Archive for August, 2008

Raghu’s Message To All Applicants

For so many days you all were waiting for any information about the auditions of MTV Roadies 6.0. Now here are some information for all those people who want to show the world that they are born to be an MTV Roadie.

First of all congratulations to ANIKET H for Winning the first ever SONY ERICSSON MTV ROADIES BATTLEGROUND!

Aniket has survived 15 gruelling rounds of intense battle and has emerged as the ultimate survivor of the Sony Ericsson MTV Roadies Battleground. He has won 1 lakh rupees of cold hard cash, a Sony Ericsson w350i and a direct entry into the Personal Interview Round at the Roadies 6 Auditions where Raghu will be waiting.

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We are pleased to present you, a vital and brain-storming series containing a brief portrayal of various leaders, who may be the potential Prime Ministers of India for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections 2009. Herewith, we are portraying the character sketch of all favourable candidates, who stand suitable for the highest legislative post. We will try to contain all their characteristics, personal and professional profiles, and their strengths and weaknesses. So, all this information will help you to vote for your favourite Prime Ministerial Candidate for the next Lok Sabha elections.

It will be your own choice to vote your favorite candidate, and we will publish your opinion, comments, and voting results in the final episode of the current series. So, let’s get ready for a significant series, which is vital for you, your family and at large, your country. Since, you as a citizen are the real king of a democracy as you have the authority to choose your representative. So, why not do that wisely?

2nd Episode PM Candidate Of This Section: Shri Lal Krishna Advani

Leader of the Opposition in 14th Lok Sabha, Mr. Lal Krishan Advani is one of the most favorite choice of millions of Indians for the Prime Minister in the next Lok Sabha. Born on 8th November 1929 at Karachi, L.K. Advani is also known as Lal Kishenchand Advani. He finished his schooling from St. Patrick’s High School, Karachi and graduation from D.G. National College, Hyderabad (Sind), both are in Pakistan now. The family had to leave Karachi just before the partition between India and Pakistan.

Then, he did his Law graduation from Government Law College, Bombay. Since, the life of the displaced people was miserable after the partition for they had to work hard to establish themselves in the new land. He married Shrimati Kamla Advani on February 25, 1965. His political journey started when he joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in 1942 as a Karachi branch secretary. He was elected on the ticket of Bhartiya Jana Sangha from 1970 to 1975. During his tenure he has been associated with various committees, institutions and political parties.

L.K. Advani has remained president of Bhartiya Janta Party from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1993 to 1998. Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha in 1980, in Lok Sabha from November 1991 to July 1993 and again from May 2004 onwards. He was the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting from March 1977 to July 1979. Then, he was the Home Minister from 1998 to 2004 and most recently he was the Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1999 to 2004.

Lal Krishna Advani was also conferred the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for the year 1999. He is credited with leading the Bhartiya Janta Party to reach a level at which it stands today, from 2 parliamentary seats in 1984 to forming the Government in 15 years. L.K. Advani is also considered to be a firm and strict person and hence he is also known as ‘Iron Man’ of the BJP. He has remained controversial for many issues like Babri Masjid Demolition and his remarks over Jinnah.

L.K Advani is a good speaker and a definite leader. Somehow, he is known to be a hardliner for his stand on the Hinduism. He is reputed as an honest person at the same time a ruthless administrator with considerable analytical skills.

His Strengths

• Honest
• Mass Leader
• Clear Image
• Progressive
• Impressive Speaker
• Experience in Politics
• Determinant Decision Maker

His Weaknesses

• Controversial
• Hard liner
• Not Preferred by other parties

Rahul Gandhi, the emerging leader of the Congress Party, has recently visited Uttar Pradesh. In the heartland of the state, he attended a meeting with Pradesh party members and discussed about the poll strategy for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections in 2009.

Rahul Gandhi made it clear for the first time about the prospective alliance with Mulayam Singh Yadav‘s Samajwadi Party. Digvijay Singh, General Secretary, AICC told media, "In the post-vote-of-confidence scenario we will discuss our relation with the Samajwadi Party. And I have spoken to Amar Singh and on August 30th and 31st we will meet,"

The alliance with SP is not going to be an easier pact for the Congress Party. There are 80 Lak Sabha seats in the state but Mulayam Singh’s party wants to give only 15 seats to the Congress. However, the Congress demands at least 30 seats.

Let’s see, how does the Congress settle with SP? Since, Mulayam Singh and Amar Singh are the same persons who used to curse Congress Party and its leadership during the tenure of SP in UP. But, growing popularity and power of Mayawati in the state has compelled both parties to shake hands with each other. ‘It is good to strike the serpent’s head with your enemy’s hand’, it is common in Indian politics these days.
 

Cinema is getting revolutionary changes with the changing social structures. Bollywood is soon to be coming up with three movies on the male sexuality. The subject was hidden for a long time things like a man getting raped by other men, a man prostituting and so on.

Three new-age directors are making their debut with the subject. Manish Gupta, who has written some unusual scripts for Ram Gopal Verma, is all prepared with his new project. The subject deals with disgusting rape with a male student. "I studied in an engineering college where I met a guy who was raped in the hostel, when I asked him if that was true, the expression on his face was like somebody had died." Manish has selected the bold subject for his directorial debut and said . "I’ve blatantly shown all this and the censors have passed it," he believes that a safer subject would have been easier to handle. " But safe directors are a dime a dozen. Every film can’t be about loving your family," Manish expressed.

Saurabh Sengupta is coming with It’s a Man’s World about male prostitution. When he was asked about the reason for choosing such a peculiar subject, he explained, "There have been many films made on female sex workers but nothing on men." Saurabh interacted with many male prostitutes and realized that their fears and problems. Further, he wants to convey the human side of the male prostitution.

On the other hand, Sudipto Chattopadhyay’s Pankh deals with sexual identity crisis of a man. At the backdrop of the movie, a small boy who plays a girl in Hindi films gets into identity crisis. "The young man is caught in a psychological matrix of gender confusion that has been imposed on him by his social circumstance," explains Sudipto.

All these directors want to make people aware that all this happens and hence want it to be eliminated. As rightly said by Manish, "My film is supposed to shock people into thinking ‘This has to be stopped’."
 

Shahrukh is all set to take his world shows – Temptations Reloaded – to a higher level altogether. He is preparing very hard to make this world show a grand success. Though, he has already performed in various cities of Europe and US but it is being heard that Shahrukh Khan has bigger plans for the tour.

Media has been told, "These shows are just teasers of the main show that’ll happen next year in 2009. They are sporadic shows and it’s not the world tour. Shah Rukh will be taking a few actors next to Frankfurt and then to Dubai."

King Khan is also busy in shooting for his upcoming movie Billo Barber along with preparation for organizing the show. The movie is about to release on November 14, clashing with Karan Johar‘s Dostana.
 

It’s Official now that Pakistan’s cricket captain, Shoab Malik, is dating former Miss India and Bollywood actress Sayali Bhagat. They were seen together at a Mumbai hotel when media caught them and all their efforts to hide became useless.

Sayali, who made her debut in Bollywood opposite Emran Hashmi in The Train wanted to keep their relations disguised at this point. "We need more time because we are just getting to know each other," said Sayali.

They met in Delhi last year when they had come on the occasion of a store opening. Then, they kept in touch through e-mails and phone calls. The actress admitted that it is not easy to meet when Shoaib is in Pakistan. "It’s so flattering, he makes special trips just for me and showers me with attention. I am in love, I guess," Sayali revealed further.

Sayali was little perplexed about the relationship and said, "Our religion is not an issue, I am more concerned about the distance between us." But, according to Sayali their romance might face political interference. "I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, but I believe when you want something from the heart – the whole universe conspires to get it for you. I hope that happens for us." Is that SRK talking at the back from the sets of OSO?

So, the two hearts have come closed again but this time it is between two people of different professions, from different countries and with different religions. Let’s see, where does this conspiracy take them?
 

Hijack

Release Date: September 5, 2008

Banner: Aleya Motion Magic
Eros Entertainment
Status: Completed
Language: Hindi / Hindi
Genre: Action / Thriller / Drama / Thriller / Drama / Action
Shooting Locations: Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
Producer: Dinesh Vijan
Kunal Shivdasani
Director: Kunal Shivdasani
Starring: Shiney Ahuja…… Vikram Madan
K K Raina…… Maqsood
Mona Ambegaonkar
Kaveri Jha…… Pooja
Esha Deol…… Sarita
Cassettes and CD’s on: Eros Music
Singers: K K
Suraj Jagan
Sunidhi Chauhan
Shilpa Rao
Uday Mazumdar
Joy
Shaan
Lyricist: Kumaar
Music Director: Justin Yesudas
Uday Kumar Ninjoor
Cinematography: Jehangir Chowdhury
Action: Allan Amin
Art: Bijon Das Gupta
Screenplay: Kunal Shivdasani
Gavendra Agarwal
Story / Writer: Kunal Shivdasani
Gavendra Agarwal

Movie Preview: Hijack is an action thriller and revolves around Vikram Mada (Shiney Ahuja). He is a ground maintenance officer at Chandigarh airport. He has only one friend, Rajeev, a Security Chief of the same airport.

Vikram’s daughter was traveling from Delhi to Amritsar. A bad day, as the flight is hijacked by the terrorists to force the release of Maqsood (KK Raina) nabbed by the police. The flight is landed at Chandigarh airport forcefully. The mastermind of the terrorist, Abdullah remains a mystery till the end.

Being the only person to sneak into the aircraft Vikram is forced to enter the aircraft to get his daughter Priya released from the hijackers. As he enters the aircraft with the help of an air hostess, Saira (Esha Deol), he starts killing the terrorists one by one. However, some innocent passengers also get killed by the terrorists in the process. But, at last Vikram and Saira manage to save other passengers.

A Wednesday !

Release Date: September 5, 2008

Banner: Anjum Rizvi Film Company
UTV Motion Pictures
A Friday Filmworks
Status: Under Production
Language: Hindi
Genre: Action / Thriller
Shooting Locations: Mumbai (India)
Producer: Anjum Rizvi
Shital Bhatia
Director: Neeraj Pandey
Starring: Naseruddin Shah
Anupam Kher
Rajesh Shringapure
Jimmy Shergill
Aamir Bashir
Deepal Shaw
Gaurav Kapoor
Cassettes and CD’s on: T-Series
Singers: Tochi
Shaan
Mahalakshmi Iyer
Javed Ali
Lyricist: Irshad Kamil
Music Director: Sanjoy Chowdhary
Cinematography: Fuwad Khan
Action: Shyam Kaushal
Editor: Shree Narayan Singh
Screenplay: Neeraj Pandey
Sound: Rakesh Ranjan
Story / Writer: Neeraj Pandey

Movie Preview: The story is about events happened between 2 pm to 6 pm on a particular Wednesday. A police commissioner of Mumbai, Prakash Rathod receives a call from an anonymous person who tells him about the bombs planted at various locations of Mumbai. The caller wants the commissioner to release four militants kept in Jail.

Prakash Rathod agrees to release the militants initially but he is still in dilemma. It can be more dangerous to release such dreaded criminals as they can further kill several of innocent people. Rathod makes a plan to save the city and nab the caller. He tries to trace the caller and sends his men behind him. He comes across a channel reporter Naina Roy (Deepal Shaw) and he brings Arif and Jai played by Jimmy Shergil and Amir Bashir. Then, the events get unpredictably confusing for the police. Then, the man appears and answers the queries.

Rishton Ki Machine

Release Date: September 5, 2008

Banner: Percept Picture Company
Status: Under Production
Language: Hindi
Director: Jatin Ravasia
Starring: Boman Irani
Sonali Kulkarni
Kiran Kumar

Movie Preview: This is a comedy movie about a hilarious journey of an eccentric inventor, played by Boman Irani and his inventions. The scientist’s affection towards his family and his desire to prove himself proceeds the story of the movie. And, the movie is about an underdog who wins the race at last.

Tahaan

Release Date: September 5, 2008

Banner: iDream Productions
Status: Under Production
Language: Hindi
Director: Santosh Sivan
Starring: Purav Bhandare…… Tahaan
Rahul Bose…… Zafar
Anupam Kher…… Subhan
Sarika…… Haba
Victor Banerjee…… Grandfather
Rahul Khanna…… Kuka Saab
Sana Shaikh…… Zoya
Ankush Dubey…… Idrees
Dheirya Sonecha…… Yasin
Singers: Adnan Sami
Ritesh Menon
Gulzar Ganai
Sumedha Karmahe
Lyricist: Mehboob
Music Director: Adnan Sami
Taufique Qureshi
Cinematography: Santosh Sivan

Movie Preview: Tahaan is a movie revolving around an eight year old boy,  whose pursuit is to find the real purpose of life in his little world. Tahaan (Purav Bhandare) lives with his grandfather, his mother and elder sister in meadows of Kashmir. His father has been missing for past three years and they all are hopeful to meet him again.

One poor day, Tahaan’s grandfather dies that leads the local moneylender Lalaji to take away their assets including their donkey – Birbal, against repayment of a pending loan. Now, Tahaan’s life turns uneasy without Birbal and hence he decides to bring the donkey back.

After various attempts of money making, Tahaan reaches the moneylender to take the donkey back. But, he gets disappointed to know that Birbal has been bought by an old man Subhan Darr  (Anupam Kher) and he has taken him across the same mountains from where Tahaan’s father never returned. However, Tahaan gathers all his courage and decides to chase Subhan. But, Subhan gifts Birbal to his orphaned nephew further disappointing Tahaan. On his way back home, Tahaan meets a teenage lad Idrees, who promises Tahaan to bring Birbal back for some favours. Tahaan will have to carry a package across the mountains on his next journey. Idrees hands over a grenade to Tahaan and tells him that he will be informed at the right time.

Tahaan starts his second journey with Subhan and Zafar (Rahul Bose), the grenade is tucked under Birbal’s saddle. What will happen now? Will Tahaan be able to bring Birbal back home? Let’s watch in sensible movie.

1920

Release Date: September 12, 2008

Banner: ASA Film Pvt Ltd
Status: Under Production
Language: Hindi
Genre: Horror
Shooting Studios: Filmcity
Producer: Vikram Bhatt
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Starring: Rajneesh Duggal
Adah Sharma
Cassettes and CD’s on: Big Music
Singers: Pandit Jasraj
Shubha Mudgal
Asha Bhosle
Kailash Kher
Parveen Sultana
Lyricist : Sameer
Music Director: Adnan Sami

Movie Preview: An isolated house has a secret in the year 1920. It is waiting for the curse to come true. Whosoever has bought the house, he died under strange circumstances. Arjun (Rajneesh Duggal) and his wife Lisa (Adah Sharma) move into the house and received a task to make a hotel there. Strange events start taking place there.

According to the curse they will not survive but only thing which can save them is true love and faith upon each other. But that love is now under a shadow of doubt. So, it is between curse and their love.

Hulla

Release Date: September 12, 2008

Banner: Handmade Films
Status: Post-Production / Ready for Release
Language: Hindi
Producer: Sunil Doshi
Director: Jaideep Varma
Starring: Rajat Kapoor
Sushant Singh
Vrajesh Hirjee
Mandeep Mazumdar
Kartika Rane
Dibyendu Bhattacharya
Dinesh Thakkar
Nassar Abdulla
Shailesh
Darshan Jariwala…… Special Appearance
Ravi Jhankal…… Special Appearance
Music Director: Indian Ocean
Art: Alok Haldar
Screenplay: Jaideep Varma
Sound: Vivek Sachidanandan
Story / Writer: Jaideep Varma

Movie Preview: Raj and Abha, a couple in their early thirties, come to their new 2 bedroom plat in a Mumbai suburb. The flat is away from the noise of city and the main road. Raj is a sub-broker in a prosperous broking firm and Abha is marketing professional doing well in her job.

However, Raj gets disturbed with the whistling sound of the watchman. He wakes up several times during the night. Raj asks him to be quiet but the watchman – Mathew refers him to the building secretary – Janardhan, as he has instructed the watchman to whistle periodically to scare the thieves away. Raj appeals to Janardhan but he refuses to stop the whistling for security of the rest of residents. Meetings are called, watchman is bribed, pleaded, threatened but to no use. Raj’s problems continue and things get more worst. So, do visit the theater to know how does Raj’s life turn up at the end.

Rock On!!

Release Date: August 29, 2008

Banner: Excel Films
Status: Completed
Language: Hindi
Genre: Social
Shooting Studios: Filmcity
Producer: Farhan Akhtar
Ritesh Sidhwani
Director: Abhishek Kapoor
Starring: Farhan Akhtar…… Aditya Shroff
Prachi Desai…… Sakshi
Arjun Rampal…… Joe Mascarenhas
Purab Kohli…… KD
Luke Kenny…… Rob
Shahana Goswami…… Debbie
Koel Puri…… Devika
Cassettes and CD’s on: Big Music
Singers: Suraj Jagan
Farhan Akhtar
Raman Mahadevan
Caralisa
Dominique
Lyricist: Javed Akhtar
Music Director: Shankar Mahadevan
Ehsaan Noorani
Loy Mendonca
Cinematography: Jason West
Choreography: Remo
Editor: Deepa Bhatia
Screenplay: Abhishek Kapoor
Pubali Chaudhuri
Sound: Baylon Fonseca
Dialogue: Farhan Akhtar
Costume: Niharika Khan
Media Relations: Dale Bhagwagar
Story / Writer: Abhishek Kapoor

Movie Preview: Rock On!! A movie of four friends who come together to form the greatest band of the country. But, they could not fulfill their dream for certain reasons. Again, the destiny brings them together after years of separation and set them on a journey to where they left off. This is …a soul-searching pilgrimage to past.

Chamku

Release Date: August 29, 2008

Banner: Vijayta Films
Status: Completed
Language: Hindi
Genre: Social / Drama / Action
Shooting Studios: Filmcity
Sankraman Studios
Director: Kabeer Kaushik
Star Cast: Bobby Deol
Priyanka Chopra
Arshad Warsi
Ritesh Deshmukh
Irrfan Khan
Danny Denzongpa
Rajpal Yadav
Arya Babbar
Cassettes and CD’s on: T-Series
Singers: Shreya Ghosal
Shail
Richa Sharma
Amitrajit Bhattacharjee
Vaishali Samant
Saleem Shahzaad Prem Raagi
Soumya Raoh
Anaida
Kalpana
Parthiv Gohil
Lyricist: Sameer
Music Director: Monty Sharma
Media Relations: Vijay Grover
Firoza Kapadia

Movie Preview: The story is inspired form real life of a naxalite from the southern interiors of Bihar. Chandraprakash Singh urf CHAMKU whose family was brutally killed. He was brought up and trained by the Naxalites. He was picked up Under a covert Government program jointly convinced by RAW & IB. Chamku was trained to kill, do operations, encounters and political assassinations. He was given several tough jobs which he did with excellence. His life changes entirely when he falls in love. But, his past comes on his way. Let’s see what does the destiny do with Chamku finally.

Mukhbiir
 

Release Date : August 29, 2008

Banner : Color Chips Entertainment and Media Limited
Director : Mani Shankar
Creative Producer : Sudhish Rambhotla
Music : Kartik Raja, Pritam Chakraborty, Shashi Pritam, Sandeep Chowta
Writer : Mani Shankar
Starring : Sameer Dattani, Sunil Shetty, Om Puri, Rahul Dev, Jackie Shroff (in Guest appearance), Raima Sen, Sushant Singh, Alok Nath, Raj Zutshi, Kelly Dorjee.

Movie Preview : The film shows the secret world of terror in which a spy lives and gathers the sensitive information. This is a story about a man who lives many faced life and has to live many lives and has to die many times. The story shows light on the life of an informer who faces many dangers and troubles to protect the society from the cruel underworld. Further the movie will disclose the hidden techniques and methods used by underworld. So a movie disclosing a lot about the world of crime is on the threshold.

C Kkompany
 

Release Date : August 29, 2008

Banner : Balaji Motion Pictures
Director : Sachin Yardi
Producer : Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor
Music : Anand Raj Anand, Bappi Lahri
Starring : Tusshar Kapoor
Anupam Kher
Rajpal Yadav
Raima Sen
Mithun Chakraborty
Mahesh Bhatt… special appearance
Ekta Kapoor…special appearance
Karan Johar…special appearance
Dilip Prabhawalkar…special appearance
Sakshi Tanwar… special appearance
Sanjay Dutt…special appearance

Movie Preview : The film is based in Mumbai and revolves around three ambitious underdog friends of different age groups who belong to middle class families. Akshay Kumar is a crime reporter, Mr. Joshi is a retired accountant trying to deal with his unappreciative son and Lambodar. All these friends share each other’s feelings and find solace in their own company. One fine day, they venture to solve their problems and things get on happening one after another and before they could realize the incident become news. They use their new founded fame for good causes and sooner they become talk of the nation. The journey from their 300 sq. ft. flats to the corridors of the parliament makes them national heroes. So do watch the journey of these friends and find what happens finally.

Olympic boxing champ, the winner of a bronze denies saying that he ever wanted to date with Bipasha Basu. He told to media that he never said so and he could not speak to Bipasha. He says diplomatically, "In fact, Bipasha ki Akhil (Kumar) se baat hui thi. Yes, I did come to know that she had spoken about dating me, but I haven’t given it a thought. And uska already boyfriend hai, to main kaise date par jaunga? Isliye main nahin jaana chahunga. But I have no favourite actress. Main kisiko naraaz nahi kar sakta."

The third medal winner in Olympics, Vijendra Kumar is a hot property these days for his good looks. He says that he is all prepared to start modeling and reveals, "I have been getting loads of endorsement offers, but nothing has been finalised. Mere liye modelling karna naya nahin hai. Main iske liye tayyar hun."

If it is so then Bips has encountered someone at least this time, who is not so keen to have the most arousing and precious date with hot Bipasha Basu. How do you feel Deepika?