Anil Kapoor To Start Second Season Of '24

After completing the shoot of the first season of TV series "24," Anil Kapoor is set to soon start with the second season. The aim is to create a better product, says the actor-producer. 

"The second season will start very soon. We will work even harder and will try to create an even better product," the 56-year-old said at the success party of the show.  Anil says he hasn't received as much appreciation before, but he believes the best thing about "24" is that the work of all actors has been applauded. 

"It has been good, I have never been appreciated this much. People have liked the show. The best thing is that everyone has been appreciated. Sometimes in films only you (one actor) are appreciated and people say the film ran because of you. But in this show everyone has done really well," he added.  "24" is an adpatation of the hit American TV series by the same name. 

The show is based on a 24-hour format where one season spans over 24 episodes chronicling 24 hours. Anil plays the head of Anti-Terrorist Unit, Jai Singh Rathod. -Indiatimes  For more Indian Celebrity News Please visit http://fashioncentral.in

I just hate using the word 'Bollywood': Amitabh Bachchan

Of the multiple issues and passions he touched upon in the course of a lecture in Delhi recently, ranging from female literacy to the nuances of entertainment, Big B often came back to the domain he is the regent of - Bollywood. Oh, and he also hates both 'Big B' and 'Bollywood' Excerpts from a voluminous discourse:

India's a grand narrative:

I stand before you famous for being a foil - not for what I've done of my own authorship. I'm famous for characters, not the character. That given, many of my characters have indeed been epic, and that's India for you. A grand narrative of big leaders, big movements, big argument, big drama, big passion, big suffering, big overcoming. 

The only big the media insists I have contributed to this great nation is a rather an overly persistent B - the homemade epithet much to my dislike, the Big B.To entertain - it is a rich and complex act - 'to amuse, divert, attract, to consider, contemplate, hold in mind, to receive, to harbour others in generosity of spirit'. Entertain: inter - among, tenere - to hold. 

And we hold among ourselves, blessed with a story - 'storytelling conveys meaning without committing the error of defining it'. True entertainers aren't denotative or didactic - we don't give you answers. We certainly don't give lectures. -Timofindia&nbsp For more Indian Celebrity News Please visit http://fashioncentral.in

Bollywood Player With Hrithik,Ranbir, Katrina, Vidya Balan Starrers On 2014 Slate

Time and again Hollywood studios have tried and failed to make a dent at the Indian box office, with Sony and Warner Bros being prime examples with Saawariya and Chandni Chowk To China respectively bombing big time. Fox Star Studios India has now proved that it is an entrenched player in India. 

Their 2014 slate that includes nine Bollywood films and four Tamil films, not to mention 15 Hollywood releases, underlines this conclusively. The Bollywood slate includes Rajesh Pillai’s Traffic, Amol Gupte’s Hawaa Hawaai, Hansal Mehta’s City Lights, Sajid Khan’s Humshakals, Homi Adajania’s Finding Fanny, Vishal Madadkar’s remake of The Omen, Siddharth Anand’s Bang Bang, Mohit Suri’s Hamari Adhuri Kahani and Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet.

 These titles features A-listers including Hrithik Roshan, Saif Ali Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Emraan Hashmi, Arjun Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone, Anushka Sharma and Vidya Balan. Vijay Singh, CEO, Fox Star Studios said, “The studio is making a strong statement about scaling up and becoming a key player in the Hindi film industry as also working with diverse talent cutting across genres.” In Tamil, the studio has its partnership with CV Kumar’s Thirukumaran Entertainment with two films – V Chitram and Mundasupatti; and Cukkoo with Next Big Films. 

The studio is also partnering with Atlee Kumar once more. Atlee recently delivered a hit for Fox Star Studios- AR Murugadoss with his debut film Raja Rani. It helps of course that parent company 21st Century Fox in the US has pockets deeper than the Mariana Trench. However, the pockets may have shrunk slightly because their profits for the quarter ending September 30 were only $1.26 billion, down from $2.23 billion in the comparable 2012 period – a 44% drop. 

Ouch? Not really. The ENTIRE Indian film industry is worth $2 billion, which is Rupees 12463 crore. And $1.26 billion, which is Rupees 7855 crore and this merely for one quarter, meaning that a 3 month period for one Hollywood company is worth more than half of the entire value of the Indian film industry. These numbers are humbling. It will be a while, or maybe never at all, before Indian films enjoy world domination like their Hollywood counterparts. 

Hollywood may not make the staggering number of films that India makes, but the cultural hegemony it enjoys may never be achieved by India. Meanwhile, it is time for Fox Star Studios to take a bow and enjoy their new found exalted status amongst Indian studios, so what if the money is coming from Papa Hollywood. -Bollywoodlife For more Indian Celebrity News Please visit http://fashioncentral.in

Films On Real-Life Cases, Can Bolly'wood Handle The Truth?

The recent verdict of the Aarushi Talwar murder case, announced a day before the anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and less than a month before the first anniversary of the horrific Nirbhaya episode, was closely followed by Milan Luthria shelving his film based on the case. 

He said, "I'm taking the film off the table. I won't be making it now. It's stirring up strong emotions, and I don't want to trivialise it. I'd rather let it be. There is enough pain, drama and questions anyway. While discussing it with friends, family and my creative team, we all felt we shouldn't (make it)." 

This has refueled the debate on whether real-life crime episodes should be made into films, because of the thin line filmmakers tread between realism and sensationalism. But even as the industry stands divided on this topic, it's interesting to note that not many films based on real-life crimes have either fared well at the box office or earned critical acclaim. 

Whereas in Hollywood, Kathryn Bigelow didn't just make Zero Dark Thirty, a war-thriller based on the decade-long hunt for Osama Bin Laden, she released it 18 months after Bin Laden was killed, and won both critical acclaim and box office success for it. 

However, this hasn't deterred filmmakers from jumping at the opportunity of announcing films soon after a high-profile crime takes place. But either most of them fizzle out at the box office or don't see the light of day. -Timofindia For more Indian Celebrity News Please visit http://fashioncentral.in

Will Aamir Khan Listen To His Family And Friends?

The recently released song titled 'Malang' from Aamir Khan's next Dhoom 3 has created a stir among the audiences. Even though only a 30 second teaser of the song has been released, it has managed to be stuck in the mind of the audiences. 

A lot of Aamir's friends and family have requested the actor to show them the entire song. They have expressed to the actor how they have not had enough of only the 30 second cut promo of the song and are very keen to watch the entire piece. The glimpse of Aamir in his all new gymnast avatar in the song has been loved by friends and family of the actor but they cannot wait to watch and enjoy the entire song. Maalang is a grand song made on a huge scale. 

It is easily one of the most expensive songs in Bollywood and has quipped the interest of audiences. Such a marketing strategy of only sampling content as 30 seconders has never been tried in Bollywood. Aamir and Aditya Chopra are the marketing geniuses of the industry and they believe in less is more out of respect for the intelligence of the audience, who are put off by excessive marketing. However, the makers of Dhoom 3 are only releasing a 30 seconder teaser of all songs. 

They want the audience to come in the theaters and enjoy the entire song on the big screens. The film is set to hit theaters on 20th december. Spokesperson of the film further adds, "The song Malang has created a stir amongst the audiences. 

In fact friends and family close to Aamir Khan have put in a special request for the actor to show them the entire song as they cannot wait until the song releases in theaters on 20th December." -Timofindia For more Indian Celebrity News Please visit http://fashioncentral.in

Riteish Wants The Same Things As Saif

Riteish Deshmukh, who has had his share of luck in multi-starrers, is in a mood for more-than-normal share of the pie. 

Unit hands say they witnessed Riteish asking for all the things that Saif Ali Khan got when the two actors were shooting for a comic caper together. 

If Saif got an extra stanza in a song, Riteish wanted one too. While there is no bickering on this count, it's interesting to note that everything the Nawab got, the political scion also wanted.-Timofindia For more Indian Celebrity News Please visit http://fashioncentral.in