Hello, my fellow Bolly-crazed peeps. Hope everyone enjoyed the first round of this ongoing feature.
I once again bring to you the glitzy, glamorous and starry world of Bollywood as we recap a host of events that entertained us in the last couple of weeks.
Sanjay Gupta threw a grand bash for his forthcoming film directed by Suparn Verma, Acid Factory. Verma debuted with Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena couple years back. The glittery event entertained the cast, crew and a few familiar faces from tinseltown. Acid Factory is set to release later this year.
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The grand premiere of Bollywood film ‘Woodstock Villa’, which marks the debut of Sikander Kher, the son of versatile actor Anupam Kher, and Debutant actress Neha Oberoi was held in Mumbai on Thursday.
Sanjay Gupta, Shobha Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt have produced the film, which is a musical thriller.
National award-winning director Hansal Mehta has directed the film.
Hansal Mehta’s film stars Arbaaz Khan, Gulshan Grover and Shakti Kapoor besides many others.
Woodstock Villa is a film about swiftly changing moralities in today’s world and breaks new ground with every twist.
Music of the film has been rendered by Anu Malik and Shibani Kashyap while the lyrics have been penned by trio Virag Mishra, The Aryans and Manoj Muntashir.
Speaking to the media during the premier of the movie was debutant actor Sikander Kher who said, I would like to say that we have really worked very hard for this film and whole life I have worked towards becoming an actor. I would request all the people to please go and watch this movie. It’s very important for me.
The film has also introduced another debutant actress Neha Oberoi who was very excited about working with Sikander Kher.
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Being in love can be bliss. But what happens when the love of your life loves you a little too much for comfort?
Seeking or showering constant attention from/on your partner can be quite suffocating. Either way, certain lines, under the pretext of jealousy or suspicion, are never meant to be crossed.
Even the seemingly infallible Bollywood stars have their share of grey days and blunders.
While the grapevine is abuzz with rumours of Saif Ali Khan getting a tad too close for girlfriend Kareena’s comfort, Jannat heroine Sonal Chauhan is still recovering from the public humiliation she faced at the hands of her beau.
Previously too, Salman Khan’s violent escapades with ex-flame Aishwarya Rai Bachchan made headlines.
Art imitates life in larger-than proportions. And so, on-screen possessiveness has been effectively exaggerated in several movies. Be it Raj Kapoor and Rajesh Khanna’s jealousy-inflicted husbands in Andaaz and Aap Ki Kasam or Raj Babbar and Amjad Khan’s bad-boy obsession with an indifferent party in Lava and Muqaddar Ka Sikander respectively.
rediff.com takes a look at this breathing-down-the-neck breed in Hindi films:
Shah Rukh Khan in Darr, Anjaam and Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam
In the early years of his career, playing bad caught SRK’s obsession, pun intended.
He stammered to perfection as the neurotic lover-boy in Darr, chased the girl of his dreams with devious devotion in Anjaam and eavesdropped on wifey when not cribbing for her attention 24/7 in Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam.
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A couple of years ago, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rani Mukerji and Preity Zinta were the ruling troika of queen bees in Bollywood.
Almost overnight, you have new favourites Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif being labelled as the soon-to-be queens, thanks to their box-office successes in recent months.
Rani, who’s had a bad innings last year ( Ta Ra Rum Pum and Laaga Chunari Mein Daag ), was tinseltown’s blue-eyed girl until her films crashed at the box-office. Rumours of her marriage to Aditya Chopra didn’t go down well with the audience either.
Close rival Preity seems to have shifted gear to meaningful films and has become a franchisee owner of IPL, giving her no time for films. The Bachchan bahu has wrapped up for Sarkar Raj co-starring hubby Abhishek, walked the red carpet in Cannes Film Festival again and is exploring fresher avenues in Hollywood.
In such a scenario, it is inevitable that filmmakers would move on to newer stars who can offer bulk dates, commitment and box-office guarantee as well. Unlike male superstars, women stars never had that kind of sway over ticket windows anyway. While married male superstars are welcome, attached women superstars are almost outcasts even in 21st century Mumbai tinseltown. Why do top female superstars have such a limited shelf life? Says filmmaker Sanjay Gadhvi, “Globally, a film is sold mainly because of the male actor.
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The stifling 95 degree heat in Mumbai this weekend cannot be purely put down to the onset of the southern Indian summer. The self-satisfied glow of the organisers of the hugely successful Indian Premier League must also be ratcheting up the temperature a degree or two.
Built on a mountain of cash from some of India’s richest individuals, the IPL began 44 days ago with a vision for the future that seemed almost as crackpot as the idea that India would boast one of the world’s booming economies.Suspicion and scepticism greeted its beginning, but ever since Brendon McCullum set alight the opening match, the tournament has gathered strength and exceeded expectations. “It has been an unprecedented blockbuster,” said one of the franchise owners, Vijay Mallya - and his Bangalore team bombed dismally.
The tournament culminates in the IPL play-off weekend, ending with tomorrow’s final, where the organisers will be desperate to show the world their gleaming new toy. VIPs gathered from the world of cricket will be told how the IPL have broken their own targets in the first year.
The franchises expected to break even after year three. For the majority, it has happened in year one. Television viewing figures are astronomical, even by the standards of a country with a population of more than one billion. The huge advertising revenues have enabled people to ignore the inconvenient fact that 20 to 30 per cent of match tickets have been given away.
Finding a critic of the IPL is hard. The few dissenters within the Indian cricket board have been silenced by the £40 million they are set to make from the IPL’s first edition.
“It has been sensational,” said Kepler Wessels, coach of the Chennai Super Kings. “I’ve coached and played all over the world and over different eras and this reminds me very much of the Kerry Packer World Series that I played in. That was when cricket became professional and there is a similar vibe here. This has been a tremendous tournament and it will grow from strength to strength.”
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