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Another good review, let us see.

http://www.indya.com/news/newsDetails.aspx?xfile=2008/May/News_20080508_84

Movie Review: Bhoothnath

Bhoothnath – Hallelujah!

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Aman Siddiqui, Juhi Chawla, Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanshu Chatterji

Akki nakki!
Author: Subhash K Jha Date: 25 Mar 2008

After much dilly-dallying, the actor will join the Bachchans’ Unforgettable tour, but only at select venues

Count Me In! Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar who had opted out of the Bachchan’s Unforgettable world tour due to time constraints has decided to join the tour again , though selectively.

A first good review , a good omen let us see how this plays out.

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By Taran Adarsh, February 13, 2008 - 11:24 IST

Let’s get one thing straight: You haven’t watched anything so opulent, so magnificent like this in a long, long time on the Hindi screen. It’s not just body beautiful, but there’s soul as well.

It requires courage, prowess, patience, aptitude, knowledge, passion and of course, loads of currency to attempt a movie like JODHAA AKBAR. But more than anything else, it requires your firm belief in the subject, the belief to attempt a historical when historicals are considered an absolute no-no in the industry, the belief to spend almost Rs. 40 crores in a film that could go either ways.

Looks like it will not turn out to what I would have wanted it to.

http://www.greatandhra.com/ganews/viewnews.php?id=3348&cat=&scat=12

Film: Athidhi
Rating: 3.25/5
Cast: Mahesh Babu, Amrutha Rao, Murali Sharma, Ashish Vidyarthi, Ajay, Rajiv Kanakala, Kota, Benerjee, Naazar, Sunil, Brahmanandam, Venu Madhav etc
Editing: Gowtham Raju
Camera: Sameer Reddy
Art: Srinivas Raju
Story: Vakkantham Vamshee
Dialogues: Abburi Shiva
Music: Mani Sharma
Producer: Ramesh Babu
Direction-Screenplay: Surender Reddy
Released On: 18th Oct 2007

Story:
The story of the film opens in Delhi. An orphan boy finds shelter in the house of a couple (Rajeev Kanakala and his wife). Their daughter is Amrutha (Amrutha Rao as a child). They all live happily together for a few days. They name that orphan boy as Athidhi. But unexpectedly, Amrutha’s parents get killed by an early teenage sadist murderer. The guy kills them for not giving sufficient money when demanded on road. Athidhi tries to catch him but his efforts go vain. The killer escapes in masquerade. But looking at the pistol in the hands of young Athidhi , people believe him to be the killer of those wife and husband. Amrutha also believes the same.

After a few years, Amrutha grows up and becomes a painter. She lives with Nazar, the Home Minister’s family. She happens to encounter Athidhi (Mahesh Babu) as her savior. The theme is normal that she falls in love with him. She doesn’t know that he is the same guy who lived in her home for a few days. She takes him to her home later. Then he comes to know that he is at right place. But he doesn’t reveal the fact that he is the same boy. His mission is to put an end to the murderer of Amrutha’s parents. He finally knows that he is Kaiser is the gangster. Who is Kaiser? Where he lives? How he looks? How he operates kidnap and murder deeds sitting in remote? Breaking all these shells takes us to the grand finale of the film. How Athidhi reveals the truth to Amrutha? All this makes the rest of the film. Several twists and turns also appear good in the film.

http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/20071015/cover.html&SET=T

Craze For ABS

As Bollywood ups its demands on celebrities staying in shape, urban Indian men wake up to a new body approach. Beauty is now the credo, vanity the overriding motive. Everything goes, surgery to steroids to workouts, in the quest for a perfect six pack. Masculinity has turned a corner.
By Damayanti Datta

There stands the King. He looms above the city skyline, his usual perch, sending out special vibes to the brotherhood of the metro man below. For the first time, he poses in bare-chested glory: white shirt slipping off his shoulders, slab-like pecs glistening, six-pack abs rippling, biceps bulging. His tummy is so washboard, it’s almost unreal. His body is so lean, it’s almost an anatomy chart. And the bubbling crowd under the billboard is abuzz: is the Emperor without his clothes, or most of them, for real or is this just an illusion?

THE ORIGINAL
SALMAN KHAN
This often-shirtless hunk of a man started the body beautiful zeitgeist in Bollywood. He pumps iron three hours a day, cuts down on sleep time and often calls up his trainer in the wee hours for a session.

THE NATURAL
HRITHIK ROSHAN
A fitness fanatic, he dashes off to the gym at the drop of a hat, does 40 minutes of high-intensity weights and jogs or skips for 25 minutes every day. Whew! But he does all that for pleasure. On the food front? No butter, no ghee, no oil. Just grilled, boiled and roasted stuff.

This is from one of the better directors in Telugu, the remake rights were bought by Prakash Raj even before the movie was released. Shetty bhai maybe you should watch this instead of Chirutha.

http://idlebrain.com/movie/archive/mr-happydays.html

Jeevi rating: 3.5/5
Punchline: a journey through college days
Genre: Youth
Type: Straight
Banner: Amigoes Creations

Cast: Sandesh, Nikhil, Vamsi Krishna, Raahul, Tamanna, Gayatri Rao, Sonia, Monali Chowdary and Kamalinee Mukherjee (in a guest role)

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Note: This is an exclusive review from a reviewer that had the opportunity to watch the film at the Toronto Film Festival. Remember, you read it first on BollySpice.com!

Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal, Shefali Shah, Divya Dutta
Director: Rituparno Ghosh

Rituparno Ghosh is a far cry from ordinary. He does not make films for the masses, he does not make films to help people escape reality and he does not make films to revel in the luxuries of money. He makes simple films soaked with emotions—films that make you feel. As Cameron Bailey so rightly put it at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, “Rituparno Ghosh can make a simple conversation between two characters unbelievably dramatic.” After watching The Last Lear, I heartily agree.

There are those that are so inadequately skilled that they throw emotions in your face to trigger laughs and wrench tears from audiences. And then there are those, whose proficiency is so overwhelming that a simple dialogue or gesture can open the gates to a flood of emotions. Rituparno Ghosh belongs to the latter. There are also those whose mind is painted stark black and white that they need to spell everything out as if they are making a film for a two-year old child. And then there are those whose eye is so tuned, who showcase their mastery of detail so vividly that only the most attentive of viewers can bask in the splendor.

Frikking Bastards,whoever did this needs to be frikking lined up and shot or lynched like dogs. Every frikkin 6 months there are blasts in India, it is as if it is a normal expected part of life.

http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/aug/25hydblast.htm
In two near-simultaneous terror attacks, 32 people were killed and 35 injured in two explosions at a crowded park and a popular eating joint in Hyderabad on Saturday evening, three months after the Mecca Masjid blasts.

Twenty six people died and 22 wounded when an explosion ripped through Gokul Chat Shop at Kothi locality at around 7.30 pm, Andhra Pradesh Home Minister K Jana Reddy told reporters in Hyderabad.

Six people, most of them from outside the state, were killed and 13 injured in another blast five minutes earlier in an open air auditorium in Lumbini Park near the state secretariat in the heart of Hyderabad when a laser show was on, he said.

Looks like a winner

http://indiafm.com/movies/review/12661/index.html

By Taran Adarsh, August 24, 2007 - 12:25 IST

When one sits on the fence and analyzes movies, passing scathing and acidic comments on all and sundry, be it films or those associated with it, the same people you’d targeted are bound to examine your film with a magnifying glass, when they get an opportunity.

Sajid Khan is known for his funny-n-witty repartees and in his first major project HEYY BABYY, he not only merges funny situations and emotional moments with aplomb, but also makes a compelling, wholesome film.

HEYY BABYY is not completely THREE MEN AND A BABY. Sure, you draw parallels since both THREE MEN AND A BABY and HEYY BABYY revolve around a trio of confirmed bachelors who unexpectedly discover the joys of fatherhood when a baby is left at their doorstep, but the similarities end there. In fact, the promos in this case don’t open the cards completely. There’s more to this film than masti-mazaak and the three men chasing girls of all shapes and sizes.