He was replaced by the then hot and saleable Sanjay Khan.
Now the India Pavilion at Cannes would have to make do without Akshay, while Madhavan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui would happily hog the limelight.
The young actors will play beloved characters from the hugely popular Archie Comics.
'I'd like to do films in as many languages as possible.'
'Ponni is not a criminal. 'She is someone who does what she has to due to the adversities that have occurred in her life. I had to keep that in mind.'
Singer Hariharan worked quite a few times with santoor player Shiv Kumar Sharma, who passed into the ages on May 10, and flautist Hari Prasad Chaurasia.
'It's the most ban-friendly country in the world as far as cinema is concerned.'
'Mere Haathon Mein Nau-Nau Chudiya Hain showed how skillfully Shiv-Hari could weave into the commercial idiom.'
'There are songs -- quite a few of them -- but the focus will be on the drama.'
'Nayanthara is a very beautiful person, both inside and outside. She deserves all the happiness.'
'If I agreed to do one more villain's part in Vikram, it would be to explore a darker shade of human nature than I've attempted so far.'
Subhash K Jha looks at actresses who dared play Momma at the risk of getting typecast.
Post the record-breaking success of Pushpa: The Rise, its leading man Allu Arjun has hiked his remuneration by three times.
'Mahesh Babu is not too keen on doing a costume drama or a period film at this stage of his career.'
'The plan was to start the next season with either of the two newly married celebrity couples -- Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt or Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal.' But this did not work out, as the grooms were reluctant to be hauled over the coals so soon after the wedding.
Is Alia Bhatt done with Telugu cinema after her cameo in S S Rajamouli's RRR, at least for now?
'I don't think my troubles would have happened if she was with me. I kind of lost my way after she was gone,' Sanjay Dutt once told Subhash K Jha about his mother Nargis, the legendary actress who passed away this day 41 years ago.
'It's not like he's ghost-directing the film.'
Amazon Prime Video has doubled its content investments in India and announced as many as 41 new titles in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and English, thereby throwing an open challenge to their streaming competitor, Netflix.
For now, Samantha has decided to make Mumbai her home and apparently purchased property.
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