Showing posts with label Aarambh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aarambh. Show all posts
People seem to believe that I’m not working-Madhoo
7:52 AM
Madhoo, who is making a comeback to Hindi films after eight years with a horror-comedy, explains the reason behind the hiatus from Bollywood
Avinash Lohana (MUMBAI MIRROR; May 15, 2019)
Madhoo, who made her acting debut alongside Ajay Devgn in Kuku Kohli’s 1991 actionromance Phool Aur Kaante and followed it up with Mani Ratnam’s National award-winning romantic-thriller Roja opposite Arvind Swamy, was last seen in a Hindi film eight years ago with Love U... Mr. Kalakaar. Now, Mirror has learnt that the actress is making her comeback to Hindi films with a horror-comedy titled Khalli Balli. Directed by Manoj Sharma, the film rolls on Friday.
Explaining how the new project came her way, Madhoo says, “Before Love U...Mr Kalakaar, I had taken a sabbatical as my children were young and I wanted to focus on them. But after that film, I had hoped that I would be working constantly. But that didn’t happen for a few more years. Then, Goldie (Behl) came to me with his TV show Aarambh. That really boosted my confidence. I shared a great rapport with my co-star Rajniesh (Duggall) and after it ended we were hoping to work together again. When Khalli Balli came his way, he suggested my name too.”
The actress will begin shooting for the film in Mumbai, from where the story goes to Lucknow through a road trip. “The horror part is treated very beautifully, and my character is not doing anything senseless or slapstick. The story is inherently funny, so much so, that I agreed to be a part of it on the day it was narrated to me. It’s an interesting script and since the genre is horror I can’t reveal much about the story, but I can tell you one thing… main bhoot nai hoon,” she laughs.
Madhoo admits it was the TV show that gave her the push she needed but Hindi projects were few and far between. “After Aarambh, I never stopped working and have done several South films, three of which have released in the first few months of this year. However, to tell you the truth, apart from Goldie and some other TV shows, nobody really came to me with offers and I didn’t want to do the latter because it would mean working every day of the month, which I wasn’t comfortable with,” she asserts.
When asked about the reason behind it, she explains that it could be because “people seem to believe that I am not working, I have settled abroad or down South, or I am not interested in working at all. That’s not true. I have always been living in Mumbai, I love working in films… and I love working in Hindi films,” she signs off.
If you make me Ranveer Singh’s mother & he calls me ‘mummy’, the audience won’t be convinced-Madhoo
7:42 AM
The actor and socialite on staying relevant and what it’s like for a Juhu girl to be labeled a townie
Anukra Roy (MUMBAI MIRROR; July 23, 2017)
Actress Madhoo Shah welcomes us into her tastefully done-up living room at her home in Malabar Hill with a warm smile. “My husband and mother-in-law are huge art collectors. Whatever I know about art is because of them. Every now and then my husband keeps changing the interiors of this place,” she says. Among the art decorations, the room was adorned with some balloons as well. Shah excitedly shares, “This is the decoration from the surprise party which my children organised for me because they saw the promo of my television show.”
The actress has made a comeback to television with Goldie Behl’s show Aarambh. “Earlier I used to be very unhappy with the word comeback. It meant that I had gone away somewhere and I am coming back. By right now, it feels nice. Now, to me, it means you are making a fresh beginning,” she says. Shah plays a queen in the tele-show and she’s hoping the audience would accept her in her recent role.
Bollywood, on the other hand, is known to typecast actresses as mothers after a certain age. Shah agrees that the audience won’t accept her in a role of a leading heroine. “The industry isn’t unfair, sexist or ageist; it’s just the way it is. I don’t have a problem in playing a hero or a heroine’s mother. But if the hero doesn’t look like my son and looks like my age, then it doesn’t make sense. It’s about looking the part,” she says. “If you make me Ranveer Singh’s mother and he calls me ‘mummy’, the audience won’t be convinced.”
The 48-year-old who made her debut with Ajay Devgn in Phool Aur Kaante in 1991 and had worked extensively in both Hindi and South film industry, is still known for her role in National Award winning movie Roja. “The fact that my work and I are still remembered in an industry where memories are fickle and people forget very easily, I feel blessed and grateful,” she says.
Brought up in Juhu, Shah moved to tony Malabar Hill after her marriage to businessman Anand Shah in 1999. Like many other fellow suburbanites, she too had her own preconceived notions about “townies”. “We had a perception that these (south Mumbai) people are snooty, vain and shallow. They are all about expensive clothes and handbags. I used to think they don’t have to struggle at all. Initially, the people here did not accept me and nor did I accept them. The belief system clashed,” she says. “But with time I met some people, the so-called townies, who were lovely people with beautiful stories to share. So what if they got it easy in life, we all are human beings on different journeys. The moment I changed this perception in my head, I made some amazing friends.”
And the fact that she herself became a “townie” helped Shah blend into the social circle. “I started travelling and carrying expensive bags. My husband loves to gift me pretty things. This kind of lifestyle doesn’t make anyone less or more; it’s just how things are. It made a huge difference and helped me to adjust here,” she says. During her sabbatical, Shah was mostly seen at parties and art shows which earned her the tag of a ‘socialite’. “We tend to tag everybody. ‘Oh! These are kitty ladies or kitty lunches’. I have attended these events and those have earned me some fantastic friends. It’s a way of connecting with other human beings,” she says with a smile.
Today, Shah counts Rajyalakshmi Rao, Chhaya Momaya and Queenie Singh as her inner circle of friends. “I am very close to all of them,” she says. “Queenie, in fact, is like my soul sister. She in a way helped me change my perception about people in this part of the city. When I got to know her, I realised she’s not just a socialite but she’s a super intelligent woman who has a beautiful story to narrate. I realised wearing make-up, looking good and going to parties does not make anyone vain.”
Apart from her television show, Shah has worked in two short films this year. Pocket Mummy, which released on Mother’s Day, with former child artiste Parzaan Dastur and Raja Mukherji’s Sab Theek Hai, which will be releasing at the end of this month.
She says, “I feel no matter how much good work you have done in the past, the only way to stay relevant is associating yourself with relevant minds. I know everything about the latest music as I’m aware what my children are listening to. There are so many new things that have come out. And, only if you associate with young minds, you can stay relevant.”
Actress Madhoo Shah welcomes us into her tastefully done-up living room at her home in Malabar Hill with a warm smile. “My husband and mother-in-law are huge art collectors. Whatever I know about art is because of them. Every now and then my husband keeps changing the interiors of this place,” she says. Among the art decorations, the room was adorned with some balloons as well. Shah excitedly shares, “This is the decoration from the surprise party which my children organised for me because they saw the promo of my television show.”
The actress has made a comeback to television with Goldie Behl’s show Aarambh. “Earlier I used to be very unhappy with the word comeback. It meant that I had gone away somewhere and I am coming back. By right now, it feels nice. Now, to me, it means you are making a fresh beginning,” she says. Shah plays a queen in the tele-show and she’s hoping the audience would accept her in her recent role.
Bollywood, on the other hand, is known to typecast actresses as mothers after a certain age. Shah agrees that the audience won’t accept her in a role of a leading heroine. “The industry isn’t unfair, sexist or ageist; it’s just the way it is. I don’t have a problem in playing a hero or a heroine’s mother. But if the hero doesn’t look like my son and looks like my age, then it doesn’t make sense. It’s about looking the part,” she says. “If you make me Ranveer Singh’s mother and he calls me ‘mummy’, the audience won’t be convinced.”
The 48-year-old who made her debut with Ajay Devgn in Phool Aur Kaante in 1991 and had worked extensively in both Hindi and South film industry, is still known for her role in National Award winning movie Roja. “The fact that my work and I are still remembered in an industry where memories are fickle and people forget very easily, I feel blessed and grateful,” she says.
Brought up in Juhu, Shah moved to tony Malabar Hill after her marriage to businessman Anand Shah in 1999. Like many other fellow suburbanites, she too had her own preconceived notions about “townies”. “We had a perception that these (south Mumbai) people are snooty, vain and shallow. They are all about expensive clothes and handbags. I used to think they don’t have to struggle at all. Initially, the people here did not accept me and nor did I accept them. The belief system clashed,” she says. “But with time I met some people, the so-called townies, who were lovely people with beautiful stories to share. So what if they got it easy in life, we all are human beings on different journeys. The moment I changed this perception in my head, I made some amazing friends.”
And the fact that she herself became a “townie” helped Shah blend into the social circle. “I started travelling and carrying expensive bags. My husband loves to gift me pretty things. This kind of lifestyle doesn’t make anyone less or more; it’s just how things are. It made a huge difference and helped me to adjust here,” she says. During her sabbatical, Shah was mostly seen at parties and art shows which earned her the tag of a ‘socialite’. “We tend to tag everybody. ‘Oh! These are kitty ladies or kitty lunches’. I have attended these events and those have earned me some fantastic friends. It’s a way of connecting with other human beings,” she says with a smile.
Today, Shah counts Rajyalakshmi Rao, Chhaya Momaya and Queenie Singh as her inner circle of friends. “I am very close to all of them,” she says. “Queenie, in fact, is like my soul sister. She in a way helped me change my perception about people in this part of the city. When I got to know her, I realised she’s not just a socialite but she’s a super intelligent woman who has a beautiful story to narrate. I realised wearing make-up, looking good and going to parties does not make anyone vain.”
Apart from her television show, Shah has worked in two short films this year. Pocket Mummy, which released on Mother’s Day, with former child artiste Parzaan Dastur and Raja Mukherji’s Sab Theek Hai, which will be releasing at the end of this month.
She says, “I feel no matter how much good work you have done in the past, the only way to stay relevant is associating yourself with relevant minds. I know everything about the latest music as I’m aware what my children are listening to. There are so many new things that have come out. And, only if you associate with young minds, you can stay relevant.”
Epic TV show Aarambh's single war sequence to cost Rs 1 crore
7:56 AM
Sonil Dedhia (MID-DAY; June 19, 2017)
With the television industry becoming an increasingly attractive platform for Bollywood bigwigs, including actors, writers and producers to explore, mounting a series on a magnificent budget is becoming commonplace in the trade. The latest to join this list is Baahubali writer K V Vijayendra Prasad’s Aarambh, which has a budget of Rs 1 crore laid out for a single war sequence, making it the most expensive scene on the small screen.
A source tells mid-day, “After months of planning and rehearsing, the team decided to shoot an epic war sequence, which required the actors to train rigorously over the past few months. Moreover, the costumes and weapons were specially designed for the lead actors. A fair amount of VFX has been used to make the sequence look realistic.”
Shooting for the 65-episode show, informs the source, was held in Manali and Kathmandu, with certain portions being canned at Mumbai’s Film City. Given that Baahubali had shattered box-office records, director Goldie Behl wanted to leave no stone unturned in delivering a superlative drama after Prasad came on board. “The idea was to make Aarambh a larger-than-life experience. Since the show will witness the clash of two clans – Aryans and Dravidians – we wanted to project the war sequence on a bigger scale. The sequence was shot over a period of 10 days,” Behl says.
The show features South actress Karthika Nair and Rajneish Duggal. It also marks the television debut of veteran actress Tanuja.
Tanuja refuses to comment on daughter Kajol's beef video controversy
7:57 AM
Sanyukta Iyer (MUMBAI MIRROR; May 5, 2017)
Veteran actress Tanuja, while promoting her upcoming TV show, Aarambh,
was caught off guard when questioned about the recent beef controversy
surrounding her actress-daughter Kajol. The 73-year-old matriarch
started off by exclaiming, “Stop! Stop! Stop!” going on to point out
that she had acted in the Rajesh Khanna-starrer, Haathi Mere Saathi, and
she loved animals. “I was in love with the haathi. But don’t
deviate. Stick to Aarambh.”Last week, Kajol had unwittingly found herself in the eye of an online storm after she posted a video from her lunch date with friends, which had the chef identifying the delicacies on the table. The actress had to issue a clarification, stating that the dish that had caused the stir, was actually buffalo meat, which is legal, as opposed to beef.
Why is Anurag Kashyap upset with the BJP
8:52 AM
Sonali Joshi Pitale (MID-DAY; April 18, 2014)
Anurag Kashyap’s movie Gulaal (2009), which was set against a political backdrop, featured a song called ‘Aarambh’. It seems that the song is being used by Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) supporters for their prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi. According to a source, the video of the song, featuring Modi has also been uploaded on YouTube.
Anurag, who had directed the movie, was initially surprised. He decided to check with the music company if they have given rights to the party. However, when he found out that no rights have been bought by BJP, the filmmaker contacted Bhushan Kumar, whose company T-Series had the music rights, to voice his displeasure. “Anurag asked if I had given the rights to BJP, to which I said no. I have the music rights, the producer holds the official rights of the song, and only he can sell it.” When contacted, Ajay Rai, the producer of Gulaal, said that he wasn’t aware about it.
When mid-day contacted Anurag to ask if he was looking to take any legal action against the party, he said, “Of course, we are not happy with them using the song. It is written and sung by Piyush Mishra and neither him, nor I endorse BJP’s Hindutva ideology, whatever it is camouflaged in. Piyush is a person, a voice of people’s movement. It is his prerogative who he allows to use his voice. Just because they are who they are, they cannot bully his rights and use the song without his permission, that too illegally.”
Niranjan Shetty, BJP spokesperson of Mumbai, said, “I am not aware about the song. I will check with the party and if there is anything wrong, we will rectify it.”
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