Archive for: April 2007

Check out a sneak peak of this Sunday’s episode of Koffee With Karan episode with Rakhi Sawant. The bold Rakhi Sawant was excited on being called for the Koffee With Karan episode, as finally she could wear exclusive designer wear by Manish Malhotra.

The bold Rakhi Sawant, had very controversialanswers to Karan’s questions. As they spoke on Rakhi’s life, her struggle in the Bollywood industry, her relationship with her parents, her troubled family life.

Karan also quizzed Rakhi on whether she had done plastic surgery and whether she had done any silicon implant surgery. Now only Karan has the calibre in the Bollywood industry, to ask such questions without offending the other person. Hats off, to you Karan.

 For centuries Shakespeare’s tragic play King Lear has fascinated theatre artists and actors. Now Bengali filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh is said to be planning to make a movie on the play. However, the movie will not be a direct adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, but will be based on an adapted play called ‘Aajker Shahjahan’ by Bengali actor Utpal Dutt.

‘King Lear’ tells the story of an ageing king who has three daughters. The king decides to abdicate the throne and divide his kingdom between his three daughters. But before doing so he holds a contest in which he asks his daughters to demonstrate their affection towards him in speech. While the two elder daughters speak volumes about their love for the king, the youngest daughter (who loves King the most) refuses to say anything because she feels words would belittle her emotions. The King eventually divides the kingdom between his two elder daughters and banishes the youngest one. Ironically, when the two daughters come into power they turn cold towards the king.Like any other Shakespearean tragedy, the story of King Lear has a universal appeal.

Last week we had only Bheja Fry doing moderately well at the Box -Office. Life Mein Kabhie Kabhiee and Big Brother bombed miserably at the box-office. So the distributors were completely in tears. Let’s see if Lovely Singh’s directorial debut manages to get the smiles back on the distributors faces.

Kya Love Story Hai Box -Office Report

Will Tusshar’s lover boy role, Ayesha’s chic cute look and Karrena’s rocking item number manage to make the film a hit at the Box-Office?

Tara Rum Pum directed by Siddharth Anand of Salaam Namaste fame, is the first of various Yahraj Films to release this year. Tara Rum stars Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee and has Saif playing the role of a car-racer. So will Tara Rum Pum be old wine in a new bottle? Or will it be different from other films? Check out what the critics have to say….

Rajeev Masand : “Even though it’s meant to be an emotional story, you can’t really empathise with the characters because it’s all so plastic, so fake, so calculated and clinical. In fact I came up with a jingle for it – Ta Ra Rum Pum, have mercy on my bum, ta ra rum pum!”

Movie Rating – 2/5

Taran Adarsh : ” On the whole, TA RA RUM PUM easily ranks amongst better films from the Yash Raj factory. ”

Movie Rating – 3.5/5

Aparajita Ghosh : “Siddharth Anand’s direction is tight and he keeps the story moving at brisk pace. However, there are a few scenes that look very childish.”

Movie Rating – 3/5

Naomi Dutta : “On the whole, Ta Ra Rum Pum is a pleasantly humdrum affair. Watch it once!!!”

Movie Rating -2.5/5

Check out the Top Five songs of this week. Movietonic helps you to decide what music is in and what music is out. We shall help you decide which music cds you need to purchase from your music stores and which ones you need to dump at the nearest trash can available.

Check out our previous top 5 music albums , In Dino had topped the charts last week. And Pritam had managed to rule the music charts. Will the trend continue? Or will Life In A Metro be replaced from it’s numero uno position.

There is tough competition this week by Mithoon whose “Woh Ajnabi” track from Train has created quite a rage. Also Himesh is all geared for his own movie Aap Ka Surroor, and the music will definitely be good. So will Life In A Metro be able to survive the tough competition ahead? Check out for yourselves.

Anubhav Sinha returns to the action genre with CASH. Starting his career with love stories [TUM BIN (hit), AAPKO PEHLE BHI KAHIN DEKHA HAI (flop)], the talented director changed lanes and made an out-and-out action flick [DUS], followed by TATHASTU.

“I wish I could make a love story again and again… but I am working on one,” Anubhav says, “During the making of DUS, I had committed to Sohail that I’d start CASH. This action film was on the agenda next. It’s not as if I suddenly decided to make CASH one fine morning. When I heard the plot [writers: Yash-Vinay], I knew I had to make this film.” Anubhav adds that CASH isn’t inspired by any Hindi or Hollywood film. “It’s an original,” he asserts.

Anubhav firther adds, “Cash is a comic book thriller. It is “unrealistically real and realistically unreal”. It is fun. It is spectacular. It is a real popcorn movie. My expectation from the movie is that it is as such a huge hit that I don’t have to work after this. ”

Wow!! Now that’s expecting for the sky. Let’s wait and watch how CASH turns out at the Box Office, till then have a look at it’s exclusive video promo.

Rakhi Sawant has been the hidden guest of most of Karan’s episodes of Koffee With Karan Season 2. Many of Karan’s questions on the show have something or the other to do with Rakhi Sawant. And now finally Rakhi presents herself to have coffee with Karan Johar. Rakhi will be joined by her Big Boss inmates Carol Gracias and Rahul Roy in the later part of the show.

This Sunday the guest on Koffee With Karan will be none other than Rakhi Sawant. The line, “Hate Her Or Love Her. But You Cannot Ignore Her” goes well with Rakhi’s image. The Bollywood’s item girl better known as the queen of controversies is surely going to bring in lots of fun with her antics on the sets of Koffee With Karan. So don’t forget to catch the episode this Sunday.
Rakhi Sawant was actually quite surprised to have Karan Johar on telephone. Rakhi says, “I couldn’t believe Karan Johar was on the phone with me. My palms got sweaty and I was mumbling and jumbling up sentences. This is the first time in my life that someone actually made me speechless.”

Rakhi is all excited to wear a designer wear for the show “Imagine having Manish Malhotra make something for me! It’s a dream come true. I can’t thank Karan enough for giving me this opportunity,” says Rakhi. And of course all praise for the director, “There are only two bindaas people in the industry. One is Karan Johar and the other is Rakhi Sawant. I think the day we meet we will be chatting non-stop,” says Rakhi, excitedly.

Celina Jaitely, has decided that if her films can not bring her fame. Then she has to try other tactics to keep herself going strong. So she decided to bare it all on the streets of Mumbai. And managed to raise the Mumbai temperatures further.

This exclusive photo-shoot is brought to you by indiafm.com.

Despite so much of security to ensure that the Aishwarya-Abhishek marriage remains a private-affair sans leaks, yet the pictures inside the wedding mandap got leaked. Thus leading to a breach of privacy of the Bachchan’s. But how come the photos got leaked? Here’s what amitabh had to say on how the pictures got leaked.

Says Amitabh Bachchan angrily, “That’s because some people who came to the wedding surreptitiously took photographs with their mobile phone cameras and disgracefully put them on the net.

In fact, I’ve caught the person who has taken the photographs. He’s my neighbour.

I’ve had a serious talk with him and he has apologised profusely. He says he didn’t send it to the press. While he was sending the pictures to his sister in the US, they got intercepted on the internet.”

That’s a bit hard to believe. “I don’t believe it, but I’d like to. He’s my neighbour, and I can’t believe my neighbour could be guilty of such an act of betrayal.Anyways, we will still give photographs to the media officially,” says the Big B.

About reports in the media concerning potential invitees being left out of the wedding, the Big B is very categorical.

“I don’t think sections of the media have the right to dictate to me how to conduct my life and how to deal with my family and social obligations. My family’s privacy is very important to me, and I’ll protect it with my dying breath. We took all the relevant permissions from the civic authorities. They wanted a full guest list, the ceremonies, everything. We gave them all the details. We made the shamiyanas air-conditioned and sound proof for the comfort of the guests, so that people around our home wouldn’t get disturbed.”

“We had no fireworks to avoid sound pollution. We’ve done everything to make sure no one is offended in any way. If bitter comments are still being made about us in the media in spite of our best intentions, then what can I say?”