After super success of ‘Sarkar’ – inspired from ‘God Father’, RGV is once again teaming up with Big B for one more hollywood adaptation. This time RVG takes bolder step, with much more controversial subject – Lolita (1997). The movie has been titled as Nishabd and is based on one of the finest novels of the century, Vladimir Nabakov’s super-controversial Lolita.

Will audiences be able to stomach Bachchan as a paedophile? RGV is careful, however, to keep the girl old enough to avoid legal implications — Bollywood newcomer Jia will play an 18 year old, while the Big B’s character will be 54. The director has described the film as ‘a passionate love story.’

Also, films based on Lolita could prove suicidal to an actor’s image. Jeremy Irons has still not completely recovered after playing the infamous protagonist in a weak 1997 adaptation.

What will become of Bachchan playing such a risky role, especially in front of an audience that considers ‘Lolita’ itself nothing more than a Shakti Kapoor catchphrase?

Teaser

But as a ‘mistress of spices’, there are certain rules she must follow. In order for the magic to work, TILO must obey the rules set out for a mistress – never leave the store, never touch another human, and love only the spices. When DOUG – a handsome, enigmatic American with a secret past – enters her store, TILO’s own desires are stirred for the first time. She begins to feel passion for the American and as she becomes closer to DOUG, the spices she has given her other customers begin to misbehave. The more TILO falls in love and begins to defy the rules, the worse the lives of her customers become. TILO must decide.

Making of, The

Will she choose forbidden love for an American over devotion to her spices and her traditions?

Storyline

The story is set in the Bangkok where Madam Sushmita runs her illegal business. But one unfortunate day her only love, her young son goes missing. She offers huge reward for anone who brings her son back.
Here enters our main actors into scence, two strangers Raj & Priya (Shahid & Kareena) struggling to make a living in a new city find the child and decide to split the reward money given by Madam Sushmita. But there is twist in the plot, when they reaches Madam Sushmita’s palace, she has already been murdered.

In a panic they run from the palace but leave their suitcase and their footprints behind. Soon they are chief suspects in the murder and the police is crawling the city looking for them. Inspector Akshay (Akshaye Khanna) is given charge of the case and as he investigates what appears to be a simple case, he realizes that in fact with each step forward he takes, a whole new set of suspects with a whole new set of motives crop up complicating matters more.

Theses suspects include Sonia and Vicky, a married couple; a high society playboy (Upen Patel) and of course the age old house butler (Paresh Rawal)! Akshay soon realizes that all the suspects seem to have watertight alibi’s for the murder of Sushmita – but he knows someone is lying – and he must prove who that person is – to save Raj and Priya and prove their innocence.

- Konkana Sen Sharma plays a housewife who wants to go to America to be with her recently married husband (Jimmy Sheirgill) who lives and works there.

- Ankur Khanna plays a student who has secured admission in an M.S. course in Los Angeles

- Irfaan Khan plays a stock broker who is running away to evade arrest under what he imagines to be a murder charge against him.

- Paresh Rawal plays a show producer who helps a girl to get to America so that she may escape the dead-end life of drudgery in India.

Their destination and destiny is the only thing that they have in common

The next two hearings will be on April 19 and April 22.

Says Salman’s brother and actor-director, Sohail Khan,

He has been released and can fly back to Mumbai now.

Forgetting the differences of the past, even actor Vivek Oberoi , along with his father and mother, paid a visit to the hospitalized mother of actor Salman Khan .

We all know of the strains between Vivek and Salman. Four years ago, Vivek had held a press meet to allege that Salman had threatened him on the phone. There apparently was an altercation between the two over actress Aishwarya Rai .

On Thursday morning, the situation outside the Jodhpur court was tense when police had to lathicharge… … fans who had gathered outside to catch a glimpse of Bollywood’s problem child.

Actress Katrina Kaif, actor Govinda, directors David Dhawan and Sajid Nadiadwala and producers Rumi Jaferi and Afzal Khan were also present along with Salman’s family members.

The Bollywood fraternity at the moment is a relieved lot and are hoping that with bail being granted, Salman will be able to complete some of the films that had been stalled with his arrest.

Currently, over Rs 75 crore is at stake in Bollywood if Salman Khan goes to jail.

Exotic locations, well lace of A class actors with superb performances blended into a modern day romantic story headed by good track record director – Raj Kanwar (Andaz), what would you expect ?

Definitely a hit !!

But…, However …

HUMKO DEEWANA KAR GAYE is body beautiful, minus soul.

(more…)

The hilarious trio of Akshay Kumar – Paresh Rawal – Suniel Shetty who had you in splits in one of the most memorable comedy films of Hindi cinema – Hera Pheri, is back. So this summer its Phir Hera Pheri that happens to be the one of the first sequels releasing from a spate of sequels lined up this year (Krrish, Dhoom 2, Munnabhai Meets Mahatma, etc)

Cast: Salman Khan, Kapil Jhaveri, Saloni Aswani, Prem Chopra

Rating:

Synopsis

It starts off as a love story, continues to have the hero and heroine romancing in Sun City for the first 40 minutes, till the desi Nostradamus enters the frame, minutes before the interval.

Again, after the intermission, the hero and heroine break into songs in Dubai, till our Nostradamus drops a bomb: He tells the heroine she’d die two days later, on Friday. Obviously, the lady is shattered, but instead of going into a depression the hero and heroine break into two songs and make merry.

[who'd like to rejoice after you've known of your impending death?],

All this while, the heroine keeps hammering ‘Friday’ into the hero’s head. On the fateful day, the lady is mistakenly shot by the cops outside a shopping mall and dies. The hero blames Nostradamus for it, breaks into his house, bashes him black and blue and Nostradamus dies.

When Nostradamus dies, the heroine, who is already pronounced dead, wakes up. She’s alive now…

I am not kidding, this is the complete story of the movie, not a fairy tale for 2 years old boy.

Indiafm rates this movie as ‘the weakest fare of 2006′
Rediff.com rates movie as ‘nominated for worlds worst movie’
and I wish, I could remember the dream that I had while sleeping in the theater during the movie. I think even that was much more entertaining than this movie.