Taapsee Pannu said she can only demand an equal pay if the opening box office numbers of her movies are as big as her male colleagues in the industry. The actor, who recently featured in “Naam Shabana”, said films like this and “Queen” and “Mary Kom” are still a rarity in Bollywood. “How many movies …
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August 9, 2017Actress Huma Qureshi, who debuted in Bollywood with Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur, says that she is a product of Anurag Kashyap. Huma, who was present on Tuesday for the promotional interviews of her upcoming film Partition: 1947, was responding to queries about the role of directors like Kashyap and Tigmanshu Dhulia in giving content …
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August 9, 2017Rapper Divine will perform at the Covelong Point Surf, Music and Yoga Festival here for the first time. Divine, who sang in filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's Mukkabaaz, will have a 60 minutes set when he will perform on August 27. "The place is extremely unique and the vibe sounds awesome. I am looking forward to performing," …
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August 4, 2017Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap is impressed with actor Akshay Oberoi's performance in "Gurgaon", and says he shines throughout the film. Akshay will be seen playing the lead in "Gurgaon", a noir thriller inspired by true events. Directed by National Award winning cinematographer Shanker Raman, the film tells the story of Kehri Singh, a real estate baron, …
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August 1, 2017Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Wednesday launched the poster of "Gurgaon", a noir thriller, which is slated to hit the screens on August 4. Inspired by true events, "Gurgaon", starring Akshay Oberoi, Ragini Khanna and Pankaj Tripathi, is the directorial debut of National Award winning cinematographer Shanker Raman. Kashyap said in a statement: "I saw 'Gurgaon' …
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July 5, 2017Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap recently grabbed eyeballs when he announced his relationship with a 23-year old girl, Shubra Shetty on Instagram! Shubhra, an assistant director at Anurag’s production company, Phantom, has been photographed with him plenty of times. However, Anurag never spoke about her in any of the interviews. Shubhra is an alumna of Mumbai’s St …
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June 15, 2017Actor Abhishek Bachchan said he and his wife, actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, are still in early talks regarding filmmaker Anurag Kashyap's upcoming production. Recently, Aishwarya had confirmed that the duo was approached by Kashyap to star in a film titled "Gulab Jamun", to be directed by Sarvesh Mewar. When asked about the status of the …
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June 12, 2017Filmmaking is witnessing a paradigm shift as passionate young hearts are portraying pictures with unique perspectives. The 19-year-old Sadia Aurna Akter is one such independent filmmaker from Bangladesh who enlightened the audience with her sublime ideas on “Do films influence society?” at the Lincoln room in American Center, Kolkata, recently. She studied creative education on …
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April 20, 2017Actress Bhagyashree' son Abhimanyu Dasani is all set to make his Bollywood debut in a quirky action comedy Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota by production banner Phantom Films. The film is directed by Vasan Bala, who wrote and directed the 2012 crime-thriller Peddlers. It will also launch Radhika Madan. "Vasan (Bala) has written a superbly funny …
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April 4, 2017Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, who has vehemently opposed "Hindu extremists" for violence on the set of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmavati in Jaipur, says he has grown up learning to question those that govern the country. In a post on his official Facebook page, Kashyap says, "I have been taught to engage and question those that govern us …
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January 30, 2017Bollywood celebrities including Priyanka Chopra, Mahesh Bhatt and Anurag Kashyap are appalled after ace filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali was attacked on the sets of his upcoming film "Padmavati" in Jaipur. Activists of a Rajput organisation, Shree Rajput Karni Sena, assaulted Bhansali, on Friday, slapped him and tore up his shirt. The protesters also misbehaved with …
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January 28, 2017If you don't judge a book by its cover, why judge a film by its title? With his latest film Haraamkhor too running afoul of the censors, Bollywood's most outspoken filmmaker, Anurag Kashyap, wonders whether it is our false morality and hypocrisy that really impedes freedom of expression. The title is intriguing -as the Urdu word …
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January 11, 2017