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Bollywood Gossip : Realistic Bollywood filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar's keenly awaited film FASHION will have a limited audience!

The Censor Board of Film Certification has passed FASHION under 'A' (Adult) certificate after they watched the film. On seeing the movie the censor board on many occasions felt that there were many such scenes which are not fit for family viewing.

As per few reports Bhandarkar was not happy with Censor Board's decision. Madhur who is quite enthusiastic about his dear project FASHION, was expecting an U/A certificate. He even argued for the same with the board members but they stood adamant. They were ready only under one condition, if Madhur deletes few scenes.

When Madhur Bhandarkar refused to do so, the members had no option other than certifying it as 'A'.

When we contacted Madhur to confirm the same he said, "Yeah that's true that Censor Board asked me to delete atleast 6 scenes. But I couldn't agree on the same as the theme of FASHION happens to be out and out glamorous. And deleting scenes from the movie would not have done justice to the film or blend in. I tried my best to convince them that deleting the scenes means removing the integral part from the film and compromising on realistic aspect of the movie. I certainly never expected that the board would give it a 'U' certificate, but I was sure enough to get an U/A certificate."

He further adds, "Since it would not have been a good option to hold the movie for the simple reason of certification, I didn't go for a further revising, though I had an option to appeal to the committee of the board against the Examining Committee's decision."

Now the bollywood film will hit the screens on the assigned date i.e. 29th October.

- Glamsham.com

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Bollywood News : Mumbai/ London (18 July 2008): Eros Multimedia, the Indian arm of Eros International plc (“Eros”), the leading London-listed Indian media and entertainment company, has entered into an exclusive two year output deal with India’s leading digital entertainment media company, Hungama Mobile, for the development, distribution and marketing of Eros’s music content for download on mobile phones.
Hungama Mobile will repurpose Eros content into desktop wallpapers, ringtones, games, song videos and other content that has appeal on the mobile format and monetise this content by distributing it to handset manufacturers such as Nokia and Motorola and mobile service providers such as Vodafone, Idea, BSNL, Airtel, Reliance, du, SingTel, Verizon, Rogers, T-Mobile and MTN.
The deal covers content from some major forthcoming releases from the Eros roster, including the modern day Aladin starring Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Riteish Deshmukh, Toonpur ka Super Hero, starring real-life husband and wife duo Ajay Devgan & Kajol, the much anticipated Kambakth Ishq with Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor, Salman Khan’s Veer and Freeze starring Neil Nitin Mukesh and Bipasha Basu. A venture which is currently under production, featuring Deepika Padukone of Om Shanti Om fame and Saif Ali Khan, will also fall under the auspices of the deal.

According to COAI (Cellular Operators Association India), the Mobile Entertainment in India is on the rise as it caters to a 300 million and growing mobile community. India is the 2nd largest mobile market and has had a massive adoption of mobile music, gaming etc through the largely youthful consumer community.

Commenting on the deal, Kumar Ahuja, Senior Vice-President of Eros‘s New Media & International Sales said: “Hungama Mobile is an established player in the mobile content distribution space and we are confident of the quality content and innovative products that it will provide to consumers. Through this association, we are looking to maximize the mobile distribution potential from our premium content. The deal allows us to achieve full visibility of our mobile syndication revenues for the next two years from our film slate”.

Saleem Mobhani, Chief Operating Officer of Hungama Mobile said: “We have been working with Eros for many years as partners on our portal, www.bollywoodhungama.com and this association of exclusive mobile entertainment content for their future releases until 2010 only strengthens this association. Hungama
Mobile is the only digital media company that has an established network across 30 countries and will scale to over 60 by the end of this year, giving immense value to studios and record labels for both promoting their films as also realizing revenues via the
digital medium.”

- Eros Entertainment Press Release

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Bollywood Gossip : After last week's releases, which include Mehbooba and Mukhbiir, proved to be damp squibs at the box office, Bollywood trade circles have now set their eyes on Kismat Konnection and Contract that are releasing this Friday.

After the poor performances of Good Luck and Rituparno Ghosh's Khela as well, both the new movies are worth looking forward to because two fine directors, Aziz Mirza and Ram Gopal Varma, are at the helm.

While Mirza is known for making light-hearted romantic fare, Varma scores when he makes gangster movies dealing with subjects related to the underworld.

As Mirza has returned to direction after five years - his last directorial venture was "Chalte Chalte" - so has Varma visited a gangster movie to direct after six years since "Company" in 2002.

Kismat Konnection has generated a lot of expectations also because this is Shahid Kapur's second release after last year's hit Jab We Met, in which he was paired with his ex-love Kareena Kapoor.

Will his kismat (luck) stays with him through the release of Kismat Konnection, sans Kareena? For Shahid-Kareena made a fantastic pair in Jab We Met. Will his pairing with Vidya Balan in Kismat Konnection work equally well for the both?

"Comparison is uncalled-for, because both Jab We Met and Kismat Konnection have approached romance in different ways. All three are good artists, but there are roles in which some fit and others do not. Vidya fits in the role of Priya she has done in my film," said Mirza.

The other attractions of the movie are the boisterous presence of Juhi Chawla and the voiceover given by Shah Rukh Khan.

Contract, on the other hand, has no stars to boast of other than the director himself. Newcomer Adhvik Mahajan is playing the main lead in it.

Since Varma finds himself in his element when he directs gangster films, Contract is expected to be a hard-hitting movie like his previous hits - Satya and Company.

But, according to Varma, Contract is not exactly a gangster movie. It is mainly about the underworld's links with terrorism told through a terrorist who is well aware of the gangland activities.

After the lukewarm response to Sarkar Raj, will non-star-cast Contract succeed at the box office?

"Since it is a theme-based film, it will be a slow-starter, but eventually may do well through word-of-mouth publicity," said a trade analyst.

Some distributors of Contract reportedly, had suggested Varma to defer the release till August in order not to avoid clash with Kismat Konnection. But he refused to oblige them, reasoning that the two are diametrically opposite movies.

- Indo-Asian News Service & NDTV Movies

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Bollywood News : Eros International, the leading integrated company within the Indian media & entertainment sector announced today the expansion of its presence on popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Orkut and MySpace with the launch of Eros branded community sites for the upcoming release of ‘BHOOTHNATH’.

Eros has lined up an exciting array of contests for autographed CDs and posters as well as interactive activities such as polls, discussions and exclusive images and videos for the Bhootnath community sites on Orkut, Facebook and MySpace. Eros’ development of film-specific communities on social networking sites supports the company’s ongoing strategy to connect online with Bollywood fans around the world.

“Eros was the first Indian media and entertainment company to partner directly with YouTube as we recognized early the rapid growth in popularity of social networking platforms. Bhoothnath is the perfect film for us to expand our social marketing reach and support as it has such great appeal across all segments of the market with the presence of a leading icon like Amitabh Bachchan as well as being a children’s film”, said Kumar Ahuja, VP International Sales & New Media for Eros International.

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Bollywood Gossips : Yash Raj Films' much-awaited action thriller Tashan has opened in a select few cinema halls.

Multiplexes are waging a battle on who gets the most the distributor or the producer.

PVR Cinemas and Inox in Mumbai are not screening the film. In Delhi too mulitplexes like Adlabs and PVR have said a straight no.

"We had asked Inox, Fame and Adlabs multiplexes to give 60 per cent of the revenue collected in the first week. Tashan is a film that will easily earn enough revenues for the multiplexes and us. I don't think the increase in revenue percentage is too high," said Sanjeev Kohli, CEO of Yash Raj Films.

Amitabh Vardhan, CEO, PVR Cinemas, said: "As of now we don't have the film. As far as the revenue sharing is concerned, I would not like to comment on that."

Arijit Dutta, a Kolkata-based exhibitor-distributor, is more forthright.

"I don't understand why we have to pay higher revenue when the business in Kolkata is 10 times less than other metros. This year revenue has been hiked by 12 percent here, whereas Mumbai and Delhi multiplexes were asked to pay only two per cent more," said Dutta.

Till Friday morning none of the parties had reached any agreement and the film has opened in only single screen theatres. Apart from them, the Waves and Spice multiplexes are having shows of the film.

The Krishna Acharya directed film starring Kareena, Saif, Akshay and Anil Kapoor is an edge of the seat thriller.

- NDTV Movies and IANS

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Bollywood Gossips : The worst has struck Roshans. Music composer Ram Sampath, who moved court asking for Rs 2 crore as damages from the Krazzy 4 producers for copying his tune to compose four tracks, has won the legal battle today.

Giving its verdict on an appeal filed by 32-year-old ad jingle music composer, the Mumbai High Court has ordered the Roshans to remove the title track ‘Krazzy 4’, before it hits cinema theatres tomorrow.


Sampath, had stated in his appeal that the Roshans copied his 60-second music titled ‘The Thump’. The young composer had created the title for a mobile phone television advertisement last year and the Roshans had used the same tone in the title track of their upcoming flick ‘Krazzy 4’ without his consent.

Apparantly Roshans know that the stakes are too hish and their desperation was evident in court. Within hours of offering Rs 2 lakh per month to Sampath as ad-interim relief, the offer was raised to Rs 25 lakh and then “any amount that the court thinks appropriate”.

In the meanwhile the court instructed the Roshans to delete two songs if they want to release the film tomorrow.

"To my untrained ear, the music appeared to be similar", Justice Karnik, who listened to both Sampath's work for a Sony Ericsson cellphone advertisement, and the two songs composed by Rajesh Roshan for the film, said.

This means that Hrithik and SRK's Break Free item numbers will have to be removed from the film, which seems like a daunting task as the film prints have already been dispatchedfor the overseas release, as well as territories outside Mumbai.

Though Roshans’ lawyer Arif Bookwala pleaded the court not to stay the release of the film on Friday, Sampath’s lawyer Virendra Tulzapurkar said that mere monetary compensation would not suffice. “The SMS-s sent by Hrithik establish that they knew the music was not created by them. They have done this knowingly and deliberately.”

He added that his client was a “small time artiste” and needed to be protected when his work was plagiarised by such “big people”.

He also presented the opinion of Shiv Mathur, an independent expert, who confirmed Sampath’s allegation of plagiarism. Tulzapurkar added that the defendants were earning Rs 7 crore per month simply from ringtone downloads and Rs 2.5 crore per month from the sale of the music.

But Roshans' woes don't end here. We hear that their Krazzy 4 is a straight copy of the Hollywood film The Dream Team.

The posters of the two movies are similar and both the films are about four mentally unstable men and how they get out of a mental asylum to figure out that the outer world is as crazy as them.

In his defense, director of the film Jaideep Sen said that the similarity in the films is “sheer coincidence.”

- SantaBanta

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The Indian arm of Eros International, the London AIM listed leading integrated company within the Indian media & entertainment sector, was awarded the prestigious Amity Corporate Excellence Award at Amity International Business School’s Tenth International Conference-INBUSH (International Business Horizon) 2008.

Eros was conferred the ‘Amity Corporate Excellence Award’ which is based on the results of a survey conducted by a team of students and faculty from Amity Business School identifying strengths and core competencies of leading corporates across different sectors in India. A high level jury consisting of industrialists, scholars and academicians evaluated the findings. Some key parameters were: Understanding of Organizational structure, Employee Strength, business code of conduct, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee welfare schemes and many more.

“The Corporate Excellence Award received by Eros is a reflection of the humble contribution we have been able to make towards the overall corporatisation of the Indian entertainment sector and the solidarity of the Eros team towards our common goal,” said Sunil Lulla, President – Eros International India.

The citation by the institute stated the Award being bestowed on Eros “for having achieved the enviable position of one of the best and most admired business organizations with its unparalleled performance. It is a matter of great pride that the company rather than resting on past laurels keeps pushing itself to achieve greater heights”.

- Eros Entertainment Press Release

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Jaipur Feb 16, 2008 : Unwilling to give way, a Rajput group opposing Ashutosh Gowarikar's Jodhaa Akbar said it will not allow the film's screening in Rajasthan until he apolgises to the community and changes the script deleting portions of "distorted historical facts" from it.

"We will not allow screening of Jodhaa Akbar till the makers of the film submits a public apology for hurting the sentiments of the Rajputs," Karni Sena patron Lokendra Kalvi, told a news conference.

He further laid down the condition that "he must be ready to change the film's script".

He cited an NCERT plus-two history text book on 'Medieval India' by Professor Satish Chandra that Jodhabai was the wife of Saleem (Jehangir), son of Akbar the great, in support of their contention that the film distorts history.


"None of Akbar's 34 wives had the name, surname, nick name, or alias of Jodhaa. How could one change it now," Kalvi said.

- Press Trust of India

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Eros International, the London AIM listed leading integrated company within the Indian media and entertainment sector, announced today the selection of OM SHANTI OM for Berlinale Special at the Berlin Film Festival 2008.

The Berlinale Special shows, as part of the official programme, works of contemporary filmmakers that the festival honours. The festival shows extraordinary new productions to honour great cinema personalities by showing their films and to immerse audiences in cinematic history by screening film classics. Films which deserve special attention due to current events can also be shown as part of the Berlinale Special. Furthermore the programme presents films in honour of those who receive a Berlinale Camera, films by or about outstanding persons of film whom the festival feels especially attached to.

OM SHANTI OM is among 11 films selected this year. Directed by Farha Khan and produced by Gauri Khan, OM SHANTI OM stars superstar Shah Rukh Khan, glamorous Deepika Padukone, debonair Arjun Rampal and talented Shreyas Talpade.

The film will have a German Premiere at the festival on 8th February, 8:00pm at Kino Internazionale attended by Shah Rukh Khan.

Eros International will be releasing OM SHANTI OM theatrically in Germany soon after the Berlin Film Festival.

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A number of stories concerning Jodhaa Akbar are doing the rounds of the industry. The topic of discussion is that the film won't make it on the scheduled date since the post-production isn't complete yet [it's currently in the mixing stages] and Ashutosh Gowariker is in no mood to hurry things up. Translated into simple terms, it means the historical might not make it on 15th February, the final date locked by Gowariker and UTV.


Another story [rumour] doing the rounds is that the dubbed Tamil and Telugu versions are likely to be delayed as well, since the makers would be keen to get the Hindi version in place first. Which means, the South version would be pushed ahead by a couple of weeks.


Absolutely false, Siddharth Roy Kapur of UTV sets the record straight, The Hindi version as well as the dubbed Tamil and Telugu versions will have the same day and date release. There's no question of a postponement now. I hope people stop speculating.


But what everyone's curious to know is the final length of this colossal historical. There're murmurs that the film will be of 3 + hour duration. Await the official announcement from Gowariker on that one!

Labels: aishwarya, ashutosh, bachchan, bollywood, box office, gossip, gossips, gowarikar, hrithik, jodhaa akbar, latest, movie, news, Rai, release, roshan, stars

Leading integrated Tamil media & entertainment company Ayngaran International, which is an Eros International company, announces the production of Shankar‘s ‘Robot’, starring superstar Rajnikanth.

After the grand success of ‘Shivaji’, Tamil film industry’s most popular star, Rajnikanth, talented director, Shankar, and music maestro, A. R. Rahman, are coming together once again in the much anticipated ‘Robot’.

Expected to be the grandest film ever to be made in Indian cinema, ‘Robot’, will be produced in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and other languages.

Director, Shankar, commented:
“It’s very exciting to be working again with talents like Rajnikanth and A.R. Rahman. Combined with production & distribution muscle of Ayngaran – Eros International, ‘Robot’ has the potential of becoming this year’s biggest film.”

Rajnikanth commented:
“I am immensely happy to be working with Ayngaran – Eros International for ‘Robot’. This film by Shankar is one of its kinds to be made on Indian screen. No one has done it before.”

K KarunaMoorthy, CEO of Ayngaran, commented:
“After the grand success of ‘Shivaji’ and ‘Billa’ we are all geared up for ‘Robot’ now. Aligning with Eros International’s consolidation strategy, we are leveraging our position to integrate the Tamil film industry by producing & releasing films on the global platform. It’s a pleasure working again with the magical team of Rajnikanth, Shankar and A.R. Rahman. We are positive that ‘Robot’ will break all box office records. “

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We have seen him in various avatars. He has been the Shahenshah, Sexy Sam, Anthony etc. But now superstar Amitabh Bachchan has gone a step further in his bid to reinvent himself. This time he will be seen on screen as a cartoon character.

It is believed that the Big B has signed a deal with an animation company for a cartoon movie. The movie is expected to hit the screen in the next one year. It will be a full-length feature film with a cartoon character based on the Big B. The superstar has been giving a lot of ideas and the script is taking shape. But the production house is yet to find a director for the venture. The agreement has been signed with the Thiruvananthapuram Toonz Academy, which co-produced the recent Hanuman Returns. Bachchan is said to be very gung-ho about the production and was quite involved in the look of the character in film which will be based on him. Well, after Priyanka Chopra designed a toon character for Virgin Comics and Shah Rukh Khan lent his voice for the Hindi version of The Unbreakables, the race to leave an animated footprint is on in full earnest.

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UTV Motion Pictures and Ashutosh Gowariker's much awaited epic romance 'Jodhaa Akbar' starring Hrithik Roshan & Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is slated for a worldwide release on 15th February 2008. The soundtrack composed by music maestro A.R Rahman and lyrics written by Javed Akhtar will release on 9th January through UTV's new record label UTV music.

The change of release date is due to the fact that Ashutosh Gowariker has been advised bed rest for 21 days with a severe back problem.

The director was scheduled to be in Chennai for this entire week to finish the background score of Jodhaa Akbar but could not move out because of strict instructions from his doctors not to travel.

Referring to his back problem Ashutosh stated, "I am sad that this had to happen in the thick of post production; it is unfortunate, but it has to be dealt with."

Jodhaa Akbar is a sixteenth century story about a marriage of alliance that brought two diverse souls together to find true love between the greatest Mughal emperor that ruled Hindustan, Jalaluddin Mohammad Akbar, and the fiery young Rajput princess, Jodhaa.
The film is produced by UTV Motion Pictures and Ashutosh Gowariker Productions.

- MovieTalkies.com

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Remember Farhan Akhtar's Dil Chahta Hai where the veteran actress Suhasini Mulay played a distressed mother who watches in dismay as her son, played by Akshaye Khanna, falls for an older woman?

In Naseeruddin Shah's Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota, Suhasini played a woman who becomes the object of adoration of a much younger man, played by Irrfan Khan.

There have been films like Dil Chahta Hai, Anmol and Being Cyrus - all featuring Dimple Kapadia - where a 40-plus woman has fallen for a much younger man.

Producer Sudhish Rambhotla of Hyderabad's ColorChips production house is currently planning a film with Sammir Dattani that is based on The Summer Of 42. Rambhotla wants Rekha, Shabana or Dimple to play the romantic lead opposite the young actor.

"Why not?" said Irrfan. "Hindi cinema is maturing and it's wonderful to be part of a film like Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota. I played opposite Suhasini. I'm a guy who looked for a mother figure in love. It was definitely a departure from the way

man-woman relationships are depicted in films these days."

Irrfan played a working class man in his 40s totally besotted by an older woman.

"My character adored the woman to the point of worship. She's very classy and I'm nothing but a diversion for her. She'd happily make love to another man if she found someone more interesting," said Irrfan.

"Suhasini and I shared a very important lovemaking scene, a part of which was edited in the final cut. But the scene combined food and sex. We went into this whole sensuous culinary mood...

"It was bizarre and fascinating. I had never done anything like this," confessed Irrfan who started his career making violent love to Dimple Kapadia in Govind Nihalani's Drishti.

- Subhash K Jha, IANS

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Taare Zameen Par is in news not only because it is the first film Aamir Khan has officially directed, but also because it is the only movie that has been declared tax-free just five days after its release.

Despite the film having a bold and unconventional theme like Dyslexia, a learning disorder from which several children suffer, Taare Zameen Par has turned out to be a box office hit.

Making films with strong social or national messages tax-free is a popular trend. Recently, Chak De India was also made tax-free thanks to its message of unity in diversity.

Other films that were declared tax free in the past include Lage Raho Munnabhai, Guru, Pooja Bhatt's Dhokha, Rang De Basanti, Lakshya, Koi Mil Gaya and the list goes on.

In fact, Anurag Kashyap's Hanuman Returns has been declared tax-free even before its release.

- NDTV.com

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Eros Music, a division of Eros International, the London AIM listed leading integrated company within the Indian media & entertainment sector released its first non-film album, music composer-singer Aadesh Srivastava’s Beyond Boundaries…Apna Bana Le. Eros marks its foray into the world of pop with Aadesh’s second non-film album after a gap of ten years.

With several Bollywood hits to his credit, the prolific music composer takes this tradition of touching people’s heart with his music a little further with his solo album. Aptly titled, ‘Beyond Boundaries… Apna Bana Le…’ for the maker feels music does transcend borders and nationalities. What makes the album unique is the versatile musician has not only composed the songs in the album but has also sung them all by himself with a variation in his voice in each song. India’s leading lyricist, Sameer, has written the lyrics of the eclectic mix of tracks with internationally acclaimed Remo lending able support with his trademark music – a fusion of different cultures and styles. The hugely acclaimed DJ Suketu has arranged the music for Beyond Boundaries.

With Aadesh’s Beyond Boundaries, Eros Music adds to its repertoire in the endeavor to present hit music after its previous successes of Omkara, Cheeni Kum, Namastey London etc. Eros established its own music label with Vishal Bharadwaj’s Omkara, a powerful Indian adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello and also its India distribution arm to complement its extensive international distribution network, stamping its position as a global content producer-owner-distributor.

The melodies of ‘Beyond Boundaries…’ are carefree and joyful and ranges from the very energetic Punjabi number, ‘Chak De Chak De…’ to a raag-based Sufiyana song, ‘Ishq Sufiyana Ishq Sufiyana…’ to the hip-hop, ‘One For The Road…’ amongst others, which is sure to keep the audience grooving and asking for more. . And not to miss, the patriotic number, ‘Namaste Salaam Hindustani Mera Naam’. The ‘Ghagro Ghumme Se Ghumme Se Chhori Ko’, is a vibrant number that truly brings with it the flavour of Rajasthan. It is highly foot tapping and would be lapped by people from all over. The music master weaves his magic all over with a high-pitched powerful song in, ‘Ali Dum Ali Dum...’ Both raga based melodies and sprinted youthful and peppy numbers come easy to this composer, which is well reflected in this album.

And what else makes this album different from the others? Well… the versatile musician has not only composed the songs in the album but has also sung them all by himself. So, what’s new, you may ask? Well… the catch is -- Aadesh has sung every song in, ‘Beyond Boundaries…’ with a variation in his voice. Yes, every number has been sung in a different voice. Be it the high-pitched ‘Om Shanti Om…’ or the soulful number, ‘Oindhi Jad Oindhi Nayyo Jondi…’ or the classical ‘Kunj Gali Mein Bheti Radha…’ And when Aadesh is in charge of the compositions, one does expect some trademark melodies. Last, but not the least Aadesh leads to the dance floor with his hip hop number ‘Do You Know That’ sung along with his two young sons aged nine and eleven.

Once a while, comes an album, which breaks all barriers and proves to be a turning point in Indian music. Aadesh’s ‘Beyond Boundaries…’ is sure to tread the path of glory. So for all those people out there who thought Aadesh could do wonders only at making music check his vocal chords too.

Add ‘Beyond Boundaries…’ to your music collection. The album promises a fun-filled ride!

Produced by Jagran Events & Music, Veecon Music and Film Production Pvt. Ltd., ‘Beyond Boundaries…’ has chartbusting music, sure to melt the hearts when the audio flirts with the frequencies. This is the reason why ‘Beyond Boundaries…’ is a reason to celebrate since as many as nine tracks promise to make it the album one joyful delight.

The people behind this effort are ace lyricist Sameer, pop singer Remo Fernandes and DJ Suketu. While Remo is directing the videos Suketu is the music arranger.

- Eros Entertainment Press Release

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Bollywood actor Aamir Khan explores the children's world in "Taare Zameen Par" (TZP), which marks Khan's debut as director.

"I think my biggest challenge as a director was to translate honestly what was on paper on to the screen. I think that's what I tried to do," said Khan.

The film is about a boy aged around eight years with dyslexia, the learning disability, who retreats into a shell rather than face a world of stiff parental expectation and academic competition.

At a boarding school, where he is sent to be disciplined, he meets a teacher who doesn't expect him to score top grades and shares his world of colours, fish, dogs and kites.

"TZP is a film about children, not a children's film," writes Khan in his blog to promote the movie.

Khan, who is sometimes compared by critics to Hollywood's Tom Hanks, appears in the film as the sensitive teacher.

Khan is known as a perfectionist, who chooses his scripts with care.

Aamir felt pleased that his work had been appreciated, but he was cautious about high expectations that people have from his film.

"Well I know that high expectations bring a lot of responsibility and I'm aware of that. I'm also happy these expectations indicate to me that my previous work has been liked and appreciated a lot and that's good to know. I do the work which I enjoy doing," said Aamir.

There was a mixed reaction to the movie from a cross-section of people, but most seemed to be in its favour.

"The child acted very well. It is an emotional film. I will love having a teacher like Aamir," said Salil, a child.

Delhi-based fashion designer Gauri Karan was in favour of this movie and said, "This film is absolutely brilliant. I also want to add that it's a nice film."

The film had its share of problems when activists in Gujarat protested against the screening of 'Taare Zameen Par' over the alleged anti-Narmada dam remarks of Khan last year.

Khan's remarks against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as well as his opposition to the Narmada dam had evoked violent protests across the state last year. (ANI)

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Eros International, the London AIM listed leading integrated company within the Indian media & entertainment sector, has announced the launch of Sujoy Ghosh’s modern day Aladin, the evergreen Arabian Nights story in a big Bollywood format which has recently gone on floors. With Aladin, Eros also makes a foray into visual effects with their recently launched EyeQube Studios handling the same for the film.

Eros International in association with Sujoy Ghosh’s production company Boundscript is producing the hi-end special effects film, which stars Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt and Riteish Deshmukh and will introduce Jackie Fernandez opposite Riteish.
As part of its 360 degrees presence strategy, Eros International recently announced the launch of EyeQube, a visual effects company that is headed by international talent Charles Darby, the man behind the remarkable visual effects of several Hollywood blockbusters like Titanic, Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban, The Matrix, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon etc. EyeQube will create specific teams to handle individual film projects and exclusively handle top-end visual effects for Aladin.

Aladin has just wrapped its Rajasthan schedule and the second schedule is presently being shot in Mumbai at Filmcity & Mehboob Studios. The film is aiming for a 2008 release.

Aladin comes as part of a five-film deal between Eros International and Boundscript. All five films will be high-end visual effects driven and each film will be aimed at raising the visual effects benchmark.

- Eros International Press Release

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London, November 27, 2007: Eros International, the London AIM listed leading integrated company within the Indian media & entertainment sector has won three awards at the DVD Entertainment India Summit held on 24th Nov 2007 in Mumbai.

The event was organised by India’s leading magazine publishing group Infocast Systems Pvt Ltd. which publishes Studio Systems, Optical Disc Systems, Cinema Systems, Pro Sound Systems magazines.

Eros bagged awards in three categories including Best technical Interactive menu design for ‘Lage Raho Munna Bhai’, Direct to Disc Special Interest for ‘Bollywood Bodies’ featuring John Abraham and Bipasha Basu and Best documentary/Educational (Instructional) for Shiamak Davar’s ‘Bollywood Jazz’

Commenting on this occasion Mr. Hanif Khatri, Senior Vice President, India Operations, Eros International said ‘”We at Eros International are constantly upgrading our technologies to meet the ever growing consumer demand and we hope to excel our own caliber in the future.”

- Eros International Press Release

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London, November 26, 2007: Eros International, the London AIM listed leading integrated company within the Indian media & entertainment sector and Carving Dreams Motion Pictures, a division of Carving Dreams Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., the country's leading talent agency have signed Bollywood Superstar Hrithik Roshan as the main lead for their debut co-production venture.

Kishore Lulla, Chairman & CEO, Eros International further added, "We are happy to be working with Carving Dreams, one of the best outfits in the business of celebrity and entertainment marketing. I am delighted that Hrithik Roshan will be playing the lead role. That has elevated out first project together to an entirely different level. We are looking forward to a wonderful relationship & many more such ventures and specifically giving this particular film a great global distribution and marketing platform pulling our entire group's resources together."

Announcing the deal, Bunty Bahl, Director, Carving Dreams Motion Pictures said, "We are very pleased to be collaborating with Eros International, who are clearly the market leaders in film production and global distribution today. Having worked closely with Hrithik Roshan as his business mangers for over two years now, we hope to be sensitive to his creative needs and expect him to be involved in our film beyond the boundaries of an actor. As we foray into film production, Hrithik was the most natural choice for us to fortify our relationship further. The Hrithik-Carving Dream-Eros combo is sure to create waves."

Hrithik Roshan confirmed the news and said, "Yes, I am positively excited about this venture and am looking forward to work with two of the best in our industry. Carving Dreams entertainment p ltd, manage my business profile in terms of endorsements, appearances etc... hence agreeing to do their debut film production project is a step towards strengthening our existing relationship. While Eros International is known for their excellent film production and global distribution network, so it helps to work with the best. I am confident that this union is definitely going to be a winner. "

- Eros International Press Release

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Eros International, the London AIM listed leading integrated company within the Indian media & entertainment sector, has entered into a joint venture with Manish Goswami’s Red Carpet Films, a Mukta Arts company in to co-produce three to four films a year under this banner.

In a separate deal Eros has also acquired global distribution rights of three forthcoming releases of Mukta Arts which include Bombay 2 Bangkok directed by Nagesh Kukunoor, Yuvraaj starring Salmaan Khan and Katrina Kaif and Black & White both directed by veteran showman Subhash Ghai.

Commenting on the development, Sunil Lulla, President India for Eros said, “We are excited about tying up with one of the leading veterans in the industry like Subhash Ghai. With this tie-up, we continue to focus on our strategic priorities that include presenting quality film content to discerning audiences. We are looking forward to leveraging Eros’ global distribution in releasing this bouquet of prestigious releases by Mukta Arts”.

- Eros Entertainment Press Release

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November 9 is a big day in Bollywood for two reasons: Om Shanti Om and Saawariya.

Hey Wait!! There needs some change. In an unprecedented move, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Sony Pictures have decided to premiere their movie Saawariya on November 7 evening, which is two days ahead of its mega release on November 9.

Bollywood Movies are generally premiered 14 hours before its final release date because the producer and director try to avert any chance of negative publicity. However, in this case.. Sanjay seems to be very much confident about his movie and says that they dont care about any negative publicity.

Sony Pictures says with Diwali on November 9, people would be spending time offering pooja and meeting their near/ dear ones and he doesnt want to create inconvenience of the guests for the premier show.

Sony Pictures is believed to release 600 prints of the movie in India and about 900 more globally.

Here's some more on the film and its debutant hero Ranbir Kapoor. The towel dropping shot in the number Jab Se Tere Naina from the film has been dropped by the Censor Board. Bhansali is not complaining as the shot obstructs or disturbs the flow of his creativity. The director was offered the choice of keeping the nude shot with an Adults Only certificate. But the filmmaker did not want to lose an extremely large and crucial portion of the potential audience for that one shot.

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Bollywood Actor Shah Rukh Khan is all set to take London by storm at the Red Carpet World Premiere of his forthcoming filem Om Shanti Om which has been termed as the most awaiting bollywood movie for the year 2007.

The Venue of the World Premiere is the Empire, Leicester Square on Thursday, November 8.

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Eros International, the leading integrated company within the Indian media & entertainment sector announced the global release of ‘Dus Kahaniyaan’, which will take place on 23rd November 2007.

Eros International’s and White Feather Films’ first project together ‘Dus Kahaniyan’, is a sensational film with a huge lead cast. An unusual concept, ‘Dus Kahaniyaan’ produced by Sanjay Dutt and Sanjay Gupta has ten spectacular stories directed by six different directors including Apurva Lakhia, Hansal Mehta, Jasmeet Dhodi, Meghna Gulzar, Rohit Roy and Sanjay Gupta himself.

Dus Kahaniyaan’ is releasing in cinemas worldwide on 23rd November 2007.

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By Subhash K. Jha

If reports from an imaginative section of the media are to be believed, Sanjay Bhansali has already firmed in on his next project. And it's called; hold your breath, Hamari Jaan Ho Tum.

Before we moved ahead with this mushy mythical yarn, let's rewind quickly to the exquisite soundtrack of Saawariya where one of the most melodious tracks has the cutest love lyrics that go, ‘Thode badmaash ho tum thode nadaan ho tum / haan magar yeh sach hai hamari jaan ho tum’.

Indeed Hamari Jaan Ho Tum was an idea that the moviemaking magician was toying with after the success of Black. It was a story about young love in which Sanjay wanted to cast Udit Narayan's son and Mahesh Bhatt-Soni Razdan's daughter.

So is that going to be his next project? Laughs the beleaguered director, "Right now I’m too consumed by the release of Saawariya to even think about what I'll do next. My music composer Monty Sharma and I are busy putting together the background score. Do you know, Monty is the first composer I've worked with who writes music? He knows the musical notations and he puts every note of a tune down on paper before recording them. Such precision in musicianship I’ve never encountered before. I can't think beyond Monty and his music right now."

As for Hamari Jaan Ho Tum, Sanjay has no plans of making that in the immediate future.

- IndiaFM

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