Upcoming Bollywood Releases- August 2010

Aisha
Cast: Abhay Deol, Sonam Kapoor, Arunoday Singh,Cyrus Sahukar,Ira Dubey
Directed by Rajshree Ojha
Produced by Anil Kapoor & Rhea Kapoor
Written by Screenplay: Devika Bhagat
Genre: Romance
Inspiration:  Jane Austen's Emma
website: http://aishathefilm.com/

And Once Again
Cast: Rajat Kapoor, Rituparna Sengupta, Antra Mali, Gerson Dacunha,Nivedita Saboo, Yudene Zongtenpa

Director: Amol Palekar
Genre: Drama

Aashayein
Cast:  John Abraham, Prateeksha Lonkar, Shreyas Talpade, Anaitha Nair, Sonal Sehgal, Girish Karnad,Farida Jalal,Ashwin Chitale,Anaitha Nair
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Genre: Drama

Help
Cast:  Bobby Deol,Mugdha Godse,Sophia Handa
Directed by  Rajeev Virani
Produced by Vinay Chowksey,Sanjay Ahluwalia
Written by Deepak Pawar,Viddesh Malandkar
Genre: Horror, Thriller

Peepli Live

Produced by Aamir Khan ,Kiran Rao
Writtten and Directed by Anusha Rizvi
Starring  Omkar Das Manikpuri,Raghuveer Yadav,Malaika Shenoy
Nawazuddin Siddiqui,
Genre: Social

Lafangey Parindey

Cast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Deepika Padukone
Directed by Pradeep Sarkar
Produced by Aditya Chopra
Written byGopi Puthran
Genre: Romance
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16 Blades of Grass

We see movies for entertainment most of the time but sometimes we are exposed to some documentaries with a purpose. This is one such documentary a friend’s friend was writer/director of this film.

This documentary  “16 Blades of Grass” explores the ways in which education remains limited in rural India for children, especially for girls. It also shows the challenges young women must overcome to advance from traditional societal roles and village mentalities.

This film  is being screened  in Austin on Saturday, July 31st   in a small non-profit film festival called Lights. Camera. Help. The screening will happen at Space 12, a cool gallery/arts venue in East Austin. So interested Austinites can check out this movie and other movies screened at this film festival!

check out the vedio trailer online
http://vimeo.com/5418252

Upcoming Bollywood Releases: July 2010

I Hate Luv Storys
Directed by Punit Malhotra
Produced by C. Ashwini Dutt,Karan Johar
Written by Punit Malhotra
Starring     Imran Khan,Sonam Kapoor,Sameer Dattani,Samir Soni
Music by     Vishal-Shekhar
Genre: Romance, Comedy
http://www.ihateluvstorys.com/

Milenge Milenge
Directed by Satish Kaushik
Produced by Boney Kapoor
Written by Shiraz Ahmed
Starring     Shahid Kapoor,Kareena Kapoor, Delnaaz Paul, Satish Shah, Kirron Kher, Sarfaraz Khan, Aarti Chhabria, Himani Shivpuri, Satish Kaushik
Music by     Himesh Reshammiya
Genre: Romance

Red Alert - The War Within
Directed by Ananth Mahadevan
Produced by T.P. Aggarwal, Rahul Aggarwal
Written by Aruna Raje
Starring -    Sunil Shetty, Vinod Khanna, Nasseruddin Shah, Sameera Reddy,Ayesha Dharker,Bhagayashree,Seema Biswas,Ashish Vidyarthi,Makhrand Deshpande,Sunil Sinha, Ehsaan Khan, Gulshan Grover
Music by Lalit Pandit
http://www.redalertthemovie.com/
Genre: Action Thriller, Suspense

Lamhaa
Directed by Rahul Dholakia
Produced by Bunty Walia, Jaspreet Singh Walia
Written by Rahul Dholakia
Starring     Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu, Anupam Kher, Kunal Kapoor
Music by    Mithoon
Genre: Action Thriller

Khatta Meetha
Directed by Priyadarshan
Produced by Akshay Kumar
Written by Sreenivasan, Jay Master
Starring -    Akshay Kumar, Trisha Krishnan, Urvashi Sharma, Manoj Joshi, Makrand Deshpande, Rajpal Yadav, Johny Lever, Neeraj Vora, Milind Gunaji, Asrani, Atul Parchure, Aruna Irani, Paritosh Sand
Music by Pritam, Shani
Genre: Romance, Comedy,

Upcoming Bollywood Releases: June 2010

Raavan:

Director & Producer: Mani Ratnam
Writer: Mani Ratnam,Suhasini Mani Ratnam
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Vikram, Govinda, Priyamani, Ravi Kishan, Nikhil Dwivedi
Music Director: A. R. Rahman

Krantiveer - The Revolution
(Sequel of Krantiveer)

Producer: Shekher Shetty
Director, Sceenplay: Mehul Kumar
Cast: Sameer Aftab, Jahan Bloch, Harsh Rajput, Aditya Singh Rajput, Farida Jalal
Govind Namdeo, Aman Verma, Ashok Samarth, Ranjeet, Mukesh Tiwari,Raj Premi, Hiten Paintal, Anil Nagrath
Music Director:Sachin, Jigar

Upcoming Bollywood Releases: May 2010

Badmaash Company
Film: Badmaash Company
Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Vir Das, Meiyang Chang
Genre: Drama
Direction: Parmeet Sethi
Producer: Aditya Chopra
Music: Pritam
website: http://www.badmaashcompany.com/

Kites

cast:Hrithik Roshan,Bárbara Mori,Kangana Ranaut,Kabir Bedi,Nicholas Brown
Director: Anurag Basu
Producers: Rakesh Roshan &Sharan Kapoor
Writer: Anurag Basu
Music: Rajesh Roshan
website: http://www.kites-thefilm.com/

Rajneeti

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Arjun Rampal, Katrina Kaif, Manoj Bajpai, Nana Patekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Ranbir Kapoor
Director: Prakash Jha
Producer: Ronnie Screwvala
Screenplay: Anjum Rajabali, Prakash Jha
Story: Prakash Jha
Music:Pritam, Aadesh Srivastav, Shantanu Moitra, Wayne Sharpe

Bumm Bumm Bole
Cast: Darsheel Safary, Atul Kulkarni, Rituparna Sengupta, Ziyah Vastani
Director: Priyadarshan
Music Director: M.G. Sreekumar, Tapas Relia, Azaan Sami

Upcoming Bollywood Releases: April 2010

Pankh:

Director and writer: Sudipto Chattopadhyaya

 Producer: Sanjay Gupta

Starring: Bipasha Basu, Maradona Rebello, Lilette Dubey, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ronit Roy,Sanjeeda Sheikh, Amit Purohit

Music by Raju Singh

Genre: Drama

 Tum Milo Toh Sahi:

Producer : Nikhil Panchamiya

Executive Producer : Nitin Dara

Director : Kabir Sadanand

Cast : Nana Patekar, Dimple Kapadia, Suniel Shetty, Vidya Malavade, Rehan Khan, Anjana Sukhani, Amit Bhel, Mohnish Behl, Vrajesh Hirjee

Story Writers : Rajen Makhijani, Kabir Sadanand

Dialogue and Screenplay: Rajen Makhijani, Kabir Sadanand, Sameer Siddiqi

Music: Sandesh Shandilya

Genre: Drama, Romance

Sadiyaan:

Director & Producer:Raj Kanwar

cast: Rekha,Hema Malini,Rishi Kapoor,Luv Sinha, Ferena Wazir,Javed Sheikh,Shakeel Siddiqui    

Screenplay: Raj Kanwar

Music: Adnan Sami

Genre: Drama,Romance

Prince its Showtime

Director: Kookie V Gulati

Producer: Kumar S Taurani

Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Aruna Murty,Nandana Sen,Niroo Singh,Sanjay Kapoor,Dalip Tahil,Manish Anand, Mayur Puri,Rajesh Khattar,Mohit Chauhan,

Music Director: Sachin Gupta

Genre: Action Thriller

Paathshala

Director: Milind Ukey

Producers: Ahmed Khan,Shaira Khan

Writer: Hanif Sheikh

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia,Nana Patekar,Sunil Shetty ,Sushant Singh ,Dwij Yadav,Master Ali Haji

Music:Hanif Sheikh

Houseful:

Director: Sajid Khan Nadiadwala

Producer:  Sajid Nadiadwala, Sunil A Lulla

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta, Jiah Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh and Arjun Rampal, Boman Irani, Randhir Kapoor,Chunkey Pandey,  Lilette Dubey, Malaika Arora,Jacqueline Fernandez . 

Music; Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy

Genre: Romantic comedy           

Ek Second…Jo Zindagi Badal De?

Director: Partho Ghosh

Producers: Rachna Sunil Singh, Agastyaa Singh

Writer :                 Amit Khan

Cast: Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala, Aman Verma, Nikita Anand, Moammar Rana, Roza Catalano

Music : Gulam Khan, Arvinder Singh, Anand Raj Anand, Sawann Donirya