In one of my earlier posts I had talked of the uncanny similarity between the three Little Masters: Their short stature, their media-shyness, and their single-minded focus on excellence, pushing the envelope in their field. This year al three have broken significant barriers and established new benchmarks of performance. First Rahman with his two [...]
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Wanted may have been one of the year’s biggest hits but it still earned its hero Salman Khan a Worst Actor nomination. The other nominations in this category are Himesh Reshammiya (Radio), John Abraham (New York), Emraan Hashmi (Tum Mile, Raaz 2) and Harman Baweja (What’s Your Raashee).
The nominations for Worst Actress are Priyanka Chopra [...]
Everyone has a fair idea about the scenario. But I am trying to put things in a quantitative matrix using IMDB user ratings, which are not sacrosanct, but have some significance since the users voting are in thousands. This is for the period 2001-2010
SHARUKH
HTHS: 5.4, One Two Ka $: 5.6, Asoka: 6.6, Chalte Chalte: 6.7, [...]
My Name is Khan opened with a bang at the box office, earning a whopping Rs 85 crores (US $18m), but it saw a drop in business from Monday as the word of the mouth was not good enough to sustain the film.
Though many critics loved it and so did the classes, the masses overall [...]
Devoid of truly dramatic conflict, the written material is lean on ideas, culminating in a finale that’s a mega-mess. Spoiler alert? Wait, wait, wait. Suffice it to say there’s a mega-hurricane to handle, a marooned group of black souls filmed in the shadows and occasional close-ups, followed by bonhomie shared with…you don’t want to know. [...]
“Veer has seen a big fall in collections in week two. The early estimates for week two are around 7.75 crore nett business which means around 75% drop. This will take its two week business to 38.75 crore nett including Telugu version. The Telugu version crashed huge in week two.
Even the best circuit for the [...]
Forget Kareena Kapoor. If she made news for becoming the highest paid actress in bollywood for commanding a fee of Rs 7 crore, so what? Now, the focus has shifted from Kareena Kapoor to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
CHECK OUT: Aishwarya runs for Big B, with Abhishek at heels
The latest buzz doing the round is that [...]
Boi reports:
In circuits like Delhi/UP and East Punjab the film is not only doing better business than a similar sized release like Paa but also a bigger budgeted successful film like All The Best.
These are the films nominaterd for the Oscar:
Avatar: James Cameron and Jon Landau
The Blind Side: Nominees to be determined
District 9: Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham
An Education: Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
The Hurt Locker: Nominees to be determined
Inglourious Basterds: Lawrence Bender
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire: Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness
A Serious [...]
I am willing to stick my neck out and say MNIK is going to flop. Reasons:
1. When essentially commercially directors try to tackle lofty themes most often disaster is the result: ( eg., Imaan Dharam,Desh Premee)
2. It is big fallacy that SRK and Kajol coming together after so many years is a big plus. On [...]
Anupama Chopra – NDTV
I know its only January but I think its safe to say that Ishqiya is the most crackling film you’ll see this year. It’s feisty and sly and very, very sexy.
Which is astounding considering that it is set in Gorakhpur. But in the hands of debutant director Abhishek Chaubey, the badlands of [...]
This was before 3 Idiots.
1. amir, 2. Sharukh. 3.Hritik 4. Akshay. 5. Saif 6. Ranbir. 7. Salman. 8. Abhishek. 9. JOhn Abraham. !0. Shahid
The link: http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/trade/special_features/index.html
1. I don’t know on what basis you all are expecting MNIK to be a huge hit in India or overseas. The last film directed by Karan with SRK and big female stars was just about a hit. The last film written by Karan ( Kurbaan) was a resounding flop,. The last film with SRK-Adi combo [...]
Or you could say the ‘writers’ perspective. This is what I said would hapen. It would make the Indian writers more conscious of their rights. The producers will give them credit, becasuse thery need the books. It is damn hard to create original content. And content is king, as proven by 3 Idiots and countless [...]
2009 has come to a close and the verdict is out. Bollywood is unanimous in declaring 3 IDIOTS as the movie of the year followed by PAA. While AVATAR is the closest contender from Hollywood and KAMINEY too follows close, it’s the antics of Rajkumar Hirani and Aamir Khan, the biggest ‘idiots’ of all, which [...]
As per the industry folks Chandni chowk to China tops the list. Delhi 6, Blue, Dil Bole Hadippa, Kambakt Ishq, Videsh – Heaven on Eaarth are some of the other choices.
Mint made up this list. For soundtracks, the panelists were: Prasoon Joshi, Ram Sampath, Swanand Kirkire and Biswadeep Chattejee ( Sound Engineer). For films, the panelists were, Sriram Raghavan, Siddharth Roy Kapoor ( hed of UTV), Vinayak Azad,a bureaucrat on deputation as regional officer, Central Board of Film Certification, Mumbai.and Nandini Ramnath,the managing editor of [...]
“About five minutes into the film, my fears melted into nothingness, and some two-and-a-half hours later, I stepped out with the satisfaction of having seen a smart movie made by a smart man – and one who clearly adores the early Mani Ratnam. If Balki’s life were a comic book, he’d be a tribal lad [...]
Just coming back after a night show of PAA. So overwhelmed that I had to post this message. The critics who gave it 4 stars or 3 and half stars didn’t just get it. It deserves a 5 star or at least 4 and half stars. It is a high concept film perfectly realised. [...]
1Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (Tips) 2Kurbaan (Sony) 33 Idiots (T-Series)4Tum Mile (Sony) 5Wake Up Sid (Sony)6Love Aaj Kal (Eros)7London Dreams (T-Series)8Blue (T-Series)9Kaminey (T-Series)10Whats Your Raashee? (Sony)
So De Dana Dan yet, even though the film is s released . No Paa yet of course, sadly. But 3 Idiots is already at 3, and shloud easily [...]
I dont see any delusion about MNIK numbers, its pretty straight forward.
Only those must be in delusion who must have ...
Satya Vachan by KJO said as far back as in 2008 !!!
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LBC was an engaging movie(among the best of 2009) but sadly had no genuine star to lead the same.(Camoes by ...
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"But you can hope SRK matches Aamir the Producer on movie’s quality and ROI factor…"
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Thank You God :-) I was having a miserable day up until now. :-)
and Thank You Tiger. 