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Ashutosh Gowariker

Ashutosh Gowariker (Marathi: आशुतोष गोवारीकर)is an Indian actor, director, writer, and producer.

Ashutosh Gowariker started his career as an actor, making his debut in 1984 in director Ketan Mehta's movie, Holi. After that, he acted in several television serials, including Kachchi Dhoop (1987), Circus (1989), C.I.D. (1999) and several films, including Naam (1986), Chamatkar (1992), and Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (1993).

The 1993 movie, Pehla Nasha (inspired by Brian De Palma's Hollywood movie, Body Double) marked Gowari...

Salman Khan turns down Ashutosh Gowariker's offer

Salman Khan, who is overwhelmed with back-to-back hits Ready and Bodyguard, seems to have become choosy while signing any project. The actor has realised what works for him and what not. As a result, he has turned down award winning director ...

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Aamir Khan goes down memory lane at Lagaan party

When Aamir Khan and team Lagaan kick started the film there were a lot of hindrances that came their way. Everybody had their suggestions to put in because Aamir was turning to producer for the first time. While some supported the ...

Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey enters Oscars library

Though Ashutosh Gowariker's film Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, featuring Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone failed to raise the flag high at Box Office, it however has managed to be a part of the Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences ...

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Anurag Kashyap at loggerheads with Amitabh Bachchan

Did Amitabh Bachchan give a phone call to producer Bedabratta Pain to postpone the release of the film Chittagong (based on 1930 Chittagong Uprising) in-order to safeguard his son's film Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, which depicts the same theme? Anurag ...

Ashutosh: I am glad Abhishek did KHJJS

One can sense a certain passion in Ashutosh Gowariker when you converse with him on films, whether the ones directed by him or in general. Though he has made films like What's Your Raashee?, Baazi or Pehla Nasha as well, he ...

Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey gets good reviews

Films with big stars usually make much noise before release but there was not much hype around Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey in spite of the presence of Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone. Fortunately, the film has hit the headlines for ...

Does Abhishek Bachchan lack confidence?

Everyone is afraid of failure, be it a celebrity or a common man! It is just a matter of fact that some of us feel shy to accept that and some dare to accept it in front of everyone. Abhishek Bachchan ...

Subash K Jha speaks about Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey

There's ongoing sense of serenity compounded by a feeling of sincerity and transparency in the cinema of Ashutosh Gowarikar. This filmmaker, one of the most important celluloid storytellers of our times, never hides life's most essential truth in cinematic subterfuge. Rath...

Aishwarya bats for Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey

It's not only Abhishek Bachchan who goes out of his way to be present for his better-half. Aishwarya Bachchan has taken time off especially from all her commitment to promote Abhishek's new film Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey.Says a source, "So ...

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Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey shows Abhi's Bengali-ness

The half-Bengali side of Abhishek Bachchan's personality got him the role of the freedom fighter Surjya Sen in Ashutosh Gowariker's new film Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey. Abhishek also speaks a smattering of Bengali in the film.Says the director, "Abhishek's Bengali-ness ...

Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey Review: Enlightening experience

Adapting a work of literature into a movie is an arduous task. Satyajit Ray's 'Apu Trilogy' (Pather Panchali, Aparajito and Apur Sansar) was based on two Bengali novels written by Bibhuthibhushan Bandopadhyay. Ray's Shatranj Ke Khiladi was based on Munshi Premchand's ...

Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey; inspired by Do or Die

I remember doing an interview of Abhishek Bachchan from the noisy railway platform in London post his Sarkar Raj release. It was a day I'll never forget in my life. There was so much I wanted to write; so much I ...

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