The video game world is expanding with every new morning. A true game lover will not be unknown with the name of “Grand Theft Auto IV,” which was launched by Rockstar in the U.S market in the month of April, and experienced $310 million revenues on the very first day.
Now after three months, it can be said, that GTA IV is the most popular and best selling game globally for the first half of 2008.
First regional Bengali entertainment channel, Star Jolsha, was launched on Thursday by Star India Private Limited.
An array of programs including fiction, non-fiction, mythology, movies and reality shows will be telecast on this new channel.
Star India chief executive officer Uday Shankar feels that they will create a revolution in Bengali entertainment with the launching of Star Jolsha.
“The Bengali regional genre has shown a substantial growth in the past two years in comparison with other regional entertainment markets and with this new channel we will try to bring a new level of diversity to the world of entertainment,” informed J.C.Giri, regional channel head, Star India.
Ace Bollywood director Ramgopal Varma has now made horror movie.
He has already directed successful films such as Sarkar and Sarkar Raj. He is known for his underworld and political script. He is coming with new film "Phoonk" which is expected to repeat the past successful story of his films.
Kamal Hassan is looking forward to direct the tri-lingual film “Marmayogi”, in which he would also play the lead role. This major tri-lingual project will also be made in native English.
Kamal Hassan informed that for the present venture, Raaj Kamal Films International has signed an agreement with Pyramid Saimira Group. The date to launch this multi-dollar project will be announced soon. Earlier, Hassan’s “Dasavanthram” had been received well at the box-office.
'Singh is King' has been invited for a gala presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival. The festival runs September 4 to 13 in Toronto.
'Singh is King' will be one of the 20 special films to be screened in the festival. The producer of the film has received invitation from Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) to participate in the festival.
The producer Vipul Shah expressed happiness on the success of his film. He termed it as an honor for India to get invited for such prestigious international event.
A new direction to the controversy of Ramdas Athawale, president of Republican Party of India (RPI) was taken, who said that the producer of Big Boss2, Colors GEC and Endemol India, denied him to participate in the show since he is a Dalit. Earlier, Athawale had threatened to sue the channel when he was rejected as a participant of the second season of the reality show Big Boss2.
In an agitated manner, his party men threw stones and turned the channel office upside-down at Andheri, Mumbai. The party workers had arrived in cars and harmed the building of that has the channel’s offices on Parsi Punchayet Road.
will not be unknown with the name of “Grand Theft Auto IV,” which was launched by Rockstar in the U.S market in the month of April, and experienced $310 million revenues on the very first day.
he would also play the lead role. This major tri-lingual project will also be made in native English.
Film Festival. The festival runs September 4 to 13 in Toronto. 
