK
BEFORE THE gift, there was the prophecy. After their first child — a girl — was born, an array of astrologers told the [...]
Vincent Chai was studying in University and needed to develop an animation project for his final year degree project. What does he do?
Create this -
World War – 3D Animation
Wired.com Link
Vanity Fair link
Slumdog Millionaire has a pedigree. Its director, Danny Boyle, says there are at least three Bollywood films that inspired him directly. Those films were themselves influenced by a long family tree that stretches back to the last days of the nineteenth century.
Here, then, is a list of Slumdog’s ten most flamboyant and influential Bollywood ancestors:
-Novels by Indian authors. Interesting bit about ‘The Zoya Factor’. Never had heard about that.
livemint.com link
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Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye Trailer
And check this out post by Oz on PFC about the true story it is based on. Amazing!
for rest of the post go to RGV’s blog
Harshvardhan Malik
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan
The founder of the first ever private news channel in the country INDIA 24/7, the Harvard-educated Harshvardhan Malik is India’s most respected media personality. He is a hardcore upholder of journalistic ethics. No wonder his Channel is battling for survival!
Jay Malik
Cast: Sudeep
A go-getter and [...]
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PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: Another Saturday, another set of serial blasts. Therefore, yet another set of questions for Union home minister Shivaraj Patil:
1) Are you going to make a fresh statement tonight, or are you just going to release photocopies of statements made (or photocopied) for previous blasts that “such incidents will [...]
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A clip about Oliver Stone’s to be released movie about George Bush Jnr.
The last part of the clip should not be taken seriously…
As always a superb review by GreatBong.
While many experts have analyzed the phallic symbolism inherent in the name “Dong” ( Dong is frequently shown running his fingers rapidly on the strings of a sitar with lusty expressions while semi-clad women dance about him), most film critics agree that the more important subtext here is definitely [...]
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Manmohan Singh did not read out his statement, he submitted this copy to Speaker of Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee)
The Leader of Opposition, Shri L.K. Advani has chosen to use all manner of abusive objectives to describe my performance. He has described me as the weakest Prime Minister, a nikamma PM, and of having devalued [...]
RGV’s blog
If the point of a review is to critically analyze someone else’s work and to possibly inform/educate or psyche the viewer why to or why not to watch a particular film, I think it’s only fair that the filmmaker too should give his reaction to what the reviewer commented upon.
The fact that the film [...]
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That Shahrukh is a charmer, no one denies, but the best part about the man perhaps is that he manages to say just the right things in just the right way, without saying too much.
Amidst his team’s dismal performance in the DLF IPL and the reports of a rift in the camp, SRK sent an [...]
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London, May 19, 2008
DAY 32 carried a comment from Abhishek and this still from Sarkar Raj seems to epitomise all that I had to say or indeed what he had to say sitting in that lounge waiting to catch that flight. Its a moment of truth in the film, a moment that father and [...]
This is a new animation movie that is being made about Rama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0OVbTrTUr4
It’s been scripted by Ashok Banker (which I think is a good thing). He has mentioned on his website AshokBanker.com that it’s not based on his books, but more of a screenplay specifically for this animated movie. Knowing how well he writes, I am [...]




