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Saturday’s episode of ‘The Voice India’ opened with a quick re-cap of last week and a reminder of the imminent eliminations. Only two out of four contestants from each of the teams, would be saved via public voting. In Saturday’s episode, team Shaan and team Mika would be performing therefore team Shaan went through the eliminations first. Akash and Ritu were saved from the eliminations and they have made it to the top 5 contestants of team Shaan! It was then time for team Mika’s eliminations. Tanvir and Passang were saved from the eliminations and they made it through to the top 5 contestants of team Mika. Sadly, Sana and Arpita were eliminated from team Shaan, while Harjot and Akshay were nominated from team Mika.

Before the live performances began, the special guests of the episode were music directors Sajid Wajid. Wajid had previously been seen on The Voice India mentoring team Shaan.

Saturday’s episode of The Voice India opened in style with host Karan explaining the new format of the ‘Live Shows’ round. Each of the 7 members in the 4 teams would be performing solo and trying their best to entertain the audience and impress the judges. Team Hr and team Mika would be performing on Saturday and team Shaan and team Sunidhi contestants on Sunday.

Back to the studio and the contestants from all four teams entered onto the stage followed by the four coaches who together sang ‘Om Shanti Om’ from Karz. It was then time for the live shows to begin! But before that, the audience were re-introduced to ex Voice India contestant Meet Jain (Meet was sadly eliminated during the Battle rounds) as he was in the ‘red room’ where he would be seen interacting with the contestants and their families throughout the episode.

Team Mika were first to perform,...

Once upon a time, on November the 2nd, 1965, a Super Star was born.

The Bollywood Badshaah, the King of Bollywood, the Raj of Simran’s dreams – however you may relate to him has turned 48.

To celebrate Shah Rukh Khan’s birthday, BollySpice explores the contribution the Super Star has made by celebrating each letter of the Super Star’s name:

“S” – Swades: 2004, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker

Srk essays the role of Mohan Bhargava, a USA based project worker at Nasa who finds himself (re) discovering his Indian roots during a visit back to mother India.

“H” – “Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam”: 2002, directed by K.S Adhiyaman

Playing the role of Gopal, Srk portrays a jealous and possessive husband who eventually realises the folly of his ways.

“A” – Anjaam: 1994, directed by Rahul Rawail

One of Srk’s earlier films, this was the very first film in which Srk and Madhuri Dixit starred together in.

Films that gained a ‘cult following’ over the years,despite being unnoticed on release

Silsila

Yash Chopra is looked upon as the grandfather of candyfloss romance, an antithesis to the more ‘artistic’ genre of films. One wonders why. Here’s what his early films were about:

Unwed mothers and illegitimate children – Dhool ka Phool (1959)

Partition and the rise of Hindu fundamentalism – Dharmputra (1961)

Taut, song less thriller about a fugitive, a lone woman and a corpse – Ittefaq (1969)

A man who lives with his wife and the ‘other woman’, Hindi Cinema’s first Ménage à trois- Daag (1973)

In 1981, we had another of his equally risqué works, Silsila. Expectedly, sparks flew when the Screen God of the time shared screen space with the reigning diva. Rekha and Amitabh were quite an item on screen and allegedly, off screen too. The grapevine has it that Chopra was inspired to make Silsila on this relationship...

Pran Kishan Sikand

Pran Kishan Sikand dreamt of becoming a professional photographer. Little did he know that a measly, humble ‘paan’ (betel leaf) would change his life and set him on his destined path. It was 1939 or thereabouts. Pran was at a ‘paan’ shop at Lahore, enjoying a munch with his friends when a stranger approached him and asked whether he wanted to act in films. Pran was amused and asked his name. Stranger introduced himself as Muhammad Walli, a renowned film maker in the flourishing film district of Lahore. He said he was making a Punjabi film and Pran looked a perfect fit for the role of a villain in the film. Pran just brushed him off. Walli kept insisting that he pay a visit to the studio, and pushed a piece of paper with his address into Pran’s hands. The film was Yamla Jat (1940), a runaway hit that year.

Chilean film My Last Round (Mi Ultimo Round) directed by Julio Jorquera Arriagada won the Best Feature Film Award at the 3rd Kashish Mumbai International Queer Film Festival which concluded on May 27, 2012.

My Last Round is a story set in conservative Southern Chile about a working class relationship between two men – a boxer and a kitchen assistant.

Chief Guest Bollywood actor Anupam Kher who gave away the prize for the Best Film announced that he would sponsor the prize money from next year of Rs 50,000. “Cinema is meant to break barriers and Kashish is a wonderful attempt to provide a mainstream platform for the Lgbt community which is relegated to the margins,’’ said Kher.

Kher also gave away the Riyad Wadia Award for Best Emerging Indian Filmmaker, which went to The Night is Young (Raat Baki) directed by Pradipta Ray. Raat Baki deals with three persons – two queer and one...

STARRINGVivek Oberoi, Shatrughan Sinha Abhimanyu Shekhar Singh, Sushant Singh, Zarina Wahab, Ashish Vidyarthi, Suriya, Kota Srinivas Rao, Sudeeep, Radhika Apte, Priyamani, Anupam Shyam, Ashwini Kalsekar, Sushmita Mukherjee and others.DIRECTIONRam Gopal VarmaSTORYThe plot of the flick revolves around the character of Paritala Ravi(Vivek Oberoi) and his transformation from a soft spoken person to a brutal killing machine to avenge the death of his brother(Sushant Singh) and father (Rajendra Gupta).

Movie Review: Meri Padosan; Star cast: Sadhika Randhawa, Sarwar Ahuja, Sanjay Mishra, Khayali and Heena Tasleem; Director: Prakash Saini; Rating: 1/2 - Utter rubbish.

Viju (Sanjay Mishra) is a middle class man, a clerk happily married to Kavita (Sadhika). But their happy married life gets disturbed with the arrival of their new neighbours. Amongst them is Shyam Gopal Varma (Sarwar) who is an aspiring filmmaker. With him are his two buddies – Prem who works as a media promoter and Aslam a private bank employee. These three friends’ loud quarrels taking almost every night.