Yash Chopra and his son, Aditya) have decided to go through the divorce they have been contemplating for so long. The acrimony could extend to the next five films of the banner.
This has even led to a movie hall in Bandra, Globus, downing its shutters for a week! And Suburbia, again in Bandra, has actually put up a disgruntled board near its ticket counter saying, “Please don’t ask us for Tashan tickets. Ask Yash Raj movies!”
Multiplexes generally offer 48% of revenue to the distributor for the first week but Yash Raj’s demand is 55%.They went a notch higher for Tashan with 60% and this did not go down well with multiplex owners, who decided not to release the film.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Yash Raj Flop Movie Tashan
Friday, April 11, 2008
U ME or HUM
I sit in my plush seat at a suburban multiplex in Mumbai, with my standard cheese popcorn and cola to keep me company. For a lark, my husband decided to accompany me. I wondered how long would he sit in the theatre, since we were watching Ajay Devgan’s romantic love story, U, Me aur Hum. He has walked out in the past of several such films and come interval, the look on his face was no different. Nothing special and after some time she look at my face, he again subsided on his seat, doing yet another “favour” for me... Some 15 minutes into the second half, there is a hush quality in the theatre.
Questions that need to be answered, feelings that you don’t want to feel, emotions that rise to the fore and you are surrounded by it all... The dolby system reverberating inside the packed theatre has caught everybody in its spell as the visuals unfold.It was a world that was created by an uptown girl of a filmi khandaan when she married a suburban guy from the working class of the film industry. It was the story of a princess of Bollywood with the biggest hits under her belt marrying a man who had not yet established his credentials in the industry.
The romantic Kajol continued following her dreams of romance via her films and so did her husband.. but with a slight difference. Ajay believed in reality and hard hitting films.. Gangajal or Apaharan. The twain could never meet.. at least that’s what we thought
Friday, April 4, 2008
Shaurya:movie mnisha lamba news movie
After the eminently forgettable Kuch Meetha Ho Jaaye, director Samar Khan is back with Shaurya. His intentions are noble, though the plot is heavily borrowed from Rob Reiner's A Few Good Men & vaguely resembles Farhan Akhtar's Lakshya too.
Now onto the story:
Captain Jawed Khan (Deepak Dobriyal) is about to be court martial led for shooting his senior officer Major Rathod at point blank range. Enter army lawyers & best buddies Major Aakash Kapoor (Javed Jaffrey) and Major Siddhant Chaudhry (Rahul Bose) who are called in to deal with what looks like an open and shut case. Until Siddhanth realises that Captain Jawed is NOT GUILTY, after meeting raging journalist Kavya Shastri (Minissha Lamba) & the ruthlessly authoritative Brigadier Pratap (Kay Kay Menon).
Considering Samar Khan's inspiration is the immensely powerful A Few Good Men, he already has a decent plot and screenplay going. However, it's the performances of the key players like Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon & especially Deepak Dobriyal as Captainn Jawed that succeed in uplifting this film. The dialogues are effective and so is the camerawork.
Shaurya may not make you get up from your seat and applaud, but without shouting out loud, it certainly provokes us to rethink the way we choose to deal with injustice in present times. The E NOW WEEKEND rating for this well intentioned piece of drama is three stars.