Bollywood actors have stage fright!

Far away in New York, Katie Holmes is winning hearts with her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, following in the footsteps of Julia Roberts and Al Pacino who have dominated the stage and screen with equal élan.However, in India theatre directors are not too keen on having movie stars on stage. They feel Bollywood stars are ‘too indisciplined’ to fit into a stage actor’s shoes. Veteran theatre director, Alyque Padamsee rubbishes the thought...

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Payal copies Aishwarya Rai

Payal Rohatagi knows for sure how to grab eyeballs. And this time she has copied Ash costumes from head to toe from the famous Kajra Re song (from Yash Chopra’s film Bunti Aur Babli) for her forthcoming movie Dil Kabbadi.Payal’s character in Dil Kabbadi is of a yoga instructor, who is having an extra marital affair with Irfan Khan, and together they are play-acting various roles to spice up their affair. In this particular sequence they enact the...

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Fashion exposes Bhandarkars limitations (Opinion)

Fashion” was expected to expose the cold realities of India’s fashion industry, but it ends up revealing Madhur Bhandarkar’s limitations as a writer and director.Just like his last two films, “Corporate” and “Traffic Signal”, in “Fashion” too Bhandarkar skims the surface instead of digging deep. For those who are aware of his style of filmmaking, it is a predictable narrative.The movie, touted as his costliest and most glamorous so far, is said to...

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