You need to look at an animation film differently. Let the kid in you come to the forefront when you watch one. At the same time, it’s pertinent that every film, live or animation, should possess that grip to keep the viewer hooked to the proceedings for the next 2 hours.
Percept’s JUMBO may not be [...]
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December 14th, 2008 by riaz
Though they belong to totally different generations and have done a generation-challenged and challenging love story together, fate seems to have bonded Amitabh Bachchan and Tabu is an strange an inextricable clasp.
After doing Cheeni Kam a completely contemporary take on marriage and gender equations, the Big B and Tabu now go back to several centuries [...]
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December 13th, 2008 by riaz
Yashraj Films reeling under the impact of a series of setbacks in 2007-2008 is all set to make a grand comeback to the bigtime with its latest release Rab Ne Bana De Jodi.
In spite of the terror attacks two weeks ago and the downward curve in Yashraj’s recent image, the film had a massive opening [...]
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December 13th, 2008 by riaz
John Abraham has been adjudged the sexiest Asian man in the world in 2008.
In the annual round conducted by Eastern Eye, a leading British Asian weekly, Abraham emerged the top in a shortlist of 10.
The weekly sent judges a shortlist of 10 names. The judges then ranked the names according to their individual preferences and [...]
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December 13th, 2008 by riaz
If you’ve heard Sukhvinder Singh singing ‘Haule haule’ for Shah Rukh Khan in Yash Chopra’s ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’, you would immediately spot its similarity to Adnan Sami’s ‘Kabhi nahin’ number from a private album. But Adnan won’t talk about the apparent similarities. And for a very special reason.It now appears that Yash Chopra [...]
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December 13th, 2008 by riaz
Mumbai is still not in a cinema-going mood after the terror strikes, but movie buffs – and loyal Shah Rukh Khan fans to be precise – could not have given Yash Raj Films’ much-awaited movie ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ a miss. So if not in droves, they came in sizeable numbers for the first [...]
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December 13th, 2008 by riaz
Actress Amrita Rao has been stuck with a Miss Goody image for quite a while now. The actress is understandably quite desperate to shed that image and keep herself in the league for all kinds of roles.
Her role in Neeraj Vora’s Shortkut, is apparently an attempt to do just that. The actress was cast in [...]
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December 13th, 2008 by riaz
A cinema hall here resonated with the sound of applause as soon as superstar Shah Rukh Khan made his entry in ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’. It continued, reaching a crescendo towards the end of the film.The film is a hit, the audience and members of the film fraternity say.
‘It is a super duper hit’, [...]
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December 12th, 2008 by riaz
In the recent past, Bollywood has seen many foreign actresses make an appearance in Hindi films.
Be it Brande Roderick who seduced Riteish Deshmukh in Out Of Control or Rachel Shelly, who played the lovable character of Elizabeth in Lagaan; be it Vivek ‘Kisna’ Oberoi’s love interest Antonia Bernath or Govinda’s dream-girl Shannon Esrechowitz in Salaam-e-Ishq, [...]
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December 12th, 2008 by riaz
Danny Boyle’s stiflingly and oppressively visceral film “Slumdog Millionaire” is above all about the realisation that most slum dwellers in Mumbai have no hope whatsoever of escaping their wretched existence. In the end, the movie seems like one giant heap of rotting and fetid urban squalor from which emerges a momentary [...]
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December 12th, 2008 by riaz
Bollywood producers can never get over their old habit of stealing plots and lifting films, frame by frame from Hollywood flicks. A recent case in point is Blue, which is being made by Ashtavinayak.The story of Blue, which stars Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Zayed Khan and Lara Dutta, is said to be lifted from the [...]
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December 11th, 2008 by riaz
There has been too much discusison in recent times over Aishwariya Rai’s decision to play such a insignificant role in the latest Pink Panther Series. The film is ready for release and our beautiful Ash is quite excited about having starred in it.
When the first posters of the film, Pink Panther 2 were out, Ash [...]
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December 10th, 2008 by riaz