During the 80s and early 90s it was the time for stars like Govinda who made a fortune by doing only comedy movies. Now directors like Deepak Tijori tried their hands at comedy and made a remake of a Tamil film but that too bombed at the box office. Director Priya Darshan is the only one who is churning out comedy after comedy and that too all hits. The audience loves Shah Rukh for his comedy in movies like Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge and Pardes. Salman Khan too did good to his sinking career with comedy film Maine Pyar Kyon Kiya.

• Aage Se Right Starring Shreyas Talpade, Shiv Pandit, Mahi Gill, Kay Kay Menon, Shruti Seth
• Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani Starring Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Upen Patel…
• All The Best: Fun Begins Starring Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu
• Barah Aana Starring Naseeruddin Shah, Tannishtha Chatterjee
• Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge Starring Kunal Khemu, Paresh Rawal, Soha Ali Khan, Sonu Sood
• Dulha Mil Gaya Starring Ruk ruk Khan, Sushmita Sen, Fardeen Khan
• Do Knot Disturb starring Govinda, Ritesh Deshmukh, Lara Dutta
• Daddy Cool Starring Suniel Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani, Aarti Chabria
• Ek Se Bure Do Starring Arshad Warsi, Rajpal Yadav, Govind Namdeo, Yashpal Sharma, Virendra Saxena

There was an era when dancing was only done by the women. Soon the men were expected to shake a leg too. This was a waterloo for many action heroes. Stars like Dharmendra and his son Sunny Deol are terrible dancers and is very obvious when they dance. Then came in stars like Amitabh, Jeetendra and Rajesh Khanna who could dance something if not very well. It was Mithun Chakraborty who took the stage at that time. He did movies based on dance like Disco Dancer and brought in the disco craze into the country. Dancing then moved to another high when stars like Amir, Salman and Shah Rukh came in. The new generation of actors were all natural dancers. But let’s not forget to give credit to some actors who were not very good dancers but worked very hard to make it big in the dance industry. Topping this chart will be Saif Ali Khan and apna Big B. Saif was called the star with two left feet but after Oole Oole he changed his image completely. Just look at Amitabh Bachchan in Chali Chali or Rock and roll soniye and he will teach you how dance your way gracefully, stylishly and youthfully to success.
When we say dance there are some actresses who are called the goddess of dancing. To name a few lets start with Rekha, Sri devi, Madhuri, Urmila, Karishma and Aishwarya. If you are an actress who can’t dance in bollywood you can survive. So, all the actresses can dance a bit at least. The ones who excel are the ones who can dance gracefully with complete facial expressions and the smile on their faces. Rekha won a national award for Umrao Jaan where she plays a courtesan. This involves very intricate dancing with a different expression for every word. Each of the above mentioned actresses has played roles in major dance movies like Dil to Pagal Hai, Hum apke hain kaun and Devdas. People still can’t get over the magic of Sri Devi’s Na jaane kahaan se aaye hai, Rekha’s Dil cheez kya hai, Madhuri’s Didi tera devar deewaana, Urmila’s rangeela re, Karishma’s Mujhko hue na khabar and Aishwarya’s Crazy kiya re.

Choreography is now the most in thing. The top dance directors now are Saroj Khan, Farah Khan, Vaibhavi Merchant, Bosco and Caesar, Ahmed Khan, Ganesh Hegde and Ganesh Acharya. Each one of these directors has a style of their own. Saroj Khan is the senior most and has many awards and hit songs to her credit. Farah is a very different director and has many unusual songs to her credit like Chaiya Chaiya, which was shot on top of a moving train. She is also the one who brought in the Hritik Roshan style of dancing. She is the one who brought out the best of his dancing abilities in his first movie Kaho Na Pyar hai. Farah and Ahmed slowly graduated from only choreography to directing their own movies too. Farah’s first movie was Main Hoon Na with the king Khan and it was a very big hit.

Ahmed made his debut with Lakeer with Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty and John Abraham but he wasn’t that lucky and the movie bombed badly. Ganesh Hegde released his own pop album which did okay business. Another choreographer who is exceptional is Shaimak Davar. He runs a lot of dance classes in different cities and if he is in your city better join up. Latest heart throb Shaahid Kapoor was his student and watching him dance is a real pleasure now.

Ganesh Acharya is a director who is so fat but he is talented beyond words. He has choreographed songs for Lagaan and his biggest hit was Koi Aaye Toh Le jaaye with Mamta Kulkarni. Vaibhavi Merchant is the director who is making Hritik Dance to her moves these days. She is a young lady who has proved to the world that anything can be achieved by hard work.

The funda of forced dance sequences in movies is at its peak. If there isn’t place for a dance song in the movie then a special song is shot either to introduce the characters as it was done in Dus or a promotional song is shot like its been done for Kaal. This has also given birth to the concept of the item girl. These girls are only good at dancing and are only used to increase the viewer ship of the movie. The top item girls right now are Rakhi Sawant, Yana Gupta and Isha Kopikar.

Whether it’s a tragic song or a suspence there has to be some form of dance. Bollywood dance is made up all forms of dancing. There are songs like Maar Dala which is in the classic form of dancing and there are songs like Babuji which has no particular style at all.

“The schedule is over! I am broken n bruised, and resting today surrounded by family. There is nothing like love and cuddles to heal the body and soul,” says the actor. Roshan has been reported to have been rehearsing aloud on his balcony pracitising hard to ensure that he gives out his best for the film which is slated to be one where he could easily bag multiple awards.

Guzarish is the second film after Koi Mil Gaya where he plays a medically unfit character.

He is not only celebrated for his outstanding acting talent but also known for gravity defying dance moves.
Hrithik is a class performer, who knows how to push boundaries every time he takes up new acting assignments. News has it that in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s much awaited flick ‘Guzaarish’, the hunk of an actor will be playing a paraplegic, who performs lyrical jazz dance for the first time in any Bollywood film.

Talking to a news daily, a close source said, “It’s the first time lyrical jazz as a dance form will be seen in a Hindi film.”

Recently, Hrithik too spoke about his amazing dance experience on social networking site Twitter by saying, “Did lyrical jazz dance 4 Guzaarish. Best dance experience ever! Thanks to Ashley Lobo and his team! His dancing is like an out of body experience!”

Lyrical jazz is an exotic dance form where dancer uses expressions, thereby inducing deep desires, emotions and feelings in an exquisite manner.

Cast: Amir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhvan, Sherman Joshi, Boman Irani

Director: Rajkumar Hirani

3- Idiots is again a fantastic outcome from the Mr. Rajkumar Hirani and perfectionist Amir Khan. This time it was altogether a new pair that proved the success. The perfect film 3-idiots is the result of two thought process of two perfectionist coming together to complete the project.

It is amazing movie conveying the message to the viewers leaving in this competitive world. The message is don’t follow what others say but follow what comes from your within. The movie offers you humor, outstanding performance from the perfectionist and speed for which you will never get bored throughout watching movie.

According to me, it can be only Amir khan who can play the role in this movie. He was so dedicated in the movie that it was an amazing experience for me to watch 44 year old guy playing a 20 year old year student role. I am sure no one can doubt about his age, it was so perfect. Sharman and Madhvan were other 2-idiots whose performance was equally well. It was totally new chemistry but really good one. Boman Irani with his mind blowing acting, Kareena also too good but was having less scope as it was all about 3-idiots.

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Abhishek Bachchan’s wife Aishwarya Rai has already acted in Hollywood movies like ‘Pink Panther’ and now hubby dear seems to be taking inspiration from her to go for an international audience through Hollywood flicks. However, Abhishek Bachchan, who is son of legendary Amitabh Bachchan, made it clear that he was not interested in doing bit roles in Hollywood flicks and instead would continue to dance around trees in bollywood flicks.

Abhi went a step further and predicted that the day was not far when Hollywood biggies would be doing roles (Arnold Schwarzenegger has already done in ‘Kambakkht Ishq’ starring Kareena and Akshay Kumar) and dancing in them along with forty other dancers.

However, on a serious note Abhishek Bachchan felt that in this age of globalization the boundary walls were crumbling very fast between the cinemas of different countries. For example, even bollywood flicks like ‘Paa’ employed ace make up artists from Hollyood for the character of ‘Auro’ played by Amitabh Bachchan.

The exchange of technical expertise, especially for special effects from Hollywood and other parts of the world, has already begun and the process is likely to gain further momentum in coming days. All this ultimately will blur the lines drawn between cinemas of different countries and the artists would have freedom to work and experiment anywhere.

* Best Actor :
Mohanlal (Bhramaram, Ividam swargamanu)
* Best Film :
Pazhassi Raja
* Best actress :
Kavya Madhavan ( Banaras )
* Millennium star :
Mammooty ( Pazhassi Raja )
* Best new comers :
Nishan, Archana kavi (Neelathamara)
* Best Director :
Ranjith (Paleri Manikyam)
* Best Char role :
Sreenivasan (Passanger ), Shwetha menon ( )
* Best Screenplay :
Ranjth Shankar
* Lyrics :
Vayalar sharath Chandra Varma
* Music :
Deepak Dev
* Singers :
Shankar Mahadevan (Puthiya Mukham ), KS Chitra (Pazhassi Raja )
* Best pair :
Jayasurya, Roma (Uthara Swayamvaram)
* Special Jury Awards :
Manoj K Jayan(Pazhassi Raja), Kaniha(Pazhassi Raja), Sharath Kumar(Pazhassi Raja)

Producer: Shawn Levy, Ira Shuman, Robert Simonds
Director: Harald Zwart
Starring: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Alfred Molina, Andy Garcia, Emily Mortimer, Yuki Matsuzaki, John Cleese, Lily Tomlin, Jeremy Irons
Music: Christophe Beck.

Film Released on: 30 June 2009

The film is the sequel to the 2006 film of the same name starring Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau. This time around, the inspector must team up with detectives from other countries to rout the daring cat burglar, The Tornado, who has returned after a decade of inactivity. Aishwarya plays a criminology expert from India named Sonia.

The classic Blake Edwards Pink Panther 2 films starring Peter Sellers as the clumsy Inspector Jacques Clouseau cast a long shadow over the current modern remakes starring Steve Martin as the iconic lead character. Any comparison would find the new film lacking in the sophistication of the original movies. So, it’s with a jaded view that I began viewing the new “Pink Panther 2” and I will be honest, my main reason for seeing this was to see how Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai Bachchan would do in a full blown Hollywood film, but I’ll talk more about that later.
To be honest, the best part of the ”Pink Panther 2” is the animated Pink Panther short that is shown while the beginning titles scroll by. The wit, humor and physical comedy harkens back to the original Pink Panther concept. Unfortunately, once the actual live action film begins, we are treated to a series of slapstick moments that seem to have been strung together on a wafer (or half a wafer) thin plot. Director Harald Zwart presents everything in a very straightforward manner that almost leaves the viewer with an extreme feeling of watching a generic movie in a generic world that fits every stereotypical mold you could ever imagine. In other words, there is none of the panache that Blake Edwards breathed into the classic films that this remake is based on. ]]> http://www.bestindianfilms.com/blog/new-filmpink-panther-2/feed/ 0 http://www.bestindianfilms.com/blog/film-review-bachelor-party/ http://www.bestindianfilms.com/blog/film-review-bachelor-party/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:43:58 +0000 vcode http://bestindianfilms.com/blog/?p=199 It was way back in 2005 when director Isshaan Trivedi’s 7 1/2 PHERE had released. Ever since then he has completed two more films, BACHELOR PARTY and SALE UPTO 50%. Moreover, he is ready to kick start his Himesh Reshammiya venture RADIO. He is frustrated though that BACHELOR PARTY, which was expected to release by 2007 end, is yet to see the light of the day.

Starring Jimmy Sheirgill and Arbaaz Khan in the lead, BACHELOR PARTY features Nauheed Cyrusi and Madhuri Bhattacharya as the leading ladies with Ninad Kamat and Sharat Saxena in supporting roles.

‘The principal shooting of  was wrapped up quite fast. In fact we were all set to arrive on 1st April this year but because of IPL as well as the strike, the bollywood film has been further pushed. It is indeed frustrating because the film has shaped up really well and is just the kind of light hearted entertainer that you want to watch in these stressed times’, says Isshaan who got some good critical acclaim coming his way with his debut entertainer here.

It’s just that the ‘man of commitment’ himself is nowhere to be seen in the entire second half as his henchman pairs up with Amarjeet to do rest of the killing. Worse, one doesn’t quite understand who is killing whom and what’s the purpose behind that?

So Amarjeet presses the trigger for the first time and just when he gets hold on a fake passport to fly back into India, courtesy Tulip, he decides to skip his flight and return to the mean streets.

By the way, Tulip plays a girl in a dance bar who ‘cannot be afforded’, as stated by one of her junior colleagues. She sings ‘bhojpuri’ songs, speaks English, lives in Mauritius, fears a Pakistani don and falls in love with an Indian. A true ambassador of globalisation.

Talking about Mauritius, one needs to give a rap on the knuckles of the person who created that fancy software that plays on Amarjeet’s laptop. Mauritius is spelt as ‘Muritus’ along with at least a couple of more English errors that is embarrassingly displayed on the big screen. Moreover, the film’s tagline ‘Love Among Gun Shots’ isn’t syntactically correct either! But then who would have cared about such minor things when there are bigger and far more glaring loopholes in the indian films…

New York that has John Abraham, Neil and Katrina kaif in lead role begins in the United States in 2008 with the arrest by the FBI of Omar (Neil Nitin Mukesh), a young Muslim man originally from Delhi, after guns were found in the trunk of a taxi cab he had been driving.

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New York features John Abraham, Katrina Kaif and Neil Nitin Mukesh, and is set against the backdrop of the 9/11 terror attacks on the New York city.Neil is then taken into custody and interrogated by FBI Agent Roshan (Irrfan Khan), also a Muslim man originally from South Asia who has been living in the United States for twenty years.

After a period of time, Omar discovers that he is wanted by the FBI in order to spy on a former college friend, Samir or Sam (John Abraham), whom he hasn’t seen in seven years and who the FBI believes is a terrorist. In the process, he discovers that Sam has married Maya (Katrina Kaif), another college friend, and that they have a young son, Danyal (Aidan Wagner).

Roshan orders Omar to tell him everything he knows about Sam. The film then flashes back to September 1999 when Omar begins New York State University as an international student on scholarship. He is befriended by Maya who is his student counselor.

The average occupancy in multiplexes for the weekend stood at around 80-85 per cent, the highest since January, according to trade experts who track films’ collections. This was mainly on account of the release of New York and Terminator Salvation.
This is significant for both Bollywood and the 250-plus multiplexes, as they saw the monthly box office collections plummet to around Rs 10-15 crore, especially for April and May, when film producers and exhibitors were on a strike, which saw almost no new Hindi film release.