PITOBASH – Creating Ripples in The City of Dreams
SHOR IN THE CITY, ended on Pitobash’s face. But it began a love affair with the audience for this wonderfully talented actor. Pitobash was also part of the award winning I AM KALAM and there too his skill as a trained and seasoned performer, came to the forefront. Here we talk to this Oriya Engineer, about what lies ahead and what got him into Bollywood. Over to Pitobash: On your journey from Orissa...
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CHAALIS CHAURASI – Movie Review
PRODUCER – ANUYA MHAISKAR, SACHIN AWASTHEE AND UDAY SHETTY DIRECTOR – HRIDAY SHETTY WRITER – YASH-VINAY CAST – NASEERUDDIN SHAH, ATUL KULKARNI, KAY KAY MENON, RAVI KISSEN, SHWETA BHARDWAJ, RAJESH SHARMA, ZAKIR HUSSAIN MUSIC – LALIT PANDIT AND VISHAL RAJAN Many a times a film becomes its characters. Or rather actors in the case of Chaalis Chaurasi. Then it stoops to the presence and prowess...
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GHOST – Movie Review
PRODUCER – Bharat Shah DIRECTOR – Puja Jatinder Bedi WRITER – Puja Jatinder Bedi CAST – Shiney Ahuja, Sayali Bhagat, Tej Sapru, Deepraj Rana, Julia Bliss, Gulshan Rana MUSIC – Sharib Sabri, Toshi Sabri Friday, the 13th is probably a suitable date for releasing a film called Ghost. This forced connection of spook however, does little for the audience. Ghost revolves around the story of a...
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Players: Movie Review
PRODUCER – Burmawala Partners, Viacom 18 Motion Pictures DIRECTOR – Abbas-Mustan WRITER – Rohit Jugraj, Sudeep Sharma CAST – Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Bobby Deol, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sonam Kapoor, Sikander Kher, Omi Vaidya, Vinod Khanna MUSIC – Pritam Chakraborty Abbas-Mustan’s latest film ‘Players’, puts down the curtain on that question in one lethal sweep. A daring story...
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The Darkest Hour: Movie Review
PRODUCER – Timur Bekmambetov, Tom Jacobson DIRECTOR – Chris Gorak WRITER – Jon Spaihts (story and screenplay), Leslie Bohem & M.T. Ahern (story) CAST – Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, Rachael Taylor, Joel Kinnaman MUSIC – Tyler Bates The world is coming to an end yet again and yet again it is the aliens out to get us. It isn’t America that is the centre of action this...
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Nikita Anand – The Acting Model
Not all former Miss India’s and former ramp models have had the acting chops. Some have appeared in film after film, but their acting has never been accepted as their strengths. Looks yes, acting, perhaps not. Then we have Nikita Anand, who has consistently won over the critics and the audience with her performances. She belongs to that genre of artists whose sheer dramatic talent lingers on, irrespective...
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A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
Director: Tod Stratuss-Schulson Cast: Jhon Cho,Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris, Danneel Harris, Paula Garces Written by: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg The holidays are here and that means LOTS of time with family. That includes the crazy aunts and uncles, the annoying sister or brother, pompous second cousins, crying babies, and rotten kids running all over the place. So where does that leave...
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows – Movie Review
Director: Guy Ritchie Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan Screenplay – Michele Mulroney, Kieran Mulroney and Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes is in the final battle with his most formidable rival, Prof James Moriarty and for all the people who have read the book which culminates in the fiercest of battles, the movie does full justice to the original story....
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Pappu Can’t Dance Saala: Movie Review
PRODUCER – Ravindra Singh, Sameer Nair DIRECTOR – Saurabh Shukla WRITER – Saurabh Shukla CAST – Vinay Pathak, Neha Dhupia MUSIC – Malhar When small-town dreams come to big bad cities they find a jarring dissonance. The big city has its own rhythm that the small-towners continue to struggle to keep time with. ‘Pappu Can’t Dance Saala’ is constructed around this very premise, aiming...
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Mission Impossible 4 – Ghost Protocol – Movie Review
Director: Brad Bird, Writers: Andre Nemic & Josh Appelbaum Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Paula Patton and Anil Kapoor The fourth franchise of the Mission Impossible series, continues with the same qualities of the first three, non stop and edge of the seat action, crisp pace that leaves you wanting more when it wraps up and entertaining enough to not want to take that popcorn break,...
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