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2009 Bollywood highlights

January:

  • Farah Khan invited as jury for Berlin Film Festival
  • Shahrukh’s new year resolution: “I wont do cameos anymore.”
  • ‘Chandni Chowk to China’ was the first Indian film which got shot at The Great Wall Of China.
  • Slumdog Millionaire bags 11 BAFTA nominations
  • ‘Ghajini’ producer presents gold statuette to Aamir Khan
  • Legendary playback singer Shamshad Begum receives Padma Bhushan award
  • National award winner Bollywood playback singer Udit Narayan, receives Padma Shri

February:

  • Amitabh bags World Economic Forum award
  • Kareena Kapoor gets an award for Vocational Excellence
  • John Abraham will produce a film with director Milan Luthria
  • Hairdressers Association wanted Billu Barber’s title changed and it was to Billu
  • Sonam Kapoor will play ‘Emma’ in the screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel.
  • Sachin Tendulkar complimented hurman Baweja on his performance in ‘Victory’.
  • Kareena replaces Katrina in forthcoming Race 2
  • Aamir Khan refuses to get waxed at Madame Tussauds!
  • Ghajini celebrated its half century at the box office
  • Priyanka ranked second on the list of top-quality brand ambassadors of 2008
  • Kaizad Gustad to make his directorial comeback with ‘Bombil and Beatrice’
  • Freida Pinto’s secret marriage was revealed to Rohan Antao!
  • Sharukh Khan teams up with ‘Ghajini’ director A R Murgadoss
  • Akshay Kumar charges Rs 150 crore to host a reality show
  • Sharmila Tagore and Shashi Kapoor won the Living Legends of Entertainment award from FICCI
  • Big B to play Jim Corbett in Priyadarshan’s next ‘Grrr’
  • Hrithik’s Kites sold at a whopping amount of Rs 100 crore.
  • ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ bags 8 Oscars and Resul Pookutty becomes the first Indian to bag the best sound mixing Oscar for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
  • Saif and Kareena were presented the Most Stylish Youth Icon award

March

  • Owing to the Multiplex owners and Bollywood producers’ fights regarding profit sharing ratio, the former go on an indefinite strike.
  • Darsheel Safary asks for Rs 1.25 crore for ‘Padduram’
  • Ayesha Takia and Farhan Azmi’s ‘nikah’ was performed on the 1st of March
  • Asin heads back to Kerala to learn the martial art from, Kalaripayattu
  • Farhan Akthar will try his hand at comedy in his forthcoming film ‘Kartik Calling Kartik’
  • Hrithik Roshan plays a salsa instructor in his next film ‘Kites’
  • Neil Nitin Mukesh and Mugdha Godse agreed to cut their prices for ’Jail’ due to recession
  • The censor board passes ‘Gulaal’ with an A certificate and four cuts
  • Anil Kapoor offered a lucrative role in the American TV series ‘24’
  • Shahid Kapur had taken lessons on lisping and stammering for ‘Kaminey’
  • Mira Nair re-releases ‘Salaam Bombay’ after 21 years.
  • Farah Khan choreographs Kylie’s song for free as she is her fan
  • Censor Board asks Deepa Mehta to cut several violent scenes from ‘Videsh’
  • Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra buy a house in London
  • Abhay Deol lectures at Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania
  • Aishwarya becomes the Bollywood’s highest paid heroine by charging 6 crores for Rajnikanth starrer film ‘Robot’

Jai Ho!

We all know how Slumdog Millionaire made history all over the world. This was the movie that also made Indian proud. This movie won India two Oscars and a much awaited one for our Wizard A R Rahman. ‘Jai Ho’ became the buzz word everyone was using. Though this movie was not made in India but its essence was India only. Movie earned critical acclaim as well as huge commercial success. It also won several Oscars and generated media publicity of gigantic proportions. Movie had maximum participation of Indian actors, technicians, and shooting locales. There are several other reasons also that make it a more Indian than a British movie.

The theme and essence of the movie is India based. Based on a novel titled Q&A by an Indian diplomat-cum-part-time writer Vikas Swaroop, Slumdog Millionaire had a co-director on board named Lovleen Tandon who is basically from Delhi. The entire cast of the movie is of india origin. Shot and picturised in different parts of India, movie had maximum number of technicians from India. Rasul Pookutty who won Oscar for sound mixing is from South India. All the songs of the movie are in Hindi. Director Danny Boyle confessed that Movie ps part inspired from Black Friday and Satya.

Slumdog Millionaire had all the typical bollywood masala like songs and dance sequences, drama, action and what not! The famous song and now a part of popular language, Jai Ho had people singing it during Awards ceremonies and even at famous Times Square. This song also has a remixed version sung by Pussycat Dolls and it is in English. Movie has also proved to be hugely beneficial for Indian film industry. Hollywood has started to outsource technical works to bollywood. The star cast of the movie are getting wonderful opportunities in abroad.


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