Saturday, August 26, 2006

'Aap Ki Khatir'

Producer: Ganesh Jain and Ratan Jain
Director: Dharmesh Darshan
Cast: Akshaye Khanna, Priyanka Chopra, Amisha Patel, Dino Morea, Sunil Shetty, Bhumicka Singh, Anupam Kher, Lilette Dubey and Tiku Talsania
Singers: Himesh Reshammiya, Alisha Chinoy, KK, Sunidhi Chauhan, Kailash Kher, Jaspinder Narula, Kunal Ganjawala, Shaan, Himani Kapoor and Akshaye Khanna
Music: Himesh Reshammiya
Background Music: Raju Singh
Lyrics: Sameer
Cinematography: W.B. Rao
Dialogue/Screenplay: Sunil Munshi
Choreography: Bosco-Caesar and Raju Khan
Art: Jeena Shetty
Editor: Raj Sinha
Cassettes and CD's on: Venus Records & Tapes
Released on: 25 August 2006


Anu spiritedly boards an airplane to destination love. The guise is to attend her step-sister Shirani's wedding to suave Kunal. But the truth is that Anu wants to hook her elusive dream man Danny forever.

To aid her in this mission, her finest ammunition assumes the form of the cocky and wise, cool and dandy Aman. She has her guarded reasons for taking him along and he has his open reasons for agreeing to do so. Together, the two have a game-plan.

They reach their destination soon enough ,but her mission is far from being accomplished. For things are more complicated more ambiguous than they seem.

Amidst the pomp and splendor of Shirani's wedding, dark secrets, questionable happenings and entwined relationships reveal themselves, leading to a web which must be entangled as soon as possible. For it involves the lives of Anu, Aman, Shirani, Danny and Kunal in more ways than one. Little do they know that at the end of it, their perceptions will be altered forever. Their definition of love will change forever.

Friday, August 18, 2006

'Katputtli'

Banner: Sahara One Motion Pictures and Bro & Sis Productions
Producer: Mink and Punnu Brar
Director: Sanjay Khanna
Cast: Mink, Milind Soman, Yukta Mukhee, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Seema Biswas, Sudhanshu Pandey, Mukul Dev and Vikas Kalantri
Story/Writer/Screenplay: Punnu Brar
PRO: Parag Desai
Released on: 18 August 2006


It came sudden, without prior warning. One fine day Lisa Oberoi is walking on Mumbai roads and forgets who she is…? Not recognizing her surroundings or any one. All she has is a dress full of blood and a whole lot of cash in her trench coat.

Lisa seems to be a Woman who had everything she could dream of, a loving Husband, a successful marriage, a beautiful House, and apparently she was the owner of one of the biggest and finest Hospital in city. Lisa’s Husband, the well reputed Surgeon Arjun Oberoi, makes every effort to get her Memory back, here begins a beautiful love story, where a Husband makes his wife fall in love with him all over again.

All is good and fine except the strange feeling that Lisa can’t get rid of. What happened that Night? Why did she loose her Memory if her life was a Fairy Tale? And why is she being haunted by repeated flashes of blood and money? Arjun doesn’t seem to know much, and neither does Anju, the sweet Neighbor who some how is always around to make sure that Lisa is comfortable or was it Arjun who kept her in close quarters, like Celina, the sensuous looking nurse he hired for Lisa’s help. But if there is an unsolved question, it needs to be answered.

And, thus enters Dev. A Naval Officer, Anju’s Husband, Lisa’s Friend since College. On his return after a gap, he finds his best friends life twisted beyond believe, but unlike Lisa, Dev is not going to sit idle and wait for Lisa’s memory to come back to find answers. And, what is that strange feeling Lisa is talking about, what could have gone wrong? Will Dev come to an solution? Will Lisa’s Memory come back at all? Is the truth to horrifying? Lisa is in a dilemma whether to uncover the shocking truth, or live in the make believe world Arjun had painted for her...

'Ahista Ahista'

Producer: Anjum Rizvi
Director: Shivam Nair
Cast: Abhay Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Shayan Munshi, Shakeel Khan, Kamini Khanna and Sohrab Ardeshir
Singers: Himesh Reshammiya, KK, Jayesh Gandhi, Sunidhi Chauhan, Aftab Hashmi Sabri, Kunal Ganjawala and Tulsi Kumar
Music: Himesh Reshammiya
Lyrics: Irshad Kamil and Sameer
Cinematography: Prakash Kutty
Story/Writer/Screenplay: Imtiaz Ali
Sound: Rakesh Ranjan
Cassettes and CD's on: T-Series
Released on: 18 August 2006

Ahista Ahista is the story of Ankush who is an aimless youth and scrapes a living by acting as a witness in Delhi's marriage registrar's bureau and a girl Megha who has run away from her home in Naintal to get married to her love, Dheeraj. Fate intervenes and Dheeraj does not show up at the Marriage Registrars Office. Dejected, Megha is forced to rely on Ankush's generosity, albeit suspiciously. Ankush helps Megha getting her a job at the local old age home and Megha realizes her true potential as an educated girl. Ankush on the other hand, takes up a job of opening bank accounts and earns commission. A relationship starts developing between the two and Megha takes a decision of leaving her past and Dheeraj behind and embracing the future with Ankhush. Everything seems to be falling in place when Dheeraj returns. he is persistent in his search for Megha and Ankush's new found happiness crumbles. Will Ankush be able to let Megha go to Dheeraj? Can gratitude replace love? This forms the crux of the story.

Sunday, August 13, 2006

'Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna'

Banner: Dharma Productions
Director: Karan Johar
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Preity Zinta, Abhishek Bachchan, Kirron Kher, Ahsaas Channa and Arjun Rampal, Kajol and John Abraham in special appearance
Singers: Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Shankar Mahadevan, Caralisa, Shaan, Vasundhara Das, Loy, Mendonca, Shafqat Amanat Ali, Mahalakshmi Iyer and Shweta Pandit
Music: Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy Lyrics: Javed Akhtar
Costume: Manish Malhotra
Publicity Designs: HR Enterprises
Publicity Stills: Subi Samuel
Story/Writer: Karan Johar and Shibani Bathija
Cassettes and CD's on: Sony Music
Released on: 11 August 2006

Overtly sensitive, sharp of tongue and cynical Dev Saran has a rather uneasy relationship with the world owing to an unfortunate mishap that turns his dreams upside down. He is unable to come to terms with the unfairness of life or his handicap and his bitterness only cripples his mind further. He resents his wife, Rhea’s growing success and in the process ends up hating himself for feeling that way. To make matters worse he ends up turning all his anger towards his loved ones. Under these circumstances, Maya enters his life with her own wounds and together they take on a journey to heal each other.

Rhea Saran leads a straight forward life where her promises and expectations are clearly chalked out. Her independence is of prime importance to her and she believes in the importance of material luxuries. There are moments when she realizes that she is not playing the traditional role of a wife or a mother owing to her busy career but she refuses to feel guilty about it and strongly believes in her right to pursue success as much as a man. Her belief in her marriage is strong even during its turbulent phase and she tries every means in her power to save it until she realizes the enormity of the situation and is forced to take a stand.

Sophisticated, stylish with a gift of the gab, Rishi Talwar, upcoming public relations professional, has inherited his father’s fun-loving nature and his sense of humor. While his childlike demeanor is endearing, his volatile reaction to situations often cause his wife, Maya to believe that he is childish. He is patient and loving to Maya but is unable to comprehend her complexity especially when it rears its ugly head in the most intimate moments of their personal relationship. His entire being is devoted to Maya and that’s perhaps why he falls apart when exposed to the harsh truth of his marriage.

Maya Talwar compensates for her inability to have children by teaching in a nursery. Her relationship with her husband Rishi is layered with a lot of self-doubt and question. However, while she is ready to discuss and analyze everything small or big, she fights this area of her life with remarkable silence. She is unable to whip up enough passion for Rishi and is disappointed that her love for him does not match her own expectations of what it ought to be. This dilemma pulls her further apart from him thereby causing a strain on their marital life. To add to this complication, she encounters Dev in whom she finds all the ingredients to fire the passion she lacks in her marriage. S

Samarjit Singh Talwar is a flamboyant and fun-loving man who believes in living his life to the fullest. His life revolves around the happiness of his son, Rishi and daughter-in-law, Maya. And despite indulging in all sensual pleasures, Sam does not lose focus on the ground realities of life and beneath his colorful exterior there lies a wise and sensitive parent who dispenses, at times, brutal but practical solutions to his family.

Sunday, August 06, 2006

'Shaadi Karke Phas Gaya Yaar'

Banner: Karishma International
Producer: Bubby Kent
Director/Story/Writer: K.S. Adhiyaman
Cast: Salman Khan, Shilpa Shetty, Supriya Karnik, Mohnish Behl, Kunika, Reema Lagoo, Aasif Sheikh and Shakti Kapoor
Singers: Sonu Nigam, Sunidhi Chauhan, Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Abhijeet and Hariharan
Music: Sajid-Wajid, Dabboo Malik and P. Sameer
Lyrics: Shabbir Ahmed, Jalees Sherwani, Salim Bijnauri and Manohar Iyer
Cinematography: W.B. Rao
Screenplay: Rumi Jaffery
Cassettes and CD's on: Tips
Released on: 04 August 2006

Ayaan, a young and handsome man from an upper middle class family falls in love with a beautiful model Ahana who belongs to a very liberal ultra rich family. With the passage of time the two get married. Both Ayaan and Ahana are looking forward to a happily married blissful and contented life.

But the future has something else in store for duo. Ahana gradually discovers that there is vast cultural difference between her upbringing and Ayaan's family. Small differences crop up which eventually lead to major confrontation between the two. Can Ayaan maintain his cool and bring his wife and family under one roof?

'Darwaza Bandh Rakho'

Banner: Adlabs Films Ltd.
Producer: Ram Gopal Varma
Director: JD Chakravarthy
Cast: Aftab Shivdasani, Chunky Pandey, Zakir Hussain, Snehal Dhabi, Isha Sherwani, Ishrat Ali, Smita Jaykar, Padma Rani, Vijay Singh, Tashu, Javed, Jeeva, Manisha Koirala, Divya Dutta, Ravi Kale, Nitin Raikwar, Kota Srinivasan Rao, Goga Kapoor, Raju Mavani and Gulshan Grover
Music: Nitin Raikwar
Background Music: Amar Mohile
Sound: Kunal Mehta and Parikshit Lalwani
Cassettes and CD's on: T-Series
Released on: 04 August 2006

Isha, a young and bubbly girl born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Rich, carefree and ever so careless, she considered every moment of life as the one designed for fun, laughter and making merry. So much was one such moment important to her that even kidnapping held no seriousness in her life. For her even this was designed for fun! With her doors open, she was kidnapped by 4 young and not-so-young men who were amateurish in their attempt and even further amateurish when trying to deal with the events that unfolded.

Ajay is a simple man with not-so-simple plan, In spite of his humble job as a waiter in cafe, his aim in life was to own it one day. Well, his plans came to standstill as not just his dreams of owning the cafe were shattered, he even failed to hold on to his job as a waiter. And now he was out on the streets.

Raghu, ever-so-flirtatious and not-so-debonair driver who had the dreams of the same scale as Ajay. Just like Ajay, he too played a long shot in the air.

Third kidnapper in this gang is Goga. Goga is a straight man with straight dreams, unlike Ajay and Raghu. He is content being a 'paanwaala' but that too wasn't destined for him as his shop came crashing down one day with municipality taking over the land where he had his shop set. He had a little dream now - to own a sweet shop. To top it all, he placed himself in gang as the wisest of all.

Where did this leave Abbas then? A man with a flair for breaking laws, he had nowhere to go after Bollywood suffered from a bad run. Abbas and Bollywood? What was the connection? Well, he was a black marketer who was jobless now since the time movies started flopping left, right and center!

Together Ajay, Raghu, Goga and Abbas thought that in order to achieve their small and big dreams they had to take the route of crime. And the first and easiest step in this direction was to kidnap someone for ransom. It was only later did they realize that this was going to be their toughest assignment ever! They easily succeeded in kidnapping Isha but what followed from thereon was unprecedented to say the least. First and foremost they had to rush from the scene of crime and enter some other person's place due to things going awry.

To make matters worse, they realize that Isha's father was no more in the country and it would take him some time to actually come back and handover the ransom. With no other choice than to take refuge in this house belonging to a "vegetarian family" headed by Shah, the 4 kidnappers found themselves fighting one battle after another! From now what they encountered was the trouble of these very own people in whose house they had taken shelter. While Shah was all smiling and humorous, his main problem lied with money. Why? Because once upon a time he was rich and now he wanted his money back. Staying with his wife, mother-in-law and his children, he had number of interesting stories of his own to tell. While his mother-in-law didn't have a single word of appreciation for Shah, his wife still tried to keep the 2 in an orderly state and also take care of the household chores.

2 kids Ponkey and Sheeba too were ‘sone-pe-suhaga’ in this family because while the former thought that he was an expert when it came to lip-reading, Sheeba had all her time spent in beautifying herself and making herself look million bucks! Well, this crazy family was not just that the 4 kidnappers had to be content with. While Isha was enjoying herself with the state she was in, the 4 kidnappers had to deal with dozens of uninvited guests that barged into this house one after another.

There was horde of such visitors who ranged from being good, bad to ugly. One such good visitor was a pretty female Julie who knocked on the door to sell a product. Well, she was a saleswoman after all! Though there was no choice for the kidnappers but do hold her hostage as well, soon love bloomed between Julie and one of them.

Aravind, who came with his financer father Sharat Shetty to get their money back from Shah but instead ended up falling to the charms of Sheeba!

There was another couple that made an entry into the proceedings- Chameli and Ganapath! While Chameli worked in the Shah house as a maid, her dream was to see Ganapath rise from the position of a constable to a police inspector. Her dream was alright but she wasn't aware that in spite of a police tag, in actual life her husband was a weak soul who could hardly face a challenging situation.

Apart from the visitors, there were 2 more interesting characters that had an underworld connection. While Mushtaq Bhai was indeed a gangster who dealt with extortions and kidnapping, there was a young pizza delivery boy too ringing a bell who dreamt of making it big one day in the world of underworld...

'Anthony Kaun Hai?'

Banner: Fourth Wall Productions
Producer: Nikhil Panchamiya
Director: Raj Kaushal
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Minissha Lamba, Anousha Dandekar, Raghuveer Yadav, Gulshan Grover, Suraj Singh, Naina Dhaliwal, Ravi Baswani and Chetan Hansraj
Singers: Himesh Reshammiya, Sunidhi Chauhan, Sonu Nigam, Jayesh Gandhi, Saru Maini, Gayatri Ganjawala, Kunal Ganjawala, KK and Shreya Ghosal
Music: Himesh Reshammiya
Lyrics: Sameer
Cinematography: Hemant Chaturvedi
Choreography: Remo and Pony Verma
Story/Writer: Soumik Sen
Action: Kecha Kammpakdee
Art: Sudhakar Manjrekar
Editor: Sanjib Datta
Sound: Rishi Oberoi
Costume: Pooja Sarin, Theia Bomanbehram and Gabbana Fashions Pvt. Ltd.
Visual Effects: Avitel Post Studioz Ltd.
Publicity Designs: Epigram
Publicity Stills: Jitu Savlani
Cassettes and CD's on: T-Series
Released on: 04 August 2006

Master Madan is a sophisticated, ruthless, contract killer. Champ an ace conman is his target. But is Champ really the prey or is there something more to it??? This is the story.

Jiya is the only player who has a big secret to hide, with her homing pigeon as her only confidante. The beautiful daughter of ingenious magician Raghu.

Rosa is the hottest woman. She may love Champ with all her heart, but patience isn't really her virtue. Detective Suraj Singh, the smartest cop on the Thai police force can make any suspect sing and spill the beans..