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SOTD: Oh! Carol – Neil Sedaka
Check out the hit song Oh! Carol by Neil Sedaka on his birthday.
Stereo Nation did a cover version of the song in the 90s. “Aye Dil Laya Hai Bahar” from Kya Kehna was inspired/copied from the song. Rajesh Roshan was the music composer. Here are the two songs.
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Tagged Aye Dil Laya Hai Bahar, Chandrachur Singh, Copied, Exclusive, Inspired, Kundan Shah, Kya Kehna, Neil Sedaka, Oh! Carol, Plagiarism, Preity Zinta, Rajesh Roshan, Saif Ali Khan, SOTD, Stereo Nation
Tanqeed Film Festival: Maachis
As it is Gulzar’s birthday today I will try to post a Gulzar movie every day for the next few days. Check out his movie Maachis which won National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. Tabu won National Award for Best Actress. Chandrachur Singh won Filmfare Best Debut Award.
Synopsis
‘Maachis’ is a true story inspired by the 1984 Sikh riots after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India. The police started assaulting innocent Sikh families which led to many youths joining extremist groups to revolt against an oppressive regime. Kripal (Chandrachur Singh) lives peacefully with his best friend Jaswant (Raj Zutshi) and is in love with Jaswants’s sister, Veeran (Tabu). Their peaceful life is disrupted when the police wrongfully arrest Jaswant and subject him to third degree torture. After several days, Jaswant returns but seeing his friend in a horrible and dreaded state, Kripal vows to take revenge against the police. Kripal joins an extremist group headed by a commander (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) which includes Sanatan (Om Puri) and Jaimal (Jimmy Shergill) who all are aching to burn down the government. How will innocent Kripal who has transformed into a dreaded terrorist go on to seek vengeance?
Blast from the Past: Gulzar, Tabu and Chandrachur talking about Maachis
Posted in Exclusive, Interviews, Retro
Tagged Blast from the Past, Chandrachur Singh, Exclusive, Gulzar, Interviews, Maachis, Retro, Tabu
Movie Review: CHAAR DIN KI CHANDNI by FENIL SETA
The film had everything that would make it an ultimate success. It’s based in a beautiful palace of Rajasthan filled with funny, quirky, weird and mad characters, some Rajputs and others Punjabis. The director is the one who tickled our funny bones last year with Yamla Pagla Deewana. But alas! Chaar Din Ki Chandni disappoints and how!
The story of the movie: Veer (Tusshar Kapoor) is a Rajput prince who falls in love with Chandni (Kulraj Randhawa) while studying in London. When he returns back to his hometown Khimgarh for the marriage of his sister Divya (Shruti Sharma), he gets Chandni along too. But Veer is so petrified of his father (Anupam Kher) that he lies to him that he and Chandni are just friends and that she’s a journalist who has come to experience and cover a royal wedding. The troubles don’t end here. Veer’s brothers (Sushant Singh, Chandrachur Singh, Mukul Dev) get smitten by Chandni. Veer, on the other hand, tells many more lies to cover up his first lie. How he gets out of the mess is what the film is all about.
When you see actors like Anupam Kher, Johny Lever, Sushant Singh, Chandrachur Singh, Mukul Dev, Amit Mistry and many others together in the film’s promos and first look, you definitely expect the film to be a laugh riot.
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Tagged Anita Raaj, Anupam Kher, Chandrachur Singh, Mukul Dev, Sushant Singh, Tusshar Kapoor
Chaar Din Ki Chandni Movie Review by Rajeev Masand
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Cast: Tusshar Kapoor, Kulraj Randhawa, Anupam Kher, Om Puri, Chandrachur Singh, Sushant Singh, Mukul Dev, Anita Raaj, Johnny Lever, Farida Jalal
Director: Samir Karnik
In the good ol’ days, audiences in some places were known to rip cinema seats, and to throw things at the screen if they were offended by the film they were watching. Beware, multiplex owners; that tradition is likely to be revived this week with Chaar Din Ki Chandni. This appalling comedy, directed by Yamla Pagla Deewana’s Samir Karnik is possibly the worst film you’ll see this year…and we’re only in March right now.
The movie’s centered on a Rajput royal (Tusshar Kapoor) who returns from university in London with his girlfriend (Kulraj Randhawa) by his side. Aware that his prejudiced father (Anupam Kher) will never approve of a non-Rajput bride, he introduces her as a journalist assigned to cover his sister’s lavish wedding. Things get complicated when his brothers – all three of them: the alcoholic one (Chandrachur Singh), the angry one (Sushant Singh), and the horny one (Mukul Dev) – fall for his girlfriend, and the situation only gets worse when his father decides to find a suitable groom for her.
About as much fun as plucking your nose hair one by one, Chaar Din Ki Chandni sees fine actors like Anupam Kher and Om Puri engage in what appears to be a contest of hamming.
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Tagged Anita Raaj, Anupam Kher, Chaar Din Ki Chandni, Chandrachur Singh, Kulraj Randhawa, Mukul Dev, Rajeev Masand, Review, Reviews, Samir Karnik, Sushant Singh
Chaar Din Ki Chandni Rediff Movie Review
Bringing Om Puri, Anupam Kher, Johnny Lever, Farida Jalal, Chandrachur Singh, Sushant Singh, Mukul Dev together isn’t something all directors can manage. So one presumes director Samir Karnik has a special treat lined up for comedy enthusiasts. And of course, the big fat Indian wedding is the perfect premise.
But then, Char Din Ki Chandni isn’t about the fracas which ensues a few days before the wedding. It isn’t about dysfunctional relationships in large families. Neither does it tell us about the so-called royal families of Rajasthan. It’s a romance of sorts set against the backdrop of the desert, which according to the producers is one giant mishmash of garish sets, guns, pistols, a few women sporting the obligatory ghaghra-cholis etc.
Samir Karnik, whose film Yamla Pagla Deewana released just a year ago and fared reasonably okay, especially in Punjab [ Images ] obviously decided to take the theme further. This time around he’s put in minimal effort into the screenplay and concentrated on getting the stalwarts together.
After all, if Anupam Kher starts brandishing a rifle every few minutes, launches into long monologues about his royal lineage and then cracks up with laughter you must necessarily do the same.
This is a film which was intended to be a farce aiming for moments which have the audience in splits or at the least breaking into a smile.
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Tagged Anita Raaj, Anupam Kher, Chaar Din Ki Chandni, Chandrachur Singh, Kulraj Randhawa, Mukul Dev, Rediff, Review, Reviews, Samir Karnik, Sushant Singh
Chaar Din Ki Chandni Movie Review by Komal Nahta
Tusshar gets his girlfriend home but is scared to introduce her as such to his class- and caste-conscious father (Anupam Kher) because she is a Punjabi whereas they are Rajasthani Rajputs. What follows is a crazy comedy. Read the review of Chaar Din Ki Chandni for more.
Business rating: 2.5/5 (Two-and-a-half stars)
Star cast: Tusshar, Kulraj Randhawa, Anupam Kher, Om Puri, Anita Raaj, Mukul Dev, Sushant Singh, Chandrachur Singh, Rahul Singh, Johnny Lever.
What’s Good: The farcical comedy and the outlandish characters that work very well; the post-interval portion; good performances; two songs.
What’s Bad: The ordinary first half; the less developed romantic track; the other songs, besides the two good numbers.
Verdict: Chaar Din Ki Chandni is an entertaining and enjoyable fare which will keep the audience in splits.
Loo break: Not really.
Watch or Not?: Watch it for feeling truly refreshed with the mad-hatter comedy.
Chaar Din Ki Chandni Review: Script Analysis
Babaji’s story is farcical and he prepares the audience for it right from the word ‘go’. There are exaggerated scenes and situations but if the viewer doesn’t mind them, it is because the story doesn’t pretend to be otherwise. Screenplay writers Amit Masurkar and Nishant Hada have complemented the story beautifully by writing farcical comedy scenes which have the audience in splits.
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Tagged Anita Raaj, Anupam Kher, Chaar Din Ki Chandni, Chandrachur Singh, Komal Nahta, Kulraj Randhawa, Mukul Dev, Review, Reviews, Samir Karnik, Sushant Singh
Chaar Din Ki Chandni Movie Review by Taran Adarsh
Be forewarned: Don’t look for logic here! Escapist cinema or films that suspend logic, but entertain, are often at the receiving end of assessors and evaluators. Movies helmed by Rohit Shetty, Sajid Khan, veterans like David Dhawan, Priyadarshan and Anees Bazmee, besides the recent box-office bonanzas featuring Salman Khan, have had to face vicious and destructive criticism. Despite this, films fitting in the genre [escapist fares] have found colossal consent from spectators across the board, primarily because they serve the purpose of keeping you entertained in those two hours. It’s like choosing fast food from one of those popular joints. You may argue, it’s low on nutritional value, but it does satisfy your taste buds nonetheless.
Riding high on the success of the runaway hit YAMLA PAGLA DEEWANA, Samir Karnik comes up with CHAAR DIN KI CHANDNI, a film that makes no pretensions of rewriting the rules of the game. Following the footsteps of his peers, this one’s aimed at the masses and not the inflexible critics who rarely give their approval or high ratings to these hardcore entertainers. The sole mantra of these movies is to make you grin/chuckle/giggle at the most inane jokes, most frivolous situations… logic be damned.
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Tagged Anita Raaj, Anupam Kher, Chaar Din Ki Chandni, Chandrachur Singh, Kulraj Randhawa, Mukul Dev, Review, Samir Karnik, Sushant Singh, Taran Adarsh
Sanket’s Review: “Chaar Din Ki Chandni” is watch-and-forget kind of film.
Cast: Tusshar Kapoor, Om Puri, Kulraj Randhawa, Anupam Kher, Chandrachur Singh, Farida Jalal.
Director: Samir Karnik
Length: 2.15 hours approximately.
It seems director Samir Karnik is very obsessed with the success of YAMLA PAGLA DEEWANA (YPD) because in his new film called CHAAR DIN KI CHANDNI the story reminds you of YPD of lot many times post-intermission. The resemblance is so crystal white but despite that, the director never wishes to bring any change till the film culminates. In this film we have a lover boy disguising himself as Punjabi (Bobby deol in YPD) also the plot has many characters arriving in frame and disocvers somenthing’s wrong in the premise! YPD stamp all over it!
Though not thoroughly boring, this film does provide few genuine laughs. The film starts very slow and there’s hardly any motion in the story pre-intermission. the few noteworthy scenes are the one in Gym where Tushar kapoor boasts about his gyming brothers to Kulraj so much that with every one boast he adds up a 20kg bar to their lift-up. Its an hilarious scene. Sadly, the film draws very few such scenes.
The second half anyways does not bore you because the film does have some corny twists in the plot.
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Tagged Anita Raaj, Anupam Kher, Chandrachur Singh, Mukul Dev, Sushant Singh, Tusshar Kapoor
Handling my downfall was easier: Chandrachur Singh
After a critically acclaimed debut in Maachis, followed by a stellar performance in Tere Mere Sapne in 1996, it didn’t look like anything could go wrong for Chandrachur Singh. His strong role in Josh even made him an instant hit with female fans.
But then, destiny was cruel to this talented actor and he suffered multiple dislocation of his shoulder joint while water skiing. It kept him out of action for years. Reflecting on those horror days, the actor, in Vadodara for the shooting of his film Palchhin, shares, “A lot of people feel that I got films like Maachis and Tere Mere Sapne just like that. Mujhe aise hi kaam nahi mile tha! I came to Mumbai in 1988 and assisted Mahesh Bhatt, and I had to struggle a lot before I got the break. There were some big films from which I was replaced at the last moment. Fighting through that phase gave me a lot of inner strength and made me a tough person. For someone whose entry in the film industry was so difficult, handling the downfall was much easier. I utilized my time very constructively, watching world cinema, reading books and listening to classical music.”
Just as he speaks, Chandrachur, who was a music teacher before he joined films, starts humming a bhajan before adding with a smile, “The bright side about the break was that I got to spend quality time with my five year old son.
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