Shaurya: Official Website Review

Homepage: The homepage contains a poster of the movie. On the right side you will see the “enter site” button and link to the blog of Shaurya.

http://www.shauryathefilm.com/

Synopsis: Contains the story of the movie.

Cast and crew: Introduces you to the main characters and people behind the camera.

Production note: a note from Moser Baer. Shaurya is the company’s first production.

Director’s note: Samar Khan shares his views about the movie. Shaurya is his second movie.

Gallery: Contains twenty still pictures from the movie.

Downloads: You can download 9 wallpapers.

Media: This section contains the promotional videos of the movie. There are seven videos.

Blog: The official blog of Shaurya. You will find various posts about the movie written by actors and others.

Trade enquiry: Contains a form for people who want to get the rights of the movie.

Shah Rukh Khan in Shaurya

In Shaurya, Shah Rukh Khan (YES, the BAD…SHAH of Bollywood) will be making special appearance as a poet. In the end of the movie, he will be seen reciting a poem. For the first time, King Khan will be playing the character of a poet on the big screen. India Times reports:

This is a first for SRK, who will now be seen as a poet in the film Shaurya. To find out more about it we caught up with director, Samar Khan and he tells us, “SRK was in my first film as well and he is such a great guy as well as a very professional actor...its just a joy working with him.” Besides this he also adds, “SRK as been a constant help to me in my career, its like he’s always there when I need him the most.”

“My second film didn’t have Shah Rukh in any role and after the film was done I felt like there was something missing...its like as though that special something is absent. Hence for this film I knew that I just wanted him to be in it. Then came the poem part and I approached him to ask whether he would recite it.”

Shaurya is Samar Khan’s second movie. In 2005, he made his debut as a director through Kuchh Meetha Ho Jaye. In that movie also, Shah Rukh Khan made special appearance. According to Samar, after hearing the poem, Shah Rukh instantly decided to do the role.

This is not the first time Shah Rukh gave special appearance in a low profile director’s movie. Reputed film critic, Khalid Mohammed, approached to Shah Rukh for an item number in Fiza. However, the song was removed at the last moment due to the length of the move. Then again Shah Rukh appeared in Mohammed’s second movie, Silsilay in 2005. He played the character of the story teller (sutradhar

Shah Rukh is the biggest film star in India now. When he appears in any movie it gets lots of attention in the media which is an extra boost for the film makers. No wonder, Samar Khan has performed an astonishing feat by convincing Shah Rukh doing guest appearance in two of his movies.

Related articles:

India Times (1)

India Times (2)

Shaurya: Minissha Lamba in the role of Journalist

The movie Shaurya is expected to hit the screen in the first week of April. Minissha Lamba is the lead actress in the movie and she is playing in the role of a journalist. Well, until now Minissha Lamba has not got any big success in her acting. I mean that she is a good actress and she has some good number of fans but she is still to become a top actress in Bollywood. I guess that her fans are now praying that she would be successful in winning the heart of many people with her movie Shaurya.

Glamsham wrote:

Minissha is now totally focused on her next project, Samar Khan's SHAURYA, where she is paired opposite the thinking man's actor, Rahul Bose. Minissha plays an investigative journalist in the film who is ready to take any risks for her profession, a la Barkha Dutt! She has gone the extra mile in order to make her character as realistic as possible.

So, best of luck to Minissha Lamba for her new movie Shaurya.

Rahul Bose to Appear as Army Personnel in the Upcoming Movie Shaurya

Bollywood star Rahul Bose is going to appear as Army personnel in a film titled “Shaurya” along with the stars like Kay Kay Menon, Minissha Lamba and Javed Jaffery. Rahul has given lots of effort to mingle with the character of a Brigadier he is playing in the movie. To do this, he showed enough professionalism spending hours after hours with heavy cardio exercise in order to appear in the movie with lean body which suits well to a army man. Reports have it that he continued shooting in the given schedule despite his father being ill which shows his intense professionalism.

Movies.Indiatimes reported:

And all this continued, while he was struggling with some personal problems. Whilst shooting in Manali his father fell ill. However Rahul the perfect professional did not let this hamper the schedule and continued. We wondered how he could have kept his concentration going in such a situation.
Rahul says with aplomb, “I have always been someone who concentrates on what I am doing at that particular time so I just switch off and on.”

Rahul Bose has already been a promising star of India’s showbiz world. With the rare professionalism, the actor is getting much more popular in the industry. He has been critically acclaimed for his role in the movie Everybody Says I'm Fine. He is also a rugby union player and used to be a boxer earlier. Now, let us see if Rahul can impress his fans once again with his acting in the movie Shaurya.

Yuvraj Singh and Deepiak Padukone Break Up

Cricket and Bollywood are the two most popular means of entertainment in India. Cricket and Bollywood stars have huge fan followings in India. It was reported many times that the stars of either field had negative remarks regarding the stars of opposite fields. However, it was also seen that cricket stares and Bollywood stars have been happily married in India.

Former Indian captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi married Bollywood’s star actress Sharmila Tagore, another Indian captain Mohamed Azharuddin married Bollywood actress Sangeeta Bijlani and there were many rumors involving cricket stars along with Bollywood stars in the past.

Now, the recent rumor has involved two popular stars of Cricket and Bollywood. Cricketer Yuvraj Singh has been reported to have been linked with rising star Deepiak Padukone. However, the recent news out says that they have cut up their relationship as Deepika has fallen with his former love bird Ranbir Kapoor during the shooting of Siddharth Anand’s untitled film. It has been reported that Deepika informed Yuvraj about their break-up through a SMS.

Source:

Indiatimes

Corporate Bazaar and Some Things to Read

The third Corporate Bazaar was started from yesterday in Dhaka. This is a fair concerning the corporate world of Bangladesh. Corporate Bazaar 2008 will continue for two more days. I went to the fair yesterday and was present in the opening ceremony and later attended a seminar. There are few more seminars set to be held in the remaining two days of the exhibition. If any of you are interested to know more about Corporate Bazaar then visit the following links:

Opening Ceremony of Corporate Bazaar 2008

Corporate Bazaar 2008: Seminar on Ready Made Garments

Bangladesh: Corporate Bazaar 2008

Disney Wants to Get More of UTV Share

Disney is eyeing to grab more market in Bollywood. The Hollywood production house already owns 14.9 percent share of UTV Software Communications, an India-based media group. Now, Disney wants more takeover of UTV that has a wider presence in Bollywood. UTV declared last year that it would sell 12 more percents of its share in order to launch some more channels. The deal is expected to be held next month. UTV owns the largest film studio of Bollywood.

Times Online reported:

A source said: “Change of control is obviously a possibility. There are no safeguards.”

With two other promoters Mr Screwvala controls a total of 36 per cent of the parent company.

A deal is expected next month, but interest in UTV may yet emerge from other parties. Media houses including Viacom and Sony are targeting India.

So, you can understand that the global companies have set their eyes on Bollwood. The overall market of Bollywood is ever increasing. Naturally, many will come to invest in the industry. Now, let us see how the competitors of Disney react on the deal.