SOTD: Aaj Phir Jeene Ki Tamanna Hai – Guide

Check out this classic song on Waheeda Rehman’s birthday.
Singer: Lata Mangeshkar, Music by S D Burman, Lyrics by Shailendra

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Ishaqzaade Has Good First Weekend

Ishaqzaade has had a good first weekend as it grossed around 15.50 crore nett as per early estimates over its first weekend. The film has fared very well in UP with a big jump on Sunday at all centres in the state.

The approx breakdowns for the film are 4.50 crore nett on Friday, 5.15 crore nett on Saturday and Sunday is set to to come in around the 6 crore nett region.

Ishaqzaade has done well all across with even single screens having very good collections for a new star cast film. Infact the single screen performance of the film is probably better than multiplexes.

The film is a winner and the weekend trending suggests that collections on Monday should hold up well.

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Ishaqzaade & Dangerous Ishhq Exhibitor / Distributor Update

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Ishaqzaade Movie Review by Komal Nahta

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Dangerous Ishhq Movie Review by Komal Nahta

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Bollywood’s Die Hard

Kareena, meanwhile, appears to have put her impending nikaah to Saif on hold and signed a fresh bunch of films. Filmmaker Vipul Shah, who made a string of hits with Akshay Kumar (remember Aankhen, Waqt, Namastey London, Singh is Kinng), is now reportedly banking on Vidyut Jamwal, who stole last year’s Force from right under John Abraham’s nose. Turns out Shah has sold the idea of a Die Hard-like trilogy with Jamwal in the lead to Anil Ambani’s Reliance Pictures, which has apparently agreed to bankroll the project.

It also appears that Shah has tied up the model-turned-action star in an exclusive contract that doesn’t allow him to so much as read other filmmakers’ scripts until he’s completed his three-film commitment to Shah.

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Suddenly, Ranbir

Kareena Kapoor has made no bones about the fact that it pains her to see her rivals notch up blockbuster successes starring in films opposite her superstar cousin Ranbir Kapoor. She has said Katrina, Deepika and Priyanka “are having a field day” doing romantic movies with Ranbir— “something that I naturally can’t”.

No wonder she’s supposed to have jumped at Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara director Zoya Akhtar’s offer to star in a film that casts Kareena and Ranbir as sister and brother.

Now the funny thing is that the famously snotty Kapoor sisters—Karisma and Kareena—have never been close to Ranbir or his parents all these years.

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Dangerous Ishq Shows No Improvement Over Weekend

Dangerous Ishq could not pick up after a dull start on Friday. The film collected 1.10 crore nett on Friday, 1.20 crore nett on Saturday and around 1.50 crore nett on Sunday for a weekend total in the range of 3.75 crore nett.

The film was very dull in urban centres as Bombay city and Delhi city had very dull collections. The best areas were CP Berar and CI as single screens were low but had better collections than multiplexes comparitively. Delhi/UP collected 65 lakhs nett, East Punjab collected 23 lakhs nett, CP Berar was 22 lakhs nett and CI grossed 21 lakhs nett.

There is not much hope for the film on weekdays but with such low collections the downside is limited and the film can see its week out with steady but low collections.

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Jannat 2 collects 40 Crore Approx In Ten Days

Jannat 2 took its total to 40 crore nett approx as it collected around 4.75 crore nett approx in its second weekend. The approx breakdowns were 1.25 crore nett on Friday, 1.50 crore nett on Saturday and 2 crore nett on Sunday. The film has dropped around 80% from its first weekend. The second weeknd numbers from some circuits with first week numbers in brackets are below.

Delhi/UP – 94 (431) – 78.19%

East Punjab – 35 (205) – 82.93%

Rajasthan – 31 (148) – 79.05%

Mysore – 17 (98) – 82.65%

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100 years of Bollywood: The swinging ’60s

The mood of the Sixties was romantic. If the Fifties were about social and economic change, the next decade was awash with emotion. It was also a time of technical innovation with sound and light. In the third installment of our series celebrating Bollywood’s centenary year, we look at the films that defined the Sixties.

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Milind’s Reflections: Of Breasts,Sex,Carnal and Aamir!

P.S. You are reading this at your own peril.The language is highly inflammable to bearers of moral cultural torch,it is derogatory for conservationists and highly despicable about many cultural ambiguities we hold within us!

To quote Julia Roberts in the film Notting Hill; “They’re just breasts, every second person has them.”

What is so special about a gland made up of ductules and fats that is primarily meant to feed the infant? Why is to be kept veiled? This question may present me as a pervert! And this is the reason where the crux of every social evil in society begins. The carnal is what makes the evil more rampant.Carnal instinct helps in reproducing and that is what it is meant to do,But when this same instinct begins defying its purpose and starts behaving as the “deal” or the “gift” in order to get a work done,it starts signifying that the material corporate world still believes in the flesh for money stuff,a reminder of Shylock who famously remarked “a pound of flesh” in Merchant of Venice.[speaking metaphorically.] When breasts become a symbol of erotica,they still remain within the fringes of morality considering nudity is considered an erotic art.But when the same breasts become the launching pad for a big project or a big tender,the moral corruption begins there.

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Bollywood cashes in on foreign subsidies, cut production cost

You might have been mesmerised by Prague after watching it in Bollywood flick Rockstar or by the bylanes of Berlin in Don 2. Most tourism boards are increasingly pitching for locations to producers and directors in India by offering subsidies, which can bear almost 40 per cent cost of a film.

“These incentives range from tax rebate, free stays, visa facilitation, and in certain cases, they even bear the cost of production. Cashing on the foreign government subsidies, production houses are now trying to film in exotic locales and in some cases, even alter the script to avail of this,” says Karan Arora, co-founder and chief executive, High Ground Enterprise, which deals in film production and does consultancy work with foreign governments on these issues.

Eros International has already scheduled the shooting of its two films in Fiji. The Fiji government recently announced it would offer 47 per cent of the production cost for films being shot there. “3G, staring Neil Nitin Mukesh and Sonal Chauhan, has already gone on floor. It’s a psychological thriller that revolves around the 3G spectrum scandal,” said an official from Eros.

Tourism boards of many countries, such as Switzerland and UK, have offered benefits but the trend has taken off in a big way now.

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Ishaqzaade Has Good Second Day

Ishaqzaade did well on its second day as it collected around 4.75-5 crore nett as per early estimates. The film managed to show growth on Saturday though not huge growth.

The film has collected close to 9.50 crore nett in two days and should do at least 15 crore nett over the weekend.

Ishaqzaade is a huge earner for the makers as its satellite rights alone will cover more than the total investment and in terms of return on investment its bigger than most films released in last few years.

The Monday figures will tell where the film is going as far as its theatrical business is concerned and with a good clear run in the next two weeks it has a good oppurtunity to put up a good lifetime number.

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Dheere Dheere, Haule Haule Song from Satyamev Jayate

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Satyamev Jayate Full Episode 2

Here is the second episode of Aamir Khan’s TV Show Satyamev Jayate. Video now plays in US/Canada too.

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SOTD: Maa – Taare Zameen Par

Happy Mother’s Day to all. Check out the song Maa from Taare Zameen Par
Singer: Shankar Mahadevan, Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Lyrics by Prasoon Joshi

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Ishaqzaade Movie Review by Anupama Chopra

Ishaqzaade
Direction: Habib Faisal
Actors: Parineeti Chopra, Arjun Kapoor
Rating: ***

I wonder if the Indian film ritual of intermission also functions as a creative road-block. Because so many fine films derail exactly there; I call it the curse of the second half. Ishaqzaade is one of these.

The film starts on a high note. Two children ferociously swear at each other. They grow up to be Parma (Arjun Kapoor) and Zoya (Parineeti Chopra), two firebrands in small town UP who belong to rival political families and rival religions — he is Hindu, she is Muslim — and make the horrific mistake of falling in love.

Their courtship is conducted in unused train compartments and there’s much affection for guns: At one point, he teaches her to shoot. He can’t say Zoya. Instead he calls her Joya. She, and we, are delighted.

So far, so good. Then, quite inexplicably, this love story that we are fully immersed and invested in shifts tracks. I don’t want to reveal the plot, but there are some decidedly odd developments, which lead them to part ways and get together. The pleasure peters out and the film becomes a long chase sequence with goons, guns and families that turn against each other and their children.

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Dangerous Ishhq Movie Review by Anupama Chopra

Dangerous Ishhq
Direction: Vikram Bhatt
Actors: Karisma Kapoor, Rajneesh Duggal, Jimmy Shergill
Rating: *1/2

It’s easy to understand why Karisma Kapoor chose Dangerous Ishhq as her comeback film after a hiatus of six years and two children. She’s the hero. She sets the plot in motion. She unravels the mystery. Eventually, she takes on the villain. She does this while wearing pink lipstick, gravity-defying high heels, gorgeous Manish Malhotra-designed Mughal-era Anarkali kurtas and Rajasthani ghagras, depending on which century she’s in.

Dangerous Ishhq is an epic love story that repeats itself from 1535 to the present because in each era the lovers are thwarted. We begin in contemporary times. Sanjana, played by Kapoor, is a supermodel in a relationship with Rohan, an industrialist played by Rajneesh Duggal. Rohan gets kidnapped and Sanjana starts to get visions of her past lives. Her best friend, a doctor, declares: I think we need a doctor of another kind. After which we get a solemn lecture on the validity of past-life regression and Sanjana starts to ask questions like: How can I meet my soul?

It would have been smarter to ask: Why did I sign this film? Dangerous Ishhq is essentially cheesy B-grade material treated with deathly seriousness but becomes unintentionally funny.

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Fun of the Week: George Carlin

Today i.e. May 12 is the birth anniversary of George Carlin, one of the greatest stand up comedians of all time, and my favorite. So here are a couple of his clips.

Here is another on Saving the Planet.

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Mumbai Police Song from Department

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Movie Review: ISHAQZAADE by FENIL SETA

Yash Raj Films have delivered innumerable love stories that won our hearts and are still close to us, years and decades after their release. With the changing times, they altered their approach slightly and Band Baaja Baaraat was an apt example. And here comes Ishaqzaade which is what a typical Yash Raj Films should be – classic and timeless! However, there’s a catch! It significantly stands out from Band Baaja…, DDLJ, Kabhi Kabhie, Veer-Zaara and other YRF romantic films. To begin with, there’s no Swiss Alps. The film is set in the dingy and dusty bylanes of a fictional UP town. When the lovers fall for each other, the angry fathers don’t shower slaps, they shower bullets! And the loverbirds cuddle, kiss, make out but also abuse, curse, slap, point the gun at each other plenty of times throughout the film! But in the end, what matters is that the film has turned out to be an outstanding product thanks to the lead actors and not to forget, Habib Faisal’s script, dialogues and direction! This has to be one of the must watch films of the year!

The story of the movie: Parma Chauhan (Arjun Kapoor) and Zoya Qureshi (Parineeti Chopra) belong to rival political families in the small town of Almore.

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