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Raj Singh Chaudhary is responsible for the making Anurag Kashayp’s Gulaal. It was his story idea that inspired Anurag Kashyap to make a hard hitting film on. The film has now opened to great reviews and audience response is multiplying with every show. The soft spoken newcomer, who plays the main protagonist in Gulaal in a free wheeling chat, shares with us his journey and his resilient wait for seeing his debut film as a main lead release.

John Abraham says the best thing to happen to him in 2008 was his brother's marriage.And the most unusual happening in his life in 2009 could be his first stage performance, thanks to the success of his Desi girl number in Dostana.

Acclaimed actress Nandita Das after enthralling the audience with her power packed performances in off beat films like Earth and Fire is now ready with her directorial debut venture, a hard hitting film titled, Firaaq which is based on the infamous 2002 Gujarat riots.

World Woman’s day is just round the corner so we ask some of the B-town celebs about their plans and which woman in their life has influenced them a lot in their life….

The title genuinely lives up to its expectation. The audience at some point of time does start thinking – Dhoondte Reh Jaoge. The film kick starts with our short but loyal Anand Powar (Kunal Khemu), the chartered accountant who always chooses to follow the long-cut where on the other hand the world opts for the short-cut ways. He does feel proud about it, although cursing that because of his decision he is always looked down by others. His house is so small that if he tries to stretch himself, the vessels start crumbling down. His Bengali girlfriend, Neha (Soha Ali Khan) is unhappy about this and his mama, Dilip Joshi, a theatre director is frustrated with him.

Produced by legendary Hollywood actor Robert De Niro’s daughter Drena De Niro, Karma Aur Holi (earlier titled Karma Confessions and Holi) is not your typical NRI flick that tries to force the message down your throat about how better India is than the USA or how one is struggling to find his own identity in the land of Uncle Sam, but then it is again not a very engaging film that can be you focused for its two hour running time.

Manohar (Madhavan) with his wife (Neetu Chandra) shifts to a new address with his entire joint family comprising of his brother and his wife, their two kids, mom (Poonam Dhillon) and a college going younger sister. All the female folks in the family are hooked on to watching daily Saas Bahu soaps on TV. But bizarre things start happening to Manohar after shifting to this new address – 13B like the lift never working whenever he boards it alone, his mobile phone clicking distorted images of his self, his bathroom bulb being constantly lit up despite him putting it off and him not being able to hammer a simple nail in the room of his house walls.

Film titles have gone from baffling to whacky to mindless and very articulate to extremely lengthy. Most titles are longer than the relationship that co-stars share! Every alternate film is known by a short form. If you don't know what RNBDJ is or if you are unsure about the full-form of CC2C, you are just not in the ring! You need to brush up. We pick the top actors of today to see how the film-title trend has got to them.