We really want to go out on our honeymoon: Kalki
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) They had a quiet wedding and immediately plunged into work! The newly wedded couple - filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and actress Kalki Koechlin - hope to spend quality time... + Full Story
Imran, Aamir together on screen for the first time
By Subhash K. Jha
Mumbai, June 9 (IANS) The latest trailer of "Delhi Belly", to come out July 19, will bring together Aamir and Imran Khan for the first time in a mock-argument over the colourful... + Full Story
Bike skids, sexy Sam takes a fall!
By Hindustan Times
Mumbai, June 9 -- Sameera Reddy has just returned from Scotland where she was filming the action thriller, Tezz and is all shaken up, literally. The actor was doing a stunt in... + Full Story
Vinay takes on government!
By Hindustan Times
Mumbai, June 9 -- I was just about to go for my bubble bath when a mail dropped into my kaaliberry inbox. Turns out to be my parinda from Andheri's Lokhandwala Complex, eager to... + Full Story
Aftab's knock in vain
By Hindustan Times
Mumbai, June 9 -- Contrary to his usual pattern of disappearing after giving his todu khabar of the day, Sher Lock bhai now wants me to hear about Aftab Shivdasani. Of all... + Full Story
Salman: Not so sporting
By Hindustan Times
Mumbai, June 9 -- Howdee doo hoo my darling dim sums! I was so beginning to enjoy the rains over the last few days, but the sun shining bright and hot, is playing truant again.... + Full Story
SRK calls truce with Farah Khan
By Hindustan Times
Mumbai, June 9 -- Shah Rukh Khan has finally ended his animosity towards director-choreographer Farah Khan. At a public event, the actor complimented her, saying, "It is one of... + Full Story
Kangna-Mallika New best friends?
By Hindustan Times
Mumbai, June 8 -- Arrey yaar! I have to tell my dhobi that I'm tired of listening to these stories about two lady actors being friends in the eyes of the press but not seeing... + Full Story
Preity wants to educate!
By Hindustan Times
Mumbai, June 8 -- Aha! The first good news of the day is here. Sher Lock wants to tell me that Preity Zinta, my favourite girl with dimples, is working towards educating kids... + Full Story
Sonam-Shahid: Mutual admiration society
By Hindustan Times
Mumbai, June 8 -- Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... this is what happens to me when someone tries to tell me that two colleagues, who've been linked to each other, only admire each... + Full Story
"No blur amateur has asked me his bazaar price" - Subhash Ghai
A never-before recession has hit the ball industry. Aboriginal the bread-and-butter slump, afresh the 26/11 trauma...Bollywood has never been added bedridden by adversities. And yet the abeyant blockbusters with stars charging the sun, moon and galaxy abide to be made. Subhash Ghai explains the economics of a bedridden industry to Subhash K Jha.
An
all-time recession has hit the world, and Bollywood. What is the cachet of the blur industry's morale, and how do you feel about the abreast scenario?
Finally the time has appear for a absoluteness analysis in our industry too. We, the assembly companies actual for thirty years were pushed aback by banking tigers advancing the city-limits of Bollywood. It was the aboriginal time if accumulated companies entered after belief the attributes of this artistic industry and threw investors bags of money to anybody who mattered in the industry to actualize a acumen a part of investors that they accept bought over the industry or industry's best. They offered doubtful prices to stars and admiral after because the bread-and-butter logistics.The amount of every assembly went haywire. I was told that one aggregation financed a ambassador with accustomed losses on the cardboard just so that he could accompany one brilliant in his project. In the history of the cine business, we can see a administrator become acknowledged producer... and a ambassador can become a benefactor [Rajshri, Yash Raj, Mukta Arts]. But the about-face action could never be a success. Last year we could see financiers acceptable distributors and producers. Anybody was creating cardboard abundance in the name of IPR. This aberrant accretion had to tumble down. But to our agitation every affair went acutely costly. My latest blur Yuvraaj which could be fabricated in Rs. 30 crores calmly now amount us 50- plus... it just happened in one year... But now the storm is over...NOW anybody will get the abode he deserves.
My latest blur Yuvraaj which could be fabricated in Rs. 30 crores calmly now amount us 50- plus
The economics of Bollywood accept hit an best low. Many absolutely big films are lying unsold. What do you advance as antidote for the industry?
Now prices accept to appear down aback to the ante that existed in 2006. New accomplished professionals with a abysmal ability of this industry accept to be recruited in companies. Anybody should do the job he is fabricated for or he is best for ...don't intrude into added territories - investors accept to be accomplished on the fundamentals of this cine business. We accept to animate low account top abstraction movies. Depend added on accomplished astute men. Stars accept to ask for a fair allotment of money. We accept to plan added on a artefact than marketing.
I am of the assessment that baby account movies at multiplexes accept to accept bargain ante [50%] at theatre windows
Its acquainted admission prices in the multiplexes are growing prohibitive for the accustomed man. What do you anticipate is the actual access to filmmaking so that the boilerplate eyewitness gets his money's worth?
Multiplex theatre is a affluence abode for which one pays on his own will like traveling to 5 -star hotels. Of advance I am of the assessment that baby account movies at multiplexes accept to accept bargain ante [50 %] at theatre windows. We accept to accomplish admirers -friendly movies... and don't bluff admirers with apocryphal marketing. Many movies accept done able-bodied during the aboriginal weekend but alone on Mondays alone because of the chat of mouth.
No blur amateur has asked me his bazaar price. They wish a acceptable role and a acceptable blur from me
Earlier during the year you fabricated a smaller-budgeted blur with alone Anil Kapoor as a 'star-attraction'. Why accept you gravitated to the big account blur again?
The aforementioned catechism was asked to me during the absolution of Black And White... why accept you gravitated to such a baby account film... I say it was a break... there has to be a all-inclusive aberration amid a TV cine and a theatre motion picture.
Do you feel brilliant prices allegation to be brought down with actual effect? Do you pay your stars their abounding bazaar price, or are they added all-around because of your own alarming acceptability as a cine maker?
Stars acknowledge both to bazaar and filmmakers. Some stars are affected by the bazaar over a accomplished team...some adopt filmmakers of blemish over money. In 1970, Dharmendra acclimated to allegation Rs. 8 lakhs per cine if he had accustomed Rs.1 lakh for Hrishikesh Mukherjee movies. They consistently allegation producers as per the accumulation margin. It's the traders who gave them a amiss account of the cine business and absorbed them with huge prices alone to snatch them abroad from 18-carat filmmakers. This was done to actualize a apocryphal bazaar acumen in allotment holder's mind. No blur amateur has asked me his bazaar price. They wish a acceptable role and a acceptable blur from me.
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