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Amitabh, Jaya Bachchan at the special screening of ‘Chittagong’
Oct 16th
Bollywood-couple Jaya and Amitabh Bachchan at the special screening of Anurag Kashyap’s “Chittagong” at Cinemax in Andheri, Mumbai.
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Why is playing Maharashtrian special for Rani Mukherjee?
Sep 27th
A Bengali brought up in Mumbai, Rani Mukherjee says essaying a Maharashtrian girl in “Aiyyaa” made it all the more special.
The role of a Maharashtrian girl named Meenakshi Deshpande in the movie was like a dream come true for her, says Rani.
“I have always said that I am actually More >
Amitabh, Abhishek, Ajay at special screening of ‘Bol Bachchan’
Jul 9th
Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgn during the special screening of “Bol Bachchan” at Cinemax, Mumbai.
Advertisement:Kangana Ranaut shines at special kids’ felicitation
Mar 23rd
Bollywood hottie Kangana Ranaut joined other celebs to felicitate special kids of an NGO, on the occasion of the NGO’s 15th anniversary. The event also saw these celebrities coming together to celebrate politico Sachin Ahir’s birthday. But it was Kangana, who grabbed all the attention in her demure look, as More >
Special: The overblown world of Oscars
Mar 3rd
This year’s Academy Awards are a salutary lesson to anyone who has ever complained that Hollywood does not do enough to celebrate world cinema. Providing that piece of world cinema is an hour-and-a-half-long celebration of Hollywood, it might even win Best Picture.
In pictures: Full list of Oscar winners
In pictures: Memorable More >
Oscar special: Kids will love Hugo
Feb 26th
Hugo is a technical marvel. Martin Scorsese, the godfather of American crime films, tries his hand at a family film with a fantastical element this time, and makes it a visual extravaganza unlike any other. The first shot of the film shows the inner workings of a clock, and before you More >
Oscar special: My Week with Marilyn’s drugged, insecure and lost diva
Feb 26th
A still from My Week with Marilyn
My Week with Marilyn is a biographical film about one of the most fascinating icons of our time. The film fascinates by focusing on merely a week, an interlude during the making of the 1957 film, The Prince and the Showgirl. Monroe was purportedly More >
Oscar special: The Tree of Life Not everyone?s cup of tea
Feb 26th
Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life is a visceral experience, the film’s narrative interspersed with visuals of the origin of the universe and the inception of life. Malick, in a career spanning over four decades, has made only five feature films, each of which has come to be critically acclaimed. More >
Oscar special: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close a puzzling choice
Feb 26th
A scene from Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The selection of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close among the Best Picture nominees is the kind of ridiculous move that makes you want to take the Oscars with a pinch of salt. The film is a terrible adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel More >
Oscar special: Asghar Farhadi’s recipe for cinema ? A Separation
Feb 26th
Post revolution, there came a phase in Iran when cinema was feared dead. Films were banned en masse, movie halls were shut, filmmakers — portrayed as evil-doers — were forced to flee.
Then Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini, the country’s Supreme Leader, quite serendipitously caught Dariush Mehrjui’s Gaav (The Cow) — a film set More >
Oscar special: The Descendants ? Time for Clooney to shine?
Feb 26th
The Descendants is one of three films nominated in the Best Film category that revolves around the theme of death (the other two being The Tree Of Life and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close). Filmmaker Alexander Payne, who has given us such gems as About Schmidt and Sideways in the past, expertly More >
Oscar special: That sound and awe that is The Artist
Feb 26th
Films like The Artist come along once in a while. How often does a film capture your imagination, have you transfixed, entertain you every moment it unspools, and leave you feeling elated in the end? This is movie-making at its best. It’s poetic justice then that the film itself is More >
Oscar special: McCarthys comedy in Bridesmaids can exist only in an ensemble
Feb 26th
Melissa McCarthy in Bridesmaids
Bridesmaids has been described by some as Hangover for women. But the film, an acerbic look at female friendships, love and hate — deserves to stand on its own merit, rather than be compared to a trope it willfully avoids — that of a male-centric world in More >
Oscar special: Christopher Plummer gets out of his comfort zone in Beginners
Feb 26th
Beginners is a sweetheart of a film. That doesn’t mean it’s fluff. It’s a cheery, bright-eyed jaunt through the much-plumbed depths of love, loneliness and sexuality.
Ewan McGregor plays a 38-year-old artist, Oliver, whose father Hal (Christopher Plummer) comes out of the closet after his mother’s death.
How Oliver reconciles his More >
Oscar special: Midnight In Paris one of Woody Allen’s best scripts
Feb 26th
A scene from Midnight in Paris
Midnight In Paris is what you call a ‘Woody Allen special’. Beautifully shot in hues of red (Allen says the idea was to emanate a “warm feeling” as you watch the film), it’s the director’s 41st film, and his first completely shot in the French More >
Oscar special: Warrior role close to Nick Nolte?s real life
Feb 26th
Warrior is story of two estranged brothers, Tommy (Tom Hardy) and Brendan (Joel Edgerton) who enter a mixed martial arts tournament and face off against each other in the final.
Of course like The Fighter, which released the year before, it’s about much more than just the fighting. Warrior follows a More >
Oscar special: Demian Bichir in the big league with A Better Life
Feb 26th
Demian Bichir in A Better Life
There’s a beautiful moment in A Better Life, where the teenager Luis goes to meet his father, Carlos (played by Demian Bichir) in prison.
The two have almost never seen eye to eye, the former averse to embracing his Mexican roots, the latter wanting nothing more More >
Oscar special: Best animated feature ? A battle of unlikely heroes
Feb 26th
What if toys could talk? Do ogres have feelings? Can a dad swim halfway round the world braving sharks, jellyfishes and whatnot to save his son?
Some of the best animated films have given character to objects or animals and put them in settings that can’t be explored in real life. More >
Oscar special: Glen Close gives nuanced performance in Albert Nobbs
Feb 26th
Adapted from a George Moore story by Glenn Close, the lead actress, and John Banville, Albert Nobbs deals with the relationships around the main character who is a woman dressing as a man for 30 years.
It’s a decision that is at first an attempt to find work in conservative 19th More >
Oscar special: Viola Davis in The Help better than Meryl Streep
Feb 26th
The Help has everything to please Academy members: racial discrimination theme, period setting, moving story et al. The real triumph for the film, though, lies in the fact that it encapsulates all those things, but does so in a smart manner, not once playing to the gallery. It is full More >
Oscar special: Pina may score over more visceral films
Feb 26th
Choreography? is a word that conjures up images of prissy hippopotami inducing twinkle-toed lovers to prance about in front of backup dancers in popular films which are disdainful of continuity and the intelligence of audiences. For German modern dance teacher Philippina ?Pina? Bausch ? the leader of the troupe Tanztheater More >
Oscar special: War Horse is for emotional drama lovers
Feb 26th
War Horse is a sappy, melodramatic film about the relationship between a farmboy and his horse — perfect material for a tearjerker. And a tearjerker it is. The film has some truly moving moments, many of them captured superbly by cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. The last shot of the film — More >
Special birthday wishes for Shahid Kapoor
Feb 26th
Actor Shahid Kapoor was wished a happy birthday by a big chunk of his fans and his celeb friends on Saturday. But among all those who wished him, one name stood out.
Actor Bipasha Basu took to Twitter to wish her buddy and tell him that she was missing out on More >
Oscar special: Rooney Mara plays the role of hacker to a fault
Feb 26th
Rooney Mara in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Lisbeth Salander, a disturbed 26-year-old computer hacker, with piercings on her lip and eyebrow, a dragon tattooed on her back and a wasp tattooed on her neck, hates men who hate women.
After Noomi Rapace played Salander so convincingly in the Swedish adaptation More >
Oscar special: Gary Oldman excels in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Feb 26th
Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Gary Oldman’s performance in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a thing of beauty. As British intelligence officer George Smiley he speaks his first words 17 minutes after the film begins.
By then, though, you know almost everything there is to know about Smiley. That More >
Oscar special: Meryl Streep the saving grace of The Iron Lady
Feb 26th
How good is Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady? Streep, as the frontrunner for the Oscar for Best Actress, has been called the redeeming feature of this largely plodding and sentimental film. But what does her performance say about the film, as well as the controversial figure of Margaret Thatcher More >
Oscar special: Steven Zallian, Aaron Sorkin combo work for Moneyball
Feb 26th
Bennett Miller’s Moneyball benefits greatly from the presence of two of Hollywood’s most talented writers, Steven Zallian and Aaron Sorkin, collaborating on the script. The scenes between Oakland Athletics baseball general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and his assistant Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) are memorable, the camaraderie between the two More >
All my co-stars are special, says Saif Ali Khan
Feb 22nd
Actor Saif Ali Khan will soon be seen romancing girlfriend actor Kareena Kapoor in his spy thriller Agent Vinod. However, the actor insists that though he was always keen for Kareena to be a part of a film that was rather special for him, their personal equation is not the More >
All my co-stars are special, says Saif Ali Khan
Feb 22nd
Actor Saif Ali Khan will soon be seen romancing girlfriend actor Kareena Kapoor in his spy thriller Agent Vinod. However, the actor insists that though he was always keen for Kareena to be a part of a film that was rather special for him, their personal equation is not the More >
Indian film Gattu wins special mention at 62nd Berlinale
Feb 20th
At the award ceremony of the international film festival that concluded on Saturday, the jury of the Generation Section saw in Gattu the potential for life’s wonders in every child’s eye; and in particular, the boundless ingenuity of the young rascal was utterly compelling.
Indian flimmaker Rajen Khosa, a Kashmiri Pandit, More >
Special screening of Gali Gali Chor Hai held for Anna Hazare
Jan 26th
A special screening of the Hindi flick Gali Gali Chor Hai was held for anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare in his native village Ralegan Siddhi tonight in presence of the film’s crew.
“Anna saw the entire film which ended at around 10pm and expressed satisfaction over it,” Hazare’s aide Datta Awari told More >
Celebs invade special screening of Agneepath
Jan 25th
Family comes along: Mallika and Zayed Khan with son Zidaan
The stars of Agneepath — Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra and Sanjay Dutt — were in attendance at the special screening of the film. Producer Karan Johar was seen welcoming guests to this late night show, among whom were Arjun with Mehr Rampal More >
Must. Watch. Gwyneth Paltrow Discusses S&M In TV Special
Jan 10th
The term “Hollywood insider” has been so diluted by the tabs in recent years that it’s hard to discern whether it alludes to some social climbing celeb “friend” or a legit big shot source. Well, if you ever need a solid reference for the phrase, Vanity Fair‘s Senior West Coast More >
Special Report: Fashion: Gucci Opens a Brand Museum in Florence
Jan 4th
It would be fun to imagine all those high-wattage famous names in the photographs — Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Maria Callas — piled into the Cadillac Seville with a Gucci logo as its hood ornament and bowling through the narrow streets of Florence.
Some recent famous names — from More >
