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Monday, December 15, 2008

Back to the cinema hall, after interval

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The News is that audiences have begun to return to the cinema halls. After the 26/11 terror attacks, movie ticket sales had plummeted not only in Mumbai but all over India.

All films that released in the immediate weeks tanked. Trade reports confirmed that some shows were cancelled because not even one person turned up. The films that bombed were Sorry Bhai, Dil Kabaddi and Maharathi.

The gloom cleared this Friday with the return of moviegoers to the cinema halls for Aditya Chopra’s Rab ne Bana di Jodi featuring Shah Rukh Khan.

It has evoked mixed reactions, but is on its way to be counted among the hits of the year. Made on an estimated budget of Rs 35 crore, it is expected to recover its investment and some more.

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Friday, July 4, 2008

City prepares to party with Bollywoodi hottest

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Who would turn down an opportunity to party with John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Sameera Reddy and Neil Nitin Mukesh? If the response to HT City's 'Party with Bollywood' contest is an indication, Dilliwalas have their minds set on winning the 75 tickets to the mega party featuring their favourite stars, as well as thousands of other prizes up for grabs.

Day One saw a flurry of SMSes -15,000, no less - of which 8,000 correct entries have already won a prize. The five mega winners are student Harneet Suri, engineering service consultant Sanjeeb Banerjee, software engineers Ujjwal Singh and Satish Kumar Singh, and just-out-of university Shaili Bhatia. All five were on cloud nine. "As soon as I got the call, I told my wife I'll meet Deepika," said Banerjee excitedly Satish Singh was first time lucky - 'Party with Bollywood' is the first contest he has participated in. Now that he knows he'll meet Deepika in person, he says, "I've to prepare questions to ask her".

Other winners are planning for the big day too. "I'm going to wear a black shirt gifted by my sister," says Suri. Bhatia knows exactly what she'11 ask John: "How do you work out?" HT City has made life more colourful for these contestants

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Monday, February 25, 2008

Bold & brainy: Bollywood's new thought leaders

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TWENTY YEARS after class got over: the three men met and hugged each other outside a movie theatre, telling each other the story they had never told anyone: all they had touched since had turned gold.

That, of course, would have been the Bollywood version of the story of director buddies Raju Hirani, Sriram Raghavan and Rajat Kapoor Hirani created Bollywood history with the "Munnabhai" films, Raghavan just joined the A-list with the cracker Johny Gaddaar, and Kapoor proved his point on his kind of film-making yet again with the just-released witty thriller Mithya.

But for almost 20 years after they studied at the Film and Television institute of India (FTII) in Pune, the reality was more like a 1970s art house movie. Armed with just their ambition and talent, they wrote scripts and planned movies and patiently heard producers say "No".

Until now - until they ran into the new Bollywood. The three friends are now among a


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