My Son, My Son what have ye Done? (Herzog) trailer

Devgan in Bhandarkar’s Dil to Bachcha Hai Ji

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Ajay Devgan will soon be seen romancing an 18-year-old girl in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Dil Toh Bacha Hai Ji. A source from the unit reveals, “Ameesha Patel and Jiah Khan have already been signed for the film but the search is still on for a girl opposite Ajay Devgan. Madhur wants a fresh face who is around 18 years old.

Bipasha Basu-Vivek Oberoi NY Lotto ad

Pak-Czech model Nargis Fakhri with Ranbir Kapoor in Imtiaz Ali’s Rock Star (earlier post updated)

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Imtiaz Ali’s search for an actress to star in his next, Rockstar, has finally come to an end. The Jab We Met director has finalised model Nargis Fakhri to play the role opposite Ranbir Kapoor.

Kajraare trailers (updated)

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Quick note on BADMAASH COMPANY (Hindi, 2010)

The last time Shahid Kapur and Yashraj came together the end result was the disastrous DIL BOLE HADDIPA, and BADMAASH COMPANY looked better on paper than that, however the film doesn’t turn the tables in Yashraj’s favour and is average at best.

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Big B missing from Bollywood in China

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Narendra Modi’s Ahmedabad qualified as India’s idea of ‘better city, better life’, the theme of Shanghai World Expo 2010. But Amitabh Bachchan, Gujarat’s brand ambassador, has been left out in the cold.

Happy Birthday Idea!! an idea changed this blog ;-)

dont know why this song.. but i like it a lot from old romantic aamir.. i hope u like it idea.
many best wishes. may all ur wishes are fulfilled in life

ps- m not sure ur birthday is today or tomo.. as sometime face book sho

Unmatched pleasures of self-promotion

Unmatched pleasures of self-promotion
With stars going public with their blogs and tweets, CHITRA PADMANABHAN examines the nature of celeb blogs as a smart marketing strategy to remain visible at all times.

Not so long ago, celebrity battles with the media hinged on one vital question: how far could a journalist go in writing about those in the public eye before being rated, or berated, as having gone too far? As Bollywood’s most wanted saw it, responsible journalism was all about being able to distinguish between public and off-screen lives. Remember Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan ‘ banning’ the media from their lives in the past?

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A R Rahman’s theme song for the Tamil World Classical conference (updated with actual video)

thanks to GF..

Beautiful People with Dibakar Bannerjee

thanks to Jimmy Cliff..

Breathless turns 50! (Richard Brody on Godard)

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I’ve seen the fiftieth-anniversary restoration of Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless” that opens at Film Forum this Friday, and it’s revelatory; the images, restored under the supervision of the film’s cinematographer, Raoul Coutard, yield up details hitherto imperceptible in the prints that were available until now, as if layers of varnish had come off to show Coutard’s own brushwork. Keeping a close eye on the timings—the brightness of each scene, each shot—he elicits a dark, contrasty, charcoal-like palette that seems to reflect the now-familiar stories of Godard’s unusual methods (they used hardly any movie lighting, even indoors; shot on the street at night with high-speed still-camera film; filmed in direct sunlight; worked mainly with a hand-held camera of the sort more often used for newsreels). The soundtrack, too, is happily crisp and clear, and, for non-Francophones, the subtitles have also been redone and made much fuller than on earlier prints.

Dennis Hopper dies..

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LOS ANGELES – Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in “Rebel Without a Cause,” an improbable smash with “Easy Rider” and a classic character role in “Blue Velvet,” has died. He was 74.

Can reviews make or break a film? – A discussion

Footage from shelved Dilip KUmar-Nutan film, Shikwa

My Review of KITES (Hindi, 2010)

Rakesh Roshan and Hrithik Roshan had hyped KITES for a long time, however throughout the whole process they’d failed to convince me. I enjoyed Hrithik’s last release JODHAA-AKBAR a lot, and didn’t know what to quite expect from KITES. The trailers looked like a cocktail of B-Grade Van Damme thriller meets Rakesh Roshan’s brand of revenge fuelled thriller pretending to be a “Hollywood” film, and sadly, KITES turns out to be just that.

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Qalandar Reviews VINNAITHAANDI VARUVAAYA (Tamil; 2010)

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Gautham Menon isn’t my favorite director. Although I hugely enjoyed his Minnale (2001), that film didn’t have much of what later became recognizable as his style, a post-Mukull Anand, post-Agni Natchitharam chic marked by neo-Hollywood technical slickness and crisp lighting, whether in the service of police procedurals that began better than they ended (Kaakha…Kaakha (2003) or Vettiayadu Vilaiyaadu (2006)), or more domestic genres (Pachaikili Muthucharam (2007); Vaaranam Aayiram (2008). So I was hardly enthused when I heard Gautham was making a love story with Trisha Krishnan and Silambarasan in the lead (if there’s a hero I like less in Tamil cinema, I haven’t seen him). Until I heard Gautham had jettisioned long-time musical collaborator Harris Jayaraj in favor of working with A.R. Rahman. And saw stills from the film, featuring a hero I was assured was “Simbu”, but who looked nothing like him. Clearly, Gautham was returning to the love story genre of his first film from 2001, but didn’t want to tread old ground.

Mammootty’s Kannada ‘Shikari’

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Malayalam superstar Mammootty has given the green signal to play the lead in award winning director Abhay Simha’s first Kannada commercial venture Shikari. Simha won the National Award for best children’s film in 2008 for his Kannada film Gubbachigalu. The film tells the story of a software engineer who likes a female character from a book and starts thinking, “What if she was real?”

Hrithik Flies ..Kites fails take off

(DEDICATED TO MY DEAR FRIEND NEELU WHO RECOMMENDED THE MOVIE TO ME .. THNKS A BILLION NEELU, FOR U OR I WOULD HAVE MISSED THIS )

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FIRST THINGS FIRST.. its not a bad movie that each and everybody (so called critics ) are trying to potray. Well but on the flip side i feel its not a greatest movie of all time either. I actually felt here was the movie that needed to be a bit longer, so that they could have invested a bit in body of the film which is seriously vague! A greater body for this one in the tradition of Rakesh Roshan movies would have saved the day! But alas comes the HERO, and a gorgeous Beauty who does a gigantic effort for me to save this one from being a ordinary effort alongwith ne of the best background scores for a romantic movie in recent times.

Crash of kites jumbo budgets under the scanner

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It’s not the films themselves that raise any doubts. It’s the huge money invested in them that raises important questions