Mani Ratnam’s “Raavan” is getting rave reviews in the American media with the New York Times making it “a Critics’ Pick”, a distinction rarely if ever earned by an Indian film.

The Los Angeles Times as also entertainment trade papers “Variety” and “Hollywood Reporter” too have praised the film that opened Friday on over 2200 screens around the world in 35 countries including US and Canada.
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The Competition Commission of India has restrained a regional film chamber from preventing exhibition of new film ‘Raavan’ starring Abhishek and Aishwarya Bachchan being distributed by Anil Ambani-led Reliance Big Pictures.

In an interim order issued late last night, on a complaint filed by Reliance Big Pictures, nation-wide distributors of Mani Ratnam-directed ‘Raavan’, the CCI restrained Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce from preventing exhibition of the film.
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Columbian pop sensation, Shakira, who made waves recently with her Fifa World Cup song ‘Waka Waka’, may soon make a debut in Bollywood.

The 33-year-old star is in talks with Hindi film music composers Salim-Sulaiman to sing in a yet-to-be-titled film.

Shakira may follow in the footsteps of Australian pop star Kylie Minogue who sang for Oscar-winner AR Rahman in Akshay Kumar-starrer Blue last year.
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The atmosphere was electric and the thumping of ‘dhols’ mesmerising as the Bachchans, the first family of Bollywood, walked the red carpet in London for the world premiere of the Abhishek Bachchan-Aishwarya Rai starrer ‘Raavan’.

Hundreds of fans thronged the British Film Institute in Southbank for the premiere Wednesday night, calling out for Abhishek and Aishwarya.
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Everybody who sends a script to Aamir Khan gets a polite note from the star saying he has received it and will go through it. But not many know that the scripts that reach Aamir are nearly 3,000 at last count and the actor doesn’t have space to keep them. Now, Aamir is finally looking for a large office space in Bandra where he wants to allocate one room exclusively to keeping those scripts.

“Aamir Khan wants to shift his office to a bigger place. At present Aamir Khan Productions has an office in Khar but there is no place to keep the scripts,” says a source close to the actor.
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