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Aamir wants no Belly upset
02 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
Subhash K Jha (MUMBAI MIRROR; April 05, 2011)
Post Game which director Abhinay Deo lost to the Box Office after its release last week, he has woken up to targeting and promoting his next, Delhi Belly, well in the market.
An Aamir Khan production, with Imran Khan in the lead, releasing on July 1st, the film is undergoing post-production polishing-up.
Youth being the primary movers and shakers of the film and now with F.A.L.T.U doing unexpectedly well at the BO, Aamir has invited music wiz-kid Ram Sampath to give a youthful sound to the film.
Apparently, after the frosty response to Game, Aamir had an emergency meeting with the film’s team to figure out how the product can be targeted at the youth.
A source says, “Aamir is looking at marketing Delhi Belly in the same vein as Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na. Imran will be traveling widely to promote Delhi Belly.
Ram Sampath will compose a background score that will grab the attention of the below-20 market through the iPod.”
Choosing not to weep over his loss in the Game that he played last week and concentrating more on Delhi Belly, Deo says, “Delhi Belly is youth-driven.
Abhinay DeoI was ecstatic when Aamir agreed to my suggestion that Mr Bachchan does the voiceover for the first theatrical trailer.
Mr Bachchan too immediately agreed. I think his voiceover in Lagaan was lucky for the film. I’m sure it will prove lucky for Delhi Belly too.”
Paresh Rawal does voiceover for DTBHJ free of cost
02 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
By Subhash K. Jha, January 28, 2011 – 10:12 IST
The multi-talented Paresh Rawal has provided only his voice to Madhur Bhandarkar’s Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji.
Says Madhur, “I suddenly realized I needed someone to play the sutradhar, to bring the characters and story together. And I wanted a voiceover that is new to the audiences’ ears. I thought of Pareshji. Ironically, we have worked only once together as director and actor in Aan, a film that I am not too proud of.”
Paresh’s voice is a last-minute addition to Dil To Baccha Hai Ji. It was felt that the characters and their motivations needed some amount of explanation. Madhur rushed to Paresh who sportingly agreed.
Says the actor, “We all need to do these things once in a while. When Madhur asked me I readily agreed. He is not only a fine filmmaker but a good human being as well.”
Like his peer and illustrious senior Naseeruddin Shah, Paresh Rawal has seriously cut down on the quantity of his work, to concentrate on theatre in 2011.
Says Paresh, “I’m not very happy with the quality of roles being offered to me. So I am focusing on theatre. I am doing a satire on insurance companies called ‘Kishen Aur Kanhaiya’. As far as films are concerned I’ve only one release this year, Anees Bazmee’s Ready.”
Paresh is disillusioned by the way his more meritorious films are being marketed these days. “I did a really good film Road To Sangam last year. The producer was new and my efforts went to waste. I am now looking at good More >
Farah Khan follows Manmohan Desai formula for TMK
02 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
By Joginder Tuteja, October 29, 2010 – 11:33 IST
Decades ago, Manmohan Desai is said to have quoted that for a commercial masala flick to work, there should be at least one highlight on screen every 10 minutes. Given the fact that movies in that era were 3 hours long, it comes to around 20 highlight sequences in the entire run of the film. Circa 2010 and Farah Khan is pretty much following the same adage with Tees Maar Khan which releases this Christmas.
No wonder, Farah doesn’t mind getting more ‘highlight sequences’ in the film that fetch headlines before the theatrical release itself.
“What could be the other way to describe the coming in of Anil Kapoor and Twinkle Khanna in Tees Maar Khan“, questions an observer, “The very fact that Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna are sharing the stage again after years was enough for media and audience to go into frenzy. The sequence may last just for a minute but the fact that we are talking about it makes it highlight worthy.”
“Also, the pulling in of Anil Kapoor for an award ceremony sequence was a master stroke”, he continues, “Audience still relate to him as the Slumdog Millionaire star and since he doesn’t mind taking a dig at himself, his appearance in the sequence doesn’t appear misplaced at all.”
Other than Anil Kapoor and Twinkle Khanna, now Farah has also roped in Sanjay Dutt to do a special voiceover for Tees Maar Khan. And the master stroke comes in the form of Salman Khan’s entry into the film’s narrative with More >
SRK joins Arjun, Kareena in We Are Family press meet
02 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
By Subhash K. Jha, August 28, 2010 – 10:58 IST
Shah Rukh Khan has decided he will be part of every Karan Johar production in some capacity or the other. In I Hate LUV Storys, Shah Rukh did a small voiceover. Unfortunately, he couldn’t be accommodated anywhere in We Are Family although SRK was quite adamant to feature somehow.
“Ek photo hi daal do kisi shot mein,” he kept urging Karan.
Not one to give up even when his wish has gone way past its fulfilment phase, SRK barged in sportingly at a media meet with Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal and insisted on conducting an interview with the pair…
“Just as a good luck charm,” as SRK put it.
On Wednesday afternoon SRK just decided to drop in at the venue of the interview and said, “Even I am part of the family. So I’m joining them to promote the film.”
Director Siddharth Malhotra can’t get over the magic of the moment. “It is such gestures that make Shah Rukh who he is. It is his ability to make people feel special that makes him the superstar and the King.”
Siddharth had entered the media meet when he saw an exceptional bustle at the venue. He jokingly asked what the clamour was about.
“SRK aa gaya kya? I asked sarcastically. Imagine my surprise when someone turned around and said that’s precisely what has happened and that SRK was doing an interview with Kareena and Arjun for my film.”
One now hears that SRK will make his presence felt in all of Karan Johar’s films on one way or another.
Says Karan, “Shah Rukh is just More >
Prakash Jha forgives Nana Patekar
03 years ago
by Fenil Seta
in Bollywood News
SUBHASH K JHA (Mid-Day; November 6, 2009)
Prakash Jha has finally relented to Nana Patekar’s pleas begging forgiveness and has decided to forgive, if not forget Nana’s behaviour.
“It’s impossible to forget what he did. But Nana has been constantly trying to reach out since the ugly incident. I’ve told him I’ll have a cup of tea with him when I return to Mumbai tomorrow. Today is my last day of Rajneeti.” Prakash said from Bhopal on Wednesday afternoon.
Will dub, won’t shoot In fact, Prakash had decided to not allow Nana to dub his lines. “Now I’ll let him dub. But there’s no question of shooting the scenes that he lost out on.”
Earlier Prakash was unrelenting. “I know I said there was no question of a rapprochement. Nana Patekar was a closed chapter for me. My entire crew tolerated him because of me. But he’s lonely and he accepts his mistake. I can’t sit in judgment on him.”
The director has already changed the script to make do without Nana and has added a voiceover, ” I had to shoot six to seven scenes of Nana as a young man. I changed the scene and shot it without him. When I had worked with Nana in Apaharan, I hadn’t seen this tantrum-throwing side of him on the sets.”
Had no choice After his initial outburst, Nana tried to make amends. Recalls Prakash, “Later that day, he calmed down and tried to return to the sets. I told him he wasn’t welcome ever on my sets. As far as shooting goes, we had to compromise. We had to complete all his scenes without him. We More >