Alia keen to work with Ratnam
Actress Alia Bhatt says she is keen to work with veteran director Mani Ratnam. “My dad (Mahesh Bhatt) keeps pushing me to watch regional films. He had said that I should definitely do Bengali films. I've always wanted to work with Mani Ratnam, so maybe I'll go down south and work with Mani sir,” Alia said when asked if she intended to try her hand at regional cinema. Earlier media reports mentioned that Mani Ratnam's O Kadhal Kanmani, a Tamil film was to have Alia in the lead opposite Dulquer Salman. Also another report claimed that Ratnam wanted Alia and Varun for the same film in Hindi, but when things didn't work out, he made it in Tamil with Dulquer and Nithya Menen. The remake of the film titled Ok Janu will be produced by Karan Johar.
There are commercial pulls when you are helming a film. And bigger the project, the greater the number of people you are answerable to. But I always try to keep my voice alive. As the director, you have to keep your voice alive |MIRA NAIR
Farhan Akhtar has come up with a new song We are all on the goodside for International Women’s Day.
He says the track talks about equality in totality. Farhan has associated with Farout Media and music director Kalyan Baruah for the song.
“The song talks about an equal world — seeing every person beyond gender, colour of skin cast, creed, economic definition and race. It talks about celebrating equality as opposed to challenging it,” said Farhan.
Ben lost 30 pounds for a film
Ben Foster best known for his role in Warcraft and lone Survior returns. Yet with another ground breaking performance, Ben plays the much talked about cyclist lance Armstrong in his upcoming biopic The Program. The film follows the life of the popular cyclist and more importantly his highly controversial Tour de France victories. The film requires Ben to be racing with real time cyclist reason enough for him to be physically and mentally fit. In a recent interview, Ben tells us about his diet and how he lost about 30 pounds in six weeks!
Ben says, “I had to lose about 30 pounds in six weeks with cannibalising diets. It’s a level of starvation and cardio where your body starts eating itself. We didn’t shoot in sequence, much to my frustration. They’re like, ‘We need you really strong [at the beginning] and then we’re going to need you riddled with cancer, and then put on some wight again. You figure it out.’”