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A brand new trailer of My Name Is Khan (2010) Hindi Movie has been released. The SRK-Kajol film is expected to be the first mega blockbuster of the year.

Watch the teaser-trailer online.

Anurag Kashyap presented the Indian cinema lover with a greatly polarizing film in No Smoking. It was loved by some, hated by some, both with passion, and ignored by none.

Kashyap, in his blog, says this movie of his is very personal, and arrogant - the film is all about an arrogant man living life his own way meeting an even more arrogant man.

The film has fantastic music and songs, great camera work, wonderful locations and top-grade acting performances. Boldly departing from mainstream Bollywood, the film displays remarkable intelligence and demands thoughtfulness and analysis by the viewer.

Directed by Amit Sen, Natobar Not Out has a star cast of Raima Sen, Mustafa Prakash (Bangladesh), Kharaj Mukherjee, Ananya Dutta, Ramaprasad Banik, Chandan Sen, Biswajit Chakraborty, Laboni Sarkar and others.

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Once again, Bengal leads India in film-making !

The DIRECTORATE OF FILM FESTIVALS (Ministry of Information & Broadcasting), Government of India has just announced the 56th NATIONAL FILM AWARDS FOR 2008.

Check out the complete list of awards announced by the Indian government. Buy the award winning movies on DVD and Blu-Ray online from WBRi Kolkata Tube's trusted genuine affiliates.

BEST FEATURE FILM: Antaheen (Bengali) Producer: Screenplay Films
Pvt. Ltd. Director : Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury

INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR BEST FIRST FILM OF A DIRECTOR: A Wednesday (Hindi) Producer: UTV Motion Pictures Director : Neeraj Pandey

BEST POPULAR FILM PROVIDING WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT: Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye (Hindi) Producer: UTV Motion Pictures Director : Dibakar Banerjee

NARGIS DUTT AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM ON NATIONAL INTEGRATION: Aai Kot Nai (Assamese) Producer: Rajen Bora, Director: Manju Borah

BEST DIRECTION: Naan Kadauul (Tamil) by Bala

BEST ACTOR: Upendra Limaye for Jogva (Marathi)

BEST ACTRESS: Priyanka Chopra for Fashion (Hindi)

Read more for the full list of awards.

ABC TV Channel in USA premiered the National Bingo Night gameshow in May of 2007 in the United States. It was cancelled by ABC after the first few episodes, and picked up by GSN.

Three years later, the format has apparently been licensed by Colors TV Channel in India (also called Aapka Colors), and the franchisee has chosen Indian movie hero Abhishek Bachchan to host the show. Abhishek is the son of Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan and married to the glamorous fashion-model turned actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Abhishek is the grandson of acclaimed poet and writer Harivansh Rai Bachchan.

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In addition to the Indian franchise, the show also has franchises in Australia and the Philippines.

The game is an interactive experience for both the studio audience and viewers at home. On NBN, members of the studio audience attempted to win a game of bingo while competing with a solo studio contestant. For Bingo America, it is played as a straight general knowledge quiz format with two players and a home viewer bingo game within.

Read all about Life Goes on and watch the theatrical trailer.

The drama explores the relations between a grief stricken father and his three daughters. Set in London, the time is now, the family of Indian origin- part of the UK diaspora. With his wife’s sudden death, Sanjay is suddenly thrown into close proximity with his three daughters. The drama unfolds over five days from the day when Manju dies to day of the funeral. Haunted by memories, grappling with this devastating loss, missing the mediating influence of his wife, Sanjay finds himself assessing and carving out new relations with his three daughters. He is faced with a further crisis when he discovers his youngest and most loved daughter Dia, has a Muslim boyfriend -Imtiaz. Confused and angry, Sanjay leaves home and wanders the streets of London one night. With an unexpected series of events, Sanjay is forced to face his past demons, his trauma over the partition of India when as a child, he was forced to leave his home with his parents. Finally to come to terms with his old and unspoken prejudice about Muslims, in the larger context of the country in the grips of Islamaphobia as the events of 7/7 and the consequences of the Iraq war reverberate. As he sits drenched and tired on a bench on Hampstead Heath and watches the sun rise – Sanjay puts his demons to rest. At the funeral he has come to terms with himself, he allows the Muslim boy to join the family rituals and sees his daughters for what they are and not what he expected them to be. The shadow of Shakespeare’s King Lear bears on this contemporary and free adaptation. It works functionally as a sub- text in the film as we see Sanjay and Dia within the contours of the mythical Lear and Cordelia.

A fresh promno-preview trailer video is now available for Kedarh Shinde's Toh Baat Pakki Hindi Bollywood movie starring Tabu, Sharman Joshi, Vatsal Seth, Yuvika Choudhary, Ayub Khan and others. Music is by Pritam Chakraborty, set to lyrics by Sayeed Quadri, Mayur Puri and Shabbir Ahmed. The film is produced by Ramesh. S. Taurani.

Toh Baat Pakki is scheduled for a 19th Feb 2010 release.

Download the original soundtrack (OST) and watch the free promo-preview teaser video.

In 1949, two years after Pakistan was created, Indian movie director M L Anand presented the romance-drama Lahore (1949) [Buy DVD] starring Nargis, Karan Dewan, Om Prakash, Pratima Devi, Randhir and others with music by Shyam Sunder.

The 2010 Indian Hindi Movie LAHORE is a completely different story. Designed to stir up nationalistic passions in Indians and Pakistanis who have been brainwashed over generations to be arch enemies, Lahore (2010) puts an Indian kick-boxing team competing with Pakistan in the Pakistani metropolis of Lahore. Sports has taken on a nationalist role in South-Asian cinema recently - Dil Bole Hadippa (2009) [Blu-Ray DVD ] pitted a Pakistani cricket team against an Indian one, and the Pakistanis were shown to accept defeat gracefully from an Indian team that contained a woman masquerading a man. Also, a Bangladeshi soccer team is seen outplaying an Indian team in the recent Bangladeshi movie Jaago (2009).

Lahore (2010) is  Directed by Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan with music by M M Kreem. The starcast includes Farooq Sheikh, Nafisa Ali, Shraddha Nigam, Ashish Vidhyarthi, Nirmal Pandey, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Sourav Shukla, Kelly Dorji, Anahad, Sushant  Singh, Pramod Moutho and more.

The multiple award-winning Lahore debuted at the 2009 Salento International Film Festival in Italy, and the theatrical release date is March 19, 2010.

Watch the full theatrical promo-preview trailer of Lahore online.

Acclaimed Bollywood actor Nana Pathekar debuted in South Indian cinema with director Bharathiraja's Tamil movie Bommalattam [Buy Bommalattam/Nagerkoil (2-in-1 DVD) Tamil Movie Online] appearing with Arjun in a lead role and Kajal Agarwal, Padmyapriya, Prithviraj in supporting roles. Bommalattam, a film inspired by Andrew Niccol's 2002 blockbuster sci-fi English movie S1m0ne (Simone) [Blu-Ray DVD], was released in Hindi as Cinema and Telugu as Rana.

Following his South Indian debut, Nana Pathekar appears in Ramesh Rao's Kannada movie YAKSHA with Girish Mattennavar, Yogesh, Atul Kulkarni and others.

According to reports, Mattennavar is the grandson of renowned vocalist Late Gangubai Hangal and the president of the BJP Yuvamorcha,and the chairman of Kanterava studio. The Mid-Day newspaper in this article reports Nana Pathekar in the role of a special Mumbai police officer sent to clean Bangalore up with his gunman assistant Mattennavar. Check out the Mid-Day article for exclusive movie stills from YAKSHA.

Watch the video of launch of Yaksha.

Hollywood's Lucy Liu to film in India: Emmy nominated American actress Lucy Liu (Charlie's Angels) [Special Edition DVD] is reportedly arriving in India in the near future for making a film around the subject of human trafficking.

This will be first directorial venture for Liu, who has acted in few dozen films and television episodes besides producing few movies. Reportedly set in Mumbai, this short film will star Tannishtha Chatterjee (Brick Lane) [Buy DVD online], who is said to be very excited about it.

Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, welcoming the India-trend of world film industry, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that filmmakers should also explore many finer and deeper things India offered, instead of just focusing on human trafficking, poverty and crime.

According to reports, Lius short, first one to be filmed, will be part of a four-movies-wrapped-in-one project, other two shorts being directed by Oscar winners Angelina Jolie (Changeling) [DVD / Blu-Ray Release] (Changeling) and Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada) [buy Blu-Ray DVD Online] . Lucy Alexis Liu, 41, was born to Taiwanese immigrants in New York (USA).