IBLOG SPACE

Over the last few weeks there were been numerous speculations making the rounds around who would eventually be directing 'Dabangg 2'. Though Abhinav Kashyap had directed 'Dabangg', there were talks about creative inputs coming from Khan brothers (Salman as well as Arbaaz) all through the film's making. Also, once the sequel was announced, it was also said that all was not being well between the Khans and Kashyap with one of the major reasons of disagreement being the high price tag that the one time director now came with. This was the time when rumours around Arbaaz Khan or Sohail Khan calling the shots for 'Dabangg 2' began as well. However, Arbaaz has now come out in strong defence of his director and has gone on record to state that there are no plans to change the director here. "Abhi tak toh aisi naubat aayi nahi hai," he smiles, "I don't want to change the winning combination. Abhinav is comm

While it is Sheila’s season currently, the magic of Munni is still hovering around…. Malaika Arora Khan grabbed the attention of one and all with her sizzling item number in ‘Dabangg’ and since then the beauty has not relaxed a bit. The song made her so popular, thanks to the Zandu Balm lyrics, that Malaika was immediately made the ambassador of the brand and got her hands full, shooting for its ads. Now what’s disappointing for Malaika is that due to these shootings she didn’t get chance to celebrate her 12th wedding anniversary with Arbaaz Khan, also the producer of ‘Dabangg’. She rued, "I was shooting for the commercials of Zandu balm in three different languages during my wedding anniversary. We shot in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi over a period of three days." While she shared the screen with South superstar Surya for Tamil, she had NTR Junior for Telugu. And when asked what about the Hindi version, pat came the reply, "I was the hero of that one alon

Banner White Poppkorn Status Completed Color C Release Date January 14, 2011 Language Hindi Genre Producer Aman Mihani Director Aman Mihani Star Cast Rajesh Vivek Shankar Sachdev Ashraf Ul Haq Rajinder Sethi Singers K K Neeraj Shridhar Shilpa Rao Neuman Pinto Saru Maini Lyricist Panchhi Jalonvi Kumaar Music Director Afsar Sajid Aanamik Cinematography Anil Singh Choreography Heanry Tarun (1) Screenplay Sanyukta Ray Raj Shekhar Sound Anish Dialogue Sanyukta Ray Raj Shekhar Costume Amiera Punvani Dev Media Relations Parul Chawla

Status Under Production Color C Release Date February 25, 2011 Language Hindi Genre Producer Vinod Bachchan Shailesh R Singh Surya Singh Director Anand L Rai Star Cast R Madhavan Kangna Ranaut Jimmy Sheirgill Ravi Kissen Deepak Dobriyal Cinematography Chirantan Das Editor Hemal Kothari Story / Writer Himanshu Sharma

Status Announced Color C Release Date February 25, 2011 Language Hindi Genre Action Shooting Studios Filmcity Producer Asif Shaikh Director Tigmanshu Dhulia Star Cast Nana Patekar Anurag Kashyap...... Gangster Mohit Alawat Story / Writer Tigmanshu Dhulia

Banner Reel Life Entertainment Pvt Ltd Status Under Production Color C Release Date August 31, 2011 Language Hindi Genre Action / Romance Producer Atul Agnihotri Star Cast Salman Khan Kareena Kapoor Cassettes and CD's on T-Series Music Director Pritam Chakraborty

Banner Rash Productions Warner Bros Status Completed Color C Release Date February 2011 Language Hindi Genre Comedy Producer Aparna Joshi Director Srikanth Velagaleti Star Cast Vinay Pathak Mahie Gill Saurabh Shukla Mona Singh Sanjay Mishra Brijendra Kala Govind Namdeo Delnaz Paul Murli Sharma Background Music Sanjoy Chowdhary Cinematography Arun Varma Editor Sankalp Meshram Screenplay Saurabh Shukla Dialogue Saurabh Shukla Story / Writer Srikanth Velagaleti

Banner Wide Angle Media Pvt Ltd Status Completed Color C Release Date December 31, 2010 Language Hindi Genre Adventure Producer Aneesh Arjun Dev Director Kittu Saluja Star Cast Jackie Shroff...... Bhoot Ashwin Mushran Aditya Lakhia Markand Soni...... Raghav Ishita Panchal...... Roma Akash Nair...... Igloo Tejas Rahate...... Ali Background Music Sunil Singh Cinematography Krishna Ramanan Action Hanif Sheikh Art Madhu Kamble Editor K Dilip Screenplay Reshma A. Dev Dialogue Sachindra Sharma Media Relations Neelam Gupta NR2 - The Image Engineers

Banner Medient Pixion Status Completed Color C Release Date December 31, 2010 Language Hindi Genre Crime / Thriller Shooting Locations (City & Country) India Producer Sudhir Mishra Tutu Sharma Manu S Kumaran Executive Producer / Co-Producer Dinesh Panicker Karan Arora Director Sudhir Mishra Star Cast Neil Nitin Mukesh...... Parvez Soha Ali Khan...... Preeti Chawla Kay Kay Menon...... Shashikant Chiple Shahana Goswami...... Divya Karan Nath...... Vishal Saurabh Shukla...... Begum Vijay Maurya...... Chutta Virendra Saxena...... Anil Bhai Makrand Deshpande...... Anil Bhai's brother Abhay Deol...... as himself (Special appearance) Anurag Kashyap...... Kashyap (Special appearance) Ashok Pandit...... Madhukar Dixit (Special appearance) Shereveer Vakil...... Special appearance Razzak Khan...... Special appearance Cassettes and CD's on SAGA Music Lyricist Neelesh Misra Junaid Wasi Music Director Pankaj Awasthi Abhishek Ray Ali Azmat Cinematography Sachin Kumar Krishna

Banner Bhawani Pictures Status Completed Color C Release Date January 7, 2011 Language Hindi Genre Drama Producer Omprakash Mittal Executive Producer / Co-Producer Yogesh Mittal Ved Prakash Mittal Director Yogesh Mittal Star Cast Anupam Kher...... Devinder Devilal Dua Pawan Malhotra...... Digvijay Singh Tena Desae...... Arunima Dua Rushad Rana...... Manu Kiran Kumar Suhasini Mulay Sudha Chandran Seema Biswas Rajendra Gupta Jagat Rawat Satyajit Sharma Natasha Sinha Mazhar Syed Rachita Bhattacharya Singers Rakesh Pandit Shreya Ghoshal Deepak Pandit Sowmya Roah Lyricist Manoj Muntashir Music Director Deepak Pandit Background Music Deepak Pandit Santosh Mulekar Cinematography Amitabha Singh Action Pradumanya P.K Art Shyam Dey Editor Suvir Nath Screenplay Atul Tiwari Rajen Makhijani Yogesh Mittal Sound Subhash Sahu Dialogue Atul Tiwari Yogesh Mittal Manurishi Chadha Costume Anshu Aurora Sharad Mathur Promos Akshay R. Mohan Publicity Designs Trusha Patel Story / Write