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Bigg Boss Hosts Report Card: Salman Khan’s 200+ Crores = Jr Ntr (90% Drop) + Kamal Haasan + Nagarjuna + All The Other Hosts’ Combined Salary! ( Photo Credit – Jio Cinema; YouTube )

Bigg Boss 17 is in its finale stages, preparing to announce a winner, which won’t surprise many but will surely disappoint many of them. Be it Munawar Faruqui‘s mind game or Abhishek Kumar’s aggression, none of them would have flourished without the show’s host Salman Khan‘s guidance.

We recently talked about the report cards of social media followers of the contestants inside & outside, and also about the detailed TRPs since Bigg Boss 13.

We have talked a lot about Sk’s salary this season, but what are the hosts of other versions of Bigg Boss doing? Are they getting paid the same, or it’s a different scenario? Let’s analyze.

Trending Bigg Boss 17: Amid Ankita Lokhande’s Mil’s Explosive Statements,...

Prithviraj was initially touted to play an extended cameo in Aami, the biopic on the prolific writer Kamala Suraiyya aka Madhavi Kutty, but he has now opted out of it for reasons best known to the team. With Prithviraj out of the project, Kamal, the director of Aami, has roped in Tovino Thomas to play the role.

A still from Ana Arabia

Ana Arabia (Israel-France) directed by Amos Gitai will open the 12th Pune International Film Festival 2014 to be held from January 9-16, 2014.

Kanyaka Talkies (Virgin Talkies) by Kr Manoj is the only Indian film in World Competition section.

The films that will compete in Marathi cinema competition are: 72 Miles Ek Pravas by Rajeev Patil, Astu (So Be it) by Sumitra Bhave, Fandry by Nagraj Manjule, Maunraag (Monologue) by Vaibhav Abnave, Narbachi Wadi by Aditya Ajay Sarpotdar, Rege by Abhijit Panse and Tapaal (The Letter) by Laxman Utekar.

The festival will hold Country Focus sections on Taiwan, Hungary, Israel, France, South Korea and Spain. There will be Retrospectives of Hungarian director Istvan Szabo, Italian director Federico Fellini, Serbian director Goran Paskaljevic, American director Billy Wilder, French director Benoit Jacquot and Indian director Adoor Gopalakrishnan.

Indian Cinema Today section will present films like Shyamaprasad’s Artist, Laxmikant Shetgaonkar’s Baga Beach,...

Malayalam film Kanyaka Talkies by K. R. Manoj will open the feature film category while Kamal Swaroop’s Rangbhoomi will open the non-feature category of Indian Panorama at the International Film Festival of India (Iffi) 2013.

Indian Panorama will screen 26 Feature films and 16 Non-Feature films.

The jury for Feature films, headed by filmmaker and editor B. Lenin, selected 25 films out of a total of 210 eligible entries. Paan Singh Tomar by Tigmanshu Dhulia which won the Best Feature Film award at the 60th National Film Awards has been selected by virtue of direct entry.

The Non-Feature films Jury, chaired by director Raja Sen, picked 15 films out of 130 eligible entries. Kashmiri film Shepherds of Paradise directed by Raja Shabir Khan which won Best Non – Feature Film award at the 60th National Film Awards has also been selected by virtue of direct entry.

Complete list:

101 Chodyangal by Sidhartha Siva

Ajana Batas by Anjan Das...

The 18th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala has announced its line-up of films in the International Competition Section, Indian Cinema Now and Malayalam Cinema Today sections.

Four Indian films will compete in the International Competition Section. The festival, to be held from December 6-13, 2013, is organised by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy on behalf of the Cultural Affairs Department, Government of Kerala.

International Competition Section:

101 Questions (101 Chodyangal)

Dir.: Sidhartha Siva (India, 106min, 2012)

Arbani

Dir.: Adi Adwan (Israel, 84min, 2013)

Capturing Dad (Chihi o tori ni)

Dir.: Ryota Nakano (Japan, 74min, 2012)

Club Sandwich

Dir.: Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico, 82min, 2013)

Contructors (Stroiteli)

Dir.: Adilkhan Yerzhanov (Kazakhstan, 71min, 2013)

Errata

Dir.: Ivan Vescovo (Argentina, 76mins, 2012)

Inercia

Dir.: Isabel Munoz (Mexico, 70min, 2013)

Jonatha’s Forest

Dir.: Srgio Andrade (Brazil, 99min, 2012)

Meghe Dhaka Tara

Dir.: Kamaleswar Mukherjee (India, 152min, 2013)

Parviz

Dir.: Majid Barzegar (Iran,...

The highly-rated film The Lunchbox has lost the race as India's Oscar nominee for 2013. The elegiac, haunting tragic Gujarati travel drama The Good Road has won the coveted privilege of being India's official Oscar entry for this year. The film earlier won the National award for Best Feature Film in Gujarati. Speaking on the decision on Saturday evening the head of the jury for the Oscar selection, filmmaker Gautam Ghose said, "We chose this wonderful Gujarati film The Good Road. We were surprised by the film. There were other strong contenders in the short-list, Ritesh Batra's The Lunchbox Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Bhaag Milkha Bhaag , Gauri Shinde's English Vinglish and Kamal Haasan's Vishwaroopam and also two regional films Kaushik Ganguly's Shabdo, and the Malayalam film Celluloid directed by Kamal." There were 16 members in the jury. They were given the task of sifting through all the entries.

Colombo, May 8: Bhavana has been in the Malayalam film industry for a decade now. She debuted in 2002 with the movie “Nammal”. She is already a popular actress in Sandalwood and has done films in Tamil and Telegu too. She has starred in films alongwith stars like Sudeep, Puneeth Rajkumar, Upendra.

Bhavana whose actual name is Karthika Nair, got a chance to meet film maker Kamal who was in Thrissur to shoot a film. She was a bubbly and talkative girl, and Kamal was impressed and so she got casted in “Nammal”. After her debut movie, she began to do films where she had supporting roles. Soon she crossed over to Tamil and Telegu movies, and.

Paan Singh Tomar (Hindi) directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia was declared the Best Film at the 60th National Film Awards announced today at a joint Press Conference addressed by the Chairpersons of the three juries; Basu Chatterjee for Feature Films, Aruna Raje for Non-Feature Films and Swapan Mullick for Best Writing on Cinema.

In non-feature film category, the award for the Best Film went to Shepherds of Paradise (Gojri & Urdu) produced and directed by Raja Shabir Khan. In the category of Best Writing on Cinema section, the book ‘Silent Cinema in India – A Pictorial Journey’ (English) written by B.D. Garga has bagged the top honour, whereas P.S. Radhakrishnan has been conferred the award for the Best film Critic.

Chittagong (Hindi) and 101 Chodiyangal (Malayalam) have shared the Indira Gandhi award for the Best Debut Film of a Director. The award for the Best Popular Film for providing wholesome entertainment has...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 22: Prithviraj and Rima Kallingal bagged the best actor and actress awards, respectively, at the Kerala State Film Awards 2012 announced here Friday.

While Prithviraj won the award for his performances in "Celluloid" and "Ayalum Njanum Thammil", Rima got the best actress award for her performance in the film "22 Female Kottayam" and "Nidra".

Directed by Kamal, "Celluloid", based on the life of J.C. Daniel, the pioneer of Malayalam cinema, was also adjudged the best film.

The awards were announced by state Cinema Minister K.B. Ganesh Kumar.

"This year the jury had a tough job to perform.