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Atithi Tum Kab Jaaoge

Many upcoming movies are generating curiosity amongst movie buffs. Ajay Devgan who is fresh from his last release ‘All the Best’ is in news for his upcoming venture named ‘Athithi Tum Kab Jaaoge’. There are quite a few gossips about the inspiration of the movie. Some gossip columns talked about movie being a copy of a Hollywood movie whereas some other attributed its story to some other sources. But recently the producer of the movie Kumar Mangat cleared all the confusion in a press conference. He said the movie is inspired from a book.

Well known satirist Late Sharad Joshi had written a short story named Tum Kab Jaoge Atithi and the movie in question is based on the same book. Movie stars Ajay Devgan and Konkana Sen along with Paresh Rawal who is apparently playing the role of Atihti. The team of the movie has yet to release any poster or look of the film. Only the working still of the movie has been released. The movie is co-produced by reputed Hollywood production house Warner Bros Picture India in association with Amita Pathak’s banner Wide Frame Films. Though the poster of the movie does look similar to a Hollywood movie but similarity ends there.

The theme of the movie, as the name suggests is quite humorous and based on a common problem faced by many Indian households, i.e., having guests that never leave. This movie is the first production venture of Amita Pathak and those who don’t know her yet, she is the daughter of Kumar Mangat who has got quite a reputation in films production. The movie will be directed by Ashwin Dhir and will be shot in a flat duration of 50 days in the Yashraj studios. The movie is supposed to release on 26th of February.


Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year preview

Starring Ranbir Kapoor, Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year is one of the most awaited films of 2009. Directed by Shimit Amin of Chak De India fame, Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year has its first look released. The film is produced by Yash Raj Films and the screenplay is done by Jaideep Sahni. Apart from Ranbir Kapoor, the film also stars Sharon Prabhakar and Gauhar Khan who play pivotal roles in the movie. The film also stars Shazahn Padamsee, daughter of Alyque Padamsee who is making her debut in this film. This film is set to release on the 11th of December, 2009.

Considering that Ranbir Kapoor has already had two hits this year namely Wake up Sid and Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year has that star power to pull the audience. Moreover, Ranbir’s look in the movie is much talked about and the film’s first look sure promises us with something different that the usual. Apart from Ranbir’s fame, it is director Shimit Amin whose credibility is already established with the success of Chak De India. Besides this, the film is produced by Yash Raj banner which gives it a strong backing.

Rocket Singh is a character who is sometimes thoughtless, sometimes thoughtful kind of a guy. This is the story of a fresh graduate who usually faces this problem of trying to find a balance between the crazy demands of a professional life and the way of his heart. In doing so, he comes upon a crazy way which turns his world and his career. Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year sure seems to be a promising film and if this film is a hit at the box office, then it will be a hatrick for actor Ranbir Kapoor.


Paa preview

Paa is one film whose poster itself speaks a thousand words. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Vidya Balan and it is for the first time that Amitabh Bachchan will star in a film as a child. The film is directed by R Balakrishnan who earlier directed Cheeni Kum again with Amitabh Bachchan starring opposite Tabu. Ilaiyaraaja, the famous south Indian maestro has composed the music for this movie.

Paa is a story of a thirteen year old boy Auro (Amitabh Bachchan) who is intelligent and witty. However he suffers from Progeria, which is an extremely rare genetic disorder where symptoms resembling aspects of aging are manifested at an early age. Auro lives with his mother Vidhya (Vidya Balan) who is a gynecologist. Amol Arte (Abhishek Bachchan) is Auro’s father who is a young idealistic politician. Amol wants to prove to the world that ‘politics’ is not a bad world. Paa’s tagline says “a rare son father father son story’ and indeed it is. The story revolves around the relationship between Amol and Auro.

Apart from the star power of Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan, Paa is a subject that is so strong by itself. It is intriguing to see Amitabh Bachchan act like a 13 year old. There is already so much curiosity build around the movie that people are dying to watch the film. To me, Paa seems to be the most promising film of 2009.


Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani

After the success of Wake up Sid, Ranbir starrer Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani is one of the most awaited films of this year. This romantic comedy has already impressed the audience with its new stylish promos. Moreover, Ranbir and Katrina make a great pair.

 This movie has a simple storyline. Prem has one motto in life which is to be happy and make everyone around him happy. On the other hand Jennifer/Jenny played by Katrina Kaif longs to love and be loved in returned. Thus both of them seem to lead simple lives with their simple goals. But the twist comes in when these supposedly simple goals turn into disasters for Prem and others. Later, due to a mistaken identity, Prem kidnaps Jenny and tries to pull a fast one over her father. However jenny has indifferent and uncaring parents. And it was love for Jenny that made Prem an evolved person. He begins to work hard to make money.

 Later Prem falls so much in love with Jenny that he does everything to make Jenny happy. Jenny on the other hand was so much in love with the idea of being in love that she was blinded by the reality that her true love was Prem. This movie is directed by Rajkumar Santoshi who is directing a romantic comedy after a long time.

 The music of the movie is given by Pritam and the lyrics are given by Irshad Kamil and Ashish Pandit. The songs of this film have been extremely popular especially Tu Jaane Na sung by Atif Aslam and Tera Hone Laga Hoon by Atif Aslam, Alisha Chinoy. Other songs like Prem Ki Naiyya, Main Tera Dhadkan Teri and Oh my God have also been liked by many.


Fruit And Nut Review

Directed by ace comedian Kunal Vijaykar, Fruit And Nut boasted of a talented star cast but unfortunately it leaves a lot to be desired. Released this Friday, movie stars Cyrus Broacha, Boman Irani, Dia Mirza and Mahesh Manjrekar.  The biggest drawback of this movie is it is supposed to be an out and out comedy and yet it makes you laugh only intermittently. No doubt, star cast is talented but they definitely needed a strong story line to act and perform but that’s the tragedy of this comedy. Comedy is mostly senseless and all the absurd gimmicks shown in the movie are much better avoided that accepted. This movie was supposed to be first full-fledged comedy movie of Dia Mirza who is trying to stage a comeback but unfortunately for her, it has failed miserably.

The movie revolves around Jolly Maker (Cyrus) who though is a simpleton and hard working is looking for success, money, fame and love. He loves to create disastrous scenarios and is quite a goofy character. He works for a corrupt builder. Then one day, his sexy and beautiful colleague Monica gets mysteriously kidnapped and thereafter it becomes the responsibility of Jolly to find Monica amidst all the goof-ups. That’s what the rest of the movie is all about.

Debutant director Kunal Vijaykar tries really hard but then he needs the support of a strong script and screenplay. Some of the jokes and situations are funny but they tend to get repetitive and lose shine. Most of the comic situations are not funny enough. Cyrus tries hard to save the movie but to no avail. All in all, star cast has performed reasonably well but it’s the script that acts as a letdown.


All The Best – Movie Review

This Diwali saw release of three big movies; All The Best, Blue and Mr and Mrs Khanna. Needless to say, bollywood had it as good as it gets. Movie goers had plenty of choices considering the different genres of these three movies. The first one was a comic caper whereas Blue was an outright action-thriller whereas Mr and Mrs Khanna was a romantic drama. Talking about All The Best, movie has done a wonderful business. The Golammal team returned with this movie and they have continued their laugh riot. Ajay Devgan surely seems to have this fine knack of producing hit comic movies. I mean, here is one star who is hardly ever in limelight except when his movie is about to be released and yet he delivers the stuff whenever needed.

People all across India seems to have enjoyed this movie immensely. Directed by Rohit Shetty, movie has lived up to its hype and has managed to garner good reviews across all the TV channels and Newspapers. Movie stars, Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Bashu and Mughda Godse. Sanjay Dutt looks to have enjoyed his role a lot as can be sen from his total natural performance in the movie. Ajay Devgan, as usual has always been a performer. Support casts like Atul Parchure, Johnny Lever and Sanjay Mishra have done commendable job.

The movie is basically a situational comedy and a wonderful laugh riot all the way. Music is peppy and in sync with plot of the movie and background score keeps up well with the comedy. Those looking for dialogues and actions will also relish this Diwali Dhamaka. Now we are wondering whats next; Golmaal 3 or All The Best 2?


Kurbaan

Featuring the real life couple, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor Kurbaan is a film set against the backdrop of global terrorism which is directed by Rensil D’Silva and produced by Karan Johar. The film also features Vivek Oberoi who is a journalist and Dia Mirza who is a reporter.

 Avantika Ahuja (Kareena Kapoor) lives in the US but because her father has a cardiac arrest she returns to Delhi where she meets Ehsaan (Saif Ali Khan), a Delhi University Professor. They fall in love, get married and move to the US.

 After moving there, Avantika realizes that Ehsaan is a terrorist who married her only to cover his identity. Avantika finds out that Ehsaan plans to hijack a flight and one of the passengers on that flight is a journalist (played by Vivek Oberoi). Kurbaan becomes an important film for Kareena Kapoor because after Main aur Mrs Khanna’s poor box office collection, she needs a hit to maintain her position which this film can provide her. Saif also for a change would be seen in a different avatar and not playing his usual confused but cute kind of character.

 This movie is shot in Philadelphia and in Brooklyn. Kurbaan has some refreshing sound tracks. The music is given by Salim – Sulaiman. I love all the songs of the film which are Shukran Allah sung by Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal, Salim Merchant, Dua by Sukhwinder Singh, Kailash Kher, Marianne D’Cruz Aiman , Ali Maula by Salim Merchant, Rasiya by Shruti Pathak, Kurbaan Hua by Vishal Dadlani and the remixes as well.


Diwali Bonanza

This Diwali offered a triple bonanza to the movie goers. Not one but three big budgeted movies with top stars were released. The movies that were released All The Best, Blue and Main Aur Mrs Khanna had top notch stars of the bollywood. Millions were riding on the success of these movies. The movies were also an indicator of success starved bollywood this year. 2009 has relatively been a cold affair for bollywood business but thankfully Blue and All The Best managed to open on bumper notes. It is being said that combined collections of these two movies are now the best ever in the history of Bollywood. That is something to cheer for! Those stats also put at rest the rumours of economic recovery sustainability. According to trade sources, Blue has netted no less than 33 crores in the first week and All The Best has also managed to garner net 25 crores. However, Main Aur Mrs Khanna did not get rave reviews and opened on poor collections of mere 8 crores. All in all, bollywood netted 65 crores in Diwali week.

The earlier held record of highest grossing Diwali week was by Golmaal Returns and Fashion that had garnerd 60 crores. But i must point out that earlier collection was achieved on a 9 days extended run as both the films had released on Wednesday. That definitely makes it a cheerful reason for bollywood to celebrate this festive season. All The Best has continued its winning runs in following week whereas Blue has slightly been subsided. However it must be noted that collections would have been much higher had both films been released separately. But what has worked in their favour is subsequent releases like Fruit And Nut and Bal Ganesha proved to be dud at the box office. They have one more week to enjoy before London Dreams and Aladin releases.


London Dreams

 Now everyone is awaiting the upcoming movie London dreams that stars actors Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan and Asin. The film is directed by noted filmmaker Vipul Shah and the music is given by famous music composer trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.

 Since the movie is about a band the songs are rock music inspired so that they can match the story of the film. Songs of the movie which have featured recently are “Khanabadosh” which is my favorite as well.

 The story of this film is about two childhood friends Arjun (Ajay Devgan) and Mannu (Salman Khan). Both of them have some connection through a music lineage in their family. Arjun has always dreamt of being a stage performer as he wanted to fulfill his grandfather’s ambition while on the other hand, Mannu has little interest in making it big and is happy being a simpleton.

 Thus we have Arjun on one side who is diligently pursuing his dream and on the other we have Mannu who is happy with the way he is be trying to make his livelihood by playing as a wedding band performer at the village back in India. Arjun leaves his uncle and finally makes it to London which he feels is the place which will help him to realize his goals.

 Arjun creates a band with two brothers who have duped their relatives in Pakistan to travel to London in pursuit of their musical aspirations. The band also consists of Priya (Asin), who is a music enthusiast from a conservative South Indian family. Mannu is however shown at this stage to. Now Arjun invites Mannu to London to be a part of the band.

 When Mannu arrives he is totally a charmer and a entertainer. He thus becomes popular with the audience with his unique style of performing. Now Arjun starts feeling envious of Mannu. Even Priya starts sensing that she is developing a soft corner for Mannu. Now when the band travels across Paris, Rome and Amsterdam, Arjun deceives Mannu in case of drugs. Later the band heads to London to perform in front of a huge audience, the viewer is told that Arjun’s grandfather had failed before a similar audience. Mannu thus comes to senses and supports his childhood mate Arjun.


Blue – Movie Review

Blue was one of the most anticipated movies of the year. Movie had promised a lot because of its huge star cast and splendid actions never seen before on the Indian screens. The budget of the movie was said to be extremely extravagant. Blue has been extensively shot in heavenly waters of Bahamas and producers have left no stone unturned in making those underwater sequences memorable. But somewhere movie fails to deliver the final punch. Despite all the hype and tons of expectations, few things about the movie seem quite out of the place.

Dialogues leave a lot to be desired and the final twist was nothing less than a childish gimmick. A movie needs to have some substance to back its style quotient. The movie has definitely opened up on good footfalls but it is a matter of speculation how long it will be able to sustain interest of the people. The movie stars Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Jayed Khan and Lara Dutta. Akshay has got a new goatee for the movie and has definitely the lead role of the movie. Lara looks stunning in bikini and underwater scenes whereas Sanjay Dutt seems to have some issues with weight.

The movie is about treasure hunt buried deep within the ocean. The movie also has a song by Kylie Minogue and it has been quite a hit amongst the people. Songs have been composed by Maestro A R Rehman and needless to say, you are sure to love them. Just check any song and you are bound to love it. The background score and stunts shown in the movie are definitely worth a watch.


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