5/22/2013: Tolly File: Bollywood meets Tollywood at Cannes

Indian actress Aishwarya Rai poses as she arrives at the evening's gala of the film "Bombay Talkies" celebrating a hundred years of Indian cinema, during the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes May 19,

I finally managed to catch Bombay Talkies before it went out of fashion. Good stories I must say. Zoya Akhtar's segment, that of a little boy wanting to be Sheila reminded me a little of Billy Elliot, the English drama, where a young boy of 11 ...

Zoya Akhtar's film in Bombay Talkies has an impressionable child smitten by Katrina, who begins to copy her moves RELATED It was in 1999, when Asha Parekh headed the censor board that she spotted two under-age girls sneak in for an adult film. She ...

Bollywood celebrities including Kangana Ranaut, Imran Khan, Zoya Akhtar, Prosenjit Chaterjee and Anurag Kashyap came together to felicitate women who have made a mark in films and television under the aegis of WIFT (Women in films and television) here.

Zoya Akhtar, 39, takes a once-in-a-lifetime plunge to work with three of India's finest directors ' Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar ' in Bombay Talkies. Her segment is the story (written with Reema Kagti) of living a dream: movies.

Much had been said about filmmaker Zoya Akhtar's next multi-starrer project which is apparently a family saga, a story based on a brother-sister relationship.According to earlier reports, Zoya was said to have signed Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif, ...

Four top Bollywood filmmakers - Anurag Kashyap, Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee and Zoya Akhtar - have made Bombay Talkies, a film which pays homage to 100 years of Indian cinema. They tell the BBC how Bollywood will evolve over the next decade.

Zoya Akhtar's film about a little boy who wants to dance like Katrina Kaif could have been a rare chance to look at thorny issues of children, sexual identity and gender roles. But Bollywood wants to keep its children in a sugary la la land.

What does the Indian films centenary mean to you? Cinema is the most defining form of entertainment in India. This country has been making films for 100 years! And somewhere it feels very good to be present and slightly relevant in its centenary ...