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A Minute With: Sujoy Ghosh
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Sujoy Ghosh’s new film “Kahaani” has an unusual storyline. A pregnant Vidya Balan scours the city of Kolkata looking for her husband — a man no one seems to have heard of.
For a male-dominated industry that relies on its leading men, director Ghosh says he had no qualms about making a thriller with a woman protagonist and no heroes.
Box-office billion no big deal in Bollywood
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Once a pipe dream for most filmmakers, a billion-rupee haul at the box-office is slowly becoming the norm for Bollywood films, thanks to the rising number of screens and a focus on smaller towns.
Four films — “Ready”, “Singham”, “Bodyguard” and “Ra.One” — crossed the billion-rupee (100 crore rupees) benchmark in 2011 while Karan Malhotra’s “Agneepath” achieved the milestone this week.
Gali Gali Chor Hai: Well intentioned, badly made
Given that director Rumy Jaffry’s film “Gali Gali Chor Hai” deals with the burning issue of corruption, one would assume there would be no lack of material. Jaffry concentrates on corruption at the lower level and the everyday struggle of the common man who has to deal with this malaise as he tries to get on with life.
Akshaye Khanna plays Bharat, a meek bank cashier who lives in a dilapidated house with his wife, father and a pretty paying guest. When he rubs off a local politician the wrong way, trouble starts.
@prashantdr if you have a problem with the story, pls email me. Don’t make blanket statements without checking with the reporter.
India’s Razzies poke fun at “indulgent” Bollywood
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Bollywood stars better watch out. Movie fans in India are handing out their own version of the Razzies, the annual Oscars spoof that spotlights Hollywood’s worst performances.
The second Ghanta (bell) Awards and the fourth Golden Kela (golden banana) awards are doing the rounds of social media networks, with fans voting in various categories for the worst films of 2011.
Ghanta, Golden Kela poke fun at “indulgent” Bollywood
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Bollywood stars better watch out. Movie fans in India are handing out their own version of the Razzies, the annual Oscars spoof that spotlights Hollywood’s worst performances.
The second Ghanta (bell) Awards and the fourth Golden Kela (golden banana) awards are doing the rounds of social media networks, with fans voting in various categories for the worst films of 2011.
Agneepath: Revenge re-packaged
While watching Katrina Kaif gyrating to “Chikni Chameli”, more than halfway through Karan Malhotra’s “Agneepath”, I couldn’t help but wonder about the similarities between the song and the film. Both are adaptations of an original product (“Chikni Chameli” has been adapted from a popular Marathi song), both have ample production value and some great moves, but they are also ample proof that remaking an original may not always work.
Malhotra’s version of “Agneepath”, to be fair, is not a direct copy and is quite different from Mukul Anand’s 1990 version. A lot of the plot points of the original film have been swapped for newer stories, but the gist of the story remains.
Are they going to ban shoes now?
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