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Aishwarya Rai to star opposite Ben Kingsley in 'Taj'

2 December 2009 11:30 AM, PST | The Bollywood Ticket | See recent The Bollywood Ticket news »

British actor Sir Ben Kingsley—best known for his Oscar-winning performance as the famous Indian independence leader in 'Gandhi' (1982)—is set to play the emperor who built the Taj Mahal, and Indian actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan will reportedly play the emperor's beloved wife, in 'Taj,' a film about the legendary lovers.

Shooting is scheduled to start in July, primarily in the Indian city of Agra, where the Taj Mahal is located. The film is expected to release in 2011.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan ruled India in the 17th century. His third and favorite wife, Mumtaz, died giving birth to her 14th child, and the devastated emperor spent the next 20 years building her tomb, which is regarded as one of the architectural wonders of the world. Soon after the completion of the monument, Shah Jahan was deposed and imprisoned by his son.

Bachchan—one of the most »

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Happy Birthday Aishwarya

30 November 2009 8:57 PM, PST | BollywoodBuzz | See recent BollywoodBuzz news »

The world's most gorgeous and beautiful woman celebrates her 36th birthday today. Miss World, top model and now a top actress...

Ash made her movie debut in Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Iruvar (1997) and had her first commercial success in the Tamil movie Jeans (1998). She was more noticed and appreciated when she won the Filmfare Best Actress Award for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999). Again in 2002 she for which she won her second Best Actress Award at the Filmfare for Devdas. After a low phase in her career during 2003-2005, she appeared in the blockbuster Dhoom 2 in 2006, which has turned out to be her biggest Bollywood commercial success. Later there was Guru (2007) and Jodhaa Akbar (2008), which were commercially successful and got her critical acclaim as well. Ash has established herself as one of the leading personalities in the film industry.

Some of her international projects include »

- Ajit

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Mann Will Wait for Robert Capa

5 October 2009 5:51 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to the novel Waiting for Robert Capa, written by Susana Fortes, to be adapted by screenwriter Jez Butterworth (The Last Legion) and directed by Michael Mann (Public Enemies, Heat, Collateral).

The film will tell the story of Robert Capa, a war photographer who was romantically linked with Jewish German war photographer Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. The two photographers revolutionized front line journalism, and Taro was eventually killed during the Battle of Brunete.

Mann will also produce the film under his Forward Pass label.

Let’s hope the director finds a more effective way of marrying the period piece subject material of the film to his digital shooting style — while Public Enemies certainly had its fans, many found the look of the film to be underwhelming or muddy.

Related Posts:Public Enemies Review7 Clips for Public EnemiesGreatest Film Ever Gets New PostersPublic »

- John Cooper

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Michael Mann Developing Biopic on Photographer Robert Capa

5 October 2009 1:03 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

Columbia Pictures and director Michael Mann will team to tell the story of renowned war photographer Robert Capa, with a focus on his two-year romance with fellow photog Gerda Taro during the Spanish Civil War. The story begins in Paris in 1935, where Capa, a refugee from Hungary, met Taro, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany. The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War a year later began Capa's emergence as the most renowned war photographer ever and established Taro as the first frontline female battle photographer. She was killed in the Battle of Brunete in 1937; Capa was shattered by her death and never married after that. Columbia has acquired the rights to "Waiting for Robert Capa," a Spanish-language novel by Spain's Susana Fortes. Screenwriter Jez Butterworth (Birthday Girl, The Last Legion) has been hired to adapt the book. Apparently Mann has wanted to make a film about Robert Capa for »

- Alex Billington

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Aishwarya?s karate strokes

3 July 2009 8:44 AM, PDT | Bollywoodmantra.com | See recent Bollywood Mantra news »

After winning the heart of the millions with sword-fighting in ‘Jodhaa Akbar’, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is all set to learn karate for her new film, ‘Endhiran’ starring Rajinikanth. Ash picks up things very quickly and her quick learning has impressed her trainer very much.A source reveals, “After having learnt sword fights for her English movie The Last Legion, Aishwarya has been training herself in Karate for Endhiran. A noted stunt master Ramesh who has been running a Japan Shito-Ryu karate school in the South for over 30 years, which is affiliated to the World Karate Federation is training the actress for th »

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Commentary: Continental Shift

2 July 2009 1:51 PM, PDT | The Bollywood Ticket | See recent The Bollywood Ticket news »

America and Bollywood are quite taken with each other these days. It started out as a flirtation many years ago, with occasional teases that seemed promising but failed to lead anywhere. And then a little movie called 'Slumdog Millionaire' came along, and even though it was not a product of Bollywood, it pitched America into a full-blown affair with India and its cinema.

However, the heady new relationship almost immediately hit a bump. Bollywood producers boycotted multiplex cinemas in India for two months this spring, refusing to release new films because of a revenue-sharing dispute. The timing of the boycott was unfortunate from an American perspective. Just when a fresh crop of fans wanted to see Indian movies—and more mainstream U.S. theaters were starting to show them—the boycott happened.

But disappointing newcomers was the least of Bollywood’s problems. The boycott is estimated to have »

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Aishwarya Rai gets Karate training

1 July 2009 7:10 AM, PDT | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »

Rajnikant’s mega budget next Endhiran starring him along side Aishwarya Rai seems to have garnered a lot of curiosity as the makers are keeping the production a close guarded secret. But the audience interest about it seems to be multiplying day by day as inside details are being leaked out. We managed to find out one such inside info about Aishwarya Rai’s character in the film.

Our sources reveal, “After having learnt sword fights for her English movie The Last Legion, Aishwarya has been training herself in Karate for Endhiran. A noted stunt master Ramesh who has been running a Japan. »

- realbollywood

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The Hollywood/Bollywood Connection

24 June 2009 10:56 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Long before "Jai Ho" entered the international lexicon, the gap between Hollywood and Bollywood had already been shrinking. In distinctly Western style, much of the action has occurred behind the scenes: Indian cable TV magnate and Bollywood producer Ronnie Screwvala's Utv Software Communications has co-produced the latest Hollywood films from Indian filmmakers M. Night Shyamalan ("The Happening") and Mira Nair ("The Namesake"), in addition to making financing deals with Sony and Will Smith's production company Overbrook Entertainment; Disney and Warner Brothers have begun to finance their own Bollywood productions; and last year, Reliance, one of India's biggest producer of Bollywood films, made production pacts with the companies of Nicolas Cage, George Clooney and Brad Pitt before making their biggest coup -- financing DreamWorks, an investment that allowed the Steven Spielberg-led studio to leave its deal at Paramount.

However, Hollywood and Bollywood have been a little less quick »

- Stephen Saito

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Sir Ben Kingsley to do a cameo in Teen Patti

24 April 2009 2:35 AM, PDT | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »

Why is Sir Ben Kingsley, who, not so long ago swept the world, critics and the Oscars by playing Gandhi, ready and willing to do a 5-day cameo in an out-and-out Amitabh Bachchan film? The announcement that, Ben Kingsley would be working with the Big B in Leena Yadav's Teen Patti comes as a shock. According to insiders, the film was complete many months ago...but for five days of work with a Caucasian actor. Says a leading member of the unit, "It was a bit tricky and complicated. Getting a white-skinned actor at the last stage of the film wasn't easy. Everyone knew that the film was almost complete. So, approaching a big name appeared absurd. Websites and newspapers weren't making it easier for us by telling the world that we've cast Pierce Brosnan or Richard Gere in the role. Where did they come in? We didn't even »

- Subhash K. Jha

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Sir Ben Kingsley to do a cameo in Teen Patti

24 April 2009 2:35 AM, PDT | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »

Why is Sir Ben Kingsley, who, not so long ago swept the world, critics and the Oscars by playing Gandhi, ready and willing to do a 5-day cameo in an out-and-out Amitabh Bachchan film? The announcement that, Ben Kingsley would be working with the Big B in Leena Yadav's Teen Patti comes as a shock. According to insiders, the film was complete many months ago...but for five days of work with a Caucasian actor. Says a leading member of the unit, "It was a bit tricky and complicated. Getting a white-skinned actor at the last stage of the film wasn't easy. Everyone knew that the film was almost complete. So, approaching a big name appeared absurd. Websites and newspapers weren't making it easier for us by telling the world that we've cast Pierce Brosnan or Richard Gere in the role. Where did they come in? We didn't even »

- Subhash K. Jha

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Freida might dethrone Aishwarya Rai

5 March 2009 8:09 AM, PST | India.com | See recent India.com news »

She's been catapulted straight to Hollywood. Freida Pinto, the poised, smiling beauty that Oscar winner Slumdog Millionaire has thrown up on the global stage, has done what few Indian actors have managed to do before her.

From Om Puri to Naseeruddin Shah, Irrfan Khan to Ayesha Dharkar - everyone has worked in Hollywood films but none has tasted instant, mainstream fame like Freida.

Even the glamorous Aishwarya Rai, 35, who has been adjudged India's most bankable star in Hollywood by Forbes, has taken her time to journey there. But not Freida, 24.

The younger model-turned-actress from Mumbai has already walked the Oscar red carpet, shone in the multiple Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire and is set to sizzle on popular magazine covers, with just one film to her name.

Freida is one of the luckiest Bollywood actresses, having been to the Academy Awards, that too, right at the beginning of her career. Even the Bachchan daughter-in-law, »

- mihirkula

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Killer Films Calm Rupert Friend Down with 'Lullaby'

1 March 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- In an exclusive bit of news that hasn't made the trades yet, Killer Film's Christine Vachon confirmed that Rupert Friend, the young actor who was the breakout thesp in Berlin Film Festival's Stephen Fry's Cheri and gave a formidable perf in Jean-Marc Vallee's The Young Victoria will topline Lullaby for Pi. The France/Canada co-production will begin lensing shortly in the prairie provinces of Canada. The actor has just completed recording the songs that will be presented in the film. Friend previously starred in pictures that are mostly period pics, commencing with The Libertine and Pride & Prejudice to more recent fair like The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Virgin Territory and The Last Legion.  Written by Benoît Philippon, this is about Tom (played by Friend), a bewitching blues-jazz singer. Sadly, since his wife passed away, he can no longer sing nor smile. He spends his nights in the »

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Ben Kingsley Joining Sly's 'Expendables'?

6 January 2009 6:29 PM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

Add another name to Sylvester Stallone's wish list for The Expendables. The writer-director-actor-producer told videographers (a kind way of saying paparazzi) that he signed Forest Whitaker and that an official announcement is coming soon. Meanwhile, the rumors that Sandra Bullock would join the cast were just that, and Nu Image/Millenium refuted those claims on Monday.

But the new actor in Sly's sights is Sir Ben Kingsley, saying he thinks he'll be able to persuade the Oscar winner to join his ever-expanding ensemble. "At least I hope we do," Stallone added.

So let's examine this again: It's Stallone, Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Forest Whitaker, Ufc fighter Randy Couture, and Gandhi. Wow. That's strange.

I think it goes without saying that Kingsley would play the heavy in this film - he certainly won't be part of the rogue group of mercenaries - but let's also remember that in »

- Colin Boyd

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