minissha expectedly with well done abba

WELL DONE ABBA is all set for release and Minissha is expectedly excited about the film which would be her first release since KIDNAP (2008).

“At the heart of it, WELL DONE ABBA is about a father-daughter relationship in a village setup. However, I play an educated girl in the film. Shyam babu is very pro-education of girl child; this is something that he feels very strongly about. He wanted this character to be someone who stands on her own. Also, since the film is a political satire, the subject had to be handled quite carefully”, says Minissha who has mostly played a city girl in her earlier films like BACHNA AE HASEENO, KIDNAP and HONEYMOON TRAVELS PVT. LTD, to name a few.

Arjun to play negative in SRK's Ra.1

By now its common knowledge that Shah Rukh Khan and Arjun Rampal are close friends. The duo have starred together in super-hit films like Don and Om Shanti Om. Shah Rukh even made a fleeting appearance in Arjun’s home production I See You that released a few years ago. Now SRK and Arjun Rampal will once again be seen together in Shah Rukh’s home production Ra.1 to be directed by Anubhav Sinha.

While Shah Rukh plays a super-hero kind of a character in the film, the buzz is that Arjun will be playing his nemesis. The sci-fy film which is expected to go on floors very soon features Kareena Kapoor as the female lead.

katrina: i m not hot and sexy

She may be playing a hot chick in many of her films but Katrina Kaif says in real life, she doesn’t feel that way at all. “I don’t think I am hot and sexy,” she told us recently.

But Kat added that is the way the audience perceives her and she is fine with that.

“I think the audience has an opinion of you and one has to try and not disappoint them.” Katrina also comes up with a quick example. “Someone like Vidya Balan is known for her ethnic roles and people love her in that image. I think I am known for a certain type of fun films. We all have our places and we are comfortable in that.”

Unlike Rakhi Sawant, Rahul Mahajan went ahead and got married on his reality show, Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayega, last weekend. The bride of his choice was 21-year-old Dimpy Ganguly. The other finalists Harpreet and Nikunj Mallika had to go home disappointed.

We introduce you to Dimpy, who tells Rajul Hegde what it’s like being Mrs Rahul Mahajan.

Mr and Mrs Rahul Mahajan

How does it feel to be Mrs Rahul Mahajan?
I am on the top of the world! I feel I am the luckiest women on earth. I am very happy and cannot express myself in words. Rahul is exactly the way I dreamt my man to be.

Road, Movie(2010)

March 8 2010 (Sampurn Wire):Road, Movie: A boring journey
Rating: 1.5 out of 5*
Starring: Abhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Mohammed Faizal and Satish Kaushik
Director: Dev Benegal
Road, Movie is about the journey of Vishnu (Abhay Deol) who travels miles in a very old truck which often breaks down along the way. Driving through the desert state of Rajasthan, he first befriends a young boy (Mohammed Faizal) who works as a helper in a roadside tea stall. The boy hitches a ride with him as he wants to go to another village to hunt for a new job. When the truck breaks down for the first time, the boy walks a long distance in the barren land to hunt for a mechanic. He finally gets one, Om (Satish Kaushik), who agrees to repair the truck on the condition that he would then hitch a ride to the village where a fair is being held. Along the way, the three meet a gypsy woman (Tannishtha Chatterjee) who is walking in the scorching heat and has a small pouch of water. She shares the water with the thirsty threesome and also joins them in the truck. The truck, which doesn’t belong to Vishnu, has a touring cinema inside. Vishnu uses the touring cinema in the truck to show movies to the villagers when he is in a tight spot. Om helps him in starting the dilapi dated projector and, in the process of showing movies in the villages, they also make money. Vishnu is first confronted by a difficult policeman (Virendra Saxena) and later, by the water mafia (Yashpal Sharma and group) along the way, but he manages to save himself, his truck and his travelling friends, thanks to the touring talkies and to the hair-oil bottles he is carrying in cartons to sell at his destination. He finds himself attracted to wards his woman passenger and they even get physical. At one stop, Om passes away while enjoying a movie. Finally, it is time for Vishnu to bid the woman and the boy goodbye.

The story (Dev Benegal) offers hardly anything to the audience in India which is not used to watching such road films. Even the screenplay, penned by Dev Benegal himself, is so slow-moving that it actually tests the audience’s patience. Even a climax in the traditional sense of the word is missing. Frankly, since the hero doesn’t set out on a great mission in the first place, the audience does not experience a feeling of fulfilment in the end, something the public in India is so used to experiencing in every film. In the same sense, there is no heroism of the hero, Vishnu. Even fans of Abhay Deol and his kind of films would feel let down by the fare on offer. Dialogues (Dev Benegal) are natural and witty, but only at places.

Abhay Deol does a fine job and gets into the skin of his character. He is completely in synch with the mood of the film. Satish Kaushik is also just too natural. He endears himself to the audience with his raw audacity. Tannishtha Chatterjee gets limited scope and is good. Mohammed Faizal is cute and supremely confident. Yashpal Sharma leaves a mark. Virendra Saxena is effective.

Michael Brook’s music and background score are good. Michel Amathieu’s cinemato graphy and Yaniv Dabach’s editing are nice. But on the whole, Road, Movie is too dull and dry to make an impact among the audience in India.

Women’s Day Greetings Card

Here are some popular Women’s Day Greetings going around to wish “Happy Women’s Day!”

oscar winner

One of Hollywood’s biggest directors, James Cameron, and his mega blockbuster sci fi epic, Avatar, lost out the Best Picture and Best Director Oscar to ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq war drama, The Hurt Locker.
The film won six Oscars in total and created history for Kathryn Bigelow, who’s become the first woman to win the Best Director prize in the Oscars’ 82-year history. Bigelow called the victory “the moment of a lifetime.” She also happens to be Cameron’s ex-wife. Cameron had said before the ceremony that he wanted her to beat him. “It’d be really cool to lose to her. So far, she hasn’t had the accolades she deserves. I hope she gets it,” a daily had quoted Cameron. Prophetic, indeed!

Women’s Day Quotes

MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI
Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

SRK,Vidhu Vinod make up

Vidhu Vinod Chopra recently kissed and made up with Shah Rukh Khan. Yeah, these two had a difference of opinion before 3-Idiots was launched. Anyway, it is nice that the filmmaker and the actor are polite with each other.

Vinod even managed a few laughs at some jokes that SRK cracked at a film awards night. A source adds another cute dimension to the Chopra-Khan story. Apparently a short while ago, there reportedly was a little competition between Vinod’s son Agni and SRK’s son Aryan, who study in the same school. The source says Agni wasn’t selected for some sports event; and Aryan was. But Agni proved to be a true sport. Taking a cue from their dads, these two little boys also didn’t make too much of a fuss over their own sporting encounter.