Bobby Deol and Priyanka Chopra will be welcoming Danny Denzongpa as part of Chamku where he will play a pivotal role as the character Baba. We’re told, as a teacher, Baba transforms Bobby’s character and makes him a tough guy and explains the meaning of life to him.
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The man who has taken the responsibility of taking Sha-K’s career to the next level is good friend and first director in Ishq Vishq, Ken Ghosh, who is all set to make Bollywood’s most expensive dance film till date called Yahoo.
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This one is strictly for Multiplex movie types who are still caught between the erstwhile art and the nouvaeu experimental cinema. I admire Rajat Kapoor for having attempting this at all. But, but, but (Oh my buts, no pun intended) the movie begins and ends from nowhere to nowhere. Well that’s the feel I got. The story is there but not quite. The performances are great but from entirely unexpected quarters. The music is forgettable. The locales are fantastic. The photography is surrealistic at times but efficiently done. So like the movie where do I begin and where do I end this write up.

The words of the immortal James Douglas Morrison flashed through my mind while watching the movie and crystallized at its end.

“The program for this evening is not new

You’ve seen this entertainment through and through

You’ve seen your birth, your life and death

You might recall all the rest

Did you have a good life?

Enough to base a movie on?”

Apparently Rajat Kapoor thought so about his hero. This dark comedy is about an aspiring actor, brilliantly portrayed by Ranvir Shorey, emulating the countless wannabe heroes in the tinsel town of Mumbai. His idyllic struggle in the moviedom is rudely interrupted when he is becomes an unwilling witness to a murder attempt on an underworld don who, well, looks exactly like him. The don’s enemies devise a plan to takeover the business of reigning Don. So they kidnap our hero, terrorize him, threaten him, pay him and then train him to take the place of his look alike, who is then waylaid and shot. All the pieces are now in place or are they?

He settles down reasonably well in his new role and just when things seem to be going as per plan he falls down from a banister and loses his memory. I won’t play the spoiler and reveal the subsequent developments. The sudden twists and turns in the story keep the viewer interested but somehow one doesn’t quite find what one is looking for. Like I said, almost there but not quite.

The spectrum of human emotions has been explored quite cleverly. The character of Ranvir takes off from being a happy go lucky youth, to a contented family man, to a terror struck brutalized victim, to hopelessness and bewilderment with remarkable aplomb. Vinay Pathak walks through his role of a Mafiosi thug with consummate ease. Neha Dhupia, despite her rapidly expanding bottoms, was a pleasant surprise. Saurabh Shukla and Naseeruddin Shah were the two unexpected disappointments. The first was too loud and Mr Shah too quiet in a most insignificant role. Harsh Chhaya, as the dead don’s brother exuded the menace of a professional gangster.

Despite my reservations, my compliments must go to Rajat Kapoor for being there in frontline of the brave new movie makers. It is a fantastic effort and he can only get better. He has created a laudable mirage. Take what you can from it !

Rakesh Roshan and some of his friends went to a screening of Ashutosh Gowariker’s Jodhaa Akbar on Friday and they came away breathless. Roshan was completely overwhelmed by the film and his son Hrithik’s performance in it.
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Congratulations are in order for Farah Khan and her husband Shirish Kunder as they became first time parents today of triplets, two girls and one boy. The choreographer turned filmmaker became a proud momma early Monday morning accompanied by her husband Shirish and brother Sajid Khan.
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Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. That’s the tagline of Mithya but it could apply in this case. Besides celebrating her boyfriend Ranvir Shourey’s recently released film Mithya, where he is seen in a lead role for the very first time, Konkana Sen Sharma was thrilled to have her mother Aparna Sen present at the premier.
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K- Jo’s new movie is a tribute to his late father Yash Johar. He has decided to name his new production, Dostana, after the 1980 blockbuster of the same name made by his father Yash Johar, and starred Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha and Zeenat Aman.
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Well at least she is in the upcoming film Superstar. Tulip Joshi, one of the two leading ladies in the film plays a conventional heroine who sees a transition in herself as the years pass by, and says she’s happy about it.
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After confirmation that SRK and Kajol are reuniting for K-Jo’s next film, reports are flying around that now the two Khan’s SRK and Salman may be coming together after a long time for a desi remake of the Hollywood Tom Cruise starrer Jerry Maguire (1996). The remake will be put together by Salman’s brother Sohail who has pitched the project to the major film studio UTV a few days back with a bound script in hand.

If things pan out as expected, SRK will be playing a sportscaster similar to Tom Cruise’s Jerry Maguire and Salman will be taking on the role Cuba Gooding Jr. (Rod Tidwell)

The two Khans were last seen acting together in Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam (2002) alongside Madhuri Dixit, other than SRK’s special appearance in Salman’s Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega.

Interestingly enough, SRK made it big in Bollywood by taking on his first lover boy role in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) opposite Kajol, which was first offered and turned down by Tom Cruise.

It is learned that the actor who played Raja opposite Sonali Bendre’s Roja in Dil Hi Dil Mein, (2000) Kunal Singh has indeed committed suicide. He was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his Mumbai home early this morning.
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