Mission Istanbul Review

Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Sunil Shetty, Zayed Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Shreya Saran, Nikitin DheerDirector: Apoorva LakhiaOne of India's most respected journalists, Vikas Sagar (Zayed Khan) receives an offer he cannot refuse from Owais Hussain (Sunil Shetty).Owais is the head of an Istanbul television news channel. He offers Vikas a very high salary package with...

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Ek The Power Of One Preview

Cast: Bobby Deol, Chunky Pandey, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Nana Patekar, Shreya SaranDirector: Sangeeth Sivan Nandu (Bobby Deol) is an assassin by profession. Somehow he gets wrongly accused of a politician's murder. Whilst on the run from the police, he boards a train where he meets Shehar (Pradeep). Shehar is returning home for the first time after 14 years.As they converse,...

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Drona Movie Preview

Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Jaya Bachchan, Kay Kay MenonDirector: Goldie Behl Drona is a compelling modern tale of one man's journey through the labyrinths of mystic myths and legendary legacies.As good and evil clash in this contemporary fantasy fable, a fascinating journey unfolds into a world of mythical heroes and malicious magicians with cunning curses....

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Dhoom Dhadakka Review

Starring Sammir Dattani, Shama Sikandar, Shaad Randhawa, Arati Chabria, Anupam Khe, Satish Kaushik, Gulshan Grover Rating: super-atrocious By the time Sammir Dattani and Shaad Randhawa get into drag, this criminally unfunny comedy has dragged on way past 'bad'-time. Maybe it's in the air. Everyone uniformly hams through this acutely painful piece of cinematic travesty.There's...

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Jimmy Movie Review

By Subhash K JhaStaring Mimoh Chakbraborty, Vivana, Zulfi SyedDirected by Raj N SippyRating: *"Do you think I'm a rejected man?" the villain asks repeatedly after his true intentions are exposed at the end of this tediously-assembled pastiche of the crude bad and the ugly.Don't know about the poor battered psycho who controrts his face like his pants were just bitten off by...

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Bhootnath Review

Casts: Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Aman Siddiqui, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Satish Shah, Rajpal YadavGuest appearance: Shahrukh Khan, Nouhid Sairesi, Ashish Chowdhury, Neena KulkarniMusic: Vishal Shekhar, Salim SulaimanLyrics: Javed AkhtarProducer: Ravi ChopraDirector-Writer: Vivek SharmaRatings: **1/2 Nath Villa. Night. A couple enters the villa with an intention of spending...

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Jannat Movie Review

Cast: Emran Hashmi, Sonal Chauhan, Samir Kochar, Javed Shaikh, Vishal MalhotraDirector: Kunal DeshmukhRatings: ***More, more, more...The motto of motorised materialism seems to have overtaken contemporary life. Everyone wants the good things in life in the shortest time possible. The acquisitive spirit has seldom been defined with such economy of storytelling as in "Jannat".Not...

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"Even my film's website is futuristic" - Harman Baweja

It is not just Love Story 2050, season's biggest and most spectacular release, which is on the right path of being a 'futuristic' launch for Harman Baweja. Even film's website is, as per the newcomer. Harman Baweja talks to Joginder Tuteja about the 'futuristic' website. Why the effort?Why not, I would ask? For a movie which is set in future, has a sci-fi theme, talks about...

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"I knew Bal Thackeray, so I conceived Bachchan's character" - RGV

Does Abhishek Bachchan's character die in Sarkar Raj? No, he does not. So where did that come from? I've no clue. There's so much untruth floating around the film, I don't know whether to be amused or frightened. They first imagined the hero dies. Then they imagined that the distributors were scared of his death. Everyone has an imagination and the freedom to use it. To...

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Harman versus Imraan- The battle of the debutants

Aamir Khan is determined to make a success out of his nephew Imraan's career, come what may. And even if that means taking on the competition headlong, so be it. Anything for family, seems to be the marketing motto, as Harry Baweja puts in 80-crore plus Priyanka in the hi-fi sci-fi Love Story 2050 to ensure his son's super success on July 4. Enter Aamir Khan with nephew...

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Wish Karan Johar a very Happy Birthday

What more can make a Father happy in heaven than see His son not just carrying forward his legacy, but also doing that in style, élan and class! We are indeed talking about the legendary late Yash Johar, whose son Karan Johar celebrates his Birthday today. The fact remains that the celebrations are not just confined to his premises, but the whole of Bollywood! After all,...

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Yuvraj has been outstanding: Preity Zinta

Preity Zinta speaks on her Team's victory...And now you're into the semi-finals?Well, there were ups and downs when we started. For a while I wasn't sure where I was heading. I remember at the initial meetings for the IPL I'd wonder what I was doing.It felt so different from being an actor. But I took the matter very seriously. I did all my homework before the meetings, carried...

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Why my clothes become more important than me: Aishwarya Rai

While the amazingly focused and sensible Aishawrya Rai understands the constant need for people to check out her clothes and accessories at important events, what she can't understand is why the clothes she wears at Cannes become more important than what she does at the annual event.Exhausted and jet-lagged Mrs Rai-Bachchan laughs, "I don't even want to think about what people...

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Shahenshah Bachchan vs King Khan

When a superstar-turned-'national figure' like Amitabh Bachchan starts toting graphs and pie charts to show that he is far ahead in television show ratings than a much younger colleague, Shah Rukh Khan, it reveals a great deal about the icon.A few days on, when the same superstar announces that it was not his intention to indulge in comparisons with colleagues, it reveals...

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John will make it a memorable wedding

It's felt by most members of Nagesh Kukunoor's Aashayein that this film would be John's turning point as an actor. No stone is being left unturned to make sure John appears in the best light possible in this make-or-break film. In this context it has now been decided to move the prestigious Aashayein forward by a couple of weeks, possibly to July 4 which is the date for...

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DVD Review: Shaurya

MOVIE DETAILSCast: Rahul Bose, Minissha Lamba, Javed Jaffrey, Deepak Dobriyal, Seema Biswas and Kay Kay Menon.Director: Samar KhanProducer: Moser Baer India Ltd.Music: Adnan SamiLyrics: Javed AkhtarTHE FILM'Nice Architecture' - The moment Rahul Bose, who plays an Army lawyer in Shaurya, utters these two words at the intermission point of the film while walking out of a...

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Aamir's blogging ways has SRK smiling

The battle of the Blogs has just intensified; what with the Taare Zameen Par self-crowned genius and the universally acknowledged clutter-breaker, Aamir Khan proclaiming that he has a dog named Shah Rukh Khan.The shocking display of insolent humor has sent shock waves in the otherwise-insulated and unconcerned film industry. Says a very popular character-actor who has worked...

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No movies only IPL this year

Preity left for the Cannes Film Festival on Wenesday morning at a time when she's neck-deep in IPL affairs. "Can't help it, ya," she phoned and groaned groggily from Frankfurt airport. "For two years now I've been the brand ambassador for Chopard and I've to be at Cannes every year, come what May…ha ha pun intended." Preity has several events lined up in Cannes, but no...

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Bebo-Saif:Khullam Khulla love

The Chote Nawab might allege that the media has a deliberate agenda against him and his arm candy Kareena, but you cannot blame them because Saif and Bebo seem to be the flavour of the season.If the onlookers of Zee Cine Awards are to be believed, both Saif and Kareena were all over each other in London.So much so, that there was no dearth of PDA. They could barely keep...

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Howzaat:Emraan hates cricket

There was a time when Emraan Hashmi used to get bored of cricket. So much so that he didn't even have any basic idea about the tournaments in progress or the players in the squad.Not that the situation has changed dramatically for him even today but the fact is that at the least he has started warming up to the sport, courtesy his role of a bookie in Jannat. "Frankly,...

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Are they jealous of Mallika's legs?

Moral police goes skirt-chasing with Mallika.. Bollywood reacts.Malaika Arora: "I think Mallika has become a favourite punching-bag in the press. Leave the girl alone. It's ridiculous. Maybe the moral police in the South should take a closer look at their own films for obscenity.Shilpa Shetty (actress,reality-show celebrity, yoga instructor): " I'm just happy that the obscenity...

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I got 115 crore?Prove it: Big B

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan today pooh-poohed the reports in a section of the press that he had been paid Rs 115 crore by server ''bigadda.com'' to write his blog. ''This in entirely incorrect. I use the services of the server bigadda.com and nothing else, there are no finances involved at all'', the Bollywood actor said. Writing in his blog after attending the opening night...

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I've truly fallen in love this time: Deepika Padukone

Deepika Padukone in a heart-to-heart with Subhash K Jha. Post Om Shanti Om (OSO) how has your life changed? All this is very new for me. My father (bandmintom champ Prakash Padukone) was also a celebrity. But we were never exposed to much media coverage.Before I went into the modeling profession I did go into my dad's profession—it was the expected thing. I played bandminton...

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Jannat will be Emraan's Naam" - Mahesh Bhatt

A strange thing is happening to Mahesh Bhatt. After spending years extracting creative juices from real- life all his life, now when the cricket fever has touched an all-time high, thanks to the IPL, producer Mahesh Bhatt plays down the cricketing karma of his new film Jannat. "The cricketing world is only the wallpaper in Jannat. The cricketing field is the space in which...

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Aamir loves his dog Shahrukh

In his latest blog, actor Aamir Khan talks about a certain Shahrukh licking his feet.The perfectionist star is in Panchgani, with family and kids.Aamir writes: "I’m sitting under a tree, on the edge of a valley, approximately 5000 feet above sea level. The river Krishna flows far below us snaking its way among the Sahyadri mountains.A cool breeze is blowing, jannat ki...

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Deepika Padukone to endorse real estate in Dubai

Download image as wallpaper After endorsing stylish brands like Maybelline, Levis Strauss and Tissot SA, Deepika Padukone has gone one step ahead by becoming the new face of Dubai's Aspire Real Estate.The chairman of the company, Harshit Kantaria, who has come a long way since he came to Dubai three years ago with a vision to make it big in real estate...

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Cannes Diary 2008: Day 1

A lot is happening on the world cinema and Hollywood front at Cannes 2008, but a few quick pointers on what Day 1 held for the Indian film community specifically:The market was largely sluggish but many expect the second day to witness a pick-up in the business.Santosh Sivan's Tahan featuring Rahul Bose and Rahul Khanna among others, and Jag Mundhra's Shoot On Sight with...

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When Abhishek and Aishwarya first met!

It's RGV's most anticipated film of the year. Abhi-Ash's first film together post marriage and one of Amitabh's best roles ever, yes Sarkar Raj. Incidentally, Ramu wanted that the scene they first shoot after marriage should be the scene where Abhi and Ash are striking a conversation for the first time and trying to know each other.Truly, RGV knew exactly...

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I'm proud of my sculpted body

She's undisputably the number one actress in Bollywood. Kareena Kapoor is not only the highest paid but also the most in demand actress with her line up of prestigious releases starting with Yashraj's magnum opus Tashan, releasing this week. Says a trade expert, "With Tashan, Kareena has established her clout in the industry. Even though the film hasn't done well, she...

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Kareena in Different Role

Refugee (2000) .... Nazneen 'Naaz' Ahmed A simple start to her career saw Kareena make a very natural debut as Naaz, a folksy young innocent all too eager to fall head over heels in love. Little did India know glamour would overwhelmingly, stunningly take over. Asoka (2001) .... KaurwakiMove over Xena, this is how a Warrior Princess should really look. With arresting eye-makeup...

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