Ajay Devgan and Kareena Kapoor are appearing together in a movie for the first time, since pairing in 2006 blockbuster ‘Omkara’. Though the movie was supposed to be shot in Dubai, its shooting was primarily done in Goa.

Golmaal Returns is about a husband Gopal (Ajay Devgan) trying to convince his wife Ekta (Kareena Kapoor), who is a die hard fan of Ekta Kapoor’s Saas-Bahu serials, that he is not into any extramarital affair. For convincing Ekta, Gopal comes up with a lie, which leads him into more trouble with every moment.

Pritam, who is amongst the leading musicians in the current lot, has composed the songs of Golmaal Returns. The music of ‘Tu Saala Kaam Se Gaya’ and ‘Meow’ has made full justice to Pritam’s style, for which he is popular across the globe. The movie is produced by Dhillin Mehta and Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd will be distributing it across the country.

The Diwali release of ‘Golmaal Returns’ might not work for Rohit Shetty, as the week will also see the arrival of the most anticipated movie, Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘Fashion’, to the scene. However, its multi-starrer cast, which includes Ajay Devgan & Kareena Kapoor, can work its magic on the global audience, similar to its previous sequel.

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Tusshar Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Amrita Arora, Celina Jaitley, Arshad Warsi and Shreyas Talpade

Director: Rohit Shetty,  

Music Director: Pritam Chakraborty

Lyrics: Sameer

Originally ‘Heroes’ was titled ‘Mera Bharat Mahaan’ (My India is Great). However, the title was changed at a later stage to its current name, as the producer and director wanted to avoid making it sound like a patriotic flick.

‘Heroes’ revolves round a student group, who are studying together in a film-making college. They (Sohail Khan & Vatsal Seth) are sent away for filming a documentary. The topic, which they choose for their documentary, is ‘Why should you not join the Indian Army’. For their project, they go on a long road trip (From Delhi to Chandigarh & then Manali to Ladakh). On the way, they try figuring out the reason why each and every vehicle passing by is having ‘Mera Bharat Mahaan’ as its logo. Again, they come across several characters related to the Indian Army (in one way or the other) during their journey. All of these characters have a major impact on the life of these two students.

The music of this film has been composed by Sajid-Wajid & Monty. Lyrics (written by Sameer, Rahul B. Seth and Jalees Sherwani) of most of its song, especially ‘Mannata’, have been highly appreciated by everyone.

‘Heroes’ has been one of the most awaited arrivals of the festive season. With a star-studded cast, Samir Karnik will be looking forward to grab the attention of the global audience.

Movie Cast: Salman Khan, Preity Zinta, Sunny Deol, Mithun Chakraborty, Bobby Deol, Sohail Khan, Vatsal Seth, Dino Moreo, Riya Sen, Amrita Arora and Monish Behl

Director: Samir Karnik

Producer: Samir Karnik , Bharat Shah , Vikas Kapoor

Written by: Samir Karnik , Aseem Arora

Fashion is about Megha Mathur (Priyanka Chopra) and her dreams of becoming a top supermodel. On her way, she comes across two other top models, Shonali (Kangana Ranaut) & Janet (Mugdha Godse), who are completely different from one another. The story hangs around these 3 characters and how life makes it difficult for them in achieving their goals. Through them, Madhur Bhandarkar has tried to reveal the compromises you have to give for being a supermodel.

You are surely going to love Salim Sulaiman’s music in Fashion. Songs, which include ‘Fashion ka Jalwa’ & ‘Mar Jaawan’, are already topping most music charts across the country.

I am sure that a Madhur Bhandarkar fan will not be disappointed with Fashion, as this 135 minutes movie will give him everything that he expects from the director. Even, characters of Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut have been tipped to be the best that they ever played.

So, enjoy Diwali by witnessing another epic cinema from Madhur Bhandarkar (Fashion) in your nearest multiplex!

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Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Mugdha Godse, Kangna Ranaut, Arbaaz Khan, Harsh Chhaya, Madhur Bhandarkar, Karan Johar, Manish Malhotra, Neil Nitin Mukesh

Director: Madhur Bhandarkar

Producer: Ronnie Screwvala

Music: Salim-Sulaiman

Screenplay: Madhur Bhandarkar, ajay monga, Anuradha Tiwari

Lyrics: Irfan Siddique, Sandeep Nath

Story Writer: Ajay monga

Under the coalition of Yash Raj Films (India) and Walt Disney Pictures (US), Roadside Romeo hit the theaters in India & US on October 24, 2008. Voice for the characters in the movie has been given by popular names of Bollywood, which include Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Javed Jaffrey. This is the first time that Kareena & Saif have appeared in an animated production.

Title character of the flick, Roadside Romeo (voiced by Saif Ali Khan), is a dog living in the streets of Mumbai. The movie revolves around his life and how he tries to win the love of Laila (voiced by Kareena Kapoor) fending of challenges thrown at him by Charlie Anna (voiced by Javed Jaffrey), who also loves her, and his men. Roadside Romeo has utilized the state-of-the-art animation technology. It has been produced entirely in India and features music, romance, songs and dance number similar to other projects from Yash Raj Films.

Compositions of Salim Sulaiman (Music) and Jaideep Sahni (Lyrics) are good and have received good reviews from everyone. The success of this 95-minute animated flick, which has been made on a budget of $7 million, is going to spring in high hopes amongst other directors, who are looking to come up with animated ventures in Bollywood. Jugal Hansraj is also keeping his fingers crossed with the performance of this movie in its first weekend, as it has been released during the ‘Diwali’ festival in India.

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Casts : Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Javed Jaffrey

Producer : Aditya Chopra

Director : Jugal Hansraj

Singers : Kunal Ganjawala, K K, Sunidhi Chauhan, Saif Ali Khan, Sudesh Bhosle, Naresh Kamat.

The movie, starring Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri among others, has a fictional story and is based on the ‘Operation Kratos’. Operation Kratos was London police’s ’shoot-to-kill’ policy, which they applied on suspected suicide bombers, who they caught after July 7, 2005 bombings in London.

Tariq Ali (Naseeruddin Shah) is a Muslim police officer in the Scotland Yard. He is a Lahore born British citizen, who is married to an English woman and has 2 children. Ali constantly remains distrusted by his colleagues in the Scotland Yard, despite being associated to the Metropolitan Police for a long time. He is asked to hunt down suspected suicide bombers against July 7’s London bombings backdrop. Things get more complicated for Ali when he finds out that an innocent Muslim boy has been killed by an armed police officer on Underground.

Cast in ‘Shoot On Sight’ includes Sadie Frost, Gulshan Grover, Cloudia Swann and Brian Cox apart from Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri. This film is another issue-oriented project from Jag Mundhra, who has also directed Nanditas starrer ‘Bawander’ and Aishwarya Rai & Naveen Andrew starrer ‘Provoked’. The movie first premiered in 4th Dubai Film Festival on December 2007. It received great appreciation when it got screened in the prestigious Cannes Film Festival by American World Pictures on May 14, 2008.

The movie is not expected of grossing much from the Box Office this weekend for its slow and off-beat theme, but it is sure to be one of those eye-openers for the Indian audience.

Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Om Puri, Stephen Greif

Starring: Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Om Puri, Stephen Greif, Ralph Ineson, Gulshan Grover, Laila Rouass, Mikaal Zulfikaar, Sadie Frost, Brian Cox

Director: Jag Mundhra
Screenwriter: Carl Austin
Producer: Aron Govil
Composer: John Altman

For a film based purely on video game, there is a dearth of action in Max Payne. Yes, there’s always complain from our end with such movies having only action, but no sequence. However, this has gone completely in the reverse direction except the fact that the substance is still missing. The movie stopped in between and now seems a one-dimensional detective noir rather than being a shoot-em-up thriller.

Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) takes the needed break from his duties of talking to animals for playing the main character, who is a police detective in New York City. Three years back, his wife and baby were murdered by 3 assailants. One of them escaped and never got identified, whereas the other two died. Now, Max works in cold case bureau, usually pushing papers around the clock and tries to focus himself on his primary objective: Finding the person who was responsible in killing his family.

The movie also stars Olga Kurylenko, Mila Kunis, Chris ‘Ludacris’, Beau Bridges and Amauro Naulasco. It’s only in the final ten minutes of the movie, after innumerable lurching twists in the plot and unsatisfactory explanation, when you finally come across gunfight and vengeance that you have come to see including the super-slow-motion action sequences, which is common in the Max Payne game.

Max Payne, $35 million movie, had a good start in the box office this week. The movie is expected to have a high opening By Director John Moore.

Karz

Himesh Reshammiya is back again with his new venture ‘Karz’, remake of the 1980 Subhash Ghai’s blockbuster of the same name. Directed by Satish Kaushik and released under the banner of T-Series Limited, the movie is all set to have a worldwide release on October 17, 2008. Himesh Reshammiya will be acting alongside Anna Kumar and Urmila Mantodkar (playing the role of a vamp) in the movie.

Karz is a story of Ravi Verma, who gets murdered by his wife Kamini (Urmila Mantodkar) on the day of their marriage. Ravi is reborn as young Monty Oberoi (Himesh Reshammiya), who is a popular singer and heartthrob of the nation. Images from his previous life continue to haunt Monty, even when he is fully awake. He decides to revisit the place, where the incident took place, only to uncover an old murder mystery and save Ravi’s family from Kamini’s wrath.

Himesh has a huge task in hand of doing justice to the role played by Rishi Kapoor, which was highly praised by critics more than a couple of decades back. Again, it will be difficult for him to recreate the same magic through his music and voice that the combination of Laxmikant Pyarelal and Kishore Kumar had on the global audience. Even the concept of reincarnation might not receive the same response from the audience, as it did in the early 80s. Henceforth, Director Satish Kaushik along with Producers Bhushan & Inder Kumar has their tasks cut out for them. All eyes would also be on Anna Kumar, daughter of Producer Inder Kumar, who will be making her debut in the movie as the lead, opposite to Himesh. She will be playing the role of Tina Munim from the 80s classic.

With the release of the movie only a week away, everyone will be having their fingers crossed for its box office report. With one flop already under his belt in Aap Ka Saroor, Himesh will be hoping that this film gives him the needed launching pad for his acting career.

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Star Cast: Urmila Matondkar, Himesh Reshammiya, Gulshan Grover, Danny Denzongpa, Rohini Hattangadi, Shweta Kumar, Bakhtiyaar Irani, Dino Morea, Raj Babbar, Asrani, Himani Shivpuri

Director : Satish Kaushik

Producer : Krishan Kumar, Bhushan Kumar

Singers : Himesh Reshammiya, Sunidhi Chauhan, Harshdeep Kaur, Tulsi Kumar, Shreya Ghosal

Music : Himesh Reshammiya

Songs

Lut Jaaon Lut Jaaon

Hari Om

Tandoori Nights

Soniye Je Tere

Dhoom Tere Ishq Ki

Sisak Sisak Ke

Tere Bin Chain Na Aave

Masha Allah

Ek Haseena Thi

Hello

Hello: Great Concept, Poor Performances

Hello, produced and directed by Atul Agnihotri, hit the theaters on October 10, 2008. The film based on the bestseller from Chetan Bhagat ‘One night @ the Call Center’ was one of the eagerly awaited films of the year.

‘Hello’ has Sharman Joshi, Sohail Khan, Gul Panag, Isha Koppikar, Sharat Saxena and Amrita Arora playing the lead roles. There is also the presence of Arbaaz Khan, Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif in small cameos. After watching the movies, critics believed that none of characters were able to have the same impact, as the book had on the mind of the readers.
The story of ‘Hello’ is purely based on what happens during a night at the call center. After a performance, Salman Khan (in his own name) is confronted by a mysterious lady (Katrina), who wants to tell him an exciting story only if he promises to make a film on it. On his agreement, she tells him the story of six call center executives: Shyam (Sharman), Varun (Sohail), Priyanka (Gul), Radhika (Amrita), Esha (Isha) and Military Uncle (Sharat) and how they receive a phone call from God on a rainy night that changes their life forever. All this happens after each of their personal lives have already been devastated by a storm.

Although the concept of the movie was good, yet it missed out on some breakthrough performances. None of the characters were able to portray the true image of the characters, as they were penned by Chetan Bhagat. Again, the music of ‘Hello’ from Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant, Sajid and Wajid didn’t perform well as per expectation. Barring some funny instances, the movie lacked good dialogues.
Just a day after its release, ‘Hello’ is yet to receive a positive response from the audience. Only time will tell, if the movie is going to receive similar accolades as the book.

Starring: Sohail Khan, Sharman Joshi, Isha Kopikar, Gul Panag, Amrita Arora, Dilip Tahil, Suresh Menon, Sharat Saxena, Arbaaz Khan, Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif

Music: Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant, Sajid, Wajid

Director: Atul Agnihotri

Producer: Atul Agnihotri

Written by: Chetan Bhagat

Singers: Sunidhi Chauhan, Shaan , Daler Mehndi, Zubeen Garg, Sadhana Sargam, Wajid , Suzie. Q, Ishq Bector, Herchelle , Merlin , Tim , Shafqat Amanat Ali, Sonu Nigam

Hello Songs

Bang Bang Bang
Caravan
Hello Party Mix
Hello Title Track
Karle Baby Dance Wance
Mitwa Re
Rab Ka Banda
Dil Mere Tu Deewana Hai
Dil Mere Tu Deewana Hai - Ii
Har Subah Buhat Yaad Aata Hai

Kidnap

Sanjay Gadhvi has always enthralled the audience with music which is sure to make your foot tap involuntarily. Movies like Dhoom and Dhoom2 has proven his expertise already.

The new movie Kidnap is the latest creation and he utilizes Pritam in this movie too. Although this picture apparently does not have any scope for peppy songs but the director surprises us again with some lively songs.

The song by the name “Mit Jaaye” which has created quite a stir is composed by Sanjay and Sandeep Vyas. It is typical of Sanjay Gupta film which has techno and western feel to the sound. The song is efficiently sung by Sandeep Vyas and is sure to find its fan. An alternate rock version is also likeable.

Pritam again proves his expertise with the song Hey Ya. It’s typically racy and brimming with attitude due to the electronic touch to the song. The song is picturized on the gorgeous Minishaa Lamba and is well complemented by the voice of Suzy Q. It is potentially a chart buster. There is a house remix which is foot tapping.

Adnan Sami adds to the sound with the tune Han Ji which is reminiscent of old Sanjay Dutt numbers. Though it is not much hyped but is soothing to the ear.

Meri Ek Ada Shola has an Arabian feel to itself which makes it catchy. The song is a result of the joint effort by Sukhvinder Singh, Akriti Kakkar and Sunidhi Chauhan. This one has been the sole item number which has been rumored to have been picturized on the sizzling Malaika Arora Khan and Amrita Arora.

The pace is of the soundtracks is checked by the sensuous number Mausam sung by Shreya Ghosal. This is a soft number and will gradually gain acceptance.

In totality the music is acceptable to the ear and you will be thoroughly entertained.

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Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
Writer: Shibani Bathija
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Minissha Lamba, Vidya Malvade, Malaika Arora
Music: Pritam

Kidnap Track List:
Hey Ya
Hey Ya (House Mix)
Haan Ji
Mausam
Mit Jaaye
Mit Jaaye (Rock Version)
Meri Ek Ada Shola

Drona

Review: Both music and the plot of the movie Drona is very unconventional. The protagonist of the story, played by Abhishek Bachchan(Drona) is disturbed by nightmares, that only exaggerates his problems slowly revealing what destiny has in store for him. The entire movie not only rushes the adrenaline levels high, but comes with romance, thrill and action amalgamated rightly to make lethal combination. Priyanka Chopra plays the role of Sonia who helps Drona ( Abhishek Bachchan ) to unveil the secrets and the trysts. Kay Kay Menon, Jaya Bachchan and Akhilendra Mishra are in lead roles and the movie comes out of the bag of renowned director- Goldie Behl.

The music of the movie has been successful in creating similar ripples as the trailers are. The title track, which has been sung by Dhruv Ghanekar, who is also the music director of the venture. The tough task while composing the music was to fit it with the theme. Sunidhi Chauhan has given the same track a complete makeover, courtesy the complete clubbing feel that has been made a part of it.

In all Drona is a movie with a loose key commercial value but as per the trailers the performance are something that would drag a lot of people to multiplexes.

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Director : Goldie Behl
Music - Dhruv Ghanekar
Cast : Abhishek Bachan, Priyanka Chopra, Kay Kay Menon, Jaya Bachan
Music Director : Justin-Uday
Distributor - Eros International
Banner : Rose Movies
Singers : Roop Kumar Rathod, Sunidhi Chauhan, Dhruv Ghanekar, Shaan, Sadhna Sargam,

Drona Track List :

Drona
Bandagi
Drona Redux
Khushi
Nanhe Nanhe
Oop Cha
Oop Cha -fare-play Mix