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Box office analysis-February 15 , 2007
First weekend performance of latest release'Black Friday' released in the Friday gone by and didn't get a single 3 star rating anywhere, whether it was print, web or satellite media! But did that make Anurag Kashyap a sad man? Certainly not, since he is…
Oscar nomination for Black Friday?
Will 'Black Friday' be India's nomination for the OSCARS next year?Just 2 months into 2007 and we already have two strong candidates that are being vouched to be India's nomination for OSCARS - 'Guru' and now 'Black Friday'. While 'Guru' has garnered critical as…
'Parineeta' cinematographer for 'Eklavya'
Vidhu Vinod Chopra certainly believes in repeating the cast and crew of his films.Apart from roping in practically an entire cast of 'Parineeta' in 'Eklavya - The Royal Guard' [Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan], he has also sought the services of a…
Black Friday: A few stark details
In order to stick to authenticity in his forthcoming film Black Friday, director Anurag Kashyap and his team shot the important scene of the RDX bombs landing in India prior to the Mumbai blast in 1993 in the same village that the RDX actually landed…
Analysing Rituparna Sengupta
National Award winning actress and glamour queen of Bengal, Rituparna Sengupata has bagged two more of her prestigious project in Bollywood. She has signed a mega film opposite Punjab da puttar Sunny Deol in Ashwin Choudhery's 'Gurudakshina'.Rituparna has also signed a film with Kalpana…
Shoonya to premiere at Holland Film Festival
Yashraj's discovery Tulip Joshi's film 'Shoonya' after her critically acclaimed 'Mathrubhumi', will have its world premiere in Holland. The film will be premiered at the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007 (Jan 24- Feb 4).The Rotterdam festival is considered unique and a treasured space…
Real Journalists in Black Friday
'Black Friday' the much awaited film which is scheduled to release on February 9th has real life journalists like Naresh Fernandez (presently editor of Timeout Magazine) who covered the 1993 blasts which took place in Mumbai as reel journalists.'We wanted the scenes to look…
Box office analysis-February 01 , 2007
First weekend performance of latest releaseIs 24X7 media a boon or a curse? Nikhil Advani would be definitely wondering aloud about it since the day his 'Salaam E Ishq' hit the marquee. In the times, say as near as 7-10 years back, his film…
One had to be very careful, says Anurag Kashyap
Black Friday'.. Recreating Mumbai of the early 90's was one of the most difficult and significant aspect of the film. One had to keep a lot of things in mind like there should be no usage of cell phones or visibility of them in the…
Green light for Traffic Signal as it arrives solo
It couldn't have been better for Madhur Bhandarkar's 'Traffic Signal'.After postponing its release from late 2006 to early 2007, it kept reconsidering the right release timing for itself and after thinking of January as an option, it settled for February 02. Though it was…