Vishal to support poor women affected with uterus cancer

September 28th, 2009 Film: "Aladin"; Music Directors: Vishal-Shekhar; Lyricists: Vishal Dadlani and Anvita Dutt Guptan; Singers: Shankar Mahadevan, Shaan, Amitabh Bachchan, Shreya Ghosal, Sudesh Bhosle, Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani, Anushka Manchanda, Sunidhi Chauhan and Sanjay Dutt; Rating:*** The soundtrack of the much-talked about Amitabh Bachchan-starrer "Aladin", a contemporary take on the classic fairy tale, is racy and energetic. Composer duo Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani have tried to go beyond their usual tunes and beats.

September 22nd, 2009 Post- Naan Kadavul, Bala seems to have zeroed down on actor Aarya again for his next directorial. Since the film is based on the lives of two brothers, Bala seems to have roped in actor Vishal as well.

September 20th, 2009 Ramesh, one of the top-charting producers of Tamil film industry has lodged a complaint against actor Vishal at Tamil film producers Council. According to the complaint, he has mentioned that Vishal had received a big sum of money as an advance including the payment for Shriya Saran, for his upcoming film ‘Theeradha Vilaiyaattu Pillai’.

September 14th, 2009 Vishal’s ‘Theeradha Vilayatu Pillai’ interrupted by photographers Shooting of actor Vishal’s ‘Theeradha Vilayatu Pillai’ had recently hit the floors here, in Chennai. Naturally, three hotties Neetu Chandra, Tanushree Dutta and Miss India pairing with Vishal had turned entire attention of the tinsel town onto this film.

September 10th, 2009 LONDON - Former Spice Girls singer Geri Halliwell has launched a campaign to help women in Nepal. The English singer has been in the country since Sep 6 and is using the opportunity to visit females living in the south-west of the country and raise awareness of the gender-based violence women are facing there, reports contactmusic.com.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - Singer Kelly Osbourne, daughter of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, revealed that after seeing her father surviving in spite of drugs and alcohol addiction, she also decided to indulge. "I think, to be honest with you, the way that I looked at it when I was really young was 'well, Dad's still alive...I can do it too' and when I look at it now, I think 'my god, why did I put myself through that?'....why didn't I just ask for help? why didn't I just be honest with how miserable I really was?" "But I was afraid to because when you're 17 and the entire world is looking at you and your mum's got cancer and my dad's in hospital on life support, I didn't know how to cope and didn't know what I was doing.

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who is riding on the success of "Kaminey", has pledged her support to a fund-raising project started by international fashion brand Bulgari, which is celebrating its 125 years, for the defence of children's rights. "It goes without saying that children are our future and we need to do whatever it takes to ensure that they have a chance for a better future by educating them and protecting their rights.

August 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Internationally acclaimed Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur is quite impressed with Vishal Bharadwaj's "Kaminey" and says the film "catapults Indian cinema in modernity beyond (Quentin) Tarantino". "The greatest thing about Vishal Bharadwaj's 'Kaminey' is that you cannot work out why it is working.

August 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Vishal Bharadwaj's unusually titled and much-awaited dark thriller "Kaminey", starring Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, is turning out to be a strong player at the box office. "'Kaminey' is the biggest opening for any Shahid, Priyanka and Vishal Bhardwaj film so far.

August 12th, 2009 Years back, filmmaker Cheran had to approach various actors for his ‘Autograph’. With everyone rejecting his offer, he himself donned the lead role and tuned spotlights on him.

July 30th, 2009 Bollywood’s alluring missy Tanushree Dutta pairs up with Vishal for his forthcoming film ‘Theeradha Vilaiyaattu Pillai’. The film is produced by Vishal's elder brother Vikram Krishna under the banner of GK Film Corporation.

July 9th, 2009 Album: "Kaminey"; Music Director: Vishal Bhardwaj; Lyricist: Gulzar; Singers: Sukhwinder Singh, Vishal Dadlani, Mohit Chauhan, Kunal Ganjawala, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rekha Bhardwaj, Suresh Wadkar, Kailash Kher and Vishal Bhardwaj; Rating: *** Filmmaker and composer Vishal Bhardwaj had set high standards for himself after the hit music of "Omkara" and he has fulfilled all expectations yet again with "Kaminey". Full of punch, experimental and hummable, the soundtrack of the film is a must hear.

June 19th, 2009 MUMBAI - Composers Vishal and Shekhar were pleasantly surprised when they opened the morning newspapers to find A.R. Rahman appreciating their work.

June 9th, 2009 LONDON - American singer-actress Jessica Simpson performed on stage for paediatric cancer survivors. The singer took the stage Sunday to perform for the benefit of 2,000 paediatric cancer survivors for the 18th annual Celebrate Life with Hope event, reported people.com.

May 31st, 2009 Film: "Thoranai"; Director: Saba; Cast: Vishal, Shriya, Kishore, Prakash Raj; Music Director: Mani Sharma; Cinematographer: Priyan; Rating: * "Thoranai", a Tamil-Telugu bilingual blunder made by director Saba, features the expressionless wonder-cum-brawn bundle Vishal along with Shriya Saran. Country bumpkin Murugan (Vishal) chased out by cheesed off neighbours is sent on a mission to find a runaway sibling in bad-bad Chennai only to antagonise two gangsters Guru (Kishore) and Tamil Arasan (Prakash Raj) with mindless minions snarling at each other.