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Rahul Dholakia tells Jyothi Venkatesh that he decided to cast Sanjay because he needed a mature actor, not a Ranbir Kapoor type, to play the role of a middle-aged Military Intelligence Officer.

What triggered the idea of making a film like Lamhaa?

When I had screened my film Parzania, one of the Kashmiri students at Anahad, an NGO in Delhi, stated that in Kashmir, all of them were living in a beautiful prison. His statement triggered the idea of making a film on Kashmir because it was an intriguing idea

What is Lamhaa all about?

Though social networking has its advantages and disadvantages, the entertainment business has nothing to complain about. Not when Bollywood's two living legends Lata Mangeshkar (LM) and Amitabh Bachchan
(AB) are brought closer through their interaction on Twitter.

It has been reported that British Columbia Mining Minister Bill Bennett apologized to Jews Tuesday for an e-mail calling ardent proponents of a national park eco-fascists.

The Globe and Mail reported it had obtained an e-mail sent by Bennett, who opposes turning a large portion of Flathead Valley into a park, in which he wrote: "We either stand strong together against the loss of the Flathead Valley to the eco facists (sic), or we will lose the Flathead. I am there, if you are there."

Trouble between actor Sanjay Dutt and director Sanjay Gupta has been prevalent for years now and so many other members of the industry are possibly getting impacted in one way or the other. Presumably, none of the two have spoken about this for quite some time now and one wonders whether any of the two would actually have a conversation so as to sort it out once for all.

80 police officers would be laid off following the collapse of contract talks with the police union, Oakland, Calif., officials said late on Tuesday.

A last-ditch bargaining session Tuesday failed to produce an agreement that would prevent the layoffs.

The sticking points came down to how much of a pay cut the 779-member force would be required to accept, the percentage of salary that would go to officers' pensions and the city's inability to guarantee there would be no further staff reductions for three years, KGO-TV, San Francisco, has said.

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- Raavan has folded up with business of less than that of Delhi 6. While the Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra directed film - despite its flop tag - still had managed to cross the 30 crore mark in India, this Mani Ratnam directed fare has struggled to reach that mark.