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October

• Ranbir’s succeeds with ‘Wake Up Sid’, outfits auctioned
• Bollywood’s first underwater thriller ‘Blue’ releases
• Katrina Kaif walks the ramp in a dress hand painted by Salman himself at HDIL couture week
• Danny Boyle and SRK together attend the Doha 21st Century Leaders Award

November

• Malika Sherawat goes under the knife for a lip surgery
• Neil Nitin Mukesh organized a special screening of his film ‘Jail’
• Shilpa shetty and Raj Kundra tie the knots
• Eesha Kopikar and timmy Narag marry
• Suneil Shetty bags the best actor award for his role in ‘Red Alert – The War Within’.
• Abhishek Bachchan plays revolutionary nationalist Surjya Sen in Ashutosh Gowarikar’s next
• Waheeda Rehman inaugurates 40th international film fest
• Abhay Deol and Miss Great Britain 2006, Preeti Desai are no longer a couple
• Ranbir and Kat together, Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani goes on to be a super duper hit!

December

• Paa becomes super hit (Amitabh’s best performance in recent times)
• Four and a half star rating to 3 idiots which means that this has become the top hit of 2009
• Sushmita Sen adopts Another Baby Girl Alicia

2010 awaits:

2010 too brings special bonanza! Salman Khan’s Veer releases in January. This film will clash with Shahid Kapur’s Chance pe Dance ! February will witness My Name is Khan !!! Karan Johar after 8 years gets together, Shah Rukh Khan aur Kajol in this exceptional Love Story. 2010 summers will witness the ultimate romantic story Kites which features   Hrithik Roshan and Barabara Mori and is directed by Anurag Basu ! Aishwariya Rai & Akshay Kumar’s film Action Replay will also release in 2010. Prakash Jha’s film Rajneeti and Sanjay Leena Bhansali’s film Guzarish will also releasein 2010.

Many films released in the first half of 2009 but only Ifan Khan in Billu Barber and John Abraham in ‘New York’ managed to pull the audience’s attention. However, in the second half, i.e. from July to December many actors have been appreciated for their respective performances.

Saif Ali Khan was fantastic in Love Aaj Kal. Saif had quite a challenging role in the movie but he performed it beautifully. Imtiaz Ali directed Love Aaj Kal is a film that is super hit at the box office and one of its main reason was Saif who was brilliant in both the roles that he portrayed in the film.

Shahid Kapoor played a double role in Kaminey for the first time in his life and there are no doubts about Shahid’s acting. This was a challenging role for Shahid but he performed it brilliantly and he was outstanding in the film. Some critics believe that this was Shahid’s best performance so far.

He is the super star of the industry – Salman Khan has influenced the viewers so much after ages. His film Wanted has gone to become one of the top three hits at the box office. This film proved to be a boon for Salman Khan who reestablished himself as a super star after this film. Salman has a huge huge fan following and this is one of the reason that even a mediocre story starring Salman has the capability of becoming super hit.

This year has also been special for Ranbir Kapoor. All his films this year have been hit to average. His film Ajab prem ki Ghazab kahani is one of the top three hits at the box office. I believe that one of the strong reasons of this movie being hit apart from its script is Ranbir’s acting. He was superb – spontaneous and sensitive at the same time. He handled his role really well. His performance in Wake up Sid and Rocket Singh Salesman of the year is all appreciated.

And the best actor award in my opinion is deserved by none other than Mr. Amitabh Bachchan who was outstanding in the film Auro has indeed been the child sensation of the year. Auro was one of the biggest challenges for Amitabh Bachchan but the way he has performed his role, just leaves you flabbergasted.

January:

• Farah Khan invited as jury for Berlin Film Festival
• Shahrukh’s new year resolution: “I wont do cameos anymore.”
• ‘Chandni Chowk to China’ was the first Indian film which got shot at The Great Wall Of China.
• Slumdog Millionaire bags 11 BAFTA nominations
• ‘Ghajini’ producer presents gold statuette to Aamir Khan
• Legendary playback singer Shamshad Begum receives Padma Bhushan award
• National award winner Bollywood playback singer Udit Narayan, receives Padma Shri

February:

• Amitabh bags World Economic Forum award
• Kareena Kapoor gets an award for Vocational Excellence
• John Abraham will produce a film with director Milan Luthria
• Hairdressers Association wanted Billu Barber’s title changed and it was to Billu
• Sonam Kapoor will play ‘Emma’ in the screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel.
• Sachin Tendulkar complimented hurman Baweja on his performance in ‘Victory’.
• Kareena replaces Katrina in forthcoming Race 2
• Aamir Khan refuses to get waxed at Madame Tussauds!
• Ghajini celebrated its half century at the box office
• Priyanka ranked second on the list of top-quality brand ambassadors of 2008
• Kaizad Gustad to make his directorial comeback with ‘Bombil and Beatrice’
• Freida Pinto’s secret marriage was revealed to Rohan Antao!
• Sharukh Khan teams up with ‘Ghajini’ director A R Murgadoss
• Akshay Kumar charges Rs 150 crore to host a reality show
• Sharmila Tagore and Shashi Kapoor won the Living Legends of Entertainment award from FICCI
• Big B to play Jim Corbett in Priyadarshan’s next ‘Grrr’
• Hrithik’s Kites sold at a whopping amount of Rs 100 crore.
• ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ bags 8 Oscars and Resul Pookutty becomes the first Indian to bag the best sound mixing Oscar for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’
• Saif and Kareena were presented the Most Stylish Youth Icon award

March

• Owing to the Multiplex owners and Bollywood producers’ fights regarding profit sharing ratio, the former go on an indefinite strike.
• Darsheel Safary asks for Rs 1.25 crore for ‘Padduram’
• Ayesha Takia and Farhan Azmi’s ‘nikah’ was performed on the 1st of March
• Asin heads back to Kerala to learn the martial art from, Kalaripayattu
• Farhan Akthar will try his hand at comedy in his forthcoming film ‘Kartik Calling Kartik’
• Hrithik Roshan plays a salsa instructor in his next film ‘Kites’
• Neil Nitin Mukesh and Mugdha Godse agreed to cut their prices for ’Jail’ due to recession
• The censor board passes ‘Gulaal’ with an A certificate and four cuts
• Anil Kapoor offered a lucrative role in the American TV series ‘24’
• Shahid Kapur had taken lessons on lisping and stammering for ‘Kaminey’
• Mira Nair re-releases ‘Salaam Bombay’ after 21 years.
• Farah Khan choreographs Kylie’s song for free as she is her fan
• Censor Board asks Deepa Mehta to cut several violent scenes from ‘Videsh’
• Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra buy a house in London
• Abhay Deol lectures at Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania
• Aishwarya becomes the Bollywood’s highest paid heroine by charging 6 crores for Rajnikanth starrer film ‘Robot’

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.

Priyadarshan has given numerous comical hits to the bollywood. Despite all the superb comedies like Hulchul, Hungama, and recently released Billu, he is still known for movie that signalled his arrival as hit comedy director. Yes, I am talking about Hera Pheri. It was a huge hit and this movie was a landmark and tide-turner for many stars including Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal and Sunil Shetty. Akshay and Priyadarshan thereafter worked in few more movies and they got good success working together. Akshay’s carrer got a new lease of life with Hera Pheri and he found his niche in comedy capers. No wonder, today he is knonw as King Singh of the Bollywood giving a tough challenge to monopoly of Khans and Bachchans.

Hera Pheri 2 did not have Priyadarshan at its helm and yet this one also proved to be a huge success. Now the buzz in the town is of Hera Pheri 3 and 4. It will be directed by Director Anees Bazmee who definitely has a great track record as a director. Who can forget his last laugh riot Welcome? The rumours are rife that the sequels will have Big B along with usual suspects Akshay, Sunil Shetty and Paresh rawal. There is a strong role written for Amitabh’s character and it will be fun to watch how he fares in this successful franchisee.  

It will be an interesting development as Big B has not worked in a comedy since long. So expectations have already started to build up with this announcement. Let’s see how it pans out.