Cinema Scope

Om Puri says that same gotra or same khap marriages no reason to butcher youngsters.

Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha revealed that she is working on a script on the 1947 India-Pakistan partition on the micro-blogging website, Twitter.

Filmmakers are increasingly going in for unusual pairings for their films.

Prakash Jha’s modern-day Mahabharata has entered the battlefield today, with Rs. 60 crore riding on it, and sky-high expectations. Reports mixed, prospects under scrutiny.

Shah Rukh Khan has set a record of sorts, using 23 cameras to light up a single frame for his film Ra.One.

With their tales of passion and power, vendetta and virtue, devotion and deception, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata have provided inspiration to filmmakers down the ages. And they do so again with Prakash Jha and Mani Ratnam ready with a modern retelling of the two Indian epics.

The glamorous and the intense, the star and the actor, the reigning heartthrob and the quiet performer... filmmakers are trying out unusual pairings in the belief that opposites will attract.

For the organisers of the 11th IIFA awards, this year's event – in Colombo between June 3 and 5 – is turning out to be its most controversial, even before it has been held. Sutirtho Patranobis reports.

Actors Chitrangada Singh and Prateik Babbar will be seen in a film on the gold smuggling era of the 60s and 70s.

Reason: a Canadian sales agent allegedly requested team not to release DVD in India!

Even before their third movie has reached the finishing line, director Sudhir Mishra has roped in Chitrangada Singh for his next, tentatively titled Driver.

King of romance says script ready, casting next month, will begin shoot in  winter. This will be 77-year-old Chopra’s first film since Veer-Zaara (2004), and need we add, it’s a romantic subject.

After launching Brazilian model Giselle Monteiro in Love Aaj Kal, filmmaker Imtiaz Ali is set to launch another foreigner in his next film, Rockstar.

Actors Bobby Deol and Mugdha Godse will unveil the first look of their horror-thriller Help at the IIFA awards 2010.