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A R Rahman celebrates 44th birthday, 3 music albums in the offing!!

11 hours ago | Stardust Bollywood | See recent Stardust Bollywood news »

A R Rahman, the music maestro of India who won Oscar award for his original scores in Danny Boyle.s acclaimed flick .Slumdog Millionaire., celebrates his forty- fourth birthday today. The Mozart of Madras is all set to come out with three new music albums this year. They are Gautham Menaon.s .Vinaani Thandi Varuvaya., Mani Ratnam.s .Raavan. starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Vikram and Shankar.s .Endhiran. again starring Aishwarya with southern super star Rajnikanth. As is well known, A R Rahman is by nature a very private person in the matters of celebration, but is likely to make his statement with above-mentioned three mega musical release of the year. A R Rahman, who was born a Hindu and was known as Dilip Kumar before converting to Islam, is married to Saira. He has three lovely children Khatija, Rahima and Amin. The maestro is completely devoted to the »

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Anil Kapoor starrer American series 24 premieres on Jan 14

5 January 2010 2:44 AM, PST | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »

As he turned 50 on Thursday, Anil Kapoor has much reason to be happy and proud, the most immediate being the fact that his American television series 24 premieres in New York on January 14. And his presence in the globally popular series has been extended from 10 to 16 episodes. Confirming this boost in the contract, Anil says, "Initially I was under contract for just ten episodes. Then seeing the way my role developed, they decided to have me in sixteen episodes. I must say I was as happy with the whole experience as I was with Slumdog Millionaire." Anil laughingly recalls how a lot of people advised him against doing American television. "But I was also advised not to do Slumdog Millionaire. Some Bollywood actors had turned down that part before me. I took it up because my wife and kids were in favour. Can you imagine how I'd feel right now if I had turned it down? »

- Subhash K. Jha

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Anil Kapoor starrer American series 24 premieres on Jan 14

5 January 2010 2:44 AM, PST | BollywoodHungama | See recent BollywoodHungama news »

As he turned 50 on Thursday, Anil Kapoor has much reason to be happy and proud, the most immediate being the fact that his American television series 24 premieres in New York on January 14. And his presence in the globally popular series has been extended from 10 to 16 episodes. Confirming this boost in the contract, Anil says, "Initially I was under contract for just ten episodes. Then seeing the way my role developed, they decided to have me in sixteen episodes. I must say I was as happy with the whole experience as I was with Slumdog Millionaire." Anil laughingly recalls how a lot of people advised him against doing American television. "But I was also advised not to do Slumdog Millionaire. Some Bollywood actors had turned down that part before me. I took it up because my wife and kids were in favour. Can you imagine how I'd feel right now if I had turned it down? »

- Subhash K. Jha

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Paul Schrader Voices Displeasure with 'Slumdog Millionaire'

4 January 2010 9:25 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Paul Schrader has always been something of an iconoclast, so it’s hardly surprising that he thinks negatively of Slumdog Millionaire, the Oscar-winning audience pleaser set in India.

Recently, Schrader talked about his new India-based film Xtreme City, claiming it would not be as one-sided as Danny Boyle’s pic, as well as decidedly less British. "My film will not be a shanty film. Not like Slumdog Millionaire at all, thank you," Schrader told India Today according to Digital Spy.

Xtreme City will revolve around a former U.S. Army Ranger who teams up with an Indian commando to find the soldier’s sister-in-law, who has been kidnapped by a Mumbai crime lord. Previously, Schrader has said the film will be within the Bollywood tradition—family-friendly, with song and dance sequences.

Schrader, who once wrote a much seamier search-through-the-underworld tale in 1979’s Hardcore, claimed Slumdog Millionaire reinforced the Western view of India; that is, »

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Aamir, Hirani, Chopra - Time to show some grace : Vir Sanghvi

2 January 2010 11:24 PM, PST | indicine | See recent indicine news »

Vir Sanghvi is the Editorial Director of the Hindustan Times. Very interesting article, worth a read.

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Here are two images you may remember from television. The first was the Oscar ceremony. Simon Beaufoy won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire. It is no secret that Beaufoy’s script differed significantly from the book by Vikas Swarup on which Slumdog was based. But Beaufoy made it a point to thank Swarup on stage and to say that without his book there would be no screenplay, no movie, and no Oscars.

Later that same night Slumdog director Danny Boyle while accepting his own Oscar apologised to the choreographer Longinus, whose name had been leftRead More »

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Danny Boyle 'offers Rubina Ali new home'

2 January 2010 8:09 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Danny Boyle has reportedly offered to buy one of the Slumdog Millionaire stars a new home. The director made the suggestion after Rubina Ali's house was demolished for the third time, The Sun reports. Boyle has allegedly offered to buy Ali a £350,000 apartment, but Ali's family members have claimed that the flat is not yet ready for them to live in. Boyle has previously been frustrated by the demands of the Jai Ho Trust, which was set up to help the film's (more) »

- By Catriona Wightman

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Rubina gets New Year gift from Danny Boyle

1 January 2010 3:28 AM, PST | Hindustan Times - Cinema | See recent Hindustan Times - Cinema news »

Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire child-actor Rubina Ali Qureshi, whose shanty was demolished Wednesday, is looking forward to a special New Year gift - a spacious new flat gifted by director Danny Boyle through his Jai Ho Trust. "We have already selected and finalized the deal for a flat costing Rs.3.2 million in the Mumbai suburbs. Even Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle has approved it. After finalizing the relevant formalities, Rubina and her family plan to shift there within a month," Rubina's business manager Dinesh Dubey told Ians here Thursday evening. However, he denied that nine-year-old Rubina and her co-star, 11-year-old Azharuddin »

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