Thursday, August 30, 2007

Saawariyan

Release Date November 9, 2007
DirectorSanjay Leela Bhansali
Star CastRanbir Kapoor,Sonam Kapoor,Rani Mukherjee,Begum Para,Achla Sachdev,Zohra Sehgal,Salman Khan...... Special appearance
Music DirectorMonty Sharma
ChoreographyMallu,Pappu,Ganesh Hegde,Shiamak Davar

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Sony Pictures’ first Indian Co-Production “Saawariya” (Beloved) is a unique collaboration with one of India ’s most well known and acclaimed directors, Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The tenderness and the visual splendor of “Saawariya” will transport world audiences to the golden era of the great romantic movies beginning November 9, 2007.

“Saawariya” is a musical based on the short story “White Nights” written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is the story of a shy dreamer, Raj, who spent most of his time isolated in his apartment, creating riddles and finding answers to them, jabbering poetry or arguing with his foolish landlady Miss Disa, with whom he shared a love/hate relationship. Raj was loved by one and all, for he always brought happiness to the people around him. Destiny plans a magical tale for Raj over the next four nights of his life that shall change his entire being

Synopsis:“Saawariya” is a tender and romantic musical which centers around the chance encounter of two people, Raj & Sakina and their obsession with each other over four successive nights. “Saawariya” is a contemporary story about the immortal emotion - live with the unmistakable imprint of Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

It is the story of a shy dreamer, Raj (22 years old), who spent most of his time isolated in his apartment, creating riddles and finding answers to them, jabbering poetry or arguing with his foolish landlady Miss Disa, with whom he shared a love/hate relationship. Raj was loved by one and all, for he always brought happiness to the people around him. Destiny plans a magical tale for Raj over the next four nights of his life that shall change his entire being.

“Saawariya” is the story of a couple’s chance encounter and the advance of their parallel obsessions over four successive nights. An impromptu romance is initiated in a remote town in the serene beauty of picturesque Simla, a quaint hill station in Northern India that was once the summer capital of India under the British Raj, known for its lakes, mist, heavenly snowfall, rains and the tall swaying pine trees. The bright, fun-filled winding streets of the mall come alive with singing clubs, rustic folklore, dancing, love ballads, flourishing colonies of artists and weavers, and chants from the monastery- all woven in perfect harmony into a magical dream.

It is here that the dreamer finds the ‘lost’ self in himself.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Review of Heyy Babyy-----Nei Baby!

Overall Rating:**
Cast Performance:**
Sound Track:***
Cinematography:**
I had lot of expectations like many from Sajid
Khan, him being my favorite comedian and with a awesome sense of humor...This
movie totally lacks the charm that a good comedy movie contains and is just a drag..
Unwanted scenes and potty humor were some of the higlights. He has made a similar mushy, cheesy, crappy and bland movie for which he used to criticize Hindi Movies about.. The beginning 25 minutes was completely a drag
and we were hoping we could expect a funny scene next up..Nothing happened like
that...so many repetitive scenes in the movie and for so long. Come on who
wants to see a nappy being changed 50 times in a movie. There were only a few
times where we could laugh genuinely for his rib tickling dialogues but that
too did not last for long....The baby was my favorite of the cast with a cute smiling face and even surviving
a nearly drowning situation without much trouble...Akshay proved to be the best
among the rest with his comedy avatar which has been following regularly from his earlier
releases. Ritesh was ok and fardeen was completely bland at some places. Vidya
was cute and cuddly as usual and boman was hardly funny this time around
The script on the other hand was rather too complicated but the local junta dint bother much either. The balance between emotion and comedy was not anywhere proportional. Too much emotional stuff in the second half of the movie that made the movie disappointing. So SRK was a truly refreshing change for many and I could see the whole theatre
go up with joy on his entry. His role was too short, lasting for a couple of minutes and I think that was simply added just to pep up the masses.The soundtrack was really good by SEL. Melodious tunes and fast paced songs were really good and the song picturization was neatly done..Considered as the most humorous person he has had a not so funny humor added in
the movie. I really feel bad that Sajid has
directed this kind of a movie...Also a film critic in Kehne main kya harz hai he has criticized so many films
and this one should really include in his list also...You can make better ones
with a simple film plot.. Totally dissapointed and had huge expectations from Sajid to direct a matured comedy movie. Heyy baby...Better luck next tim

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal

BannerUTV Motion Pictures
Release DateDecember 2007
ProducerRonnie Screwvala
DirectorVivek Agnihotri
Star CastJohn Abraham,Naveen Andrews,Bipasha Basu,Arshad Warsi,Raj Zutshi,Dibyendu Bhattacharya,Kushal Punjabi
Music DirectorPritam Chakraborty
Synopsis:Dhan Dhana Dhan… Goal, previously known as Goal,
GOAL is a story of that great optimistic trait – hope. The characters in this drama
fight the battle of hope through relationships, pride and their dreams.
Southall United is a football club going through a major crisis. The team has no stars, no sponsors, no spectators and most importantly, no coach. Yet, it nurtures the hope that is will win the cup this time.
The head of the city council, Anne, collaborates with Johnny Patel, a sports commentator, to acquire a large tract of land that is with this club. Together, they highlight the club’s lackluster performance and threaten to have the land taken from them, unless things change. Their biggest hope? That the team will lose, yet again.
Sir Devi Dayal Dhariwal, owner of the club, hopes to save the land from the greed of Anne and Johnny Patel.
Hanif, the captain of Southall United, hopes to win by playing the last card the club has. He brings in a celebrated ex-player to coach them.
And then, there is Sunny Bhasin (John Abraham) who hopes to become a member of a top team and play first division football – a dream every aspiring British footballer yearns for.
Will the coach manage to pull his team together? How does Sunny become a partof this team? And most importantly, will the club win the title and retain the ground?
Get Set GOAL is a contemporary story of the Asian community in UK told through the dynamic prism of professional football.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Dil Dosti Etc...

Release Date:28 September 2007
Genre:Romance, Social
Producer :Prakash Jha
Director :Manish Tiwari
Cast :Shreyas Talpade, Nikita Anand, Imaad Shah, Smriti Mishra, Ishita Sharma
Editor :Hina Saiyada
Art Director :Sunil Chabra
Costume Designer:Priyanka Mundada
Photographer :Arvind K
Synopsis
When you are young, you believe, the possibilities are endless...
What does an eighteen year old guy in college really want? Dil Dosti Etc is a fresh and unabashed look at how young men of today think and choose to live their lives. Dil Dosti Etc is set around students in Delhi University. Through two university hostellers, Apurv (Imaad Shah), a rich, cosmopolitan guy and, Sanjay Mishra (Shreyas Talpade), an old-fashioned Bihari guy, the film juxtaposes the ?new/ liberal? and the ?old/ conservative? in our society.
Sanjay is an ambitious and focused student-politician in Delhi. He represents the romantic and the idealist who steadfastly pursues his political goals. On the other hand, Apurv?s life is directionless. With the abundance of time and money in hand, he searches for meaning in life through amorous escapades with various girls.
The three female leads ? that of a prostitute (Smriti Mishra), a school girl and a rich model, provide a myriad of social and emotional backdrops to the film. Vaisali (Smriti Mishra) plays an attractive but sharp-tongued prostitute. She claims never to get emotionally attached to her customers. Then there is the precocious school girl Kintu (Ishitta Sharrma), who coquettishly remains noncommittal to Apurv?s flirtations and plays hard to get. Prerna (Nikita Anand) is the rich South Delhi babe who aspires to become an international model, and yet finds herself attracted to the earthy and charismatic student-politician, Sanjay.Dil Dosti Etc uses a rich ensemble of characters, stories and themes to explore the very nature of friendship, male bonding, voyeurism, sexual perversion, love and betrayal. The film, based on an original screenplay, is full with realism and black humour and shows the coming of age of not only a young man but also explores the ambiguities and pre-occupations of an entire generation.
Dil Dosti Etc has been produced by Prakash Jha and directed by Manish Tiwary.

Manorama Six Feet Under

Release DateSeptember 21, 2007
GenreComedy, Thriller, Suspense
ProducerKetan Maroo
DirectorNavdeep Singh
Star Cast:Abhay Deol,Raima Sen,Gul Panag,Sarika,Vinay Pathak,Kulbhushan Kharbanda
SingersRoop Kumar Rathod,Mahalakshmi Iyer,Richa Sharma,Kailash Kher
Zubeen Garg,Jayesh Gandhi
LyricistManoj Tapadia,Irfan Siddique,Surendra Mishra,Rowdy
Music DirectorJayesh Gandhi,Raiomond Mirza
Story / WriterNavdeep Singh,Devika Bhagat
Synopsis:Homage to the noir genre, Manorama Six Feet Under is about an amateur detective in a small town who finds himself caught in a web of lies, deceit and murder.
SV (Abhay Deol) is a government engineer but his real ambition has always been writing detective fiction. Unfortunately, his maiden attempt, a novel called Manorama, sank without a trace and he has been reduced to writing for cheap pulp magazines.
Stifled by the dreariness of small town existence and frustrated by his failure, SV's life takes a turn when the wife of a powerful local politician arrives at his doorstep with an irresistible offer; the chance for SV to play a real life detective by spying on her husband. Intrigued and tempted by the opportunity to redeem his self worth, SV accepts.
Upon completion of his assignment, things take a turn when SV discovers that the woman is not who she claims to be. The situation get further complicated when she is killed in a mysterious accident.
Sensing foul play, SV begins investigating her death only to discover that nothing is what it seems to be and that redemption doesn't come easy….

Nanhe Jaisalmer

Releasing Date:14 September 2007
Presenter:Eros International
Producer:K. Sera Sera Production
Director:Sameer Karnik
Cast:Bobby Deol, Katrina Kaif, Dwij Yadav, Prateeksha Lonkar, Sharat Saxena, Bina Kak, Rajesh Vivek, Rushita Singh, Vivek Shauq, Sukhwinder Chahal, Adil Rana, Lokesh Pandit, Sudhir Kumar, Karan Arora, Vikrant Thakur, Amrish Sharma, Arun Kumar
Special Appearance :Vatsal Seth
Music Director :Himesh Reshammiya
Lyricist:Sameer
Story Writer :Sameer Karnik, Eklavya Singh Bhati
Background Sound :Monty Singh
Choreographer:Piyush Panchal
Synopsis:Young Nanhe speaks four foreign languages, but he's an 'angootha chaap'! He's all of ten years old, but he's the sole breadwinner for his family.
He lives in arid Rajasthan, but his room is as full of colorful posters, as his imagination is full of vivid dreams. But unlike other ten year olds his dreams are not fickle...not likely to change from day to day. Nanhe has just one dream... just one constant hope that keeps him dimpling through the hardships of life. That one day he will meet his dost, his best friend, actor Bobby Deol!
He makes his sister Suman write a letter to his dost every day; sharing all his news, his big battles, his little triumphs. He sees each and every film of his dost. His room is filled with cutting and photographs of his dost.
He lives, breathes, talks - dost. All of Nanhe's waking moments are consumed by his dost.
In his sleep, too, he dreams only of his dost. Then one day, one fantastic day, Nanhe actually comes face to face with his dost Bobby Deol!
And Nanhe's life changes forever...

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Meri Life Mein Uski Wife

BannerEvershine Films Pvt Ltd
Release Date7 Sep 2007
DirectorPartho Ghosh
Star CastVikas Kalantri,HeenaTasleem,ShaktiKapoor,UpasnaSingh,Rocky Sandhu,Jatin Garewal,Monalisa,Supriya Karnik
CinematographyAkram Khan
ChoreographyLolly PopPublicity StillsRakesh Shreshta
Story / WriterKamal Pandey