Rani & Kareena Are Playing Sex Workers In Kamathipura

We all identify Bollywood actor Aamir Khan with the perfectionist tag, which he very religiously maintains in his professional life. And it is this perfectionism that it is getting reflected in his forthcoming movie with director Reema Kagti.

According to reports in the media, the upcoming Bollywood film has already achieved a casting coup of sorts with the presence of stars like Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor and it is now being said that Aamir Khan is leaving no stone unturned to assure that his film remains very close to real life.

Particular shots of the Reema Kagti venture may be shot in a red light area on the insistence of Aamir Khan.

It is being said that one of the leading ladies in the film will play the role of a sex worker and it is for this purpose that Aamir Khan wants the filming of the scenes involving the sex worker to be completed at the red light area of Kamathipura, a fact which is not going down well with director Reema Kagti and producers Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar.

Media reports suggest that the crew of the upcoming Aamir – Rani – Kareena starrer are busy in trying to convince Aamir Khan that realism is always not good, because their filming in a brothel area may land the lead actresses in danger.

Whether Mr. perfectionist Aamir Khan will be convinced or not is a matter that we will get to know later. The audience is nevertheless eagerly waiting for a release that boasts of such great actors.

Malaika Arora's Sexy Body's Secrets...

Malaika Arora Khan takes to asanas, thanks to Kareena Kapoor
PS: Malla's also planning on writing a book on health and fitness

Kareena Kapoor has led many of her friends to follow yoga. Malaika Arora Khan is the latest to be added to the list that includes the likes of Saif Ali Khan, Tusshar Kapoor and Amrita Arora Ladhak.

Says Malaika, "I have been learning yoga for some time. Kareena and Amu (Amrita Arora) introduced me to it. Payal Gidwani has been training me.

I do yoga thrice a week at home with Payal's girl, alternating it between gym and pilates. Now I really look forward to my sessions with Kareena and Amu. We are yoga junkies."

While Malaika has been introduced to asanas by Kareena, Malaika's husband Arbaaz has been a 'yoga junkie' for many years.

"Arbaaz is into rituals and holistic healing like yoga and vipassana but stopped completely for more than a year.

Once he became a producer with Dabangg, he got caught up in pre and post-production work and stopped doing it completely. I have been asking him to start doing it again."

Besides doing yoga thrice a week for an hour Malaika also works out thrice a week. "I am mostly into weight-training with my trainer when at the gym."

The yummy mummy is planning to bring out a book on healthy food habits and workouts. "I love talking about healthy food, home-made remedies and giving health tips.

So yes, I have been thinking about writing a book on how to have a sexy body without starving yourself."

Munni's diet

Morning
One glass of warm water with honey and lime
One litre of warm water

Breakfast
One small bowl of seasonal fruit
Idli or poha or upma or porridge

12 noon
A glass of vegetable juice with amla
One egg white with two brown toasts

Lunch
Brown or red Goa rice
2-3 vegetables
Chicken or fish
One bowl of sprouts as salad

4 pm
Idli or poha or upma or one peanut butter sandwich
Dinner (have latest by 8 pm)
Soups or salad. A light meal but no lentils (daals).

Night
If hungry have an orange or carrots or any seasonal fruits or dry fruits like figs, almonds and apricots.

Health Tips
>> Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dine like a pauper
>> NO carbohydrates at night
>> Don't starve eat healthy and everything but in moderation. Avoid fried foods. Have a diet for the week and binge on Sundays
>> Cook everything in extra virgin olive oil
>> Have plenty of carbs through the day like sweet potatoes, potatoes and brown bread. Have potatoes in their jackets roasted.
>> If you eat healthy, you will go a long way

Courtesy: Mid-Day.com

Manmaani Sheila Ki...

Katrina Kaif wanted original choreographer Geeta Kapoor to direct her in two award show performances. Had to settle for only one, Ganesh Hegde will guide her steps in the other

Katrina Kaif will be performing at two award functions this time. She will groove to the beat of Sheila Ki Jawaani. For one award function she has the original choreographer of the song Geeta Kapoor.

And for the other performance, she will dance to the tunes of Ganesh Hegde, even though her heart was set on Geeta.

Kat is very comfortable with Geeta and feels has given her steps that helped in making the song a rage.

Also Kapoor patiently worked with the actress for many days till she got all the moves down pat.

And she wants to recreate the experience, whenever possible.

She tried

It is learnt that when Katrina learnt that Ganesh choreographing Sheila, she asked the organisers (the Moranis) to go with Kapoor as she was familiar with the steps.

"But the Moranis insisted on Ganesh and Katrina finally had to accept the decision. She has been shooting and rehearsing without a break.

Tees Maar Khan director Farah Khan says, "I'm happy that Geeta is choreographing Kat for the award. She was my associate choreographer on TMK and actually the one who rehearsed with her throughout the shoot.

I guess for the other awards they wanted a different choreographer because song is the same. I'm happy Kat is making lots of money with Sheila because I had promised her that."

She adds that she is excited about seeing the performances, "Umpteen songs of mine have been performed on shows for so many years.

It's good to see how others do it differently. And yes I am expecting my commission from Katrina on this too. She better not get amnesia!"

Courtesy: Mid-Day.com

Antra Biswas MOST HOT SEXY Pictures Showing Breasts Laying On Bed

Antra Biswas is a very sexy and hot star in the bollywood. She has cross almost all the limits. Cause she can do ANYTHING for a good money. You will also be agree with me after seeing these hot and sexy pictures of her. She has shown her full breast in a picture, while laying on bed, which you can see below with her other sexy pictures at the end of this article.












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Movie Review Of "Mirch"

Starring: Raima Sen, Konkona Sen Sharma, Arunodoy Singh, Rajpal Yadav, Shreyas Talpade, Sushant Singh, Shahana Goswami

Written & Directed by Vinay Shukla

Rating: ***

Mirch is meant to be a tikhi spicy delectable account of sex, eroticism, stolen pleasures and furtive philandering during times of day-to-day stress. Instead it turns out to be one of those half-cooked exotic dishes, more tempting for what it promises than actually delivers.

Vinay Shukla's last film Koi Mere Dil Se Pooche which came eight years ago is best forgotten. However his film prior to that Godmother stood tall and imposing primarily because of Shabana Azmi's preponderant performance as a politician in rural Gujarat who rips the male bastion apart with her no-nonsense approach to life and politics.

Mirch is about the politics of sex. Set in two different time zones, the contemporary and 'period', it takes potshots at the male gaze as it falls on female sexuality. Each of the four stories has a protagonist, played by Raima Sen and Konkona Sen Sharma in two stories each, with a high libido level that they do nothing to hide.

In each story the woman is caught red-handed doing 'it' with a lover by her husband. How the sexually-liberated woman in each story wriggles out of the bedroom crisis forms the core comicality in the quartet of stories.

The four stories, apparently derived from the ancient Panchtantra tales and their designedly delicious denouement are neither convincing, nor funny enough to be outrageously fable-like. The stories just about manage to bring a smile on our faces.

Not that Shukla can be faulted for his intelligent and astute handling of such an audacious idea. The quality of 'horniness' specially in a woman makes for very unpoetic cinema. Love when linked to lust tends to lose its lyrical lustre.

Miraculously the lustre of love within the lust-work is maintained. Shukla shoots his two heroines with a certain sensitivity although there's not much room in the satirical tales of cuckoldry for subtlety he builds room for tender touches and fleeting moments of arresting intimacy.

The film's four –nication hovers between 'horny' and unhonee (improbable).

Raima Sen's large limpid eyes lend a certain grace even to her over-sexed character in the past and contemporary times. However Konkona Sen-Sharma's performances in her two tales suffer for the lack of inherent grace in the characters.

And the actress doesn't seem to be enjoying the process of playing these 'naughty' characters. In her 'period' piece Konkona cajoles her royal husband (Prem Chopra) to climb up a tree to watch her making love with the stud-senapati.

How much fun for the actor and how funny for the audience can such a situation be? Go figure. Interestingly Vinay Shukla has cast Arunodoy Singh as the film's resident sex object. The female protagonists in three of the stories are shown lusting after him and hitting the sack with the stud when they think their husbands are not around.

To create a certain distance from the preposterous parodic premises Vinay Shukla creates a film-within-film format whereby a young struggling idealistic filmmaker (Arunodoy Singh, again) and his girlfriend (Shahana Goswami, powerful in a small role) try to convince a wily producer (Sushant Singh) to produce a film which has plenty of sex, eroticism, humour and drama.

The stories that the young filmmaker in Mirch tells the cynical producer are the stories that we the audience see the not-so-young filmmaker Vinay Shukla tell with a blend of whittled-down passion and half-formed sensitivity.

Some of it though not all, is interesting. As for the theme of creative compromise that triggers off the four-storeyed plot, is Mirch really liberated from those compromises?

The question acquires an added meaning when Mahi Gill shows up to perform an item song choreographed by Saroj Khan in the beginning and the end.

Really, Choli ke peeche kya hai???

Movie Review Of "The Robot"

Director: S. Shankar

Cast: Rajnikanth, Aishwarya Rai, Danny Denzongpa

Rating: 3 1/2

The world is waiting to see what a movie worth almost 200 crores will look like and voila! The Robot is unveiled. And who can carry this huge load on their shoulders but Rajnikanth, the greatest superstar of the country? If you felt that the character of Chulbul Pandey was larger than life, you should get a load of Robot, who is towering, absolutely gargantuan.

Robot is made on a scale that’s spectacular. The look and feel of the film is mindboggling in its grand-ness. Just add to that, the star power of Rajnikanth, the Demi-God, and you have a movie that is sure to rock the world.

Of course, as in all movies that involve Gods, this one is also pretty mythical in nature so the viewer is supposed to go with a complete absence of disbelief. After all, one is in the presence of superhuman beings here.

There are no rules and don’t try and use that human logic of yours. If you can put that aside, to entertain you is Rajnikanth’s business.

In Robot, we have a double dose of Rajnikanth (how lucky can we get? Two for the price of one ticket?) The film opens with Rajnikant as Dr. Vasi, who is in the process of creating an andro-humanoid robot named Chitti, also played by (surprise!) Rajnikanth.

Chitti has the powers of a 100 men, which would be harnessed to serve humanity in meaningful ways. Chitti is a sweet machine, doing fun and funny things in a world he is innocent about.

It’s very like the American films where and alien or a robot will come into the life of a human and then try and fit into the human world.

So there are some hilarious moments, when Chitti makes some crazy mistakes; moments that have the audiences rolling with laughter. While he is a machine, all is well.

The trouble starts when Dr.Vasi decides to breathe human emotion into him and the matter of the robot’s revolt is clinched when Vasi’s girlfriend, the gorgeous Sana (Aishwarya Rai), plants a peck on his cheek.

By the way, what is Aish doing in the movie? Well, she’s looking fabulous for one, And… she’s looking fabulous for two, and ummm…she’s looking fabulous for three! And that’s about it. She does have some lines like, “He’s not my boyfriend, he’s my toy-friend”, referring to Chitti.

Once the robot falls in love, then there is trouble in paradise and he has to be destroyed by his maker. The dying throes as the robot with the human emotion dies, is kind of tragic-comic and more than a bit macabre.

Here is when in steps the bad scientist, Danny Denzongappa, who rescues and resurrects Chitti and plants in him the destruction chip.

And here’s where all Jurassic parks and Godzillas and King Kongs should start to run for cover because Chitti has, in one finger of his, the capacity of destruction all of them together could not dream of. Cheers to Rajni Saar. Cheers to director, Shankar.

The USP of the film are the special effects that have been created by the Stan Winston Studio which reportedly provided the animatrics for films like Jurassic Park and Avatar. The stunts have been choreographed by Yuen Woo Ping, the Hong Kong based action director who created the high-adrenalin stunts of classics like Kill Bill and Matrix.

The sets are spectacular and on a huge scale, be it the laboratories or the outdoors, every locale is stunning. The only weak point, however is A R Rahman’s music which is disappointing to the extreme.

The climax will have you either running for cover of standing on your seats and cheering as almost a hundred Rajnikanths eat up helicopters, smash cars, batter the earth and create never seen before mayhem. An army of Chittis transforms itself into a snake and gorges on the enemy.

Whew! Exhausting! But man, what paisa vasool!

Movie Review Of "Knock Out"

Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Irrfan Khan, Kangna Ranaut, Sushant Singh

Director: Mani Shankar

Rating: ***

"Phone Booth" be damned. "Knock Out" goes into places that the supposed source of inspiration can't even dream about. Forget what you've heard, forget the flak and fury about copyrights. Go see "Knock Out" for the engaging edge-of-the-seat treatment that writer-director Mani Shankar has given to the collectively comatose conscience of the nation.

The breathless political thriller starts off as just another day in the life of a high-profile wheeler-dealer Bachu (Irrfan), who expedites multi-score scams for the powerful, corrupt politician.

Bachu, who definitely seems to be having a bad hair day, makes the cardinal mistake of getting into a phone booth for a bit of pow-wow with his powerful friends in the government. That's when trouble begins.

"Knock Out" builds up into a walloping slash-of-life swipe, sometimes savage elsewhere satirical, at the monstrous levels of corruption that has seeped into our political and everyday life.

The facts seem to be on the director's fingertips. He confidently takes us through a startling labyrinth of false leads and blood-red herrings that suggest a deep and disturbing link between the growing disregard for the common man's needs and a simultaneous growth in the graph of corruption in Indian politics.

Mani Shankar creates an arresting format of dialogue-based interaction between the unkempt Bachu, who becomes symbolic of all the middlemen in the business of politics who unwittingly end up selling chunks of our nation and its conscience to unscrupulous politicians, and a mysterious vigilante-styled, one-man anti-corruption bureau played by Sanjay Dutt.

Dutt's entry into the volatile cat-and-mouse chase signals an adrenaline-pumping momentum in the plot. He doesn't have much movement to do until the climax when he locks limbs with a martial-arts stuntman with panther-like agility.

Yup, this is what Dutt should be doing more often. His anti-corruption voice is supported by some hard-hitting dialogues on how the British colonizers cleaned out our coffers in 150 years while Indian politicians have done the same in 70 years.

The rhetorics are woven into the gripping plot without stressful attempts to sound like the nation's conscience. The patriotic pride of Mani Shankar's treatise on corruption and redemption emerges effortlessly, to merge with the larger responsibility of the filmmaker to entertain the audience.

What starts off as a thriller in a phone booth builds up into a riveting morality tale. Besides Dutt and Irrfan, incidental characters who show up at the venue of the bizarre hold-up also create a high interest-level in the goings-on.

Sushant Singh, playing a cop who won't succumb to corruption and therefore loses his life, and Apoorva Lakhia, as a ruthless immoral establishment-monster, are just two of the characters who lend a blend of immediacy and topicality to the relentless chase-phase that the film assumes.

There is a restrained rabble-rousing element in the storytelling. The anti-corruption statement never comes in the way of telling a story that in many ways defines the enough-is-enough attitude of a nation on the brink of damnation.

Like the character that Dutt plays, director Mani Shankar has always depended on technology to sustain his cinema. His earlier well-scripted film "Mukhbiir" suffered for the lack of a decent budget. "Knock Out" is done on a level of high-intensity credibility. It's not so much the method and craft as a heart that genuinely beats for a corruption-free India that gives "Knock Out" a flavour of pulsating patriotism.

Watch it to get entertained while creating a world where a politician ironically named Bapu (Gulshan Grover) goes on an international rampage at the the cost of the national exchequer.

Not just a film with a heart, "Knock Out" has a conscience too.

Movie Review Of "Hisss"

Cast: Malika Sherawat, Divya Dutta, Priyanka Rawat, Irrfan Khan, Jeff Doucette

Director: Jennifer Lynch

Rating: ** 1/2

Mallika Sherawat has sizzled on screen again with her ‘naagin’ avatar in Hisss, which got released today both in India as well as in other counties. The movie is all about the usual revenge taking story of a female snake, played by the sexy Mallika. Her partner was taken away from her by an American scientist when they were in the most pleasant situation of mating.

Jeff Douchette plays the scientist, George States, who dares to enter this forbidden jungle in the Malabar Coast. Unable to gauge the result of his act, he takes to his hi-tech lab for conducting experiments on it.

He is unaware of the fact that the female counterpart of this python sized cobra is hunting for her partner and is in mood of taking revenge from the entire human civilization in the cities.

One will surely enjoy the transformation of a snake to a strikingly beautiful and attractive woman (Mallika Sherawat). Her desperate search for her lover makes her full of vengeance and she instantly becomes ready with her fangs to destroy any person coming her way.

Mallika has played the role of a snake woman very convincingly as she was seen kissing and licking her partner, the great cobra. She also shed the bare essentials she used to wear for the sake of turning a ‘naagin’.

Irrfan Khan in the role of a detective called Vikram Gupta keeps chasing this sexy killer ‘snake woman’ and he is in his usual form. We can’t term it to be an excellent performance.

A talented actress like Divya Dutta has nothing much to do in the film but she has enacted it sincerely.

Lots of special effects can be seen, which never have seen in Bollywood earlier. The later part of the film will reveal whether ‘naagin’ becomes successful in taking her revenge.

Even though lots of hype was created about the nude scenes of Mallika, there is nothing new or exciting to watch in the film. The new generation that has grown up listening to the ‘Ichchadhari naagin’ stories might just give a look at it but that may also go above their heads.

It’s just an effort to revive the ‘naagin’ stories, which have hardly any relevance in today’s life. Well, if you want to feel frightened by those sexy and angry lenses of Mallika then go ahead in this weekend for Hisss!

Movie Review Of "No Problem"

Cast: Anil Kapoor, Sushmita Sen, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna, Suniel Shetty, Kangna Ranaut, Paresh Rawal

Director: Anees Bazmi

Rating: * ½

The bad news is that good films are not doing well. But the better news is that bad films are also being rejected.

"No Problem", if we must talk about it, is no better or worse than all the other, comedies that have come and groaned. A series of wildly improbable characters and ideas strung together in sequences of flabbergasting haphazardness, this is the sort of comic romp where the laughter is lost in transit.

The credits boast of four writers. But there is no rhyme in the crime no logic in the laughter.

Just fasten your seat belts and let Anees Bazmi, a fine writer when given better circumstances, take you for a ride. The film opens with Sanjay Dutt and Akshaye Khanna playing two con men Yash and Raj (Yash-Raj, get it? ha ha) rescuing a baby gorilla from the dicky of Paresh Rawal's car.

The baby gorilla and its grateful parents show up in the climax where all the male characters (approximately 33 at last count) are dressed as Sardarjis to sing a song that goes "Kad lamba chaudi chest chest".

Ahem. Chest joking, I guess.

Not too many sequences make much sense in this homage to hectic incoherence. The gags are as flat as Neetu Chandra's belly. She has some funny moments with Suniel Shetty (playing the assassin named, with excruciating unoriginality, Marcos). But the funniest character in the plot is Sushmita Sen. A schizophrenic wife to bumbling-cop Anil Kapoor, she does the split-personality act with lip-smacking relish.

You often wonder what a woman as gorgeous as Ms Sen is doing in a place as farcical as this where anarchy prevails. Nothing makes sense. Nothing is supposed to. The film is shot in South Africa. For what purpose, we will never know. The film's confounding idiocies could have easily been located in Matunga or Mangalore.

The most important component of a situational comedy is that the actors must LOOK like they're having fun. There is not much below-surface camaraderie among the actors. Anil Kapoor brings in a zany fun into his self-deprecating role. But really, just the ability to laugh at oneself is not enough.

You have to communicate that laughter to the world that's watching you. On that score "No Problem" simply parts ways with the audience.

Movie Review Of "Jhootha Hi Sahi"

Starring: John Abraham, Pakhi, Raghu Ram, Manasi Scott, Anaitha Nair, Omar Khan, Alishka Varde, George Young, Prahsant Chawla, Madhavan, Nandana Sen

Director: Abbas Tyrewala

Rating: ***

Who says lying is bad? Watch Jhootha Hi Sahi and you will come to understand that lying will get you everywhere. In the twenty first century when everyone is desperately seeking their soul mate, lying is perhaps the best way to find that perfect someone for yourself.

After the phenomenal success of Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, Abbas Tyrewala is back with his next romantic comedy about a simple guy who lies his way to love.

John Abraham plays the role of Siddharth aka (Sid) who runs a bookshop in London with his Pakistani friend Omar (played by Raghu Ram). In true Bollywood style the bookshop is called ‘Kagaz Ke Phool’. Sid is already in a committed relationship with Krutika (Manasi Scott), who controls all aspects of his life.

Accidentally, Sid’s phone number gets listed on a suicide helpline flier and he starts getting calls from unknown people attempting suicide. Being the good guy that our hero is, he starts counseling these lost souls.

One night Mishka (Pakhi) calls up the suicide helpline and Sid stops her from committing the act. The two become good friends and start having regular phone conversations every night.

One day Mishka comes to Sid’s bookshop, Sid recognizes her immediately but Mishka cannot. The duo start dating, John puts up a nice double act in this movie.

During day he dates Mishka as the stammering bespectacled geek while in the night he has phone conversations with her as a confident young man. The movie has the light and fresh feel of the Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan starrer ‘You’ve Got Mail’. Will Mishka forgive Sid when she finds out about his lies? You will have to find that out for yourself.

The film has strong ensemble cast that has put up some really good performances. John Abraham looks convincing in his guy-next-door appearance. Raghu Ram of the ‘MTV Roadies’ fame puts up a commendable act with his superb comic timing. The scenic beauty of London and its locales are used extensively to add to the fresh appeal of the film.

AR Rahman’s music does a bang-up job and stays in your mind long after you leave the movie hall. However the movie gets tad bit boring in the end thanks to its extended and over-the top climax. Overall Jhootha Hi Sahi is the perfect weekend rom -com to watch with your family and friends.

Movie Review Of "Action Replayy"

Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Akshay Kumar, Aditya Roy Kapoor

Director: Vipul Amrutlal Shah

Rating: **

Hollywood and Bollywood, despite similarities in their names, hardly have anything in common. Except that the latter often borrows concepts from its older cousin. Yet, it manages to make something different from the original. "Action Replayy" is an example of that.

When proposed to, Bunty (Aditya Roy Kapoor) refuses to marry his girlfriend because he has seen his parents Kishan (Akshay Kumar) and Mala (Aishwarya Rai) fight since he was born. Even on their 35th marriage anniversary, they fight as if they were sworn enemies. A determined Bunty steals a ride on a time machine invented by his girlfriend's grandfather to go back in time to make it all right.

Doing this will be tougher than he had imagined as he finds his parents very different from what they are today. Parenting ones parents, Bunty would realise, is the toughest job in the whole wide world.

The basic premise isn't new. Even before "Back To The Future" made it famous, travelling to the past to correct one's present was staple food of science fictions. It is, after all, the ultimate human fantasy.

What is new is how "Action Replayy" lays bare the difference between two of the biggest commercial filmmaking centres of the world, Hollywood and Bollywood. While in "Back To The Future" the stress is on science fiction and survival of the time traveller, here it is on human relations and the various emotions associated with it.

Also the paper thin, cliched villains of the film shows that Bollywood is still in a time-wrap. But "Action Replayy" can perhaps afford to, it being a time-wrap story and all.

Lot of efforts have been made to get the sets right, and surprisingly it often works. Vignettes of ancient advertisements, painstakingly made a part of the set by the filmmakers, make it a thrill to watch, especially for those from that era.

The costumes, however, try too hard to be retro. If you watch films of those period, they were not so flowery and jazzy as in this film. However, given the lighter vein in which the film is made, it is perhaps justified.

Aishwarya and Akshay are as good as Bollywood can get, which isn't much. Pritam's music is average and only when we do an action replay from the high plinth of the future, will we come to know the corners of the world he has plagiarised from.

Few spoofs are hilarious, especially the one on the Gujarati band led by Mahesh Kumar whose brother can sing in two voices. The one where the son is desperately trying to make his retro father understand the concept of sex and uses the typical Hindi film analogy of two flowers meeting is a laugh-riot.

Despite this the film misses many opportunities for gags that can easily be part of a time travel film. Just the inclusion of names common today like Obama, Mallika Sherawat, Saif Ali Khan etc., does not necessarily make it humorous.

"Action Replayy" despite its best intentions and few successes, fails in many others. Perhaps it will take someone else to say action-reply and better the present for Bollywood.

Movie Review Of "A Flat"

Starring: Jimmy Shergill, Sanjay Suri, Kaveri Jha

Director: Hemant Madhukar

Rating: **

A Flat is yet another typical Bollywood horror flick that falls flat without much to get frightened. Director Hemant Madhukar has tried to collect matters from several previous Bollywood horror movies and then compiled them and have put them together with some new faces under a new title. The film has been co-written by Hemant Madhukar and Ajay Monga.

If you expect to get some thrilling experience A Flat is not the right choice of movie for you provided you have watched Bhoot, Phoonk or Vaastu Shastra. Rahul (Jimmy Shergill) is the protagonist, who is an NRI and comes back to India to appease his lady love Preeti (Kaveri Jha).

However, Rahul gets trapped in his own apartment in India and discovers a diary that discloses the secrets of the ghost. With the development of the story, he comes to know that his friend Karan (Sanjay Suri) is the main culprit behind all these.

Karan impregnated a simple village girl even after being a married man. He brought the girl to Mumbai and forces her to undergo abortion even when the doctor warned that this may involve risk. Now, the film will revolves around how Rahul brings out the truth about his friend.

Jimmy and Sanjay have given great performances but this was not enough for a movie to strike with a prototype story of many other earlier horror movies. The flat in which Jimmy stays has close similarity with the one used in Bhoot.

You can enjoy some good music by Bappa but don’t expect to relate with the main storyline. Madhurkar has tried to bring out some horror factor with Jimmy’s realistic acting capability but the repetitive storyline takes away all the effort. You can go for the movie for Sanjay and Jimmy, the rest is nothing to get curious about.

Movie Review Of "Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyun"

Starring: Zeenat Aman, Kabir Bedi, Helen, Kapil Sharma, Yuvraaj Parasher, Maradona Rebello, Rituparna Sengupta, Mahabnoo Mody-Kotwal, Asha Sachdev, Parishat Sahni

Directed by Sanjay Sharma

Rating: **

As far as scrutinizing a gay relationship is concerned, this ain’t a patch on Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain. But still…. It tries.

Dunno why, but this fatally flawed look at the dark secrets of an anglo-Indian family where the single mother sleeps with her cheesy boss for lack of choice and the elder married son with a child, makes out with a man for the want of a voice, leaves us with some positive thoughts.

Dunno Y…Na Jaane Kyun is the first Hindi film to look at a gay relationship with some anount of dispassionate honesty. The script makes room for approximately 22-24 characters which includes the entire malfunctional d’Souza family, their friends and lovers.

Man, this is Sooraj Barjatya’s Hum Saath Saath Hain gone too seed! The characters are not badly written. Even the performances are at times, convincing. And it takes inhuman amounts of guts for two male actors to make love on screen.

Hats (and other apparel) off for Kapil Sharma and newcomer Yuvraaj Parasher for strolling into alternate sexuality with such naked earnestness.

However earnestness per se is not a redeeming quality unless compounded with creative conviction. Dunny Y is high on drama, low on treatment and execution.

Parts of unfolding trauma in the dysfunctional family are so strenuously dramatized you wonder why director Sanjay Sharma did not go easy on the manipulations in the narration. Or why he chose to have the characters speak in English when some of them (including the film’s leading man Kapil Sharma) are ill-at-ease in the lingo.

The dialogues often come out more forced than forceful, like a bunch of over-eager radio artistes performing a Christmas play with a plum-pudding on the table to egg them on.

The talented cast too is unable to rise above the mundaneness of the material. Zeenat Aman as an abandoned wife and single mother has the most interesting character to play. She struggles hard to make her lines sound believable.

But she finally succumbs to pressures of pedestrianism that assail this well-meaning but aberrant film from all sides.

While the explicit gay love-making sequences are done with a bravado that’s more corny than candid a sub-plot about the gay praotgonist’s torrid affair with her brother-in-law (Maradona Rebello) has potential.

But by the time the Neglected Wife and the inhouse toyboy get into a shower together the passion and the pain of a family on the edge, have all been washed away.

Dunno Y…is a brave and unorthodox look at a malfunctional family’s efforts to come to terms with the dark secrets in the closet. The courageous film looks at the question of forbidden desires. And the sheer pleasure of watching Zeenat Aman and Helen is incentive enough to overlook the film’s fatal flaws.

Movie Review Of "Phas Gaye Re Obama"

Cast: Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, Amol Gupte, Amit Sial, Sanjay Mishra, Manu Rishi among others

Director: Subhash Kapoor

Rating: ****

Bollywood has proved yet again that it is not always an ensemble star cast and a big budget that works for a film.

Phas Gaye Re Obama is the perfect example of a film where it is the content made better through superb performances that wins the hearts of not only the audience but also the critics.

It may be recalled here that many films hitting theaters in 2010 were critically acclaimed movies in spite of the fact that they were made at a paltry budget (read Udaan, Tere Bin Laden, Love Sex Aur Dhokha).

Phas Gaye Re Obama begins from where we see the NRI character Om completely bankrupt in the recession hit America. Om, played by Rajat Kapoor, returns to India to acquire the necessary amount of money required to keep his house in the US.

But as soon as he lands on Indian soil, Om is kidnapped by underworld dons. The gang who has kidnapped Om are of the idea that he is still a rich man and therefore he will give them money to cope the recession.

Phas Gaye Re Obama is the first film which deals with the innovative subject of recession hitting a terrorist gang! And it is this subject which makes the film a must watch.

Something that all film connoisseurs can look forward to is the brilliant screenplay of Phas Gaye Re Obama. Though the cast is nothing to boast about, their acting skills completely overshadow their image.

The editing of the Subhash Kapoor project which hits theaters today falls short of expectations at certain places, but the story and performances make up for minor glitches.

Movie Review Of "Break KE Baad"

Cast: Imran Khan, Deepika Padukone, Sharmila Tagore, Lillete Dubea, Shahana Goswami, Navin Nischol, Yudhistir Urs

Director: Danish Aslam

Rating: ** 1/2

Bollywood has a sub-genre of romantic-comedies meant for urban, chic teenagers, first pioneered with its full frontal glory by our very own coffee drinking Karan Johar.

These films, and the people that inhabit it, are nothing like you have ever known, or are ever likely to know. But the reality inside it is so glossy and Cinderellaesque that everyone aspires for this free floating, un-rooted, but super fun unreality.

"Break Ke Baad" is a fun example of that.

Aaliya (Deepika Padukone) and Abhay (Imran Khan) are childhood sweethearts whose sweet course of sugarcane love encounters the roadblock of youthful ambition. Aaliya, a fiercely independent, risk-taking person decides to go to Australia to pursue her acting ambition, thus breaking the relationship. Both make mistakes, but eventually discover themselves only to realize that it's not that easy to say 'talaq' to a love, that has now matured.

"Break Ke Baad" is the ultimate, teenage, escape, love fantasy of 2010, much like "Jaane Tu…" in 2008 and "Love Aaj Kal" in 2009, in whose magical world, almost everything happens coincidentally and all loose ends are tied up perfectly in the end and all that you see makes sense. But we know that such a mythical, unreality can exist only in Bollywood.

Yet, the film is good in its own sub-genre. The strongest part of the film is a well-baked script; tight, crisp and thankfully contemporary and often rooted dialogues of Renuka Kunzru, which are funny at times, and profound in a cliched way at others.

Yet the film will never make it to the annals of Bollywood greats. Neither does it have the cuteness of Aamir Khan's launch vehicle "Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak", or the undertone of class struggle depicted with extreme melodrama in "Maine Pyaar Kiya", the overtone of struggle against tradition of "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" or the excessive sugar-pulp and totally nonexistent reality of "Kuch Kuch Hota Hai" (KKHH) - a film which this one pays hearty tributes to.

The conflict is mostly in the minds of the protagonist, and not real. Ironically its fault would perhaps be that it is not unreal enough like KKHH.

Though the characterizations, at least in the beginning and in a few side characters, has the smell (or stench if you consider the escapist drama) of reality, it flies off to KKHH land. At least the old films were caricatures, exaggerations of people you would have encountered somewhere. No such luck with "Break Ke Baad".

But it is fodder for teen fantasy, seeped in the dual confusion of maturing while finding true love. It's over two hour ride is fun, full time-pass and paisa vasool.

Movie Review Of "Rakht Charitra 2"

Starring: Suriya, Vivek Oberoi, Priyamani, Radhika Apte

Directed: Ram Gopal Varma

Rating: *** ½

In this sequel to Ram Gopal Varma's month-old film about gangwars during the time of politics and elections we get to see for the first time in a Hindi film Suriya, an actor of searing intensity and devastating emotional velocity.

Suriya takes the frontseat in the sequel to create an ambience of implosive violence. Yes, we've never seen an actor so controlled in his intensity for a long time. Suriya's vendetta spree certainly lends an added sheen to the proceedings.

Whether expressing his love for his wife (Priya Mani, over-madeup) and baby or hatred for his opponent Paritala Ravi (Vivek Oberoi, not able to add to his performance from the first part), Suriya's eyes convey a smouldering universe of indignation injustice grief and anger.

Cleverly Varma has given Suriya long stretches of silence in which the star-actor negotiates his angst-filled journey from betrayal to redemption. Suriya's lengthy introduction sequence, the even lengthier attempt to kill him in the court house and the long fight sequence in jail are all 'items' constructed to spotlight the star's agile histrionics.

"Rakhta Charitra2" goes a little slower on the body count than the first part. It is still one of the bloodiest, most violent films in living memory.

This must be the quickest sequel ever. "Rakht Charitra2" is better, more engaging and riveting in terms of content and drama.

Full credit to Ram Gopal Varma for re-creating the savage world of politics and bloodshed in the Andhra hinterland. With skilled hands, Varma weaves the theme of an internecine war between two Men Who Would Be King In The Concrete Jungle.

The background score and editing highlight the ruthless profile of the hinterland. "Rakht Charitra 2" goes beyond the first part in pursuit of the savage impulses that accentuate the hunger for power. Suriya has the most pained eyes since Om Puri in "Aakrosh". Between the pleading and the bleeding that are projected into his character, Suriya proves himself the discovery of the year.

Watch "Rakht Charitra2" for Suriya. And then watch it for the parable of violence that Ram Gopal Varma continues to construct in search of a meaning for the cinema beyond surface beauty.

Movie Review Of "No One Killed Jessica"

Cast: Rani Mukherjee, Vidya Balan, Myra Karn

Music: Amit Trivedi

Director: Rajkumar Gupta

Rating: ****

On April 29, 1999 a shot was fired from a .22 bore pistol whose loud reverberations lasted over a decade. The shot that killed a vivacious, aspiring model Jessica Lall was fired in the presence of more than 100 'socialites' present at a party in New Delhi. Yet, accused Manu Sharma walked free in 2006 prompting a newspaper headline that read "No One Killed Jessica".

In the ensuing decade, Venod Sharma, father of the accused and a high profile congress leader, paid millions of rupees to silence witnesses. It was not until the Tehelka Magazine did a sting investigation and Star News aired the footage that justice was finally served.

"No One Killed Jessica" faithfully follows the case to emerge a winner.

Almost everyone knows the story. Yet, the film makes some interesting departures to keep the momentum going. A Barkha Dutt type character has been introduced in Rani Mukerji though the former did not have much to do with the case or its reinstatement. However, Rani lacks the intensity to pull off such a strong role and the strain shows.

On the other hand, Vidya Balan soars with the unglamorous, distraught and hunchbacked portrayal of Jessica's sister.

Director Raj Kumar Gupta makes direct comment on the society we live in, its voyeuristic tendencies and the judiciary's disregard for justice. Everyone knows the extent of corruption and rot in the system as symptomised by the acquittal of Manu Sharma, but the question as always is who would bell the cat if the police and judiciary do not.

In this case Tehelka, who did the sting investigation and Star News (and not NDTV that walks away with the praises in the film) that aired the footages did manage to right a wrong. But the question is not just of Jessica Lall, but the thousands like her whose cases have not had the light of justice shine upon them.

The Jessica Lall murder thus became an emblem of the rot in the democracy, police and judiciary.

The truth is, the culprits were not just Manu Sharma, his friends and his family, but Shayan Munshi who redacted his statements leading to Manu's acquittal and Bina Ramani, both of whom continue to have successful careers, one as an actor-model and the latter as a heedless socialite. The culprit is all of us who stay silent to the injustice all around us.

The injustice done in Jessica's case has been corrected, but the question remains of the millions of other cases of injustice in the country.

Gupta's film on a true incident bodes well for Bollywood, which is normally not too keen on reality, and the concept of justice itself. Yet, the question is not who killed Jessica Lall, but as the gross miscarriage of injustice in Kashmir, central and northeast India and the thousands of pending cases in the country show -- it is: who killed justice in India?

Movie Review Of "Toonpur Ka Superhero"

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Kajol, Tanuja

Director: Kireet Khurana

Rating: **1/2

Expectations from the Ajay Devgan – Kajol starrer animation flick was high, but it failed to impress the masses in spite of bringing together the real life couple on-screen after a couple of years and being widely promoted as the first live action animation film of the country.

It is the lack lustre script which is to be blamed for the doom of the film, feel critics. And giving company to the bad script is the low budget used for any animation film in India, Toonpur Ka Superrhero included.

The story revolves around Aditya Kumar, played by Ajay Devgan, who suddenly finds himself in a world surrounded by cartoons. The place is known as Toonpur and here Aditya Kumar will have to live up to his image as a strong hero by helping the good people Devtoons to fight against the villains Toonasurs.

While the concept was good, the story clearly lacks in imagination. It is the same old stuff which has been repeated in a cartoon time and again.

And since this is a Bollywood production, Toonpur Ka Superrhero has every emotion that is characteristic of a Bollywood pot-boiler. All said, India’s first live action animated film is a disappointment!

Movie Review Of "Crook"

Emraan Hashmi's next release 'Crook It's Good To Be Bad' is going to deal with the serious issue of racism, which had occurred in Australia recently. Mohit Suri of 'Kalyug' fame will be directing the movie.

The director was quoted sharing an experience during one of his visits to Australia. Mohit said that he was once standing outside a 24-hour convenience store, which is situated in the Sunshine district of Melbourne. The most brutal attacks on Indians had taken place in that spot in Australia. Suri said that he was shocked to known how they beat up the Indian only because of color and religion.

As a sensible filmmaker, Mohit felt that it was his duty to raise voice on this issue. He informed that while leaving the store, he saw an ad on the window of the store that read, 'Accommodation is available for the Indian students for Gujarati boys only'.

The director said that that particular ad was the starting point of the movie. He realized that the social evils like racism are part of all human heart. But it depends on an individual to decide whether it is good to turn bad in this current scenario or does one need to pay for being good.

'Crook It's Good To Be Bad' stars Emraan Hashmi, Arjan Bajwa of Fashion fame and new face Neha Sharma. In the movie, Emraan plays the guy, who has to decide to turn bad for good.

Movie Review Of "Band Baaja Baaraat"

Shruti (Anushka Sharma) is a 20-something no-nonsense girl from a middle class Delhi household. Focused and determined with preplanned ambitions, her goals in life are well laid out by the time she reaches her final year of college.

Bittoo (Ranveer Singh), on the other hand, has no real aim in life. As a final year college student of Delhi University, he whiles away his life having fun with his buddies, barely scraping through his exams.

A chance and inopportune meeting (or as you would call it, fate) brings the two of them together on a tumultuous journey where they become partners in their very own, "Wedding planning ka bijness". The rules however, are clear: "Jisse vyapaar karo, usse kabhi na pyaar karo" (Don't mix business with pleasure).

Together, their friendship and business, enters the ups and downs of the lavish Delhi weddings. And while trying to find themselves, Shruti and Bittoo discover each other and realize that in the course of their journey, unke khud ke rules ki bajegi band!

Directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced by Aditya Chopra, the film releases worldwide on 10th December 2010.

Movie Review Of "Tees Maar Khan"

Cast : Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif

Director: Farah Khan

We are all aware of how entertaining a Farah Khan film can be, and though there is no Shah Rukh Khan this time on, we are sure that the Akshay Kumar – Katrina Kaif jodi will be more than enough to draw audiences to cinema theaters. And of course with a splash of Salman Khan, Tees Maar Khan already looks like a blockbuster in the making.

The story of Tees Maar Khan revolves around the life of a gangster and conman who is shameless and ruthless while he goes along cheating, conning and stealing.

This conman, Tees Maar Khan, played by Akshay Kumar, is helped in his activities by associates Dollar, Soda and Burger and girlfriend Anya, played by Katrina Kaif.

The capability of Tees Maar Khan is tested when he is assigned to steal antiques worth 500 crores from a moving train. Will Tees Maar Khan be successful in the ultimate heist which also involves a Bollywood actor? The audience will have to wait for two months while Farah Khan and her cast get ready for the promotion work.

With music by Vishal and Shekhar, Tees Maar Khan is set for a December release.

Movie Review Of "Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji"

Cast: Ajay Devgn, Emran Hashmi, Omi Vaidya, Shruti Hasan, Shazahn Padamese, Shraddha Das

Director Madhur Bhandarkar

Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Jee is a movie, which as the title suggests, is about the essence of a human heart which almost always retains its child like quality. The heart is where life's entire essence is.

Thus to prove this point, director Madhur Bhandarkar has significantly dealt with the subject of love in a very humorous way.

The movie stars Ajay Devgn portraying the character of Naren, a middle aged manager of a multinational Bank. There he falls head over heels in love with a young girl barely out of her teens called June Pinto, played by Shazahn Padamese.

Omi Vaidya as Milind Kelkar is the typical idealistic poet living in his own transient world has a deep crush for a girl called Gungun Sarkar played by Shraddha Das. Gungun who is a very ambitious and career minded gal has a thing for the playboy Abhay played by Emran Hashmi.

Abhay or Emran is strongly attracted to a young and vibrant gal called Nikki, played by Shruti Hassan who is an out and out loud mouth. Nikki does not hesitate to call a spade a spade, a trait which is simply loved by the Casanova Abhay.

This entire gamut of affairs and secret liaisons creates a total chaos and as each event gets entangled with the other the movie becomes one big platform of drama and melodrama.

Madhur Bhandarkar, who is known for making realistic cinema, has put in the flavor of realism in this movie too, with the characters all very believable and something which a common man can relate to. The music has been scored by Pritam. The movie releases on the 28th of January 2011 so watch out for this one!

MF Husain's New Muse - Anushka Sharma

95-year-old has seen her latest movie 8 times at last count... Interestingly, he doesn't need glasses to watch her!

After Madhuri Dixit, Tabu and Amrita Rao, M F Husain has found a new muse in Anushka Sharma.

At last count, the celebrated artist had seen her film Band Baaja Baaraat eight times and was looking forward to several more repeat viewings.

The 95-year-old finds the movie fascinating. Husain who now lives in Doha in Qatar and travels to Dubai often has been catching up on Maneesh Sharma's movie with his family and close friends.

And interestingly, when he watches the flick, he does not put on his spectacles. He has been claiming that ever since he saw Anushka, his vision has improved!

On New Year's Day, Husain watched the film with his close pal, Mumbai-based businessman Munna Javeri, who was visitng him in Dubai.

"In the cinema hall I was shocked to seen him remove his glasses, " says Javeri. "He knew all the dialogues and he viewed the film like a painting filled with colours. If only he had a brush in hand"

My take

Speaking from Dubai, Husain says, "It's still running to packed halls in its fourth week. Anushka was okay in the Shah Rukh starrer Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, but in Band Baaja Baaraat she has proved what an intelligent actor she is.

She knows what subtle acting is all about. Even Ranveer Singh is good."

He feels the movie has a crisp, well-written script and the second half springs a twist. "It is a simple subject without any complications. This is what leading filmmakers must learn who unnecessarily complicate their movies."

Previously he was fascinated by Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and Vivaah which had marriage as their themes. And so does Band Baaja Baraat. "It's not that because they are all wedding related. It is because they celebrate life and colours which I cherish, " adds Husain.

He plans to see the movie as many times till it runs there. And next time when Anushka is in Dubai or Doha, she is sure to have a portrait of hers presented by the celebrated artist!

FACT: M F Husain has watched the Madhuri Dixit-starrer Hum Aapke Hain Koun 73 times and Amrita Rao-starrer Vivaah 20 times.

Courtesy: Mid-Day.com