Film Industry

Sunday, July 7, 2013

actress Shweta Tiwari has quit her daily soap, Nayi Umr Nayi Chunauti — Parvarrish

Shweta quits Parvarrish?

The latest buzz is that actress Shweta Tiwari has quit her daily soap,
Nayi Umr Nayi Chunauti — Parvarrish, to take time off for her wedding on July 13. However, she will continue with dance reality show, Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, due to prior commitment.
Earlier, Rupali Ganguly had quit Parvarrish after she got pregnant. Says a source, “Shweta wants to take a break and is expected to take up new projects once she resumes work. This may affect the show and there are chances that the channel will pull the plug on it.” While Shweta remained unavailable, Sneha Rajani, Senior Executive VP and Business Head of the channel, says, “Quit? She is getting married! I think that calls for a well-deserved leave.” However, our sources insist otherwise.

Shweta Tiwari

The Bharatiya 1:25 AM

Sona-Ranveer’s childhood memories

    Sonakshi Sinha and Ranveer Singh, the lead pair of Lootera, went back to their childhood days on the set of Indian Idol Junior.
    The episode saw the contestants singing songs from the year they were born. Not to be left behind, Sonakshi and Ranveer also rendered their favourite songs. when Anjana sang Tu Aashiqui Hai from Jhankaar Beats, Sonakshi joined her, saying the song reminded her of school days — the actress confessed she would secretly hear this song while preparing for exams. Ranveer made a special request to one of the participants, Eman Choudhury, to sing his favourite number Humma Humma. He also imitated the dancing style of two Khans — Salman and Shah Rukh.
    Another highlight of the episode was Sonakshi meeting her namesake — Sonakshi Kar. The actress also shook a leg with junior Sonakshi, to the song Hawa Hawai (Mr India).
    Indian Idol Junior airs tonight at 8.30 on Sony Entertainment Television.

Sonakshi Sinha and Ranveer Singh with a participant

The Bharatiya 1:25 AM

ICC Champions Trophy final between India and England registered low TRPs

In a cricket crazy nation, one would expect a huge viewership for the ICC Champions Trophy Finals between India and England on June 23. India lifted the trophy, but the TRPs indicate average viewership. The rating was just 2.4. One reason for this could be the rains that had delayed the match endlessly that day. Also, some amount of cricket fatigue has set in as far as test and one-day matches are concerned. Incidentally, the Indian Premier League’s final match got a high TRP of 6.9.
BARFI’S TV PREMIERE The Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Barfi that premiered on June 23 got a 2.1 TRP in the afternoon and 0.9 in the evening. Television Rating Points (TRPs), for the period June 23-June 29, are based on industry sources

The Bharatiya 1:24 AM

Model Aanchal Kumar, got married to long-time friend and businessman Anupam Mittal

Aanchal ties the knot in Jaipur

    Model Aanchal Kumar, got married to long-time friend and businessman Anupam Mittal on Thursday in Jaipur. This one was a big fat Indian wedding in royal style that witnessed a procession with elephants, horses, folk dancers and a quintessential backdrop of an old fort like structure. No wonder she said, “With the love of my life Anupam by my side, the perfect wedding and blessings from family and friends. I couldn’t have asked for anything better.”
    Present were Manish
    Malhotra, Candice Pinto,
    Suchitra Pillaai, Amruta
    Patki and Chetan Bhagat. Apart from world cuisine, guests also relished Rajasthani fare with daal, bati, churma and laal maas. Rituals of mehndi, sangeet and ring ceremony took place on Wednesday night with friends and family in attendance. After the wedding ceremony on Thursday evening, they flew to Chandigarh, Kumar’s hometown, where a special reception would be hosted for the family and friends tonight.

Anupam Mittal and Aanchal Kumar

The Bharatiya 1:23 AM

The special charity premiere of Sanjay Dutt

This screening’s for Sanju

The special charity premiere of Sanjay Dutt’s latest release saw his friends and colleagues turn up in support of not just the cause, but also for the actor. Present were his co-star Prachi Desai, director KS Ravikumar and wife Maanayata Dutt, who attended to everyone who came to the screening. Spotted at the event were filmmakers Mahesh Bhatt and Apoorva Lakhia.

Shriya Saran

KS Ravikumar

Dipannita Sharma

Mahesh Bhatt

Maanayata Dutt

Apoorva Lakhia

Prachi Desai

The Bharatiya 1:22 AM

Ram Charan carries home food for Salman in Hyderabad

It is well known that Tollywood superstar Ram Charan is Salman Khan’s good friend and the largehearted Khan is known to have taken him under his wings. While Ram Charan was shooting for Zanjeer in Mumbai, Salman would send him home - made food everyday. Ram Charan has now reciprocated the gesture. He went to the set of Salman’s Mental, currently being shot in Hyderabad, carrying home-cooked food in a tiffin. We wonder if the tiffin also carried the famous Hyderabadi biryani, apart from love.

Salman Khan

Ram Charan

The Bharatiya 1:22 AM

I MAY NOT HAVE COME INTO FILMS HAD MY PARENTS NOT DIVORCED Vikramaditya Motwane

I MAY NOT HAVE COME INTO FILMS HAD MY PARENTS NOT DIVORCED

Vikramaditya Motwane, 36, considers himself emotional, but a little self-centred. He was quite stubborn earlier, but over time, has learnt to pick his battles. His first film Udaan won him many accolades. His second outing as a filmmaker, Lootera, is a love story set against the backdrop of the Bengali zamindars in the 1950s. His mother being a Bengali, it was a world he knew, but he also read up a lot to bring in the authenticity of that era. The love stories at that time had innocence, given the absence of the internet and the mobile phone as a means to communicate, leaving no other option but face-to-face communication. He talks to Bombay Times about the perfectionist, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, pop expert Ranveer Singh and why he may not have become a filmmaker had his parents not divorced. Excerpts:
How did you come into films? My father is a Sindhi and my mother, a Bengali. I was born in Mumbai and brought up between Mumbai and Nashik. My dad used to have a factory of electronic measuring instruments in Nashik, where he lived close to the factory, so we would visit him over the weekends. Post my parents’ divorce, when I was 10, my mother Deepa Motwane took up a job as a line producer with documentary filmmaker Shukla Das, who was a cousin of hers. When I was 17, she did a TV talk show and I helped her with research and assisted her as she was also producing that show. Initially, I wanted to become an engineer and used to get bored watching shootings until I got involved. After that, I started enjoying it. Sanjay Leela Bhansali used to assist Shukla Das while my mom was with him and so, I knew Sanjay. I was the assistant on the TV show for three years, after which I came to assist Sanjay on Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Devdas. I then assisted Deepa Mehta on Water, where I met Anurag Kashyap, who was writing the dialogues for the film. I then assisted Anurag on Paanch after which I directed my first film, Udaan, in 2010. Did your parents’ divorce affect you as a child? It does hurt that your parents are not together and they are fighting. Looking back, I grew up a little quicker than I would have normally. I spent half the week with my mom and half with my dad. It took a while but then you get used to it, so it does put a bit of attention on you at school. I am glad my parents had a divorce and they spent that time apart, as today they have a really healthy relationship. Looking at it selfishly, had they not got divorced, my mom would probably not have taken up a job and I may not have become a filmmaker.
Your wife Ishika is a photographer and works with you. How did you meet her? We studied together at Jamnabai Narsee School and started seeing each other from Class IX when we were 13 years of age. She has a lovely laugh, is really sweet and very pretty. Her dad was a pilot, so I remember she was the girl who always had the fancy cheese and Coke cans in school. We broke up in between for a year, but realised how much we loved each other and have now been married past eight years.
Who are you most attached to? My wife. We have known each other for a long time and have grown up together and are friends first. We are not afraid to criticise each other and she is my biggest critic.
How was your experience assisting Sanjay Leela Bhansali? I have pretty much learnt everything I know about filmmaking from Sanjay. I worked for 2,500 per month for twoand-a-half years, eight days a week, but at the end of it, Hum Dil Chuke Sanam was my film school. It was one of the last films edited on the steembeck. Sanjay is passionate to a fault. And over a period of time, I have developed his traits of wanting to have a sense of control on everything you want to do in a film. Trying to be a perfectionist and sitting on every small detail of the film is what I have learnt from him. He works really hard himself and he inspires you to do that. Also, he gave me a lot of responsibility as his assistant so you learnt a lot by making mistakes.
How is Anurag Kashyap? He is one of the most encouraging and open people you will find and he loves to encourage talent. Even today, he has 14 assistant directors on his set in Bombay Velvet. He loves to see talent grow in front of him and do well.
Let’s talk about your lead cast of Lootera,Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha? Ranveer is an outgoing, garrulous, fun guy at one level, but he also has another side that is really chilled out, where he can just sit and watch movies at home. He is observant, sharp and has a knowledge bank in his head, which you will be shocked to know. His knowledge of pop culture references go way back and he can sing a full Baba Sehgal song, which is shocking for his generation, as he must have watched it in his childhood and remembers it. Sonakshi is fabulous and refreshing.