Zohra Sahgal : A Glorious Century of Life

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           MAY 22 , 2012           04.15 P.M. Zohra Sehgal , the legendary film and theatre actor , recently completed 100 years of her momentous life . It is fascinating to know that she is as old as Indian cinema . She , in fact , is a year older . She was [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – April 2012

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           MAY 07 , 2012           03.30 P.M. Today I am posting 36th film diary . It’s now 3 years , since I started writing my film diaries . 3 continuous and uninterrupted years are quite long time to survive in writing diaries . Sometimes boredom , sometimes fatigue over – powers [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – February 2012

 -MUMBAI MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           MARCH 03 , 2012           08.00 P.M. This is 34th film diary . 2 more to go and it will complete 3 momentous years . As usual I am re-posting some relevant tweets of the eminent trade analysts Mr. Komal Nahta and Mr. Taran Adarsh : 23h Komal Nahta @KomalNaht GALI GALI [...]

Raj Kanwar : A Journey From ” Deewana ” to ” Sadiyaan “

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           FEBRUARY 05 , 2012           11.15 P.M. Death is always painful . It is more painful if a young life is lost . I was shocked when I heard about the sad demise of Mr. Raj Kanwar . He died on February 03 , 2012 at the age of  51 in [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – January 2012

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           fEBRUARY 01 , 2012           11.45 P.M. It is the first Film Diary of 2012 . A new year , a new beginning and a new hope for better future , industry is waiting with anticipation . It is the 33rd Film Diary of mine . First release of 2012 , [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – November 2011

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA              DECEMBER 05 , 2011            03.15 P.M. This is the 31st edition of my Film Diary. ” Ra.One “ was released with fabulous response due to Deepavali and holiday period but could not sustain during week days and collections dropped menacingly. In overall reckoning , it collected more than 100 crore [...]

Immortality at Madame Tussauds

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA         NOVEMBER 03 , 2011           10.40 P.M Last week as I was scrolling through my Twitter timeline , www.twitter.com/VidurChaturvedi    ,I got the news that Kareena Kapoor‘s wax statue was unveiled at Madame Tussauds Wax Studio , Blackpool . Before Kareena Kapoor ,  Hritik Roshan‘s wax statue [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – October 2011

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           NOVEMBER 01 , 2011            00.25A.M. This is the 30th edition of my film diary . Films released in the beginning of this month failed to create any magic at the Box Office . Though ” Force “ collected some decent [...]

Vidur’s Telly Tales – 7 : Bigg Boss Connection [ A ]

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA             OCTOBER 04. 2011                     10.30 P.M. On October 02 , 2011 , when I was watching the 5th season of  ” Bigg Boss ” , I realized that the show has become enormously big and has now totally metamorphosed into a [...]

Vidur’s Film Diary – September 2011

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA              OCTOBER 02 , 2011                0 1 . 15 A.M. Presenting 29th edition of my film diary . Victorious march of “Bodyguard “ continued even in this month of September. ” Singham “ also got into the prestigious 100 crore club . Now 7 films , which have earned 100 crore [...]