For the theme song in Viacom 18’s Bombay Talkies which features stars, old and new, living and deceased, and footage from vintage classic films, choreographer Vaibhavi Merchant had to seek and obtain as many as 80 NOCs (No Objection certificates) from producers whose clippings have been used for the number. Apparently Vaibhavi had to convince each producer to part with the footage required for the song.

In Bombay Talkies, the film commemorating a 100 years of Indian cinema the Big B Amitabh Bachchan plays Amitabh Bachchan, the mega-star whom a fan wants to meet come hell or high-water. This is not the first time that the Big B has appeared as himself in a movie. In fact in another ready-for-release film entitled The Struggler, Mahesh Manjrekar plays a struggler whose dream finally comes true when he meets his idol Amitabh Bachchan. Manjrekar’s film has been ready for nearly 6 years now with no one willing to release the unusual experimental film. But now with Viacom 18’s Bombay

<strong>Starring :Rani Mukherjee, Randeep Hooda, Saleem Saqib, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Naman Jain,Khushi Dubey, Vineet Kumar Singh, Sudhir Pandey and above all, Amitabh Bachchan</strong> <strong>Directors: Karan Johar,Dibakar Bannerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap</strong> <strong>Rating: *****</strong>

With the nationwide release of Chhota Bheem & The Throne of Bali this Friday, the stage is set for India’s animation superstar <em>Chhota Bheem</em> to take on real life stars from <em>Bombay Talkies</em> and <em>Shootout At Wadala</em>.

After being tossed around for 12 years Nawazuddin Siddiqui has found his métier. And how! A self-proclaimed famished actor Nawaz has quite suddenly come into his own during the past two years with a seemingly ceaseless string of whopping performances in out-of-the-box films.

The year 2013 seems to be a busy year for Karan Johar who has as many as three films lined up for release within a matter of a month. Johar, who is just back after attending the TOIFA in Vancouver, has got into the promotion and marketing of <em>Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani, Bombay Talkies</em> and <em>Gippi</em> and is going to be vividly occupied like never before. Moreover with <em>2 States</em> and <em>Ungli</em> making brisk progress courtesy the limited duration for Sanjay Dutt to finish his shoot, things have gone extreme for the filmmaker.

As is known that four filmmakers Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Zoya Akhtar are making four short films for the movie, <em>Bombay Talkies. </em> While we did inform our readers about the films by Johar and Dibakar Banerjee, today we set to inform about the film of Kashyap. His short story is based on an ardent fan's wish to meet Amitabh Bachchan.

Contrary to reports that Aamir Khan has been roped into a special extra segment for Bombay Talkies, the 4-episode film directed by Dibakar Bannerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Karan Johar and Anurag Kashyap, the star-actor is actually part of a special theme song to commemorate 100 years of Indian cinema which will be part of the film.

Every day, we keep getting some interesting news or other from the highly awaited movie Bombay Talkies which will see four noted directors coming together namely Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Zoya Akhtar to mark 100 glorious years of Indian cinema. Just yesterday we were fed with the news that Aamir Khan would play a bit role in the segment directed by Johar. Now, we understand that Nawazuddin Siddiqui will be playing the role of a failed actor in Dibakar Banerjee’s segment. Reportedly, the 48-year-old actor will shoot for a special sequence in the film.

Who says filmmakers do not give a chance to aspiring actors to act in their films. This has been proved wrong by Karan Johar who has cast the daughter of an office peon at Yash Raj for his segment in the soon-to-be released <em>Bombay Talkies</em>.