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SAIF KAREENA TO GET ENGAGED
?
Film:
“Agneepath”
Starring: Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Om Puri
Written and Directed by: Karan Malhotra
Starring: Rishi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Om Puri
Written and Directed by: Karan Malhotra
FILM
REVIEW
AGNEEPATH
AGNEEPATH
Veena Malik made a
sensational entry in Bollywood with her first item song ‘Channo’. The song
that features in the movie Gali Gali Chor Hai is currently the flavor of
the season, and indeed with this track she has paved her way to the
viewers’ hearts, thanks to her sizzling thumkas. But her sensuous moves
are not for everyone to see, especially, when the person is the
anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare.
Since the movie Gali Gali Chor Hai starring Akshaye Khanna, Mugdha Godse and Shriya Saran is a film based on corruption, the filmmakers thought of screening it first for Anna Hazare. But before doing it, we hear, they did the needful changes.
Since the movie Gali Gali Chor Hai starring Akshaye Khanna, Mugdha Godse and Shriya Saran is a film based on corruption, the filmmakers thought of screening it first for Anna Hazare. But before doing it, we hear, they did the needful changes.
VEENA MALIK'S
"CHANNO"
GALI GALI CHOR HAI
GALI GALI CHOR HAI
NASEERUDDIN SHAH
PRAISING VIDYA BALAN
Before the release of The
Dirty Picture, it was Vidya Balan who was showering praises on Naseeruddin
Shah. And now, it is Naseer Sahib himself who can’t help commending Vidya
Balan!
At the music launch of his film Chaalis Chauraasi, Naseeruddin Shah told reporters: “She is a marvelous actress. She has been very brave, not just worked very hard but she is courageous in her choice of work... It is a testimony to her courage that she is in a position that most of our leading ladies would envy her today.”
At the music launch of his film Chaalis Chauraasi, Naseeruddin Shah told reporters: “She is a marvelous actress. She has been very brave, not just worked very hard but she is courageous in her choice of work... It is a testimony to her courage that she is in a position that most of our leading ladies would envy her today.”
NEW RELEASE
MOVIES
MOVIES
The new Agneepath by debutant
director Karan Malhotra is decidedly powerful but could have done better
with some editing
'Agneepath' roars with Rs. 92 crore in first week
'Agneepath' roars with Rs. 92 crore in first week
The faint of heart needn’t
fret, even though there’s a lot of heart-gutting in this Friday’s
attempted horror movie Ghost, starring Shiney Ahuja, Sayali
Bhagat
Here’s a classic example of a
talented cast saving a sloppy script by their sheer brilliance. Director
Hriday Shetty may not have done his home work of cobbling together a
riveting screenplay. Chaalis Chauraasi' is funny in parts
'Sadda Adda' is a
run-of-the-mill comedy. Putting half a dozen youngsters into a room don’t
a youth comedy make. A tight script with witty dialogues and unexpected
twists and turns go a long way in ensuring that the end product turns out
fine
Tutiya Dil is a Hindi movie
starring Suzanna Mukherjee, Sidhant Kapur, Nikhil Sabharwal, Iris Maity
and is directed by Amit Khanna .
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Even though Kareena Kapoor
has been denying her impending marriage to long-time lover Saif Ali Khan,
rumours are that the Bollywood A-list couple will be getting engaged on
10th February.
This may be good news for fans of the couple, who have been waiting for the wedding of tinsel town’s hottest couple.
“Both Saif and Bebo have been going steady for several years and are now ready to take that relationship to another level with a wedding,” a source said.
“And the first step towards the grand wedding may take off with an engagement on 10th February. They are quite excited about the engagement,” the source added.
Marriage in March-April
Saif’s sister, actor Soha Ali Khan revealed to a TV channel that the two will marry a week after the release of their spy thriller, Agent Vinod.
The film, directed by Sriram Raghavan, opens on March 23. Kareena had also said: “Both Saif and I are waiting for Agent Vinod to release. Once it opens, we will announce the date of our marriage.”
This may be good news for fans of the couple, who have been waiting for the wedding of tinsel town’s hottest couple.
“Both Saif and Bebo have been going steady for several years and are now ready to take that relationship to another level with a wedding,” a source said.
“And the first step towards the grand wedding may take off with an engagement on 10th February. They are quite excited about the engagement,” the source added.
Marriage in March-April
Saif’s sister, actor Soha Ali Khan revealed to a TV channel that the two will marry a week after the release of their spy thriller, Agent Vinod.
The film, directed by Sriram Raghavan, opens on March 23. Kareena had also said: “Both Saif and I are waiting for Agent Vinod to release. Once it opens, we will announce the date of our marriage.”
The new Agneepath by debutant
director Karan Malhotra is decidedly powerful but could have done better
with some editing.
Hell, Fire, and Brimstone. All three are invoked in Agneepath. There’s the hell-raiser Kancha Cheena, more beastly a villain than ever seen in Hindi cinema. There’s the smouldering Vijay Dinanath Chauhan, a dormant volcano spewing fire and slyly annihilating a ganglord in his quest for power and, thereafter, revenge. And there’s brimstone and brawns aplenty, as this David versus Goliath battle climaxes in an explosive showdown. Topping it is the awesome poem by the late Harivansh Rai Bachchan, every word of which stabs your heart as it plays in the backdrop:
Ye mahan drishya hai,
Chal raha manushya hai,
Ashru, shwet, rakta se lathpath lathpath lathpath...
Agneepath, Agneepath, Agneepath.
Take a bow, Karan Johar and Karan Malhotra for a compelling retelling of a revenge saga that the fans of Hindi films, and particularly of Amitabh Bachchan, know better than the back of their hands. Expectedly, one thing this remake does is to establish that Amitabh Bachchan is beyond compare and without a peer. It’s for his own good that Hrithik Roshan doesn’t try to match the stalwart, and gives a new interpretation to the character. But, confession be made, one can’t help yenning for the seething Vijay Dinanath Chauhan as immortalized by a feral Bachchan in the 1990 movie by Mukul Anand, as one sees Hrithik Rohan -- may he be praised for daring the Herculean task of stepping into Big B’s shoes -- go through the motions, preferring silence over speech, and slyness over brash bravado. If the Vijay Dinanath Chauhan of the 1990 movie proffered his chest to be pumped by the bullets of his enemies, this Vijay is a smooth operator who double crosses his own boss to rise to a pedestal from where he can take on his bête noire, Kancha Cheena. In short, this Vijay is high on revenge and low on compunction. All the better for Hrithik for he doesn’t have to mouth the unforgettable dialogues like “Maut ke saath appointment” and “Main goonda nahin hai” and therefore spared of any comparison. In fact, the most popular dialogue of the original, “Pura naam Vijay Dinanath Chauhan”, is spoken just once by Hrithik and that too at the fag end. That goes to show how different this Agneepath is from Mukul Anand’s.
I am not going to spell out the story, but rest assured that this Agneepath has some interesting plot departures from the previous one, even though the outline of the story remains the same. The character of Krishnan Aiyyar (Mithun Chakraborty in the original) is chucked out and we have a new character in the bulky form of Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor), a crimelord in Mumbai running a drug racket and sex trade. Priyanka Chopra is a chirpy Mumbai girl Kaali living in the same chawl as Vijay. And Kancha Cheena is not the dapperly, goggled don, but a bald, black-clad monster that claims to be without ‘moh-maya’ and mouths philosophy like “Atma marti nahin” almost as if it was a satanic verse.
Which brings us to Sanjay Dutt. I hope his little ones don’t see the movie in their growing-up years, lest they begin to fear their doting papa. As the bald, menacing, deadly Cheena, Dutt strikes fear into the heart of the mortals. His loony grins, piercing gaze and that big burly bod make him the best khalnayak we have seen in years, if not ever. Dutt brings a psycho streak into Kancha Cheena, and it’s not without a pinch of salt will the audience stomach the climax when Hrithik, consummately pummelled by Dutt, makes the last gasp turnaround to overpower him.
An equally stellar performance comes from Rishi Kapoor as the mobster who keeps young girls locked like they were chickens and auctions them off to the best bidder. Priyanka Chopra doesn’t get much footage and plays the bubbly love interest of the protagonist, while Hrithik Roshan does justice to his role without ever delivering anything in Bachchan’s league. He can’t not be encumbered with comparison.
Director Karan Malhotra has made an impressive film for a first-timer, but stretches the story which he has adapted along with Ila Bedi Datta more than needed for the benefit of our bums. Sitting in the theatres for three hours watching this powerful firestorm wreak havoc, with all that sound and fury and a token ‘Chikni Chameli’ item to boot, can be a tiresome exercise. Save for a qawwali, the songs needed to have been dropped, so that we could have enjoyed this revenge drama without having to look at our watches repeatedly.
Hell, Fire, and Brimstone. All three are invoked in Agneepath. There’s the hell-raiser Kancha Cheena, more beastly a villain than ever seen in Hindi cinema. There’s the smouldering Vijay Dinanath Chauhan, a dormant volcano spewing fire and slyly annihilating a ganglord in his quest for power and, thereafter, revenge. And there’s brimstone and brawns aplenty, as this David versus Goliath battle climaxes in an explosive showdown. Topping it is the awesome poem by the late Harivansh Rai Bachchan, every word of which stabs your heart as it plays in the backdrop:
Ye mahan drishya hai,
Chal raha manushya hai,
Ashru, shwet, rakta se lathpath lathpath lathpath...
Agneepath, Agneepath, Agneepath.
Take a bow, Karan Johar and Karan Malhotra for a compelling retelling of a revenge saga that the fans of Hindi films, and particularly of Amitabh Bachchan, know better than the back of their hands. Expectedly, one thing this remake does is to establish that Amitabh Bachchan is beyond compare and without a peer. It’s for his own good that Hrithik Roshan doesn’t try to match the stalwart, and gives a new interpretation to the character. But, confession be made, one can’t help yenning for the seething Vijay Dinanath Chauhan as immortalized by a feral Bachchan in the 1990 movie by Mukul Anand, as one sees Hrithik Rohan -- may he be praised for daring the Herculean task of stepping into Big B’s shoes -- go through the motions, preferring silence over speech, and slyness over brash bravado. If the Vijay Dinanath Chauhan of the 1990 movie proffered his chest to be pumped by the bullets of his enemies, this Vijay is a smooth operator who double crosses his own boss to rise to a pedestal from where he can take on his bête noire, Kancha Cheena. In short, this Vijay is high on revenge and low on compunction. All the better for Hrithik for he doesn’t have to mouth the unforgettable dialogues like “Maut ke saath appointment” and “Main goonda nahin hai” and therefore spared of any comparison. In fact, the most popular dialogue of the original, “Pura naam Vijay Dinanath Chauhan”, is spoken just once by Hrithik and that too at the fag end. That goes to show how different this Agneepath is from Mukul Anand’s.
I am not going to spell out the story, but rest assured that this Agneepath has some interesting plot departures from the previous one, even though the outline of the story remains the same. The character of Krishnan Aiyyar (Mithun Chakraborty in the original) is chucked out and we have a new character in the bulky form of Rauf Lala (Rishi Kapoor), a crimelord in Mumbai running a drug racket and sex trade. Priyanka Chopra is a chirpy Mumbai girl Kaali living in the same chawl as Vijay. And Kancha Cheena is not the dapperly, goggled don, but a bald, black-clad monster that claims to be without ‘moh-maya’ and mouths philosophy like “Atma marti nahin” almost as if it was a satanic verse.
Which brings us to Sanjay Dutt. I hope his little ones don’t see the movie in their growing-up years, lest they begin to fear their doting papa. As the bald, menacing, deadly Cheena, Dutt strikes fear into the heart of the mortals. His loony grins, piercing gaze and that big burly bod make him the best khalnayak we have seen in years, if not ever. Dutt brings a psycho streak into Kancha Cheena, and it’s not without a pinch of salt will the audience stomach the climax when Hrithik, consummately pummelled by Dutt, makes the last gasp turnaround to overpower him.
An equally stellar performance comes from Rishi Kapoor as the mobster who keeps young girls locked like they were chickens and auctions them off to the best bidder. Priyanka Chopra doesn’t get much footage and plays the bubbly love interest of the protagonist, while Hrithik Roshan does justice to his role without ever delivering anything in Bachchan’s league. He can’t not be encumbered with comparison.
Director Karan Malhotra has made an impressive film for a first-timer, but stretches the story which he has adapted along with Ila Bedi Datta more than needed for the benefit of our bums. Sitting in the theatres for three hours watching this powerful firestorm wreak havoc, with all that sound and fury and a token ‘Chikni Chameli’ item to boot, can be a tiresome exercise. Save for a qawwali, the songs needed to have been dropped, so that we could have enjoyed this revenge drama without having to look at our watches repeatedly.
