What’s your Rashee ? is so much unlike a typical Ashutosh Gowariker movie. Its not a historical epic, it has nothing thought provoking. Its is a simple romantic “mindless” comedy.
Its very light-hearted movie. The story is about Yogesh Patel, a MBA Grad from Chicago. Circumstances force Yogesh to get married in less than 2 weeks time. Yogesh is now faced with a tough job of finding a bride for himself. He comes up with this crazy idea of meeting one lady of every sun sign and to select one of them to be his bride. In this way he ends up meeting 12 Priyanka Chopra(s).
Every character of Priyanka exhibits certain personality traits of a particular sun-sign. Priyanka as always looks great but her roles are so so. The movie does not provide any chance for a great performances. Harman’s does a decent job. However you need to keep reminding yourself that you are watching Harman and not some Hrithik Roshan duplicate. However Jitu Bhai’s portrayal is awesome.
This is a good time pass movie. Certainly value for money I feel. Go watch it, its worth one watch.
PS: This is a 3.5 hrs movie after cutting 2 songs. There are songs every 15 mins.
Bueno, sería un espectáculo poco frecuente de ver,moda de Bollywood Khan… SRK, Salman y Aamir todos se verá candente en la rampa en la semana próxima en Couture. Aunque SRK con su esposa Gauri estará caminando por la rampa para la recolección de amigos de Karan Johar, Salman ha enlazado en Aamir a caminar por su conjunto . Una fuente dice, “Aamir Khan no suele caminar por la rampa. Como Salman ha solicitado personalmente de él, ha accedido a hacerlo. Además, puesto que es por una buena causa y de la caridad “. Bueno, sería un gusto verlos en la rampa. La Semana Couture se llevará a cabo a partir de octubre 11-16.
सुपरहिट फिल्म “गजनी” के निर्माता अल्लू अरविंद और मघु मनतेना तेलुगू फिल्म “मगाघीरा” का हिंदी संस्करण बनाने जा रहे है। वे फिल्म के मुख्य किरदारों के लिए अभिनेता आमिर खान और रितिक रोशन को लेने पर विचार कर रहे है। मनतेना ने कहा कि हां अल्लू अरविंद और मैं “मगाघीरा” का हिंदी संस्करण बनाने जा रहे है। फिल्म के कलाकारों के विषय में कहना अभी जल्दबाजी होगी लेकिन इसे “गजनी” से ब़डी फिल्म बनाने की योजना है। जुलाई में प्रदर्शित “मगाघीरा” ने अब तक देश में 65 करो़ड रूपये का व्यापार कर लिया है और यह “गजनी” के बाद तेलुगू की दूसरी सबसे ब़डी हिट फिल्म है। फिल्म का हिंदी संस्करण अगले वर्ष तक आने की उम्मीद है। हिंदी संस्करण का बजट 70 करो़ड रूपये तय किया गया है जो कि बहुत ज्यादा है। वास्तविक तेलुगू फिल्म में दो मुख्य किरदार है। जिनमें से एक किरदार 17वीं सदी का और दूसरा वर्तमान समय का है। ये दोनों किरदार अभिनेता राम चरण तेजा ने निभाए है।
Cilla’s brilliant collection of ‘loser songs’ reminded me of this one, I call it a Stalker’s Song.
“Tum mujhko na chahogi to ko baat naheen, tum kisi aur ko chahogee to mushkil hogee..”
It’s an old song, but we have many subtler, modern versions today.
[Roughly translated, this guy says, "If you do not want me it's alright, but if you like another (man) there will be problem.
Now if we are not together, we are not apart either; You haven't accepted me, but you haven't turned me down either
I can live with the thought that you are not mine, so long as you do not belong to another man.
If you do not appreciate my heart, it's okay; but if you appreciate another man's heart, there will be problem..."]
Songs like this one are not about infidelity or a broken heart after a breakup. These songs object to a lack of interest shown by the girl the singer chooses, as in…
“Can I do fraindsheep with you?”
“No.”
“Fine then I will have to throw acid on your face.”
Ever wondered why did he think she can’t turn him down? “It is a normal human tendency to feel sad when rejected by anybody. But, where is this sense of entitlement and anger coming from? Why this feeling that she must like me, I am too good to be rejected, I cannot possibly be turned down? ” Read in Apu’s thought provoking post ‘That Huge Sense of Entitlement‘… (Cross Posted at ‘No Gender Inequality‘)
I have not written in a few days, basically since I wrote “feeling miserable.” And that is because I have been really feeling miserable. Whatever bug I have has knocked me on my butt and the last two days I don’t think I have spent more than about a couple hours out of bed. So when you are lying in bed for long periods of time with OTC cold meds and cough syprup w/codiene playing with your head, you think about strange things. You know those things that make you go hmmmm. Two of these keep popping into my head: Bollywood and Heaven.
I think the reason I am thinking about Bollywood is the ASB kids at school picked it for this year’s Homecoming theme. What is up with this? What the heck is “Bollywood”? If I picked up Webster’s famous dictionary would I find it listed? I did google it on Wikepedia but is that really a dictionary? And why would you pick something that is considered “Indian cinema” for your homecoming theme? How do you decorate the gym for this? A fake Taj Mahal? Dancing girls in Sari’s plastered on the wall? I just don’t get it. It is truely one of the things that make me go hmmmm.
Heaven, now here is an interesting subject and I am sure the reason it has been on my mind so much is that when you are are sick and lying in bed for hours you have that little fear gnawing at the back of your mind that maybe you have something fatal and you are going to die from this bug. Anyway, what is like in heaven, really. Are the streets lined with gold? Clouds everywhere for you to sit on? Is there one big house where everyone lives with God like the Bible says or do we all have our own little condo in one big neighborhood? And once we get up there, who do we live with? My folks are divorced, both remarried and my dad and step dad are in heaven. (or at least I hope they are) So what happens to my mom when she dies does she go live with my dad who was her first husband? Will my stepdad be their neighbor with his first wife and my stepmom and her first husband their neighbors on the other side? How does all this work? My stepmother remarried after my father died but she has divorced him so where does he fit into this? This whole divorce thing and heaven is really weighing on my mind because in my family, both my maternal grandparents were divorced and had remarrid before I was even born. On that side I had 2 sets of grandparents growing up. And being divorced myself what will happen to me? My ex is on wife #4, how will we all fit in at his house? You have to admit, it is very perplexing.
And here is where it really gets crazy…..if you die as a child do you ever grow up in heaven? When your folks get there do they recognize you, do recognize them? And while we are on this subject who do children live with when they go to heaven? Do they live in God’s house like a big orphanage only with heat, blankets and good food?
Do we go shopping in heaven and get food or do we grow it our selves or do we just open the fridge and there it is? Are there fridges in heaven? And if there are do they have Maytag repair men in heaven? Ok that maybe have been a little silly but don’t you ever wonder about this stuff? My friend Mary said when she goes please put a $100 bill and a Nordstrom’ shopping bag in her coffin, just in case.
It is my hope that I will see all my family members who have gone before me when I get to heaven, and there will family gatherings with great food and marathon pinochle games.
Am I going crazy? Is it the cold meds? or maybe the germ is attacking my brain afterall. Not really sure but just know this in one of those things that make me go HHHMMMM.
Girish Kasaravalli, winner of four national film awards—third only to Satyajit Ray (6) and Buddhadeb Dasgupta (5)—and director of Gulabi Talkies which won Umashree a national award for best actress this year, in the latest issue of India Today:
“This year the south has swept the awards which is why the National Awards have been largely ignored by the national media. There is an ‘our cinema’ and ‘their cinema’ as far as Bollywood is concerned.”
Also read: ‘Bollywood: India’s most moronic cultural export’
‘Bollywood’s a scam. Farah Khan is a big, fat con’
Adoor: Do only Bollywood beauties possess glamour?
I had asked almost all of you at the initial audition for Love Times Seven – “why are you auditioning?” and every answer I got was vaguely along the lines of “it’s exciting,” “just interested” and/or “meeting new people.” From then onto the final casting process to workshops to now, you have come to rehearsal every weekend, said your lines, danced your dances, and taken your notes but the question still remains – why? All of us are full-time students, employees or homemakers. Our weekends are supposed to be our time to relax but we find ourselves consumed by the campy 80s or the insane 60s. Some of us are playing dads, other kids in the slum. Some are commuting from far away places, others are staying later at work so they can get things printed and copied. But why?
The financial compensation, though market rate, is hardly an incentive. You could make more per hour working in retail. Are we narcissists? Eager to see ourselves being seen. Egomaniacs who think what we have to say, to share is important? Are we doing this to satisfy our own need to be important, to matter?
Each one of us comes to this project for his or her unique reason and we are all searching for some meaning in the project. Some of us want to dance, some act and others work behind the scenes. Many of us watch and love Bollywood films, others can’t remember the last time they watched one. Some are experienced actors and dancers, others have never been before an audience before. But what we all have in common is that when we signed up for the project, we made a statement. I believe in this. And the conviction that not what you or I or anyone else has to say, but what this project has to say, is important is what drives us to rehearsal everyday. We are here, in service of Love Times Seven, which is bigger than us. We aren’t South Asians looking to represent, Bollywood freaks, egomaniacs, narcissists. We are artists.
And our journey has only just begun. We have a lot more to do now, a long way to go. And if we are to continue to regard Love Times Seven as bigger than our individual wants and desires, then we have to challenge ourselves to do better. We have to push ourselves to grow as actors, dancers, directors, designers. We have to do more than the bare minimum, because the odds are stacked against us. We don’t have all the resources that bigger theatre companies have, we don’t have all the time in the world, and we don’t have everyone’s support. There are people who are expecting us to fail. But I think we all have what it takes.
We cannot ever fully know why we do the things we do; what compels us, moves us, touches us. But I do know that in the coming months, I will push you. I will work on every line that you have to say, every step that you move, and compel you to do more. And if you are open to that challenge, if you can meet it head-on, then your growth as artist will become the driving force of Love Times Seven’s success.
And at the end of it all, we will look back and know why we were at that first meeting or audition.
Confirming reports that his next film is with Suriya, filmmaker A R Murugadoss says the project will be big in all aspects.
“It may take some time to start my next Hindi venture. Before that, I have planned to do a film with Suriya. I have conceived an apt storyline for Suriya for which he too has expressed his consent,” says the ‘Ghajini’ director.
On the movie, he says, “it will be a trilingual to be made in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. The movie’s quality and content will be something new to Tamil cinema. I am currently busy with giving final touches to the script.”
Rubbishing reports that he is demanding more remuneration of late, Murugadoss says, “I wonder where such baseless reports originate from. Frankly speaking, it is not me but my films which decide my salary.”
I recently heard that you will be releasing Kites in the US. I have been waiting for this since I heard it was filming, and am excited that it is coming out.
However, I heard something recently that makes me less excited:
“the foreign version of the film has chopped out all the song and dance sequences that are hallmarks of traditional Bollywood productions. (The numbers will be included in the Indian version.)” (Via this WSJ link, through Ultrabrown)
Um, what? I will explain something here, since the article goes on to say that this move is an attempt to appeal more to Western audiences. I am totally not the usual target market of Bollywood films. However, I love the dance sequences in Bollywood films. They are half the reason I watch. I completely appreciate the desire to make different sorts of films, ones perhaps without dance sequences. I really do. However, if you made the film with them in it, then remove them for a foreign audience, you’re short-changing your fans who already love the films the way they are. Additionally, although I have heard much debate about Hrithik Roshan’s acting (I find him charming), it is generally accepted that he’s a spectacular dancer. In my opinion, cutting these scenes out is like cutting Gene Kelley’s routines out of American in Paris. Why? Aargh.
I certainly hope that at least one theater in the Atlanta area shows the Indian version, or that when it comes out on DVD, I can watch the whole thing, unadulterated.
In conclusion, please don’t mess with something that’s pretty good the way it is (again, I’m fine with no singing and dancing, just when it was intended to be that way from the start).
Your recently disgruntled fan,
Happygoth
(As a completely unrelated aside, I am dismayed to discover that there is no actual “gruntled” in the English language, though I will continue to use it as I always have, for comic effect.)
One more bollywood star now going to rock Television..
After the great performance of perfect bride in movie VIVAH, now Ishq Vishq girl Amrita Rao is going to judge the reality show on Star Plus namely “PERDFECT BRIDE” with Malaika Arora and Shekhar Suman( Koi use Show se nikalo). this is great chance for the AR fan (like me) to watch her on TV.
I have no word to praise Amrita Rao… so leave it enjoy the show.
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PUNE:
‘Harishchandrachi Factory’, a Marathi film based on the making of the country’s first film, was on Sunday chosen India’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language film at the Oscar Awards next year.
Directed by theatre veteran Paresh Mokashi, it is only the second Marathi film after ‘Shwaas’ in 2004 to be chosen for Oscars. The film is based on the experiences of Dadasaheb Phalke during the making of ‘Raja Harishchandra’ in 1913. No Indian film has won a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. ‘Lagaan’ received a nomination in 2002, but lost to ‘No Man’s Land’ from Bosnia.
“Harishchandrachi Factory’ has been selected as India’s official entry for Oscars in 2010. The announcement was made in Mumbai on Sunday,’’ Sushama Shiromanee, honorary general secretary of Film Federation of India, told TOI.
The film, the first by its director, beat competition from 15 other movies, including ‘New York’ and ‘Delhi 6’, to make the grade.
The film has Nandu Mahadev and Vibhavari Deshpande playing Phalke and his wife. The other members of the cast include Mohit Gokhale, Atharva Karve, Dilip Joglekar and Pravin Tarde. It has already won several awards, including best director, best film and best art direction at the 46th Maharashtra State Film Awards, and also for best director at Pune International Film Festival early this year.
The Mumbai-based Paresh Mokashi said, ‘‘The news is a bolt from the blue, but a pleasant one. The inspiration was Phalke himself. Learning about how he made the film and what he went through prompted me to base the movie on the subject,’’ he said.
Mokashi said it unsettled him that people knew just two things about Phalke — he made India’s first feature film, second an award instituted in his name is handed out every year for lifetime contribution to Indian cinema
बॉलीवुड अभिनेत्री बिपाशा बसु अपने बॉयफ्रेंड और अभिनेता जॉन अब्राहम के बाइक प्रेम से काफी परेशान है। दरअसल बिपाशा और जॉन लंबे समय से एक दूसरे से रिलेशनशिप में है। मगर एक तरफ जॉन की गर्लफ्रेंड बिपाशा है तो दूसरी तरफ है उनका बाइक प्रेम।
जॉन बाइक के इस कदर दीवानें है कि जब भी बिपाशा उनकी बाइक पर बैठती है तो वह उन्हें हिदायत देते रहते है कि उनकी बाइक पर कोई खंरोच न आ जाए। उनकी इस बात से परेशान होकर बिपासा ने उनके साथ बाइक पर बैठना ही छोड दिया है।
हाल ही में एक बाइक लॉन्च के फंक्शन में जॉन यहां तक कह चुके है कि वह अपनी बाइक से अपनी बीवी की तरह प्यार करते है और उसे कोई टच करें तो उन्हें अच्छा नही लगता। अब बिपाशा की परेशानी भी ठीक ही है आखिर वो अपने अघिकार किसी और को कैसे दे सकती है, फिर चाहे कोई लडकी हो या जॉन की बाइक।
Bollywood director Ashutosh Gowariker, whose ‘What’s Your Rashee?’ premiered at the 34th Toronto International Film Festival on 18th September 2009. Gowariker, Priyanka and actor Hurman Baweja were given the ceremonial red carpet reception at the city’s Roy Thomson Hall where the film premiered Saturday. And festival co-director Cameron Bailey was on hand to welcome the trio.”It is an honour to have India’s great and very diverse director (Gowariker) here with us today. We welcomed him here in 2001 with ‘Lagaan’ and we welcome him here again, ” said Bailey. Unlike 2001, Gowariker said, Saturday was a special day for him as it was the first time his film was being premiered at one of the world’s top film festivals. “I am apprehensive, waiting in anticipation how the film is received back in India when it is released next week. I hope the planets (rashee) are with me, ” Gowariker told. Waving to the crowd in the theatre hall, Priyanka said she was thrilled to be at the Toronto film festival for the first time. She asked the audiences to be forgiving as it was her first film premiere at a major international festival.
In ‘What’s Your Rashee?’ (What’s your sun sign?), which is based on Madhu Rye’s Gujarati novel ‘Kimball Ravenswood’, Priyanka plays the role of 12 girls who meet bride-hunting NRI Yogesh Patel played by Hurman Baweja. Yogesh, who has been flown in from Chicago by his parents to get married within just 10 days on the advice of the family astrologer, gets responses to his matrimonial advertisement from 165 girls. But since he cannot meet all of them in 10 days, he picks one from each sun sign to meet.
Asked why he didn’t pick 12 different actresses for the 12 roles, Gowariker said at a press conference here: ‘If I had cast 12 different actresses, the audience would have wanted the fairest to win (Yogesh’s hand) and thus beauty would have taken importance.’ But he didn’t want the choice of bride to be made on the basis of the beauty, he said. ‘I didn’t want beauty to play an important role. When I read the novel, I thought why not have the same girl play the 12 parts? I felt that if I cast 12 different girls, beauty will take precedence. To rule out beauty as a factor, I wanted to assure the audience that Yogesh is going to get the same girl.
‘Once you are sure about it, you just sit back and watch how the relationship develops between Yogesh and each girl with a different sun sign, and which sun sign he finally chooses,’ the filmmaker said. Gowariker said his film is as much about sun signs and romance as empowerment of India women. ”What’s your Rashee?’ may seem a romantic comedy, but layers below it is about the girl getting the chance to speak her heart, and express her desires and ambitions. The film reflects the empowerment of women in India today,’ he explained.
In the packed hall, the audience enjoyed every moment as the over three-hour-long film unfolded on the big screen. After initially switching between India and Chicago, the plot settles on NRI Yogesh Patel’s Gujarati family as the search begins for a bride for him. Twelve songs – one for each sun sign – keep the plot afloat as Priyanka changes chameleon-like from the role of one girl to the other. If she is homely in one role, she is a bold student in the other, a dedicated doctor in another and a corporate in the next. If in one role she says she knows nothing about love, in the next she frankly admits to having an affair with someone. The film is set for commercial release Friday.
The director said the film has deepened his interest in astrology. ‘Before making this film, I was concerned only with my own sun sign Aquarius. But after the film, I now understand that each sign has its own qualities. My way of looking at even my childhood friends has changed. ‘If my friend is a Cancerian, I now take care not to offend him, knowing that his sun sign is the emotional type. So I think in romance and relationships, that extra astrological information can be helpful for more bonding,’ he added.
“What’s Your Rashee?” was the second Bollywood film to be premiered this year at the festival after “Dil Bole Hadippa”, which stars Rani Mukerji and Shahid Kapoor.But many other India-specific films were also screened at the film festival this year.These included “Window” (Janala) by Buddhadeb Dasgupta, “The Man Beyond the Bridge” (Paltodacho Munis) by Laxmikant Shetgaonkar, “Road, Movie” by Dev Benegal, and “Cooking with Stella” by Dilip Mehta. There were also quite a few films that were either partly shot in India or have Indian connections. “The Waiting City” by Claire McCarthy revolved around an Australian couple coming to Kolkata to adopt a child. “Google Baby” by Zippi Brand Frank depicts the business of surrogacy motherhood in Gujarat. “The Joneses”, the highly-rated American film by Derrick Borte, had equity from India’s Vistaar Religare Film Fund.
COURTESY: www.santabanta.com
COINCIDENCE: Today afternoon I was talking to my friend Rachna about having a Libran Wife, a Scorpion GF, a Capricorn Companion and an Aquarian Friend. Later I told her to have 12 girls in each sun sign and to select one which will be a Libran. That time I didnt know about the main theme of What’s our Rashee? Really today is a day of Coincidences. Let’s see Harman selects which girl out of 12. I cant wait till I watch the movie and wanna read the novel immediately.
Today we will be looking at Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire the 2008 British breakout hit. The film has been described as one of the finest pieces of conemporary British cinema and a triumphant comeback for Boyle. The film has also courted media attention (particularly in the Daily Mail) because of its treatment of child actors involved with the film.
Slumdog follows Jamal (Dev Patel), an 18 year who has grown up in the slums of Mumbai, as he competes on the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Jamal has been arrested by the police after suspicions were raised that he might be cheating on the show. After initially being tortured the bulk of the film moves to a series of flashbacks of Jamal revealing harrowing incidents from his life that have allowed him to answer the questions on the show. During this the story of his relationship with Lathika (a girl he has loved since his times in the slum) becomes apparent as do the lengths he has gone too in order to try and be with her.
The direction of the film is absolutely superb. Boyle has managed to take what is quite a simple story and turn it into something that is both compelling and imaginative. From the opening scene you are reassured that this is going to be a surprising and unforgettable spectacle, when shots of Jamal being tortured are contrasted with those of him as a child jumping into a load of sewage in order to get an autograph from his favorite Bollywood actor. Boyle skillfully manages to tell multiple stories at once from Jamals hard childhood in the slums, his relationship with Lathika to his appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. All of these stories could have survived quite happily on there own. It is however the skill of a director such as Boyle that he manages to interweave all the elements without under telling any story.
Boyles biggest achievement has to be his ability to tell such harrowing stories and still give a positive ending without it feeling like typical cheesy Hollywood romantic rubbish. The ending feels deserved and not something that could only happen in Mills and Boon or a Sandra Bullock film.
Ignoring the issue of child exploitation and lack of after care paid by the film to those it has made stars (a lack of after care seems to be a specialty of Boyles, the set of the beach destroyed a beautiful area in Thailand). He manages to get a phenomenal performance out of his child actors. The characters seem entirely believable and have nothing false about them.
The films two leads played by Dev Patel and Freida Pinto are extraordinary. Patel is spellbinding. His portrayal of the young “slumdog” is both elegant and gritty. His vercatility as an actor gives him the room to portray a wide range of emotions superbly. By the end of the film you have fallen for the character and are anxiously waiting to see if he will answer the final question correctly. While Pinto also puts in an outstanding performance which is both soft and gritty.
Overall this is a fantastic British film which deserves all of the accolades it achieved at the time. It can be watched by anyone who has a heart and is open minded to cinema that is not always in English (although 70% of the film is in English).
My eyes and ears were riveted for close to half of the movie… Beautiful music (Shankar Jaikishan’s best, and one of Lata’s best), beautiful scenes and settings, real quality acting (Nargis was outstanding), and incredible chemistry between Raj and Nargis. (I’ve also been watching Mela (1948) on and off the past few days, which pairs Nargis with Dilip Kumar. Dilip is great and Nargis is great here also, but the chemistry between them doesn’t come close to this!)
So, I wanted to love this movie, I wanted to say that it was Raj Kapoor’s first masterpiece. But there were a couple of problems for me, such as the plot. The plot just wasn’t very interesting to me, and it ended in completely predictable fashion (which must have been predictable even in 1949, I think).
It basically revolves around two guys roaming around the mountains and various related vacation spots, seeking or finding love with very different approaches. One guy, Gopal, played by Prem Nath, is a big cad, thinking that he can be casual about love, being unfaithful and very neglectful to the pretty and obviously rather vulnerable girl Neela, played by Nimmi. (By the way, I was reminded of her role in Aan, which came out two years later, where she played another love-obsessed and obviously doomed character. I guess Nimmi did well with such roles.) Then there’s the character whom Raj plays, named Pran (probably not a choice that would have been made a couple of years later), who’s a big romantic waiting for the true love to whom he will devote himself wholly, eternally, etc. And that, of course, happens when he meets the Nargis character, Reshma.
Meanwhile, Pran has been giving a few speeches to Gopal about how he’ll get what’s coming to him if he continues his careless behavior, and there are many references to how he’s playing with fire. But Gopal refuses to return to Neela in a timely fashion because he’s having too much fun travelling around, enjoying the night life, dancing with Cuckoo and that sort of thing, while Neela is apparently getting increasingly miserable…
And as the movie progresses, we hear more and more poetic lines being exchanged by everyone with everyone about love. There’s pretty much nothing else that the main characters talk about, and that is the biggest disappointment. Personally, I found myself longing for the social content of Raj Kapoor’s slightly later movies. Maybe it’s just a matter of opinion whether you take to the big questions being raised in movies like Shree 420 and Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai regarding capitalism and socialism, practicality versus idealism, the nature of the outlaw culture, etc., but let me tell you, I love that stuff! Here, there’s some stuff about romanticism versus modernity (with maybe an insight on the brutality of true backwardness), and I think there’s some stuff about the plight of woman(?), but the big questions that make Raj’s ’50s films so interesting to me just don’t arise (yet) - or let’s say arise only barely.
Also, very much unlike in Raj’s somewhat later films, there is no real discussion of how the main male characters must earn a living, what they in fact must do to earn a living, and whether that living can be honest or not. There is a rather moving scene involving a prostitute who is selling herself in order to feed her sick child (a scene that reminded me a lot of a scene from Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa – though Barsaat came out close to a decade earlier), but there seems to be no discussion about how the need to earn a living affects either Gopal or Pran.
Could it be that these two guys are just too independently wealthy to have such concerns? As Philip of Philip’sfil-ums notes, this film seems to be “centered around the adventures of two city boys who apparently have no worldly obligations beyond roaming the Vale of Kashmir in an enormous foreign car, hiring ostentatious bungalows, composing poetry, and breaking hearts.”
As I’ve said, there’s some weirdness in the middle, which I suppose comprises the most suspenseful part of the plot, but it didn’t hold my interest all that much. Mainly, this part revolves around the perils of Reshma. To sum it up quickly, we see Reshma nearly drowned due to a murderous act by her father, who is concerned that her romantic liaisons with Pran will endanger an arranged marriage and, worse, cause insult to the family’s honor. (Could this be one of the earlier films to go in that direction? Certainly, there were a whole lot that did so later…) Then Reshma ends up being rescued from the river by some bullying imbecilic fisherman/woodsman/mountain man(?) who believes that now he has the right to own her and force her to marry him. (And he can get pretty scary - after all, it is K.N. Singh!)
Additionally, there’s some odd Buddhist monk-type “doctor” who seems to enable and facilitate the bullying imbecile’s worst tendencies, mainly because he’s afraid of the guy, and also – at least in the case of the impending wedding – he might get a little money out of the deal. (Not a flattering comment on the spiritual men of the mountains, I guess.) And poor Reshma almost does get bullied into marrying the fisherman/mountain man, but just in the nick of time, Pran and Gopal end up literally crashing her wedding, trashing their expensive car and putting Pran’s life in danger (before it is further endangered by that big bully groom, who really gives a go at finishing him off before the police arrive). After that, there are some dramatic scenes in the hospital where the undying faith of Reshma’s love saves Pran’s life, followed by a joyous reunion.
Gopal also goes through a sort of conversion witnessing all this, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t going to pay dearly for his past sins (though someone else is going to pay even more). And I must admit, the end is certainly sad enough, even though it is also entirely expected. (By the way, if you think there’s any chance you don’t know what’s going to happen at the end, don’t let me spoil that for you. If you have no such concerns, you can see the whole sad ending in this song clip .)
I don’t mean to complain too much about this film because in many ways it is a fine work. I suppose I wouldn’t have been at all disappointed if my expectations near the beginning hadn’t been lifted into the stratosphere. But I think those sorts of expectations could be met more completely with another viewing of Shree 420. (Or maybe, one of these days, if I finally get myself a copy of Awara…)
Its stale news that BigB will be anchoring Big Boss. The fresh news is that, he is commanding a whopping 1.5 crore per episode. That’s like, 126 crore for the 84 episodes that he will anchor.
While SRK got paid 1 crore per episode for Panchvi Paas, which of course failed, both Salman and Akshay charge around 80lakhs per episode for 10KaDum and Khatron Ke Khiladi, respectively. But BigB, being the Big Boss gets the biggest pay packet.
All said and done, the man has some screen presence. His latest ads on tv, for the promotion of Big Boss, looks fabulous. He brings so much grace to the nauseatic reality show, in just the ad; wonder what’s gonna happen in the show. Looking forward to the evictions in the show!
Gangster was a Bollywood movie in 2006. This movie marked Kangana Ranaut’s Bollywood debut. Shiney Ahuja has tasted first success with this movie only. Emraan Hashmi has acted in negative role. Mahesh Bhatt was the director for this mafia back drop movie.
Story revolves around a dancer Simran (Kangana Ranaut) who falls in love with Daya (Shiney Ahuja) who works with a mafia don Khan (Gulshan Grover). When Khan opposes Daya’s love, Daya leaves him and escapes to Australia with Simran. He leaves Simran in Seoul and goes to Dubai.
Akash (Emraan Hashmi) who is a singer, enters into Simran’s life. Simran comes close to him and falls in love with him. Who is Akash and why he entered into her life is the remaining story.
Pakistan cricketer Shoiab Akhtar was the first option for the character Daya. But later went Shiney Ahuja. Kangana Ranaut won many awards for this movie.
Wanted Dead And Alive is the Bollywood movie set to release September 18th 2009. Salman Khan and Ayesha Takia were paired opposite each other. Prakash Raj who won National Award in Best Actor category, has played the negative role. Prabhu Deva has directed this romantic action thriller.
Radhe (Salman Khan) who is a goon joins fights with Ghani Bhai (Prakash Raj)’s gang. But later joins with them and involves in many crimes. Radhe falls for an innocent girl Jhanvi (Ayesha Takia). She notices the dangers involved with his profession and asks him to leave it.
But Radhe asks her to leave him. What is Radhe’s real target, who is he and how he reunited with Jhanvi is the remaining story. Climax twist is the major highlight.
It is remake for Telugu movie Pokiri.According to the sources, Wanted gives a great break to Sayaji Shinde. Dil Bole Hadippa is the other movie, set to release on the same day.
Jett (Dev Patel), an off duty Indian Air Force pilot enjoying a night out, meets Hunni (Freida Pinto), an Air India hostess. They hit it off and have a passionate one night stand.
The next day they’re both back at work in the skies above Mumbai. She is on route to Karachi whereas he is patrolling the airspace above the Taj Mahal – which is on high alert due to an expected Al-Qaeda attack.
The passengers and crew of the Air India flight begin to show symptoms of severe food poisoning. Only Hunni is unaffected (luckily she’s on a diet). With the Captain (Amitabh Bachchan) out of action, it’s down to Hunni to fly the plane (guided by Jett, who is now flying alongside her, having been diverted from his mission). Note: possible opportunity here for some sexual innuendo as Jett tells Hunni to yank the big gear stick as if she were trying to break it off “like you did last night!” etc…
Soon all the passengers and crew are dead. The Special Forces Commander in the control tower (Arjun Rampal) suspects it’s not food poisoning but actually a deadly virus (probably the Al-Qaeda attack they had been warned about!) Rather than let the plane land, he orders Jett to shoot it down. Jett fires all his missiles, but deliberately misses.
In a shock twist-filled climax, an unknown passenger is found on the plane (10-year-old slumdog stowaway, Sanjay Hipplemeyer) Sanjay finds a bottle of poison in Hunni’s handbag (*yes, she is actually an Al-Qaeda suicide bomber (!!) Jett was set up the previous night and now there’s nothing to stop her from crashing the plane into the Taj Mahal (!!)
Sanjay warns Jett just before being pushed out of the plane by Hunni. Jett is forced to take drastic action. He aims his fighter directly towards the jumbo (while flying upside down) and at the last moment he ejects (downwards). The planes collide/explode.
Jett, in his rocket chair, manages to catch up with Sanjay and grabs him. Their parachute opens and they gently land, directly in front of the Taj Mahal. The crowd goes wild.
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, c’est du 100% pur sucre allégé avec des énormes morceaux de clichés dedans. Mention spéciale à l’épisode suisse, ses montagnes enneigées, son chapeau à plumes et son énorme cloche de vache offerte à la damoiselle convoitée en guise de cadeau romantique. A voir de préférence arrosé-frappé (avec option goinfrage de gâteau au chocolat) pour apprécier pleinement les gros yeux spectaculaires du vilain père de famille, la coupe de cheveux ringarde façon “playmobil” de Shahrukh Khan, et la beauté pétillante de Kajol.
Un de mes moments préférés de ce film est définitivement cette jolie scène de bourritude sur fond de Gornergratt * où la belle est carrément pompette et se sent d’humeur un peu chaudasse. L’homme, qui a passé toute la première demi-heure à frimer et à jouer les playboys de service, lui, a soudain froid au pieds (un peu moins à 3′09 lors du délacement miracle de ses grolles avant chute dans piscine de pauvres)
Et puisque l’humeur du jour est sotte, j’en profite pour souhaiter une bonne fête à tous les Materne, Ermemburge, et Odilard, ce qui me donne l’impression de rédiger un message pour Radio Londres.
( * Là, il y a incertitude. Le premier qui localise l’arrière plan avec précision gagne son poids en saucisse de Toulouse)
Radio is a Hindi film starring Indian rockstar Himesh Reshammiya as a RJ. The film is directed by Isshaan Trivedi of 7 1/2 fame. The music is directed by the rockstar himself. Himesh plays a radio jockey in this film. HR has short hair look all throughout the film and most of the songs are sung in HR’s new voice- middle base octave.Joining the league were the cast and crew of the film – Sonal Sehgal, Shehnaz Treasurywala and Director Isshaan Trivedi. Listeners will get to hear Himesh’s new Voice with songs like ‘Mann ka Radio’, ‘Koi na Koi Chahiye’, ‘Shaam ho Chali Hai’, ‘Zindagi Jaise Ek Radio’, ‘Jaan-e-Mann’, ‘Teri Meri Dosti ka Aasmaan’, ‘Piya Laadu’, ‘ Daamaadji’ only on the hottest radio station.
A modern day love story, the movie has ‘Radio Mirchi’ as an integral part of the film in which Himesh plays the role of Vivaan Shah, a Radio Mirchi RJ.
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Mann Ka Radio Zindagi Jaise Ek Radio Jaaneman Piya Jaise Ladoo Motichur Wale Koi Na Koi Chahe Teri Meri Dosti Ka Aasmaan Damadji Angana Hai Padhare Shaam Ho Chali Hai Rafa Dafa Kiya Nahi Jaaye Zindagi Jaise Ek Radio – Remix Mann Ka Radio – Remix Piya Jaise Ladoo Motichur Wale – Remix
I was watching (yes, guilty pleasure) Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahi a few days ago, courtesy the cable TV operator who removed all Indian channels as soon as Ramadan started, leaving us to watch the films of his choice. (That includes Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and other 90s drivel).
Now while Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahi isn’t an original film, I actually do enjoy watching it. In the ’90s, Tiku Talsania was one of my favourite comic actors, who also played the desperate-to-inaugurate-a-jail inspector in the best Indian film ever made, Andaz Apna Apna. His portrayal of a hassled editor is hilarious and Aamir’s desperation to sell him a story for 10,000 rupees is quite a moment.
It left me thinking – (no I don’t spend my time thinking about the film but the cable TV guy reran it thrice and frankly, there’s not much to do these days) – about recent films that have showcased journalists and journalism. Bad, good, pathetic, whatever – they’re all in the mix.
Madhur Bhandarkar’s Page 3 was a fairly decent attempt to showcase the life of a journalist writing about the social scene. Konkona Sen Sharma stars as the Page 3 writer who doesn’t take the scene too seriously until she discovers that behind the glitz lurks a child-abuse scandal. Her attempt to report on the scandal gets shot down by the editor (Boman Irani) but she turns her hand to crime reporting (aided by the underrated Atul Kulkarni, whose film Satta with Raveena Tandon is a must-watch) and that’s the end of her days reporting on the high flyers.
And then there was Nayak, starring Anil Kapoor and the late Amrish Puri. Kapoor plays a TV talk show host who gets challenged by the Chief Minister to run the state instead of harping on as a host. That one day is brilliant (Kapoor manages to deal with almost every civic problem known to mankind) and a friend of mine thinks its probably the film that inspired Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif’s second run in office. With the amount of criticism talk show hosts in Pakistan dish out, the day they get challenged to just stop whining and take charge of affairs isn’t too far away.
Mission Istaanbul, which undoubtedly was one of the worst films to have been released in 2008, showcases a television channel who has become famous for their links to the Taliban in Afghanistan and their popularity, fuelled by their release of videos by terrorists. The channel then turns out to be an operation that merely produces these videos to keep their ratings up. On paper, it may have been a somewhat plausible story, but the bad acting, unbelievably bad script and the loopholes in the story made it a viewer’s nightmare. Not even worth the pirated CD.
In Guru, Mithun Chakraborty plays a newspaper editor who makes it his mission to cut Abhishek Bachchan down to size. R. Madhavan plays a reporter who makes it his mission to reveal Bachchan’s underhanded tactics.
Apparently there’s a film on NDTV journalist Barkha Dutt in the works, and I’m sure there are a considerable number of films I’ve missed out. Anyone who watches Bollywood films obsessively, please fill in the gaps by commenting.
निर्देशक प्रियदर्शन की एक फिल्म की शूटिंग के दौरान अभिनेत्री उर्वशी शर्मा को काफी असहज हालातों से गुजरना पडा। फिल्म के एक गाने की शूटिंग के दौरान अचानक उर्वशी के ब्लाउच का बटन टूट गया। उर्वशी इस असहज स्थिति से बचने के लिए तुरंत वैनिटी वैन की ओर भागी। हालांकि उस समय शूटिंग के दौरान काफी कम लोग मौजूद थे। फिल्म के कोरियोग्राफर पोनी वर्मा ने भी इस खबर की पुष्टि करते हुए कहा कि हां, ऎसी दुर्घटना हुई, लेकिन आप लोग इसे इश्यू क्यों बनाना चाहते है। उर्वशी ने इस घटना पर कहा कि शूटिंग के दौरान मेरे ब्लाउज का बटन टूट गया। हालांकि मैंने खुद को अपने हाथों से ढक लिया। संयोग से उस दृश्य की रिकार्डिग नही हो रही थी, इसलिए कुछ भी रिकार्ड नही हुआ। इसके अलावा जहां सीन की शूटिंग हो रही थी, वहां काफी कम लोग थे।
I started watching Hum a little over two weeks ago. I watched half an hour, then turned it off, and only the last couple nights have I gotten around to watching the rest. I was planning on making a real review of this complete with screencaps, but I just can’t stand to.
(IMDB) Bhaktawar (Danny Denzongpa) is a criminal mastermind, and his most active territory is the dockyard. He constantly gets irritated by the dockyard’s union leader, Tiger (Amitabh Bachchan), and only tolerates him, because Tiger’s dad is his bodyguard. During a confrontation between Tiger and Bhaktawar, Bhaktawar is reportedly killed, and Tiger has to run for his life, this time from the police, even abandoning his love Jumalina Gonsalves (Kimi Katkar). Years later, Tiger surfaces as a bespectacled mild-mannered man, with two younger brothers (Rajnikant & Govinda), one of whom is a police inspector. Soon the past catches up with Tiger.
Why did it take me so long to watch it? It’s an Amitabh Bachchan masala film, what’s not to love?
One of the main reasons – the treatment of women. The character Jhumma gets lifted up and flipped upside down after she put the coin down her top, then when fighting with Tiger in some mud gets her top ripped off. She later gets guys panting all over her, and her clothes start falling apart when she gets sprayed by a giant hose.
Though she is a strong character, seeing how Tiger and Jhumma fell in love (skirt lifting, mud wrestling, blouse ripping, giant-hose-that-tears-off-your-clothes) was just… ‘Eh?’ In the second half of the film, however, we have a real strong character in the form of Tiger’s sister-in-law. She was the woman of the house. A traditional wife on the outside, firecracker on the inside. Hell, she even got to yell at a big name general. It’s really strange how the two halves of the film could be so different.
Amitabh’s character Tiger was another reason it took me so long to watch Hum. In the first half, not the second. In the first half he was a drunk, he was womanizer, he was a ruffian. He was not a very likable guy.
In the second half of the film? He’s really sweet. There were only two scenes in the second half that irked me (aside from every time Anupam Kher was on screen being god awfully annoying). One was where Amitabh was pretending to be a general (talk about annoying!).
The second being the scene where Govinda and Rajnikant dance/fight/grind disturbingly to some cracked remix of the Batman theme. I must say that out of all the questionable scenes in the film (top getting ripped off, the giant hose, woman and her daughter getting set on fire, Amitabh as the drunken ruffian, etc, etc) this is the one that bothered me the most. I know, I don’t understand it either. It’s on YouTube:
If only the first half of the film was like the second half, minus the Batman mix. The second half had a scene that actually made me cry! Jhumma and Tiger getting reunited was just so sweet!
Even though I found Anupam Kher to be awfully annoying to the point where I wanted to fast forward through every scene he was in, it was interesting to see how he – the comic relief – morphed into the true villain of the film. Danny Denzongpa played the criminal mastermind, but in the end I felt bad for him. Anupam Kher’s character was such a disgusting individual.
One of the best parts of the film (the reason I even got this film!), even though I’m still a little, ‘EH?’ over the giant hose:
I’m a little confused on how the two halves of the film could be so different. I really liked the second half, but really did not like the first half.
Sunday was a thriller movie which revolves around an innocent girl Sehar (Ayesha Takia) . Ajay Devgan and Arshad Warsi played other key roles in this movie. It was remake for a Telugu movie called Anukokunda Oka Roju.
Esha Deol has appeared in an item number. Ajay Devgan , Murli Sharma and Ayesha Takia also appears in this song. It was shot in a costly pub set. Shibani Kashyap has composed and sang this song. Esha Deol appeared in a red dress in the entire song.
Mazhar Kamran who has worked as cinematographer for the movies like Satya and Kaun, made his debut with the movie Mohandas. He came with very good story line, which revolves around fake identity.
Mohandas (Nakul Vaid) a poor boy from the family who weaves baskets. He is a topper in studies. He gets a good job at coal mines. But he never receives offer letter to join in that job. Later he notices that, some other person has joined in that job with his name Mohan Das.
Mohan Das tries to protest this, but police beats him hardly and throws away. He sends a tape about his problem to a channel reporter Meghna Sengupta (Sonali Kulakarni). She confuses about this issue first and visits his native place to know more details.
Lawyer Harsha Vardhan (Aditya Srivatsav) enters into the scene to help Mohandas. How Meghna and Harsha solved this problem is the remaining story.
Director Mazhar Kamran said that, screenplay and Sonali Kulkarni’s action are highlights for this movie.
Bollywood as a whole is a fitness addict. The fitness addiction bug doesn’t spare anyone belonging to this place. Even though she’s already quite slim and svelte, Govinda’s daughter Narmada Ahuja is the latest debutante to jump onto the treadmill.
Narmada Ahuja
The incorrigible beauty who is getting ready to announce her debut film, has been exercising strictly over the past weeks, led by her personal trainer, Viraj Samalkar. And the results seem to be showing.Her health, hair and face is glowing as never before.
Not that she needed to, but Narmmadaa has already lost around four to five kilos of weight under Samalkar’s guidance. Viraj has put her on a strict regimen of dieting and exercise.
“I’m very particular about working out and sometimes even manage to workout at the break of dawn.” Though the newbie says, she prefers exercising “on warm summer mornings, rather than these dull rainy ones”. While she has her mind set on her health, Samalkar makes her do thirty crunches every alternate day that in her own words, are “the
most tedious part of the regimen.”
But if there is one thing that Narmada has no complaints about, it’s her diet. A mix of carbohydrates and proteins, along with lots of vegetable juices and chicken, she simply loves binging out on it, while still maintaining her 25-inch waist.
Date of Birth: 24th March, 1979.
Nickname: Serial Kisser, Farhaan.
Height: 5′9″
Education: Graduate (Sydenhum College).
Debut Film: “Footpath”
Film Awards: None
EMRAAN HASMI
Emraan Hashmi was born to a Muslim father and Catholic mother. After graduation he made up his mind to pursue his career in film industry. Emraan Hashmi made his Bollywood debut with the film “Footpath”. But he shot into fame with the hit film “Murder”. His next few films such as “Zeher“, “Kalyug“, “Aksar“, “Gangaster” and “Ashiq Banaya Aapne” were successful at box office and almost all the songs in his films sang by either Himesh Reshamiya or Kunal Ganjawala, became huge hits.
The serial kisser himself is fed up with on-screen kissing. Emraan tried to shed his image of serial kisser in the film “Awarapan”.He continued the idea by doing away with kissing in his recent release Raaz-The mystery continues. Even in his interviews, Emraan has said that he will not be doing any kissing scenes in his future films.
Description: Emraan Hashmi made his Bollywood debut with the film “Footpath”. But he shot into fame with the hit film “Murder”. His next few films such as “Zeher”, “Kalyug”, “Aksar”, “Gangaster” and “Ashiq Banaya Aapne” were successful at box office and almost all the songs in his films sang by either Himesh Reshamiya or Kunal Ganjawala, became huge hits. The serial kisser himself is fed up with on-screen kissing. Emraan tried to shed his image of serial kisser in the film
“Awarapan”.He continued the idea by doing away with kissing in his recent release Raaz-The mystery continues.
