‘Roadside Romeo’ selected for Shanghai, Seoul film fests

August 26th, 2009 Jet Li is quite renowned in the Hong Kong film industry, as well as Hollywood, as an action hero. The 46-year-old actor first appeared in Chinese films and then moved on to Hollywood and appeared in Lethal Weapon 4, Romeo Must Die and Kiss of the Dragon.

August 13th, 2009 Roopa Iyer, the debutant director of Mukhaputa (also known as ‘The Cover Page’ in English) can’t stop gushing about the selection of her film for seven international film festivals, namely, Portland International Film Festival, AE International Film Festival, England International Film Festival, UK– International Youth Film Festival, AVALON International Film Festival, IW– International Film Festival and International Film Festival of LONDON. The actress cum danseuse cum director’s film is about HIV AIDS.

July 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Western world is now showing interest in Hindi films -- all because of its dance and music content, something that they ridiculed a few years ago, says megastar Amitabh Bachchan. "We were ridiculed, and the West was very cynical about the way we made our films and the content -- the songs and the dance, and the music was something that was kind of looked down upon many years ago.

July 23rd, 2009 Romeo coming this month-end! Romeo- Directed by Ramakrishna and produced by Srinivas under the banner of Sudha Entertainments presents Srihari in the main role. Aryan Rajesh and Shraddha Arya play a young pair; ‘Romeo’ (Different Lover) and is all set for release by July-end.

June 23rd, 2009 This weekend, Priyanka Chopra was invited by the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) for their closing ceremony on June 21, 2009 where she was presented with the Festival’s top award – The Jin Jue Award. This award marks the tenth award for her in the past six months.  The festival's highest honour and main prize is the "Jin Jue" award.  It is a symbol of the traditional orient culture, is an ancient Chinese wine container which has a uniquely beautiful shape and a gracefully antique style.  Priyanka Chopra was the first Indian actor to be presented with this honour on an international platform for her contribution to cinema.

June 18th, 2009 MacDowell: 40s are awkward for a leading ladySHANGHAI — "Four Weddings and a Funeral" star Andie MacDowell says her 40s were an awkward time partly because Hollywood filmmakers didn't know how to cast the veteran American actress. The 51-year-old actress hasn't had a big hit since a string of commercial successes in the early and mid-1990s, including "Groundhog Day," ''Michael," and "Four Weddings and a Funeral." She said Thursday that while she didn't have trouble finding work in her 40s, American filmmakers may have had trouble finding good roles for her.

June 18th, 2009 MacDowell: 40s awkward for a leading ladySHANGHAI — "Four Weddings and a Funeral" star Andie MacDowell says her 40s were an awkward time partly because Hollywood filmmakers didn't know how to cast the veteran American actress. The 51-year-old actress hasn't had a big hit since a string of commercial successes in the early and mid-1990s, including "Groundhog Day," ''Michael," and "Four Weddings and a Funeral." She said Thursday that while she didn't have trouble finding work in her 40s, American filmmakers may have had trouble finding good roles for her.

June 5th, 2009 Believe it or not but in his only release of the year so far, Saif Ali Khan has delivered a box office disaster. Incidentally this is his fourth box office failure in a row over last 12 months, what with ROADSIDE ROMEO (where he did the voiceover), THODA PYAAR THODA MAGIC and TASHAN being mighty flops in themselves.

June 4th, 2009 LONDON - Director Dibakar Banerjee's Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! has been selected for screening at an event in New York that celebrates Indian films. The event, starting Friday, is called The New India.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who is shooting for her upcoming film "Pyaar Impossible" in Bangkok, went overboard with her adventurous streak when she decided to dive into a swimming pool from a four-storey film board just to have fun. "Priyanka jumped from a four-storey flip board into a 40 feet swimming pool while she was shooting in Bangkok for 'Pyaar Impossible'.

May 26th, 2009 SHANGHAI - Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle will be one of the members of the jury at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival. The Oscar-winning filmmaker will judge the films along with actress Andie MacDowell and fellow director Andrew Lau, reported contactmusic.com.

May 22nd, 2009 MUMBAI - The burgeoning animation industry in India has found a potential market in the form of Bollywood as more and more movies have started using visual effects. In early 90's there were hardly any Bollywood movies using animation.

May 16th, 2009 BIG Pictures, motion picture brand of Reliance Big Entertainment's, supernatural thriller, 13B- Fear Has A New Address has been official selected at the 12th Shanghai International Film Festival, to be held from 13th June to 21st June. The film will be screened in the in the International Panorama Section which turns out to have a total number of over 300,000 annual audience.

May 3rd, 2009 The audio of the film ‘Romeo’ with Aryan Rajesh in the lead role and Sri Hari playing an important role was released in Hyderabad recently. Sri Hari unveiled the audio and handed over the first copy to the chief guest VV Vinayak.

May 3rd, 2009 Post-production works are nearing completion for ‘Romeo’ directed by Ramakrishna and produced by Srinivas on the banner of Sudha Entertainments with Aryan Rajesh and Shraddha Arya in the lead, Srihari in a key role. Speaking on the occasion, the producer says, ‘Aryan Rajesh and Srihari gave a brilliant performance in the film.