If Bollywood producers have their way, they may soon be pitting two love birds against each other.

With the Hindi film industry's proverbial showman, Subhash Ghai, failing to whip up a winner with his latest foray into serious cinema, Bollywood is pinning its hopes on the upcoming string of releases to end the dull phase.

UTV and Ashutosh Gowariker have good reason to feel happy. The box-office performance of their co-production, "Jodhaa Akbar", is improving slightly, especially in Mumbai, in the second week since its release.

Actor-turned-director Amir Khan's directorial debut "Taare Zameen Par" - a moving tale of a boy with learning disability - has set the box office tills ringing. It has netted Rs.770 million in its fourth week.

Rajkumar Santoshi's political commentary "Halla Bol" has received a mixed response in its opening week. While the audiences in the western circuit have rejected the movie, it is doing reasonably well in some pockets in north India.

He may not be in the Khan league, but Akshay Kumar is in a league of his own as the actor hit gold with a string of hits this year. The critics have not been kind to his films, but the audiences have been lapping it all up, according to Akshay and the box-office results. [...]

No one expected the dent to be the size of a crater. With all eyes and ears glued and focused on the two major Christmas releases, the pre-release weeks were expected to be thanda, but so thanda?

With his latest film Om Shanti Om becoming a hit at the box-office, it is celebration time for Shah Rukh Khan . Despite the many bouquets and few brickbats that both SRK and Farah Khan have received for OSO, the fact remains that the film’s distributors are laughing all the way to the bank. Responding [...]

The audience verdict is out. The box office seems to favour Shah Rukh Khan’s “Om Shanti Om” in comparison to Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s much-touted magnum opus “Saawariya”. While King Khan’s film registered 90 percent occupancy across the country on its Diwali release, Bhansali’s love story managed 60 percent. “Om Shanti Om” is director Farah Khan’s [...]

 The clash of titans ‘Saawariya’ and ‘Om Shanti Om’ at the box office this Diwali has excited film buffs who are all set to throng theatres in huge numbers and the whopping sale of the films’ tickets stands testimony to this. Tickets for Shah Rukh Khan’s Om Shanti Om at PVR Juhu, were sold out [...]