Catch the first trailer of ‘Housefull 2’.
We bring to you the first trailer of ‘Housefull 2’.
In the promo, Akshay Kumar is paired up with Asin, John with Jacqueline Fernandez, Shreyas Talpade with Shazahn Padamsee and Ritesh Deshmukh with Zarine Khan.
While Akki is a khurrat guy, John Abraha is a handsome chor. Shreyas is a ghar jamaai and Ritesh is just not into marriage.
Housefull 2 also sees the veterans Rishi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty and Boman Irani as the four sasurs.
The trailer surely is rib tickling, filled with comedy and confusion.
Directed by Sajid Khan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, Housefull 2 releases on 5 April.
Salman-Katrina, off to Cuba!!
Katrina Kaif and Salman Khan are all set to leave for Cuba, to continue the shooting of Kabir Khan’s Film, Ek Tha Tiger. It’s a month long shooting schedule this time.
But why Cuba of all the places??
Well, if reports are to be believed, the weather in Cuba is pretty warm and so it will be safe and comfortable for the film’s actor Salman Khan to continue his work smoothly, considering his neurological condition.
A source close to the project says, “Salman’s neuro-condition which is not fully cured, was aggravated when he shot in the freezing cold in Ireland for the film some months ago. Kabir likes to shoot in difficult locations.”
It is also heard that Salman will be seen performing a few deadly stunts in the film and so having Katrina by his side, he should be safe.
Says a friend of the actress, “Their relationship has now gone to another level where he continues to look out for her, and she for him. While they’ll be shooting in Cuba she will be keeping an eye on his health.”
Katrina states, “I’ll be gone for quite a while. I’ve never been to Cuba before. It sounds exciting.”
First Look: Kahaani…
Phew! I literally had goosebumps watching the first tralier of Vidya Balan’s upcoming thriller Kahaani.
Looks like Vidya is all set to bowl us over again with Kahaani. What an amazing actor she is.
Kahaani is an upcoming thriller film directed and co-produced by Sujoy Ghosh. The flick has Parambrata Chatterjee opposite Vidya Balan. Vidya balan plays a helpless pregnant woman in search of her husband and the father of the child which takes her all the way to Kolkata from London.
This will be Vidya’s fourth female-centric film. The best part of the trailer is its ending…
The film is schedualed to hit theaters on March 9.
First trailer: ‘Jodi Breakers’…
After a long time, we get to see a fresh on screen jodi: Bipasha Basu and R Madhavan. This jodi comes as a unusual, but pleasant freshness in the first trailer of their upcoming flick Jodi Breakers.
From the tralier, we guess that the film is a modern-day story, having Bips and Mads, specialist in breaking up couples.
Most Bollywood flims have the two lovers uniting at the end of the story. However, this concept is a fresh one where two lovers are torn apart.
You can also see Omi Vaidya, Milind Soman, Dipannita Sharma and Helen in the trailer! The film releases on 24 February.
The trailer looks very interesting. What say?
Movie Releases for Friday 26th of March 2010
Movie Releases this Friday (26th of March 2010)
Hum Tum Aur Ghost, starring Arshad Warsi, Dia Mirza, Sandhya Mridul, Boman Irani, Zehra Naqvi, Shernaz Patel. It is a comedy movie directed by Kabeer Kaushik.
Well Done Abba, starring Boman Irani, Minissha Lamba, Sameer Dattani, Ravi Kissen , Ila Arun, Salim Ghouse, Sonali Kulkarni, Rajit Kapoor, Yashpal Sharma. The movie deals with social issues, directed by Shyam Benegal.
My Friend Ganesha 3, starring Rahul Pendkalkar, Baba Sehgal, Himani Shivpuri, Sayaji Shinde, Eva Grover. An animated movie directed by Rajiv S. Ruia.
Mittal V/S Mittal, is again a social oriented movie directed by Karan Razdan. The cast and the crew include Rituparna Sengupta, Rohit Roy, Gulshan Grover, Suchitra Krishnamurthy, Dolly Thakore , Amar Talwar, Reema Lagoo, Anjan Srivastava, Iravati Harshe.
Prem Kaa Game, starring Khan, Tara Sharma, Madhuri Bhattacharya, Malaika Arora, Rakesh Bedi, Johnny Lever, Razzak Khan, Salman Khan, Samir Kochhar. Directed by Ashok Kheny. It is a comedy filck.
I guess will ‘Well Done Abba’ will rock the Box office. What is your opinion????
Bhoothnath: Movie Review
Director: Vivek Sharma
Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Shahrukh Khan and Aman Siddiqui
After Taare Zameen Par, which made kids dance to their tunes, we have debutant director Nikhil Kumar’s movie Bhootnath to hit the screens. Bhoothnath is about the relationship between Casper inspired ghost Amitabh Bachchan and kid Aman Sidiqui. The first half of the movie is targeted at kids and the second melodramatic half is incidentally also for kids.
Story of Bhoothnath
A big, unattended ,uninhabited spooky house is haunted by a ghost named Kadernath ( Amitabh Bachchan). The ghost is vengeful and wouldn’t allow anybody to share his house as his fond memories are etched in the house, Nath Villa. But Kadernath is disturbed and furious when a family movies into the house. The family comprises of Banku ( Aman Sidiqqui ), his shy mother ( Juhi Chawla) and pony-tailed daddy ( Shah Rukh Khan).
The ghost is angry with the new inmates of Nath Villa and plans to drive them away by his bhoothiya antics. He comes across Banku and tries his tricks on him, but instead of scaring Banku he amuses him which results in friendship between Banku and Kedarnath and Banku lovingly starts calling Kedarnath as Bhootnath.
All is well in the Bhootnath villa until Kedarnath’s son Priyanshu Chatterjee returns from US to sell off Nath Villa and then the film goes back in time, becomes soggy and melodramatic. The director doesn’t think twice before turning the second half into a Baghban type melodrama.
Kids will surely enjoy the encounters between Banku and Bhootnath and their histrionics in the first half. The way the awesome twosome plays pranks in school and also become heroes in disguise is definitely entertaining. The second half with all those family values I guess went as a bouncer over the heads of kids and it might have left them wondering what happened to Bhootnath. One child beside me in the movie-plex started crying, “Mamma Bhootnath ko ka hua?”
Aman Sidiqui as Banku is perfect and gives an outstanding performance, Amitabh as the loving ghost with sunken eyes looks perfect and manipulates your emotions with his histrionics. Juhi Chawla proves why she is still in the industry despite of marriage with her good performance. Shahrukh Khan is a treat for SRK lovers and I guess he also had some magic powers as we could see a pony-tailed SRK in one scene and in another the pony-tail does a vanishing act, over all he is brilliant.
Although Vivek Sharma needs to hone is directorial skills he is a good narrator. The film has good special effects. Cinematography by Vishnu Rao is good. The soundtrack of the movie is its biggest flaw, I wonder what happened to Vishal-Shekhar when they were composing tunes for this movie.
Don’t go expecting a Taare Zameen Par act from the movie and you might actually like it, but be sure to leave the theatre after the first half if you are watching this movie with your kids as it would prove to be a big embarrassment for you and confusion for your little one.
My verdict: **1/2/ 5
U Me aur Hum movie review
Director: Ajay Devgan
Cast: Ajay Devgan and Kajol
After Aamir Khan who shined with his first directorial debut its time for Ajay Devgan too who has come out with a soul stirring movie like U Me aur Hum. UMAH clearly scores over Krazzy 4 this week with Ajay Devgan’s great direction and above all Kajol with a great performance.
U Me aur Hum is a love story about Ajay (Ajay Devgan) who falls in love at first sight with Piya (Kajol) on a cruise. In the first half of the movie we see a typical Bollywood romance with Ajay wooing Piya. The second half becomes intense which shows that marriage is only successful when both husband and wife stand for each in their times of distress.
Ajay is psychiatrist who is on a vacation trip with is friends and their respective spouses (Karan Khanna, Sumeet Raghavan, Isha Sharvani and Divya Dutta). Piya (Kajol) is a waitress in the cruise bar and when Ajay spots Piya he falls head over heels in love with her. Piya a strong-headed girl rejects Ajay’s advances. But Ajay is so much smitten by Piya that he tries every trick to woo her which includes trespassing into her cabin and reading her personal diary: Book of Possibilities. Psychiatrist by profession he uses the right tactics to win Piya’s heart. Piya finally falls for him but when he confesses her about reading her diary and using it to get her all hell breaks loose and Ajay is left alone.
But destiny brings them back together again and this time they end up marrying. Marriage for Piya and Ajay is like heaven and soon they become an ideal husband and wife for their friends. But as everything good comes to an end their marriage life starts getting complicated and another nail in the coffin is Piya’s illness: ‘Alzheimer’. How Piya and Ajay save their marriage and love forms the rest of the story.
The story of the movie is told in a flashback by Ajay Devgan, which adds charm to the movie. Aswan Whir does justice to the U Me aur Hum by rendering witty humorous dialogues to thought-provoking ones with great finesse. Ajay Devgan is terrific both in front of the camera as well as back of it. Kajol is as always awesome in her performance as an Alzheimer suffering young lady and is a strong contender for this year’s best actress award. Supporting actors irritate you a bit and there is nothing much to write about them.
Vishal Bharadwaj spins the magic of Omkara once again by rendering good music. The best song is the title track ‘U Me aur Hum’ and the peppy ‘Jee Le’ and the best thing U Me aur Hum is the great chemistry between real life husband and wife Kajol and Ajay. Ajay Devgan is the man behind direction and views but Kajol brought them to life.
U Me aur Hum will appeal to the younger audience, couples, couples soon to tie the knot and everybody else who is in love. The film has its share of drawbacks and mistakes but those can be forgiven ‘coz its Ajay’s first movie as a director. The movie will definitely force you and your better half to become HUM and make your relationship much better.
My Rating: *** 1/2
Khuda Kay Liye Movie Review
* Shaan – Mansoor
* Fawad Afzal Khan – Sarmad
* Iman Ali – Maryam
* Naseeruddin Shah – Maulana Wali (Special Appearance)
* Hameed Sheikh – Sher Shah Director:Shoaib Mansoor
Khuda Kay Liye attracted audiences for being the first Pakistani film to be released in India. Apart from opening gates for serious exchange of films between India and Pakistan, Khuda Kay Liye is one movie that has differentiated myth from reality and Islam from fanaticism.Khuda Kay Liye is a story of Mansoor (Shaan) and Sarmad (Fawad Khan) two brothers, from an affluent and liberal Pakistani family, who encourages them to pursue their career in music. Khuda Kay Liye is the story of Mary (Iman Ali) who struggles to find her true identity as British-born-Pakistani. Khuda Kay Liye is also the story of those hapless Asians who became the victim of America’s post 9/11 obsessive hunt for terrorists.
The film unfolds as a dramatic clash of cultures between two rock musician brothers –Mansoor, a liberalist disapproves of the religious view of music. Sarmad is brainwashed by Mullah Tahiri (Rasheed Naz) that Islam doesn’t approve of Music and Art. Sarmad is gradually transformed from a Jeans-wearing westernized Pakistani to a so-called ‘true Muslim’. Still Sarmad could not understand why he is not happy despite making the right choice. While innocent Mansoor, having made the right choice ends up in the US prisons as one of the suspects of 9/11.
Director Shoaib Mansoor questions multiple factions of the world today – modernists for not using their brains to decide on religious preferences, liberalists for deviating from religion, extremists for mixing politics with religion and feeding misconceptions about religion to people, Non-resident Asians who are confused which place they belong to and Americans who mix religion with terrorism.
Muslims should watch this movie to see how they can hold both religion and the world in hand and strike a balance. The rest of the nation should watch this movie to get their facts right not only about Islam but also Pakistan.
My Rating : ****/5
Shaurya Movie Review
Think of Indian army and the thought that strikes your mind first is war, blood, gore and neighbors Pakistan. But the new movie on the block Shaurya is not about soldiers in Indian army its about lawyers in army who are as important as their soldier counterparts. Now lets not mistake Shaurya to be a patriotic movie it’s a story about justice, loyalty, truth and courage.
When you have powerful and dynamic actors like Kay Kay Menon, Rahul Bose and Javed Jaffery all together in a movie you expect it to be a great movie and director Samar Khan doesn’t disappoint you ‘coz the film has such an impact that even after you leave the theatre it forces you to think and the values of Shaurya keep lingering in your mind.
Here is the brief synopsis of Shaurya from its official site:
Shaurya is a story of justice, honor, faith and above all believing in yourself…
A story of finding courage within… where friendships are tested in the battle that matters the most…
The battle for truth and justice…
Shaurya is the story of Javed Khan (Deepak Dobriyal)… a man wronged by his country by the very men who he fought with and were his friends. It’s the story of Siddhant (Rahul Bose), whose only aim in life was to escape reality and wasn’t ready for what life brought him. It’s the story of Kaavya who never understood why it was difficult to speak the truth. It’s the story of Aakash (Javed Jaffery) for whom living the rules was the only way to live life. And it’s the story of Brigadier Pratap, a man who lived by his own rules even if they were against humanity. Captain Javed Khan charged with mutiny, treason and killing a fellow officer. Even when he is held for court martial, he refuses to speak in his defense, as the secret he holds is too powerful for the establishment to handle.
Assigned for this task are Sid and Aakash… two best friends, lawyers and very ambitious individuals who have contrasting views on life.
Nevertheless, this one case will change their lives… forever. The case takes them to Srinagar. While Aakash, for whom winning the case matters the most, follows the blueprint, Sid discovers a new meaning in life, Kaavya (Minissha Lamba), Javed and of course the man in question, Brigadier Pratap (Kay Kay Menon).
Shaurya is alleged to be inspired from the Hollywood blockbuster “A Few Good Men” and the Bollywood touch is given by adding communal hatred content. But Samar Khan who advocates truth, justice and loyalty in Shaurya doesn’t even wink before copying the whole plot from A Few Good Men. If you haven’t seen AFGM then you would like the movie but people like me who have already seen Tom Cruise blockbuster will feel ashamed of Bollywood’s plagiarism.
The plus points of Shaurya is performances from the lead actors, excellent chemistry between buddies Javed and Rahul, awesome climax-worth sitting through the whole movie, good direction, high quality Cinematography,
The minus points are lifted story, unnecessary Hindu-Muslim communal content, a very slow first half and a rubbery kind stretchy second half and a bad item number to start the movie.
Kay Kay Menon is the show stealer; his power packed performance in the climax makes the film entirely his. Rahul Bose plays the character to which a common confused man can identify with and he plays it to perfection. Javed Jaffery is equally good in serious roles as he is in comedy but his character is eventually lost in the second part of the movie. Deepak Dobriyal who plays Javed Khan doesn’t has much dialogues to mouth but is such a fine actor that he expresses his pain and helplessness through his eyes. Minissha Lamba fits the bill of a journalist and gives a good performance.
Like every Indian movie Shaurya has its own flaws but at the end it emerges winner ‘coz of great performances by the cast. Don’t think about ‘A Few Good Men’ and Shaurya is a great movie, so before heading to the theater delete AFGM from your head to enjoy Shaurya.
My rating: ***/5
Black & White movie review
This week’s Friday release Black and White gives us info about quite a few bombs, – how to tame a suicide bomber and how to sit through a movie, which will eventually bomb at the box office. Its time to relieve Subhash Ghai of the “Showman” tag and award him with a ” No Show ” tag. And its high time for him to step down from the director’s seat, after giving a hat trick of bombs- Yaadein, Kisna and now Black & White (which can instill suicidal tendencies amongst audiences for sitting through them) and just stick to being a producer.
There is nothing white about this movie as everything is black except for the performances by Anil Kapoor, Anurag Sinha and Shefali Shah. Couple of years back we saw Amir Khan-the terrorist disguised as a flirty guide, but being a perfectionist he made it look real. Now come back to B & W guys, we have our Anurag Sinha as Numair Qazi- Fidayeen from an Afghan terror camp, a hardcore terrorist with a heart of stone, comes to Delhi on a mission. A mission to blow up the Red Fort on August 15- Hah! As if it was possible for this guy to do it single handedly, and I guess there is something called security too, Mr. Ghai thinks we are dumb enough to take it??
But then our quiet and grim terrorist must have seen the famous movie Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghum, because he heads straight to Chandni Chowk, saare Delhi mein Chowk hi mila tha?? Our stone cold terrorist is given aasra by a wise poet (Habib Tanvir) in Chandni Chowk, our Afghani hunk does his homework well and passes himself as a victim of Gujarat riots justifying his hatred towards disbelievers. Neighbors to our poet are Rajan Mathur ( Anil Kapoor ), an Urdu professor at Delhi university and his red-hot-chili-pepper social activist wife ( Shefali Shah-she is superb). Now our Professor Rajan is a believer of secularism, and makes no stone unturned to bring peace amongst Hindus and Muslims of Chandni Chowk, so he is a part time peacemaker.
The story moves forward, as our suicide bomber bumps into our peacemaker couple, who welcome him into their own family, loving, caring and giving happiness to him (which he never got back home), as they would have given to their own son. Now this results in conflicts in Numair’s mind, and we are left to wonder which part of the mind he will eventually listen to. Great and sensitive story we can say, but it fails miserably to keep the audience gripped to their seats- Chalo yaar jaldi suicide bombing kario, I cant sit through this crap, is what the audience starts to think.
Naah! Numair is not the real suicide bomber of the movie it’s the screenplay. Mr Ghai ruins the climax of the movie, making it unreal and unconvincing, even a child with a lollipop in his mouth will laugh at it. The only way to understand the ending is to rip off the main plug of your brain or you can become Paris Hilton, only if you really want to.
Anurag Sinha, does a good job as a debutant, with few dialogues to mouth, he manages to express through his eyes and body. Anil Kapoor acts convincing and composed. Shefali Shah is as usual great. Aditi Sharma-huh does she deserve a mention, I wonder how did she won that superstar reality show. Habib Tanvir has a great screen presence. The background score of the movie is good,and the songs are bad. Surely Mr Ghai deserves a pat on his back, for venturing into this dangerous territory, the thought and possibility that terrorists can be reformed makes the viewer bound to think about it.
But the whole package is a real disappointment, with nothing exciting and gripping. The bad movie at the end of the day overshadows the brilliant performances by the cast. We can say Black and White is a suicide bomber at the Box Office.
Rating: ** 1/2 out of 5
Verdict: Can be watched once, but beware- watch at your own risk!
Karan Johan is the puppeteer
Manav Gangwani, the famous Fashion Designer, gave a unique gift to Karan Johar. Karan was presented a caricature byt hedesigner. And the caricature had Karan as a puppeteer, sitting in a coffee mug and pulling the strings of super stars like Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Saif Ali Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Kareena Kapoor, and Preity Zinta.
Karan was very happy to receive the gift. This will give him encouragement to ask his celebrity friends to spill more beans on his show. He sportingly displayed the caricature in his office.
Bollywood releases this Friday – 12/29/06
So Bollywood has a lot lined up for the next year huh… and why not, after one of the best years ever witnessed by the Indian Film Industry, almost all the big and small production houses have their pockets full… except for RGV Factory, but they’re still gonna belt out the most no. of potboilers in 2007 I guess 
Well, before 2K7 arrives, there’s another frightful Friday to go (took that one from Sa Re Ga Ma Pa lil champs 
)… and on the 29th of December, there are 4 directors who’ll try their luck (and our patience!)
There’s
• “I See You” – the flick in which Arjun Rampal is crazy about an invisible chick… hope he doesn’t need to visit the I.C.U after the Friday figures come out!!!
• “Haseena – Smart, Sexy, Dangerous” – oki guys… enough of guffawing… it’s actually a film!!! All the best to the viewers (she’s dangerous yaar )
• “Anwar” – The movie jumped from being unknown to highly anticipated just because of ‘maula mere maula’… hope the film lives up to the spirit of the song… it’s just too hard to miss out man!
• “Gumnaam – The Unknown” – well i’m sure the film will live up to its title.
So these are the four films coming up this week… you know which ones to watch out, right? And JUST in case you don’t, then God be with you……… 
