Thursday, September 07, 2006

'Naksha'

Presenter: Tolu Bajaj
Banner: Om Films Pvt. Ltd.
Producer: Sachin Bajaj and Akshay Bajaj
Director: Sachin Bajaj
Cast: Sunny Deol, Vivek Oberoi, Sameera Reddy, Mridula Chandrashekhar, Sudershan Sharda, Suhasini Mulay, Navni Parihar, Lilliput and Jackie Shroff
Singers: Suzanne D'Mello, Kailash Kher, Indi, Abhishek Nailwal, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghosal, Alisha Chinoy, Pritam Chakraborty, KK, Labh Jajua and Rana Mazumder
Music: Pritam Chakraborty
Lyrics: Sameer
Cinematography: Vijay Arora
Screenplay: Milap Zaveri andTushar Hiranandani
Choreography: Bosco-Caesar and Geeta Kapoor
Art: Nitish Roy
Executive/Associate/Co-Producer: Trilok Malhotra
Action: Allan Amin
Editor: Sanjay Sankla
Cassettes and CD's on: Saregama-HMV
Released on: 8 September 2006

For centuries men have been in quest of the secrets of our past. Hidden treasures, fables, myths, all have driven generations to dedicate their life in such pursuits. Greed of glory and power or the thirst of knowledge, whatever the reason may be, lives have been lost but some secrets have remained secrets!

Naksha starts with the search of one such man, an archeologist named Professor Kapil Acharya who prefers to die with the ancient map, rather than let it fall into the hands of evil! Years later, his son Vicky, aided by a copy of the same map that he comes across by chance, leaves on a journey to discover what it was that his father dedicated his life in searching.

The re-emergence of this quest attracts the evil forces again, as Vicky is abducted by the villain’s henchmen. Help comes in the guise of Vicky’s elder step-brother Vir, who is sent there by Vicky’s mother to get her son back! Vicky is grateful to be rescued but not too happy about his brother’s mission to take him back!

Now starts a hilarious tug of war between the two brothers! Along this journey through the dense forests, high mountains and deep ravines, they encounter one more ally in the shape of Ria. Pursued by the villain and his forces of darkness, this trio sets off on the journey to unravel the mystery behind the map and here unfolds an adventure that is entertaining, mystical, enthralling and pulsating!

Saturday, September 02, 2006

'Lage Raho Munna Bhai'

Banner: Vinod Chopra Production
Producer: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Director/Editor: Raju Hirani
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Dilip Prabhawalkar, Boman Irani, Vidya Balan, Jimmy Shergill, Dia Mirza, Saurabh Shukla, Parikshit Sahani and Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Singers: Vinod Rathod, Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, N.C. Karunya, Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghosal, Pranab Biswas and Shaan
Music: Shantanu Moitra
Lyrics: Swanand Kirkire, Farhad, Sajid and Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Cinematography: C.K. Muraleedharan
Dialogue/Screenplay: Raju Hirani and Abhijit Joshi
Choreography: Bosco-Caesar and Raju Khan
Art: Nitin Desai
Costume: Subarna Rai Chaudhuri and Violet Monis
Story/Writer: Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Raju Hirani
Cassettes and CD's on: T-Series
Released on: 1 September 2006

Munna bhai, local Mumbai goon, and his reliable buddy Circuit are back! Munna is in love with the voice of popular Radio Jockey Jhanvi. Her effervesce greeting of “Good Morning Mumbai” on her daily radio show makes Munna's heart skip a beat each time he listens to her. Life is beautiful for Munna- his 'dadagiri' business is flourishing and he listens to the radio for hours every day as he dreams of marrying Jhanvi. There is just one 'minor' problem. Jhanvi thinks Munna is a 'Professor of History'. And in all her innocence, Jhanvi even invites Munna to give a history lecture to her family. Poor Munna! What should he do? As Munna tries to sort out this 'minor' entanglement in his otherwise perfect life, Circuit comes up with a bright solution. And then, the most unusual thing occurs in Munna's life. What happens when the 'Present' meets the 'Past'? What happens when out very own 'Professor of History' encounters a 'Figure from History'? Come, join Munna and Circuit on an unexpected historical tour.

'Jaane Hoga Kya'

Banner: P.K. Arts Creations
Producer: Alok Shrivastava
Director/Screenplay: Ankush and Glenn
Cast: Aftab Shivdasani, Bipasha Basu, Preeti Jhangiani, Rahul Dev, Paresh Rawal, Tinu Anand, Zarina Wahab, Sanjay Narvekar, Yogesh Thakar and Maria Goretti
Singers: Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal, Abhijeet, Shreya Ghosal, Shaan, Shaswati, Sukhwinder Singh and Mahalakshmi Iyer
Music: Nikhil-Vinay and Sajid-Wajid
Lyrics: Sameer and Jalees Rashid
Background Music: Raju Singh
Action: Allan Amin
Editor: Steven Bernard
Dialogue: Girish Dhamija
Choreography: Ganesh Acharya, Remo, Saroj Khan and Shabina Khan
Art: Nitin Desai
Cassettes and CD's on: T-Series
Released on: 1 September 2006

Siddharth Sardesai, a young scientist from Indian Medical Research center wants to create another human being, not in a mother's womb but in a science lab. If he is successful it could be a boon for humanity else it could be a doom for mankind. Siddharth has been experimenting with cloning for the past 2 years and has been unsuccessful. He even lost his colleague and friend in the process. But today he is confident of succeeding. He needs permission from the Indian Medical Research Centre and his Guru Dr. Krishnan There are few people who don't approve of his experiment. Amongst them is Inspector Rathod. So Siddharth is shattered when Dr. Krishnan informs him that the permission to go ahead is not granted. Siddharth is shattered and his love, Aditi comforts him. She also suggests him that she would speak to her father Mr. Chopra who is a big industrialist and could finance him for his project to help him go ahead with his dream of creating a human clone.

After much thought and hesitation Siddharth agrees to take Aditi's help. He builds his own lab in an old burnt mill and starts with his experiment. He first clones a mouse. In the meanwhile Inspector Rathod gets suspicious about the sudden disappearance of Siddharth and starts to trace him. He meets people who are close to Siddharth but no one knows where Siddharth is.

Time is running out as Inspector Rathod closes on to Siddharth's heels and ultimately Siddharth has to take a plunge and he begins to clone himself. He succeeds but his clone goes missing and all hell breaks loose when suddenly Siddharth is put behind bars for assaulting a girl at a Night Club. Siddharth realizes that it is his clone who is doing all this. But he is helpless, as no one believes him that he has cloned himself, not even Dr. Krishnan. Clone has other ideas. He wants to take over Siddharth's life and starts playing games. He flirts with Dr. Krishnan's daughter Suchitra and even impregnates her. For Siddharth's project report, the clone kills Dr. Krishnan and the blame comes on Siddharth.

Inspector Rathod gets furious and promises Siddharth that he will not let him go out alive from jail. Siddharth is in a major dilemma to prove his innocence of the crime that his clone has committed. But was Siddharth justified to go ahead and press the button to create the first human clone? Siddharth has to fight his own battle all-alone with his own creation, and the law is not on his side.