Komal Nahta Interview With Habib Faisal

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Exclusive: Aamir Khan – The Rock

Check out this feature on Aamir Khan from Filmfare December 2011. Check out his quotes on Rekha, Sridevi, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and more.

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SOTD: She’s Always A Woman – Billy Joel

Check out the excellent song with great lyrics “She’s Always A Woman” by Billy Joel on his birthday.

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Jannat 2 Tuesday Business

Jannat 2 collected around 3.1-3.2 crore nett on Tuesday. The film had a noticeable drop in the big circuits while smaller circuits were comparitively steady. The Tuesday figures from some circuits are as follows with Monday in brackets.

Delhi/UP – 62 (83)

East Punjab – 30 (35)

CI – 16 (18)

Rajasthan – 19 (22)

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Two hitmakers. One big project

Turning 40 has never been so grand. But trust Karan Johar to make any occasion memorable. After planning nine projects in the year and then taking on the challenge of judging the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa, the filmmaker is now ready to unite with another hitmaker of B’town. Mirror has learnt that KJo’s Dharma Productions has joined hands with Rohit ‘Golmaal’ Shetty for a film that goes on floors next year.

Karan Johar confirmed the news and said, “Dharma Productions and Rohit Shetty will come together. All of us in the company are really excited about this association. Rohit is an extremely talented mainstream filmmaker and I am sure, together we will make a very special film.”

When contacted, Rohit Shetty too confirmed the news. He added, “I have immense respect for Karan’s father. He is an excellent director himself and a director’s producer. We have met and finalised that we would be doing a film soon. We will decide the set up and other details very soon. I am sure it will be a great experience.”

Needless to say, Rohit, after a string of hits including the successful Golmaal series and Ajay Devgn starrer Singham, has become one of the most sought after directors in the Hindi cinema industry.

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Aamir Khan stole the concept of my show: Rakhi Sawant

Aamir Khan stole the concept  of my show: Rakhi Sawant Rakhi Sawant has done it again! This time she claims that Aamir Khan’s much talked about show, Satyamev Jayate, is a copy of her show, Rakhi ka Insaaf. Excerpts from the interview:

You have been saying that Satyamev Jayate is a copy of Rakhi Ka Insaaf? The show is a complete copy of Rakhi ka Insaaf. They (the production house) have stolen our concept. The format of my show was similar. There was a point when I was so disturbed after meeting the various people who came on the show with their problems, that I had to be hospitalised, since I was suffering from depression. My show was shifted to a late night slot because of its mature content, but it still registered good TRPs. On the other hand, just because Satyamev Jayate has Aamir Khan, the show is being aired in the morning slot and people are talking about it.

How do you like Aamir’s show? I have nothing against Aamir. He is a great guy and I am indebted to him for life. He stood up for me at a time when there was nothing good going for me. In fact, he should be made PM of the country.

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Humse Pyar Kar Le Tu Song from Teri Meri Kahaani

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Scene of the Week: The Dark Knight

Check out the late Heath Ledger in his Oscar winning performance from The Dark Knight.

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The Dibakarian Way of Life

We are giving a McDonald-ised version of what truth is and what ideal life is. This is not a complaint, it’s a slight sense of discomfort (Photo: RITESH UTTAMCHANDANI) If anything, Dibakar Banerjee dislikes critical discussions on his films, and never, for strictly “emotional” reasons, revisits them once they are made. As a filmmaker, he takes up real issues and turns them into scripts sparkling with bittersweet humour (Khosla ka Ghosla) and mordant satire (Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! and LSD: Love Sex Aur Dhokha), while retaining a strong middle-class flavour. His fourth film, Shanghai, an adaptation of the Greek novel Z, promises to tear into the development issue that has gripped middle-class India in the post-Liberalisation era. Here, he talks movies, politics, social issues and digresses from time to time but returns to the topic, asking with concern after every answer, “You know what I mean?”

Q For Shanghai, was the point of origin the novel Z or the film Z?

A After LSD, there was a lot of anger in me. I felt like doing a truly political film where I could express myself freely. My writer Urmi Juvekar and I were discussing films like All the President’s Men and Costa-Gavras’ Z, and suddenly she said that that is her favourite film.  She suggested that I read Vassilis Vassilikos’ novel and gave me her personal copy.

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Janant 2 Boxoffice Collections Komal Nahta

Here is the Exhibitor/Distributor Update.

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Maara Re Song from Ferrari Ki Sawaari

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Satyamev Jayate inspired from another TV show?

A journalist asked whether Satyamev Jayate was inspired from this IBNLive TV show called Zindagi Live on which Aamir himself was a guest and Aamir denied it. What do you think? Here is the Aamir Interview video.

And here are a few episodes from the show.

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Shanghai Full Songs Jukebox

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Daughters are precious – Aamir Khan article in Hindustan Times

What is it about boys… or men… or males… that fascinates us so much… because of which we are, as a society, collectively moving towards eradicating the girl child in the womb?!!! Are boys really that special? Or dramatically different? Every conceivable reason that I have come across during our research of people explaining why they want a boy and not a girl as a daughter does not seem to make any sense to me. For instance, “if we have a girl then at the time of her marriage we have to pay dowry”, or “a girl cannot perform the last rites after the death of her parents, or near and dear ones”, or “the girl can’t take the vansh, or family forward”… etc. All these are man-made reasons. We have created dowry and are now killing the girl child as if she is responsible for it. We have decided for ourselves that girls can’t perform last rites and then we say the girl is to blame. In fact, the vansh aage kaise chalega argument is one that is most absurd… because females are the ones who take the human race forward!!! Men can’t have babies; the one who takes the family forward IS THE WOMAN!

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Jannat 2 Falls On Monday

The collections of Jannat 2 fell around 55% on Monday as it collected around 3.75 crore nett. The trend was the same in all circuits and even the ones that performed well over the weekend fell around 55%. Delhi/UP held up best of all circuits with a less than 50% fall.

The film has now collected around 27.25 crore nett with the week heading towards a 35 crore nett total. The Monday collections suggest that the film will find it hard to cross the business of Murder 2 which was a smaller film and had huge competition in the form of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Singham after its first week.

If the film has the regular 15% drops over the weekdays then it will find it hard to put up decent numbers in its second week.

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Ganguly – The Movie Official Trailer

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Aamir Khan’s Satyamev Jayate : self-righteous star to SOS?

This article also had a long pro article which I have not posted here. I have posted only the review which I agree with mostly.
Or is he really serious?

Like his film projects, his tv debut was also kept a secret till it finally came on air on Sunday at 11am. And it turned out to be exactly the same as we had told you earlier. It started with Aamir Khan’s voiceover (aha, the emotional modulation there, noticed?) talking about where we stand today. And then the chat show started where the topic was female foeticide. Case studies, tears, figures, tears, doctor, more case studies, more tears, more questions and finally a song by Swanand Kirkire and Ram Sampath overlapped with visuals of girl child, Aamir asking the kids to come sit close to him. Aha, if the last season of KBC was poverty porn, this is going one step ahead with just one mantra – we will, we will make you cry!

The set was tacky, production value made it looked like straight out of DD and graphics seemed out of CBSE school books. Who said serious issues need to look boring? Oh wait, our TA wouldn’t get it?

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Box Office Predictions of ISHAQZAADE

Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra starrer ISHAQZAADE has made its place in heart of many people, thanks to soothing music and interesting promos. Directed by Habib Fasal (Do Dooni Chaar), ISHAQZAADE releases on 11th May against Karishma Kapoor’s DANGEROUS ISHQ. Lets predict what ISHAQZAADE may do at box office in all three cases!

Opening day- 3.25cr

If word of mouth is Good,

Weekend 1- 11.75cr

Week 1- 18.75cr

Lifetime- 30cr

If word of mouth is mixed,

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Of legends and stars: Mamata, Hillary discuss Tagore, SRK

On behalf of Milu

Kolkata: From the legendary Rabindranath Tagore to Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee discussed the state`s `brand ambassadors` then and now when they met here Monday.

Banerjee presented Clinton with Nobel laureate Tagore`s books `Gitanjali` and `Gitabitan`. Clinton, who had said earlier that she had “discovered Tagore in college and have been a fan ever since”, reciprocated by presenting Banerjee a scarf with a famous Tagore song inscribed on it.

Briefing mediapersons about the nearly hour-long meeting with Clinton, Banerjee said she informed her about Tagore`s birth anniversary Tuesday.

“She told me she was aware of it and would love to read Rabindranath. I told her that I will be giving her books of Tagore as gifts. I have given her copies of `Gitanjali` and `Gitabitan`.”

The chief minister also gave Clinton a kantha stitch scarf.

“She has also given me a small scarf which had a picture of Rabindranath and a line from his song `Aguner Poroshmoni Choyao Prane`. We are very happy.”

Banerjee said she told Clinton about Swami Vivekananda`s 150th birth anniversary and sought her cooperation to organise a World Youth Festival.

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Aamir’s Satyamev Jayate is indictment of TV journalism and call for renewal (IBN)

Just when you thought that the news media was dissipating itself in the purposeless eddies of irrelevance, trying to keep people excited without engaging them here comes Aamir Khan with an exquisite piece of journalism. Satyamev Jayate is a television program which is ambition in scope, thorough in research, unrelenting in questioning, singular in focus, simple in presentation and yet searing in its indictment – of much of journalism as it is currently practiced, of the medical profession, of the keepers of law, the deliverers of justice and the political leadership. Khan has shown that there is not dearth of issues, only of imagination and that the television rating points game can be played without social regression or dumbing down.

Who would have thought that an issue like female foeticide could be the stuff of prime time television and keep the country riveted? Khan is dramatic without being theatrical. He is understated but the facts are not. (Thirty million girl-children killed the womb in the past six decades – as many as were killed by starvation during Mao’s Great Leap Forward in the 1950s as China tried to catch up with the west in steel production). Khan does not let those figures be mere statistics as he drives home the terrible implications of mass murder committed within the oppressive confines of domesticity or the sterile walls of the operation theatre.

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