Help: Has the chills and thrills
Starring: Bobby Deol, Mugdha Godse, Shreyas Talpade, Sophie Handa, Jyoti Dogra and Salim Fatehi
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Director: Rajeev Manoj Virani
Rajeev Manoj Virani’s Help is a well made horror film that succeeds in giving you the requisite chills and thrills expected out of a good horror film but the problem lies with the unoriginality of the plot that seems heavily inspired from Thai film Alone.
Bollywood actress Amisha Patel has been signed to be a part of the Telugu patriotic movie Parama Veera Chakra. She will be acting opposite Telugu star Balakrishna.
The movie is being directed by veteran director Dasari Narayana Rao. It is heard that Amisha was finalized following a lot of discussion. Earlier, it was reported that Anushka had been selected to play the female lead role. However, her date problems cleared the way for Amisha Patel. Young actress Sheela would be playing the other female lead in the film.
Nikhil Advani has chosen the relatively new actress Anushka Sharma to play the leading lady opposite Akshay Kumar in his upcoming movie Patiala House.
However, there is a reason behind choosing Anushka over any other top actresses. The sources inform that Nikhil has thought in the same lines as Aditya Chopra did when he cast Anushka in the movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi starring Shah Rukh Khan. The filmmaker wanted to keep the focus on the male actor Suri.
If not for anything else, a (miniscule) section of audience concerned about the industry and trade were wondering if the nostalgic value attached to the ‘Krantiveer – The Revolution’, sequel to commercial hit of the mid-90s, ‘Krantiveer’ (Nana Patekar, Dimple Kapadia), would help the film gain some eye balls at the least. However, this was not the case to be as the film didn’t find any takers whatsoever on its release. The film was greeted with empty halls all over though single screens were comparatively (and strictly relatively) better than multiplex screen.
Reliance BIG Pictures and Madras Talkies’ RAAVAN seems to have got an excellent opening at the box office. It has grossed Rs 20 crores worldwide on the opening day from its three versions- Hindi (RAAVAN), Tamil (RAAVANAN) and Telugu (VILLAIN).
Bollywood’s numero uno actress and global star, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has played myriad characters & worked in a variety of strenuous films, but according to Ash, Mani Ratnam’s RAAVAN stands to be the most challenging film in her career so far and the character Ragini, which she plays in the film, is absolutely special to her.
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Starring :
Partho Ghosh
Jackie Shroff, Suneil Singh, Manisha Koirala, Roza Catalino, Moammar Rana, Nikita S Anand.
There is one proverb which tells that whatever is written in one’s destiny in some way or other the incidents actually happen. But if we fight against it and make the incident happen in a different way - then what will happen?
The upcoming film KRANTIVEER directed by Mehul Kumar is making news for reasons more than its story. According to our sources, one of the main actors in the film - Samir Aftab, thinks that his role would have been impossible had he not watched Nana Patekar in action many times in a film which has a similar title.
Though she sizzled on screen in her latest release HOUSEFULL, in real life she chose to wear a saree when she represented India at Cannes film festival. While her gamble for wearing a saree for a high profile event like this has indeed paid off, didn’t she ever feel that it was a risk after all? There haven’t been too many success stories after all in the past when it comes to Indian actresses actually managing to make a splash in international arena.
“My funda was simple. I had decided that if I was representing my country then I had to wear something traditional”, she confirms her plans, “For me it was more to go with the flow because that was the correct thing to do.”
Call it luck, co-incidence or whatever, but the fact remains that Mukta Movies Distributors are reaping the benefits of the only two successes of 2010.
For the uninitiated, Mukta Movies Distributors have distributed Vishal Bhardwaj’s ISHQIYA and Karan Johar’s MY NAME IS KHAN in the two major circuits of North India, Delhi-U.P. and East Punjab. Both the films have done exceedingly well in the mentioned circuits.
