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  Business Talk With Taran Adarsh: 'Ghajini' mania!

  It's unprecedented! Very few films, in my memory, have generated such enthusiasm amongst viewers as GHAJINI. In the 80s, the Amitabh Bachchan starrer COOLIE had hit headlines.

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  UTV suspends all commercial deals with Pakistan

  UTV Software Communications Tuesday temporarily deferred all deals with Pakistan in an endeavour to support the Indian government in demanding stricter action against terrorism emanating from across the border.

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  Bombay High Court allows 'Ghajini' release

  The Bombay High Court has allowed "Ghajini" to be released on Dec 25 (Thursday) even though the case filed against its producer for alleged violation of copyright is still pending in the court.

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  Producers of Kahani Ghajini Ki take Ghajini to Court

  In an instant-replay version of what happened with Yashraj Films' Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic, the producers of Ghajini woke up on Monday morning to a court summon from the producers one KBC Pictures, claiming that they've the rights to remake the Tamil Ghajini and that Aamir's film is therefore an infringement of their (KBC's) copyright.

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  "Ghajini is the main 'clue' in the film" - A.R. Murugadoss

  He is quite a popular name down South and his first Hindi film (as a director) Ghajini is among the most awaited films of this year. We are talking about none other than director A.R. Murugadoss, who in his very first Hindi film, gets the golden opportunity to direct actor par excellence Aamir Khan.

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  Video: Making Of 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi'

  Watch exclusive making of the film 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi' with Shahrukh Khan, Anushka Sharma and the other crew members of the film. Must watch!

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  'Slumdog Millionaire' jumps into North American Top 10

  British director Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire", based on a book by Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup, has jumped into the North American Top 10 and also taken home more awards as well as several nominations for British Indian actor Dev Patel.

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  Scripted the next Bollywood hit? Now wait for a contact

  "I'm very busy now", "Call me after three years" or "Who are your references?" - these are some of the common replies that budding scriptwriters get from filmmakers when they attempt to gain an entry into Bollywood.

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  Spoiler: Spoilsport SMS reveals 'Ghajini' climax!

  Just when the audiences started queuing up for booking their tickets for Aamir Khan-starrer “Ghajini”, a chain SMS started playing spoilsport by revealing what could possibly be the climax of the film.

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  White Feather Films ties up with Balaji Motion Pictures

  In these times of recession, when all productions houses are cost cutting, the folks at Sanjay Gupta's White Feather Films must be smiling away to glory.

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  Is Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi responsible for the expected success of Ghajini?

  Ghajini is all set to embark on a historic start in less than a week from now (the film begins its paid previews from Wednesday evening itself!) and in some way, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi deserves some part of the credit for that.

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  Writing lyrics for 'Ghajini' was tough: Prasoon Joshi

  He broke away from clichés in lyric writing and gave listeners sensible words to hum with songs like "Ladki kyon" and "Taare zameen par", but adman-turned-lyricist Prasoon Joshi says it was tough penning words for the Aamir Khan-starrer "Ghajini".

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  Film promotion comes of age in Bollywood

  With superstars Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar turning a barber and undergoing tattooing, respectively, to promote their upcoming films, marketing and publicity campaigns have come of age in tinsel-town.

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  Watch 'Jumbo' and read its comics too!

  Children looking forward to animation film "Jumbo", which has Bollywood stars doing the voice-overs, now have more reason to smile. Apart from the movie, they can also get themselves "Jumbo" comics and activity books.

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  A Sneak Peek into the movies of 2009 - Part 2

  After receiving an unprecedented response for the first part of A Sneak Peak into the Movies of 2009, as promised, we are back with the second part. With some big films that may change the face of Indian cinema or a few lesser known ones that will be spoken about in glowing terms for their content-n-entertainment

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  A sneak peek into the movies of 2009 - Part 1

  It's that time of the year when the customary postmortems of the year-gone-by are taking place. But we at Bollywood.com always endeavour to think ahead, trying to gauge the future developments in the film world faster than others.

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  It's final - Wednesday is the D Day for Ghajini!

  It's official! Last week, the makers and distributors of GHAJINI had decided on releasing GHAJINI on Wednesday night [paid previews], with the regular release on Thursday, 25th December [Christmas].

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  Video: Taran Adarsh analyses lots of hot releases in January 2009

  In this episode of B Biz Taran Adarsh speaks about the films which are going to be released in the month of January 2009 like 'Horn Ok Pleassss', 'Khallballi - Fun Unlimited', 'Chandni Chowk To China', 'Raaz - The Mystery Continues…' and many others. Must watch!

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  "Maybe Deepika can get R.K. Films to produce my film" - Kalpana Lajmi

  Call it a rishta by satellite. But prolific filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi is related to Deepika Padukone. "We're both descendents of the great Guru Dutt. Deepika and I are Saraswat Brahmins. Her family and mine can be traced back to Kashmir.

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  Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi script goes to the Oscars library

  It's time for YRF to start their celebrations as Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi has had a successful run at the BO since its release last week. And if that was not enough the news is that YRF has got a call from the Oscar library requesting them for the script of Rab Ne...for its permanent collection.

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  Anees 'No Problem' with Anil Kapoor

  Anees Bazmee is all set to direct No Problem for Anil Kapoor Productions. But will UTV which owns the title be willing to part with it?

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  'Slumdog Millionaire' wins 20 more awards

  British director Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" has picked up 20 more awards this week, including those for Indian music director A.R. Rahman, British Indian actor Dev Patel and child artiste Ayush Mahesh Khedekar.

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  International Bollywood film business in 2008

  In the journey from my first international film release three and a half years back, to my eighteenth film five weeks back, the landscape, whilst continuing to exhibit consistency in terms of its behaviour on certain aspects, has concurrently gone through a metamorphosis.

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  Harman says V for Victory!

  Indians are crazy about two things - Bollywood and cricket. Bring them together and you have what one calls a winning formula. Films like Iqbal and Lagaan with cricket as the central theme are still fresh in our minds.

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  Nominations for the V. Shantaram Awards 2008

  The 26th of December will witness a highly prestigious award function, the V. Shantaram Awards. This particular award was set up in memory of the late filmmaker V. Shantaram.