Vishal Bhardwaj and Ekta Kapoor's forthcoming Emraan Hashmi-starerr <em>Ek Thi Daayan</em>, as the title suggests, is a spooky take on witches. However, director Kannan Iyer is surprised as the set in the Film City seems to have become a regular visiting ground for animals. When Kannan began shooting for the film at the studio that is a thickly populated forest area, for the first time, the set got infested with reptiles from nowhere. The entire set had to be cleaned up. That meant that a lot of time was wasted and the shoot got delayed.

It's going to be composer Vishal Bharadwaj’s first score in the English language. And Vishal is kicked, mighty kicked. Yes, it’s finally happening. After more than a year of dillydallying, the stage musical version of Mira Nair’s 2001 game-changerMonsoon Wedding is finally getting ready to hit the road. We hear the Bollywood-styled songs will carpet the musical adaptation of the beloved film. Vishal Bhardwaj who has been roped in to do the music will now put on her singing-cap with lyricist Abbas Tyrewalla Mira next month to conjure as many 11 songs for the Broadway-styled musical.

Balaji Motion Pictures Ltd. (BMPL) has announced its slate of six film releases in the upcoming year (2013). The line-up boasts of projects including co-productions with filmmakers like Vishal Bhardwaj, Anurag Kashyap and Sanjay Gupta alongside sequels of Balaji’s own properties such as <em>Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai</em> and <em>Ragini MMS</em>.

Vishal Bhardwaj says shooting his new film in Gujarat was a cakewalk, all thanks to the State’s brand ambassador the Big B Amitabh Bachchan. In fact the shooting nearly came to a halt when Imran Khan and Anushka Sharma were unceremoniously asked to leave an important location where most of the film was shot. One phone call to the Big B and from him to the powers-that-be solved what could have been a critical loss of time revenue and faith for the crew of Bharadwaj’s <em>Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola</em>.