Aanand Rai
Revisiting Aanand Rai’s Ranjhanaa As It Turns 10
This enormously-enriching film about the pain of love has four heroes: Dhanush, Sonam Kapoor, A R Rahman's music and the city of Varanasi. Not necessarily in that order. But then 'orderly conduct' is hardly a given in a film about raging unrequited love. He loves her to death. Cross his heart and hope to die. And it's their wedding day. But they're not getting married to one another. As he returns exhausted from messing up her marriage to another man, the slumbering band-baaja wallahs at his own wedding hasten awake and begin playing a wedding song wearily. It | Click Here...
The Shelving Of Gorkha, Director Aanand Rai Confirms The Truth
The entertainment outlets have been abuzz with reports of Aanand Rai’s war epic Gorkha shelved. To be directed by Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan , Gorkha was to shed light on the supreme heroics of Major General Ian Cardozo in the 1971 India-Pakistan war. Anand Rai confirms that the project has indeed been postponed. Says Aanand, “Yes, it is true. We are not making this film for now. There are technical issues. There are factual clarifications that need to be made.” However , to say that Akshay Kumar “walked out of the project” is untrue. | Click Here...
As Long As No One Is Indifferent To My Film, I Am Fine – Aanand Rai
Critics are either loving it or hating it Aanand Rai’s unconventional love story Atrangi Re. He says he fine with the divided opinions. “As long as no one is indifferent to it, I am fine. When I set off to make this film I was not thinking of how people would react. I never do. I cannot be tied down to expectations, mine or others. I have to do what I have to do. I had to make a film about this girl who cannot be forced to conform.For the longest time, I wanted to do a film on the father-daughter theme. When my writer Himanshu Sharma came up with this idea I knew I had | Click Here...
Talent Scout Aanand Rai’s 5 Finest
My friend Aanand Rai whom I’ve known from the time he made a little-seen crime thriller Strangers, was Ravi Rai’s kid brother to begin with. Today he has grown into a formidable producer director and talent scout, known to push the envelope far enough to make a difference to Indian cinema per se. Aanand is known to believe in fresh fertile talent. Be it actors, writers or technicians, he is ever-willing to give talent a chance. Here are 5 artistes in Bollywood who owe their initial recognition to Aanand. Aanand of course shrugs off any claims to promoting n | Click Here...
Akshay, Dhanush Too Old To Be Cast Opposite Sara? Not Quite
There is a hue and cry in a section of the social media about Akshay Kumar being too old to be cast opposite Sara Ali Khan in Aanand Rai’s new project Atrangi Re. But the fact is, Aanand Rai isn’t casting Sara Ali Khan as the conventional romantic heroine in Atrangi Re. Says an informed source, “Aanand knows exactly what he’s doing. If you remember, in Raanjhana when he had cast Sonam Kapoor opposite Dhanush, there was a hue and cry over the odd casting. In Atrangi Re the age difference between Akshay and Sara will be completely justified.” Of late, it is true | Click Here...
“Why Should Women Not Enjoy Sex?”
Director Mudassar Aziz’s Pati Patni Aur Woh features a dialogue where Bhumi Pednekar is heard telling her prospective husband Kartik Aryan, that she enjoys sex. This is a revolutionary thought for women in our country who are often,expected to not enjoy s*x before or after marriage. Mudaassar wonders why s*x is treated like a game of football in this country. “Largely for men to enjoy.Why can’t women enjoy sex? Or even if they do, why are they not expected to talk about it? Why are women in large sections of our society expected to be treated as merely procreative vessel | Click Here...