It is one of Indian Cinema’s tragic ironies that a sensitive and poetic film like Teesri Kasam sank without a trace indirectly leading to its producer lyricist Shailendra’s death due to stress of financial problems caused by the failure of the film. The irony is even more so as today the film is recognised as one of the the all-time great films of Indian Cinema.

Kumar has just returned from London to his “Haveli”, and he experiences many strange and creepy things around the house. He is told that his haveli is haunted by a spirit who have killed his anscetor and now its his turn…

It was not just the movies that had good time this year, the music of the movie also made remarkable sales market, which has been popularly dominated by pop and remixes. 2005 saw rise of both soulful melodies and sylickly choreographed peppy numbers. Following were the predominant albums of 2005.

It’s interesting, because we polled over a thousand people, and Angelina was a clear winner. She seemed to be as much of a favourite among women as men. We asked people to look at beauty in its broadest terms; taking into account intelligence, sexuality and confidence.

Yes, its true. Not a rumour.
But wait a minute did I ever say ‘Mallika Sherawat’ ?
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We love it. We hate it. But we can’t ignore it. Bollywood, one of the worlds biggest movie industry, is also famous for copycat movies. Some of the directors get easily inspired from holywood or tollywood flicks, while many are used to simple shortcuts Ctrl - C & Ctrl -V (Copy & Paste).

Bollywood is definitely gaining momentum, Black (2005), starring Amitabh & Rani, ranks 5th in Top ten movies of this year.
Movie Black has proved its popularity, when Time magazine selected the movie in its Top Ten list. Black starring Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee in lead roles and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali was a critically acclaimed movie in India.

This movie has been described as the ?ultimate Bollywood love story? also placed at the fifth position by the magazine which put Germany’s The White Diamond and Grizzy Man at the top followed by Sweden’s Saraband, America’s Squid and The Whale and French movie Cache.

SHIKHAR could’ve been an entertaining cum thought-provoking film, but what you get is not what you expect. Definitely not from a high-calibre director like Matthan and an ensemble star cast. Sad, Matthan has missed the bus this time around!