Watch: Salman Khan dances his heart out while shooting for 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan'
Mumbai: Bollywood star Salman
Khan is back in Mumbai and has started shooting for a song sequel of his
film 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan' in Film City. Few days back pictures from the
sets of the film had found its way on a social networking site. Salman
shared two videos of the whole extravaganza. The actor along with his
band of adorable 'bajrang balis' have a blast while shooting for the
film. Their colour streaked faces show that they were shooting for a
festive occasion. An estimated 600 dancers have been hired for the
elaborate dance sequence of the film, and the shoot is expected to go on
for the next three days.
Director
Kabir Khan is on a race against time, to get the film complete by its
Eid deadline. Reports suggest that much like his lead actor, Kabir too
has been juggling between shooting and editing schedules. After the
film's Mumbai schedule wraps up, the director and Salman will both head
to Kashmir for a 30 day shoot. A special set has been constructed at
Film City for the song that has been composed by Pritam and
choreographed by Remo D'souza.
Piku trailer: Amitabh Bachchan and Deepika's lovely bond will touch your heart!
Amitabh Bachchan who will be seen in Shoojit Sircar's 'Piku', unveiled the film's trailer in the presence of the entire star cast, including Deepika Padukone and Irrfan.
"Shoojit and I have been together for a long time we have done many campaigns together. He made a film with me which has not yet released but that's a different story. He said he wants to do this film and I said yes. We had Irrfan, Deepika, and it was an absolute pleasure to work in this film," Amitabh Bachchan told reporters during the trailer launch.
Directed by Shoojit Sircar and written by Juhi Chaturvedi, 'Piku' is slated for release on May 8.
Deepika, who will be seen playing Amitabh Bachchan's daughter, said she instantly said yes to the film as soon as she heard the narration of one scene.
"The first time Shoojit met me for this film, I remember saying yes after listening to the narration of one scene. For me, being Piku is a character which is very relatable. Women generally are born to multi-task, so all women will find it relatable from Piku's point of view," Deepika said.
Theatre actor Teekam Joshi on playing a villain, writer, commitment phobe and gay lover
Teekam Joshi
Written by Dipanita Nath
| Delhi |
Updated: March 26, 2015 10:13 am
When the Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards are announced on March
27 at a carefully crafted ceremony attended by the cream of theatre,
one nominee will be missing from the audience. Teekam Joshi, shortlisted
for his turn as a gay man whose cool dude attitude hides a deep
conflict about homosexuality in A Straight Proposal, will be performing
in a new play at Shri Ram Centre on that day. “It’s called Miss Paul,
written by Mohan Rakesh, and I am playing a writer whose closest friend
is an overweight woman. He is calm and composed, she is falling apart,”
says Joshi.In person, he is tall but not as assured as on stage. Even his distinguishing feature, the two beauty spots on either side of his chin, are easy to miss. He speaks carefully, even cautiously, aware of his sentences. “I am shy. Maybe I don’t want to face myself. Drama school teachers always say that we should look at the mirror and practise our lines but I have never been able to do that. I try not to look at the mirror even after make-up,” he says.
It is safe to presume that Joshi has been avoiding mirrors all through this week. Maybe This Summer, staged in Orissa on March 24, had him play the role of an urban young man in a live-in relationship who is in a dilemma about marriage. While preparing for Miss Paul, Joshi was also playing Shamsher in Zangoora, a fantasy drama in Delhi’s Kingdom of Dreams. “Shamsher has all the negative qualities of a villain, he is an aiyash and plays around with girls.
I wear harem pants, carry a big sword and wear a big beard for this role. My role as Shamsher balances the seriousness of the writer in Miss Paul and the dilemma of the young man in Maybe This Summer,” says Joshi. Then, there is A Straight Proposal for the META audience and jury on March 26.
Director and playwright of A Straight Proposal Happy Ranajit had been Joshi’s junior at the National School of Drama (NSD) and the actor “knew about this play even as it was being written”. The play is about a teacher played by Dilip Shankar and the men in his life, among them Joshi’s Dhruv. Playing gay was a “big challenge because we have to change a lot of chemistry in ourselves” but it wasn’t the first time Joshi has taken on the role of an alternate gender. While a part of the NSD Repertory after graduating from NSD, Joshi had played a eunuch under director Waman Kendre in 2003. “We had to be in a sari on the NSD campus all the time and we continuously had to follow the mannerisms of a eunuch,” he says. He carried those mannerisms home and, for weeks after the play, his friends would point out that he was behaving like a eunuch. Another of Joshi’s plays, Putrid Prologue, is about a netwa, a young boy who plays girls’ roles in the dance theatre of Bihar, becoming a gigolo in Mumbai. “There was no hesitation when A Straight Proposal happened, though we took a conscious decision to not play a gay man with feminine mannerisms. Even in the love-making scene, we are two men who are in a relationship,” he says.
Joshi has been in theatre since he was seven. In Bhopal, where his father worked for the culture department, their neighbourhood, Professors’ Colony, was home to writers, musicians, artists and theatre directors, among them Bansi Kaul. “I was a part of the brat pack as a child and everybody was quite fed up with us. People started saying, ‘do something about these children’ and Bansi Kaul did something — children’s theatre workshops,” says Joshi. In the years that followed, Joshi’s friends opted out of Kaul’s workshops but he stuck on and was trained by the most formidable names in theatre, from Kaul to Habib Tanvir. He became adept at exercises in clowning and Chhau among others.
NSD, which he joined in 1998, seemed a natural trajectory. “In Bhopal, I used to think that something must change in us if we are to play a character; at NSD, I learnt that what changes is our thinking,” he says, recalling days spent perfecting the art of shifting pressure points in his body and training his muscles among others.
Joshi says that today, his spine responds quickly when he takes on a character. “I never adopt mannerisms, I think about a character and I understand it from the spine. The attitude comes naturally and my breathing pattern changes accordingly. I don’t need to try, now I have the process in my body,” he says, “Breathing exercises also enable me to exit a character far more easily than I could earlier. A game of table tennis, a round of Discovery Channel and the joys of India TV help me get back to being myself.”
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DELHI: Actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who transformed himself as the
mustachioed, dhoti-clad Byomkesh in Dibakar Banerjee's "Detective
Byomkesh Bakshy!", believes it was the most honest portrayal of his
eight-year-old career.
Set in the Kolkata of 1940s, the film revolves around the character as he embarks on his very first case during the World War II.
"I was shooting for 'Shuddh Desi' when I got a call for this role. I was very fascinated by the idea and the fact that it ..
Set in the Kolkata of 1940s, the film revolves around the character as he embarks on his very first case during the World War II.
"I was shooting for 'Shuddh Desi' when I got a call for this role. I was very fascinated by the idea and the fact that it ..
NEW
DELHI: Actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who transformed himself as the
mustachioed, dhoti-clad Byomkesh in Dibakar Banerjee's "Detective
Byomkesh Bakshy!", believes it was the most honest portrayal of his
eight-year-old career.
Set in the Kolkata of 1940s, the film revolves around the character as he embarks on his very first case during the World War II.
"I was shooting for 'Shuddh Desi' when I got a call for this role. I was very fascinated by the idea and the fact that it ..
Set in the Kolkata of 1940s, the film revolves around the character as he embarks on his very first case during the World War II.
"I was shooting for 'Shuddh Desi' when I got a call for this role. I was very fascinated by the idea and the fact that it ..
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