Downloads stlls from Sorry Bhai starring Sanjay Suri, Sharman Joshi, Chitrangda Singh, Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani.

What: Media meet of Sorry Bhai
Where: Magic, Worli, Mumbai
When: November 14, 2008
Present on the Occasion: Sanjay Suri, Sharman Joshi, Shabana Azmi, Onir, Chitragandha Singh and others

A bash to celebrate the enormous success of Singh Is Kinng was held at a five-star hotel in Mumbai on Monday evening……the do was attended by the producer, director and cast of the film including worldwide distributors, Studio 18.

Also in attendance were guests like Dino Morea, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Prakash Jha, Mukesh Bhatt, Kunal Kohli, Aadesh Shrivastava and others.

A champagne toast was raised by Vipul Shah and Akshay Kumar to another kinng, Abhinav Bindra, who brought India honour by clinching a Gold Medal for Rifle Shooting at the Beijing Olympics.

Credit for Pictures: Viral Bhayani

Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze who essayed the role of Max Lowe in City of Joy (1992, Best Picture of the year), in the best performance of his life, has sadly been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He is only fifty-five years old and is currently undergoing chemotherapy and resting at his ranch in New Mexico.

City of Joy, an inspirational masterpiece, is about a surgeon from the US who loses one of his patients during an operation, flees his problems, or so he thinks, and travels to India. Disillusioned and determined to stay away from the medical field altogether, he runs into British nurse Pauline Collins (Joan Bethel) who runs a free clinic in the most dangerous neighborhood of Calcutta. With much determination, she finally ropes Max into helping her. When the local don brutally threatens the clinic and the livelihood of its neighbors, Max teaches them, in particular an illiterate Indian farmer Hazari Pal (Om Puri) the strength of their unity in overcoming their impoverished situation.

Shabana Azmi plays Hazari’s wife Kamla. Ayesha Dharkar plays their daughter Amrita. A beautiful cinematic piece of art, if you haven’t seen it, you should. If you have, watch it again.

Swayze is trying to complete three films, Powder Blue, Fired Up and The Beast at this time. We wish Patrick and his wife Lisa all the best during this trialsome period in their lives.

Celebrated and controversial Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur is India’s first and most successful film director in Hollywood. His directorial debut was Masoom (1983) with Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi as the leads. Then five years later Mr. India (1987) with Anil Kapoor hit the silver screen. However, it was his real life story Bandit Queen with Seema Biswas (Water) essaying the role of Phoolan Devi that brought him international acclaim and attention.

His other films include The Four Feathers (2002) with Heath Ledger, Elizabeth (1998), which was nominated for seven Oscars and won Cate Blanchett, one of them for best actress and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) which was nominated for two Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards.

Now Kapur has returned to his homeland to create his dream project Paani. The story is set in 2025 in a city of 20 million people with no water.

While in Mumbai, he is going to be interviewed in front of a live audience by CNN’s Anjali Rao on Talk Asia on March 9th.

Would you like to be a part of the interview that Rao will be hosting a with Kapur? Well you can and here’s how:

Email your questions or comments to TalkAsia.com

What: 5th Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2008
Where: Mumbai
When: January 20, 2008