When Kahaani’s award-winning director Sujoy Ghosh reached the location for his acting debut he got an actor’s block.

In a casting coup of sorts, Sujoy Ghosh, who is still enjoying all the adulation for his Vidya Balan-starrer <em>Kahaani</em> is bringing together three best talents of Bollywood viz Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah and Vidya Balan for his next film titled Badla.

Among the several such studios in the field, Reliance MediaWorks Ltd, has become one of the key studio to bring high-end technology and service support to the Indian Film Industry. On scratching the surface to find what goes in increasing a film’s appeal other than direction and acting, it is the unsung dynamics of good DI, high-end camera and shooting equipments, and VFX that also call the shots these days..

After roping in critically acclaimed filmmaker Sekhar Kammula to direct the remake of Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani for the South Indian market, Endemol India, Logline Productions Pvt. Ltd and Select Media Holdings Pvt Ltd have finally found their Vidya Bagchi in southern sensation Nayanthara. Starring as the female lead in several commercial films, Nayanthara has delivered super hit films across languages in the South. A director’s delight, this award winning actress is well known for her character-driven roles.

What a year it has been for the super-talented actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui! Three of his performances in <em>Kahaani, Gangs Of Wasseypur</em> and <em>Talaash</em> were applauded unanimously. And now at year-end Nawaz has bagged a prestigious film with Dibakar Bannerjee which the <em>Shanghai</em> director has decided to make prior to his Kolkata-based murder mystery that he planned to make next.

It’s news that Endemol India had acquired the remake rights of Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani for Tamil and Telugu about six months ago. After a brief lull, Endemol India and Select Media Holdings Pvt. Ltd, in their pursuance to go ahead with the remake of <em>Kahaani </em> in these two South Indian languages, have roped in critically acclaimed filmmaker Sekhar Kammula to direct the films for the South India market.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who started his film career in 1999 with Shool and has done around 30 films till now including <em>Kahaani, Gangs of Wasseypur </em> and <em>Talaash, </em> is churning stellar performances one after another. With him getting widely appreciated in his latest release <em>Talaash</em>, it's not a surprise that his bag is full with challenging roles. While on one hand, he has Ketan Mehta's Mountain Man, on the other he has been signed up for <em>Black Currency</em>.

Ever since its release, Pen India Pvt. Ltd and director Sujoy Ghosh’s film Kahaani, has been winning accolades one after the other. Recently, at the South Asian Rising Star Film Awards at New York, USA, the Sujoy Ghosh-helmed film won the award for Best Original Screenplay. The director got the award for the best screenplay amongst nominees like Anurag Kashyap for <em>Gangs Of Wasseypur</em>, Akshat Verma for <em>Delhi Belly</em>, Juhi Chaturvedi for <em>Vicky Donor</em> and Gurvinder Singh for <em>Alms Of The Blind Horse</em>.

Slow and steady seems to be Bengali actor Parambrata Chatterjee’s magic mantra to stardom. The sensitive actor who made a huge impact in Sujoy Ghosh’s <em>Kahaani</em> has been proceeding with his career slowly and with extreme caution. While picking through the Bollywood offers Parambarta even directed a Bengali film <em>Hawa Badol</em> on male bonding.