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gle per se, Prachi Desai was courageous enough to take a plunge into a film that had a director (Abhishek Kapoor) with a flop tag (ARYAN - THE UNBREKABLE) to his name. Still, with people like Farhan Akhtar, Ritesh Sidhwani, Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy attached to the project, she got herself a start with ROCK ON. The ploy worked and how! With a restrained performance, she was the person who got a certain 'thehrav' to the rocking proceedings of ROCK ON. The million dollar question is - 'Will she be able to be a part of the glam brigade from here on?'
ances of the year, Ehsaas was a revelation as a girl actor after working in quite a few films where she was required to portray a boy. One wonders how she would have worked upon her psyche after being a part of cinema where her character was required to go through tumultuous times. Director Ram Gopal Varma yet again succeeded in extracting a brilliant performance out of an actor and one now looks forward to how this girl would announce her arrival as a lead actress a decade from now.
he doors of Bollywood, Bipasha Basu continued her femme fatale act in films like RACE and BACHNA AE HASEENO. She proved that girls would be girls and women would be women! No wonder, she approached her part in RACE with such style and sensibilities that one didn't mind her playing the gray character at all. Some more sizzling dance numbers later, she was the darling of RACE. As for BACHNA AE HASEENO, she was indeed such a fantastic person that one wouldn't mind being her slave at all, as did Ranbir Kapoor in the film.
asonably well at the box office, one would have expected much more buzz around Kajol's act in the film. As a troubled woman suffering from Alzheimer disease, she was near perfect in the film which was directed by her husband Ajay Devgan. The usual spunk was missing from her performance, as per the demand of her character since she was required to be all tense and pensive for most of the film's duration. As for her future films too, expect some more serious/meaningful/hard hitting characters to be played by her, something that she seems to be opting for considering her status of being a 'veteran' actor already.
a (FASHION, DOSTANA) And this would well be the comeback of the year! With as many as six flops behind her - SALAAM E ISHQ, BIG BROTHER, LOVE STORY 2050, CHAMKU, DRONA, GOD TUSSI GREAT HO - any other actress would have just given up. But not Priyanka Chopra who just looked at FASHION and DOSTANA as the opportunities that could bring her back into the reckoning. While most of her flops were long in the making, she concentrated completely on these two films which promised to present in a different light altogether. While Madhur Bhandarkar gave her an author backed role in FASHION, Karan Johar ensured that she turned out to be the scorcher of the year with DOSTANA. She impressed on both the counts, whether it was acting (FASHION) or looking beautiful (DOSTANA) and announced loud and clear - 'I Am Back'.
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These two gardens are located side by side to each other. But reflect beautifully contrasting landscapes. The Chinese garden spreading across 13-hectare area has the representation of being a traditional Chinese imperial garden with pagodas, while the Japanese Garden highlights simplicity with its stone lanterns, classica
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After three years of tough schedules of shooting and changes in the casting, Bala’s Naan Kadavul will be releasing this month. As usual, completely removed from the commercial potboilers, Naan Kadavul is here to deliver another strong message to the audiences. It comes with the tag-line ‘Aham Brahmaasmi’. Arya plays the role of a ‘Sadhu’ and Pooja is a poor girl in the film. Major part of the shooting has been carried out in Kasi. Naan Kadavul is an Ilayaraja musical.
nts Ilayaraja has chosen for the BGM.LONDON: Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s plucky take on Mumbai’s slum-children, on Sunday glided over the last hump on its unstoppable march to the Oscars after it swept the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards, or Baftas. Here it won seven major awards including for best film, best direction and A.R. Rahman’s music. The Baftas are regarded as a dress-rehearsal for the big Hollywood event.
“Unbelievable again!” quipped Rahman, who won a Golden Globe for his score barely a few weeks ago.
The film, which was nominated in 11 categories, also won the Baftas for best adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing and sound. This brought its tally of international awards to nearly 50.
The only other Indian, apart from Rahman, to receive a Bafta was Resul Pookutty for sound along with Glenn Freemantle, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers, Ian Tapp.
However, neither Dev Patel, the teenage “hero” of the film who was nominated for best actor, nor Freida Pinto, the “heroine” tipped for best supporting actress, made it. Both had their moments, though, when they were called to the stage to present the award for best costume.
Earlier, young Patel joked about having been nominated at all saying he was surprised. “I can’t believe it. Please someone slap me,” he said.
Born and brought up in Britain, he seemed happy to be simply back on his “home turf” and appeared to revel in being at the centre of so much attention.
The most important event in Britain’s movie calendar was so dominated by Slumdog Millionaire that some of Hollywood’s biggest offerings were almost reduced to the also-ran category.
Critics reckoned the film won an award every 20 minutes, and punters reportedly lost some £I million, having put money on SDM’s rivals.
One of the biggest surprises of the evening was SDM beating its strong Hollywood contender, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt. For films like The Reader, Revolutionary Road and Doubt losing to SDM appeared unfair to some, who attributed its success to “media hype.”
Boyle called it a triumph for the spirit of the people of Mumbai. He regretted that some people in India had objected to the term “slumdog.” He added: “I’m disappointed. It was meant in an aspirational way.”
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