Bole To… play on Arshad !

How much did u score on Arshad? Which level were u playing with Arshad? Oops am not that good when it comes to Arshad!… Confused? These will probably be the questions all around once Arshad Warsi mobile games are up for grabs for the circuitabad residents. With the seeming popularity, Arshad Warsi inspired games are developed with our ‘circuit’ as the central character in the games. Mobile games development Co., Spiel Studios has tied up with Arshad Warsi to develop and market mobile games with his title, including Arshad Warsi’s signature dialogues and street combat game where he fights veteran bollywood baddies.

Though, never seen him fight baddies in the movies. Meanwhile,the company is trying to cash in on the mass appeal the actor generates with his effortless comic timing.A lot of Bollywood stars have been launching mobile games in their name. Recently, Sameera Reddy also launched a mobile game by the name of Warrior Princess. How about a an Arshad “Gandhigiri” duo with Sanju Bhai…. nahh!…bleak chances. Stick with the fight….that might sell!

Achtung! Mr. Minister : Gandhigiri at AiiMS

Movies can stir up ideas that can be whacky, though edgy for some. For Union Minister for health, Amburani Ramdoss “Munna Bhai” will not be a pleasant name to hear. The minister was given a “gandhigiri” treatment on his recent visit for dengue patients at AiiMS. The students and resident doctors of All india institute of Medical Sciences greeted Ramdoss with bouquets of red roses and posters poking at him with “Get Well Soon Amburani”.

Security guards pushed off the attempts of the students from giving flowers to Ramdoss. The minister has been accussed of being ignorant to the grave situation inflicted by Dengue at AiiMS. This brought out a spontaneous reaction from the students. Remember Lucky Singh being greeted with “Get well Soon Lucky”. No wonder ‘Boman irani’ and ‘Amburani’ sound similar. What do u say??

Prankster Abhishek tickles Aishwarya

How comfortable you ‘ll be if Ash is referred as “Chhamiyya”? Want to break that guy’s neck who calls her with that name? Think again Kiddo! Dont mess with pretty lady’s tough man. Bollywood heart-throb Abhishek is a known prankster in the industry and there is no escape for even close ‘friend’ Ash from his tricks. in the blooming ‘friendship’ between the two stars, Abhishek has been busy giving names to Ash.

He has been fondly calling the beauty queen as ‘number nine’, as she was voted as the ninth most beautiful woman in the world by Harpers and Queen last year.Strange hunnh? Read on… For Umrao Jaan, Abhi had a different name to give to Ash, i.e., of ‘Chhamiyya’ and even a more weird ‘Sunehri’ for Dhoom2, which is apparently Ash’s screen name. There has been no indications of an early marriage between the couple as yet, but hope Abhishek isn’t ruining his chances….all the luck to the charmer.

Chotta B does a cameo in Ramu’s sholay

The famous song ‘Mehbooba mehbooba’ from the yester year’s blockbuster Sholay will get a new face with Abhishek Bachchan playing the cameo of Jalal Agha in the remake of sorts of the 1975 magnum opus of the Sippy’s. The item song will have oomph queen Urmila Matondkar gyrating to the choreography of Ganesh Hegde.

Junior Bachchan’s short appearance in the movie comes as an unexpected surprise as he was earlier slated to play the role of Veeru in Verma’s version of Sholay. Ram Gopal Verma is quoted as saying that “he volunteered himself as he was very excited about the track.”

Father-son pair of the Bachchans have earlier appeared in songs in the movies Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna and Bunty aur Babli. it is for the first time that Big B will be a spectator while Chotta B wooes Urmila in the remix-version of the catchy number composed by the legendary R.D.Burman.

The magic of Indian cinema over the years

Cinema has captured our imagination, touched the deepest chords of human emotions, fascinated us and has given us an opportunity to understand relationships, situations and complexities of life from a person’s perspective in a larger-than-life fictious creation. It has given us our heroes, our role models. Over the years, humans have found some or the other way to showcase their creativity and get entertained. But, movies definitely stand out from the rest. Cinema has taken the centre stage for recreation. Indian cinema is one of the finest examples of creativity to entertain and educate the masses. People, whatever the age group they belong to just go ga-ga over the thought of their favorite movies, actors, or actresses, or even a song. The craze almost sweeps the whole nation. There are people who even identify with some of the characters and even relate to the situations at hand in the movie. And why not? Movies are, to a great extent, parallel to our own lives. A birthday or an anniversary, its always movies for a day out. This all began when an intelligent persona tried to show his creativity through actions, sequences in the Silent era with landmark movies like Raja harish Chandra in 1913. For Prithvi Raj Kapoor’s impeccable voice, the first talkies in Indian cinema was made called Alam Ara, directed by Ardeshir Irani in 1931. (more…)

Rang De basanti - India’s safest bet at the Oscars? Or Lage Raho…?

Unlike, Lage Raho… Rang De Basanti didn’t get the tax exemption but has got the Centre’s nod for this year’s academy awards’ race. Both the movies are different in approach and style and have the right flavour to hold and shake the audience. Both movies were successful and popular among the youth. So, why Rang De Basanti never got any tax ememption. Yea! There was violence, a misleading solution to the corruption in the system. But, it’s off to the Oscars!

The credit can also be given to the story teller’s idea of connecting the struggle of our past national heroes to the sufferings of the present generation at the hands of the corrupt politicians. On the other hand, Lage Raho.. professes non - violence and truth in a complete different package of ‘Gandhigiri’ . With great comic timing and taporish style, simple look, the movie is one of the top box- office scorchers. For the sake of his love, a Mumbai ‘bhai’ turning to Gandhigiri was appreciated for a change. And a welcome tax exemption to its name.

But, what about the Oscars? Well.. Gandhgiri was never popular among the firangs even for a Nobel Peace, so an Oscar… let me think .

Mahabharat now a 6-hr long film

B.R.Films have announced to make a whooping 6-hour long film on the great epic Mahabharat. Abhay Chopra confirms that it will be a movie with the longest duration in Indian film history. The movie is slated to have a huge budget of 100 Crores, which is again a maximum for any bollywood flick so far. B.R.Films have decided to release the movie in two parts, the second part releasing in the consecutive week after the release of the first part. It is expected that a huge starcast of Bollywood biggies will be chosen. The starcast is yet to be finalised by the banner.

B.R. Films are credited with the huge success of the same epic in a televised version. The TV serial Mahabharat was a tremendous success in the TV history of India and made a world-wide audience ground. The expectations with this movie are bound to be sky-high.

In the same league, Rajkumar Santoshi has announced another Indian mythological epic Ramayan to be adapted on-screen. It seems big film-makers are slowly taking the spiritual turn to make their financial profiits. How successful they’ll be, let’s wait ‘n’ watch.