Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Being Cyrus

Banner: Times Infotainment Media Ltd., Miracle Cinefilms and Serendipity Films
Direction/Screenplay: Homi Adajania
Story: Kersi Khambatta
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Boman Irani, Simone Singh, Honey Chhaya, Manoj Pahwa, Carol Gracias
Music: Salim Merchant
Cassettes and CD's on: Times Music
Cinematography: Jehangir Choudhary
Art: Navin Kendre, Aparna Kaul
Editor: Jon Harris, Anand Subaya
Production Design: Aparna Raina
Make Up/Costume: Anaita Shroff
Sound: Andrew Belletty, Sonali Singh
Released on: 24 March 2006

Being Cyrus centers around the lives of a Parsi family, the Sethnas. The story brings out the dark sides of some seemingly ordinary characters, who eventually go to unbelievable lengths to achieve their goals. Cyrus shows up at the Sethna's at their Panchgani bungalow, and offers to be an assistant to pot maker Dinshaw. He spends a year with them and in the process a romance seemingly brews between him and Katy, Dinshaw's wife. Other clandestine activities coincide with this; Cyrus receives some money for an undisclosed reason, and he is shown working on something in a lab setting. He then arrives at Dinshaw's brother, Faroq's house in a very Parsi locality in Mumbai. Faroq takes care of their father who lives in a room in their Mumbai apartment, and doesn't treat him too well. Cyrus befriends the father but Faroq loathes his proximity. Katy on the other hand, gets frequent calls from Mumbai, in a parallel unexpected development. Tina, Faroq's wife, befriends a policeman Lovely. In what follows, the plot slowly unfurls, revealing morbid and unanticipated sides of many personalities.

Friday, March 10, 2006

Malamaal Weekly

Banner: Sahara One & Percept Picture Company
Direction/Story/Screenplay: Priyadarshan
Cast: Ritesh Deshmukh, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Shakti Kapoor, Rakhi Sawant, Reema Sen, Rajpal Yadav, Sudha Chandran, Asrani and Rasika Joshi
Singers: Mahalakshmi Iyer, Javed Ali, Karsan Sargathia, Vaishali Samant and Shreya Ghosal
Lyricist: Sai Barve, Nawab Arzoo, Nitin Raikwar and Chhaya Vora
Music: Uttankk V.Vorra
Cassettes and CD's on: Universal
Cinematography: Sameer Arya
Choreography: Pony Verma
Art: Sabu Cyril
Editor: N. Gopalakrishnan and Arun Kumar
Sound: Raja Krishnan
Dialogue: Manisha Korde
Released on: 10 March 2006

Malamaal Weekly is about the struggles and survival of people in a small town. Lilaram earns a meager source of income through his business of selling Malamaal Weekly Lottery Tickets. One day, while watching TV, he learns that one of the tickets he had sold has in fact won One Crore Rupees Bumper Prize. As most of the other villagers don't own TV and are illiterate, Lilaram knows that he is privy to this information. The question is how to find that one ticket from the 105 he's sold. An idea hits him! Lilaram throws a party, a virtual festivity for the people who are fighting to survive. Lilaram, already debt-ridden, manages to host this party at expense of his one last asset- his goat kid! Now, the party is only for his 105 customers on condition that they bring along their tickets as an invite to celebrations. As luck would have it, all turn up except Anthony, the drunkard. Lilaram decides to pay him a visit. On reaching his house, he finds Anthony dead in front of TV. Too shocked on hearing about his victory but lottery ticket is still in his hand....

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Teesri Aankh

Banner: Baweja Movies
Producer: Pammi Baweja
Director: Harry Baweja
Cast: Sunny Deol, Amisha Patel, Neha Dhupia, Mukesh Rishi, Mukesh Tiwari, Aarti Chhabria, Murli Sharma, Ayub Khan, Aashish Chaudhary, Anjan Srivastava and Jazzy B
Cassettes and CD's on: Tips
Singers: Jazzy B, Sonu Nigam, Suzan, Shweta Pandit and Asha Bhosle
Lyricist: Karamjeet Kadhowala, Sameer and Nitin Nitz Arora
Music: Sukhshinder Shinda, Harry Anand and Nitin Nitz Arora
Cinematography: Chirrantan Das and Ayananka Bose
Choreography: Ganesh Acharya and Pony Verma
Action: PK Swain
Art: Ajay Verekar
Editor: Merzin Tavaria
Screenplay: Harry Baweja
Sound: Rakesh Ranjan
Dialogue: Pathik Vats
Story/Writer: Harry Baweja
Released on: 3 March 2006

Teesri Aankh is the story of the plight of women who are trapped, used and abused by the use of the hidden camera. Such are the modus operandi of London based Sudama Pandey, who runs a racket all over up to India, trapping innocent women to abuse! A young ambitious innocent girl, Sapna's fiancé Arjun Singh is an A.C.P. in Mumbai. Arjun is in hunt for gang leader of this racket and reaches London to nab him. Dinesh and Dinesh, Sudama Pandey's trusted men have trapped Sapna who wants to break free, the struggle attracts the attention of Ammu who when reaches to help, finds Sapna being murdered. Dinesh and Dinesh chase Ammu? their eye witness. A frantic couple Ashish and Aarti, Ammu's sister, hunt for Ammu all over the town! While Arjun is looking for a clue to nab the gang, he's informed the eye witness, Ammu! Arjun runs to save Ammu so that through her he can bust the racket, not knowing that the girl he's come to rescue lives no more!