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Set to release on October 14th, Code Name:Tiranga, starring Parineeti Chopra, is a story of a spy on an unfaltering and fearless mission for her nation in a race against time where sacrifice is her only choice.

For her role as a Raw agent in Code Name:Tiranga, actress Parineeti Chopra took it to 11 and trained really hard to get into shape for her character. Not only did she do work in weight lifting and running, Parineeti also studied the Israeli martial art discipline of Krav Maga in preparation for her role.

Parineeti explained, “I have had this dream (of doing action) for five years. I have done so many rom-com, dramas, I feel I will be able to do action, I just need an opportunity…”

Adding, “One of the key action techniques of an agent is hand-to-hand combat, so I learnt Krav Maga a form of martial arts for a...

MollywoodThe photo was taken in 2000 on the sets of ‘Chakram’, which was shelved for unknown reasons after the first schedule.Digital NativeDigital NativeNot many may be aware that Vidya Balan, before her Bollywood debut with Parineeta, was signed on to play the female lead in the Mohanlal starrer Chakram. Posting a picture with Mohanlal taken in 2000, Vidya wrote on her Instagram Stories, “Tbt 2000... The pic was taken on the set of my first Malayalam film #Chakram with @mohanlal!!! The film got shelved after the first schedule... Not looking as bad as I imagined I did!!!” The actor said in a recent media interaction that Chakram was shelved after the first schedule for unknown reasons. Parineeta, which shot her to fame, was released five years later. Vidya pointed out that soon after Chakram was shelved, she was labelled a jinxed actor and all offers, including a Tamil biggie, eluded her.

“Teenkahon” is one of the smartest and most sophisticated Bengali films of recent times. This sophistication lies in the story-telling approach which is rare in Bengali films. The three stories of love of different kinds – Nabalok, Post Mortem and Telephone, set in three different periods are brilliantly handled by the director Bauddhayan Mukherji, who paces the movie in such a timely way that it gives the feeling of a single story with three different phases of love in life where the climax reaches and unfolds in an unexpected way in the last story, which is scripted brilliantly by the director himself.

The movie deals with the difficult subject of extramarital affair which starts through the adolescence of “Nabalok” – the protagonist of the first story. The lovely visuals exploit the narration beautiful and kick start the amazing journey of Teenkahon. The second story “Post Mortem” deals with the...

He used to be the blue-eyed boy of almost every urban filmmaker, but seems to have lost the hot seat to some of his contemporaries. Now, after bagging the most coveted copyright in the Bengali film industry, Parambrata Chatterjee is back in business with Feluda. In a freewheeling chat with us, the actor-director-producer spoke about his journey from Topshe to Feluda, the copyright tiff with Sandip Ray and things that he no longer finds interesting in Tollywood. Excerpts: Anukul has released and everybody is praising your work… I was waiting to work with Sujoyda (Ghosh) again. In the five years since Kahaani, we’ve planned so many things — some never happened, some will happen in the coming years. But this came as a sudden opportunity and we pounced on it. Now that it’s receiving so much appreciation, I feel ratified and satisfied to the hilt. In Tollywood, nobody rubs anybody the wrong way.

Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sabyasachi Chakraborty

Directed by Ribhu Dasgupta

There is a moment of subdued splendour in this thriller that is both brutal and tender, where a chaprasi in a government office–you know the busybodies who offer to help when the Babus act tough?— gives our autumnal hero John Biswas some vital information.

Then the chaprasi casually asks if there is petrol in John’s rickety scooter. As John parts with his only means of transportation he even helps the bureaucratic broker start the ancient vehicle.

Yes, the scooter has seen better days. So has John Biswas. There was a time when he knew joy.His grand-daughter Angela who was left to John’s care while his father went abroad. In a merciless twist of fate Angela is kidnapped for ransom and killed.

Debutant director Ribhu Dasgputa’s shimmering portrait of distant discontent is about John’s atonement,...

A still from Teenkahon

Bengali feature film Teenkahon (Three Obsessions) won the Best Screenplay award and Special Mention of the Jury for Cinematography at the Bridge Film Fest at Mitrovica, Kosovo. The maiden edition of the festival, in the partially-recognized state of Kosovo in South-eastern Europe, screened ten feature films from across the globe.

Teenkahon marks the directorial debut of advertising filmmaker Bauddhayan Mukherji and is independently produced by his Mumbai-based production company, Little Lamb films.

The film will have its Indian premiere at the Mumbai Film Festival (Mami) on October 16 in “New Faces in Indian cinema” section.

A triptych, Teenkahon features Dhritiman Chaterji, Rituparna Sengupta, Ashish Vidyarthi and Sabyasachi Chakraborty, among others.

Spread over a hundred years, the three stories are structured in the manner of the classical Three Act Play with each story exploring one facet of an obsessive relationship outside the purview of marriage. Each story is...

Composer, singer and actor Himesh Reshammiya is getting ready to don the acting avatar once again in his new film The Xpose. Set to go to the floors in January and Directed by National Award winner Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, The Xpose is a murder suspense musical thriller set in the late 1960s.

A source told Bh, “The characters in that era were truly larger than life and the glamour industry was going through the biggest change when the first sex symbol of the film industry was introduced in this era.”

Himesh will play a suspended cop-turned-music-superstar, a character apparently inspired by yesteryear actor Raajkumar.

What is also interesting is that rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh is trying out his acting chops in the film and will play the villain of the piece!

And if that was not enough, add to that that Reshammiya and Yo Yo Honey Singh are also...

Himesh Reshammiya is back to facing the camera. While it is a known fact by now that his next film as an actor is titled The Xpose, the newest development is that it would be directed by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan, who recently won 4 National Awards for his Marathi film Mee Sindhutai Sapkal. "Other than this, Mahadevan has been at the helm of another critically acclaimed film Red Alert - The War Within (2009). Now with The Xpose, he and Himesh are looking at probing the decade of 60s which has never been explored before. In fact it would be entering a space that will be a revelation in Hindi cinema." Himesh and Ananth go back a long way as former has composed music for latter's Dil Maange More and Aksar (remember the chartbuster 'Jhalak Dikhla Jaa'?). As per sources, The Xpose would be set as a musical thriller in the zone...

Debutant director Ribhu Dasgupta, whose .Michael. is the only Hindi film selected for world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, says he feels honoured but is also nervous. .It.s absolutely an honour, but I am very nervous. I don.t know what I will do there! I heard there will be a Q&A session. I really don.t know what to say,. Dasgupta told Ians in an interview. Set in Kolkata, .Michael. is a character-driven psychological thriller, which captures a father-son relationship. Anurag Kashyap has produced the movie. Though he comes from a film background . he is the son of Bengali filmmaker Raja Dasgupta and grandson of eminent documentary filmmaker Harisadhan Dasgupta, it was English musician Cat Steven.s song .Father and Son., which was Ribhu.s first inspiration to make the film. .Cat Steven.s song .Father and Son. was the first inspiration. I also believe...

Genre: Drama Director: Gaurab PandeyCast: Mithun Chakraborty, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Debashree Roy, Emma Garnett Brown, Angana BoseSynopsis: Joy Sundar Sen is a popular award-winning film director. He meets Isabella, a young European actress, in Berlin. They chance upon an anthology of short stories by filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, one of which — Paraspathar (The Philosopher’s Stone) — begins to resonate in Sen’s mind. He decides that Paraspathar will be his next film.He casts Chinu Nandy, a middle-aged junior artiste who has survived in an unforgiving industry, in the lead role. Chinu’s humble stance on life slowly begins to ...

Starring Sushant Singh, Nirmal Pandey, Ashish Vidyarthi, Kelly Dorji, Nafisa Ali, Farooque Shaikh, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Saurabh Shukla, Shraddha Das, Shradha Nigam, Mukesh Rishi, Aanaahad and others. Direction Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan Story The plot of the film revolves around the sport of kickboxing as well as relationship between two brothers. Sushant Singh and Kelly Dorje play the sports persons who want to represent India. However, the selection process is being tempered with by minister K Jeeva as against the wishes of coach Farooque Shaikh.

Starring Sushant Singh, Nirmal Pandey, Ashish Vidyarthi, Kelly Dorji, Nafisa Ali, Farooque Shaikh, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Saurabh Shukla, Shraddha Das, Shradha Nigam, Mukesh Rishi, Aanaahad and others. Direction Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan Story The plot of the film revolves around the sport of kickboxing as well as relationship between two brothers. Sushant Singh and Kelly Dorje play the sports persons who want to represent India. However, the selection process is being tempered with by minister K Jeeva as against the wishes of coach Farooque Shaikh.

Sai Om Film Pvt. Ltd. Production presents, the most critically acclaimed film of this season, Lahore is all set to make mark and open to the audiences, globally on 19th March, 2010. Warner Bros. Pictures will distribute the film in India. Directed by debutant film director, Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan and produced by Vivek Khatkar and J.S. Rana, Lahore casts talented actors like Farouque Shaikh, Nafisa Ali, Sushant Singh, Shraddha Nigam, Saurabh Shukla, Kelly Dorji, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Mukesh Rishi and late Nirmal Pandey. The film also marks the Debut of Aanaahad & Shraddha Das in the lead pair. As the tag line of the film says, .Beyond borders, between Nations Lies a battle to end all wars., Lahore is based on Kickboxing Sport, and is a story about revenge personified. Shot in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lonavala, Malaysia and ofcourse at Lahore in Pakistan, the film Lahore has already won many international awards,...

Bollywood actor Vidya Balan on Saturday breezed into the city to promote Airtel Kolkata Marathon. Vidya Balan would be flagging off the groups for the Airtel Kolkata Marathon 2010 with Deepak Srivastava, CEO, Bharti Airtel Limited from Red Road (Opposite West Bengal Basket Ball Courts) starting 7 am onwards on Sunday. Bangla Band .Lakhicharra' will perform at the venue, while Tollywood celebrities Rituparna Sengupta, Locket Chatterjee, Arindam Sil and Sabyasachi Chakraborty...