Thursday, November 20, 2008

Golmaal Returns


Now a days, tradition of sequel is going on in Bollywood rapidly. In this chain, director Rohit shetty has released new edition Golmaal Returns which is a sequel of Golmaal (2006). The difference between Golmaal and Golmaal Returns is that Shreyas Talpade replaces Sharman Joshi and Kareena kapoor, Amrita Arora, Anjana Sukhani and Celina Jaitley are new additions in Golmaal Returns.

In movie, Gopal (Ajay Devgan) is Ekta's (Kareena Kapoor) husbad. Both lives with Esha (Amrita Arora) who is Gopal's sister and Lucky (Tushaar Kapoor) who is Ekta's brother. Ekta is over suspicious wife who always has doubt on her husband as she is fond of daily saas-bahu's serials. One day Gopal get gets stuck in a yacht one night after he saves an attractive young woman Meera (Celina Jaitley) from the dreaded goons, while on his way back home from office. Due to the circumstances, both of them stay back on the yacht.

Next day, when Gopal arrives his home, his over suspicious wife Ekta suspects him of flirting around with his female employees. Then Gopal thinks that it’s difficult to convince her by telling her about the incident that actually took place the prior night and hence, he invents a story about spending the night with a fictitious friend named Anthony Gonsalves . Ekta does not believe his story as she knows that he never had a friend by that name, and hence, she decides to write to Anthony to come and visit her. At same time, Lucky tells Gopal that his wife is trying to investigate about Anthony Gonsalves. Then, One of Gopal junior, Laxman (Shreyas Talpade), helps him to pretend like Anthony, and convince Ekta that he was indeed telling the truth. Here comes twist in the story. The address on which Ekta had written a letter to Anthony turns out to be real. Meanwhile, Gopal finds out that a dead body was found at the same location where he saved Meera from the goons. The Investigating Officer Madhav (Arshad Warsi), who is Esha’s boyfriend and also hates gopal. Madhav investigates and finds out that Gopal was missing from his home that very night and that the dead person was Gopal's collegue and Gopal had threatened to kill him. Madhav also finds out that Lakshman is not the real Anthony. He asks Gopal to get Meera to the police station to prove that Gopal had been with her, not murdering his employee. In panic, his friends hire a woman called Munni who needs money to get her boyfriend Vasuli (A character from the previous Golmaal) out of jail. But Munni is kidnapped by the murderer.

Then vasuli comes to Gopal's house, where Gopal, Lakshman and Lucky learn the woman was none other than Meera . After an initial shock, they decide to go to the police station. However, Vasuli kidnaps Meera in anger, and they follow him, along Madhav, Esha and Ekta. Gopal learns that this was a plot concocted by his employer to frame him for the murder. Through a series of comic events, Ekta gets back with Gopal and they have their happy ending.

The music of Golmaal Returns is tremendous which is composed by Pritam and its lyrics is written by Sameer.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Fashion


After CHANDNI BAR, PAGE 3, CORPORATE and TRAFFIC SIGNAL, Madhur bhandarker's new movie is FASHION which mainly focus on the good and bad side of fashion world. This time, Madhur focuses on glamour world through this movie. No doubt, this movie is packed with a punch to get a good response and appraisal. The movie portrays lead roles slowly moving into to the hideous, ugly world of glamor, what lies beneath those arch lights, bright flashes and glittering glamor is unfolded in known but near to life style of Madhurkar Bhandarkar.

The story of fashion resolves around an ambitious small-town girl Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra) who wants to make it big in the fashion industry as a supermodel. Then, she conveys her wish to go to Mumbai to her parents (Raj babber and Kiran juneja) but strict father refuses her. Against her dad’s wishes, Meghna leaves her house with dreams in her eyes to strike it big in the modeling world from Chandigarh. In the city of dreams, she starts her struggle to reach the top of the fashion world. But she gets a good helping hand with Rohit (Ashwin Mushran) an aspiring designer who assists big shot designer Rahul Arora (Sameer Soni). Then, she meets with maanav (Arjan) who is also a struggling model. Meghna becomes good friends with Maanav. Meghna gets noticed by India’s top modeling agency Panache’s top official, Anisha Roy (Kitu) who brings her to Panache boss, Abhijit Sareen (Arbaaz khan). But there is top model of Panache who is Shonali (Kangana) but though very successful, her drug habit starts becoming a problem for her and subsequently for Panache. Due to this problem, Abhijit decides to terminate the contract with Sonali and replaces Meghna in her place. Now, Meghna is everywhere – right from being the showstopper at the biggest fashion shows in town to fashion magazine covers to print ads to TV commercials. But her success turns into arrogance and she had to sacrifice a lot including his boyfriend Manav, (Arjan Bajwa), her good friend Janet (Mugdha Godse) and she loses her respect too. She starts to see recession in her career but she is not the one to accept defeat so easily.

On the other hand, Janet who portraits an ambitious model but never succeed but married to a gay designer for an easy life. Music of movie is also good one who is composed by Salim-Sulaiman. Over all, movie has lots of material packed in from love making to hot models, wardrobe malfunction, gay love, casting couch and yes talking about designer tagging clothes with their on name.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Jaane Tu...ya jaane na


Jaane Tu...ya jaane na is debut movie for Imran Khan as a actor who is Aamir Kha's nephew. This movie is also produced by Aamir khan and Mansoor Khan. The movie also marks debut for Abbas tyrewala as a director. Actress Genelia D'Souza re-appear in the bollywood through the movie. Jaane Tu...ya jaane na is a romantic movie starring Imran Khan (Jai Singh Rathore, 'Rats'), Genelia D'Souza (Aditi, 'Meow'), Ratna Pathak Shah (Savitri Rathore), Naseeruddin Shah (Amar Singh Rathore), Kitu Gidwani (Sheila), Rajat Kapoor (Mahesh), Arbaaz Khan (Bhaloo), Sohail Khan (Bagheera) and Paresh Rawal (Inspector Waghmare).

The story starts at airpoet with a group of friends where the group is waiting for thier two friends Jai singh Rathod (Imran Khan) and Aditi Mahant (Genelia D'Souza) but the flight is late for an hour. The group includes Rotlu, Jiggy, Bombs, Shaleen, and a recent addition, Mala, arrive at the airport. This group offers to tell Mala a love story between Jai and Aditi. Jai and Aditi are very good friends however Aditi and Jai both are looking for different qualities in their future spouses--Aditi wants someone who, unlike Jai, would be able to fight to protect Aditi and Jai wants someone who, unlike Aditi, is a calm-minded girl.

The friends decide one day that since they both know each other so well, Aditi and Jai should find a match for each other. Then, Jai finds his first love, Meghana, a girl he cleverly saves from a couple of misbehaving cowboys at a club. As Jai spends more and more time with his new-found girlfriend, Aditi quickly feels the burn of losing Jai's friendship. Suddenly, Aditi herself becomes engaged to her father's friend's son, Sushant, who at first appearance, seems to be just what she's looking for he's romantic and "a stud". However, Aditi soon realizes after several dates with Sushant, that the qualities she had been looking for and what are present in Sushant are not at all what she's expected.

At the same time, Jai looses interest in Meghana when he finds out that she is not in touch with reality.Then, Jai reveals to Meghana that he is in love with Aditi, which Meghana understands as she had noticed the hidden feelings between them. In front of shushant and aditi, Meghana reveals that she had broken up with Jai because he is in love with his best friend aditi. At that time, Shushant get angry with aditi and give her a tight slap. Next day, Jai finds Aditi alone and notices the bruise on her face and demands to know if Sushant was the cause. Aditi doesn't reveal but Jai nevertheless goes to Sushant's home and for the first time, gets in a fight. Then, Police arrest jai for fight with shushant when he moves to airport to stop aditi. The two cowboy helps him to get free from jail. Then, He reaches to airport to stop aditi as she is moving to US for three long years. He expresses his love for her and begs her to stay with him. Aditi is overjoyed. The story comes back from the flashback as the flight has finally landed and Aditi and Jai arrive from their honeymoon. The movie ends happily, with the group of friends joking around and laughing.

The music of movie is absolutly fantastic that is composed by A R Rahman. Lyrics is also written by director abbas tyrewala. Over all, this movie is the coolest, warmest, funniest and happiest musical-romantic-comedy movie of the year 2008.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Sing is Kinng


Sing is kinng , is a bollywood movie starring Akshay Kumar as Happy Singh, Katrina Kaif as Sonia, Om Puri as Rangeela, Kiron Kher as Rose Lady, Sonu Sood as Lucky Singh, Ranvir Shorey as Puneet, JavedJaffrey as Mika Singh, Neha Dhupia as Julie, Yashpal Sharma as Pankaj Udaas, Manoj Pahwa as DilbahKamal Chopra as Guruji, Reasat Selim as Vijay Singh, Sudhanshu Pandey as Raftaar. This film is directed by Anees Bazmee and also Produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah.

This movie starts with Lakhan "Lucky" Singh (Sonu Sood) is the "king" of the Australian underworld, a position which he reaches after being jailed for a crime he didn't commit. Someone hides drugs in Lucky Singh's bag, and as soon as he reaches Australia, he is caught and jailed. He takes his revenge after completing the jail term by killing those involved, and eventually he becomes the king, accompanied by his associates played by Javed Jaffrey, Neha Dhupia, Sudhanshu Pandey, Manoj Pawa and Yashpal Sharma.

Back in India, Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar) promises to bring Lakhan Singh back to his village. However, his boarding pass gets mixed up with someone else's and he ends up in Egypt, where he meets Sonia (Katrina Kaif) whom he falls in love with. After he reaches Australia, a series of comic misadventures leaves Happy without any money. He finds Lucky's house, but Lucky tells him that he cannot come back to India leaving his business and throws him out. Happy is fortunate to find warmth and affection in a elderly lady (Kirron Kher) whom Happy treats like his mother. In a strange turn of events, Lucky is saved from a life-threatening attack when Happy risks his own life, but Lucky is paralyzed and Happy becomes the new "king". When he becomes the king he tries to help Lucky's Gang turn good.

The elderly lady comes back to Happy saying that her daughter is coming back to Australia. However, her daughter does not know that, after the death of her father some time back, her mother had lost everything that they had, and is now a poor lady surviving by selling flowers. Happy gives her a home and finds out that her daughter is Sonia and that she is engaged to Puneet (Ranvir Shorey). Puneet finds out that Happy is the king of the underworld and tells Sonia, who is disappointed by this because of her hatred for criminals. Puneet hires Mika Singh (Javed Jaffrey), Lucky's brother, who is hungry to become the "king" (the only thing stopping him is his partial blindness and deafness) to kill Happy. Mika tells one of his men to kill the paralyzed Lucky, while he will kill Happy at Puneet's and Sonia's wedding after he recives his specially ordered hearing and eyesight aid. When the hitman attemts to kill Lucky, Lucky snaps out of paralysis. At the wedding, when Mika's men attack, the cowering Puneet runs away and leaves Sonia alone. Mika's men try to grab her but Happy protects her and fights them and at the end, the priest unknowingly declares Happy and Sonia married. Happy tries to ask for forgiveness for this mistake and Sonia accepts him as her husband. while they are leaving Mika encounters them, now with his aid. Lucky then comes and shocks them all. Happy tells Mika that being the "king" is no great thing. Lucky always found sadness being the king, because a true king doesn't fight for himself but for others. He also says that there is only one true king, who is God. Mika then cries and hugs his brother. A scene during the closing credits shows that Happy brings Lucky back to India.

The music is also fantabolous that is composed by Pritam and RDB. International star Snoop dogg also give his performance with Akki on title song "Sing is Kinng" that is a punjabi rock song. Lyrics is written by Mayur puri.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

DOSTANA


Dostana is a romantic comedy movie directed by Tarun Mansukhani who is Karan Johar's assistant. Its star cast includes some big name of industry like Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Bobby Deol, Shilpa Shetty and Kirron Kher. it is a fun-filled and hilarious movie that revolves around two guys, who pretend to be gay lovers. One of the best parts of the movie is that it does not fall into 'gay' stereotype and gives respect and dignity to homosexuals. It is the first Bollywood film to be set entirely in Miami. It is also the first ever Bollywood film to focus on a gay relationship between its two protagonists.

Dostana
is a story about two guys Sameer (Abhishek Bachchan) who born and raised in London, now in his early thirties, Sameer works in Miami, as a male nurse at St. Steve's Hospital. A goofy kind of guy, who yet has the ability to charm his way into anybody's life. Sameer is the man with the plan. Plans that he seldom thinks through its consequences and other guy is Kunal (John Abraham) who has this brooding quality about him that makes girls swoon over him, which he plays to his full advantage. He's a gorgeous fashion photographer who is pretty straight edged, responsible, and an organized man who has his life in order except for his residence permit as he is an illegal immigrant. They both bump into each other while looking for an apartment to rent and coincidentally head towards the same apartment. However, they are both thrown out because the owner wants to rent the apartment to girls only, since his niece, Neha (Priyanka Chopra) stays in that apartment alone. In the film, Priyanka plays a role of 27 year old, contemporary Indian woman. She is smart, gorgeous and stylish, working at a fashion magazine called Verve. Hard working and someone who loves her work, she longs to settle down and have a family. She is respectful, intelligent and also innocent which sometimes lands her into trouble. Sameer gets an idea that if Kunal and he pretend to be gay lovers, then the owner will agree to let them stay. Even though their plan works, the boys are in a predicament as they both fall in love with the Neha, who thinks they are gay.

The first half of the movie is fantabulous, making you laugh so much that you might end up falling on the floor. The chemistry between Abhishek and John, the USP of 'Dostana', is terrific. The second half is a bit less entertaining, as it seems stretched and could have done with some editing. The end is pretty shocking and will have its fair share of advocates and adversaries. The style quotient is high, cinematography excellent and music catchy. Bobby Deol (Abhimanyu) has played his part with élan. Boman Irani, as usual, makes you roar with laughter, while Kirron Kher plays the perfect Punjabi Mom and Sushmita Mukherjee is fantastic.Also, Shilpa sheety makes her guest apperence fantastic in the movie. The music of Dostana is composed by Vishal-Shekher and its lyrics written by Vishal Dadlani and Anvita Dutt Guptan.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Hello


Hello movie is based on the author Chetan Bhagat's best selling novel "One Night @ call-centre". After the popularity of chetan's novel among the youth, Bollywood film makers have taken up bhagat's theme by making 'HELLO'. It is a multi starring film as there are many characters in the novel. In this film, Salmaan Khan is playing the narrator's role who delayed from flying to his next concert due to some technical problem and while waiting in the lounge, he meets a beautiful girl (Katrina Kaif ). Then she tells him that she’ll tell him a story only if he agrees to make a film on it.

Hello… is a tale about the event that happen one night at a cell center. Told through the view of the Protagonist, Shayam Mehra (Sharman Joshi), it a story of almost lost love, thwarted ambitions, absence of family affection, pressures of a patriarchal set up, and the work environment of a globalize office. Shyam is losing his girlfriend Priyanka Kapoor (Gul panag) because his career is going nowhere as he trudges his way around in a cell 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 geek. There is also the aspiring model, Esha Singh (Isha Koppikar), who is hoping for the break that seems to be always already eluding her and the man about town, Varun Malhotra (Sohail Khan), who is into well, things. The housewife, Radhika Jha (Amrita Arora), who is constantly at the receiving end of her mother-in-law and a beleaguered grandfather. Military Uncle V. P. Chauhan (Sharat Saxena), who has been barred from interacting with his grandchild make up the rest of the cell agents who see their worlds crumbling around them as the decisions of right sizing are conveyed by Subash Bakshi (Dilip Tahi), 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 hauteur 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.

‘Hello’ is directed by Salman’s brother-in-law Atul Agnihotri . The film has music by Sajid-Wajid and lyrics by Jalees Sherwani.A special song called ‘Bang Bang’ is pictured on Salmaan.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

A wednesday




A wednesday is a film about the terrorism that is the biggest current issue all over the world today.Director Neeraj Pandey takes terrorism as theme for film and give it a new climax in the end which is simply REMARKABLE!!The story resolves around a 'AAM AADMI'(Naseeruddin Shah) who suddenly gets sick of living his life in fear and decides to teach everyone a lesson.

Beginning with Naseeruddin Shah planting bombs in the most densely populated part of the city.Prakash Rathod (Anupam Kher), Commissioner of Mumbai Police, gets a call demanding the release of four terrorists in lieu of information on bombs that the man has planted in various parts of Mumbai. At first, Prakash suspects it to be a crank call, but his doubts are dispelled once he actually finds a bomb planted in the police station right opposite the Police Headquarter.Prakash Rathod is not the type to give up easily. He gets a team of his best men together and taps all his resources. He even hires a young hacker to help his team to trace the calls and also the location of the anonymous caller. Time passes by, but no concrete results are evident. Eventually, Prakash Rathod decides to hand over the militants to the anonymous caller. It is then that events take a bizarre turn.

For this mission,Rathore chose his two best officers 'Ariff Khan' (Jimmy Shergill) and 'Jai'(Aamir Bashir).'Naina Roy'(Deepal shaw) also plays an important role of a Television journalist. A wednesday offers you twist after twist, throws challenge after challenge in those 100 minutes.No sub-plots, no songs, no unwanted masala, no unnecessary tracks -- A wednesday has a story to tell and it tells most effectively.

The climax is an absolute knock-out with an accolade-winning speech by Naseer who becomes a flag-bearer for all those nameless, ordinary people battling with this modern-day scourge, the world over. The highpoint of the film is the class act by the two stalwarts of the industry: Naseer and Anupam pitch in riveting performances as the shuffling, seemingly inconsequential, nameless bomber and the no-nonsense cop. Add to this some finely nuanced acts by Jimmy Shergill and Aamir Bashir and you have a topical, gritty, high-adrenalin drama.

On the whole, A wednesday is a far superior film -- in its content as well as end result!!