Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced tax exemption in the state to Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, the Farhan Akhtar-starrer biopic on the legendary athlete Milkha Singh.   "After a long time, there has come a film which is full of patriotic feelings and hence the government has decided to make it tax free," Chouhan told reporters.   Maharashtra government has also granted tax exemption to the film.   Farhan Akhtar plays the title role in the biopic featuring Sonam Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Prakash Raj and Pawan Malhotra. The film released on July 12.   Source:IndianExpress

Laxmikant-Pyarelal (also known as LP or Laxmi-Pyare) were a popular Indian composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 1940). They composed music for about 635 Hindi movies from 1963 to 1998, working for almost all notable filmmakers including Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, B.R. Chopra, Shakti Samanta, Manmohan Desai, Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai and Manoj Kumar.   Early life   Laxmikant   Birth name - Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar Born - 3 November 1937, Mumbai Died - 25 May 1998 (aged 60) Years active - 1963–1998   Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar, was born on the day of Laxmi Pujan, on 3 Nov

Pran Krishan Sikand (12 February 1920 – 12 July 2013), better known by his mononym, Pran, was a multiple Filmfare and BFJA award-winning Indian actor, known as a movie villain and character actor in Hindi cinema from the 1940s to the 1990s. He acted as a hero from 1940–47 and as a villain from 1942–1991 and played supporting and character roles from 1948–2007.   In a long and prolific career he appeared in over 350 films. He played the leading man in films like Khandaan (1942), Pilpili Saheb (1954) and Halaku (1956). His roles in the films like Madhumati (1958), Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (1960), Upkar (1967), Shaheed (1965), Aansoo Ban Gaye Phool (1969), J

Madhuri Dixit (born 15 May 1967) is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Hindi films. Often cited as one of the best actresses in Bollywood, Dixit made her film debut in Abodh (1984) and received wider public recognition with Tezaab (1988). She went on to establish herself as one of Hindi cinema's leading actresses, acknowledged for several of her performances, her beauty, and her accomplished dancing.   Some of her proceeding films include such box-office hits as Ram Lakhan (1989),Tridev (1989), Parinda (1989), Dil (1990), Saajan (1991), Beta (1992), Khalnayak (1993), Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994) and Raja (1995). After a relatively low phase, she reinvented herself with

Kader Khan (22 October 1935) is an Indian film actor, comedian, script and dialogue writer and Director. He graduated from Ismail Yusuf College affiliated to Bombay University . Before entering the film industry (1970–75) he taught at M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering, Byculla, Mumbai as a professor of Civil Engineering.   Personal life   Khan was born on 22 October 1935 in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is the son of Abdul Rehman Khan who was from Kandahar while his mother was Iqbal Begum from Pishin, Balochistan. He had three brothers Shams ur Rehman, Fazal Rehman & Habib ur Rehman who all died before he was born. It is known that he belongs to the Kakar tribe o

Shakti Kapoor (born 3 September 1958) is an Indian Bollywood actor. He is known as one of the leading villains in Bollywood movies for more than three decades. He has also been applauded for playing comic roles in several movies. Through the eighties and nineties, Kapoor teamed up with another senior actor Kader Khan as the comical or evil duo in over 100 films. Kapoor is one of the few Bollywood actors who played the stereotype Bollywood negative roles and negative characters with a comic touch with equal finesse.   Early life   Shakti Kapoor was born as Sunil Kapoor (real name) in Delhi, India to a Punjabi family. He grew up in New Delhi and he did his graduation from Kir

Sridevi Kapoor (born 13 August 1963, known mononymously as Sridevi), is an Indian film actress who has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam and a few Kannada films. Often noted for her splendid acting and mesmerising dances, Sridevi appeared in range of movies from comedy, drama, action to thriller, superhero and romance. She is cited as the First Female Superstar of Hindi Cinema,one of the most beautiful and graceful actress of all time. Sridevi is widely regarded as one of the most iconic actresses one of the longest reigning leading ladies and one of the greatest and most influential actresses of Bollywood. The emergence of Sridevi as The First Female Superstar of Bollywood has been

Ramesh Sippy (born 23 January 1947 Karachi, British India) is an Indian film director, probably best known for directing the popular and critically acclaimed film Sholay.   His father was producer G. P. Sippy, and his son Rohan Sippy is also a film director. His daughter Sheena Sippy is married to Shashi Kapoorr's son – Kunal Kapoor.   Career   Ramesh visited the sets of the film Sazaa, his father's first film, when he was 6 years old. His first film job came when he was 9 years old, when he played Achala Sachdev's son in Shahenshah. He worked in both the production and direction departments in films like Johar-Mehmood in Goa and Mere Sanam, which

Ram Gopal Varma also known as RGV or Ramu is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. His work is predominantly in Bollywood and Telugu cinema. Varma has directed, written and produced films across multiple genres — psychological thrillers, underworld gang warfare, road movies, horrors, fictional films, politician-criminal nexus, experimental films, musicals, parallel cinema, and docudrama. Two of his films Siva (1989), and Satya (1998) were show cased among CNN-IBN's list of hundred finest Indian films of all time.   He has garnered the National Film Award, in 1999 for scripting and producing Shool. In the same year He directed the Telugu romance film Prema Kat

Helen Jairag Richardson is an Indian film actress and dancer of Anglo-Burmese descent, working in Hindi films. She has appeared in over 500 films. She is often cited as the most popular dancer of the item number in her time. She was the inspiration for four films and a book.   Early life and background   Helen was born on November 21, 1939 in Burma to an Anglo-Indian father and Burmese mother. She has a brother Roger and a sister Jennifer. Her father died during the Second World War. The family trekked to Mumbai in 1943 in order to escape from the Japanese occupation of Burma. Helen told Filmfare magazine during an interview in 1964, "we trekked alternately through wil

Lata Mangeshkar About this sound pronunciation (born 28 September 1929) is an Indian singer, and occasional music-composer. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over seven decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi and Hindi. She is the elder sister of singer Asha Bhosle, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar. She is the second vocalist to have ever been awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.   Mangeshkar was fe

Emraan Hashmi is all set to play a conman again after Ghanchakker in Disney-UTV's upcoming project Shatir.   Emraan, 34, is re-teaming with his Jannat director Kunal Deshmukh in the film, which also stars Paresh Rawal in a key role. A leading lady is yet to be finalised for the flick.   "We are very excited with our next production which is now   called Shatir. This will be Emraan's second film with us and we are looking forward to work with him on something he has not played before and he is also very excited about playing a character of a shatir conman," said Manish Hariprasad, Creative Director, Disney-UTV.   The film's title was e

Cast:Gaurav Kumar, Shruti Haasan
Director: Prabhu Deva
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A farmer’s beloved sis and an NRI tycoon’s boisterous son fall in love in the course of the garish wedding of the latter’s cousin who happens to be the former’s best friend.

All hell breaks loose when the family elders find out that the lovebirds have been getting cosy on the sly. The girl is accused of trying to ensnare a wealthy boy.

The young lovers are separated and the girl and her brother are thrown out of the party.

All this plays out to accompaniment of an ear-splitting background score. There is also a song-a

Cast:Arjun Rampal, Irrfan, Shruti Haasan, Huma Qureshi, Rishi Kapoor
Director: Nikhil Advani

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A mission impossible forms the crux of Nikhil Advani's D-Day. But the film's treatment of the story of derring-do, desperate measures and doom remains firmly within the realms of the possible. The director deserves full marks on that score.
D-Day is as far removed in terms of spirit and substance from Advani's debut feature and biggest success, Kal Ho Naa Ho, as any film could ever be. At any rate, it represents a marked improvement on Salaam-e-Ishq, Chandni Chowk to China and Patiala House.

Filmed predominantly in

After crooning super-hit numbers like "Paani da rang", "Saddi gali" and "Tu hi tu" for his films, Ayushmann Khurrana is set to release his first single "O mutiyare".    "I will launch a single soon. The name of the song is 'O mutiyare'. It's a Punjabi soft rock. I will shoot its video soon," said the actor here at the sidelines of the special screening of "Ship of Theseus" hosted by Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao Tuesday.    Meanwhile, the actor will be wrapping up the shoot of Yash Raj Film's untitled project with Sonam Kapoor this week.    He describes his fashionista co-star Son

A tattoo on the hand, orange shirt and black turban — Bhajji steps out of the field, and how! With ‘Faith’ inked across his right hand, Bhajji says it’s his belief in God. “I have full faith in him; thus, the ink.”   Launching his single, Meri Maa, at Chandigarh Press Club on Thursday, Bhajji says he dedicates the song to his mother, who is also a part of the video. “These beautiful lyrics had to be sung by Gurdas Maan ji originally, but he couldn’t make time due to his mother’s health. So, lyricist Sanjay Glory gave me a chance. This song is a gift to my mother, Avtar Kaur; the elder lady in the video is my mom.”  

Madhubala (14 February 1933 – 23 February 1969), born Mumtaz Jahan Dehlavi, was an Indian Bollywood actress who appeared in film classics Mahal (1949), Mr. & Mrs. '55 (1955), Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958) and Mughal-e-Azam (1960). She was active between 1949 and 1960, after which illness shortened her career. With her contemporaries Nargis and Meena Kumari she is regarded as one of the influential Hindi movie actresses.

Early life

Madhubala was born Mumtaz Jahan Begum Dehlavi in New Delhi, on 14 February 1933, to Muslim parents of Pathan descent, and was the fifth of eleven children. The family lived in Delhi. According to her sister, Madhur Bhushan,

Imran Khan (pronounced born Imran Pal 13 January 1983) is an Indian film actor who appears in Hindi-language films. He is the nephew of actor Aamir Khan and director-producer Mansoor Khan, and the grandson of director-producer Nasir Hussain. He appeared as a child actor in the films Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988) and Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander (1992).

Khan made his adult acting debut in 2008 with the romantic comedy Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na, which was a critical and commercial success. His performance in the film won him the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. After the failure of his next two films, Khan was written off by the media, calling him a "one film wonder". He th

Kishore Kumar (4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987),born Abhas Kumar Ganguly was a popular Indian film playback singer. He is also known as an actor, lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenplay writer and scriptwriter. Kishore Kumar sang in many Indian languages including Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Oriya, and Urdu. He won 8 Filmfare Awards for Best Male Playback Singer and holds the record for most number of Filmfare Awards won in that category. He was awarded the "Lata Mangeshkar Award" by the Madhya Pradesh government and from that year onwards, the Madhya Pradesh Government initiated a new award called the "Kishore Ku

Prabhu Dheva Kannada (born 3 April 1973 ) is an Indian film choreographer, stage dancer, actor and director known for his works predominantly in Tamil ,Telugu cinema,Bollywood, Malayalam and Kannada films. In a career spanning fifteen years, He has performed and designed a wide range of dancing styles. He has garnered two National Film Awards for Best Choreography, and has been widely known by the media as India's Michael Jackson.

After a sequence of successful attempts in acting in the 1990s and early 2000s such as Kadhalan (1994), Raasaiyya (1995), Minsara Kanavu (1997), Naam Iruvar Namakku Iruvar (1998), Kaathala Kaathala (1998) and Vanathai Pola (2000), Prabhu Dheva ve