Best Indian Films

Asianet Film Awards 2010 Announced

vcode — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:00:39 +0000

Asianet Film Awards 2010

* Best Actor :
Mohanlal (Bhramaram, Ividam swargamanu)
* Best Film :
Pazhassi Raja
* Best actress :
Kavya Madhavan ( Banaras )
* Millennium star :
Mammooty ( Pazhassi Raja )
* Best new comers :
Nishan, Archana kavi (Neelathamara)
* Best Director :
Ranjith (Paleri Manikyam)
* Best Char role :
Sreenivasan (Passanger ), Shwetha menon ( )
* Best Screenplay :
Ranjth Shankar
* Lyrics :
Vayalar sharath Chandra Varma
* Music :
Deepak Dev
* Singers :
Shankar Mahadevan (Puthiya Mukham ), KS Chitra (Pazhassi Raja )
* Best pair :
Jayasurya, Roma (Uthara Swayamvaram)
* Special Jury Awards :
Manoj K Jayan(Pazhassi Raja), Kaniha(Pazhassi Raja), Sharath Kumar(Pazhassi Raja)

BOLLYWOOD- A NEW ERA

vcode — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:17:47 +0000

The Indian film industry is called Bollywood because it is based in Bombay. Everybody who goes to Bombay or now known as Mumbai wants to see this ever growing industry and its stars.

Movies in India are basically made with a lot of spices. In India a movie has to have song, dance, romance, thrill, suspense, comedy, action, family drama etc. People in India work for ten hours a day and that too during the main part of the day and so many of them return to a home with no entertainment. The only available entertainment is movies. Whether a business tycoon or a cycle rickshaw driver all want to watch movies. So when a movie is made the makers have to keep in mind both the masses and the classes.

Indian cinema has improved drastically and now the audience is very mature too. They still want song and dance but not the running around tree sequences. So now there is a new market for item songs. This is where a nice fast track is made only for a great dancer to dance and increase the sales. Some of the top songs have been Babuji zara dhere chalo, khallas etc.

Movies were made particularly for the masses and the multiplex crowd. But now the viewers want to see good movies with great stories. Earlier the hero carried the entire movie on his shoulders but now the load is evenly spread. A movie will do well even if you don’t have a great star cast but have a great story and your actors do a job. A good example for this would be Khosla Ka Ghosla. There is nobody you can call the hero of the film but it’s realistic and humorous.

In three hours the audience wants to laugh, cry and be excited and so it’s a tough task for the directors but then hats off to all Indian directors as they come up with something spicy enough to fulfill the needs of all types of viewers.

Each movie has the main story and a lot of other small stories that build around it. At times in stories there may not be any scope for comedy. A lot of directors use other characters and bring in another funny plot. This comedy has no link with the movies. In the past people accepted this kind of comedy too but nowadays the audience accepts comedy only when it’s a part of the main story.

People who want to watch emotions are very particular about the quality of the emotions too. If you can’t cry or deliver the dialogues properly the audience rejects the star immediately. The stars have to be convincing enough. This is where the director’s ability is tested. The comedy has to be timed properly and the tears have to be realistically shed.

Movies in India have been made with a lot of respect for family values and traditions. Every movie which shows any function has to do it in the right way. If there is a wedding song in a movie it not only becomes a hit. It becomes a part of every Indian wedding. Movies like Hum Saath Saath Hain and Hum Apke Hain Kaun have been very very big hits because each and every scene of the movie is actually what happens in joint families and in weddings.

A movie when made in India has to be made in such a way that both a 5 year kid and an 85 year old grand father both have to enjoy it. It has to have a great story, touching performances, lovely music, breath taking locations, great dance steps and of course a really bad villain whom the hero has to bash up even if he is on the death bed.

This is true bollywood ishtyle where anything can happen. The hero can beat up any number of guys. The heroine can cry without glycerin. The villain is always ugly to look at. The police will never reach on time to save people. It’s only up to the hero to do all the running around, saving and bashing up. The heroines will always be wearing great makeup even if its in the middle of the night. Mother in laws can’t be good and the daughter in law will only worry about everybody else’s happiness and not hers. This is apna bollywood with all these errors but still it is the biggest film industry in the world. Nearly thrice the number of movies is made each year than the number of days in a year. If you are a movie buff then there is no place like bollywood because there is nothing that you can’t find here.

Come Back of old stars

vcode — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:08:14 +0000

Old Stars are Desperately Trying to Make a Re-entry:
A lot of old stars are desperately trying to make a re-entry into the industry again. Topping the charts right now is Govinda. Wonder what’s with the wig yaar. All stars that come back have this funny wig which doesn’t really suit them. Okay anyway let’s leave the wigs and look at the films. Govinda came back with Bhagam bhag. A sweet comedy by Priyadarshan. Now he is all set to capture the scene with salaam-e-ishq where he plays a taxi driver in love with a foreigner.

Rathi Agnihotri too made a come back:
Vinod Khanna too is making a come back in the movie risk. It’s a risk that he has taken but I wish with all my heart that it should pay off. Yester years star Rathi Agnihotri too made a come back but in a completely different style. She went on and participated in a reality show Jhalak Dikhla ja, which is the Indian version of dancing with the stars. Oh! She looked so pretty and even after 24 long years she danced her way out gracefully. Unfortunately she didn’t make it till the end but hey fortunately she is now acting in serials and is looking absolutely gorgeous.

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New Film::Pink Panther 2

vcode — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:03:27 +0000

Pink Panther 2

Producer: Shawn Levy, Ira Shuman, Robert Simonds
Director: Harald Zwart
Starring: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Alfred Molina, Andy Garcia, Emily Mortimer, Yuki Matsuzaki, John Cleese, Lily Tomlin, Jeremy Irons
Music: Christophe Beck.

Film Released on: 30 June 2009

The film is the sequel to the 2006 film of the same name starring Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau. This time around, the inspector must team up with detectives from other countries to rout the daring cat burglar, The Tornado, who has returned after a decade of inactivity. Aishwarya plays a criminology expert from India named Sonia.

The classic Blake Edwards Pink Panther 2 films starring Peter Sellers as the clumsy Inspector Jacques Clouseau cast a long shadow over the current modern remakes starring Steve Martin as the iconic lead character. Any comparison would find the new film lacking in the sophistication of the original movies. So, it’s with a jaded view that I began viewing the new “Pink Panther 2” and I will be honest, my main reason for seeing this was to see how Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan would do in a full blown Hollywood film, but I’ll talk more about that later.
To be honest, the best part of the ”Pink Panther 2” is the animated Pink Panther short that is shown while the beginning titles scroll by. The wit, humor and physical comedy harkens back to the original Pink Panther concept. Unfortunately, once the actual live action film begins, we are treated to a series of slapstick moments that seem to have been strung together on a wafer (or half a wafer) thin plot. Director Harald Zwart presents everything in a very straightforward manner that almost leaves the viewer with an extreme feeling of watching a generic movie in a generic world that fits every stereotypical mold you could ever imagine. In other words, there is none of the panache that Blake Edwards breathed into the classic films that this remake is based on.

Film Review BACHELOR PARTY

vcode — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:43:58 +0000

It was way back in 2005 when director Isshaan Trivedi’s 7 1/2 PHERE had released. Ever since then he has completed two more films, BACHELOR PARTY and SALE UPTO 50%. Moreover, he is ready to kick start his Himesh Reshammiya venture RADIO. He is frustrated though that BACHELOR PARTY, which was expected to release by 2007 end, is yet to see the light of the day.

Starring Jimmy Sheirgill and Arbaaz Khan in the lead, BACHELOR PARTY features Nauheed Cyrusi and Madhuri Bhattacharya as the leading ladies with Ninad Kamat and Sharat Saxena in supporting roles.

‘The principal shooting of was wrapped up quite fast. In fact we were all set to arrive on 1st April this year but because of IPL as well as the strike, the bollywood film has been further pushed. It is indeed frustrating because the film has shaped up really well and is just the kind of light hearted entertainer that you want to watch in these stressed times’, says Isshaan who got some good critical acclaim coming his way with his debut entertainer here.

New Film Review- Runway

vcode — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:57:43 +0000

Amarjeet Shukla, the lead protagonist in the bollywood film, becomes a contract killer to save the life of his lady love Deepal Shaw, who is dying due to drug usage. He comes in touch with people like Sharat Saxena who plays underworld English speaking kingpin who wears dark shades, is surrounded by those 80s style left over blue-n-white drums and announces – ‘I am not interested in your love story; I want brave people’.

When a filmmaker doesn’t have any story to tell, he tries to perk up the narrative by using jump cuts, freeze frames and other technical wizardry – last year it was seen in “Woodstock Villa”, this year it’s in “Runway”.Amarjeet’s friend, who introduces him to the Don also warns him – ‘He is a man of commitment, so be careful.’

It’s just that the ‘man of commitment’ himself is nowhere to be seen in the entire second half as his henchman pairs up with Amarjeet to do rest of the killing. Worse, one doesn’t quite understand who is killing whom and what’s the purpose behind that?

So Amarjeet presses the trigger for the first time and just when he gets hold on a fake passport to fly back into India, courtesy Tulip, he decides to skip his flight and return to the mean streets.

By the way, Tulip plays a girl in a dance bar who ‘cannot be afforded’, as stated by one of her junior colleagues. She sings ‘bhojpuri’ songs, speaks English, lives in Mauritius, fears a Pakistani don and falls in love with an Indian. A true ambassador of globalisation.

Talking about Mauritius, one needs to give a rap on the knuckles of the person who created that fancy software that plays on Amarjeet’s laptop. Mauritius is spelt as ‘Muritus’ along with at least a couple of more English errors that is embarrassingly displayed on the big screen. Moreover, the film’s tagline ‘Love Among Gun Shots’ isn’t syntactically correct either! But then who would have cared about such minor things when there are bigger and far more glaring loopholes in the indian films…

Kambakkht Ishq :: Indian Bollywood film

vcode — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:53:48 +0000

When Kareena was in town recently to promote her much talked about bollywood film, Kambakkht Ishq, she was initially quite cooled out. Kambakkht Ishq is a forthcoming Indian Bollywood film directed by Sabbir Khan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala.

The film, a remake of the 2002 Tamil film Pammal K. Sambandam, will feature Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor in pivotal roles along with actors Aftab Shivdasani and Amrita Arora in supporting roles.

Hollywood actors Sylvester Stallone, Denise Richards and Brandon Routh will be appearing in cameos, reportedly playing themselves. Originally scheduled to release in December 2008, the film was postponed due to extensive production work and is now slated for a release on July 3, 2009.Kambakkht Ishq explores the relationship between two indviduals who are extremely different from each other.Akshay Kumar plays Viraj Shergill, a stuntman in Hollywood who thinks women are good only for two things…making love and making love.
Simrita Rai ( Kareena Kapoor) is a firebrand who is more than able to stare down at the most arrogant male with her caustic wit and sardonic tongue..her firm belief “there’s no such thing as love”

So what happens when the two people who hate each other the most meet at Simrita’s best friend Kamini’s and Viraj’s brother Lucky’s wedding ?…a wedding that both Viraj and Simrita are violently opposed to and desperate to stop.

‘New York’ grosses Rs 35 crore on its first three days!

vcode — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:50:19 +0000

Mumbai, June 30, 2009: Bollywood’s latest release ‘New York’ has grossed Rs 35 crore on its first weekend. This is a good news forBollywood
and business of cinema in the country.(it was released on June 26)

New York that has John Abraham, Neil and Katrina kaif in lead role begins in the United States in 2008 with the arrest by the FBI of Omar (Neil Nitin Mukesh), a young Muslim man originally from Delhi, after guns were found in the trunk of a taxi cab he had been driving.

New York-Bollywood film

New York features John Abraham, Katrina Kaif and Neil Nitin Mukesh, and is set against the backdrop of the 9/11 terror attacks on the New York city.Neil is then taken into custody and interrogated by FBI Agent Roshan (Irrfan Khan), also a Muslim man originally from South Asia who has been living in the United States for twenty years.

After a period of time, Omar discovers that he is wanted by the FBI in order to spy on a former college friend, Samir or Sam (John Abraham), whom he hasn’t seen in seven years and who the FBI believes is a terrorist. In the process, he discovers that Sam has married Maya (Katrina Kaif), another college friend, and that they have a young son, Danyal (Aidan Wagner).

Roshan orders Omar to tell him everything he knows about Sam. The film then flashes back to September 1999 when Omar begins New York State University as an international student on scholarship. He is befriended by Maya who is his student counselor.

The average occupancy in multiplexes for the weekend stood at around 80-85 per cent, the highest since January, according to trade experts who track films’ collections. This was mainly on account of the release of New York and Terminator Salvation.
This is significant for both Bollywood and the 250-plus multiplexes, as they saw the monthly box office collections plummet to around Rs 10-15 crore, especially for April and May, when film producers and exhibitors were on a strike, which saw almost no new Hindi film release.

Aishwarya, Abhishek Ravan in trouble

vcode — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:27:14 +0000

Two caravans used in the shooting of Mani Ratnam’s multilingual movie Ravan, starring Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, in Ooty have been seized for having forged vehicle documents, police said on Tuesday.
The two caravans had the same registration number. “An investigation led to findings of fraud in the use of forged vehicle IDs and tax evasion, which in turn led to seizure of four vehicles during the last week,” said a police official.
According to police, the vehicles seized in Ooty have been valued at Rs 12 million. Both Abhishek and Aishwarya rai are said to have used the vehicles during the shooting.
The shooting of Ravan has been shifted to another hill station, Hogenekkal (some 300 km southwest from Chennai).
The police official said he feared the “racket may be much bigger since all top stars use high-priced caravans”. Police teams have left for Mumbai and elsewhere in Tamil Nadu to look for other similar vehicles. Sources close to Ratnam said: “To our knowledge only two vehicles that were being operated for us have been seized. The suppliers who lent logistical support to our outdoor units should be blamed. Our shooting is in progress without any glitches.”

Michael Jackson’s death news

vcode — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:46:27 +0000

Michael Jackson-King of Pop; died
LOS ANGELES :– Michael Jackson, defined in equal parts as the world’s greatest entertainer and perhaps its most enigmatic figure, was about to attempt one of the greatest comebacks of all time. Then his life was cut shockingly — and so far, mysteriously — short. An autopsy was planned for Friday, though results were not likely to be final until toxicology tests could be completed, a process that takes several days and sometimes weeks. Police said they were investigating, standard procedure in high-profile cases.Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after being stricken at his rented home in the posh Los Angeles neighborhood of Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at his home for nearly three-quarters of an hour, then rushed him to the hospital, where doctors continued to work on him. “It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home. However, the cause of his death is unknown until results of the autopsy are known,” his brother Jermaine said.

Cardiac arrest is an abnormal heart rhythm that stops the heart from pumping blood to the body. It can occur after a heart attack or be caused by other heart problems.
Michael Jackson: In his own words
-’If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.’..I’m a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity. Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It’s not nice. No, I’ve never taken hormones to maintain my high voice! No, I’ve never had my cheekbones altered in any way!
I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it’s something that I cannot help, OK?