Rensil S’Silva shares how his next film on terrorism gave him some terrifying experience

October 1st, 2009 Today its victory of good over evil! The celebration of Navratri with garba-dandiya at last ends with “Dushera” which means the end of all evils. We all know that Dashera marked the victory of Lord “Ram” over evil spirit Ravana along with the death of demon “Mahishasur” by goddess “Kalika”.

September 25th, 2009 MUMBAI - His "Love Aaj Kal" has completed 50 days at the box office and has earned more than Rs.65 crores (Rs.650 million) just within India. Now actor-producer Saif Ali Khan is looking forward to "Kurbaan" - a film he admits he is proud of having acted in being a Muslim.

September 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Actor-producer Anil Kapoor teams up for the first time with his actress daughther Sonam. The father-daughter duo will be seen together on the small screen for a commercial for German luxury brand Montblanc.

September 19th, 2009 By Subhash K Jha Naseeruddin Shah ostensibly played a terror mastermind in Neeraj Pandey’s A Wednesday. But finally it turned out to be the role of messiah on a mission to cleanse society.

September 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Veteran actor Om Puri plays a terrorist who masterminds a massive attack in the US in Rensil d'Silva's "Kurbaan" and says he has no reservations about playing a 'jehaadi' as audiences are mature enough to differentiate between an actor and a film character. Irrfan Khan had apparently said no to playing a terrorist in "Kurbaan".

September 4th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A Melbourne film production company, co-producer of the Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor starrer 'Qurbaan', has reportedly failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the production crew. Workers and contractors on the movie have taken legal action against Swish Films, which was producing the film with the Indian company Dharma Productions in the American city of Philadelphia.

August 12th, 2009 With her recent release Kambakkht Ishq commanding a record breaking opening worldwide, Kareena Kapoor is very excited about her next, Karan Johar's Kurbaan. Our source says, “With Kurbaan, Kareena proves that she is the most versatile actress around.

July 5th, 2009 LAHORE - Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has said that terrorism should not be linked with Islam. Talking to media persons after visiting Jamia Naeemia to express grief over the assassination of country's top religious scholar Sarfaraz Naeemi here, Khan termed the suicide bombings as a 'political issue.' "No religion can allow suicide bombing.

July 4th, 2009 Doing love scenes with Kareena for Rensil d’Silva’s film was not as easy as Saif would have thought. How far to go with the comfort level? That was Saif’s dilemma.

July 1st, 2009   After making the gritty and glorious Mumbai Meri Jaan you would expect the ultra-shy self-effacing quietly-brilliant Nishikant Kamat to go deeper into the same realistic terrorism territory. But Nishikant has had his fill of terrorism.

June 26th, 2009 MUMBAI - Filmmaker Kabir Khan, whose latest venture "New York" highlights prejudices in the US after the 9/11 attacks, says Indian films made on terrorism are often "jingoistic" but maintains that his take on the issue would provide a balanced view. "Unfortunately, films on terrorism in our country are often high-pitched and jingoistic.

June 17th, 2009 For Saif Ali Khan getting conversant with the holy Quran to play the jehadi in Rensil D’Silva’s Kurbaan was relatively easier. But John Abraham belonging to an entirely different religion and culture, learning the  tenets of the Quran from the scratch to play the NRI Muslim in Kabir Khan’s New York.

June 11th, 2009 MACAU - Terrorism in an unnamed but well-developed country was now being defined in terms of pre and post the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards being hosted there, according to IIFA director Sabbas Joseph. Speaking at the launch of IIFA here Thursday, Joseph did not name the country, but it could easily be deduced that he was referring to Britain, where the IIFA Awards have been held twice.

June 10th, 2009 As Cause Ambassador for NGO RAHI (Recovery and Healing from Incest), Nandana Sen is deeply committed to raising awareness of the widespread trauma of child abuse, and working with its survivors.  “Healing is often harder for men than it is for women,” she observed.  “For males the biggest obstacle is their reluctance to talk about it. In our society men have been conditioned to believe by definition they must always be aggressive rather than helpless.  Since a ‘real’ man is expected to never accept he could be a ‘victim,’ men fear that acknowledging their trauma would threaten their masculinity.”  Nandana also revealed that hiding the pain of their abuse often leads to male survivors experiencing great confusion over their sexual identities and orientation.  “Some survivors become intolerably homophobic and some unhealthily aggressive," Nandana said.  “Disastrously, masculinity and power often get confused with abusiveness.  For both men and women, the first step toward healing is breaking the silence about their abuse."  Which was the subject of "Chuppee," a short feature against CSA Nandana recently completed, sponsored by UNIFEM.

May 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Director Rensil d'Silva shot a large part of his upcoming film starring Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Vivek Oberoi in New York last month and says there was no swine flu scare while filming. "There was absolutely no worries about swine flu.