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Arnab Banerjee as Inspector Bikram

Kolkata Bengali film ‘Jigyasha Chinha’ by debutante director Shubanjan Roy was recently screened at Priya. Understanding the story can be challenging.

Shubanjan Roy

By Priyanka Dutta / WBRINN
newsdesk.kolkata@washingtonbanglaradio.com

When WBRI asked Akshay and Imran about the research they have done about the characters they play respectively as it has been reported that the movie is based on two real life dons Dawood Imbrahim and Chota Rajan, Akshay said that in spite of speculations of their playing those real life characters, reality is the story is based on many scattered real life incidents and some made up stories too. So they did not need to do any research on any particular real-life don.

Vidyut Jamwal played a Negative Role opposite John Abraham in the movie 'Force'. As an Actor, Vidyut showed his potentials already. In that case, There are no questions on his performance capabilities at all. Those selected Actors who started off as Negative Leads or Villains, They made a huge mark as they became Positive Leads. Vinod Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha, Shah Rukh Khan are few to name. This similar case happened with Vidyut too. He started off as a Negative and Commando becomes his first debut as a Leading Positive Hero.

By Jyoti Prakash Mandal / WBRINN
jpmandal@washingtonbanglaradio.com

Rajeev Shukla, Mahesh Bhatt and Sanjay Budhia

Veteran Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt was recently in Kolkata to talk about Indian cinema, its future and his plans about taking his future filmmaking career. Organized by Indian Chambers of Commerce the interactive session took place at the prestigious Bengal club and was attended by many well-known personalities of the city.

Indian-Angrez musician Luke Kenny is also an Ex-VJ, Critic, and actor who appeared in a principal role in Farhan Akhtar-Arjun Rampal starrer 'Rock On'. Kenny has co-written and co-directed India's first Zombie Genre feature film 'Rise Of The Zombie'. Kenny has a one-on-one chat straight from his heart with Faisal Saif.

Amrita Rao started her career with Shahid Kapoor's 'Ishq Vishq' way back in 2003, and subsequently did a couple of successful films such as 'Main Hoon Na' with Shah Rukh Khan, 'Deewar' and Sooraj Barjatya's 'Vivaah'. Rao comes backs with 'Jolly LLB', 'Singh Sahab The Great' and 'Satyagraha'. The still-cute looking actress who holds so many personalities in her one soul goes candid with Faisal Saif.

Shobhit Rana a model from Chandigarh who has done various commercial ads like Colgate and others also she has done many shoots for hoardings and Femina Magazine is waiting for her first Hindi film Golu And Pappu wherein she is playing central character along with Kunal Roy Kapur and Vir Das.