Sunday, February 3, 2008
New Delhi, Feb 03: They were first seen in Ishq and then they set the screens afire in the super hit 'Fanaa'. And now the team of Aamir Khan and Kajol just might come back once again in Rajkumar Hirani's next film Idiot.
If the buzz is to be believed, Kajol has already agreed to do the film in principle though she has not signed on the dotted line yet. But reportedly, Aamir has already signed the film that is most likely go on floors in July.
Friday, February 1, 2008
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Film is a tale about the events that happen one night at a call center. Told through the views of the protagonist, Shyam, it is a story of almost lost love, thwarted ambitions, absence of family affection, pressures of a patriarchal set up, and the work environment of a globalized office.
Shyam is losing his girl friend because his career is going nowhere as he trudges his way around in a call center. His girl friend, Priyanka is also an agent like him at the call center who is about to be snatched by an NRI techno Greek. There is also the aspiring model, Esha, who is hoping for the break that seems to be always already eluding her and the man about town, Vroom, who is into well, things. The housewife, Radhika, who is constantly at the receiving end of her mother-in-law and a beleaguered grandfather, Military uncle, who has been barred from interacting with his grandchild make up the rest of the call agents who see their worlds crumbling around them as the decisions of right sizing are conveyed by Bakshi, the boss. It is a night when dreams will finally crumble. Or will it?
For there is that call from God. Narrated as a tale within a tale as a beautiful woman meets the auteur narrator and promises him a story on the condition that he has to narrate it further, HELLO, based on Chetan Bhagat’s ‘One Night @ The Call Center’, is the one remarkable story from tales from a thousand and one globalizing, urban Indian nights.
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For the next half hour the movie meanders along. You see goons who can easily pass off as buffoons trying to kill Ayesha Takia. She has no clue why, nor do we. During this time Rohit Shetty gets busy sketching the character played by Ajay Devgan. I guess, even he has no clue as to what to do. The end is something you would want someone to sit near you and explain! And yes, Murli Sharma is the one who had tucked Takia into her bedroom after finding her wandering on the streets of Delhi. What he was doing at the crime scene in the first place no one knows!!!
The story is about a day which goes missing in Ayesha’s life which connects what is happening to her now. It appears that Takia had gone to a night club with her friend on Saturday night and her drink was ‘spiked’ by two guys. From then on she spirals out of control on the streets of Delhi meeting five people along the way. The Sixth one tucks her in bed. She sleeps the entire Sunday. That explains the two milk packets kept outside her door on Monday morning. Makes sense? Not yet, right?. Forget it.
You don’t go with much expectation to watch this film, but you leave the multiplex a bit surprised that the movie did manage to raise a few laughs. And credit for this turn around should go to Rajpal Yadav who single-handedly steers the film from stagnating to a mundane comedy. With his experience and expertise he lifts the film a few notches higher. However, with not much support coming from the other cast, it gets lost somewhere.
But this is not to say that the entire support cast was mediocre. Frankly speaking, the writer left no scope for the others with Rajpal hogging the limelight and Sanjay Mishra coming a close second. If things were put in proper perspective, Chandrakant Singh would have had a surprise hit on his hand. Had a little more pain been taken to develop the relationship between the two couples (The other couple being Ashish Chowdhary (Prem) and Amrita Arora (Khushi), the story would have been quite different. All said and done, you can safely say that this has been the most entertaining film of the year, so far.
The film is about marriage and the problems that come along due to misunderstandings. Fed up of his marriage with Neha Dhupia (Shanti), and envious of the lifestyle of his bachelor colleague and his live-in relationships, Rajpal Yadav (Santosh), starts imagining romances which gets him into a lot of trouble and finally into a police station.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
After a successful Pyar Ke Side Effects’, the tall-short pair of Mallika Sherawat and Rahul Bose are going to come together yet again in Venus’s next film Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam. The film is being directed by Sanjay Chell.
Tabu was the first choice of the producers who was later replaced as the creative team thought that Tabu was a little too mature for the role.
Shahrukh Khan and Kajol starrer will release in 2008 and is directed by Karan Johar. Keep with this page for the movie review, the film preview, the full soundtrack so you can listen to the songs , video trailers and clips and the first look.
2008 sure has some great movies to look forward to… one of them is Ugly Aur Pagli starring bollywood bombshell Mallika Sherawat and super-versatile Ranvir Shorey. Directed by Sachin Khot, it’s a romantic comedy based on the chemistry between a babe and a geek. Ugly and Pagli together are all set to redefine the meaning of love.
Mallika will be hoping to win the audiences with this one just like she did in “Pyar Ke Side Effects”. If not by her acting, then at least with this song
