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Believe
me (and believe me you must) the first time I saw this South-Indian
girl in ABCL’s Tere Mere Sapne, I forgot I was watching a
film. And that the girl I was seeing was a character in the film.
I believed she was Usha Siddhamoorthy, the girl I had fallen in
love with in college and who I am sure liked me too. But one letter
from me and her father came with four tough-looking men, posed
as men from the CBI and told my innocent younger brother to warn
me not to write letters or even think of Usha or they would deal
with me severely. I wrote another letter to Usha saying sorry
for the embarrassment my letter caused her. The "CBI officers"
headed by her father did not do or say anything to me.
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Rushes
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Last
shoot for Har Dil....
Producer Sajid Nadiadwala and his unit of Har Dil Jo Pyar
Karega will leave for Mauritius to picturise the last song
for the film which will be picturised on Salman Khan, Preity
Zinta and sixty models. The film will be complete with the
shoot. The dubbing and background music of the film is complete
and the film is being scheduled for release soon. Rani Mukerji
is the leading lady in the film which has music by Anu Malik
and cinematography by WB Rao.
Proud moment for Dev
Dev Anand cut the negative of son, Suneil Anand’s
first film as full-fledged filmmaker. The film, Master,
has been directed by Suneil who also plays the leading man.
Ponzan honour for Malli
Santosh Sivan has more awards for his film Malli, which
won three major awards at the 18th International Festival
of Films held at Ponzan, Polland -- for best director, best
child artiste (Shweta) and best music (Aslam Mustapha).
Earlier Malli won the second prize at the 16th Chicago Childrens
Film Festival.
Madhuri on AIDS
Madhuri Dixit will lead a campaign to create awareness
about AIDS. She will feature in a series of one minute telespots
made by award-winning filmmaker Dr Jabbar Patel, for the
Maharastra State Aids Control Society. The spots will be
seen on Doordarshan and other channels which will be aired
during the two-month long campaign beginning from June 8.
Aaghaaz in Malaysia
Producer D Rama Naidu and debutant director Yogesh Ishwar
commenced an eight-day shoot for Suresh Productions’
Aaghaaz in Malaysia, Kualalumpur and Langkavi Island from
June 5. Sunil Shetty, Namrata Shirodkar and Sushmita Sen
play lead roles.
Ripples sign Shetty
Ripples Picture Entertainment have signed Sunil Shetty,
director Priyadarshan and writer Neeraj Vora for their Production
No 2.
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Maneka
frames new set of rules for Censor Board
It appears that the film industry can never break free from the
clutches of those in the corridors of power. It’s proving
difficult for film producers with every passing day to dance to
the tune of ministers and bureaucrats and their missives.
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Swiss
funds for film inspired by Staines’ murder
Even
as pre-filming publicity blitz lands filmmakers in troubled waters,
renowned director Buddhadeb Dasgupta quietly completed the shooting
of his film Uttara in a remote Purulia village drawing inspiration
from the killing of Australian missionary Graham Staines and his
two sons in Orissa last year.
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Jinnah
off to flyer despite protests
Hundreds of Pakistani moviegoers lined the country’s cinemas
to see the newly-released Jinnah. The movie about Pakistan’s
beloved Quaid-e-Azam (Father of the Nation), has been a national
project ever since Gandhi was made, which Pakistan maintains,
distorted Pakistan’s version of events.
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Music
channels refuse to air songs from Noor Jahan
It
is simply the most original music we have heard in a long time
- the melodies of Cinevista’s TV epic Noor Jahan. And the
music channels have refused to air it!
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Prasar
Bharati should go for DTH platform, cable TV arm: panel
Prasar
Bharati should move quickly to create a DTH (direct-to-home TV)
platform as also explore the feasibility of a strategic tie-up
initially with MTNL to set up an independent cable TV arm, an
expert committee has said.
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Country’s
first educational TV channel will air for 16 hours
The
country’s first dedicated educational television channel,
which was launched on Republic Day with a daily beam of eight
hours, has doubled its telecast time to 16 hours.
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New
act to be formulated to stop “vulgar programmes”: Jaitley
Information
and broadcasting Minister Arun Jaitley has said a new act would
be formulated soon to stop telecast of vulgar programmes by foreign
channels.
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DoS
squeezes channels out of analogue space
The Department of Space (DoS) has signed a contract with the Thailand-based
Shin Satellite for three C-band transponders for use by Doordarshan,
the national TV operator, and for telecommunications.
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STAR
back on IN, blacks out 7 STAR
Star TV has resumed its pay channel services to the Hinduja-owned
INCablenet after extracting an assurance that arrears of Rs. 2
crore would be cleared within three months.
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