When Pankaj Kapur took a risk for a mere umbrella

Pankaj Kapur has an interesting role to play in Vishal Bhardwaj’s next release ‘The Blue Umbrella’. After working with the enterprising director/composer in ‘Maqbool’, Pankaj Kapur is said to have given another terrific performance in The Blue Umbrella’.

Baabul gets Tax exemption in Delhi

Ravi Chopra’s ‘Baabul’ starring Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Salman Khan, Hema Malini and John Abraham has been exempted from Entertainment Tax in Delhi. Since the film talks about a social issue of widow remarriage it may get such exemptions in other territories as well.

Who is designing SRK’s KBC Look?

Good friend Karan Johar is going to be designing Shahrukh Khan’s quiz master look for the much-anticipated ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’. KJ has earlier designed his look for films like ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’, ‘Veer Zaara’, ‘Kal Ho Na Ho’ and ‘Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna’.

Shiney Ahuja: Replacement Theory

Shiney Ahuja is fast becoming the king of replacements. After being the replacement for Shoaib Akhtar in Anurag Basu’s ‘Gangster’ and then Emran Hashmi in Mohit Suri’s ‘Woh Lamhe’ Ahuja is all set to get into the shoes of Saif Ali Khan in Mira Nair’s film on Aids as Saif didn’t want to play an Aids patient.

Box Office Analysis

Three distinct films released on Friday - 'Kabul Express', 'Aryan' and 'Dil Se Pooch Kidhar Jaana Hai'. We had mentioned in last week's column (quoted verbatim here) that "It will be fool hardly to even imagine the film beginning on a record breaking spree a la a 'Fanaa' or a 'Dhoom 2'.