KANGANA RANAUT - HAPPY BIRTHDAY

KANGANA RANAUT : HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Today is Bollywood film actor KANGANA RANAUT 23rd Birthday.

We wish her many happy returns of the day and also hope she continues her winning streak at the BOX OFFICE after her success in FASHION & RAAZ 2.

All the best Kangana for your future projects.

RANI MUKHERJI : HAPPY 31ST BIRTHDAY

RANI MUKHERJI : HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Today is Bollywood film actor Rani Mukherji's 31st Brirhday.

We wish her many happy returns of the day and also hope she makes a terrific comeback with her forthcoming films.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RANI !!!

AAMIR KHAN TURNS 44 - HAPPY BIRTHDAY

AAMIR KHAN TURNS 44 ON MARCH 14

Today is our dear filmstar Aamir Khan's 44th Birthday. We wish him a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY and all the best for his forthcoming films.

Now all eyes are on his "3 IDIOTS" directed by Rajkumar Hirani.

GULAAL - FILM REVIEW

GULAAL : FILM REVIEW
Here comes another hard hitting movie from Anurag Kashyap after his recent emotional atyachaar “DEV D”, which was critically acclaimed a lot and interestingly did good business at the Box Office. Anurag belongs to those breed of directors who think differently and comes out with a different serving, though it calls for a lot of risk taking and courage contrary to run-of –the mill Directors who rarely dare to tread from their so called Box Office formula.

And do you know that GULAAL was made much before DEV D, call it luck or whatever, Anurag released it at the right time following the success of DVE D and alos during the festival of HOLI in tune with it’s title GULAAL.
Gulaal deals about several plots as love, greed, but mainly talks about STUDENT POLITICS.
The story is set in the background of Rajasthan and the Rajputs, where the general rule of law does not work. It is about the movement which aims at recouping an independent Rajputana state by launching a civil war against the government headed by Dukey Bana (Kay Kay Menon).

Dilip Singh (Raj Singh Chaudhary) lands in Jaipur to study, where he meets Dukey Bana (Kay Kay Menon), Rananjay Singh Ransa (Abhimanyu Singh), Anuja (Jesse Randhawa), and Kiran (Ayesha Mohan).

On the request of Dukey Bana, Ransa agrees to contest the college elections for Rajputana party, where he stands opposite Kiran to fight for General Secretary's post. The story takes a violent turn when Ransa is murdered by Karan (Aditya Srivastava), as a result Dilip is forced to contest elections, which incidentally is won by him, thanks to polls rigging. This adds to a bitter taste and embarassment in their rivals, the brother sister duo of Karan & Kiran. They are ready to go down to any extent to take revenge and hence gain the power, no matter Kiran first lures Dileep and makes him fall in love with her. She gains his trust and makes him believes that Deleep is being used by Dukey. Gradually she takes charge as General Secretary and then gets close to Dukey by seducing him. This act of hers makes rejected Dileep frustrated and abusive and the plot becomes more violent.

Anurag Kashyap offers us a riveting first half but he fails to hold the momentum in the second half, where the film looses the sheen and even the story goes awry.
As regards to performances, Kay Kay Menon as usual is in top form and to a certain extent holds the film. Raj Singh Chaudhary though has the talent but somehow does not manage to impress. Ayesha Mohan is just superb. Piyush Mishra & Deepak Dobriyal are excellent. Aditya Srivastav & Jesse Randhawa do not get enough scope to perform. Mahie Gill as a mistress, MUJRA girl once again after DEV d, charms the viewers in a small role.

GULAAL is a dark, violent, intense and thought provoking movie and is interesting in bits and pieces. The dialogues are powerful, but there are lots of expletives used in the film, which could have been avoided. Lyrics by Piyush Mishra are powerful and are worth mentioning.
Overall, film will fare well in multiplexes, but is not recommended for female owing to it’s violent stream and expletives used in the dialogues.
I will give 2.5 out of 5.

TITLES
Banner : ZEE Limelight
Released on : March 13, 2009
Language : Hindi
Genre : Social & Drama
Director : Anurag Kashyap
Star Cast :
Kay Kay Menon - Dukey Bana
Raj Singh Chaudhary – Dileep SinghAyesha Mohan – Kiran
Aditya Srivastava - Karan
Piyush Mishra – Prithvi Singh
Deepak Dobriyal - Bhatti

Jessy Randhawa - Anuja

Mahi Gill - Madhuri

Abhimanyu Shekhar Singh - Rananjay Singh
Music on - T-Series
Music - Piyush Mishra
Main Singers - Piyush Mishra, Rekha Bharadwaj, Shilpa Rao, Swanand Kirkire, Rahul Ram
Cinematography - Rajeev Rai
Story : Anurag Kashyap, Aparna Chaturvedi & Raja Chaudhary

BOLLYWOOD HOLI CELEBRATION STYLES

BOLLYWOOD HOLI CELEBRATIONS - DIFFERENT STYLES

The Bollywood actors celebrated their HOLI this year in different styles.

AMITABH BACHCHAN : This year there were no Holi celebrations in Amitabh's residence, which otherewise was a centre of attraction in the past for all Bollywood actors. The reasons being many - 1. Mumbai terror attacks. 2. His father passed away. 3. His mother's prolonged illness. So Amitabh was in no mood to celebrate Holi this year.

As a result, Abhishek Bachchan was also busy shooting for his film.

JAVED AKHTAR & SHABAN AZMI : Instead Javed Akhtar & Shabana Azmi were in full swing and they celebrated Holi like anything, may be to celebrate son Farhan Akhtar's success in ROCK ON. However Farhan incidentally was abroad shooting for his film.

Even Akshay Kumar also celebrated HOLI with lots of fun.

Other stars who were busy shooting during the festival were - Harman S. Baweja, Rajeev Khandelwal, Irrfan Khan (riding high on success of SLUMDOG BILLIONAIRE), Celina Jeitley & Genelia D'souza.

Priety Zinta chose to relax and Bipasha also kept away from the HOLI Colours due to her skin allergy to colours.

CHHOTE MIYAN FINALS WINNER - SALONI FROM PUNE

CHHOTE MIYAN FINALS WINNER - SALONI FROM PUNE

Popular Stand-up Comedy show on COLORS TV CHANNEL in India - CHHOTE MIYAN Finals took place on March 07, 2009. The show was very popular among kids and the were 5 finalists in the finale were -
SALONI, MANSIRAT, MOHIT, AYESHA & ABHISHEK.

Special guest for the finals was the Film Actor ARSHAD WARSI. And the judges of the show were SACHIN PILGAONKAR & RAHUL MAHAJAN. Show was hosted by KAPIL SHARMA & JUHI PARMAR (TV ACTRESS).

The winner of the title was none other than little 7 year girl SALONI DAINI from Pune, who was one of the hot favourites from the very beginning of the show and who had always impressed everybody with her amazing skills, that too in such a young age, with her GANGU BAI Gags. She got the prize money of Rs.11 lakhs.

DANCING QUEEN WINNER SHAMAAYAL & SAMBHAVANA

DANCING QUEEN FINALS WINNER - SHAMAAYAL & SAMBHAVNA SETH

Popular Dance reality show on COLORS TV CHANNEL in India - DANCING QUEEN Finals took place on March 07, 2009. The show has been quite popular and the final contest was between -

SHAMAAYAL & SAMBHAVNA SETH V/s MRIGHA & SANOBAR KABIR.

Special guest for the finals was the original Dancing Queen of Indian Films - HELEN. And the judges of the show were Jumping Jack JEETENDRA & Dream Girl HEMA MALINI. Show was hosted by SHABBIR AHLUWALIA.

And true to their skills the DANCING QUEEN Title was won by SHAMAAYAL & her mentor SAMBHAVNA SETH. Sambhavan was so excited that she couldn't stop her tears.