South superstar Vijay makes his Bollywood debut with a Rowdy Rathore song, doesn’t charge a penny for it.

Regional films ruled the roost at the 59th National Film Awards ceremony. At the function, vice-president Hamid Ansari and information & broadcasting minister Ambika Soni made a strong case for regional films.

For those who’ve not had enough of Ooh La La or The Dirty Picture, it’s time to head to Kolkata. The film that saw Vidya Balan walk away with the National Award will be remade in Bengali. And the makers of the new version have zeroed in on Rakhi Sawant to play the lead.

UTV Motion Pictures is set to remake superhit film Delhi Belly in Tamil. South director R Kannan will make the Tamil version and southern star Arya will reprise Imran Khan’s role.

The Hollywood film, The Avengers, which has also been dubbed in Telugu and Tamil in India, will now get its own Southern theme song.

Urged by friends, National Award winning filmmaker says he plans to return to his roots, reports Dibyojyoti Baksi.

After his father Amitabh Bachchan acted in three Bhojpuri films, son Abhishek is set to follow suit. The junior Bachchan is most likely to appear in the upcoming film of the megastar's make-up man Deepak Sawant.

As Sameera Reddy awaits the release of her upcoming action flick Tezz, the actor seems to have hit another career high. The actor is apparently being touted as the highest paid Kannada actor, as it is believed that she has pocketed more for her maiden Kannada film, Varadhanayaka, than she did for her last Kollywood hit, Vettai.

He’s had a string of successes, the latest being Housefull 2. And now Riteish Deshmukh is venturing into a new territory — Marathi films. To kick off by the end of this year, a yet-untitled project will see him acting — for the first time — in his native language.

At a time when young entrants from South are looking to make a strong presence in Bollywood, Malayalam superstar Mohanlal feels that although the reach of Hindi cinema is wider, he has nothing much to prove here as an actor.