Stardonic

Ajay Devgan, foot firmly in mouth, on his upcoming film Omkara which is supposedly based on Shakespeare’s Othello.

Devgan, who admitted he had not read Othello before shooting began, said the Hindi film was, in some senses, “better”.

“We picked up the story line and it’s completely adapted by Vishal. The way he has adapted it I would want to say he has done a great job — for me it is better than the original, the way he has adapted it.” [Link]

Ajay Devgan, foot starting to tickle throat by now, continues…

“I am not letting Shakespeare down or anything of the sort but when you make a novel into a film, there has to be some changes according to our country — though the whole credit is to Shakespeare…” [Link]

Ajay Devgan, botched attempt at extrication of foot causing it to slide deeper down esophagus, has more wisdom to proffer.

“What I was trying to say (is) the original was not a film, when we talk of Shakespeare,” Devgan pointed out. [Link]

Not a film. Good Lord, who would’ve thought.

And here’s Viveik “characteristically eloquent” Oberoi, holding court on the same subject.

Continue reading ‘Speech Is Silver: Blaspheming the Bard Editon’

The Mid Day reports that Tanushree Dutta, former Miss Universe has done something totally out of character: A No Show.

At a recent award ceremony, a Diva act was on the schedule, starring Tanushree Dutta, Koena Mitra and Udita Goswami, and choreographed by Ganesh Hegde — but when Tanushree’s name was announced on stage, the actress didn’t turn up.

Frantic calls were made to locate Tanushree, but nobody could trace her. Finally, after Udita’s songs, Koena had to come out and do her medley.

Ganesh was very depressed. Half an hour after the show ended, somebody saw Tanushree wandering around. [Link]

Poor Tanushree. Cut her some slack will ya? It is not like she is a habitual no-shower. See this if you don’t believe me.

Continue reading ‘To show or not to show’

Senor Justin Surya, the young man who made Kushi, then Kushi, and then Kushi again before moving on to starring in sleazy comedies (that sleaze hungry Tamil dudes lapped up like there was no tomorrow) believes in laughing his problems off.

Question: The last few movies you made have tanked. Vijay has dropped out of your next project. We hear reports that you are very frustrated.

 

Answer: That is hilarious.

Question: Several magazines have reported that you’ve turned into a psycho who tortures people?

Answer: Sinister, loud laughter. Let them write what they want. Ha! Ha! Ha! [Link, subscription required]

We at SilverScreen don’t get the joke at all. However, we will state for the record that we are very disconcerted by his obsession with facial hair.

Continue reading ‘Humble Pie’

This is the most exciting thing we’ve read in a long time. Namitha, the plump, cushy, slightly rotund… ok, ok, ok. Let me start over again.

This is the most exciting thing we’ve read in a long time. Namitha, the fat girl who acts in Tamil cinema is now going to make a grand entry into Hollywood. All hundred kilograms of her.

A smart career move that we welcome wholeheartedly and will be covering nonstop on this blog.

The movie has been titled Maya and would be produced by Global One Studios and would be directed by Eric (Manning) with Ashok Kumar cranking the camera [Link]

Some jealous people have tried to play down this achievement of Namitha, claiming that the director has only directed a Hollywood short film before. Who cares? Just look at the pedigree of the rest of the crew.

Ashok Kumar, the cinematographer of the movie also directs movies. His filmography includes such classics like Kaama, Kaamagni and Khajuraho.

Continue reading ‘You Go Girl!’

Poor Katrina Kaif. Apparently, she was dancing on the sets of this movie called Anees Bazmee’s Welcome and her sandals broke. And then she danced again, and the sandals broke again. Where normal humans would’ve lost their cool, Kaif makes horrid jokes instead.

Kat’s wry humour bursts forth, as she tells her make-up lady, “The designer must have got these sandals at a toy shop!”… [Link]

Wry humor alright.

But our beef is not with Katrina, it is with Mid-Day. So this cameramen sees a girl in a “lime-green strappy number, with gold embroidery, hopping around on one foot” and this is the best picture he can get? Was wry humor the only thing bursting forth? Gad. Fire him already, will ya.

Courtesy Mid-Day

Wait, we have more.

Continue reading ‘Questions’

Both major Tamil weeklies this week open with a story that makes us deliriously happy. Apparently, Simbu – the man in the picture to the left – is reported to be high heels over head in love with our buxom mascot, Nayanthara. In real life, no less. And (knock on wood) the feeling is reported to be mutual, although she doesn’t wear high heels when he is around.

Now if only this were true, and the couple marry and she retires from movies like other buxom mascots, this blog will be closed for posts on the day of the wedding. Every single year till the divorce. And in an incredibly special gesture, Manoj has promised to replace the Ileana picture in his wallet with Simbu’s for a day. The studmuffin deserves it for his service to Tamil filmdom.

In his interview to Kumudam, Simbu all but acknowledges the rumors.

We are special friends. When I am around her, I feel something that I haven’t felt around other girls. She is certainly special.

Naturally, skeptic readers may think this is a just a publicity stunt to promote their upcoming movie. We at SilverScreen would like to reassure them that there is a lot of truth to the news. In fact, the two of them are so alike, it is a miracle they didn’t get together sooner. Consider this example.

Continue reading ‘A Tongue In Teeth Romance’

Trisha, the ‘Numero Uno’ actress of south India, is celebrating her birthday today. She is shooting for Bheema and a Telugu film simultaneously in Hyderabad, where she has been holed up for the last 10 days.

… Jesi, a resident of Chennai and one of her crazy fans along with some other women activists celebrated her birthday in style by putting up huge banners at various vantage points in the city that read – “Happy Birthday Trisha – our dream angel” and had even conducted paal abhishekam ( poured milk on it) for her picture in front of Kamala theatre. [Link]

A SilverScreen reporter managed to get a few soundbytes out of one of the activists.

“Why milk?”

“We wanted to see if it would make her clothes transparent.”

“Well, did it?”

“It actually made her clothes pretty soggy, and tore her blouse off.”

“Great, what happened then?”

“We realized it wasn’t a big deal, and went off to burn banners of Perarasu. That was way more fun. Why don’t you write about it?”

“We sure will.”

Continue reading ‘Pouring Hot And Cold’

Arshad Warsi, actor, proving that Ms. Sheernaz Hussain isn’t the only delusional ass in Bollywood.

This is where my acting talent comes in — you see me behaving normally, with a big smile on my face, but in reality, my head is in a whirl and my stomach is hurting badly…” [Link]

I know hanging out with Sanjay Dutt is bound to inflate your self worth, but this much? Remarkable.

Continue reading ‘Speech Is Silver’

The moment I saw an article about someone called Amita Chandekar, I was stunned. Here’s a ravishing, long legged lass with a hidden passion, and I’d never heard of her before. Shame on Manoj.

Acting isn’t the only passion for Amita Chandekar. The long-legged lass likes spending her free time with a paper and pencil in hand. [Link]

I got over my disappointment and kept reading…

Continue reading ‘Art for the sake of art’

It is widely believed that Nishabd, Ram Gopal Varma’s next movie starring Amitabh Bachchan is loosely based on Nabokov’s Lolita.

The film revolves around a 54-year old married man, played by Bachchan who falls in love with a girl, 36 years younger than him. Newcomer, Jia will play Bachchan’s love interest. They believe that a new face will make the character more believable. [Link]

However, amid mounting criticism, Varma has denied that it is a Lolita remake.

Continue reading ‘Lolita in Hindi’

Images courtesy vikatan.com

What is life?

Since Deepak Chopra was too busy rewriting the Kama Sutra, someone decided to ask Vidya Balan instead. The Parineeta girl tells us,

I was originally slated to do Run in Tamil. After the first photosession, they replaced me with Meera Jasmine.

Then I was booked for a movie called Manasellam in Tamil. This time I lasted upto the first schedule before they called me not photogenic and replaced me with Trisha. They said this even though I was well known in modeling circles for my beauty.

Now, they are after me to star opposite Kamalhassan in his latest.

That is life. [Link, requires paid subscription]

Oh, thank you, you poor photogenic vixen. That’s philosophy even we get.

Meanwhile, our reporters tell us that Vidya was also originally slated to do Godfather in Tamil. But then, true to form, she was replaced by the person shown in this picture. I like Vidya, but I think that in this case the replacement is surely hotter than her.

Someone talking to me for the first time is usually struck by two things: How incredibly handsome I am, and how incredibly smart I am. If they can get over this, they’ll be struck by two more things: How much I love movies, and how much I love books.

Someone meeting Manoj for the first time is usually struck by two things: How much he loves movies, and how much he loves music. Ok, maybe they’ll also be struck by how smart he is. Whatever. That’s not the point.

So anyways, Manoj and I spend the better part of our days IMing each other. In normal English, capitalized first words and all. (The only allowance for IMspeak is the ubiquitous brb, which I thought was a misspelt female undergarment when someone first used it on me. Now I know, and love to use it coz it sounds so, um, kinky.)

Continue reading ‘Introducing SilverScreen’

From the weekly cinema features section in the DailyThanthi, here is an actual question and an actual answer.

Tweetie Bird, Tweetie Bird, my name is Rajkrishna and I would like to know how you would rank Nayanthara’s, umm.. ass?

I am the Tweetie Bird, and I would gladly give her umm.. ass 10 points more than her umm.. boobs. [Link]

The umms.. mean that euphemisms were used. Whatever. Maxim, you should go after other markets.

And to the gentleman that wants to know if the scoring was done right, here we go.