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The film Rock On brings together the team of Ridesh Sidwani, Farhan Akhtar who made Dil Chahta Hai with director Abhishek Kapoor. Even the movie Rock On seems to portray the essence of friendship albeit in a different narration, does call for a round of applause for a theme which might not be so popular in India i.e. Rock

The story is all about four friends forming a rock band called Magik with Aditya ( Farhan Akhtar) the lead vocalist, Joe ( Arjun Rampal) the guitarist, KD ( Purab Kohli) on the drums and Rob ( Luke Kenny) on the keyboard, out to cut out an album. Something goes awry and the friends who shared the same passion drift away, each leading their own life.
Aditya is an investment banker with a beautiful wife ( Prachi Desai) who he tries to appease, but is not really happy in life. Joe manages his guitar shop and is at the receiving end from his wife Debbie ( Sahana Goswami) as she is the lone bread earner for the family. Rob does some petty assignments with some big music directors and KD seems an odd man out in his rich dad’s business.

A decade later Aditya’s wife intends to bring the estranged friends together and revive Magik. But each of the four friends have some tough decisions as they embark on a soul searching and to work upon a passion which they once commonly shared between them.

Director Abhishek Kapoor has captured the fragility of relationships on the celluloid with compelling ease. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy;s music just rocks, in a way the music reviews are justified. Jason West’s cinematography is fine. Screenplay and dialogues are okay.

Farhan Akhtar has emerged as an actor and a singer, with no signs of debutante syndrome to be seen in his performance. Arjun Rampal surprises with one of his finest performances till date. Purab Kohli is tremendous coupled with his natural flair for comedy. Luke Kenny is cool as cucumber and is quite persuasive in his role. Prachi Desai scores a point with her poise and competent acting. Sahana Goswami is another talent to watch out.

The movie Rock On has the blended concoction of some outstanding performances, engulfing emotions and topping it is the execution of the entire theme. I have a gut of the film Rock On going to rock the box-office as well.

The film Kidnap is produced by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Limited and directed by Sanjay Gadhvi

The synopis of the movie is as follows:

Sonia (Minissha Lamba) lives with her mother, Mallika ( Vidya Malavade) and her naani. Her parents were divorced when she was 10 years old. And then,a week before her 18th birthday… Sonia gets kidnapped. The kidnapper, Kabir (Imran Khan) will talk only to Vikrant Raina (Sanjay Dutt) and no one else!

President of Raina Inc, Vikrant Raina (Sanjay Dutt) is the world’s richest Indian. A businessman, Post divorce, he lives in New York. Vikrant Raina comes to India to save his daughter Sonia.Vikrant is to do certain ‘tasks’ set out by Kabir. At the end of each of the ‘tasks’ is a clue. Each clue will take Vikrant closer to Sonia. If he does not save his daughter, nothing will. The real drama unfolds beyond the actual ‘tasks’.

How far will a father go to save his daughter?

KIDNAP Star Cast:
Sanjay DUTT, Imran KHAN, Minissha LAMBA, Vidya MALAVADE, Rahul DEV, Reemma LAGOO

SPECIAL APPEARANCE :Sophie CHOUDRY

FRIENDLY APPEARANCE :Raj ZUTSHI

PRODUCER: Shree Asthavinayak Cine Vision Ltd.

DIRECTED BY: Sanjay GadhviI

BACKGROUND MUSIC: Raju Singh

COSTUMES & STYLING: Shilpa Bhatia Sehi

ART DIRECTORS: Guruji Bros.

SOUND DESIGN: Dwarak Warrier

CHOREOGRAPHY: Remo

ACTION: Allan Amin

EDITING: Rameshwar Bhagat

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bobby Singh

LYRICS: Mayur Puri

MUSIC: Pritam Chakraborty

WRITTEN BY: Shibani Bathija

Kidnap is scheduled to be released on 2nd October 2008.

Sylvester Stallone and Denise Richards are rumored to be the first Hollywood stars to act in a Hindi movie, apparently there’s an Indian factor that has brought them to our shores!!

Word is that none other than actress Pooja Batra who now lives in Los Angeles has made the connection!!

When we contacted Pooja for confirmation, she gushed, ‘Yes, Sajid Nadiawala is the one who thought of the script and role. Since I know a lot of people in Hollywood, he approached me. It wasn’t an easy task. Even though there is a lot of awareness of our films here, no one wanted to test the waters. It took a fair amount of persistence and knowledge of the industry here, but I was able to ultimately deliver. Since Sajid, Slyvester and Denise are all my friends, it was great to bring them together for this project!

Well, some roots just don’t die, especially Indian ones for Pooja!!

The movie Bachna Ae Haseeno is produced by big banner Yashraj Films and is directed by Siddarth Anand hence there are great expectations, but just to keep you informed there has been an attempt to make the film different, but yet seems to have resemblance to the 1965 movie named Teen Devian (Starring Dev Anand, Nanda, Kalpana & Simi Garewal).

The movie is all about a casanova character with three women through different stages of in his life. He ditches two of them only to be dumped by the third. In the process he happens to learn the facets of love and of life. The first affair is in the early teens where Raj (Ranbir Kapoor) meets Mahi (Minnissha Lamba) in Switzerland wherein the duo misses the train and left into each others company. The second affair is in the twenties where Raj who is working in Mumbai, has a live-in relationship with a sexy babe Radhika ( Bipasha Basu) and does not want to be committed. He ditches her and moves to Australia. The third affair is in the thirties with Gayatri ( Deepika Padukone) a cab driver, who is not at all interested in Raj.

It’s Gayatri’s ‘NO’, which makes Raj ponder over his past and he is overcome by guilt. He decides to go back to his ex-girlfriends with an intention of seeking forgiveness from them. Only to find Mahi married to Joginder ( Kunal Kapoor) and having two kids. Mahi isn’t happy with the marriage, Raj does his part and manages to reunite the couple in love. Radhika is now a star called Shreya, on seeing Raj she gets more infuriated. She is hell bent on teaching Raj a lesson and no amount of cajoling or apologizing seems to work. Does Raj get forgiveness or not? How do Mahi & Radhika react?

Bachna Ae Haseeno somehow seems to lack the romance formulation of Yashraj Films and the screen play doesn’t seem great with a lot of disconnect in the on-screen events. The director Siddarth Anand offers great visuals and has managed to pull some fine performances. Vishal-Shekhars music is okay with interludes from R D Burmans compositions. With stunning locales of Australia and Switzerland the cinematography by Sunil Patel is worth a mention. Dialogues have been great.

Ranbir Kapoor has surely stolen all the limelight with his performance and is likely to set many hearts on flutter this time without dropping a towel. Among the ladies, its Bipasha Basu who clearly stands out and there is no trace of the much spoken age difference factor their on-screen chemistry is sizzling, she is just getting into right roles now. Minnissha Lamba has scored a point in the emotional scenes. Deepika Padukone has got a raw deal as her role is not that convincing, but she surely looks stunning. Kunal Kapoor has carried out his part efficiently.

You could also possibly feel sprinkled traces of DDLJ, Salaam Namaste in the film. On the whole Bachna Ae Haseeno has a catchy interesting first half, weak and clumsy second half. A much stronger second half would have given the movie a much better chance at box-office, especially to justify the hype created which was created in the promos.

Producer Surendra Sharma and Amita Bishnoi of ASA Productions and Enterprises Ltd’s hosted the Music Launch of their film ‘1920′ at JW Marriott recently in fabulous Bollywood ishtyle!!!

Director Vikram Bhatt was seen enjoying the evening with debutantes Rajneesh Duggal and Adah Sharma, and rest of the cast: Anjorie Alagh, Bakul Thakkar and Indraneil Sengupta. Vikram spoke passionately about his supernatural thriller giving all the praise and credit to his cast and crew.

The highlight of the soiree was Item girl Rakhi Sawant who stole the show with a spectacular performance based on her Item Number in the film “Bichua”. She made a dramatic entrance on a Doli and proceeded to entertain the audience with her moves!!! The track has been sung by Shubha Mudgal to Raju Khan’s choreography.

Unfortunately Adnan Sami could not be present, but the other musicians included Pandit Jasraj, Udit Narayan accompanied by wife Deepa and son Aditya Narayan, Sameer, Alka Yagnik, Kailash Kher along with guests like Praveen Bhatt (Vikram bhatt’s father), Aashish Chowdhry, Divya Dutta, Sudhanshu Pandey, Linda Arsenio(actress in Kabul Express), Tez Sapru, Bhairavi Goswami, Sudesh Bedi, comedian Vir Das, Indraneil Sengupta and Barkha Bisht, Bakul Thakkar, Dilip Thadeshwar, CEO of BIG Music Kulmeet Makkar and Mohanji from ASA Productions and Enterprises Ltd’s.

Composed by Adnan Sami with Lyrics by Sameer, the Music album of 1920 comprises 5 songs sung by Pandit Jasraj, Asha Bhonsle, Parveen Sultana, Shubha Mudgal & Kailash Kher. This is also the first time that Indian classical music maestro Shri Pandit Jasraj has rendered his magical voice for any feature film. He has sung for a promotional song titled ‘Waada Tumshe Hai Waada’. Pandit Jasraj arrived early and seemed delighted to give sound bytes regarding the music.

Producer Surendra Sharma who thanked Vikram Bhatt for his great, innovative and big ideas and the singing greats who came together for this film said, “It is an honor for any film company to have music composed and arranged by Adnan Sami and lyrics by Sameersaab but it is a rare honour to have such a collection of the greats singing for us. Pandit Jasrajji, Ashaji, Parveen Sultanji, Shubha Mudgalji and Kailash Kher saab. Films are made for audiences and from the first promo that came on the television we have been getting some much encouragement from within and outside the fraternity. 1920 is a supernatural film but more than that it is a great love story and an even greater story about a man and his god.”

The Audio Rights are on BIG Music.

He also took this opportunity to announce the next 2 films by ASA Productions and Enterprises Ltd. Directed by Vishal Pandya, the first of the two films is titled Purple Lake, which stars actor Aashish Chowdhry in the lead along with a well known model Mahsa and comedian Vir Das. The second one titled ‘Phir’, is directed by Girish Dhamija and stars the main leads of 1920, Rajneesh Duggal and Adah Sharma along with actress Roshni Chopra.

There is a good news for all cinema goers who will get to see an exclusive promo of Shree Ashtavinayak CineVision Ltd’s action-thriller Kidnap, directed by Sanjay Gadhvi along with the much anticipated ‘Singh Is Kinng’!!!

‘Kidnap’ stars Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Minissha Lamba, Vidya Malavade and Rahul Dev with Music by Pritam.

The 93 sec promo of KIDNAP is a sleek preview of what’s to come! Everyone’s looking forward to Sanjay Dutt’s first major release this year as well the current heartthrob Imran Khan’s next release after the blockbuster Debut hit JAANE TU… YA JAANE NA. The expectations from Sanjay Gadhvi after the pulse-pounding blockbuster DHOOM 2 is also pulsatingly high!

‘Kidnap’ is Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd’s next biggest release after Golmaal, Bhagambhaag and Jab We Met. This production house, under the mantle of Dhillin Mehta, has always focused on Quality and has reaped rich dividends through the success of their previous films.

This is one of those rare promos that make you thirst for more! The exclusive promo will give a sneak peek into this racy action packed thriller where Sanjay Dutt plays the role of the richest Indian in the world while Imran Khan surprises everyone by playing a character diametrically opposite to his debut role. Imran Khan looks dashing in the new avatar with a tattoo on his neck and his menacing presence on screen is mesmerizing. He looks amazing in this role of a boy taking on a man. Sanju, on the other hand, looks dapper in classy suits, while Minnisha looks stunning.

The trailer packs in a lot of stuff in those 93 secs. It has the edge of the seat feel, beautiful locations, rapid action, hot actors and most importantly, the confrontation between a boy and a man. Imran fearlessly takes Sanjay Dutt head on, after he has kidnapped his daughter, Minnisha Lamba.

Watch this battle between boy versus man to find out who comes through in the end!

The movie KIDNAP releases worldwide on October 2nd ‘08

After enticing the minds of audiences with some melodious musical promos across channels, the music of Vijayta Film’s Chamku was today launched amidst much fanfare at suburban hotel Sahara Star.

Hosted by Bhushan Kumar (CMD, T-Series) & Divya Khosla Kumar (Creative Head, T-Series) the event was livened up by the presence of the very svelte Priyanka Chopra and Bobby Deol who, after a quiet 2008 will be making a thunderous beginning with Chamku.

The function was commenced by the lively emcee Anmol who invited the music team comprising the very talented music director Monty Sharma, lyricist Sameer, lead starcast Bobby Deol & Priyanka Chopra and music baron Bhushan Kumar & Divya Khosla Kumar from T-Series. The invitees then spoke about the exceptional music of the film and their expectations from the film.

Bobby Deol then went on to invite Sunny Deol on the dais who in turn invited the veteran Dharamji to share a few words on the film.

After a few special thoughts from Dharamji, the promos of the film were played before the audience and the entire team was host to a lively music launch which followed…and captivated the hearts of everyone.

After the stupendous musical success of Saawariya, music director Monty Sharma is back with a heartfelt, moving, soulful and melodious compilation for Chamku with lyrics by Sameer. The music will be distributed & marketed by T-Series.

The album begins with “Aaja Milke”, a romantic song sung by Shreya Ghoshal & Shail that is already creating waves as part of the film’s trailer all across news and music channels. Besides, the album also includes numbers “Kithe Jawan” by Richa Sharma, “Gola Gola” by Abhijeet Bhattacharya & Vaishali Samant, “Trance” by Saleem Shahzada, Soumya Raoh & Anaida, “Bin Daseyaa” by Richa Sharma & “Dukh ke Badri” by Kalpana, Parthiv Goel & Shail.

Commenting on the occasion, Bhushan Kumar said, “Chamku is an exceptional film and with the promos on air, there is already a buzz around the music of the film. Monty Sharma has come up with a great sound track and we are sure the numbers will be a hit with listeners.”

About Chamku:

A Dharmendra production, CHAMKU is directed by Kabeer Kaushik stars Bobby Deol & Priyanka Chopra as the lead starcast along with Irrfan Khan, Danny Denzongpa, Riteish Deshmukh, Arya Babbar and Rajpal Yadav.

CHAMKU is an action thriller where Bobby plays the role of Chandramohan Singh a.k.a CHAMKU, who moves from southern Bihar to Mumbai, where he gets entangled in the world of crime once again.

Chamku is set for a release this October, and with an impressive music launch like this, the film is definitely one of the most exciting films to release in 2008!

About T-Series:

Super Cassettes Industries Ltd. is the largest producer and publisher of music and videos in India under the world famous trade mark T-Series. The company is currently headed under the mantle of Mr. Bhushan Kumar (CMD). Today, T-Series stands as a diversified group worth $ 125 million, with primary focus on its core business of producing and distributing Consumer Electronics, CDs, Audio/Video Magnetic tapes and Cassettes. T-Series ventured into film production in 1990 with Aashiqui which went on to become a huge musical blockbuster. The company has since then produced many more super hits like Tum Bin, ‘Lucky – No Time for Love’, ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’…etc.

T-Series is currently busy with the release of its forthcoming productions ‘Karzzzz’ (directed by Satish Kaushik, starring Himesh Reshammiya & introducing Shweta Kumar), ‘Kajraare’ (Directed by Pooja Bhatt & starring Himesh Reshammiya) and ‘A New Love Ishtory’ (Directed by John Mathew Matthan & starring Himesh Reshammiya). The company has also recently tied-up with Percept Picture Company for a 5-flim deal and has also acquired the music rights of 14 movies to be produced by UTV Motion Pictures for a whopping Rs 27.5 crores.

A survey conducted by A.C. Nielsen-ORG-ARG has ranked T-Series as “India’s No. 1 Music Company”.

Star Cast, Crew And Synopsis of 1920 - A Vikram Bhatt Film

Starcast-
Rajneesh Duggal, Adah Sharma, Raj Zutshi, Vipin Sharma, Vallab Vyas, Amin Haji, Ashish Pradhan, Smita Hai, Rushitaa Pandya

Crew -
Produced by: Surendra Sharma, Mrs Bhagwati Gabrani, Mrs Amita Bishnoi

Directed by: Vikram Bhatt

Music : Adnan Sami

Lyrics: Sameer

Cinematography: Pravin Bhatt

Executive Producer: Manmohan D Singh

Audiography: Uday Inamati

Art: Rajat Poddar

Action: Abbas Ali Moghul

SYNOPSIS- 1920

The year is 1920 and the house is isolated in the wilderness has a secret. It is waiting for the curse to come true. For years everyone who has bought the house and tried to pull it down has died under strange circumstances. It is like the house has a will and a life of its own.

Arjun (Rajneesh Duggal) and his wife Lisa (Adah Sharma) move into the house and he has been given the task of pulling it down and making a hotel there. The haunting begins.

Strange and inexplicable events start taking place. The curse says they will not survive. The only thing they have that is true is the love they once shared, which is now under the shadow of doubt. They will have to depend on the love and faith if they are to come out of this alive.

It is the curse versus their love.