Mumbai, Nov 16 (IANS) Begum Para, seen as Sonam Kapoor’s spirited grandmother in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Saawariya”, makes a comeback to the silver screen after 50 years and says hers is the longest lay-off in the history of show business.

She took a break from films after marrying legendary Dilip Kumar’s lesser-known brother Nasir Khan.

“That was in 1958,” Begum Para, now a healthy 80, laughed throatily. “Now I’m back in 2007 in ‘Saawariya’. This has to be the longest lay-off in the history of show business,” Begum Para told IANS.

Before settling down with Nasir Khan, she did films like “Shama”, “Mehdi”, “Pedro” and “Dada” in the 1940s.

“You know in our film industry there’s this old habit of typecasting actors. I was typecast as the so-called liberated woman. The roles were not interesting enough for me. They stamped me as this smoking woman who always ends up insulting her father.

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Even as Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra prepares to start his next project, the autobiographical Delhi 6, he is also planning a casting coup for Bhairavi — three of the Bachchans. Mehra intends to bring Amitabh, Jaya and Abhishek together in their real-life roles of husband, wife and son in Bhairavi, which will be set in the world of classical Indian music and carry forward the theme of strife amidst competitive creativity.
“It’s a project that has been with me for a while. I have already narrated it to Amitji and Abhishek. And they’re on,” Mehra said. “Ideally, I’d have liked to make it immediately after Aks. But a combination of forces came in the way. I’m ready to do the film as soon as the dates are worked out. One thing is for sure. Bhairavi has to be made with Amitji, Abhishek and Jaya,” he added.

But Jaya is known to be extremely finicky about projects. She isn’t too sold on the idea of coming together with her husband and son onscreen. Will she agree? “She has to! I’ll go on a hunger strike in front of her house until she agrees. Bhairavi must be made, preferably this year,” said Mehra.

Incidentally, Bhairavi is the name of Mehra’s daughter. While he waits for his dream project to materialise, Mehra also has plans for Paanch Kaurav. “It is a mythical opus, on the lines of Raiders Of The Lost Arc and Lord Of

The Rings. It’s a huge film, with an estimated budget of Rs 70 crores,” he explained.
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Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty’s musical Miss Bollywood has been canceled yet again, after being severely panned by critics.

However, the reason being given for the sudden termination is the actress’ ill health.

The 32-year-old actress was forced to open her musical in Germany after she failed to receive any financial backing from London’s West End.

Her musical suffered a series of obstacles since its premiere, including harsh critical reviews, costume malfunctions and poor ticket sales.

The Celebrity Big Brother winner was due to perform in Cardiff on Nov 9 but didn’t turn up after succumbing to an unknown illness.

“Shilpa has been ill all week and it on a course of antibiotics. She needs to take a rest,” her tour organizer, Farhath Hussain, said.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali has been aggressively promoting his latest venture, Saawariya. But with his latest move, he has taken film marketing to a new level. Apparently, the director gave some 20-odd late night show tickets to his loyal paanwala, Karim,  and asked him to distribute them to his other customers. Karim has been giving away free tickets for the weekend shows of Saawariya to his dedicated customers.

The paanwala’s stall is on the junction of the Juhu circle, which turns towards Four Bungalows, where Sanjay lives. On Monday evening, when we spoke to him Karim said, “Sanjayji meri dukaan mein har roz aate hai… More

Ranbir Kapoor may have had the most widely publicized film debut through ‘Saawariya’, but what isn’t known is that he made his first onscreen appearance in a student film.
This may have been Ranbir Kapoor’s dream debut but E Now has managed to get you what was his unofficial entry into the world of celluloid, this movie has Ranbir in his starring role in a student film during his stint at the Lee Strasburg School of theatre and film.
Blessed with impeccable “Bollywood” pedigree and lineage, this might have been more appreciated than his role in ‘Saawariya ‘. At least Ranbir would have lived up to the reputation of the famous school if he had indeed made his debut small but impactful.
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Sanjay Bhansali gets claustrophobic easily. You meet him in the designated hotel room for an interview and he refuses to sit down. “I can’t breathe in this place,” he says petulantly. So you move to the coffee shop. He grumbles about feeling breathless in the hotel corridor all the way there, chats about wanting to get free whenever he’s in an airplane. At the coffee shop, he’s not happy. “But everyone will hear what we’re saying,” he says. Finally, you manage to find an alcove which is just fine. 

Once ensconced, you simply want to interview Sanjay, but end up arguing with him over love, women and the essence of feminism, instead. At the end of it he declares, “This was a most bizarre interview. Where did we begin and where have we ended?”

Presenting the gist of the conversation:

On your website you declare that you express your personal anguish through your cinema, that the world can deduce and debate your life from your movies. What is this personal anguish?
For me, a film is not just a story, it’s made up of my personal moments in life. For instance, Khamoshi was about the extreme introversion that I had to deal with, as an adolescent. I just couldn’t speak, I didn’t feel the need to speak. I thought communication could be achieved without speaking… Saawariya is about the anguish I felt when I saw my grandmother spend her whole life waiting. She’d be waiting on the balcony for my father to return home till 4 am, day after day. As a child, I could write so many stories about ‘a woman waiting’.

Must all personal moments be about anguish?
In your childhood, the most traumatic incidents leave the deepest impression. And I’m constantly trying to purge myself through my cinema. Once I make a film on it, I can leave my most traumatised moments behind. Everyone has a dark side. I explore mine through my films.

So with each film made, some inner demon is dealt with?
Yes. For instance, I gave up silence completely after Khamoshi. I began talking, and haven’t stopped. Silence doesn’t work here, we Indians are used to talking a lot, saying the same things three times over. That’s how I talk too, now.

Your films show that. 
(Laughs) Yes, and doesn’t Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Devdas show that the most? In fact, I made Hum Dil… in anger and defiance. I was angry at the failure of Khamoshi. So angry that after being on sleeping pills for three months, I decided that if audiences don’t want silence, if they want noise and loudness and colour, they would have it! That’s why Hum Dil… is a riot of colours - pink carpets, green curtains and the heroine wearing a magenta dress. More

Who said the impossible could not be made possible? In Bollywood anything is possible… and this time it’s Hrithik Roshan and Shah Rukh Khan together in Krrish 2.

Rumours in Indian newspapers have stated that Bollywood’s number one hero Shah Rukh Khan has accepted a major role offered to him by Filmkraft boss Rakesh Roshan. The two have worked numerous times before and have a great on and off screen charishma. When Rakesh Roshan rung Shah Rukh Khan, offering him a role in one of his forthcoming productions, Shah Rukh said ‘Yes’, without even wanting to know what movie and what kind of part it would be. More

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Farah Khan’s Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal, Shreyas Talpade starrer OM SHANTI OM seems all set to be a ‘BLOCK’buster. One of this year’s two Diwali releases OM SHANTI OM is releasing coming Friday the 9th of November.

The movie is just two days away from the opening of advance bookings across the cinemas of India but the hype of the movie can be predicted with 18000 tickets, which is equivalent to about 40 shows HOUSE FULL has been confirmed by corporate block bookings at Satyam Cineplexes, New Delhi, informed a reliable source.

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