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Do Duni Char marks the directorial debut of director Habib Faisal and is also Disney's first full-length non-animated Hindi language feature film. More importantly, it will feature the famous 1970s and 1980s romantic lead pair Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh Kapoor back on the silver screen, at a time where they must be proudly following the career of son Ranbir Kapoor who is rapidly becoming a Bollywood mega-star in his own right. The film has a release of Oct 8, 2010.

The 1968 classic Bollywood Hindi movie Do Dooni Char directed by Debu Sen starring Kishore Kumar, Tanuja, Iftekhar and others is remembered by all Indian movie lovers. The oldie featured unforgettable songs by Kishore Kumar, Ranu Mukherjee, Krishna Kalle and Manna Dey, like Hawaon Pe Likh Do, Ab To Muskuraiye Zara, Aisa Gussa Na Kijiye, Chakkar Chalaye and Nindiya Mami Aa - Do download audio songs MP3 here »

Transformers 3 has a tentative release date of July 1, 2011. Directed by Michael Bay, the next film in the Transformers sci-fi fantasy action-adventure film franchise (after Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen DVD Release) stars Shia Labeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in lead roles. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, who has previously appeared in ads for Victoria's Secret, will replace Megan Fox as the lead actress. This will be Huntington-Whiteley's debut in feature films.

Produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Transformers 3 will be released under the banners of Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks.

Rumor is the antagonist in Transformers 3 will be Shockwave.

Watch an interview of director Michael Bay and shooting video from Chicago earlier this year.

Shree Venkatesh Films have announced that the Hindi movie Memories in March (2010) will have it's world premiere at the 15th PUSAN International Film Festival 2010 to be held during October 7 - 15, 2010.

Powerful character actor Subrata Dutta - a renowned name in Bengali and Bollywood Cinema in India and Indian film-lovers across the world - recently bagged another "Best Actor" award - this time at the Cairo International Film Festival, 2009 - for Jai Tank directed film Madholal Keep Walking [BUY DVD] co-starring Swara Bhaskar. As you will hear Subrata describing in the interview, in Madholal, he plays the role of a man in Mumbai who has lost a hand and has thus had to extensively shoot with one hand tied to his back, in real locations, sometimes on a hidden camera.

Subrata has previosuly won the "Best Actor" award at the Osian Cinefan Festival 2006 for Subrata Sen directed Bengali film Bibar - Calcutta Unabashed (DVD Release) co-starring Tannishtha Chatterjee, Payel Sarkar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Dulal Lahiri, Kunal Mitra etc.

Madholal Keep Walking has had a limited trial release in Calcutta in August and will be re-released soon on a much larger scale.

A graduate from the elite National School of Drama, New Delhi and Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK, Subrata has and continues to play lead roles in films in various languages. He is also a renowned stage theater actor.

Subrata Dutta grew up in Bankura district of West Bengal, and in his young days, had little clue that he would become a powerful and internationally acclaimed character acter in films and theater. He studied Zoology at the graduate level and Business Administration at the post graduate level. He then chanced on attending a workshop at the National School of Drama, New Delhi and subsequently applied to study there, and was selected. His subsequent apprenticeship at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK was financed by a scholarship from the Brtish Council in Kolkata.

Subrata Dutta performed various roles in stage theater in Delhi for around 8 years, eventually also playing roles in parallel and art-house films and then lead roles as protagonists and antagonists.

Subrata Dutta is playing a lead role in Ram Gopal Verma directed RAKTA CHARITRA that is expected to have a release date in October 2010. RAKTA CHARITRA will be released in two episodes and in three languages.

After a long string of successful Bengali films featuring Subrata Dutta - Buddhadev Dasgupta's UTTARA (BUY DVD), Kushan Nandy's 88 Antop Hill [BUY VCD], Suman Mukherjee's  Chaturanga (DVD Release), Subrata Sen's Bibar - Calcutta Unabashed (DVD), Arin Pal's Doshta Dosh (BUY DVD), Anjan Das's Achin Pakhi (DVD) and so on, ANTIM SHWASH SUNDAR (Last Breath Beautiful) (BUY DVD) by Kris Allin is now playing to capacity audiences in theaters in Kolkata, featuring Subrata Dutta as Prem Sengupta, Indrani Halder as Vibha, Paran Bandopadhaya as Mystic, Kaushik Banerjee as Sarda, Kunal Padhy as Mehra, Swagata Mukherjee as Alka, Punya Darshan Gupta as Rao, Debdut Ghosh as Patel, Sanjukta Roychowdhury as Anjali, Surangana as Arti and Prakash Sharma as Raghu.

Subrata recently appeared in Achin Pakhi with the young promising actress Manali Dey of Mouri fame from the superhit Bengali TV show Bou Kotha Kao.

Subrata Dutta's other upcoming films include Reema Mukherjee's ARDHANGINI EK ARDHASATYA which is adapted from Rabindranath Tagore's short story GHARE BAIRE (previously made into a film with the same title by Satyajit Ray) where Subrata plays the role of Sandip and appears with Subodh Bhave, Sreelekha Mitra, Manoj Mitra, Reema Lagoo, Varsha Usgaonkar and others. The film is headed to the Berlin International Film Festival.

Subrata Dutta is also appearing in the upcoming film BLIND LANE with Sonali Chowdhury - the film is directed by Amitava Sengupta and is based on the Kamtapur movement.

Listen to Subrata Dutta once again on Washington Bangla Radio. We wish Subrata Dutta all the best and we look forwarding to having him with us on Washington Bangla Radio again.

Utche Jege Shokalgulo music video of the Bengali film song from AUTOGRAPH (2010) Bangla film has been released by Shree Venkatesh FIlms.

This is a romantic song performed by Shreya Ghoshal composed by Debojyoti Mishra to lyrics written by the director and lyricist Srijit Mukherji.

CLICK HERE to watch the fill audio song promo.

Shree Venkatesh Films have released the first poster of their upcoming Bengali film DUI PRITHIBI (2010) directed by Raj Chakraborty. The script is by N K Salil.

DUI PRITHIBI (2010) features music by Jeet Ganguly and according to the poster, the release date will be during Durga Pujo 2010.

Shree Venkatesh Films have produced and distributed some of the biggest commercial box-office super-hit Bengali cinema by the same team of Raj Chakraborty-Jeet Ganguly, including Challenge (BUY DVD) starring Dev, Subhasree Ganguly, Laboni Sarkar, Rajatabha Dutta, Tamal Ray Chowdhury; Chirodini  Tumi Je Amar (BUY DVD) starring  Rahul, Priyanka, Tamal Ray Chowdhury, Gita Dey, Rudranil Ghosh; Prem Amar (BUY DVD) starring Soham, Payel Sarkar, Laboni Sarkar, Biswajit Chakraborty, Suman Mukherjee, Mousumi Sahaand so on.

According to the producers, DUI PRITHIBI is their biggest venture yet, possibly the biggest film ever in Bengali Film industry. It is likely to be a commercial blockbuster.

The star cast of Dui Prithibi includes the two reigning Tollywood heroes DEV and JEET with the top actress KOEL MULLICK all together in the same film.

Movie lovers surely remember the Uttam Kumar classic 1980 film Dui Prithibi (BUY DVD ONLINE) directed by Piyush Bose starring Uttam Kumar, Victor Banerjee, Ranjit Mullik, Supriya Choudhury, Tanusree Shankar, Sushil Majumdar. It is not known yet if the new film is a remake of the 1980 classic.

Watch a news video online.

LAFANGEY PARINDE - The wild bird couldn't fly eventually.

Ashaayein - Nagesh Kukunoor's new movie doesn't live up to expectations.

Amitava Sengupta is making a film about the Kamtapur movement starring award-winning and powerful character actor Subrata Dutta.

The Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO), founded circa 1995, has the goal of establishing a separate Indian state of Kamtapur consisting of existing West Bengal districts Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, North and South Dinajpur and Malda, and the Assam districts of Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Dhubri and Goalpara.

The film is titled BLIND LANE and it is complete, sans one song.

Prajapoti (2010) is a forthcoming Bengali movie released under the banner of NTV Productions.

Projapoti is directed by Mohammad Mostafa Kamal. The star cast includes Moushumi, Jahid Hasan, Mosharraf Karim, Babar, Sohel Khan, Kochi Khondokar and others.

Music direction is by Habib Wahid while the Bengali film songs of Projapoti have been performed by playback singers Habib Wahid, Kona and Nancy. The audio songs will be available on the music label of G-series.

Watch a full audio song promo with Habib featuring Kona from Bangla Cinema Projapoti.