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Everyone;
In an effort to keep on improving the NG experience, I wanted to start a “NG Improvement Thread” to make the experience your time on this website better.
Here are some things I’m planning on adding:
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6. Faster NG in busy times.
7. NG Mobile Version.
Match-Fixing Row: Mohammad Asif “Too Dark” For Neetu Chandra, Denies Allegations!
He scores big time…. again!
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/09/04/telluride-review-danny-boyles-127-hours/
Fox´s Tamil Film With ´Ghajini´ Director A. R. Murugadoss!
I have been on NG for a couple of months now and realise that SRK/Aamir is by far the most talked about topic. If I may say, SRK vs Aamir is the biggest trending topic on NG ever since I joined and from what I hear it looks like, same was the case before it.
RKB if you are making any money from advertising on this site please contribute a little to SRK and Aamir. You know its because of them 
Now this article is about me adding fuel to the already burning fire. I am not a big fan of any of the star and here I’d like to bring in my observation about what I think of SRK/Aamir. All the views expressed here are my only so please don’t shoot me if you do not like anything that you read here, we can always have a meaningful dialog around it. I have tried to look at both the actors not from the eyes of a fan but from someone who has been watching both of them keenly for many years now. I think this is what even the public perception would be about them
mostly this is south blockbuster maghdheera correct me if wrong!
Even though we fictionalised characters and didn’t offer our verdict on whether it was murder or suicide, Bob Woolmer’s death was the take-off point for Jannat. And the recent match-fixing scandal could be the trigger for Jannat 2,” says Emraan Hashmi. Hashmi is referring to the News Of The World exposé that caught bookie Mazhar Majeed on camera accepting 150,000 pounds for rigging last week’s Lord’s Test match that ended with Pakistan succumbing tamely to England for the third time in the series. The British tabloid also revealed footage of three Pakistani players, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and captain Salman Butt, accepting a jacket stuffed with currency notes and subsequently bowling three no-balls to order.
In Jannat, Hashmi strolls into the locker room and offers a player washing up Rs 50 lakh, and Rs 25 lakh each for his middle-order colleagues, for throwing a match. The actor admits that even though he was playing to the gallery, he’d met such ‘fixers’ while researching the role: “Like Arjun, they are looking for easy money and unapologetic about how they get it.”
The recent controversy has popped up some names. Do they ring any bells? “No,” Hashmi shrugs. “We were completely in the dark about the identities of these guys. Kunal (director Kunal Deshmukh) and I met them two months before shoot.”
Demoralising revelations
However, there are names mentioned in Fallen Heroes, the book on the website, tehalka.com’s match-fixing investigation, that Hashmi read. He claims he was never an avid cricket buff, but had he been a fan, such revelations, would have demoralised him. “It would have made me question if what I was watching was for real or a fake WWE encounter,” he sighs. Match-fixing allegations have dogged the Pakistani team for some years now. But Hashmi refuses to single out any one country or player. “Even in Jannat, any resemblance was purely coincidental,” he retorts.
Horror films in Hindi cinema tend to follow a similar pattern and Rajeev Virani’s HELP doesn’t tread a new path by any means however still is engaging enough in parts to warrant one watch for lovers of the genre.
Read the rest from HERE
Link: http://www.bollystreet.com/boxoffice/item/102-dabangg-boxoffice-prediction.html
No doubt Dabangg is most awaited movie of 2010. Before promos only Salman fans were awaiting for Dabangg but after promos now every signle person is looking forword to Dabangg. There are very less movies which create huge magic before release due to only trailers. Dabangg is one of them.
Dabangg is releasing on public holiday (Eid) which will give it big advantage. And according to my calculations Dabangg can earn more than 2 cr extra due to Eid on Friday. Weekend will be as par as Housefull, MNIK and Kites but life time will depend on content.
If dabangg will get excellent reports then it will be huge on box office but if will get average reposnce by audience it will be able to collect handsome amount. In worst situation it is able to collect 35-40 cr life time. But I dont see it will be less then 40 cr in any case.
Paradoxical yet true!
Peepli Live-a movie that had rural background as its setup and was focussing on the plight of farmers and actually had a dialect similar to the one used in villages,could not reach the people upon whom actually the movie is based-The Farmers In Plight Due To Drought and Contemplating Suicide!
No doubt,Peepli was a insightful feature film with a somewhat non-satirical depiction of the scheme of things as compared to what was projected but still i have a viewpoint-it failed to make an impact at places where it should have.Such fine piece of cinema becomes a high-end multiplex movie and gets less number of prints due to a notion that it will not find acceptance at smaller centres due to starless cast is a question that needs to be mulled upon! You make a movie on farmers planning to commit suicide due to financial constraints as a result of drought and you cannot drive it home,you cannot make it reach the villages of india,then its a waste of a good cinematic endeavour.
The question is-Why does it happen? It happens due to a combination of huge number of factors. First,the star oriented mentality of india that doesn’t even bother to raise eyelids to a movie low on stars. Aamir,then truly deserves a credit for providing the opening numbers. But then why,the marketing genius failed to penetrate the movie in the interiors. The multiplex audience is not going to go beyond praising Aamir or praising the movie after watching it.Its not going to get affected for long.A techie or businessman or doctor or lawyer will watch it,get immensely impressed,mock the media on twitter/fb for 2 days,discuss it for a week and then move on to We Are Family Or Dabaang. What is important here that the movie was seen as a niche attempt,i rather reject this theory,the movie should have been extensively released in smaller centres without much care for the profits attached at each node of the chain. The subjects in question should have seen that their plight has been taken up and showcased,that their pathetic situation is being amalgamated with entertainment and projected in the right sense to the world. That was important. Sometimes when you are Aamir,and with the high morals of socially relevant films that you claim you make,i would humbly request you not just to patronise such movies but also to carry them beyond their limits of acceptance without thinking about the risks.The loss would be marginal for a biggie like Aamir. What i mean to iterate out here is the art of filmmaking does not stop at making a movie well,it applies to marketing it and marketing it to a section of audience that should behold the cinematic piece specially. Marketing was done but at places in U.S.A. and for 3 Idiots you take the pain of visiting small towns!! Had the same money been invested to screen the movie even at select centres in the smaller centres,it would have made a definite impact,going by the fact that i was personally impressed.Only Vidarbha farmers are not the only farmers that india has!!
We always argue about the quality of movies made,i feel this is a futile debate. The debate should be,whether the movie reaches its true audience. Only a raped woman can understand the plight of being raped and any documentary showing the lives and hardships of such women should first reach her rather than social elites and upper middle class people who actually read about it daily,in their personal favourite dailies and sympathise and sympathise and sympathise and just symapthise! A short feature film on girl trafficking should first be screened at smaller centres as it might just open the eyes of people around to be aware of the problems and the scheme of things and how they are being cheated! The point of disagreement is not only on Peepli but on any such movie that does not reach its true audience. Of course,everyone can watch any film that they want to,but the problem arises when the print is not allotted to smaller centres around which many of the times the subjects in question reside. Kjo releasing WAF mostly at multiplexes can be understood but Aamir who i brand as a sensitive film-maker should not have done a blunder by thinking about a Hit/Profit and release the movie only in bigger/moderately bigger centres. The villages of Bihar/U.P./interiors of M.P. might just never got the chance of seeing it.All this when the movie was already in profit based on non-theatrical revenues. That is why i wasn’t in total disagreement when Pritish Nandy said that SRK and Aamir have turned businessman,one is busy paying attention to the world,other does patronise rooted movies but the true audience completely misses it,thanks to the distribution plans. Sometimes when you make socially relevant movies,make it for the joy of it,make it for the supposed impact of it,not just for the statistical datas associated post-release of the movie! That defines cinema.Cinema is not Box Office.Of course i cannot totally discard the B.O. but then B.O. is not eveything especially for such true and delightful endeavours.
Well to be honest inspite of bad reviews i was hopeful, as i m eternal hopeful and believer in magic of cinema, and thus i get punished and deservingly. But more disappointing was the fact that as i had gone for my mom, and she also failed to connect with the movie.
I can describe my grievance on why australia, but hey we all knew it and so moving on .. but hey heck as Q bhai says if todays bollywood would make ramayan.. he would set it in america or europe, stating that ram and sita in India didnt made sense!!
But the problem i felt for movie was a good plot was wasted, as always u feel when good theme movies disappoint horribly and painfully like for recent eg. Khatta meetha. So instead of criticising i will just add what would have made difference for me. (spoilers, hell m sure no ones gonna watch it 
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Peepli [Live] grossed over 2 crore nett in week three to take its total to around 29 crore nett. The business was much steadier in week three than week two. Peepli [Live] should cross the 30 crore nett mark now. The approx circuit breakdown is as follows.
Mumbai – 55 lakhs
![Karan Arjun1 KARAN ARJUN [On The Sets]](http://www.naachgaana.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Karan-Arjun1.jpg "Karan Arjun [On The Sets]")
Hrithik posted this picture on his twitter account saying that-”Wow,just came across this pic from the sets of karan arjun when I was assisting dad as the clapper boy!! An amazing memory!! Enjoy.:)”
(the article rightly points about ‘cancer’ Fairness cream promoting stars, and i found it quite intriguing read, and also disappointed why such a great star/s does such ads and that raises question of social moroaity, private view of superstar, in my definition though its his life but isnt there some responsibilities.. to be frank m quite 50-50 on this but certainly not the cancer promoting fairness cream (if true) ) thnks tyler satyam shot
Our Bollywood superstars seem to be assured of our unwavering, uncritical devotion.
Stupid is as stupid does. No one illustrates this truism better than our current crop of Bollywood stars. Take, for example, Anil Kapoor who recently offered this fawning defence of Hollywood’s history of racism: “I have worked all over the world, and I have never seen this kind of equality when it comes to being offered roles. If you are talented, can draw people, deliver the quality of work and bring in the money, [Hollywood] will accept you even if you are from Timbuktu.” A Hollywood star, irrespective of stature, would be flayed alive for saying anything remotely as absurd. In new India, however, this kind of foolishness is merely par for the course. Where a Brad Pitt must carefully measure each word or action to protect his image, our A-list celebrities preen and prattle with impunity, assured of our unwavering, uncritical devotion.
We Are Family could not make much impact on its first full day despite doing well on its partial release day Thursday. The business on Friday was around the 3 crore nett mark.
The near 5.75 crore nett business till the end of business on Friday is good but the the drop in business despite more shows at many theatres on Friday is not a good sign.
The fate of the film will be decided by its business on Saturday and Sunday, it will need to show healthy jumps as compared to Friday business. The Delhi and East Punjab area is showing best business.
Can’t believe I spent 2k+ bucks to watch Hrithik jump from tree to tree.." - Ihab " - cinematic . will add to favourites because of my habit of forgetting stuff 
" - Manish " - Manish
