Hindi movie releases December 2010

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Genre:Comedy
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna, Suniel Shetty, Kangna Ranaut, Neetu Chandra, Sushmita Sen,  Paresh Rawal, Saloni Daini, Shakti Kapoor, Mukesh Tiwari, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Ranjeet, Suresh Menon
Producer: Rajat Rawail, Anil Kapoor, Sunil A. Lulla, Dr. B. K. Modi
Director: Anees Bazmee
 Music Director: Sajid, Wajid,Pritam Chakraborty, Anand Raj Anand
Screenplay: Rajiv Kaul, Anees Bazmee,Rajan Agarwal, Ikram Akhtar
Story / Writer: Anees Bazmee

Band Baja Baraat

Genre: Drama  /  Social
Cast:Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Manmeet Singh, Manish Choudhary, Neeraj Sood.
Producer: Aditya Chopra
Director: Maneesh Sharma
Music Director: Salim Merchant,Sulaiman Merchant
Story / Writer: Maneesh Sharma



Toonpur Ka Superrhero



Genre: Action  /  Animation
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Kajol,Tanuja,Sanjay Mishra,Delnaz Paul,Mukesh Tiwari,Viveck Vaswani, Raza Murad,Shereveer Vakil, Amey Pandya.
Producer: Kumar Mangat Pathak, Krishika Lulla
Director: Kireet Khurana
Music Director: Anu Malik
Screenplay: Raagi Bhatnagar
Story / Writer;Kireet Khurana,Raagi Bhatnagar

Tees Maar Khan

Genre:Action  /  Comedy
Cast: Akshay Kumar,Akshaye Khanna,Katrina Kaif, Raghu Ram,Rajiv Laxman,Arya Babbar, Anil Kapoor,Salman Khan, Diva ,Anya,Czar, Sanjay Dutt-Narrator, Sachin Khedekar,Vijay Patkar
Murli Sharma, Ali Asgar, Vijay Maurya, Aman Verma, Mia Evonne Uyeda
Producer: Shirish Kunder, Ronnie Screwvala, Twinkle Khanna
Director: Farah Khan

Music Director: Shirish Kunder,Vishal Dadlani,Shekhar Ravjiani
Story / Writer:Ashmith Kunder,Shirish Kunder

Tera Kya Hoga Johny

Genre:Crime  /  Thriller

Cast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Soha Ali Khan,Kay Kay Menon, Shahana Goswami, Karan Nath, Saurabh  Shukla,Vijay Maurya,Virendra Saxena,Makrand Deshpande,Abhay Deol.Anurag Kashyap,Ashok Pandit,Madhukar Dixit, Shereveer Vakil,Razzak Khan.
Producer:Sudhir Mishra,Tutu Sharma,Manu S Kumaran
Director: Sudhir Mishra

Music Director: Pankaj Awasthi, Abhishek Ray,Ali Azmat
Screenplay:Sudhir Mishra,Pankaj Kapoor , Joydeep Sarkar

Isi Life Mein

Genre: Drama
Cast: Akshay Oberoi, Sandeepa Dhar, Salman Khan, Mohnish Behl, Prachi Shah. Aditya Raj Kapoor, Shagufta Ali, Moin Khan ,Neha Kakkar,Veebha Anand, Akash Bathija, Rahul Kalra, Deepak Ramola, Ayush Mehra,Samaira Rao, Suyesha,Tasha Kapoor, Mansee Desshmukh, Dilip Raj, Gajendra Chauhan
Suhasini Mulay,Daisy Irani,Dalip Tahil,Madhur Arora,Rajesh Balwani.,Vineeta Agarwal,Poonam Gulati, Master Rishi Krishnan.
Producer: Kamal Kumar Barjatya, Rajkumar Barjatya, Ajit Kumar Barjatya, Sooraj Barjatya,Rajat Barjatya
Director: Vidhi Kasliwal


Music Director: Meet Bros Anjan Ankit
Screenplay: Sulekha Bajpai
Story / Writer:Vidhi Kasliwal

Robot- Enthiran- Movie Review

Cast: Rajinikanth, Aishwarya Rai, Danny Denzongpa
Screen play & Direction : S. Shankar
Producer: Kalanidhi Maran
Music: A. R. Rahman
Genre: Scifi, romance, action
Rating:**.5
Review:Birjis Adeni Rashed



 Its an elaborately  lousy  sci-fi production, ridiculous script and dialogs,  pathetic songs, plastic  acting,…. yet  Enthiran- Robot is strangely  an expensively ( Rs 160 crores)  made super hit blockbuster movie! 

Yes it has positives, its among the first scifi bollywood movies made, it has moments of glory with impressive special effects, technical lingo ( Asimov Theory)  and stunt performances. If you are the type who enjoys special effects and stunt action, and are a  Rajnikant fan and can ignore the illogical parts  like  robot talking to mosquitos etc you may enjoy the movie !

FYI- If you are seeing this because you are a Rajnikant fan, surprisingly this movie lacks the typical ‘Rajnikant  chaap’ or  his unique style,  though there are two Rajnikants in the movie- the scientists and the robot, the characters dont  perform his usual antics popular in his movies.

The story is about how a scientist develops a robot to serve humanity and upgrades it with human emotions, this leads to trouble with the robot falling for the scientists girlfriend. Of course there is a villain in every story, a rival scientist tampers the robot to cause harm and destruction. All this plus crappy masala filled in makes the movie.

Rajnikanth sorry to say looks very old, he should act his age and move on. The wigs and make up do nothing for him here. Yes he carries the movie on his shoulders, besides the special effects hugely sharing the weight. Aishwarya Rai is ridiculously plastic and Barbie dollish, her acting is plastic, fake and silly.

For the amount of money spent and the popularity of the lead actors one would have expected a better movie but there are many audiences who accept the illogical and ludicrousness of  bollywood movies  dished out, hence they become blockbusters!!

November & October 2010 Movie Releases

Guzaarish
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, Aditya Roy Kapur, Monikangana Dutta, Rajit Kapoor,Shernaz Patel, Sanjay Lafont, Nafisa Ali.
Producer: Sanjay Leela Bhansali; Ronnie Screwvala
Director, Sceenplay and Music: Sanjay Leela Bhansali


Release date : 19 Nov 2010                                                      Genre:Romance

Break Ke Baad
Cast: Imran Khan, Deepika Padukone, Sharmila Tagore, Shahana Goswami,Yudishtir Urs, Lilette Dubey,Naveen Nischol
Producer: Kunal Kohli
Director: Danish Aslam
Lyrics: Prasoon Joshi,Vishal Dadlani
Music Director: Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani
Screenplay:Renuka Kunzru
Story / Writer:Danish Aslam, Renuka Kunzru
Release date : 26 Nov 2010
Genre: Romance

Allah Ke Banday
Cast: Naseruddin Shah, Sharman Joshi, Faruk Kabir, Atul Kulkarni, Anjana Sukhani,Rukhsar,Zakir Hussain, Saksham Kulkarni, Suhasini Mulay, Vikram Gokhale
Producer: Ravi Walia
Director: Faruk Kabir
Story and Screenplay:Faruk Kabir
Release date : 12 Nov 2010
Genre: Action  /  Drama

Action Replayy
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Randhir Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, Kiron Kher, Om Puri, Rannvijay Singh, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Sudeepa Singh, Rajpal Yadav
Director: Vipul Shah
Producer: Vipul Shah
Writer:    Suresh Nair, Aatish Kapadia
Music director:    Pritam Chakraborty
Lyrics: Irshad Kamil
Release date-   5 November 2010
Genre:  Romantic  Comedy

Golmal 3
Cast:    Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Ratna Pathak, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Kunal Khemu, Johny Lever, Arshad Warsi, Sanjay Mishra, Vrajesh Hirjee, Ashwini Kalsekar, Murli Sharma, Mukesh Tiwari, Vijay Patkar
Director:   Rohit Shetty
Producer:   Dhillin Mehta
Music Director:   Pritam Chakraborty
Lyricst: Kumaar
Release date: 5 November 2010
Genre: comedy

Maalik Ek
Cast: Jackie Shroff, Divya Dutta, Shakti Kapoor, Sudesh Berry, Vikram Gokhale, Parikshit Sahni, Anup Jalota, Zarina Wahab, Rajeshwari Sachdeo, Kishori Shahane, Vidya Sinha, Smriti Irani
Director: Deepak Balraj Vij
Producer: Kishori Shahane
Music :  Anup Jalota
Release date: Oct 29,2010
Genre: spiritual  movie

Hisss
Cast: Mallika Sherawat, Irrfan Khan, Divya Dutta, Jeff Douchette, , Priyanka Rawat
Director: Jennifer Lynch
Producer:    Vikram Singh, Govind Menon, William Sees Keenan, Ratan Jain
Music: Alexander von Bubenheim
Release date:October 22, 2010
Language: Hindi, English, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam

Rakht Charitra - I
Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Shatrughan Sinha, Abhimanyu Shekhar Singh, Sane Obul Reddy, Sushant Singh, Zarina Wahab, Aashish Vidyarthi, Suriya, Priyamani, Anupam Shyam, Ashwini Kalsekar, Sushmita Mukherjee, Srinivasa Rao Kota, Tanikella Bharani, Sudeep, Radhika Apte
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Producer: Sheetal Vinod Talwar, Madhu Mantena, Sheetal Vinod Talwar, Chinna Vasudeva Reddy, Rajkumar
Writer: Prashant Pandey
Release Date : 22,Oct 2010; 26 November 2010(part2)
Genre: political; biography; action

Jhootha Hi Sahi
Starring:  John Abraham, Pakhi, R. Madhavan, Raghu Ram, Manasi Scott, Anaitha Nair, Nandana Sen

Director: Abbas Tyrewala
Producer: Madhu Mantena, Abbas Tyrewala
Release Date : 22,Oct 2010
Genre: Romantic  comedy

Aakrosh
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Bipasha Basu, Akshaye Khanna, Paresh Rawal, Amita Pathak, Reema Sen

Director: Priyadarshan
Producer: Kumar Mangat
Release Date : 15,Oct 2010
Genre: Action thriller

Knock Out
Cast : Sanjay Dutt, Kangna  Ranaut, Irrfan  Khan, Gulshan Grover, Sushant Singh, Asif Basra, Rukhsar,Apoorva Lakhia
Director: Mani Shankar
Producer: Sohail Maklai
Music: Gaurav Dasgupta
 Release Date : 15,Oct 2010

Do Dooni Chaar
Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh, Archit Krishna, Aditi Vasudev, Akhilendra Mishra, Supriya Shukla
Director: Habib Faisal
Producer:  Arindam Chaudhuri
Release Date : 08,Oct 2010
Genre: Drama, comedy

Dabangg- A Movie Review

Cast: Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Arbaaz Khan, Sonu Sood, Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Om Puri, Mahesh Manjrekar, Mahi Gill
Producer: Arbaaz Khan, Malaika Arora Khan, Dhillin Mehta
Director: Abhinav Kashyap
 Story: Dilip Shukla, Abhinav Kashyap
Music Director: Sajid, Wajid
Genre: Action comedy
Rating ***
Review: Birjis Adeni Rashed

This movie was made for certain target market and achieved in entertaining that focus audience well, hence became a blockbuster hit! The rest of the elite audiences who like a movie to intellectually appeal to the senses while entertaining them found this a little cheesy watch!

The movie had Salman Khan all over in his silly funny ways with his hip swinging, tongue in cheek dialogues and slapstick  comedy.  The action looks like desi Rajnikant meets Antonio Banderas in Desparodo, ducking bullets Matrix style! It also had yesteryears inspired ‘Angry Young Man Hero’ in goofy style ;)

 Though there is not much of a story, it’s a typical hackneyed story of a sibling rivalry taken advantage by a goon, and of course there is a heroine to add some oomph. Finally to this equation is the much hyped and talked about Mallika Arora's munni badnam …..zandu balm item song! Though the song is not on par with other popular item songs like beedi jalai le jigar me… it got free publicity from the Zandu Balm folks warning to sue them for uninformed inclusion of their product in a song!

The positives and negatives of the movie is its silliness, the point of view of course  changes with each viewer! There is not all nonsense in the movie though. There has been a serious thought and effort to leave  an open ended  climax and  unexplained dialogs for making a sequel.  Unexplained dialogs like why Rajjo/Sonakshi is called Arota by her father, which  she doesn’t explain and  wants it  to be  uncovered by Chulbul/Salman could be a lead to another angle of a story!

Salman khan has aged and grown out of shape, though suitable for the role of an Indian cop. His acting or overacting is meant to entertain which it does!  Experienced actors like Dimple Kapadia and Vinod Khanna are wasted in small roles. The debutante Sonakshi Sinha, Shatrugan Sinha’s daughter surprisingly a Reena Roy look-alike performs well and apparently is having a beeline of movies.

Dabang is apparently  successful and beating box-office records,  the  plain logic could be:-Timing- the timing of the release was right, a release on Eid, after Ramadan where people flock to theatres is bound to get major first day record sales ;) ; Niche market- In the recent past most movies have been either made for elite thinking audiences, urban audiences or the expat NRI’s , hence this movie catering to the local common man/ aam admi  of the heavily populated India  grabbed that niche market.   ….. whatever the reason, this  movie isn’t about sense! It’s senseless.

We are Family - A Review

Directed by Siddharth Malhotra
Produced by Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar
Written by Gigi Levangie Grazer; Venita Coelho
Starring Kajol, Kareena Kapoor,Arjun Rampal
Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Cinematography Mohanan
Genre: Drama
Rating: **.5(2.5/5)
Inspiration: Stepmom

(The aim and intention of my reviews is to critique and recommend while not revealing the whole story to enjoy the movie when seen. But minor details have been divulged for a proper review!)

'We are Family' is the first bollywood movie legitimately copied and credited and rights purchased from its original Hollywood version! But why make an apparently Indian version of ‘stepmom’ when it’s set in Australia, and is an' Expactriate-Indian' version of the story with similar scenes and dialogues as the original!  Yes, it has the natural performer and an excellent actress like Kajol, but why watch a movie which is a very predictable and sad version of the Hollywood one!

This movie handles the difficult issues of divorce, separation, relationships and death.  It’s a tragedy, and its written all over in every scene with its gloomy predictability, depressing story, zero light-hearted relief and lack of depth.  It has a few sad and heartrending scenes, but  that doesn’t affect you throughout the movie, because of its superficiality.

Kajol has to be applauded for her natural performance reflected as the multi tasker disciplinarian mom, with shades of possessive, envious, jealous, sad, helpless, big hearted, scared of her impending death and departure from her family and finally accepting of the inevitable. Kareena too has matured in performance but comparing her to Julia Roberts in Stepmom, it’s not good enough. Arjun Ramphal is the man involved with these strong women and nothing much.

This emotional drama fell flat from my  good expectaions of  it being a Stepmoms remake with actresses like Kajol and Kareena with a producer like Karan Johar!

Upcoming Bollywood Releases- September 2010

We are family
Directed by  Siddharth Malhotra
Produced by Karan Johar, Hiroo Johar
Written by Gigi Levangie Grazer; Venita Coelho
Starring::Kajol, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal
Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Genre: Drama
Inspiration: Stepmom

Dabangg
Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Arbaaz Khan
 Directed by     Abhinav Kashyap
Produced by     Arbaaz Khan; Malaika Arora;Dhillin Mehta
Written by  Dilip Shukla; Abhinav Kashyap
Starring  Salman Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Sonu Sood, Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia
Music by  Sajid-Wajid
Genre: Action

Enthiran - The Robot
Directed by  S. Shankar
Produced by Kalanidhi Maran
Written by S. Shankar; Sujatha Rangarajan; V. Balakumaran
Starring  Rajinikanth; Aishwarya Bachchan , Danny Denzongpa
Music by  A. R. Rahman
Genre: Sci-Fi

 Crook
Emraan Hashmi, Neha Sharma
 Director:   Mohit Suri
Producer:   Mukesh Bhatt
Music Director:   Pritam Chakraborty
Genre: Social

Anjaana Anjaani

Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, Sharan Kapoor
Screenplay by     Advaita Kala, Siddharth Anand
Starring: Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Zayed Khan
Music by Vishal-Shekhar
Genre: Romance; Comedy

Bollywood Museam!

There have been talking about a Bollywood museum,  since some time now, a  Bollywood  tourist attraction!  Though Bollywood has the highest fan following and movies are the biggest entertainment in India, not much has been done yet to showcase Bollywood in India.

Like MGM  studios and Universal studios and wax museums  and walk of fame and  hall of fame immortalizes the Hollywood actors and movies and showcases the movies and memorabilia in United States;  Bollywood has plans to house a Bollywood museum in ‘Film City’. Film city is where some indoor and outsoor sets and facilities  are made for shooting and producing movies, and may be a good location to add the museum to it. 
The Tollywood -Telegu film industry in Hyderabad which houses the Ramoji studious already attracts tourists, and Bollywood version would be a biggest attraction and  great memoir to the Indian cinema.

The museum is set to have costumes, jewelry,  props, weapons used in famous movies, film posters,  gallery of actors and  films personalities since the beginning of Indian cinema, Wax statues, and more.
After the launch of the Bollywood museum, apparently a Bollywood theme park is also in the plans.

Lets hope the plans start rolling soon for us to enjoy a total Bollywood experience next time we visit the city of Bombay/ Mumbai!


http://www.hindustantimes.com/Bollywood-museum-to-showcase-history-of-films/Article1-585504.aspx
http://www.cnngo.com/mumbai/play/massive-bollywood-museum-coming-soon-beach-near-mumbai-629549
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/5710125.cms