Madhur Bhandarkar to face trial in rape case (Lead superseding earlier story)

November 6th, 2009 Film: "Jail"; Director: Madhur Bhandarkar; Cast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Manoj Bajpai, Mugdha Godse, Arya Babbar, Rahul Singh, Chetan Pandit; Rating: ***1/2 Madhur Bhandarkar has done it again. From "Jail", one expected a gritty, hard-hitting and thought-provoking drama.

November 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Sanjay Ghodawat group, which has business interests in diverse spheres such as realty, education and textiles, has entered the entertainment sector through an agreement with Bollywood production house Percept Picture. As part of the deal, the group will invest around Rs.100 crore over the next three years in the entertainment space, Percept said in a statement Friday.

October 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - At a time when his contemporaries were doing film after film, Manoj Bajpai was sitting at home nursing an injured shoulder and missing out on coveted projects. The actor, who will be seen in "Jail", says he was going through a frustrating time when Madhur Bhandarkar offered him the movie.

October 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The news of frontal nudity by lead actor Neil Nitin Mukesh in his new film "Jail" made headlines, but filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar now says he has blurred the scenes so as to make it watchable for all age groups. "The film will shake up a lot of people and give a perspective to the common man who has never gone inside a jail.

October 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar has slammed rumours that he is making a biopic on Indian Premier League (IPL) supremo Lalit Modi, saying he is not making any movie on cricket. In fact, he plans to take a break after the releae of Jail.

October 4th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has unveiled the music album of a forthcoming film 'Jail' here. "I feel that the film would be very interesting especially Madhur Bhandarkar's way of narrating a story, that it is hard-hitting with emotions," said Priyanka Chopra.

October 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, behind the bars for more than three months after his maid accused him of rape, finally got bail Thursday. The Bombay High Court granted bail to Shiney on a surety of Rs.50,000, his lawyer Shirish Gupte said.

October 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - The Bombay High Court on Thursday granted bail to Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, who has been in judicial custody for over three months for allegedly raping his domestic maid. Ahuja has been granted bail on submitting a surety of Rs 50,000.

October 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, behind the bars for more than three months after his maid accused him of rape, got bail Thursday. He reiterated his claim that he had consensual sex with the domestic help.

September 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The lipstick, gloss, eye-shadow and mascara were all in place for Mugdha Godse when she played a model in her debut film "Fashion", but the actress says she has gone "completely de-glam" for her role in Madhur Bhandarkar's forthcoming "Jail". "My look in 'Jail' is very de-glamourised.

September 9th, 2009 CHENNAI - Production house Pyramid Saimira Wednesday slapped a lawsuit on Tamil thespian Kamal Haasan for taking his fees but not completing the film "Marmayogi". Kamal was reportedly paid Rs.10.90 crore to do "Marmayogi" almost a year ago by Pyramid Saimira.

June 4th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bollywood director Madhur Bhandarkar and actors Kangana Ranaut and Mugdha Godse unveiled audio cinema on mobile phones here on Wednesday. This technological innovation introduced by UTV New Media Ltd offers movie enthusiasts a one-hour audio version of their favourite films with dialogues, narration and story substance only at rupees six per minute.

June 3rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Acclaimed director Madhur Bhandarkar says he will make a realistic film based in an Indian village to fulfil his promise to yesteryears' actor Manoj Kumar. "He always tells me to make a realistic movie set in the villages of India.

June 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI - "Slumdog Millionaire" star Freida Pinto expressed a desire to work with Bollywood's talented filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar's film and the director says he is flattered and the he would "love to work with her". It all started when Freida in an interview to the international press said that she would do a Bollywood film only if it was a Bhandarkar film.

May 11th, 2009 MUMBAI - Madhur Bhandarkar has made eight films so far, but 'Jail', he says, is his 'quickest shoot ever'. The movie, which stars Neil Nitin Mukesh, is 60 percent complete and would be ready to hit screens by September-October.