Filmfare Awards 2014 - Nominees

  Bollwood's prestigious awards- the 60th Filmfare Awards 2014 ceremony  will be held  on 31st, January, 2015  in Mumbai, India. Here are the Nominees 

BEST FILM

2 States

Haider

Mary Kom

PK

Queen

BEST DIRECTOR

Abhishek Varman - 2 States

Anurag Kashyap - Ugly

Rajkumar Hirani - PK

Vikas Bahl - Queen

Vishal Bhardwaj - Haider

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (MALE)

Aamir Khan - PK

Akshay Kumar - Holiday

Hrithik Roshan - Bang Bang

Randeep Hooda - Rang Rasiya

Shahid Kapoor - Haider

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE (FEMALE)

Alia Bhatt - Highway

Kangana Ranaut - Queen

Madhuri Dixit - Dedh Ishqiya

Priyanka Chopra - Mary Kom

Rani Mukerji - Mardaani

Sonam Kapoor - Khoobsurat

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (MALE)

Abhishek Bachchan - Happy New Year

Kay Kay Menon - Haider

Riteish Deshmukh - Ek Villain

Ronit Roy -2 States

Tahir Raj Bhasin - Mardaani

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE (FEMALE)

Amrita Singh - 2 States

Dimple Kapadia - Finding Fanny

Juhi Chawla - Gulaab Gang

Lisa Haydon - Queen

Tabu - Haider

BEST MUSIC

Amit Trivedi - Queen

Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Honey Singh, Mithoon and Pritam - Yariyaan

Himesh Reshammiya, Meet Bros Anjjan and Honey Singh – Kick

Mithoon, Ankit Tiwari and SOCH – Ek Villain

Shankar-Eshaan-Loy – 2  States

BEST LYRICS

Amitabh Bhattacharya – Zehnaseeb (Hasee Toh Phasee)

Gulzar – Bismil (Haider)

Irshad Kamil – Patakha guddi (Highway)

Kausar Munir – Suno na sangemarmar (Youngistaan)

Rashmi Singh – Muskurane ki wajah (CityLights)

BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (MALE)

Ankit Tiwari – Galliyan (Ek Villain)

Arijit Singh – Mast magan (2 States)

Arijit Singh – Suno na sangemarmar (Youngistaan)

Benny Dayal – Locha-E-Ulfat  (2 States)

Shekhar Ravjiani – Zehnaseeb (Hasee Toh Phasee)

BEST PLAYBACK SINGER (FEMALE)

Jyoti Nooran and Sultana Nooran – Patakha guddi (Highway)

Kanika Kapoor – Baby doll (Ragini MMS 2)

Rekha Bhardwaj – Humari atariya pe (Dedh Ishqiya)

Shreya Ghoshal – Manwa lage (Happy New Year)

Sona Mahapatra – Naina (Khoobsurat)

Oct, Nov, Dec 2014 Bollywood Movies

December

Ugly

Director: Anurag Kashyap

Producers:Arun Rangachari, Vivek Rangachari, Madhu Mantena, Vikas Bahl, Vikramaditya Motwane

Cast: Rahul Bhat, Ronit Roy, Girish Kulkarni, Siddhanth Kapoor, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vineet Kumar Singh, Surveen Chawla, Anshikaa Shrivastava, Sandesh Jadhav

Music: G. V. Prakash Kumar, Brian McOmber

Release dates:Dec26, 2014

Genre:Thriller

P.K

Cast: Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Sanjay Dutt, Rohitash Gaud, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukhla, Parikshit Sahni

Director: Rajkumar Hirani

Producers: Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Story & Screenplay: Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijit Joshi

Music: Shantanu Moitra, Ajay Gogavale, Atul Gogavale

Background score: Sanjay Wandrekar, Atul Raninga

Lyrics: Swananda Kirkire, Amitabh Varma

Genre:  comedy, social drama

Parental Guidance: couple of kisses and some talk about sex and condoms.

Release dates:    Dec 19 2014

Rating: **** (4/5)

Lingaa

Director: K.S. Ravikumar

Producer: Rockline Venkatesh

Cast: Rajinikanth, Anushka Shetty, Sonakshi Sinha, Santhanam, Jagapathi Babu, Dev Gill, Karunakaran, Brahmanandam, Radha Ravi, Vijayakumar, K Vishwanath, Manobala, Illavarasu

Music: A. R. Rahman

Release dates: December 12, 2014

Genre: Action

Language:Tamil/Hindi/Telegu

November

The Shoukeens

Director: Abhishek Sharma

Producers: Ashvin Varde, Murad Khetani, Akshay Kumar

Writers:  Tigmanshu Dhulia, Sai Kabir

Screenplay :       Tigmanshu Dhulia

Cast: Anupam Kher, Annu Kapoor, Piyush Mishra, Lisa Haydon, Akshay Kumar

Music :  Yo Yo Honey Singh, Hard Kaur, Vikram Nagi, Arko Mukherjee

Release date:    7 November 2014

Kill Dil

Director: Shaad Ali

Producer: Aditya Chopra

Cast:  Govinda, Ranveer Singh, Ali Zafar, Parineeti Chopra

Music :  Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Cinematography              Aveek Mukhopadhyay

Edited by             Ritesh Soni

Release date:    14 November 2014

Happy Ending

Director: Raj Nidimoru, Krishna D.K.

Producer: Saif Ali Khan, Dinesh Vijan, Sunil Lulla

Cast: Govinda, Saif Ali Khan, Ileana D'Cruz, Ranvir Shorey, Kalki Koechlin

Music by              Sachin-Jigar

Release dates:  21 November 2014

Ungli

Director: Rensil D'Silva

Producers: Hiroo Yash Johar, Karan Johar

Writer:  Milap Milan Zaveri, Rensil D'Silva

Cast:Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut, Sanjay Dutt, Randeep Hooda, Neil Bhoopalam, Angad Bedi

Music: Salim-Sulaiman, Sachin-Jigar, gulraj singh, aslamkeyi, Background Score: John Stewart Eduri

Release date:28 November 2014

 

October

Bang Bang   

       

Director: Siddharth Anand

Producer: Fox Star Studios

Writer:  Abbas Tyrewala (Dialogue)

Screenplay : Patrick O'Neill (Original Screenplay), Sujoy Ghosh, Suresh Nair (Adapted Screenplay)

Story :   Patrick O'Neill

Based on: Knight and Day by James Mangold & Patrick O'Neill

Cast:  Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif, Danny Denzongpa, Jaaved Jaffrey, Pawan Malhotra, Jimmy Shergill

Music : Vishal-Shekhar

Background Score: Salim-Sulaiman

Release date:    2 October 2014

Haider 

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj

Producers :Vishal Bhardwaj, Siddharth Roy Kapur

Writers: Basharat Peer, Vishal Bhardwaj

Based on Hamlet  by William Shakespeare

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Tabu, Shraddha Kapoor, Kay Kay Menon

Music :  Vishal Bhardwaj

Release date: 2 October 2014

Sonali Cable      

Director; Charudutt Acharya

Producer; Ramesh Sippy, Rohan Sippy, Kamia Mulhotra, Roopa De Chouodhury

Writer: Charudutt Acharya

Starring: Rhea Chakraborty, Ali Fazal, Raghav Juyal, Anupam Kher, Smita Jaykar

Music :  Daniel B. George, Mikey McCleary, Amjad Nadeem, Raghav Sachar

Release date:    17 October 2014

A friend was involved in playing the music for few of this movies’ numbers. wishing the best to this friend for bollywood success!

Happy New Year

Director:Farah Khan

Producer:Gauri Khan

Writer:Farah Khan,Althea Kaushal Mayur Puri

Story:Farah Khan

cast:Shahrukh Khan,Abhishek Bachchan,Deepika Padukone,Boman Irani,Sonu Sood,Vivaan Shah,Jackie Shroff

Narrator:Shahrukh Khan

Music:Vishal Shekhar,John Stewart Eduri

Release date:24 October 2014

               

Super Nani

Director: Indra Kumar

Producer: Indra Kumar, Ashok Thakeria

Writer:  Vipul Mehta

Based on Gujarati play, Baa Ae Maari Boundary

Cast: Rekha,  Sharman Joshi, Randhir Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Shweta Kumar

Music :  Harshit Saxena, Sanjeev-Darshan

Release date:    31 October 2014

P.K Movie Review

Cast: Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sushant Singh Rajput, Sanjay Dutt, Rohitash Gaud, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukhla, Parikshit Sahni

Director: Rajkumar Hirani

Producers: Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Story & Screenplay: Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijit Joshi

Music: Shantanu Moitra, Ajay Gogavale, Atul Gogavale

Background score: Sanjay Wandrekar, Atul Raninga

Lyrics: Swananda Kirkire, Amitabh Varma

Genre:  comedy, social drama

Parental Guidance: couple of kisses and some talk about sex and condoms.

Release dates:    Dec 19 2014

Rating: **** (4/5)

Review By: 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. But minor details have been divulged for a proper review!)

“Naam kucho naahi hai humaar lekin pata nahi kaahey sab log humka PK-PK bulawat hai?” P.K  is not his name, nor is he tipsy, but he is the outsider, whose’s naïve exploration of religion enlightens his  perspective, in the process exposing the duplicities of godmen who exploit religion and revealing the bigotry, racial divides and charades of  organized religion.

Director Rajkumar Hirani  with Aamir Khan in the lead brilliantly create a satiric comedy  tackling the sensitive issue of religious rituals without being sacrilegious and offensive to any one religion by the pure genius of having an ‘alien’ perspective.

Just like Hirani with his wit and satire artistically exposed the flaws in education systems through 3 Idiots, and shared the Gandhian philosophies through Munna Bhai, in P.K he bravely challenges one more real world issue with his creative artistry.

Though Paresh Rawal starring ‘Oh My God’ handled a similar subject, the simplicity of the story in P.K, and  the ingeniously  crafted scenes, with classic yet cheeky dialogs, rich with  comic wit and ironic humor with the obvious out of this world outlook makes P.K an excellent movie.

Aamir Khan excels as always in his performace. He  enthralls  us with his innocent charm and makes ‘tingga tingga nanga punga’ P.K endearing in spite of his  unblinking, jutting eyes, protruding ears, red pan stained lips, and Bhojpuri accent. Anouska Sharma  portraying a  spirited, ‘bindaas’ bold, and spontaneous  character fits in well.  Sanjay Dutt, Boman Irani and Sushant Rajput in their roles have sweet and pleasant performances. Suarabh Shukla holds fine in the negative role.

The songs and lyrics are fresh and refreshing. The folk song with Rajastani fervor in ‘tharki chokro’ is entertaining, ‘chaar kadam’ is a nice romantic number, ‘Love is a baste of time’ is peppy and  ‘mohabat bare kaam ki cheez hai’ Bhojpuri style. ‘tinga tinga nanga punga’  is rhythmic and fun watch, ‘bhagwaan hai kahan’ has poignant lyrics which strikes an emotional  cord.

I give 4 stars to this movie for Aamir Khan’s magnificent performance, Rajkumar Hirani’s pure genius of story and direction and challenging another real world issue and its all-round entertaining factor.

It’s absolutely worth watching, I already saw it twice in a span of few days ;)