Like every seasoned actress, Ameesha Patel is trying to get out of her image of a bubbly and sweet image and play varied roles. Like in the 2002-made <em>Humraaz</em>, the actress turned to playing strong characters by enacting Priya Singhania.

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.

Amit Kumar’s directorial debut Monsoon Shootout, a dark edgy thriller about a cop and a gangster battling it out in the rain-drenched Mumbai city, has got selected for a screening at the 66th Cannes Film festival. Amit stuns you by revealing that the film’s genesis and evolution has taken 9 years. “We started developing the film in 2004.We finishing scripting in 2008 and then we shot the film. Funnily I never got frustrated by the delay. I crawled along and hoped something good would come of it.”

Ultra Distributors’ Jalpari – The Desert Mermaid recently won the MIP Junior Kids Jury Awards 2012 at Cannes. The MIP Junior Kids Jury award is the international showcase for children's and youth programmes and films. As many as 115 producers from around the world had entered their programmes that were divided into three categories – Tweens (11-14 years), Kids (7-10 years) and Pre-school (3-6 years). This included both live action and animation in every category.

In Madhur Bhandarkar’s Heroine, Arjun Rampal plays a role that can easily be traced to the Hindi film industry. In the film, Kareena plays the actress that the volatile superstar Arjun Rampal has an extra-marital affair with.