Dhoom Dhadaka, yet another farcical comedy on underworld dons! I really wonder, the underworld dada or bhais create so much terror in the local public and yet the film industry isn’t scared to create animated dons? Aren’t they scared of them? Or their calls for hafta? Are you guys listening out there? (more…)

Aarti Chhabria, Shaad Randhawa with parents, Sammir Dattani, Gulshan Grover, Rocky S with wife, Kiron Kher with hubby Anupam, Deepshikha, Shama Sikandar, Sindhura Gadde, Anu Ranjan, Shashi Ranjan, Munisha Khatwani, Jaspinder Narula, Bobby Darling, Satish Kaushik with wife, Satish Shah, Peenaz Masani with daughter, Prashant Raaj and many others arrived at Dhoom Dhadaka premiere in Cinemax on May 22nd 2008. (more…)

Anupam Kher at Busy Bee’s book reading by Farzana Contractor at Oxford book store on 30th April 2008. (more…)

Anupam Kher and Karan Razdan at the Press Meet with the cast and crew of “Mr. Bhatti On Chutti” in Aupam Kher’s institute, Santacruz on April 25th 2008. (more…)

Once again our movies and movie-makers turn out to be ready to take on internationally. Having already made a mark in the international film arena and winning the best feature film award at the South Asian International Film Festival, held in New York, also receiving much praise at the Kara Film Festival, Tanuja Chandra’s ‘HOPE AND A LITTLE SUGAR’ (English) is ready to take on Desi audience. Tanuja Chandra is one of the most promising directors of Bollywood, and I just hate to add woman film director because she proves again that she can give a mighty opposition to even the most able directors we have today. If anyone had a doubt about this Indian woman director, who doesn’t fall in the category of Mira Nair to attain publicity overnight, then just bite your tongue. She has made films with plots raising social awareness with such subtlety that you accept the lesson she teaches and you never seem to realize you were in a class. That is the might of her art. Be it ‘Dushman,’ ‘Sangharsh’ or ‘Sur’, the plots are not mediocre and tend to be on the side of parallel cinema but she makes commercial movies. Her movie with the Bhatts ‘Zakhm’ received two National Awards. She is one of the most striving film makers who have dared to make women-oriented movies and still please the men as well. Now, that is called talent! (more…)

Sanjay Dutt is ready to use his vocal skills in C Kkompany. He will be singing the title song, composed by Anand Raj Anand. The movie will be directed by Rahul Sud. Sanju Baba will not only sing but also appear in the video. (more…)

Mahesh Bhatt, Emran Hashmi launched the documentary Torchbearer: The Story of a Philanthropist in Taj Land’s End on April 5th 2008. Anupam Kher was also seen at the event. The 24 minute documentary, conceptualized and achored by Bhatt, has been directed by well known documentry maker Aajy Kanchan. The documentary traces the vision of one Haji Ajaml Ali, who set up a multi-disciplinary state-of-the-art hospital. (more…)

Mahima Chaudhary, Anupam Kher, Mahesh Bhatt were at film HOPE AND A LITTLE SUGAR Promos at Fun Republic on April 4th 2008. (more…)

Verdict ‘to be strictly avoided’ is written for the movies of this kind. ‘To every man his own’, Director Chandrakant Singh might have tried to take this theme to weave it into his debut comedy movie. Whatever, but the final outcome is a complete baloney! Now how can you possibly miss all the points while making a film that goes for a nation wide release?

‘Rama Rama Kya Hai Dramaaa’ is designed after the so-called comic movies on unhappy husbands (‘No Entry’ types), who try to imagine that every second woman, they meet on the street, is better than their wives. Trying to make anther comedy movie of about unhappy human beings irrespective of gender, the after the genre of searching for lost treasures, has been much used and abused. We are somehow caught in a world which we do not find amusing, always wishing for getting into somebody else’s shoes, without knowing that the person with whom we wish to swipe our fate is also in a similar flux. In this case, not only the husband but also the wife is in search of perfect love in somebody else other than the husband (is this for real? Got to keep an eye on the spouse!). (more…)