Golmaal Returns (2008) Movie Review-A real Golmaal

Perhaps, 'Golmaal Returns' is worthy to be ennobled – 'impaling speculation' for producers of the film. 'Golmaal' made headway with critical éclat for its top-notched drolleries; Rohit Shetty brimmed up with an ebullient show for the family audiences. The prequel had the best show-ups of perfect comedy timings, reasonably good jokes and moreover, the emotional quotients picked everyone's interest. Merely, 'GR' a falderal show with good star-casts and clichéd plotline and what else? Rohit Shetty doesn't touch on any lines of its prequel.

What should have really instigated Rohit and producers to churn out this flick? You wouldn't be able to zero down the precise reasons even after the show is over. To a greater extent, the film is so cranky and again what could be the traits making it look so? Clumsy jokes unapt for universal audiences. Totting up to the annoyance is nit-witted screenplay penned by Yunus Sajawal.  It's a billion-dollar question how Rohit Shetty could elatedly turn the superfluous pages of Yunus into pictures.

And if you're there guessing could there be any solacements for audiences. Yup! Mind blowing performance by Tushaar Kapoor and Shreyas Talpade offers best fiestas of humor. Doubtlessly, you are sure to break down with laughter as these character jape simultaneously on each other.

Gopal (Ajay Devgan), who lives with his wife Ekta (Kareena Kapoor), sister Esha (Amrita Arora) and a dumb brother-in-law Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor), grinds to a halt in a yacht after saving an attractive woman Meera (Celina Jaitley) from some goons. 

Both end up spending the nighttime on the yacht and when he comes home the next day, his distressing leery wife who is also a hardcore fan of the saas-bahu serials, smell fish. 

Gopal knows it's going to be hard to quell her suspiciousness, so he concocts a cock-and-bull story about having stayed the night with a fabricated friend called Anthony Gonsalves. Ekta refuses to buy his yarn and writes to Anthony (on a fictitious address given to her by Gopal) asking him to visit her. 

Gopal convinces his junior at work, Laxman (Shreyas Talpade) to pretend to be Anthony. Everything goes according to plan till the address to which Ekta had written to Anthony turns out to be real! 

If that isn't complication enough for Gopal, a dead body is discovered at the location where he had saved Meera. The Investigating Officer, Madhav (Arshad Warsi), who is Esha's boyfriend and also who cannot stand the sight of Gopal, learns that the latter had been missing from home that eventful night and begins checking on him. 

Promotions prior to release often sounded 'Biggest Comedy Title of 2008' and it's about dashing down your hopes after watching the show. It's a mediocre in terms of presentation. Bits and pieces of surprisals move you along with it, but not to a greater extent. Blemished screenplay lacking substance diminishes the crème de la crème efforts rendered by few best ones.

Rohit Shetty with his 'Sunday' won the credits as the best lollapaloozas, of blending murder-mystery with comedy (Call it 'Black Comedy'). The flick savored to everyone's tastes offering best entertainment. The scenario is quite bleak and contrastive here; nothing impressive that pulls you in.

Lots of actors and does everyone best deserve best credits? Must be quite straining for you all, going through so many questions. Comparatively, you would shoot out many more after the show. Ajay Devagan kindles – his 'Simpatico' catching breath of a struggling husband.  Arshad Warsi lags behind with his goofy role. Kareena Kapoor deserves pat of appreciations as a leery wife. Despites, appearing on with a short role, Celina scores best. Amrita Arora and Anjana Sukhani, merely keep middling…

You'll have entire spotlights turning on Tushaar Kapoor as he eclipses everyone. Ditto to Shreyas Talpade; he treads highly-electrified rendering his laudable performance.  Don't miss the rib-tricking takes between these lads; they're over-the-top.  Ashwini Kalsekar, replica of Saawariya's Rani Mukherji and Arshad Warsi imitating Big B of Black hastens best of all laughter. Kya Hai Rohit Aur Sanjay Leela Bansali Ke Beech? (Ashwini Kalsekar planning to design her interiors with blue color is again a big gag).

Again, fallible technical aspects are a big letdown; neither music nor cinematography is up to the mark. Except, Neeraj Sridhar's 'Tha Karke' and 'Meow' by Suzy Q, nothing offers best scores.

As a whole, 'Golmaal Returns' is a light-headed entertainer, on the buttons plainly for pie-eyed individuals, while for others, enjoy if you want to…

Verdict: Watch it… Kill your time

Rating :**½

Fashion(2008) Movie Review-Stunning strike by Bhandarkar

For all who ever intended 'World of Fashion' is something about fun, glamour and ramp shows, Madhur Bhandarkar enlightens them. Rendering the best realistic themes in each of flicks, Madhur Bhandarkar had conquered the hearts of world-wide audiences. Of course, his top-notching directorial 'Fashion' surmounts our expectations and to define the film, it's 'Wordless'. Lots and lots of ramp walks, backstage happenings, photo shoots of alluring missies, kingpins of Fashion World and more than all, you have drearier slope of it unveiled. Uh-Huh! Blended with these aspects, Bhandarkar crafts a melodrama of three supermodels and their transcending lives. Indeed, the very tagline 'In the World of Fashion, You will have to give more than your morals' wins the applause. Famous philosopher Stella Blum quoted "Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings. It's really too close to the quick of the soul."  These phrasings have a deep relevance with this film and obviously it is so close to everyone's heart.

In this trenchantly spelled piece of work, Bhandarkar has his galaxy inclusive of best star-casts who are so realistic in their performance. Despites filled with 'Glitz' n 'Glam', the film offers more on other quotients… Where does the film lag behind? Not at many points, but Bhandarkar could have penned his screenplay bit precisely in the latter half.

 The journey of the rise and fall and phoenix like re-birth of India's number one Supermodel. Set against the glittering backdrop of the glamorous but ruthless world of haute couture. 

Fashion, this tells the story of one small town girl with a dream and the determination to make it a reality. Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra) knew that she was meant to be famous. Ever ambitious and bright with stars in her eyes, even as a girl with a conservative background, she dared to dream of bright lights and the big city. The world of fashion - the clothes, the colors, the make-up, all of these form a part of the fascinating world that Meghna has longed to be a part of. She reaches the peak of her success and rises to walk the ramps for leading designers across India. The fashion world lies at her feet - the parties, the brand endorsements, the photographers, the models, the romance and of course - the shows, the shows, the shows! 

However, karma catches up with Meghna as she slowly starts to pay the price for her fame and her journey to the top. Her attempt at a comeback was going to be a near impossibility but she was never a woman to turn away from a challenge. On the pars, the film focuses on other two models: A top-charting model Shonali (Kangana Ranaut), so hard-pressed in her life. Jannet (Mugdha Godse), an aspirational model who has to compromise certain things in her life and settling down with her marriage.

"Fashion" explores the world of style through the emotional personal journey of the key people that make the industry, the dream-weavers of that elaborate world of glamour: the models, designers, photographers, businessmen, agencies etc. 

'Smart as a whip' - A perfect metaphor to fix the earnest work of Madhur Bhandarkar and grand round applause for hitting bull's eyes with a reality theme. It's so realistic and to make it so precise, watch out the sequence where Madhur himself appears on the screen where models says, "He's gonna make a film on Fashion". (Aae Logh Fashion World Ko Bhi Nahi Chod Sakthe).

Even the most minute factual has been picturized with crystal-clear modality. The egoistic nature of models, their frustrated attitudes (Kangana Ranaut), fashion choreographers as gays are so shocking for Indian audiences to accept. Reality really bites, isn't?

Priyanka Chopra spellbinds on her part without any flaws. A girl from small town and her varying colors of life: success and failures, innocence and arrogance; she strides rendering over-the-top performance on her characterization. It's not a long-drawn-out role that Kangana Ranaut dons, but her actions are mindblowing, especially in the latter part. Ditto to Mugha Godse; she does a decent job throughout the show.

Arbaaz Khan excels on the overall show while Arjan Bajwa does justice to his role. No words to describe the tremendous performance of Harsh Chhaya as gay designer. He carries off the show so perfectly on his part. Ashwin Mushran, Samir Soni and Kittu Gidwani tread with naturalistic approach breathing lives on their characterizations.

The auteur has picked in some of the most shocking facts; pathetic scenario of Kangna Ranaut and her wardrobe on the ramp. Was it a replica of what happened to Vikram Rathore's show before 3 months? You've got to ask Madhur about this.

The last few minutes of the flick may get you ungratified for the dragging screenplay, but everything is diminished in climax. Despites, prone to shocking news, the way how Priyanka acts to the situation once the lights are on are so prodigious.

Maybe, Madhur Bhandarkar hadn't focused so precisely on emotional quotients in his previous flicks of Page 3, Corporates and Traffic Signal.  Over here, there are lots of those heart-melting sequences that'll let your eyes soaked with tears. Priyanka Chopra's care and affection for despaired Kangana Ranaut, parents' encouragement for forlorn Priyanka and friends extending their support; they are amazing.

Musical score by Salim-Sulaiman are magnificent and two numbers 'Jalwa' and 'Mar Jaava' grabs your attention. Signature theme of Fashion is played throughout the show in varying tempos and tones, but still they are electrifying your senses. Mahesh Limaye's cinematography is so detailed in each shot and if you are a great analyst of camera works, it's gonna be interesting for you. Niranjan Iyengar throws more life on each character with his dialogues. Of course, costumes and styling are grand fiestas for all…

Valuating 'Fashion' on the whole, it's strongly recommended for all the audiences. Madhur Bhandarkar has limned the real life drama of Fashion World that offer more surprises as well shocks. Not just in multiplexes, the film is sure to make high waves across other centres too. Hats off to entire team for a flawless and brainy show catering to all audiences… Bhandarkar not just presents the drama, but there is something more educative over here.

Verdict: Madhur Bhandarkar – The Real Fashion Maker of Bollywood

Rating : ****

South Top 30 Hero's, Source TV9.Kamal Hassan On Top,next is Pawan

Source TV9 : October 4th 2008

Ranking Points

1. Kamal Hassan ( Tamil ) 47

2. Pawan Kalyan ( Telugu ) 46    

3. Rajinikanth ( Tamil ) 42

4. Surya ( Tamil ) 39

5. Mohan Lal ( Kerala ) 35

6. Vikram ( Tamil ) 31

7. Mamooty ( Kerala ) 30

8. Mahesh Babu ( Telugu ) 29

9. Vijay ( Tamil ) 28

10. Nagarjuna ( Telugu ) 25

20. Venkatesh ( Telugu ) 19

23. Allu Arjun ( Telugu ) 17

27. Junior Ntr ( Telugu ) 13

*Chiru not in list coz he'z politician now

Tollywood ready for Multi-Starrers?Pawan,Mahesh,NTR Together?

Be it Mahesh Babu who agreed to turn ‘narrator’ for Pawan Kalyan’s Jalsa, or hotshot NTR dancing for a brief moment with Venkatesh in Chintakayala Ravi, looks like the new generation stars are beginning to put their egos aside to usher in a friendly and progressive trend.
That reminds us of the golden era of yesteryear actors like NTR, Krishna, ANR and Sobhan Babu, who shared screen space quite often, besides retaining their respective stardoms. However, the subsequent generation — Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Venkatesh and Nagarjuna ––surprisingly didn’t act together in a single film. A couple of years ago, noted filmmaker K Raghavendra Rao ambitiously announced a film with few of these stars but later shelved it, for reasons best known to him.

"Multi-starrers will augur well for the industry since we can come up with more innovative scripts," says a star filmmaker. If a big maker is all set to take up the challenge, then stars could give the option a serious thought to entertain audience on a much bigger scale. "Hindi films came out of the rut only due to multi-starrers and bold themes and now they are on a song," informs a big producer.

Even as the young fans of both the stars love watching multi-starrers, they still have reservations about big combinations. "I am not against multi-starrres per se but NTR should have played a bigger role," reveals Sanjay, fan of Nandamuri clan, who was disappointed with his favourite actor’s blink-and-miss appearance in Chintakayala Ravi. Likewise, Bobby, a Mahesh Babu fan, says "I love to watch Mahesh with other stars. That way, I can watch him in two films every year, instead of one now." Trust the new age stars are thinking different, unlike their immediate predecessors.

Pawan is No.1 of Tollywood! Takes Rs 9 Crore for a movie.

We know that remuneration of star hero\'s is reaching sky high now- a-days. Till now, Megastar Chiranjeevi is on the top chair of this list. With Chiru\'s exit from Tollywood, there is a lot of curiosity in audience about next No.1 in Tollywood. There is tough competition among some hero\'s for this top position. As remunerations are also a part to assess next top hero of Tollywood, we are providing top hero\'s remunerations which are published by \'Hyderbad Times\' newspaper. Powerstar Pawan Kalyan tops the list with mind- boggling Rs.9 Cr per film. We provide you with top-5 remuneration getters of Telugu film industry.

1.Pawan Kalyan - 9 crore    
2.Mahesh Babu - 8 crore
3.NTR - 7 crore
4.Venkatesh - 5 crore
5.Nagarjuna - 5 crore.

So, the above list proves that Pawan\'s power is rocking Tollywood\'s box-office.









Source :Times of India

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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, king khan!

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi is a forthcoming Indian Bollywood film that stars Shahrukh Khan and newcomer Anushka Sharma in pivotal roles.Directed by Aditya Chopra, who earlier directed hits like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) and Mohabbatein (2000), the film is currently in its filming stage and is expected to release on December 12, 2008.

Yash Raj Films commenced the promotion of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi on 2nd November, the birthday of Shahrukh Khan, with a 70 seconds song promo of “Haule Haule”. This was the first time in the history of Yash Raj Films that they released the song promo prior to the music release. With a new marketing strategy, YRF installed 6-feet lenticular standees at all theatres and multiplexes, which gave the viewer a unique view of both the looks of Shahrukh Khan in the movie, when viewed from different angles.

Mahesh Babu with six-pack in his next movie with Trivikram

Six – Pack body is the latest trend in Indian Cinema. Latest to join the six – pack heroes is Prince Mahesh Babu. Inspired by the successful show of six pack body by Salman Khan, Amir Khan, Shrukh Khan and others, Mahesh Babu is likely to appear in a novel six-pack get up in his next film to be directed by Trivikram Srinivas. The Prince is reportedly doing physical exercises very hard for the purpose. 


The film is to begin in Summer 2008. But Mahesh Babu fans are in a big dilemma whether their hero’s next film would hit screen in 2008 or not. Last year, Mahesh Babu’s film Athidi was released but failed to reach the expectations. The Mahesh Babu-Trivikram combo is expected to have a lot of expectations from Prince Fans. For this un–named film, title Varudu is being considered.