BEST DIRECTOR
Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Hum Dil De Chuke...)

BEST ACTOR
Sanjay Dutt (Vaastav)

He is like a one man army who has fought many wars, won most, lost some but has never given up, never surrendered, never let the enemy get the better of him. He has never let any force crush his amazing ambition.

R A JALAN
Crusading for children’s films

He is an industrialist with interests in ceramics, mining and the like. He’s also a producer of films exclusively for children. Though he began with a film for a universal audience, called Harmonium, in Bengali, way back in 1973,

Mujhe Meri Biwi Se ...
Producer Prakash Mehra and director Harry Baweja will commence a 25-day shooting schdeule from February 1 for Prakash Mehra Pictures’ Mujhe Meri Biwi Se Bachao in and around Mumbai locales.

Get well soon
The devastatingly gorgeous silver-screen Sita - Shobhana Samarth, has been hospitalised for a neuro-complication. Reportedly the grand dame of mythological films is in a critical condition and is being tended by Tanuja.

Box Office

Pathetic condition
The film industry seems afflicted by a jinx for the last six months. Otherwise there would not have been so many debacles one after the other. One hoped the new year would bring some relief.

Ali's Notes

The giant against the boys
There is something within me that tells me loud and clear that Amitabh Bachchan this year is working on some of the best films of his career. They are the films that are going to bring him back in a big way and are going to prove to all generations that he cannot be given up as a great actor,

There is truly no option for the industry vis a vis the current mafia invasion. It is a situation where the industry has to either live with it or move out of Mumbai to a safer city.

No breakthrough in Roshan case yet

The Police have still been unable to make any headway in the case of assault on actor-turned director Rakesh Roshan, though senior police officers claimed on January 23, that they had succeeded in identifying the shooters.