Big Boss 7 Contestants Revealed

With the seventh season of the reality show Bigg Boss starting soon on COLORS on September 15, 2013, a lot of hype is created among the masses about the probable contestants. As per the latest update, the below mentioned names are the latest additions to the speculated list of the Bigg Boss house

• 1. Gauhar Khan
• 2.Anita - Advani ( Rajesh Khanna one)
• 3.Kushal Tandon - TV actor
• 4. Apoorva -Shilpa Agnihotri
• 5.Pratyusha Banerjee (Balika Vadhu)
• 6.DJ Andy 
• 7.Kamya Punjabi
• 8. Tanisha Mukehrjee - Kajol's Sis
• 9.Hezal - Bodygaurd one
• 10.Sangram Singh
• 11,Ratan Rajpur - Swayamwar one

Source - http://in.screen.yahoo.com/big-boss-7-contestants-revealed-053000928.html

What Happens When a DESI returns from USA !!! - Hilarious

21. Tries to use Credit Card in road side Hotel.

20. Drinks and carries Mineral Water and always speaks of Health. (proving to be very health conscious).

19. Sprays DEO such so that he doesn't need to take bath.

18. Sneezes and says 'Excuse me'.

17. Says "Hey" instead of "Hi".

Says "Yogurt" instead of "Curds".

Says "Cab" instead of "Taxi".

Says "Candy" instead of "Chocolate".

Says "Cookie" instead of "Biscuit".

Says "Free Way" instead of "Highway".

Says "Got To Go" instead of "Have To Go".

Says "Oh" instead of "Zero", (for 704, says Seven Oh Four Instead of Seven Zero Four)

16. Doesn't forget to crib about air pollution. Keeps cribbing every time he steps out.

15. Says all the distances in Miles (Not in KiloMeters), and counts in Millions.(Not in Lakhs)

14. Tries to figure all the prices in Dollars as far as possible (but deep down the heart multiplies by 43 times).

13. Tries to see the % of fat on the cover of a milk pocket.

12. When need to say Z (zed), never says Z (Zed), repeats "Zee" several times, if the other person unable to get, then says X, Y, Zee (but never says Zed).

11. Writes date as MM/DD/YYYY & on watching traditional DD/MM/YYYY, says "Oh! British Style!!!!"

10. Makes fun of Indian Standard Time and Indian Road Conditions.

9. Even after 2 months, complaints about "Jet Lag".

8. Avoids eating more chili (hot) stuff.

7. Tries to drink "Diet Coke", instead of Normal Coke.

6. Tries to complain about any thing in India as if he is experiencing it for the first time.

5. Pronounces "schedule" as "skejule", and "module" as "Mojule".

4. Looks suspiciously towards Hotel/Dhaba food.

Few more important stuffs:-

3. From the luggage bag, does not remove the stickers of Airways by which he traveled back to India, even after 4 months of arrival.

2. Takes the cabin luggage bag to short visits in India, tries to roll the bag on Indian Roads.

And The Ultimate One:-

1. Tries to begin conversation with "In US ...." or "When I was in US..."

Keep smiling 

Source - https://www.facebook.com/antireservationforumofindia?ref=stream

Movie Review - The Croods

This animation movie, set in the primitive age, takes us back down the evolution ladder to the era of cavemen. The Croods, a family of six, are the only survivors of natures wrath, among their clan. Living under the pretext of “never not be afraid”, led by the patriarch Grug, the Croods never leave their cave except for the rare occasions where they hunt in a pack.

The Croods are so primitive that they don’t know about brains or concept of ideas. Now they encounter a more advanced being, Guy, they are taken on a whole new adventure of exploration, giving up much of their previous beliefs in order to survive through the destruction of their world.

An interesting parallel story is of their rebellious teenage daughter, Eep. Eep falls for Guy, their saviour and much against, her father’s will. The egocentric father is not impressed by Guy’s innovations, whereas the rest of the family seems to like the Guy.

And like all DreamWorks movies, this too has a happy ending. Grug realizing his strength is his (physical) strength and they need to stop living in fear and start living in the light.

A few highlights of the movie are the family’s hunting tradition. The family hunts in a pack, which has an uncanny resemblance to a ruby game gone awry. Sandy the hyper- active, ferocious baby, with the speed of a road runner and fangs meant for a kill, is the families hunting tool- “release the baby!” is a common call. Another recurrent occurrence is Grug’s stories, with the epitome of them being; anything new is bad, curiosity is bad, the light is bad. Break these rules and “Bamb!” a squash of the hand indicating you’re no more.

The skillful animation, lavished with a colourful, imaginative palette is sure to score points with the younger audience. The setting, a merge of the marine and terrestrial world blended with make believe characters, is subtly interwoven in the narrative. Other than that, The Croods is not one of the best works of DreamWorks. Having set the bar high with their previous productions, The Croods is more of a let down. Lacking in humour which is supposed to be the main essence of the movie, apart from a few feeble jokes, the movie is rather bland. For an animated movie with its audience being kids and teens this aspect fails to captivate the audience and absorb them in the story. Apart from Eep, Guy and Grug, the other characters in the movie lack a personality, restricting the audience to connect with either of them.

On the whole the story fails to make a lasting impression.
Rating - 2.5 Out of 5

Review - Bombay Talkies

Movie Review: Bombay Talkies

This pizza has four slices, the toppings on each of them is a tad different from the others. You never seem fulfilled with only one slice and always look forward to the next one. Each one has been cooked specially for you by different chefs and each chef has his own peculiarity to deliver. It completely depends on you which slice you like the most but be sure that you would hate none.

What happens when four film makers like Dibakar Bannerjee, Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Karan Johar come together to celebrate 100 years of Bollywood? All they do is to make sure that you become a part of that celebration. When I walked into the movie hall, I had high expectation from the movie. And when the high expectations are met with brilliant narration, the experience is no less that exhilarating.

Karan Johar knits a beautiful and sensitive narration of a bunch of urbanes finding eventual solace in realities that they find hard to face. He does an absolute stunning job in the genre of relationships and the music deftly carries the movie forward. Dibakar Bannerjee’s movie starts with his trademark colloquialism and then takes us through the pangs of reality through the lens of a person who earns a living by selling eggs but is unintentionally drawn into a tiny sequence of a movie film. Nawazuddin Siddiqui delivers a stellar performance. Bannerjee’s hold on his characters and sheer simplicity makes an outstanding impression.

Straight after an intermission, you are drawn into the kids’ world through Zoya Akhtar’s deft lenses. She manages to carry the essence of the life of teenagers and through simplicity even manages to convince her audience. But then I was expecting a lot more. I found its essence pretty much bizarre for the comprehension of most of us. Simply because hardly anyone of us would have thought the way she makes her characters think, even in childhood.

Anurag Kashyap’s movie is a powerhouse, right from the beginning till the end you are always with the story, in fact inside it almost. You can feel the character he builds, who to fulfil his father’s ultimate wish undertakes a journey to meet the movie legend Amitabh Bachhan to make him eat the ‘murabba’ which his father intends to eat bit by bit all through the rest of his life, hence becoming Mr. Bacchan’s ‘Shabri’. It may seem a little too simplistic but it keeps on building and the ending leaves you absolutely spellbound with a smirk on the side of your lips.

The trailer of the movie claimed that the movie would be ‘celebrating the emotion of Bollywood’ ….and without doubts, it does justice to every single syllable of the epithet.

Source- http://www.jammag.com/

Review - Ek thi Daayan - New Era Daayan .

Director: Kannan Iyer.
Star-Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin, Huma Qureshi, 
Konkona Sen Sharma
Music Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Producer: Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor, Vishal Bhardwaj
Genre: Musical Thriller
Release Date: April 18, 2013





Review - 

This Horror thriller movie is from the kitty of Indian cinema's creative minds  ie  Vishal Bharadwaj and Ekta Kapoor. We already had a glimpse of 'Dayaan' in Bhardwaj's Movie 'Makadi', but ETD  finally found a pride of place where Chudail  actually deserves to be – horror film genre. The movie is based on short stories of Mukul Sharma (Konkana's real life father).
Story revolves around, Bobo(Emraan Hashmi) , a magician , his hallucination n past experiences with 'Dayaan' and 3 womaniya's  (Kalki Koechlin, Huma Qureshi, Konkona Sen Sharma) who glued audiences in Playing 'Guess the Daayan'. 
I will not reveal the story as it will take out the gist of the movie and will spoil total movie watching experience.
The first half is all about Bobo's childhood ,to where the audiences are taken through a hypnosis session on Bobo. This portion of the movie is awesome, Mukul Sharma's story brings  the daayan to our very own city of Mumbai, into our building.The production team has done a wonderful job with the sets.There is a creepy lizard shown in it, which is really scary , at least for people like me who have a phobia for reptiles. The story evolves with concepts like The 'Ulta pair' of indian Chudail ,Long lusturous 'choti' ,No. 666,and kid eating 'Dayaan' which glued the audiences in the first half.
The second half is not much exciting,  the script is predictive but with little twist as the director wants the movie to end. Though the first half gave a  new perspective to horror movie lovers but again the latte half got trapped with the stereotype.But at least the director didn't show the cliches 'Tantric Baba' kind of end in it, that's what makes it refreshing than any other jadoo-tona witch movie.ETD manages to maintain a great balance
The casting is good, Emraan is good in his character, above average with no overacting .He played undertone and generous enough to let the ladies play their roles.The one who shines apart among the three ladies is Konkana Sen Sharma, with her unconventional beauty n looks.She is successful to scare the audiences.She did a wonderful job.She has delivered several hard-hitting performances in past of her movies but ETD shall be one of her most memorable performances for sure! The other actors like Kalki and Huma Qureshi have also did their parts quite well.Nothing much to do for Kalki in it and got overpowered by the other two actresses but did her part well. And not to forget the two Kids (essayed by Sara Arjun as Misha and Vishesh Tiwari as the young Bobo and his sister) are worth mentioning, they did their part wonderfully and  are really gems for their age. Pavan Malhotra (Emraan’s father) is natural as always.
Music is not so effective except for one or two songs, 'Yaaram'' and ''Kaali Kaali'' are gems. but the background score is well made perfectly fit to a horror movie giving  goose bumps and chills.
The direction is good. Kanan Iyer as a first time director should take a bow as he emerges as a promising director with his strong hold on script.
Rating - 3 out of 5
Verdict - Definitely a much needed change in horror genre movie,Light hearted horror lovers go for it.             If not anything else,Just go for Konkana Sen's performance.For best experience watch in it theaters.

Bollywood Quiz

A very simple Quiz.
There are two lists. List A contains Amitabh Bachan's movies. List B contains the English movies from which they were copied or rather inspired. All you have to do is match the two lists. Unfortunately i am pretty clueless for now about points and gifting, so maybe from next game onwards. 

List A 1) Main Azad Hoon 
2) Satte Pe Satta 
3) Agneepath 
4) Hum Kisise Kum Nahin 
5) Black 
6) Ek Ajnabee 
7) Sharaabi 
8) Hum Kaun Hai? 
9) Kaante 
10) Aks 


List B 
A) Fallen 
B) Meet John Doe 
C) Reservoir Dogs 
D) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 
E) Man on Fire 
F) Arthur 
G) Scarface 
H) Analyze This 
I) The Miracle Worker 
J) The Others 

So here goes and happy matching. 

Movie Review - ChashmeBaddor - Crowd-pleasing entertainment

Director: David DhawanCast: Ali Zafar, Siddharth, Divyendu Sharma, Taapsee 
Writer - Sajid - Farhad (dialogues)
Music -Sajid-Wajid
Release Date - 5th April 2013

Director David Dhawan well known as the King of  Comedies in 90's with his brand of slapstick comedy but later disappointed with sleazy comedies which was too B graded for new generation comedy lovers. For a change this time he scores full marks in casts relatively young faces and tries to remake a cult comedy movie of 80's.

The story revolve around friendship of 3 boys , Sid (Ali Zafar), Omi (Divyendu Sharma) and Jai (Siddharth) who are room-mates in Goa. Sid is more of serious type all siddha -saddha ,simple kind of character, while the other two  Omi and Jai spend much of their lives womanizing and having a largely carefree 'bindaas' kind of life.

In their neighbourhood,comes  Seema (Tapsee Pannu)  who runs away on her moped, from her Father (Anupam Kher) who is an Army Man and wants her daughter to get married to a Army Man. She drives straight to her uncle’s ( Again Anupam Kher - Twin Bro) home in Goa.Omi and Jai spot Seema and tries to whoo her one by one. Both fail but lie about the result, using ‘flashback to each other.

Their friendship is later challenged when Sid wins the heart of Seema .Jealous of Sid's romantic success, Jai and Omi pledge to break the two of them apart.

The story has the same flavour of the original, but with some comedy David Dhawan Tadka.The Movie does have some comic sequences and situational comedy scenes.
As far as performances are considered, Divyendu and Siddhart stole the show, Diyendu makes you laugh and giggle throughout the film, with his scintillating performance and oneliners His comic shayari and plain faced comedy leave you in splits, his one liners and shayari's were successful in audience's bursting in laughter. All these dailogues and oneliners are presented in David Dhawan style – loud and cheesy college humour garnished together by Farhad-Sajid’s brand of dialogues – puns and too much obeisance to cinema. .Zafar is more concerned about he how looks than emoting,Nothing from his side, all overacting.Tapsee brings freshness to the movie, good effort from her , nothing much for her in the movie.She keeps smiling all over the movie.

The story also have a interesting side plot of love angle between Rishi Kapoor and Lilette Dubey.Their onscreen romance look warm, Cute and credible, and gave movie freshness from its monotonous treatment.

Music is average, it has some good numbers like Har Ek Friend Kamina Hota Hai', 'Dhichkyaaon Doom Doom', 'Ishq Mohallah'. Although it doesn't have like a chartbuster song, but according to the genre it gives appropriate and perfect songs throughout the album

Rating - 3 Out of 5 

Verdict - Movie is entirely for Youth , Multiplex audiences gonna enjoy it, but it does lack the innocent comedy and Chamak  of the original. It hasn't given full justice to the original ,But Comedy Lovers should give it a try.