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Anyone know which film is this??

http://indiafm.com/news/2007/09/26/10153/index.html

Rs. 20 crore deal?
By Taran Adarsh, September 26, 2007 - 08:59 IST

Multi-crore deals are ‘in’ these days and almost every notable production house is into signing actors/directors for multi-film assignments.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sokk_Qa61V8

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Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Ritesh Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Javed Jaffrey

Direction: Indra Kumar

We’ve become so accustomed to vulgarity in the name of humour that we’ve forgotten to appreciate clean comedies. Which is why I want to roll out the carpet for this week’s new Bollywood release, Dhamaal, a genuinely funny, plot-driven family comedy directed by - surprise, surprise - the king of melodrama himself, Indra Kumar.

The film stars Ritesh Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Javed Jaffrey and Ashish Chaudhary as a bunch of unemployed, down-on-their-luck no-gooders who go in search of a ten-crore rupee treasure they learn about from a dying mob-boss.

As luck would have it, the secret of this hidden treasure also reaches the ears of a crooked cop, played by Sanjay Dutt. So now you’ve got five guys heading in the direction of this stacked-away money, each encountering oddballs along the way, each trying to reach the location before the others so he can claim the full amount himself.

Film Industry cancels all celebrations

By Subhash K. Jha, August 4, 2007 - 16:14 IST

It has been a time of extreme stress for the Indian entertainment industry. While one of Sanjay Dutt’s unreleased films Indra Kumar’s comedy Dhamaal is dubbed and all set for release, the future of his other projects including his friend Sanjay Gupta’s Alibaug which Dutt showed for about a week before abandoning , stands in severe jeopardy.

As for Raj Kumar Hirani whose Munnabhai brand cannot stand on its own without Dutt’s presence, he seems to have gone into a shell. The third part of the ongoing Munnabhai series entitled Munnabhai Chale Amrika now stands suspended, unless producer Vinod Chopra decides to make it with another actor in the lead.

Says a source, “That’s quite unlikely because Vinod is extremely emotional about Sanju Dutt. They’ve worked together in Mission Kashmir .And Sanju has gone on record to say he’d always work for Vinod without asking about his role.”

However a message sent from Raj Kumar Hirani’s cellphone by his assistant says, “Mr Hirani wouldn’t like to speak on Sanjay Dutt’s verdict or other issues. Hope you’ll understand.”

Poor, privileged boy

Empathise with Sanjay Dutt. Don’t forget his advantages. Then think of those ‘wronged’ whom you never saw

It was inevitable, but a lot of Indians — perhaps a majority of them — preferred to believe it wasn’t. Even after the verdict was passed and Sanjay Dutt had been escorted to the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai, SMS polls conducted by television channels showed that 9 out of 10 respondents believed he should have been pardoned. Film industry people, disoriented and shocked, kept protesting that Dutt was a good man and that six years in prison was a punishment totally disproportionate to the crime he had committed. Some pointed to the fact that the judge himself had said — in the slightly off-kilter English that our judges are prone to — that whatever Dutt had done was not “anti-social, ghastly, inhuman, immoral or pre-planned” and did not cause any harm to the general public. So why this awful retribution?

The core fact of being a celebrity, and much more so if you have also been born to celebrity parents, is that millions of people have seen you as you grew older, made your mistakes, turned your new leaves over, matured (or not), had children, changed your views — millions of people have seen you go through life. Millions of people have believed that they have known, if not you, then at least bits of you; they have invested in you their emotions, their moral judgements, and when it comes to Sanjay Dutt’s impossibly tumultuous life, their vast powers of forgiveness. We have seen him lose his mother, an iconic filmstar, at a young age, read about his drug abuse problems, commiserated with his father — another filmstar and to all accounts an exceptionally upright and admirable man — as he nursed Sanjay through his anti-addiction regimes, cheered as he grew in stature as an actor, culminating in that extraordinary turn in a film that brought Gandhi and his ideas back to awed recognition, if not fashion.

Every love affair of his has been painstakingly documented, as has been the death of his first wife, his bitter custody battle for his US-born daughter, and his second marriage and its breakdown. Much of middle-class India disapproved when his lady love of the time forsook him when he was sent to jail for the first time as much as they saw his 16 months in prison as an unfair and malicious fallout of the political establishment in Delhi wanting to teach Sanjay’s father a lesson. Throughout the 26 years Sanjay Dutt has been acting in films, the media has steadfastly maintained that in spite of all his built-in design flaws, he is a wonderful human being — gracious, generous, humble and uncomplicated.

http://www.mid-day.com/hitlist/2007/july/160744.htm