Sunday, February 3, 2008
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
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.
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
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.
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
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Rohan (Tushar Jalota) seems to have it all: a dream career, a beautiful girlfriend and everything else one would want. Life seemed as though it couldn't be better. But his newfound fame comes with a price.
For rising superstar Rohan Arya, the paparazzi are at first an annoyance, then an ever-disturbing presence. But when they threaten his safety, it will be the last mistake they ever make. He's become a target of a team of four paparazzi bent on making Rohan fodder for the tabloids. And when they stumble upon a sensitive nerve, all hell breaks loose.
Rohan has been on the lookout for a prostitute called Tara. When he finally finds her, the paparazzi trap Rohan and Tara in a high–speed chase that ends in a terrible accident and leaves Tara in a coma. The media frenzies with news of Rohan's accident with a prostitute in his car.
Rohan seeks vengeance. But why? What connection does this prostitute have with Rohan?
Rohan is at a crossroad. Does he take the law into his own hands or does he get served justice by the law? Does he succeed in exposing the ugly side of the media or does the paparazzi get away this time too?
Showbiz – The dark side of fame!!!
Money, conspiracy, deceit, betrayal, lies.. The Mumbai underworld is about all this, and more. VK has come to Mumbai, chasing big film dreams, like thousands of others. When fate makes him a pawn in a master game plan of the underworld, he unknowingly gets drawn into a whirlpool of events that will determine his future. Then an unexpected accident turns the tables for everybody involved..
Now begins a chase that won"t stop at anything. VK is too deep into it now to step back. Unknowingly, he has become an imposter, an imposter who wasn"t.. It is rare indeed for a film to make it to the most popular blogs and chat sites after merely one preview screening. Mithya"s praise spread like wildfire. Rajat Kapoor directs his most ambitious project yet, a comic thriller that will amuse as well as shock you.
Mission Istanbul
Vikas Sagar (Zayed Khan) is one of the most promising journalists in the country. Owais Husain (Sunil Shetty) who heads a controversial Istanbul based news channel makes him an offer to head the channel for an outrageous salary and other perks. This offer came at a better time for Vikas who was undergoing a painful divorce with his wife Anjali (Shriya Saran)
But little does he know that one decision will change his life forever. When he voices his plans to quit the channel, he is reminded by Turkish commando, Rizwan Khan (Vivek Oberoi), how others who quit had been bumped off because they knew too much.
Aishwarya Rai’s romance with Hollywood continues as she was recently signed up by Sir Ben Kingsley for his next project, again based on Indian history.
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The actor-filmmaker who played the historic role of Mahatma Gandhi in the Oscar-nominated film Gandhi is planning his extravagant production, Taj Mahal. Aishwarya Rai has been signed up for the film, probbaly to paly the role of the bewitchingly beautiful Mumtaz Mahal.
Aishwarya Rai’s other Hollywood projects includes the Pink Panther sequel.
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Just lliked this article so that to share it with you all, as it’s of one of the blogger have written in AOL India Blogs about the movie Jodhaa Akbar in a very classy way:
To borrow the famous words of Mel Brooks,”The Legend had it coming”. At least it deserved a perspective from one of our best film makers.
Another two weeks before the might of the Mughal Empire unleashes on a Cinema screen near you.
And for the majority who is apt to get confused at the whole premise of AKBAR the GREAT and this Rajput Princess “thingy”, better ruffle through those old history textbook pages once again, if you can find them, that is.
It shouldn’t matter anyways.
For the rest who scream from the nearest fort ramparts about how Ashutosh Gowariker is shortchanging history and manipulating facts to his own interests, I say, please give him a break.
He has proved to be a great story teller, and a fine craftsman of the Silverscreen and if he wants to tell you a story in his own terms, let him do it.
Knowing Ashutosh Gowariker and his portfolio of fine craftsmanship, JODHA-AKBAR wouldn’t be disappointing. I am hoping that my wait was worth it. AR Rahman’s music that seems to be flowing at you from every second FM station these days doesn’t seem to disappoint you. Though as far as Ashutosh’s handful of movies are considered, the music played its part in the entire movie and then kept quiet. The stress was on the wholesome movie and not on the “item” numbers which usually are marketed as by-products of the main movie.
For those who came into the history classes late, or have never ever attended it once, arguably(after all, it wouldn’t be history if we didn’t, get it.) Jodha Bhai was the daughter of King Bharmal who gives away her daughter in marriage to young Jalaluddin, who makes his valiant presence felt in the battlefield, and is soon to be crowned and be known as Akbar the Great.
In keeping with the traditions based on the social customs and conditions of those times, marriages were more political alliances than “suitable”matches, and they kept the entire machinery of the Hindustan’s splintered royalty chugging on smoothly.
Seen as a prequel to Mughal-e-Azam, everything that has been done to Jodha-Akbar has been done in a grand scale or maybe, in Ashutosh Gowariker’s way of translating opulence. I always shiver at the prospect of those period drams that graced our silverscreen in recent times, and the apprehensions are still there, restless, but they have been unceremoniously banished to the back of my mind.
The last one that came in during Diwali(not exactly of the epic variety,but the marketing mandarins were adamant!), in an arresting blue afterglow, and spelling out opulence in big, large, cringing NEON from its every set, had me fleeing the Cinema. And that from another acclaimed Director.
For Hrithik Roshan, this is an “epic role”of a lifetime(though I am wondering what would best describe his role as Gautam Buddha for Shyam Benegal’s next project).
This also happens to be Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan’s first release post wedding, so it gains all the more gravitas as it naturally attains the grand inertia of the the First Family of Bollywood. Mme Rai’s last foray into an epic was to say the least “scathing”.
Maybe its just the beginning of epic roles for Hrithik.
video Aishwarya Rai On An 1 on 1 Interview With Jodha Akbar
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Has Ashutosh Gowariker got it all wrong? Noted historians have contended that his highly publicised film Jodhaa Akbar, starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwariya Bachchan, is factually incorrect.
Noted historians maintain that Mughal Emperor Akbar never married anyone named Jodhabai. And that Jodhabai was, in fact, his daughter-in-law, Jehangir’s wife.
“Historical documents, including Akbarnama and Jehangir’s memoirs, say it was not Akbar but Jehangir who got married to the House of Jodhpur. So the princess was later called Jodhabai,” says historian Satish Chandra, author of NCERT History books.
Agrees historian Mohammad Amin. “Akbar forged alliances with Rajput families and he married the daughter of Raja Bharmal of Amber, who was later titled Maryam Rahmani or the Mother of Rulers of the Universe. But there is no evidence to say that she was called Jodhabai.”
The debate comes ahead of the film’s release next month. Rajput organisations in Rajasthan have threatened to block the release, accusing Gowariker of distorting facts.
When the film was about to go on the floors couple years ago, the Rajput Mahasabha had warned the makers about potential consequences of manipulating history for a political agenda (BJP ruled Rajasthan is due for elections soon as are other BJP states like Madhya Pradesh). Lawsuits were said to be bound to follow for starters with violence following possibly after that.
But since then, apart from the Rajput Mahasabha, a 2nd front, the Karni Sena has stepped forward warning Jodha Akbar also. It has warned the people of Jodha Akbar of physical consequences upon film’s release if they felt an unseemly agenda using coverups and distortion of history was being perpetrated using the cover of this movie. Jodha Akbar has been threatened to be taken off the screens its first weekend itself if that would be the case.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
She is the face of Maharashtra tourism and now model Mugdha Godse is all set for her Bollywood debut and how. The pretty gal will play the role of a supermodel in Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘Fashion’ with scenes reminiscent of Carol Gracias’s famous ‘wardrobe malfunction’.
“It’s a hard-hitting performance oriented role which tracks the journey of a model,” says the 23-year-old. As for the malfunction, it could still happen without being there in the script.
Akshay Kumar’s Sikh look in Vipul Shah’s forthcoming ‘Singh is Kinng’ has been facing objections from the time the first promotional still of the film was released. It is being said that his clean-shaven face with a trendy turban is a mere mockery of the Sikh culture.
Now, there is another photo from the film’s sets which is doing rounds on the net which is facing objections from the Punjabi community in Australia over the way Akshay is wearing a turban.
However, director Vipul Shah insists that the photo does not depict Akki’s real look in the film. It was taken without permission. Vipul Shah defends saying that Akshay is himself a Punjabi and is working in close coordination with stylist Shabina Khan for his look in the film. Apart from this, a local Sikh is always on the sets to guide Akshay about how to wear a turban.
Vipul Shah is shooting almost half of ‘Singh Is Kinng’ in Australia in his two month long schedule. After this the film will be shot in Punjab, Mumbai and Egypt.
Sonali Kulkarni has always stayed away from glamour and unnecessary exposure in films. But now Sonali has dared to bare her back in Sahara One’s ‘Strangers’.
STRANGER is about the emotional turmoil, mind games and a shockingly devious plot that forms the crux of the emotional thriller starring Jimmy Shergill, Kay Kay Menon, Nandana Sen and Sonali Kulkarni. The film’s storyline revolves around the two men who meet in a train and plot to murder each other’s wife.
Director Anand Raj was apprehensive if Sonali would say yes to a semi-nude scene in the bath tub, but since the scene is an integral part of the film and Sonali being absolute professional, she agreed to do the scene stressing that the scene is not to add sleaze in the film.
They made a fabulous team to give up a strong performance in the critically acclaimed ‘Omkara’. Now, director Vishal Bharadwaj and actress Kareena Kapoor team up once again for the love story “Mr Singh & Mrs Mehta” to be produced by UTV. The movie is based on a love story of two married people.
Not long before, Aamir Khan had been chosen for the lead role, but somehow Aamir Khan and filmmaker Vishal Bharadwaj did not agree with each other on certain points in the script and they decided to amicably part ways.
While Kareena Kapoor will play Mrs. Singh, the production house is looking around for Mr. Mehta. Let’s see who eventually bags the role!
Kareena, who is anyway beaming coz of her new found love (Saif Ali Khan), is all smiles again, “Yes, I’m going to work with Vishal again. He is such a sweet human being and a fantastic director. His sense of screenplay is outstanding. He’s a master at character sketches.”
“And what a gripping plot in ‘Omkara’! He was so focused on his script and not at all awed by stars. It’s been a while since I felt so satisfied as an actress,” she added.
Mumbai: Eros INternational invited the media to meet the stars of their forthcoming movie Money Hai To Honey Hai at Filmistan in Mumbai today. A song was being picturised on the lead actors which included Govinda, Celina, Hansika, Aftaab, Upen and Manoj Bajpai.
Venue: Filmistan Studio, Goregoan, Mumbai, Wednesday afternoon
Celebrities Present: Govinda, Celina, Hansika, Aftaab, Upen and Manoj Bajpai
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