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Love Express : Movie Review

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:56 AM PDT



Starring Sahil Mehta, Mannat Ravi

Directed by Sunny Bhambani

Rating: 2/5

God and Subhash Ghai know, the film industry needs new talent. It is therefore heartening to see Ghai patronize newcomers.

Love Express is a sadly uninspired vehicle to accommodatenew talent. Everyone connected with this rather touchingly disoriented low-budget romantic comedy set in 'speeding' train (or so we are supposed to believe) is untried, eager to make an impression .

The amateurishness of presentation is in some ways, a sign of burgeoning talent. The students of Subhash Ghai's acting school seem in search of their bearings. And that's what makes them so endearing.

The set representing the chugging express train is quickly filled up with a wedding party, assorted uncles and auntiess, nieces and nephews oddball characters who burst in pop-Bhangra songs as though they auditioning for India's Most Flaunted.

The characters revel in their loud quirkiness because that's the way a Punjabi wedding entourage is expected to behave.

Subtlety, or whatever we may call any attempt to infuse an aesthetic restraint to a film about wedding revelry, is at a low premium here.

The debutant director has a grip over his characters but not much of an idea as to how to package them in any way that appears innovative.

The two newcomers playing the reluctant bride and groom struggle with lines that try hard to replicate the trendy cynicism of today's wannabe-cool brigade.

The small-town social climbers with their fake designer bags and borrowed accents were far more palpably credible in Aanand Kumar's Tanu Weds Manu .

Love Express expresses neither a love for the small-town milieu that it tries to pack into a train of caricatural characters, nor does display any fluidity in its narration. The actors possess no wherewithal to make the loud caricatural characters spoofy in their flamboyance.

At the most we can smile indulgently at the new talent that Subhash Ghai's film school throws forward. Decades ago Ghai acted in a film Umang about youthful aspirations. Love Express makes you wonder what these young guns really want.

West Is West : Movie Review

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:54 AM PDT




Cast: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Ila Arun, Jimi Mistry and Aqib Khan

Director: Andy DeEmmony

Rating: 3.5 /5

Twelve years have passed since "East Is East", the cult film on the blithe angst of the Asian diaspora in England, was made. In the sequel, which, let me quickly add, is a decent engaging and warm follow-up to the original film, the time-passage is condensed into a far more manageable time frame.

The captivating device whereby we suspend our disbelief about the characters' ageing process and look at them 12 years hence as though just four years have passed, works gloriously to the narrative's advantage.

So here we have the insufferably boorish, selfish and intolerant Pakistani-Britisher Jahangir alias George Khan (Om Puri). For those who came in late, George, who is married to an English woman, has sent his eldest son to get culturally accustomed in Pakistan. Now it's the younger son Sajid's (Aqib Khan) turn.

The younger Khan boy Sajid's incredulity, bafflement, disgust, disbelief and slow acceptance of life in rural Pakistan -- the film was actually shot in rural Punjab in India -- comes across in scintillating spurts of cultural humour.

Admittedly Aqib as the young British-Pakistani boy Sajid brings oodles of unhampered naturalness into the picture. There's no playing-for-effect here. Aqib plays Sajid as any culturally-challenged boy brought up in the West now faced with acres of unploughed Pakistani land and the ungainly sight of his eager-to-belong potbellied father trying to show skills with the bull.

It's a terrific occasion for humour on the malady of cultural displacement. Director Andy deEmmony milks most of the situations in Ayub-Khan Din's clever script for all that they are worth.

Many situations, such as that quietly explosive 'dialogue' between George's British and Pakistani wives where neither seems to understand each other's language and yet knows what the other is saying, are so empathetic and expressive in their undercurrents that you forgive the excessive zeal shown by the art- director in creating the bazaar-like bustle of the large joint family.

Often you feel the production design and the characters border on the touristic. The accents range from the strange (Vijay Raaz) to the strained (Om Puri). The actors playing Sajid's rustic chum and the village seer seem straight out of Rudyard Kipling's imagination. What redeems the awkward slices of storytelling is the overall warmth and sincerity of presentation.

Agreed some false notes are stuck. But the final tune of life strung in vibrant verses singing about a man trapped between two incompatible worlds rings true and melodic.

The dilemma of a man caught between two worlds, cultures and wives is caught in an arresting arc across the characters. The performances are uniformly compelling.

Om Puri takes up the role that he left behind 12 years ago without missing a beat. The Pakistani-British accent could have been a little less pronounced. But Puri plays the bigoted cultural anomaly with relish. His two screen wives Angela Bassett and Ila Arun confer a comforting credibility to the goings-on.

Ila has some brilliantly-written scenes which she digs into with carnivorous passion.

But it's young Aqib Khan as the free spirited, rebellious but good-hearted British boy discovering the joys of rural Pakistan in the company of a local boy, who could do with lessons on how to avoid imbibing bravura from cheap Pakistani films, is the prized discovery of the show.

Some of the locational details are tenuous - Why is the Bollywood hit 'Piya tu ab to aaja' from 1971 playing on the soundtrack of Pakistan in 1975? Why do the locals speak in English? And why does the village seer behave like Saeed Jaffrey in recession?

The overall sincerity of the storytelling doesn't allow us to dwell on trivial incongruities.

"West Is West" provides an endearing slice-of-life entertainment even if you haven't seen the other film.

Ready : Movie Review

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:51 AM PDT



Cast: Salman Khan, Asin, Paresh Rawal

Directed by: Anees Bazmi

Rating: 3/5

She's a runaway bride. He's a runaway rogue, a little rough around the edges but a good hearted lovable soul. Salman Khan can play this character over and over again with his eyes closed. In "Ready" he is back to playing the lover-boy clown.

"Mr. Fix-it" and "Ms Hum Apke Hain Conwoman" flirt and get naughty in exotic locations. They don't generate chemistry. They are just being around.

Jeez, these two never tire of saying cheese! And when the going gets cheesy there's always the family to fall back on. There are three families, living in homes that appear to have been built to accommodate over-sized families. The setting is almost laughably anachronistic.

Salman Khan and his director Anees Bazmi pay a hefty comic homage to "Hum Aapke Hain Koun". The Salman-Asin romance unfolds against the backdrop of a commodious joint family where every family-member seems determined to have a good time even at the expense of good taste.

True, Asin lacks the gamine charm of Madhuri Dixit. But then the Salman Khan in "Ready" is not quite the Salman Khan from "Hum Aaapke Hain Koun". He hasn't aged. He's just become more smug and self-confident. Many times we catch him looking bored on camera. But that is this iconic star's style statement.

When you are Salman Khan you can slip out of a character when you want. No one is complaining.

Bazmi's script, a shoot off of a Telugu hit, accommodates more characters than Goa during the tourist season.

Every character is over-dressed and over-the-top. Then men are constantly looking for reasons to say goofy corny things to one another. That's the required mood of this "panga-'mirth'-lena" comedy with an attitude that stretches from one end of the lengthy narration to the other with hardly a break for the plot to gather together its thoughts.

Bazmi keeps the proceedings neatly on the side of good taste. Innuendos are avoided, and partly so because Salman has an image of the good-bad boy. He never offends refined sensibilities with his wildly bratty antics, though he never shows any inclination to be one of those refined types himself.

He is happy being human in a way only Salman Khan can be. He gets able support from some solid performers like Akhilendra Mishra, Sharad Saxena, Manoj Pahwa, television comedian Sudesh Lehri and Mahesh Manjrekar whose hilarious act as Salman's dad is lifted from Sanjay Chhel's "Khubsoorat".

Strangely the women performers are all vapid to the point of seeming sedated. This is a men's comedy with women welcome to join the fun.

But nobody minds. And not because this is a mindless comedy. The quality of the gags is often higher than what we usually get in Bollywood comedies. But the film suffers from an overloaded narration.

There is too much effort to cram in "entertainment" at every possible level. There is also a rather lame attempt to define the status of women in feudal households. But the attempt is so hurried and cursory, it's almost farcical.

Replete with tongue-in-cheek references to many earlier blockbusters including Sooraj Barjatya's "Hum Aapke Hain Koun", "Ready" is like one of those familiar tunes sung to a new set of lyrics that you may not approve of but you empathize with because it offers the comfort of the familiar.

Having said that, the film, it must be confessed, doesn't really offer even diehard Salman fans the fun-quotient expected from the mega-star. Too many people colonise this domestic comedy. Boisterous uncles, over-dressed aunties, under-intellectualised gangsters and irksome henchmen are all greedy to be noticed. The trouble is, they aren't doing anything that is terribly exciting or engaging, except playing the foil to the star of the show.

And we all know who that is.

News : All visitors, guests banned from the sets of Ash’s Heroine

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:42 AM PDT



In order to protect the script of his upcoming film Heroine, director Madhur Bhandarkar has banned all visitors from the sets of the Aishwarya Rai starrer which goes on floors today.

In the film, Aishwarya reportedly plays a superstar actress whose career is on the decline, and she is terrified of fading into obscurity. The film draws references from the lives of many actors

According to a trusted source, "It is quite an intense contemporary film. Knowing Madhur and his take on realistic films, he will be making characters, which are definitely inspired from real life.

There are rumours already that most of the characters are based from various people within the film industry. To keep everything under check and to see to it that no one gets offended with information leaking out from the sets, the producers and Madhur have not only signed a non disclosure contract with everyone but they have also banned mobile phones from the sets."

"Not only this, no guests will be entertained on the sets and there will be as many as 15 to 17 security guards stationed on the sets. The media and visitors are a strict no no on the sets," added the source.

Having last faced the camera for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Guzaarish, with co-star Hrithik Roshan, in September 2010, Aishwarya is back on a film set after nine months

News : Emraan, Prachi shoots sexy scene

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:39 AM PDT



After 'Once Upon A Time In Mumbai', Emraan Hashmi and Prachi Desai again paired opposite each other for Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt's 'Informer'. Prachi is going to shed her shy and next girl image and will go a step higher to portray a lovemaking scene. She has an inhibitation lip-locking her co-star but she has put her step forward in doing intimate scene by getting cozy with Emraan in 'OUATIM'.

According to a source, she will have a complete image makeover for the role. "The seeds of her transformation were planted in OUATIM, where she moved out of her comfort zone and did love-making sequences with Emraan.

Now, with him as her co-star again, she will completely discard her sedate coy desi miss-won't-kiss image and emerge as the new femme-fatale in tinsel town."

As reported earlier, she has refused to refuse smooch John Abraham in Shrishti Arya's next.

News : Celina Jaitley secretly weds hotelier Peter Haag

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:35 AM PDT



According to the latest buzz, Bollywood actress Celina Jaitley secretly tied the knot with finance Peter Haag. They got engaged during the last Durga Puja. The news spread like a fire in the jungle after she was spotted with a sindoor in her maang.

However, Celina denied getting married to Haag and said that she has used the sindoor while shooting an ad. The actress also added that marriage will happen very soon but before that she has many issue to be solved. Her brother's marriage is due in October. Peter's grandmother is unwell, Peter also had an intestinal surgery a month ago and is recovering.

Celina said that marriage is on the card as she has four films lined up this year.

Hot : Genelia irks airlines staff

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:29 AM PDT



Genelia D'Souza latest ad getting sexy with a pilot in a cockpit irked airlines staff and they reacted strongly against the ad. They claim that the advertisement has put them in a bad light. In the ad, Genelia was shown getting cozy with a pilot in a cockpit.

"It's not funny to show that we don't take our jobs seriously. That too, a job with so many lives at risk," says a 27 year old pilot with Jet Airways, lashing out against the ad.

"The ad agencies should not ruin our reputation. People use such ads to spread gossip about us," said an airhostess with Go Air. "Being glamorous is important in our profession, but people think we are easy because of such media portrayal," added another airhostess with Jet Lite.

Adman Prahlad Kakkar feels such ad may be too risqué. "Frankly, a majority of our society is not ready for such ads," he says.

However, the creators of the ad feels that it is shown just as a fun "It is a light, flirtatious interlude. It doesn't put down anyone from the aviation sector or any other profession," says Simeran Bhasin, marketing head of the company endorsed through the ad.

"The ad is not meant to be taken seriously. We are not saying these things really happen," says Arun Iyer, national creative director, Lowe Lintas, the agency that made the ad.

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Hot : Shahid, Priyanka unknown to each other

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:22 AM PDT



Post break-up, Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra has again come together for Kunal Kohli's next. Though on-screen light still sparks between them,off-screen the couple behave like strangers. They even refused to rehearse together.

When the director signed the two, love was at the peak but who knows before the film comes into floor, love would disappear.

"The relationship is over. And though Kunal Kohli had full faith in Shahid and Priyanka's professionalism, he was wondering what the aftermath of the break up would be for his film. He needn't have worried. The pair is absolutely professional on camera. It is off-camera that the aloofness between the two becomes easily discernible," a source told.

Despite, break-up the actors give their best on-camera but as soon as the light switched off, they behave like strangers. Their conversation on the set was very minimal. "The interaction between them is minimal, almost nil. Once they give their shots, they are strangers to one another. Considering the film has essentially two characters- Shahid and Priyanka- running through a gamut of emotions and spectrum of characters, the effort required to share a mutual passion on screen is a task," added the source.

"The passion onscreen seems to almost mock the lack of feeling between the two off camera," informed the source.

Hope, despite split-up they can pull the audience with their on-screen chemistry.

Hot : Madhuri Dixit in Satte Pe Satta Uncertain

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:17 AM PDT



Sanjay Dutt's film, Satte Pe Satta remake has been postponed to 2012. Hence, Madhuri Dixit might not be able play her role in the film. The film shooting was supposed to go on floors by mid June.

According to popular tabloid, since, Sanju plays the role of a bad man in the currently filming Agneepath, his look has totally been changed. In Satte Pe Satta, Dutt reprises Amitabh Bachchan's headlining role and needs to have normal length hair.

Says a source, "Sanjay Dutt has shaved his hair for a film. He needs to grow it back and for that he needs at least two months. They wanted to start in September-October when Sanjay's hair is back in place. But by then Madhuri will be shooting for the next season of the reality-show Jhalak Dikhla Jaa. So by the time Sanjayji will be ready to shoot Madhuriji's dates will be unavailable."

Madhuri also cast a doubt about her participation in the film when she tweeted on May 28:

"No films signed yet, but several under consideration…."

Hot : Post break-up, John gets a new girl to love

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:13 AM PDT



After dating for years long, John Abraham and Bipasha Basu split-up. The break-up came as a big shock for Bollywood and fans because they were seeing each other for seven years. The couple had differences in the past but they sorted out the issues between them. No one thought that John and Bips's long relationship would end up. The break-up was taken with ease by both John Abraham and Bipasha Basu. Instead of shedding tears, they moved on very quickly. It was heard that John has got a new girl to love. The hunk's new found love is Priya, an upcoming model.

Both John and Priya were spotted hanging out together, chats over coffee. The two was also seen at suburban restaurants having dinner. While Bips was heard to be dating Hollywood star Josh Hartnett.

The couple is believed to have drifted apart on marriage issue. The bong actress wanted to settle down while John wanted to concentrate on his career.

Hot : Kangna Ranaut imitates Jaya Bachchan’s retro widow look

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:10 AM PDT



Indra Kumar's next will bring back the retro Bollywood widow. Yes! Double Dhamaal will have Kangna Ranaut play a character inspired by Jaya Bachchan's role in Sholay.

Says a source from sets, "The quintessential widow form Sholay is back with Kangana in DD.
Inspired by Sholay's iconic vidhwaah (widow), played by Jaya Bachchan, the director has styled KR in a similar look for one of the scenes in the film.

Instead of wearing normal clothes required for the scene, the director told the stylists to give Kangana an old white saree, just like the ones widows in old films wore."

Indra Kumar confirms, "It is a spoof a funny scene all in good humor. We are not making fun of or passing derogatory remarks on Jayaji and Sholay.

It's just that in earlier times all widows were stereotyped. They wore white sarees and would only cook gajar ka halwa and alu parathas for their mothers.

The particular scene, with all the other actors, is a spoof where she is in a widow's garb with minimal make-up. In the film, she plays a modern, smart and sexy young secretary to Sanjay Dutt."

News : Sonakshi donates KBC money to Salman's charity

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:08 AM PDT



Sonakshi Sinha who sat on the hot seat of Bhojpuri version of KBC hosted by her father Shatrughan Sinha has donated a good sum of the prize money to Salman Khan's charity 'Being Human'. Salman means a lot to Sonakshi. She idolizes the actor and respects him from heart. She even walked the ramp for 'Being Human' and spotted wearing the 'Being Human' T-shirt in various occasions.

The show is being hosted by her father Shatrughan Sinha. Says the Dabangg actress, "It's a charity I know, trust and believe in. I've seen the money move in the right direction. A lot of us want to help the needy. But how to ensure the money gets to the right place? I know the money is used to help those who need it."

On the show, Sonakshi spoke in Hindi while her dad in Bhojpuri. "I had never seen him talk in Bhojpuri. He did it very well. I'm looking forward to doing a film with my dad." Sonakshi did not reveal the amount she has donated.

Hot : Kareena’s ‘Wanna be my chammak challo’ leaked online!!!

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:05 AM PDT



Shahrukh's Ra.One is in news ever since the time it was announced. Now, the latest we hear is that the audio track titled 'Wanna be my Chammak Challo' has been leaked online. The song has Bebo doing an item number on it. International singing sensation Akon is the singer.

Rumors are that Akon has the song Chammak Challo, has two different versions. The first one being the version that would feature in Ra.One and the second one would be for Akon's private album. Although, it is still not clear which version has been leaked online. The bad news for the makers is that now the full song is available online along with its lyrics!!

Buzz also has it that SRK is keen on making this item track a superhit. He wants it to beat the likes of Munni and Sheila. Initially, Deepika Padukone was approached for this song, which was again washed away as mere rumors.

In the song, Kareena will be seen as a sexy Indian chick in a sexy Indian avatar, sporting jhumkas and a nose-ring.

News : Ranbir feels shy to face his parents

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:03 AM PDT



Ever since Ranbir Kapoor debuted with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Saawariya', he has been lined with almost each heroine he has been paired opposite, Sonam Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif, Nargis Fakhiri and Angela Johnsson. His list of women seems never ending. He has been fed-up of his link-up stories every other day and feels shy to carry the tag of Casanova. His parents really worried about Ranbir's image and feared that it might not spoil his career. Ranbir too feels awakard to face his family after so much loose talks.

He wants to get rid of his lover boy image and has stopped socializing with friends. He cares about his family reputation and stopped dating. Ranbir said that his parents are upset about his link-up stories published very often and now he is answerable to them.

A source from the industry tells us, "Ranbir didn't really realise that his dating scene would affect him so much. He would ask out whichever girl he fancied. He forgot that he is a public figure and he cannot continue doing what he did back in college. So the media reported about every date that he we went for. This is a lesson for him to be more discreet rather than getting upset that it is being reported."

His best friend Imran Khan defended Ranbir saying, "not so clean" image. Imran had said, "If he enjoys life, wine, women... there`s nothing bad about it. Ranbir`s not doing anything illegal, but if media wants to write about it, you can`t stop them."

Hot : Aishwarya to romance Arunoday in 'Heroine'

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 12:00 AM PDT



It is not Ranbir Kapoor, Imran Khan or Prateik Babbar. In fact, Madhur Bhandarkar has chosen a unique name to romance Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in 'Heroine'. He is the actor of 'Yeh Saali Zindagi' Arunoday Singh.

Bollywood is incomplete without cricket and following the trend, Arunoday will be playing a cricketer in the film with whom Ash will share a romantic relationship. Arunoday Singh is highly thrilled to cast opposite Aishwarya.

Arunoday expressed his excitement on his big break opposite Ms Rai, "Yes I am doing the film and I am over the moon. I can't speak anything about the character but it feels great to be acting opposite Aishwarya Rai.

But I would approach it as any other film. Having said that, Madhur is a wonderful director and I don't need to say that."

Arunoday further said, "I haven't known Madhur and have met him only a couple of times. I have been a great fan of his films Chandni Bar and Page 3. I can only say that God has been kind to me."

Apart from Arunoday, Arjun Rampal has been signed to play the other lead.

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