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Michael Jackson did not sing his famous song “Dangerous” keeping Charles Shobhraj in his mind but dangerous word has become synonymous with the name of Charles Shobhraj.

Charles Shobhraj has been one of the most infamous international criminal since 1970s.

As per news a film is going to be made on the life of Charles Shobhraj and Sanjay Dutt has to play the role of a suave criminal.

After playing the simple, golden-hearted Munnabhai, Bollywood top star Sanjay Dutt is set to metamorphose into a cold, calculating serial killer - a la Charles Shobhraj in a film called ‘Charles and I’.

Made by People Pictures, the racy thriller will be helmed by ace director Prawaal Raman and tells the story of the enigmatic French criminal of Indian and Vietnamese origin who sent the …

Padosan is a sure shot killer of sad and depressive mood. With the height of buffoonery, but a classy one, involved in the film, its success rate as a mood enhancer is very high.

Padosan is to enjoy and laugh without any inhibition.

Padosan has got good dialogues and lyrics by famous poet and author Rajendra Krishan, good acting by Kishoir Kumar, Mehmood, Sunil Dutt, Om Prakash and Saira Bano and other actors, good music by R D Burman and good direction by Jyoti Swaroop. Jyoti Swaroop has got a good thriller film Parwana also to his credit.

Padosan is a gift of Producer Mehmood to the hindi cine lovers.

Mehmood was one of the first persons who gave independent charge to R D Burman to create music for his films in 60s.

Just 5-10 minutes in to the film and a wonderful song is there….

Class six student, Darsheel Safary, who has got startdom after success of Tare Zameen Par , is feeling something has been changed in his life at his school.

He says about his friends

“They’ve changed totally. I only have some friends left… maybe six in all. The rest have all left me. They’re all the time trying to pull me down. They’re a little jealous of me. When I’m passing by in my car, they go, ‘Hey Darsheel Darsheel. Photo photo’. But I’m happy with my six friends,”

He makes a guess
“I don’t know why my friends have changed. Maybe because I’ve acted in a movie.”

Like adults, the relationships in childhood also face dynamic motions. Success with good money should obviously affect the relationship among kids also. Its not the case where a kid’s parents get rich because here his parents can …

Don ka Intzaar to 11 mulkon kee police kar rahee hai
par Don ko pakadna mushkil hee nahin namumkin bhee hai

Amitabh Bachchan , the owner of baritone, had won the hearts of the audiences when he had delivered above mentioned dialogue in old Don, using pauses at most appropriate places to make it more impressive .

And this is not about his screen persona Don in the film, the real person AB has also been elusive and it was KBC through which ordinary people knew and saw him more.
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Shekhar Kapur could be said as one of the early birds in this forest of bloggers and he has been interacting with people since years through his homepage based blog.

Shekhar writes not only on cinema related topics but whatever appeals to him. His social, political, spiritual views can be read through his blog. His creative writings, both …

April 16 2008, News comes

Malaika Arora Khan and husband Arbaaz Khan are reportedly heading for a divorce.

The news came as a surprise to many, who considered their 10-year marriage to be quite solid. The couple has a son, Arhaan.

Reasons for the split are not know yet.
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The news comes as a surprise especially at a time when Malaika and Arbaaz are getting ready for their Kannada film together, Shaadi Ke Side Effects. The film, which is about marriage and infidelity, sees Malaika in her first lead role. One wonders if the news of the divorce at this time is a kind of promotion for their film.

Till now Arbaaz and Malaika have been taken as a couple enjoying happily their marriage. It was a bit odd news and there were doubts about its sanctity. Was it nothing but a publicity stunt?

18 April 2008 and news …

Many years ago Raj Kapoor and Padmini had danced on the song Begani Shaadi mein Abdullah Deewana. Song was very much part of the film and Raj Kapoor and Padmini were not mere imported material in the film but they were leading man and woman of the film.

Helen used to be there in the films to dance on one or two songs and people used to enjoy and appreciate her songs and dances but her dances also looked part of the films.

It has not been unusual thing to bring big stars to appear in guest roles. Mostly in these cameos they play themselves on the screen and sometimes they play small roles also but then films can not be promoted on the basis of these small guest appearances. These guest appearances have been like bonus material for audiences. They …

There are speculations
that Aditya Chopra’s third directorial venture Rab ne bana dee jodi (RNBDJ) may have inspirations from My Fair Lady (MFL), the 1964 musical film.

Classic film MFL, was based on the musical My Fair Lady, which itself had roots in the play, Pygmalion, written by George Bernard Shaw.

Basu Chaterjee had also adapted the play of Bernard Shaw in to the film, Man Pasand.

Basu Da’s Man Pasand, was perfectly an Indianised version of the play. Man Pasand, though it also followed the same content as MFL but it was still different in treatment and thus it could stand as an independent film in its own way.

Though even star cast has not been finalized by now for the RNBDJ but media has started the speculations. And the only poster released by now does not give any clue that it may have …

Some 63-64 years ago late Chetan Anand had won the Grand Prix award at Cannes Film festival and had become the first Indian film maker to get this honour and now it’s the turn of his younger brother, the ever green star Dev Anand, to attend Cannes, where his most outstanding film “Guide” has been selected in the section of classic films.

That is a good news as now there is a curiosity about Indian films in other countries and Guide represents the best of Hindi cinema. Guide suggests that Hindi cinema has been different than the cinema existing in other parts of the world. Hindi cinema can combine good literature and high class music to make a wonderful film like Guide.

As per the news, Cannes festival has invited Dev Saab to showcase his classic film Guide.

Hearty congratulations to Dev Saab !!!!

Evergreen actor …

Shantaram may bring an OSCAR to Amitabh Bachchan in the category of best supporting actor. If Khader Bhai’s character is given same importance in the film as it has been given by Gregory David Roberts in his book then this character provides a solid ground to AB to play the role in a wonderful manner and perhaps he grabs an OSCAR for this powerful supporting role.

David might have created character of Khader Bhai , the Mafia boss, on the basis of some real life mafia dons of Bombay but he certainly had kept personality (may be on screen persona) of Amitabh Bachchan in his mind while defining traits of this character. While reading the book, it seems at so many places that Amitabh is present in the book in the form of Khader Bhai.

This can be a life time role for Amitabh Bachchan. Film can put …

Cine lovers of Hindi Cinema has something to celebrate as script of Basu Da’s debut film Sara Akash, has been published.

Sara Akash is an important film in the sense that many people made their debut through this film and this film paved the way for new styled off beat films in Hindi cinema.

(1) The book,

Sara Akash was the debut novel of famous Hindi author Rajendra Yadav. This book was first published with the title “Pret Bolte hain” (Ghosts speak) in early years of 1950s and later in 1960s it was again published with a new title “Sara Akash”.

Rajendra ji had written the novel during the period when either he was doing his graduation or just after finishing the graduation. Book explored the transition period of youngsters when they are filled with lot of dreams of doing something and they think they can do a lot …

Thoda Sa Roomani Ho Jayen is inspired by Hollywood film The Rainmaker but Amol Palekar has managed to make his film standing on its own independent status. He has made an indigenous film. Film has inspiration from Chetan Anand’s Heer Ranjha also, as at several places dialogues are delivered in the form of verses.

TSRHJ may be symbolic also and though on surface it looks as if in real rain is the question because there is drought in the city but its also about drought occurring inside us and when we become devoid of emotions, good feelings etc. Outside rain may be taken as just symbolic.

We also become dry inside because of daily tensions we face in day to day life. We stop having a good care of our inner being and we reach to a stage where we don’t have any connection with our inner …

As per the wisdom of ancient Indian sages and scholars, desire to earn name has been among one of the four basic desires any human being follows in his/her life. One wants to see his/her name inscribed in history and if not for long then local history chapter also helps in boosting his/her ego. If its not international award then national will do and if that’s also not possible then state award will also help and even if that’s also difficult then city based awards are there to bring temporary pink colour on the cheeks of the people. If nothing works then recognition and appreciation by friends and family members become indispensable for him/her to continue the creative journey. Very few creators are there who go ahead without bothering too much what others have to say about their creations. They know value of their creations.

Being ordinary people, its …

Crime, suspense and relationships are the areas where Vijay Anand excelled as a director. He was a genius director, a brilliant editor and had a wonderful understanding about music and an amazing sense of how to picturize those beautiful songs. All these impressions have been established quite strongly in the minds of lovers of hindi cinema.

Crime, suspense and ups and downs in the relationship between main characters, remained important factor in his almost all the films. Blackmail also treads over these paths.

Story is not that strong and suspense and thriller elements don’t have standard more than shown in pocket books written for children. Beauty of the film lies in the way in which Vijay Anand has shown his story visually. How he has mixed relationships also in this kind of story usually written for kids, that has importance.
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According to News Mithun Chakravorty and Ranjeeta, are again going to do a film togather almost after 18 years. They had appeared last time in Gunahon ka Devta(1990) and there also they had come together after a gap of 6 years as first inning of their pairing was finished in 1984 when they did not appear in any film after Bazi and Ghar Ek Mandir.

News says

Director Ashu Trikha who’s busy putting the finishing touches to his next film Zindagi Tere Naam has been flooded with congratulatory SMSs from friends in the film fraternity. Reason: He’s bringing back yesteryear’s hit pair Mithun Chakravorty and Ranjeeta after a gap of over two decades.

For some 4-5 years (late 70s and early 80s), Mithun Ranjeeta Pair remained as popular among audiences as pairs of Dharmendra Hema, Amitabh Jaya, Amitabh Rekha, Rishi Neetu …

Aishwarya Rai, Chitrangda Singh and Kajol , three actresses of contemporary hindi cinema enjoy one common thing that their married status has not affected their popularity among audience or their fans.

Now Kajol is going to share screen space again with her husband, where Ajay Devgan is going to make his debut as a director also.

Time will tell what U, Me aur Hum brings before the audience and how it entertains them but marketing of film has seen already one good thing. A poem has been released inside a promotional release of the film. Has Film made Kajol a poet? If yes then its always good to see creative side of a person.

As per the news , Kajol writes following poem.

“Oh, how we danced on the night we were wed
We vowed our true love though a word …

Riots are bad spots on the face of humanity. People leave humanity during riots and follow homicide on a large scale.
People of different religion keep hate towards other religions and during difficult times this hatred increases the destruction multifold. Indian subcontinent has faced many religious riots. Around a million people were killed in the riots during partition only.

Madhumati remains Bimal Roy’s most successful film at BO. A great team was gathered to create this magic on screen. Story was provided by Ritwik Ghatak. Dialogues were written by Rajendra Singh Bedi. Lyrics were written by Shailendra. Music was given by Salil Chaudhary. Editing was done by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and captain of this team was, ofcourse, Bimal Roy.

Anecdote says that Ritwik Ghatak had written this story, full of formulas, to bring down the image of Director Bimal Roy. This anecdote could be wrong but if one does not know who is author of the story of the Madhumati and knows Ritwik Ghatak as intellectual director of films like Meghe Dhaka Tara then one will not believe that actually Ritwik Ghatak had written the story. This is midasian touch of Bimal Roy that he made a wonderful film out of that story and screen play and gave it ultra …

Will She be in love with him ?
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Director Yash Chopra is planning to sit behind the cemera again to make few actors act for his new film in this year 2008. link

He says,

“This year, I am going to direct my next film. The story has been finalised, only the script has to be given shape,”.

When a director whose filmography consists of films covering so many different areas declare that now he has started feeling creative labour pain and this year, some time, he will deliver his new creation then it creates a huge curiosity among audience.

The director has given us films covering different areas and has explored deeply the territory of relationships among humanbeings, mainly lovers, and he does provide us a multistarrer Waqt also, which still pleases the audience for its treatment and his work claims clearly that whenever he, being a creative director, has selected topics like Deewar, Trishul and Kala Pathar …

There is a saying that goes as

“ Jab jana to ye jana ki na jana kuch bhi “

[When I got to know something then I realised that I knew nothing].

Nobody can ever know everything but can we start fearing that we can’t know much? We have to enjoy this journey of knowing. How much we know, it does not matter but we are able to continue our journey on knowledge, this brings satisfaction.

Wise people have said that mind also needs exercise like body.

Exercise does not rely on instrument as it depends more on the how to use that instrument. If one has no bar to hang then one can use branch of a tree for the same purpose.

We have to have fun while thinking and in end also we should have fun.

No Precautionary warning as weak or strong all can go through easy yoga …