Miss Lovely and Gangs Of Wasseypur – Tracking all the Cannes buzz

Ashim Ahluwali’s Miss Lovely and Anurag Kashyap’s two-parter Gangs of Wasseypur premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard and Directors Fortnight section respectively. This post is to track all the buzz from the Cannes – reviews, interviews, videos and more. For the Cannes buzz of Vasan Bala’s Peddlers, click here. Starting with some generic news links. [...]

Gangs Of Wasseypur music review – वूफेर फाड़ दिया भैय्या!

If you have been following this blog for sometime, you will know that music review means it’s time for Rohit to take over. So over to him. But before you read the review, you can check out all the songs here. Also, click here to read our earlier post in which lyricist Varun Grover introduced [...]

Gangs Of Wasseypur – Two songs + Lyrics of six (जिया हो बिहार के लाला + हंटर + इक बगल + कह के लूँगा + ओ वुमनिया + हमनी के छोरी के)

Two song promos of Gangs Of Wasseypur are already out. One is in Bhojpuri and the other is Chutney (Bhojpuri meets calypso) from Caribbean islands. If you have already heard the songs and are playing it in loop but can’t figure out the lyrics, we are going to help you. For those who haven’t heard [...]

First Look : Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs Of Wasseypur (Poster, Trailer & Synopsis)

Ah, finally. The way Viacom18, the producer of Gangs of Wasseypur, was reluctant to share even on location images of the film after the Cannes announcement, we were thinking if they were going to lay some golden eggs. The trailer, poster and the official synopsis of the film is finally out. Let’s go one by [...]

Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur selected for Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

It’s raining good news and how! After Miss Lovely and Peddlers, the latest one to join the Cannes club is Anurag Kashyap’s two-parter Gangs of Wasseypur. The film will be screened in the Directors’ Fortnight Section. Produced by Viacom18, it stars Manoj Bajpayee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Richa Chaddha. Interestingly, Peddlers is also produced by Anurag [...]

Vasan Bala’s Peddlers selected for Cannes Critics’ Week 2012

I am not sure how and where to start this post. Still too excited about the news. But let’s get the news first. Vasan Balan‘s debut feature Peddlers has been selected to premiere at Cannes International Critics’ Week. Yay! And since this is his first feature, it’s also going to compete for Camera D’Or. Every [...]

Script of Anurag Kashyap’s Dev D

If you religiously follow the movement of film scripts in blogosphere, you must be aware that the script of QT’s Inglourious Basterds was out almost a year before he started shooting. He did the same with Django Unchained. And that’s not a rare case. There are blogs and websites dedicated to script reviews/news/sales. And since [...]

Paan Singh Tomar – Q & A with Tigmanshu Dhulia & Sanjay Chouhan (Pics/Video)

Last time when we met Imtiaz Ali to discuss Rockstar, there were many conspiracies and accusations. But since some of you appreciated our effort, we thought let’s try it again. This time it was done in a bit formal way. Film was Paan Singh Tomar, guests were Tigmanshu Dhulia (Director) and Sanjay Chouhan (Writer). Location [...]

Paan Singh Tomar – Screening + Q & A with Tigmanshu Dhulia

It started with Rockstar. We went to see the film and then came out, sat on the stairs of Cinemax, Versova and discussed the film with its director Imtiaz Ali for next three hours. If you haven’t read the post, it’s here. The idea is to create space and platform for discussion with filmmakers after [...]

Jameson Empire DISS Winners – Fight Club & Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Jameson Empire had announced a contest for shorts – remake any cult film in just 1 minute. It’s called DISS (Done In Sixty Seconds) and Anurag Kashyap was on the jury.  They have just announced the two films which will compete with films from across the world at the the Jameson Empire Award in London. [...]