Cinema

Mumbai, January 17 (NIA): Undeterred by the possibility of being trolled in the social media by Islamic zealots and Kashmiri separatists for supporting Kashmiri child star Zaira Wasim, actor and film maker Aamir Khan stuck his neck out to declare that the 16 year old school girl is not only his “role model” but a “role model for the world.”...

New Delhi, January 16 (Indian Express) Shahrukh Khan had struck a deal with the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) that he would not involve his Pakistani co-star Mahira Khan in their film's promotions in exchange for the peaceful release of Raees. However, film exhibitors in central Indian state Chhattisgarh are now receiving threats from Shiv Sena. Raees is slated to release on January 25....

Mumbai, January 16 (IANS): The much-anticipated memoir of filmmaker Karan Johar has been creating waves on social media after chapters describing his fallout with actress Kajol were leaked on Twitter — and for candid talk about his sexual orientation. But contrary to the initial reports as well as expectations, An Unsuitable Boy is much more than just the narrative of a fallout....

Like Fawad and Mahira Khan hopped across the border for Ae Dil Hai Mushkil and Raees, Indian artistes have also been collaborating with their Pakistani counterparts. The latest star to collaborate is none other than Bollywood startlet Ileana D’Cruz. Previously, pictures of Ileana and singer Atif Aslam shooting in Turkey made rounds on the internet, leaving fans speculating what they had been up to. Well, the wait...

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj Writing about Gamini Fonseka (1936-2004) is always a pleasant and delightful exercise for me. I have often done so before and will be -revisiting some of my earlier writings to enhance this article. Gamini Fonseka was a man whom I loved as an actor, appreciated as a director, admired as a politician and above all respected as a...

Mumbai, January 1 (Reuters): A women’s rights organization is asking movie-mad Indians to rewrite sexist Bollywood songs, the latest attempt in drawing attention to gender stereotyping and misogyny portrayed by the country’s influential film industry. Akshara Centre’s ‘Gaana (Song) Rewrite’ competition, launched earlier this month, invites people to change the lyrics to any Bollywood film song they find sexist. The...

Umair Alavi/Dawn The outgoing year has not been kind to Pakistani cinema. In the latter half of this year, cinema owners’ refusal to screen Bollywood films because of the rising tensions between Pakistan and India, resulted in a massive loss of revenue. By the cinema owners’ own estimates, they lost about 600 million rupees (US$ 57.2 million) over the three...

Mumbai, December 23 (NIA): Bollywood's star couple Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor find that they cannot marry or name their child as they wish without Hindu extremists raising objections. When Saif and Kareena got married, right wing elements used the social media to dub the wedding as "Love Jihad" or an act of converting a Hindu girl to Islam...

Muslim-Hindu love stories are complicated. Even when you simply want to tell the story, writes Mehreen Hasan in Dawn. Just ask writer/director Hamza Bangash, whose attempts to fund his short film Rang Raaz were met with refusal after refusal in Pakistan. "We had approached some pretty prominent people in Pakistan who had vested interests in having a story about minorities told," Hamza,...

Islamabad, December 23 (Dawn): Although cinemas have decided to start screening already released Indian movies and Freaky Ali featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui is being shown, it may take a long time for newer Indian movies to be screened. The owner of Cineplex at Centaurus, Nadeem Mandviwala, said the ball is currently on the other side of the border, but there were...