It doesn’t have songs, is in Punjabi, is made by a Pakistani and is considered a mainstream film — documentary filmmaker Sabiha Sumar’s first film “Khamosh Pani” is finally set to be released in theatres across the country.

But will there be an audience for a film about a victim of the partition of India into two countries whose past catches up with her in unexpected and tragic ways?

The question needs to be asked even though the sweet tender film has floored everyone who has seen it so far.

Actor Aamir Khan and former Pakistani cricketer Imran Khan will star in a live telethon on Pakistan’s Geo TV this evening. Viewers will call the channel on designated phone lines, speak to the celebrities – ask them a question – and donate a sum of money towards Imran’s second Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, to be built in Karachi.

Devdas is being remade again — this time, in Pakistan, by producer Nadeem Sha and veteran Pakistani director, Iqbal Kashmiri. Music is by Vajahat Atrye and is arranged by Uttam Singh.

The songs for the film will be sung by Indian singers, including Asha Bhosle, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Alka Yagnik. The film will star Nadeem as Devdas and Reema as Chandramukhi. The role of Paro is yet to be finalized.

Says Sonu, who was about to start Riyaaz for the song recording when we called him; “Uttamji asked me to sing a song”.

In the first and largest event of its type, Indian and Pakistani film stars and artistes performed together in a six-hour concert to raise funds for tsunami survivors.

Called “Help!”, the concert held in Bombay, was broadcast on several news and entertainment television channels, including Geo TV. Indian film legend Amitabh Bachchan, superstars Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai made appeals for donations.

Salman Khan is back in the news. For the wrong reasons, once again!

At a packed-to-capacity press conference at his plush bungalow in Juhu on April 1, Vivek Oberoi told the media persons that Salman Khan had threatened him in the early hours of March 30.

Vivek claimed that Salman called him 41 times that night and abused him in the choicest of expletives, accusing Vivek of having “physical relationships with Aishwarya Rai, Rani Mukherji, Diya Mirza and Somy Ali,” Vivek revealed.

Adapted from Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s book and inspired by Bimal Roy’s Dilip Kumar earlier role as ‘Devdas’, the movie is a classic slice of a bygone era.

The film is the tragic love story of Devdas (Shahrukh Khan), Paro (Aishwarya Rai) and Chandramukhi (Madhuri Dixit). All three bold characters who loved intensely and fiercely but whose love remained unfulfilled.

Devdas and Paro are childhood sweethearts who are separated for ten years when Devdas is sent to England to study by his strict disciplinarian father, and the film begins as his family eagerly celebrates his return from his enforced exile. But to his family’s disappointment, ten years of absence has only intensified Paro and Devdas’ love…

Despite a track record of flops, Kaushik has extracted remarkable performances from the star cast of this emotional saga.

Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai once again brings together the Taal duo of Aishwarya Rai and Anil Kapoor under the directorial baton of Kapoor camp favourite, Satish Kaushik.

Preeti (Aishwarya Rai) comes from a conservative middle class family. One day she witnesses the brutal murder of an innocent man and testifies against the assailant. This brave step changes the course of her life. Hunted down by the assailant’s brother, Puru Raaj Kumar, she is raped and her life is ruined. Humara Dil Aapke Paas Hai

Rajiv Menon started as an ad filmmaker and continues to be one – despite directing movies like Kandukondein Kandukondein. But is it any good?

MENON began eyeing the big screen when he shot the brilliantly beautiful Bombay for Mani Ratnam and obviously thought he could do better. Well, we all know he couldn’t.

His first film, Minsara Kanavugal (even more atrocious as the dubbed Sapnay), was a self-indulgent cotton candy of riotous colours, inducing diabetes in the most hardy of cinemagoers. A lot of money sank with that first effort, but maybe it was (if you feel particularly generous) well spent, because Rajiv got a grip on himself and came up with Kandukondein Kandukondein (KK).

Star Cast: Raakhee, Aishwarya Rai, Arjun Rampal
Director: Naresh Malhotra

I have seen all movies of Aishwaryaji from Aur Pyaar Ho Gaya to this one, Dil Ka Rishta.

I don’t understand why she had such a fancy name like Tia in film? Don’t mind, I’m liking Paro better. And that boy Arjun Rampal. He got Juhi Chawla’s husband’s name. Jai Mehta. He is very rich and driving all foreign cars. But she loves other boy Raj with Pinocchio nose. His name I cannot pronounce. Priyanshu Chatterjee or something, correct?

It was the film that we had all been waiting for. This movie proved, once and for all, that Shahrukh Khan, is Bollywood’s biggest star name.

SET in the fictitious college of Gurukul, we see three love stories utilising the younger cast in addition to Bachchan’s strict authoritarian and Shah Rukh Khan’s Raj Aryan - a music teacher with a secret.