Aamir Khan’s directorial debut Taare Zameen Par swept the 53rd annual Filmfare awards. The movie won the award for best film.That’s not all. It also got Aamir Khan the best director trophy. Amol Gupte won the award for best storyline for the critically acclaimed project and child actor Darsheel Safary – nominated in the best actor category – won the critics award.
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Bollywood has been grossly unfair to the fair sex when it comes to paying them. But now all that is perhaps set to change. Aishwarya Rai, if trade reports are to be believed, might well turn out to be moviedom’s highest paid female star.
'Ash might not have had a commercially successful career in Mumbai, but the production house which is pulling all stops to ensure that a Tamil film, the most extravagant film in India, might be able to pay her that handsome amount.
She was reportedly offered a huge-sum opposite Rajnikanth in Shankar’s Robot.
The Filmfare nominations for the year 2007 are out but it's the Best Actor category is attracting a lot of attention. For the first time ever, a child actor, that is nine-year-old Darsheel-Safary, has been nominated for the Best Actor award.
Darsheel has been nominated for his portrayal of a dyslexic child in Aamir Khan's directorial debut Taare Zameen Par. Aamir has also been nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role category.
Darsheel will be competing with biggies like Shahrukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan and Shahid Kapur for the best actor title.
Darsheel was nominated for and won the Screen-Award for Best Child Actor in January this year. However, the award upset the young actor who said that the Best Actor Award should be his and he won't settle for a child actor award.
"I am playing the lead role, so I should get the Best Actor Award," says Darsheel.
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Shahrukh-Khan, speaking after receiving the "Ordre des Arts et des Lettres".
French-Ambassador to India Jerome-Bonnafont conferred the title on Khan at the inaugural ceremony of four-day French film festival today. The award is given to people who have distinguished themselves in art, culture or literature.
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Director Shekhar Kapur (2-R) and Australian actors Abbie Cornish (L), Geoffrey Rush (2-L) and Cate Blanchett pose for photographers at the Australian premiere of their new film "Elizabeth - The Golden Age" in Sydney, November 3.
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PRWeb - Eros International, a leading Indian media & entertainment company, announced today that its official Bollywood channel launched recently on YouTube has received over 1 million views. It offers customers a wide range of premium content such as a 'first-look' at films, events and happenings from Bollywood; such as the latest IIFA Awards, music videos, interviews, exclusive upcoming film trailers and much more.
Manu Kaushish, SVP New Media, Eros International, commented: "We are extremely pleased with the initial success of the channel; this has helped us validate the demand for our exclusive content library.
The Campaign Against Censorship is an action platform of over 300 Indian documentary filmmakers who came together in August 2003 to protest the attempt by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting to make censor certificates a mandatory precondition for Indian documentaries entered into the Mumbai International Film Festival.
In an unprecedented display of collective resistance filmmakers from across the country organized the Campaign Against Censorship, and were successful in forcing the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting to drop its attempts to introduce censor certification for the festival.
