Neeraj Vora rubbishes reports of Aamir’s presence in his next (Film Snippets)

October 7th, 2009 After the hue and cry made over Karan Johar’s usage of the word ‘Bombay’ in his film, Wake Up Sid! directors are steering clear of the word to avoid any controversies. Director Neeraj Pathak’s film, Right Yaa Wrong starring Sunny Deol and Irrfan Khan uses the word ‘Bombay’ twice.

September 3rd, 2009 By Subhash K Jha Producer Uru Patel has now zeroed in on Aamir Khan to play Hanuman, though God forbid, not as a monkey God, but as a super-hero who can fly over mountains and skyscrapers and rescue the modern-day Rama from the ravenous Ravans of todays world. Hollywood stars Keanu Reeves and Gary Oldman will play Rama and Ravan, respectively.

August 25th, 2009 Director Neeraj Pandey whose film, A Wednesday, was critically acclaimed, is set to make another fast-paced film which promises to be different from his first one. This one will be based on an incident that took place on 19 March 1987, when 26 men, pretending to be income tax officials walked into Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri’s Opera House branch jewelry store and took away wealth worth lakhs of rupees.

July 27th, 2009 By Subhash K Jha Rightfully A Wednesday director Neeraj Pandey has reached the land of plenty. From the time when he had to struggle to put together his first political thriller a year back to now, when Neeraj is spoilt by choices, the director has indeed come a long way in no time.

July 23rd, 2009 By Joginder Tuteja SHORTKUT-THE CON IS ON has flopped miserably and tongues have started wagging if writer-director Neeraj Vora was indeed the right choice for making the film. After all, the film was the remake of very successful Malayalam film UDAYANANU THARAM and it must have required some real bad rehash for this Akshaye-Arshad starrer to fare the way it has.

July 17th, 2009 MUMBAI - Talented Shreyas Talpade is travelling to Bangkok so often for his film shoots that the actor jokes he might apply for citizenship in Thailand. I have been to Bangkok so many times and for so many of my films from 'Bombay To Bangkok', 'Golmaal Returns' to 'Paying Guests' that I better take citizenship there.

July 11th, 2009 Film: "Short Kut - The Con Is On"; Director: Neeraj Vora; Cast: Akshaye Khanna, Arshad Warsi, Amrita Rao; Rating: * "Short Kut" was not a bad film to begin with. It was probably a terrific idea for a comedy of misguided zeal - a hammy actor, Arshad Warsi, stealing a struggling scriptwriter Akshaye Khanna's great plot and becoming a superstar.

July 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - "Short Kut - The Con Is On" is a fun-filled "hare and tortoise story" that has Akshaye Khanna and Arshad Warsi playing a "lethal combination", says writer-director Neeraj Vora, who adds that it has no semblance to his last film "Phir Hera Pheri". "'Short Kut' is about a struggling writer-director (played by) Akshaye who believes in the hard way of living and his actor-dancer friend (Arshad) believes in taking shortcuts to success.

July 7th, 2009 MUMBAI - She has been hogging the limelight for her dare to bare act in "Short Kut: The Con Is On" that releases Friday. But Amrita Rao says she believes in hardwork and not taking shortcuts to achieve success in life.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Think of Arshad Warsi and a smile comes to one's face instantly courtesy his immaculate comic timing. The actor is once again is set to entertain audiences along with Akshaye Khanna in Short Kut - The Con Is On that releases Friday.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Hindi film industry is infamous for lifting Hollywood movies, but it has often been inspired by cinema content from southern India as well. With forthcoming movies like "Kambakkht Ishq", "Short Kut - The Con Is On" and "Wanted", Bollywood seems to be on a spree of remaking films made down south.

June 27th, 2009 MUMBAI - Arshad Warsi was excited about his 'Rendezvous with Simi Garewal' in forthcoming film "Short Kut - The Con", but he was disappointed when the entire sequence was chopped off from the final cut. "It's unfortunate but we had to let go of the sequence.

June 26th, 2009 Album: "Love Aaj Kal"; Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty; Lyricist: Irshad Kamil; Singers: , Sunidhi Chauhan, KK, Neeraj Shridhar, Mohit Chauhan and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan; Rating: *** After the hit score of "Jab We Met", director Imtiaz Ali has collaborated with Pritam yet again for the music of Saif Ali Khan's production debut "Love Aaj Kal". Pritam has left no stone unturned in creating soulful melodies.

June 23rd, 2009 Popular director of Dostana Tarun Mansukhani wins the Star Gold Comedy Honors Award for "Director with a Comic Excellence". The award was handed over to Tarun by veteran actor and Director Neeraj Vora.

June 16th, 2009 MUMBAI - More than 20 years after working in "Tezaab" (1988), Anil Kapoor and Chunky Pandey have come together again for the movie "Shortkut - The Con Is On". While Anil is producing the film, Chunky is playing the role of an acting guru cum star secretary.