Song from Guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V-wefxMxDY&feature=relmfu
Song from Jewel Thief
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5OXj62qJUQ
Song From Hare Rama Hare Krishna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygeZfOExejA
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Bollywood Movies Releases- December 2011
The Dirty Picture
Directed by Milan Luthria
Produced by Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor
Screenplay: Rajat Arora
Starring : Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor
Music: Vishal-Shekhar
Genre: Biographical film/ biopic on the life of South Indian Movie Actress Silk Smita
Release date: December 2, 2011
Don 2
Produced by Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani, Shahrukh Khan
Screenplay: Ameet Mehta, Amrish Shah
Story: Farhan Akhtar, Ameet Mehta, Amrish Shah
Starring: Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta, Om Puri, Kunal Kapoor
Music: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Genre: Action Thriller
Sequel to Don: The Chase Begins Again (2006) which was a remake of Don(1978)
Release date: December 23, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Baby Bachchan Born ;)
Princess Bachchan is born. The much awaited baby in the Bachchan family was born Nov 16 th 2011. The Bollywood star and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan gave birth to a baby girl at the seven Hills hospital in Mumbai, India.
Her husband Bollywood actor, Abhishek Bachchan announced on Twitter (@juniorbachchan) "IT'S A GIRL!," While Amitabh Bachchan, India’s Biggest bollywood star and legend announced on twitter(@SrBachchan) : "A dada ji (a grandfather)...Ecstatic!", calling his new granddaughter "the cutest baby girl".
Because of the hype created by media to cover the Bachchan baby delivery, the media has been asked to show restraint where the Broadcast Editors Association (BEA) issued a 10-point advisory for responsible coverage of the development. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry had also asked the electronic media to respect the privacy of the Bachchan family.
Hence further details about the baby will be released only by the Bachchan family.
Here are pics of Abishesk Bachchan and Aishwarya in their childhood and Bachchan family pics which will preview how the baby Bachchan may look like ;)
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| Abhishek Bachchan with mom Jaya Bachchan |
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| Ash with her mom |
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| Amitabh Bachchan with Sweta and Abhishek |
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| Aishwarya with Rai parents |
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| Jaya & Amitabh Bachchan with daughter Sweta's family and abhishek |
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| Aishwarya as baby |
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| Amitabh and jaya with kids |
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| Aishwarya with her brother |
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| Bachchans |
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| Pregnant Aishwarya |
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| Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan |
more details: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Aishwarya-Rai-Bachchan-blessed-with-a-baby-girl/articleshow/10751518.cms
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Shahrukh Khan Is Super Hero!
He is not Superman or Batman or Spiderman. He is G-One pronounced as ‘Jeevan’ which means ‘ Life’! Seeing the potential to make a super hero like Batman, Spiderman… in Bollywood movie Industry, Shahrukh Khan created an Indian Super Hero- G.One. Having been quoted as saying "Why should Indians be wearing only Batman T-Shirts or our kids collect toy merchandise from Hollywood movies." Shahrukh Khan now will personify the character of this new super hero ‘G-One’. G-One is the superhero of the movie ‘Ra-one’ the most expensively produced sci-fi movie of Bollywood industry.
"Ra.One is the modern, new age technology version of our mythological "Raavan", who was a mixture of ten different evil characters. I am essaying the role of G.One or better say "Jeevan", a superhero who saves the mankind from Ra.One’s torment. Through this film, I want to prove that Indian superheroes can also be as cool as the international ones."—Shahrukh Khan on Ra.One
In spite of the Indian film industry being the largest producer of films in a year, we haven’t ventured much into futuristic or scifi or even super hero kind of movies earlier. The Indian films have been made is almost every genre like romance, action, drama, historical, mythological, political, social … and now venturing into sci-fi!
It’s not that super heroes were not created before in Indian movies. We always had action adventure movies with angry young man superheroes, or hero’s saving a damsel in distress! But we also had some savior super heroes, masked vigilantes and heroes with super powers: Amitabh Bachchan as Shehenshah, Anil Kapoor as Mr India, Hrithik Roshan as Krish, Abhishek Bachchan as Drona, and Rajnikanth as Enthiraan and Robot.
But finally its Shahrukh Khan who may be creating Indias first ‘SuperHero’ in the likes of Superman, Spider man and Batman! Taking it one step ahead Shahrukh’s , Red Chillies Entertainment tied up with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to build a full cycle game of the film on PlayStation- "Ra.One - The Game" ; and also created the superhero G-One’s graphic novels and comics which he has apparently scripted himself! Shahrukh Khan also tied up with Seventymm to market a variety of merchandises related to the film, like G.One tee shirts, coffee mugs, wrist bands, watches, mobile pouches, video cameras etc.
G-One is a total super hero package, we just have to wait and watch how much of a hero he will become in India and abroad!
Ra-One official Website: http://www.raonemovie.com/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO9uR3ggcd4
Also check out making making of 'chamak chalo' the popular song with Akon from movie Ra-One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAHagot7RIQ
The popular Song 'chamak chalo'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh2K9VlGj9Q&feature=relmfu
Release date : 26 Oct 2011
Genre: Scifi
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Arjun Rampal, Kareena Kapoor, Armaan Verma, (Special appearance- Sanjay Dutt, Priyanka Chopra, Rajnikanth,), Satish Shah, Dalip Tahil, Shahana Goswami, Suresh Menon, Tom Wu
Producer: Gauri Khan
Executive Producer / Co-Producers: Sanjeev Chawla, Prashant Shah, Anil Sable
Writer/Director: Anubhav Sinha
Screenplay:Anubhav Sinha, Mushtaq Sheikh,Kanika Dhillon
Music Director: Vishal Dadlanim, Shekhar Ravjiani
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Bollywood Movie Releases: October-November 2011
Ra One
Release date : 26 Oct 2011
Genre: Scifi
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Arjun Rampal, Kareena Kapoor, Armaan Verma, (Special appearance- Sanjay Dutt, Priyanka Chopra, Rajnikanth,), Satish Shah, Dalip Tahil, Shahana Goswami, Suresh Menon, Tom Wu
Producer: Gauri Khan
Executive Producer / Co-Producers: Sanjeev Chawla, Prashant Shah, Anil Sable
Writer/Director: Anubhav Sinha
Screenplay:Anubhav Sinha, Mushtaq Sheikh,Kanika Dhillon
Music Director: Vishal Dadlanim, Shekhar Ravjiani
Rockstar
Release date : 11 Nov 2011
Genre: Romance / Drama
Cast; Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri, Shammi Kapoor
Producer: Dhillin Mehta
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Music Director; A R Rahman
Release date : 18 Nov 2011 / Nov 25 2011
Genre: Comedy/ Action
Cast: Akshay Kumar, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Chitrangda Singh, Omi Vaidya
Sanjay Dutt(special appearance)
Producer: Vijay Ahuja, Krishika Lulla, Jyoti Deshpande,
Executive Producer / Co-Producer: Manoj Mittra, Ram Mirchandani
Writer/Director: Rohit Dhawan
Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty
Screenplay: Milap Zaveri Rohit Dhawan
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Bollywood Influence on Western Commercials
Bollywood song for Heineken Beer!
I was watching The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night when an interesting commercial of Heineken got aired. This high energy, extremely well made commercial is complimented by a musical score from the 1960’s Bollywood track “Jaan pehcaan ho”. Having been a copy writer with advertising background and being a Bollwood blah writer, I got intrigued into finding out more.
The commercial I am talking about is Heineken’s “The Date”, the second film from their advertising campaign “Open Your World”. Their earlier film from the campaign was the Clio award-winning film 'The Entrance'.
The “Date” is a beautifully crafted, yet incredibly high-energy story following the Heineken® legend as he woos his stunning date on an epic journey, a glamorous tribute to all magical dates and legendary night-outs. The hip atmosphere of ‘The Date’ is complemented by a musical score featuring the catchy 1960s Bollywood track “Jaan Pehechaan Ho”.
Check out link for the advertisement film;
http://wkamst.com/#/work/heineken/the-legends-campaign
Also check out the song in full from the movie Gumnam;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyEnG_DEB1I
The original song “Jaan pehchaan ho” was sung by Bollywood legendry playback singer Mohammed Rafi in the 1965 movie "Gumnaam". "Gumnaam" (Hindi for "unknown" or "anonymous") is a 1965 Indian horror thriller film directed by Raja Nawathe, produced by N N Sippy, starring Manoj Kumar, Nanda, Pran, Helen and Mehmood. The music for the film was composed by Shankar-Jaikishan The story is apparently based on Agatha Christie's novel “And Then There Were None”.
The film and the song came to wider attention when the song "Jaan Pehechan Ho" ( translated as "We should get to know each other") was in the opening credits of 2001 teenage comedy-drama movie Ghost world.
The movie Ghost World, features one of the characters Enid watching and dancing to the song.
The song is incidentally also featured on the CD Bollywood Steel Guitar[3], a various artists compilation released in 2008 by the Sublime Frequencies record label.
The Heineken ad was made by the advertising agency: Wieden+ Kennedy .
The Date Film was developed at Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam by executive creative directors Mark Bernath, Eric Quennoy, art director Alvaro Sotomayor, copywriter Roger Hoard, broadcast director Erik Verheijen, agency producer Tony Stearns, associate producer Niko Koot, planners Stuart Parkinson and Martin Weigel, group account director Clay Mills, account director Jasmina Krnjetin, account manager Dan Colgan, project manager Sharon Kwiatkowski, business affairs manager Karen Crossley, working with Heineken global brand director Cyril Charza, global communications team Sandrine Huijgen, Josefien Olij and Rachel Ijzendoorn.
Filming was shot by director Fredrik Bond via Sonny London with director of photography Mattias Montero, producer Alicia Bernard and executive producer Helen Kenny. The Making Of the Legend team also included digital content directors Zak and Dan, producer Jack Beardsley, and digital content photographer Hugo Stenson.
Editor was Tim Thornton-Allan at Marshall Street Editors.
Sound Designer/Mixer was Raja Sehgal at Grand Central Studios, London. Music is “Jaan Pehechaan Ho”, performed by Mohammed Rafi, through Agoraphone, with music supervisor Beth Urdang.
Post production was done at The Mill, London, by Flame artist Jay Bandlish, 3D artist David Lawson, colorist Adam Scott, and producer Paul Schleicher.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Bollywood Movie Releases- September 2011
Mere Brother Ki Dulhan
Directed by Ali Abbas Zafar
Produced by Aditya Chopra
Story by Ali Abbas Zafar
Starring Imran Khan, Katrina Kaif, Ali Zafar
Music by Sohail Sen
Release date: September 09, 2011
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Website : http://www.yashrajfilms.com/microsites/mbkd/index.html
Trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSwvdvRx8cg
Mausam
Directed by Pankaj Kapoor
Produced by Sheetal Vinod Talwar, Sunil Lulla
Screenplay by Pankaj Kapoor
Starring : Shahid Kapoor, Sonam Kapoor, Anupam Kher
Music by Pritam
Release date: September 16, 2011
Genre: Romance
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cILw5BlRk9I&
Tell me O KKhuda
Produced by Hema Malini
Directed by Hema Malini, Mayur Puri
Starring: Esha Deol, Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Dharmendra, Arjan Bajwa, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Sudhanshu Pandey, Farooq Sheikh, Hema Malini, Deepti Naval, Salman Khan(Cameo), Johny Lever, Gurbachan, Madhoo
Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty Release Date: September 30, 2011
Genre: Drama
Producer: Akshay Kumar, Ajay Virmani
Executive Producer / Co-Producer: Russell Peters, Pauline Dhillon, Paul Gross, Clayton Peters
Director: Robert Lieberman
Starring: Vinay Virmani, Akshay Kumar(As Himself), Anupam Kher, Camilla Belle, Gurpreet Guggi. Russell Peters, Noureen Dewulf, Sakina Jaffrey, Rob Lowe,
Music Director: Sandeep Chowta, Anjjan (Meet Bros), Harmeet (Meet Bros),Manmeet (Meet Bros)
Screenplay: Vinay Virmani
Story / Writer: Vinay Virmani, Noel Barker,Jeffrey Schechter, Matt Simmons
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Genre: Family Drama
Force
Produced by Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Screenplay by Ritesh Shah
Story by Gautham Menon
Starring; John Abraham,Genelia D'Souza
Music by Harris Jayaraj, Lalit Pandit
Genre: Action, Romance.
Release Date : Sept 30, 2011
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYyH6ujINzU&feature=relmfu
Soundtrack
Starring: Rajeev Khadelwal, Soha Ali Khan, Mrinalini Sharma
Directed by Neeraj Ghosh
Music : Midival Punditz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ8rH8trxGE&feature=related
Release date: Sept 30 ,2011
Genre: Musical
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Bollywood Movie Releases August 2011
Aarakshan
Director: Prakash Jha
Producers: Prakash Jha, Firoz A. Nadiadwala
Screenplay: Anjum Rajabali, Prakash Jha
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali Khan,Manoj Bajpayee,Deepika Padukone,Prateik Babbar Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Running time 175 minutes
Language: Hindi
Genre: Socio-Politico drama
Release date: August 12, 2011
Trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWyAOhOoSqE
Chatur Singh -Two StarDirector: Ajay Chandhok
Producer: Mohammad Aslam
Screenplay: Rumi Jaffery
Story: Rumi Jaffery , Sai Kabir
Starring : Sanjay Dutt, Ameesha Patel, Suresh Menon, Anupam kher
Music by Sajid-Wajid
Genre: Comedy
Language: Hindi
Inspiration : Pink Panther
Release date: August 19, 2011
Director: Siddique
Producer: Atul Agnihotri, Alvira Agnihotri
Screenplay/story: Siddique
Starring Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Mahesh Manjrekar, Raj Babbar
Music by Himesh Reshammiya, Pritam
Genre: romance; comedy
Language- Hindi
Remake of : Malyalam movie: Bodygaurd/ Telegu movie: Ganga;
Tamil movie: Kaavalan.
Release date: August 31, 2011
Directed by Shoaib Mansoor
Produced by Shoman Productions
Written by Shoaib Mansoor
Starring Atif Aslamm, Humaima Malik, Mahira Khan,Iman Ali, Shafqat Cheema
Manzar Sehbai, Zaib Rehman, Amr Kashmiri
Music by Atif Aslam, Shoaib Mansoor, Sajjad Ali, Ahmed Jahanzeb
Language- Urdu/ English
Genre: Social, Drama
Earlier Pakistan Release: June 24, 2011
World Wide Release Date: August 31, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara……..Carpe diem -Seize the day!
Cast: Hrithik Roshan , Farhan Akhtar , Abhay Deol, Katrina Kaif, Kalki Koechlin
Producer: Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar
Director: Zoya Akhtar
Story/screenplay : Reema Kagti, Zoya Akhtar
Dialogues: Farhan Akhtar
Music Director: Shankar Mahadevan , Ehsaan Noorani , Loy Mendonca
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Rating: ***.5 ( 3.5/5)
Website: http://www.znmdthemovie.com/
Review: Birjis Adeni Rashed
The aim and intention of my reviews is to critique and recommend while not revealing the whole story to enjoy the movie when seen. Minor details may have been divulged for proper review!
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is about ‘Carpe Diem’, ‘Seize the day’, ‘you only live once’, ‘do what you want to do’,’ face your fears’, ‘fight insecurities’, have adventures, ‘appease your soul’, ‘live out of the box’, make life worth living for………
Its philosophy rings a bell of Robin Williams
philosophizing of carpe diem
seize the day- make your life extra ordinary in Dead Poets Society
; …… Its inspiration seems to be from Hangover
where the groom and his friends go on a bachelors party trip and have many misadventures; …… And it brings memories of a movie about 3 friends with a philosophy of ‘do what your heart wants’ ' Dil Chahta Hai
'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara buddies are copy writer Imraan (Farhan Akhtar
), stock broker Arjun (Hrithik Roshan
) and construction businessman Kabir (Abhay Doel). The adventurous road trip they have is in picturesque Spain
. Their dare devil adventures to challenge their fears and do the extraordinary are Scuba Diving
, Sky Diving
and Running of the Bulls
(Encierro).Besides adventure and thrills it’s about emotions, fears, indulgence, relationships, friends, tender sensitive moments, spontaneous incidents, bonding moments, lively banter, romance, camaraderie, juvenile pranks, and of course carpe diem and realization that zindagi na milegi dobara.
The movie was worth seeing in theatre today with friends and kids. It was a pleasure to the eye seeing beautiful and picturesque Spain in travelogue form on big screen with handsome studs and beautiful babes. There is eloquent poetry and flamenco music for the ear too. The movie on the whole is entertaining and well made but not spectacular as it was rumored to be!
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| Bagwati ;) |
Cast of this movie was excellent with good acting by all. Imran/Farhan Akhtar comes out as the sweet, likable, deep creative writer. His stumbling words and emotions meeting his birth father/Naseeruddin Shah was well emoted.
Arjun/Hrithikh’s character grows from a workaholic focused financial guy to a sensitive, spontaneous person under the influence of a beautiful, free-spirited and spontaneous personality of Laila/ Katrina Kaif. The emotions of accomplishment/contentment depicted by Hrithikh after scuba diving for a non swimmer were excellent. Katrina quite appropriate for the role enacts both the sparkling and tender moments pretty well. Her philosophies of life delivered very subtly and matter of factly was realistic. Her lines of thinking and living out of the box and the box being only for the dead were excellent, of course credit goes to the dialog writer ;)
The stable yet juvenile prankster who has emotional conflicts regarding his wedding is depicted well by Kabir/Abhay Doel. And finally if I didn’t like anyone, it was Natasha/ kalki /'chudail/witch alert', the character was as painful as the actor.
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| @ Tomatina festival |
While the Akhtar’s - Zoya, Farhan and Javed excelled in their contributive parts of direction, production, acting, story and lyrics, the movie could have done better with better editing and avoiding the dragging parts!
There were some flaws and technical gliches too: An obvious one was when Hrithikh Roshan gets a call on his cell in Spain, its on vodaphone service, an exclusive Indian telephone service!!
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Bollywood Movie Releases June -July 2011
Directed by Anees Bazmee
Produced by Rajat Rawail, Bhushan Kumar, Nitin Manmohan, Kishan Kumar, Sohail Khan
Screenplay by Rajiv Kaul, Rajan Agarwal, Ikram Akhtar
Story by Gopimohan, Nisar Akhtar
Starring : Salman Khan
, Asin Thottumkal, Arya Babbar, Paresh Rawal, Puneet Issar, Mahesh Manjrekar, Akhilendra Mishra Music by Pritam
Remake of Telegu movie : Ready ( 2008)
Genre: comedy
http://www.readythemovie.com/
Double Dhamal
Directed by Indra Kumar
Produced by Ashok Thakeria, Indra Kumar
Screenplay by Tushar Hiranandani
Story by Tushar Hiranandani
Starring Sanjay Dutt
, Arshad Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh, Jaaved Jaaferi, Aashish Chaudhary Music by Anand Raj Anand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j743nTV-5WE
Genre: Comedy
website : http://www.doubledhamaalmovie.com/
Directed by Abhinay Deo
Produced by Aamir Khan
, Kiran Rao, Ronnie Screwvala, Jim FurgeleStory by Akshat Verma
Starring Imran Khan, Vir Das, Poorna Jagannathan, Kunal Roy Kapoor,Shenaz Treasurywala
Music by Ram Sampath
Genre: Comedy
Director: Poori Jagannath
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan
, Hema Malini, Raveena Tandon, Sonu Sood, Prakash Raj, Makrand Deshpande, Shahwar Ali, Rajeev Mehta, Rajeev Varma, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Atul ParchureMusic Director: Vishal – Shekhar
Lyricist: Vishal Dadlani, Swanand Kirkire, Anvita Dutt Guptan
Singer(s): Amitabh Bachchan
Genre: Action
website: http://www.bigbisback.com/
video trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7g_0naxTjI&feature=player_embedded
Hrithik Roshan
, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol, Katrina Kaif
, Kalki KoechlinDirected by Zoya Akhtar
Produced by Farhan Akhtar,Ritesh Sidhwani
Screenplay by Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti
Story by Zoya Akhtar,Reema Kagti
Starring Hrithik Roshan,Abhay Deol, Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif, Kalki Koechlin,Ariadna Cabrol, Naseeruddin Shah
Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Genre: romance
http://www.znmdthemovie.com/
Chillar party
Producer: Ronnie Screwvala, Salman Khan
Director: Vikas Bahl, Nitesh Tiwari
Cast:
Irrfan Khan ,Sanath Menon, Rohan Grover, Naman Jain, Aarav Khanna, Vishesh Tiwari, Chinmai Chandranshuh, Vedant Desai, Divji Handa, Sherya Sharma, Ranbir Kapoor...... Item Number
Music Director: Amit Trivedi
Genre: Childrens movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls7hxjVnHNQ
http://www.chillarparty.net/
Directed by Rohit Shetty
Screenplay by Yunus Sajawal
Starring Ajay Devgn, Kajal Aggarwal,Prakash Raj
Music by Ajay-Atul
Remake of Tamil movie Singam(2010)
Genre: Action
http://www.singhamthefilm.com/
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