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At a launch party hosted by Producer Dr. Amanullah Khan of One World Entertainment and Mr.Vikram Khakhar of Wize Mindz Entertainment Pvt Ltd, veteran actor Raj Babbar flagged off the launch of his son Aarya Babbar’s debut International Punjabi film “Virsa” recently in Mumbai!

Present at the film launch were Raj Babbar and renowned director Mahesh Bhatt who launched the film and the entire cast and crew of the film-director Pankaj Batra, Aarya Babbar, Gulshan Grover, Kawaljeet Singh, Mehreen Raheal, Naumaan Ijaas, Amaan Ali and Aparna Sharma as well as other Bollywood celebrities such as Producer Anjum Rizvi, Aashish Vidyarti, Rohit Roy, Aryan Vaid, Sudhanshu Pandey, Mohan Doshi, Anoop Soni, Ravee Gupta, Vivek Shroff, Shweta Pandit, Moon Moon, Sadiya Siddiqui and brother Farhan.

Providing familial support to Aarya Babbar was his mother and sister - Nadira Babbar and Juhi Babbar.

Virsa is the first truly international Punjabi film with cast and crew from India, Pakistan and Australia.

A Wize Mindz Entertainment production presented by One World Entertainment, ‘Virsa’ will be shot extensively in Australia, and consists of renowned Indian actors such as Aarya Babbar, Gulshan Grover, Kanwaljeet Singh and talents from Pakistan such as well known model Mehreen Raheal, veteran Pakistani actor, Naumaan Ijaz along with a host of other faces.

Said Mahesh Bhatt on this occasion, “Down with the war-mongers!” while enthusing people from both countries to dare and embrace our each other.

‘Virsa’ is directed and written by Pankaj Batra, a young and upcoming writer-director with a promising future who started his career by assisting Vidhu Vinod Chopra on Mission Kashmir and followed it by assisting Kalpana Lajmi on Kyon.

‘Virsa’ is a Wize Mindz Entertainment Pvt Ltd production presented by One World Entertainment.

Actors Arjun Rampal, Udita Goswami and Sagarika Ghatge danced to Mika’s voice at an item song shoot for the film “Fox” at Madh Island recently.

“Fox”, A production by Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd in association with Rohit Kumar Productions and Tijori Enterprises, is directed by Deepak Tijori and stars Sunny Deol, Arjun Rampal, Udita Goswami, Sagarika Ghatge and Vipul Gupta.

With music by Monty Sharma, the item song titled “Sexy Kudiye” has been sung by Mika and stars Arjun Rampal, Udita Goswami and Sagarika from the film. Mika too appears for a short sequence in the song too.

Choreographed by Rajiv Goswami the song shoot was quite aesthetic with Russian dancers in the background and a rain sequences included as well.

With story and screenplay by Deepak Tijori, ‘Fox’ is a thriller with lyrics by Sandeep Nath, dialogues by Kamal Pandey and art direction by Kumar Villas.

Hansika who has been busy with her films in the South has started reaping dividends for her hard work! This young actress has grabbed the ‘Best Debutante Award’ in the 55th Filmfare Awards held in the south! What makes it all the more special for Hansika is that she competed against 18 other actresses from various categories like Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films and came out winning! She won the award for her performance in ‘Desamuduru’ which has run for more than 200 days and still continues to draw in an enthusiastic audience!!!

And its not just Filmfare, but ‘Desamuduru’ has also fetched Hansika the Best Debutante award in ‘Maa TV Awards’ which is held by the Telugu Film industry.

With Hansika’s Debut film in the South fetching her so many accolades, we wonder if she’s on her way to become the next Southern superstar!!

Hopefully this high will continue with her Bollywood flick ‘Money Hai Toh Honey Hai’ releasing soon!

Koel Purie who loves experimenting different things and has always something new on the platter last night was seen at a book reading session at an Art Gallery in Worli where she read parts of Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Alchemist’ to the gathering. Giving her company was none other than Sikander Kher and the two of them had the audience enthralled and involved in the session completely. In fact, Koel applied accents and characterisations to make the reading animated and lively!

So much so that quite a few people walked upto her and complimented her that they had never realised that a book reading could be so interesting!

A completely cheerful Koel was seen enjoying herself, and the duo kept cracking jokes and pulling each others leg, making it a rather cheerful event! They were even seen arguing good naturedly over who would go first. Finally, Sikander being the gentleman he is, graciously allowed Koel to go first citing ‘Ladies First’!!!

Celeb stylist Aalim is no amateur when it comes to styling Bollywood Stars as Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, etc have been his loyal clients since years…but our source recently spotted the stylist stepping out of Pratiksha, Big B’s bungalow the other morning!!

Has Aalim been prepping Amitabh Bachchan before he left for his world tour? When we approached Aalim outside the bungalow, he reluctantly confirmed, “Yes Amitabh sir called me in the morning for styling before he left for his World Tour….it was a great experience as always having worked for him in few of his previous films as well before…Amitji was very close to my father as well”….

What’s more, we hear Aalim’s late father Hakim was a regular stylist for Big B during his heydays…Amitabh Bachchan just could not trust anyone but Hakim Kairanvi and the late stylist had styled him right from Resham Aur Shera till his old age, and used to take him overseas as well!! Well from father to son, this must definitely be a most proud moment!

ASA Productions and Enterprises Ltd’s ‘1920′ the latest venture by Director Vikram Bhatt had its magnificent Coffee Table Book launched recently at JW Marriott in style!!

The highlight of the fun filled soirée hosted by Surendra Sharma of ASA Productions and Enterprises Pvt Ltd was the launch of the book by Adnan Sami, Music director of 1920, amidst a lot of fanfare. The beautifully crafted coffee table book has been designed by Atmanand (Studio Link) to the theme of the film and gives the reader a feel of an era gone by.

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Also present with their full fledged support were Director Vikram Bhatt, Producers Surendra Sharma, Amita Bishnoi, Bhagwanti Gabrani from ASA Productions and Enterprises Pvt Ltd, the debutants of the film, main leads Rajneesh Duggal and Adah Sharma, actress Anjori Alagh, Raj Zutshi, Vipin Sharma, Vallab Vyas, Amin Haji, Ashish Pradhan, Smita Hai, Rushitaa Pandyaas as well as the entire unit of 1920.





Bollywood came out in full force to show their solidarity to Vikram Bhatt. Mahima Chaudhary and sister Manjari made a cute pair. Nagma was seen on the circuit after quite a gap. Koel Purie and Nauheed Cyrusi gave each other company and enjoyed posing for the photographs. Dino Morea made a quick appearance and left. Aashish Chowdhry, Vidya Malvade, Shahwar Ali, Kailash Kher, Bali Brahmabhatt, Kunal Ganjawala and Gayatri Iyer were also present. The TV brigade was represented by Indraneil Sengupta and wife Barkha Bisht, Shehzad, Bakul, Sudesh Behri, Dilip Thandeshwar. Naseem Sidiqui, surrounded by security, also graced the event.

Vikram spoke about this event being different from the usual run of the mills ones. He spoke about his cast and thanked the rest of the team while quipping that Adah Sharma was definitely not his girlfriend! Adnan also thanked Vikram for allowing him to make a different kind of music and expanding his own personal horizons. They showed the snapshots of the book and the trailer of the film.

Said Producer Surendra Sharma on this occasion, “There is only one way to make a film and that is to believe in an idea and backing it with everything you have got. We thought that a classic period horror was a novel idea. The horse carriages and the mist and the old haunted castle and the lovers and the haunting…..What is exciting to watch has to be first exciting to make. Blase only makes for blase viewing….”

Adds Director Vikram Bhatt in the same vein, “The story is like a tune that a director has in his mind. He closes his eyes and feels the different sections of the orchestra…only that it is in his mind and does not exist really. So he needs that orchestra and with that orchestra sometimes it is cacophony, sometimes it is not a great tune, sometimes it is discordant and then sometimes its great music. All playing in perfect harmony and unison. 1920 is that harmony and this Coffee Table Book is an ode to that harmony. Our way of telling you how we all and by that I mean all the various departments of this film played that one tune that we all believed in….Its the faith in each other that makes an orchestra. This book is that faith.”

“1920″ launches two new talents, Rajneesh Duggal who is already a well known model and Adah Sharma. Set in the year 1920, the film traces the love story of an Indian boy and an English girl, set in locales from the vintage areas of Rajasthan of 1920 to Mussoorie and Bombay and a resort in the Himalayas. The two get married despite heavy opposition and the story unfolds on the premises of a supernatural thriller.

The music is by Adnan Sami with lyrics by Sameer. Songs by Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, Kailash Kher, Shubha Mudgal have been rendered while the great Pandit Jasraj makes his Hindi film singing debut in the film, with a special item song by Rakhi Sawant as well!

Mamu Aamir Khan broke all barriers and rifts with most of the film industry big-wigs and personalities. Now is it a good will gesture or just the must requisite hype for the movie Jaane Tu …Ya Jaane Na, wherein he just ensured things were just right for his nephew Imraan Khan’s debut movie. Have a peek at some of the snaps, Click here






Co- Produced by Adlabs and Pammi Baweja, Love Story 2050 is sci-fi costing a whopping 50 Crore rupees and marks the debut Harman Baweja, son of the director Harry Baweja. The USP of the flick is in the special effects, letting it down is a poor storyline coupled in with poor scripting and screenplay. No wonder it opened up to a lukewarm response……

The film starts of with Karan (Harman Baweja) the super rich son of industrialist father (Dalip Tahil), who is quite lonely, craves for love and communicates with to his dead mother through the stars. Karan happens to meet Sana (Priyanka Chopra) a simple petite girl and love blossoms between the two. Karan’s uncle Dr.Yatinder Khanna (Boman Irani) a scientist is working on developing a time machine for the last 15 years. Sana expresses her desire to Dr.Ya about traveling to Mumbai ahead of time i.e. the year 2050. A tragedy strikes and the love story ends there, but Karan still intends to be united to Sana.

Dr.Ya then completes the time machine. He and Karan embark on their journey to the year 2050 to find themselves bumping into Zeisha (Priyanka Chopra) a rock star, who does not believe in love, especially so after her parents death. Karan is determined to remind Zeisha of their love and take her back to 2008, but he just has a month’s time to achieve it. Here they are faced by a masked Dr. Hoshi an evil scientist who wants to grab the time machine from them. Will Karan be able to fight Dr. Hoshi? Will Ziesha acknowledge his love and would he be able remind her being Sana? Will they all make it to 2008?

The special effects from the two international houses (Weta Workshop and John Cox) have been terrific but at times seem a bit inconsistent. Music by Anu Malik is good and the track ‘Sach Kehna’ and ‘Milo Na Milo’ are hummable. Choregraphy (Vaibhavi Merchant), Cinematography and Sound are first-rate. Amar Mohile has come up with a great background score.





Harman Baweja has proved why he is compared to Hrithik Roshan when it comes to dancing and acting, but may require improving on dialogue delivery, definitely has the goods. Priyanka Chopra looks good but nothing to be speaking on her performance. The robots BOO and QT are cool. Boman has efficiently depicted the eccentric scientist. The kids as Sana’s brother and sister could have been easily avoided; same goes for Karan’s friends.

Well here’s a flick with quite okay first half and a second half with flying cars, biometric id, video games and talking robots, an imagination of Mumbai in 2050 with dominating VFX. This sci-fi would have been surely great commercial pot-boiler, if it was not to be done in by a pathetic storyline. With a run time of 3 hours, as of now it disappoints big time.

The movie Via Darjeeling dishes out a mystery in which interpreters roll out their own versions of a missing link, to an extent even the viewer has to chance his own interpretation. The director Arindam Nandy has tried experimenting with a plot which gives a feel of being best suited the small screen, in episodes.

The plot begins with a newly wed couple Ankur (Kay Kay Menon) and Rimli (Sonali Kulkarni) on their honeymoon in Darjeeling. On the way back to Calcutta, Ankur happens to disappear. Rimli frantically asks the hotel authorities to call in for the cops, the inspector Robin Dutt (Vinay Pathak) starts off investigating. He figures out from Rimli that Ankur had a fight with the rash hotel taxi driver and also came in heavily on the hotel manager as well. She also states of being stalked by a stranger Bonny (Pravin Dabbas) throughout their trip.

The scene moves two years post the incident wherein Inspector Dutt’s alongwith group of friends Ronodeep Sen (Rajat Kapoor), Preeti Sen (Simone Singh), Mallika Tiwari (Sandhya Mridul), Kaushik Chatterjee (Proshant Narayanan) are having gup-shup on a rainy day with drinks and dinner. Dutt narrates the story and everyone is keen to know what happened to Ankur, but Dutt responds of being unaware as he was told by his superiors not to investigate further. Now, each one of them comes up with their own versions indicating individual personality perceptions.

The director Arindam Nandy does catch attention quite a few times in the duration of 2 hours. The dialogues by Atul Sabharwal rightly fit the bill. The music is okay and doesn’t seem detached. The story should have had the final factual inputs from Inspector Dutt, about Ankur.

Kay Kay the perfectionist, as is always. Sonali Kulkarni has been a revelation with wide array emotion display. Vinay Pathak, Pravin Dabbas, Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh, Sandhya Mridul and Proshant Narayanan complement each other very well. The star cast has been well chosen for the flick.

Via Darjeeling is more of a experimental cinema, which does not give you an answer but leaves you to have your own interpretation…………

Yashraj Films brings in with caution Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic after a spate of box office disasters. This time around they have come up with a family entertainer that would appeal to the kids in a bigger measure. The film bears a seeming resemblance to the Hollywood classic ‘Mary Poppins’ and a dash of couple other flicks.

We start of with a child Ranbeer who has lost everyone he loves –parents, teacher and childhood girlfriend in the process lapping up all the laurels at the boarding school. Ranbeer (Saif Ali Khan) grows up to be business tycoon with charisma, but as destiny would have it, his car rams into a vehicle leading to the death of Mr.& Mrs. Walia. Ranbeer is arrested and the court sentences his to the guardianship of the 4 kids who have been orphaned for a certain period. The kids – Vashisht (Akshat Chopra), Avantika (Ayushi Berman), Aditi (Shriya Sharma) & Iqbal (Rachit Sidana) move in with an intention of seeking revenge. They hate him and he too cannot face them. As things get unpleasant with time, the kids ask God for his help. God (Rishi Kapoor) hears the plea and decides to send his most cheerful angel Geeta (Rani Mukherji) on a mission to help the kids and their guardian to love each other. Geeta enters the house like a nanny to the kids. The Pyar & Magic start working when a man who has lost love, the four orphans who need love and an angel who does not know what love is, are set on roller coaster ride. Do the kids get love of the man they hate; through the kids does the man get love which he has lost always and does the angel return post her mission?

The director – producer Kunal Kohli has kept the script simple and has stuck to the basics, mixing fun with fantasy, without complicating the storyline. Music from Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy is not great except for the item number ‘Lazy Lamhe’. Near to perfect cinematography by Sudeep Chatterjee.

Saif Ali doesn’t seem to be acting in this flick, but simply gets into the character with quite ease. Rani Mukherji is in after a break, her performance is positive and bubbly. Amisha Patel as Ranbeer’s girlfriend has nothing much to do. Rishi Kapoor in his cameo is appreciable. But the show stealers are the 4 kids and Kunal has really got out of them the deliverables.

The flick is family entertainer to be watched along with the children.