There's no denying that Abhishek Bachchan's 'Bluff Master' remains one of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year. Releasing on December 16th, the film is about a master conman who thinks he's brilliant at his game.

Those who saw the 55-second teaser theatrical trailer that Rohan Sippy has cut tell us it's smashing! No one's shot Mumbai in all its splendour ever and the visuals seem like absolute fun. Let's wait and watch!

Every year, sitting in Kolkata, Rituparno Ghosh manages to pull together an entire cast of Bollywood A-listers for one of his annual ventures.

His latest attempt, Antar Mahal, is set in 1878 Bengal. The Bengali movie premiered at the Locarno Film Festival earlier this year and earned Jackie Shroff a nomination in the Best Actor category. Antar Mahal is touted to be Ghosh's boldest film yet, with a potent mixture of religion, sex and politics.

Didn't we tell you that Ram Gopal Varma Ka Sholay is making more news for its casting capers than anything else? Now, there's more.

According to director Ram Gopal Varma, it was while making Sarkar that he got the idea to repeat Amitabh and Abhishek Bachchan in another film. But as the script for the film progressed further, Ramu found the process complicated.

Considering that Rituparno Ghosh has just won a National award for the Best Hindi Film starring Aishwarya Rai and Ajay Devgan, it is ironical that his latest loses something vital in its use of Bollywood actors. In Antarmahal, his back-to-the-late-19th century tale of rural Bengal, zamindars, absolute power, and a decaying moral universe with a superficial resemblance to Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, the most authentic performance comes from the made-in-Bengal Rupa Ganguly.

It does not come as a surprise that Abhishek Bachchan has opted out of a film on the grounds of dates, considering he is one of the busiest stars today (according to his appointment diary, Abhishek is supposed to be as busy as his father). But, what is a surprise is that Abhishek Bachchan has chosen to opt out of Ram Gopal Varma's Sholay in favour of an English film by Mani Ratnam.

It's amazing how KBC2 is steaming along without any of the hype that accompanied it the last time. The episode to watch, though, will be the one where Abhishek Bachchan will appear with his sister, Shweta Nanda, for the first time together after the entire family showed up on Simi Garewal's show.

Economists term it the 'demonstration effect'. And if you've spent some time at the rural, feudal hinterlands of this country, you can tell how an incredulous fascination to outdo the neighbour, over hosting grand social functions, acquiring pompous assets or procuring patronage from those higher in social order, inevitably heralds the decline of the decadent, landed rich.

Ghosh sets his peculiar, passionate period piece (that some could perceive prurient) within one such household, where the debauched man of the house (Shroff, phenomenally proficient) is obsessed with two things.