Sid n Vidya behind Salman Khan

Phir Milenge was the last outing that Salman Khan had with the UTV honchos, but at the time the tides were against the ship and it sank terribly. The movie did not do the magic as it is doing now for the super Khan! Salman Khan has recovered from that fall and is being regarded as the most cost-worthy actor of the year. 

The back to back 100 crore hits have put up Salman Khan in a position that he can literally rule the producers. Its also said that there are a long queue of commitments for the actor which makes him run busy through this year and the next. 

In midst of this hussle, UTV is trying to bag in Salman Khan for their next script. It is said that Siddharth Roy Kapoor and Vidya Balan is trying to reach for Salman for his dates for their next movie. But due to commitments which tie him across till 2013, there is only slightest possibility that the star will commit for the movie. But it is not preventing Sid and Vidya to stop their efforts. 

Salman Khan, past Dabaang, had rewritten the stardom that he had, with back to back hits with Bodyguard, Ready and he is also awaiting the release of Ek Tha Tiger, which is already declared a super hit from the promos. Also the unending affection of his fans towards the actor is also paying off at good time. Along with his efforts through 'Being Human' Salman Khan is taking his star status to a new level.

Well Done Sallu, is what even the roughest critic will say considering the box-office records that he has been breaking!

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Sorry no 3D for Joker!

Shirish Kunder's Akshay Kumar starrer was supposed to be the first Indian 3D movie with a superstar, but it seems that the production house had a change of mind. The latest news is that the movie won't be going on air with 3D format, as the marketting crew found no great differences between a 3D and 2D flick, also the lack of enough 3D screens has been sighted as the cause for this decision. 

Shirish Kunder confirmed the news and added, "The initial plan was for Joker to be the first 3D film with a big star. But that USP doesn't hold anymore. Taking into account the recent responses to 2D versus 3D ventures, we decided to reach out to a wider audience." Siddharth Roy Kapoor, MD, Studios-Disney UTV, said, "For a movie featuring a superstar (read: Akshay), the draw is more the star power and the content. We have seen this in case of many films over the past year that have clicked at the BO more for the film itself rather than the incremental business from 3D screens. Given this experience, we took a collective decision with Akshay, Shirish and his wife Farah Khan to complete Joker in the regular 2D format only."

The movie stars Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha and Minissha Lamba and produced by Studios-Disney UTV.

It is also said that there has been another twist of tale. After his first movie 'Jaan-E-Mann', Shirish had signed up with Eros entertainment for a movie, but for his bad fate, the script took four years to complete and it is said that the movie was named Joker, and now the news is that Shirish has returned the signing amount as he has committed the movie with UTV.

The plot says that Akshay plays a character who returns to his hometown - a place that's so remote that it's not even on the map. But sequence of events puts the little town not just on the country's map, but makes it the focus of the entire globe.

The story also involves aliens.

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- Unknown Updated at: Saturday, June 16, 2012

There is someone in my life - Vidya

It has been a open secret when Vidya Balan started dating the UTV huncho Siddharth Roy Kapoor. The two had been spotted on vacations and has always been seen together. But till date there hasn't been a open admission by either of the two with regard to the relationship, but it seems that it is just about time. Vidya Balan has come foreward to show up the world that she is not single anymore and has with a classic smile of hers admitted her relationship with Siddharth. But again, she says she hasn't planned anything yet, its just a relationship that she is taking seriously.

"I don't have any plans yet... and there is no engagement ring yet. It's a while away and I am in no hurry. But it's on my mind and there is a plan at some point. There is someone in my life," Vidya told PTI.

When the media did push her against the wall about the who the someone was, and when they asked her to name if it was Siddharth Roy Kapoor, then she says "I will admit that I am dating him but not beyond that." giggled Vidya avoiding further being questioned on the topic. Vidya was at the promotions for Indian Film Festival to be held at Melbourne, where she is a special invitee and is appointed the Bollywood Ambassador of Victoria. 

The 34 year old has been receiving warm appreciations for her roles in Kahaani and The Dirty Picture and also shares a special status in the fraternity. She is although humble about her achievements and says that she doesn't want to be in unmeaningful competitions. This was evident when the media questioned her about Rakhi Sawant's comments about the movie 'The Dirty Picture' which Rakhi will be doing in a South Indian movie. 

"I did my best and I am sure if she (Rakhi) brings her own originality to the portrayal of Silk, it will be great and I will be more than happy to watch her." Says Vidya. She adds that portraying Silk on screen was her greatest achievement and she got her best compliment for the role from her father.  "I was finally relieved after my father came during the interval and said that he could only see Silk rather than Vidya. There is no bigger compliment for me than that," she said.

Simple and Humble. Respect!

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- Unknown Updated at: Friday, May 11, 2012

Delhi Belly to be remade in Tamil

The superhit adult comedy film Delhi Belly (2011) will be remade in Tamil.

The film produced by UTV Motion Pictures and Aamir Khan Productions was directed by Abhinay Deo in English and dubbed in Hindi. The theatrical trailer of the film was premiered with Aamir Khan's Dhobi Ghat on 21st January 2011 while the film was released on 1 July 2011. The film was given an 'A' certificate for its obscene language and adult content.

And now the Tamil version of Delhi Belly will be directed by R. Kannan. Director R. Kannan had earlier directed the movies Kandein Kadhalai and Jayamkondan.

Siddharth Roy Kapur, CEO of UTV Motion Pictures said that, "Our next Hindi release ROWDY RATHORE is a remake of the superhit Telugu film VIKRAMARKUDU, which was also remade in Tamil as SIRUTHAI, another superhit. In the past we have successfully remade our Hindi productions in the South, like KHOSLA KA GHOSLA (in Tamil) and A WEDNESDAY (in Tamil and Telugu). Some content transcends culture and language, and draws audiences in for the sheer quality of story telling. Delhi Belly will work well with Tamil audiences and we are thrilled with the exceptional screenplay that the team of young writers has developed."

He added, "We have brought on actors who are youthful and popular, along with a very skilled director at the helm. We are confident that the great content of 'Delhi Belly' will act as a bridge for cinema loving audiences across languages."

In the untitled Tamil version of Delhi Belly, actor Arya will play Imran Khan's role while Santhanam will play Kunaal Roy Kapur's character and actor Premgi will essay Vir Das's role. Hansika Motwani and Anjali have been roped in to play the airhostess and journalist respectively. A source said that, “The film will have several known stars in other pivotal roles.”

The popular character artist Nasser, who is known to play the villain with much ease, will essay the role originally played by Vijay Raaz. The cinematography will be done by P.G. Muthiah , editing by Leo, Art Direction by Videsh, Costumes by Deepali and Stunts by Silva. The music will be composed by S Thaman. South writer John Mahendran is writing the dialogues for the Tamil version and a team of three writers is developing the screenplay while retaining the film’s original theme.

The film will go on the floors on 7th May 2012 in Chennai and will be completed by October 2012. The movie is slated for a Pongal release in January 2013. 

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- Unknown Updated at: Friday, May 04, 2012

UTV strikes satellite deals of 150 crores

UTV Motion Pictures, one of the most prestigious filmmaking studios has announced that it has satellite deals worth almost Rupees 150 crore for their recent and upcoming movies.

The deal includes recently released movies "Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu" (co-production with IBC Motion Pictures and Dharma Productions), "Paan Singh Tomar", "Vettai" (co-production with Thirupathi Brothers), "Tere Naal Love 

Ho Gaya" (co-production with Tips Industries and IBC Motion Pictures) as well as their forthcoming movies "Barfi!", "Heroine" (co-production with IBC Motion Pictures and Bhandarkar Entertainment), "Rowdy Rathore" (co-production with IBC Motion Pictures and Sanjay Leela Bhansali Films) and "Joker".

The studio is currently negotiating another deal that will include the multi-starrer Race 2, India’s first 3D dance movie AnyBody Can Dance (ABCD), Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana and Ghanchakkar. These satellite deals are only for a seven-year period unlike a few other recently concluded deals in which movies were sold for as long 11 to 13 years.

Siddharth Roy Kapur CEO of UTV Motion Pictures said, "At UTV we have consistently focused on quality, and this is reflected in the huge confidence that satellite channels have shown in doing deals with us for our forthcoming slate of movies. Channels feel they are guaranteed great content when they make deals with UTV, and this inspires us to keep the bar high and continue to bring audiences great movies year after year."

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- Unknown Updated at: Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Kareena Tweets for Heroine!

Kareena has been moving away from the social media site, twitter, she has never had real activity for her account but the new movie heroine from Madhur is going to change that for her. Kareena has agreed to tweet for her movie under the handle of 'UTV Motion Pictures'. She will share moments from the shooting of the movie and be up, close and personal with her fans about her character and working experience on the sets of Heroine. 

"Yes, I will be on twitter for the first time as heroine, my character in UTV Motion Pictures and Madhur Bhandarkar's film. It will be a new experience for me and I'm really looking forward for it. I think I will thoroughly enjoy it. I will be doing so from UTV's Twitter handle utvmp," says a very enthusiastic Kareena. 

1st Tweet : 

@utvmp : Finally, here's the video - @mbhandarkar268 and Kareena on the sets of #Heroine http://t.co/jSOVmewo. 

Heroine is a UTV Motion Pictures and Bhandarkar Entertainment film. Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar, the film stars Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Randeep Hooda and Shahana Goswami. The music of the movie is directed by music directors Salim-Sulaiman.

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- Unknown Updated at: Saturday, December 17, 2011

Prateik's Changeover for Pinto!

rateik Babbar has undergone a major change over for his upcoming movie 'My Friend Pinto', the director and producers are extremely excited for the movie and expect it to be the greatest change in Indian cinema, from the current trends. The debutante director Raaghav Dar feels that "The film is extremely racy and is about a young musician who comes to Mumbai from Goa to visit a friend. He is a simple, innocent guy who gets lost in the city and has a one night adventure with people from different walks of life".

"Prateik is a extremely friendly guy but he takes time to open up, he worked extremely hard on his body language and has somewhat become extroverted" adds the director.

The movie is produced by UTV motion pictures and Sanjay Leela Bhansali production. The character played by Prateik is reminiscent with the characters played by legendary heros Raj Kapoor and Charlie Chaplin. "The movie is in the same league as the legendary actors have done, but in a more contemporary style. Prateik is also a natural talent as these veteran actors, some shots of this movie might remind you of Raj Kapoor in Jaagte Raho, where the actor tries to help others but instead of helping he puts them into more trouble and brings trouble to himself. There are many comic situations to the movie" Says the director.

The lady love for Prateik in this movie is Kalki Koechlin. "It is an unusual pairing but they do look great together. I always had them in my mind when casting for the movie" Says the director. Adds Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who has made a comedy for the first time as producer, "This pair will herald a new style of acting. It is very cleverly structured and yet casual and effortless in the performance. Prateik is goodness personified. He is a wonderful actor."

Bhansali further states that though he makes intense films he was so enamoured by this script that he wanted to be associated with it in some way. "It has a funny take on almost everything!"

My Friend Pinto releases on October 14.

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- Unknown Updated at: Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Kareena to be the first!

Profit sharing has been the latest mantra to actors in Bollywood, now Kareena Kapoor joins the league and also earns the tag as first actress to do so. The upcoming movie and the most talked or controversial one marks this, Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine. The movie Heroine will be the first one to offer the actress the profit sharing option. It was earlier reported that the actress had asked for 8 crore to do the movie for which the UTV had dropped the option and had even mentioned that there was no such talks between them and Kareena(more). But the recent turn of events does give a clear picture on what is about to be done. 

Kareena will be doing profit sharing and in similar terms to the co-actor Arjun Rampal. The sources mention that:

"Earlier Kareena had opted for a pay of 8 Crore, but with the continued talks between the actor and producers she has now slashed the pay and has opted for profit sharing. The producers are also happy with this and have worked out a plan for her"

The trend has been in bollywood, which includes Shah Rukh Khan, Amir Khan, Imran Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and many more doing the profit sharing with the movies. So Kareena still grabs the rank 1 post for profit sharing market.

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- Unknown Updated at: Tuesday, August 23, 2011

UTV Clarifies on Heroine!

The speculations on the movie 'Heroine' continues as the story brings in a new twist, ever since Aishwariya Rai Bachchan left the movie, there has been much controversies, starting with Madhur's cold war against Aishwariya Rai, followed by the settlement. Later there was controversy on whether Madhur will shelf his movie until return of Aish or find a new heroine. Many were considered, Kareena was held out as the strong contender as she was the one who was in mind of Madhur Bhandarkar when he framed the movie.

Now UTV has brought up the clarity or we say a confusing statement - Kareena is not signed yet! This was following the strong rumor that Kareena had signed up for the movie with a whooping sum of Rs. 8 crore!

UTV was quick to react on this and now the matters are more confusing, we had reported earlier that there were talks on the movie being done with scenes shredded for the liking of 'bebo' but this seems to be another rumor or a discussions in the making! But for now we know it is not Kareena that will be doing 'Heroine'

Madhur's Clarification! 

The discussions with Kareena

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- Unknown Updated at: Thursday, August 11, 2011

Kareena officially approached for Heroine!

Madhur Puts in a Clear Stance

Director Madhur Bhandarkar has cleared off the air while the speculations and confirmations of Kareena being included in the movie 'Heroine' is quite strongly rumored. He said that there is no such approach from the makes of the movie and this stand stays still. But if we were to go by the media we can surely expect some change in his thoughts and a change in what he mentioned.

Sources said that UTV's CEO Siddharth Roy Kapur and the writer of the film Niranjan Iyengar went to Hyderabad to meet Kareena, who is currently in the city with her boyfriend Saif Ali Khan. The actress has reportedly agreed to do the film after the filmmakers agreed to change the script. She is now ready to do drinking and smoking scenes, while the makers gave in to he wish of toning down the explicit lovemaking scenes with Arjun Rampal and Arunoday Singh.

It may be recalled that Madhur Bhandarkar almost shelved Heroine following Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's ouster from the film after shooting for about a couple of weeks. The actress was dropped from the film after her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan made her pregnancy public.

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- Unknown Updated at: Saturday, July 23, 2011

Kareena Agrees?

Finally the Heroine found?

This could be a breaking news for Madhur Bhandarkar, his movie might get a new incarnation for the heroine concept. The hot news is that Kareena Kapoor has listened to the chiseled up story of the movie 'Heroine' to her liking and will most probably do it!

The news extends that recently the CEO of UTV cinemas, Sidharth Roy kapoor and Niranjan Iyengar, Writer of the movie Heroine flew to Hyderabad on the sets with Saif Ali Khan, seems to have agreed on the film. They had a discussion over the topic and finally it seems that Kareena has set eyes on the role.

Speaking to the media, the producer mentioned that she is now OK with the drinking, smoking and snorting scenes in the movie and she has a problem only with the intimate scenes which involves actors Arjun Rampal and new comer Arunodhay Singh. The team is now working on this part of the movie.

We eagerly anticipate the official announcement from Madhur on this, but for now the votes seems to be on Kareena's side.

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- Unknown Updated at: Thursday, July 21, 2011