Paathshala - Ahmed Khan’s Next! Starring Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia & Nana Patekar

Ahmed Khan is all set for his next venture to come. After failing to create the magic on Box Office from his previous movies Lakeer and Fool N Final, the Choroegrapher-Director has come up with Paathshala. With this new venture he has turned as a producer also. Paathshala is being produced by his wife Shaira Khan. Paathshala, as the name suggests, revolves around kids, and is set in a school campus. Patshaala stars Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia, Nana Patekar, Sunil Shetty with some child artists.
Ahmed isn’t directing the film, instead, he has entrusted the directorial reins to Milind Uke. The kids finalized for the key roles are Swini [Cheeni Kum], Ali [Fanaa, Ta Ra Rum Pum] and Dwij [Nanhe Jaisalmer], besides several child actors. The promos of the movie are out and yes they are interesting to watch. Promos may recall the days when we were kids and all the fun and enjoyment that we have done on our childhood. The promo has some lines like “a walk down the memory lane” , “we bring back the school spirit”, “if its about our future every question must be answered”. Read more

Are the Bachchans losing it?

Tadka question - with mixed reports about the success and the flak that Bachchans’ Unforgettable Tour has recieved, is it time to say that they no longer are the most powerful of the lot? Read on…

The last leg of the Bachchans‘ Unforgettable Tour in Rotterdam and Oberhausen has been cancelled, and this is not the first time that a part of the much hyped tour has been recinded, with similar fate at other cities like Vancouver having already been witnessed. Amitabh Bachchan, the vangaurd of the family tour, along with son Abhishek Bachchan and Daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and wife Jaya Bachchan has been on a denial mode about their tour not recieving the kind of success it expected, but every now and then the media has been reporting the grim side of it all.

So much so, that the fab four had to rope in Akshay Kumar and Madhuri Dixit herself in between. Riteish Deshmukh and Preity Zinta were already accompanying them along with Vishal-Shekhar, the musical duo. But every time, allegations of highly priced tickets leading to far less the number of viewers has cropped up. With Shah Rukh Khan’s Temptations tour going to start in a short span of time, reports suggest that it would be far better than the Unforgettable one as the tickets of SRK’s tour have been priced far less in comparison, and his entourage will boast of a much more diverse and successful stardust, including Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan and Katrina Kaif amongst others.

All this while, the Bachchans didn’t have Read more

Movie review - Rock On

Tadka spice - Now that you must have already learnt that the movie is the next big hit of this year, we’d rather have you lining up at the Box Office than reading this review, but just in case…

Farhan Akhtar disappoints once again! Yes, the critics would have loved to run him down but Rock On is gonna put a big rock into those very critics’ mouths to shut them up, who said that he had lost his sheen after Dil Chahta Hai. Rock On is as much about the new age Bollywood which not just shows how agood script can turn the tables at the BO but also set a new benchmark, as it is about Bollywood itself, which fails to find successes in the first half of each year, yet bounces back in the second half like a phoenix. Farhan Akhtar has done it, yet again!!!

Don’t we all know already that movie is about a rock band and their trials and tribulations? So, let’s spare the crap and focus on why exactly the movie rocks! Farhan Akhtar, not just croons, acts and directs, but also spreads the ’superb performance virus’ as one would like to call it to the likes of Arjun Rampal and Prachi Desai. Yeah! Arjun Rampal will knock you over with Rock On, it is as much his film as is Farhan’s himself. And that ultra-senti bahu Prachi Desai has made the perfect debut seemingly with this movie. She must thank Farhan Akhtar for this from her heart (spare us the 10 handkercheif sobbing drama Prachi when you read this :P).

Luke Kenny, who till now was the most ‘authentic’ looking rockstar from the fab four in Rock On will not just win your heart with his performance Read more

Lyrics - song ‘Lut Jaaon Lut Jaaon (Karzzzz title track)’ from the movie Karzzzz

Movie – Karzzzz
Cast – Himesh Reshammiya, Urmila Matondkar, Danny Denzongpa, Gulshan Grover,Rohini Hattangadi, Shweta Kumar, Bakhtiyaar Irani, Dino Morea
Director – Satish Kaushik
Music Director – Himesh Reshammiya
Song – ‘Lut Jaaon Lut Jaaon (Karzzzz title track)’
Lyrics – Sameer
Singer – Himesh Reshammiya & Harshdeep

Tadka spice - Himesh Reshammiya is at it again, and you can’t help but love ‘Lut Jaaon Lut Jaaon (Karzzzz title track)’ from the movie Karzzzz…

Aa Aa…………
Aa Aa…………

tumse mohabbat kar loon
jee bhar ke

poori hasrat kar loon
jee bhar ke

nazron mein teri kashish ka aalam
dil mein hai armano ki sargam
jo bhi kiya mere
jiya ko jaan e jaan tere ishq ne
kiya mujhe tere noor ne ghayal
jazbon mein machi dard ki hulchul
jo bhi kiya mere
jiya ko jaan e jaan tere ishq ne

lut jaaon lut jaaon lut jaaon main
lut jaaon us karz pe

jo toone diya ishq mein
jo toone diya ishq mein
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Sarkar Raj, intentionally termed bad, goes on to do superhit business!

Tadka spice - It couldn’t have been better for Ram Gopal Varma, after all the media played games with his Sarkar Raj!

If you still believe that Sarkar Raj is a commercial/critical flop, we suggest you go and wash your eyes in the basin! Ram Gopal Varma’s casting coup consisting of Amitabh Bachchan - Abhishek Bachchan -Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, has gone on to throw mud in the face of those who tried to intentionally run down the movie’s credentials as a success, both critical and commercial. So much so, that the movie not only recovered it’s due amount in unexpected centres, but also went on a business making spree across the globe!

Sarkar Raj made ignificant inroads in garnering collection in centres where it was expected to do bad and where distributors themselves were sceptical of the movie’s success, proposing Sarkar Raj as yet another Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag. Sarkar Raj, which wasn’t expected to do well in eastern Punjab tarde circles, not only recovered it’s cost in the first week itself, but also proved to go well beyond that and do brisk business. Sarkar Raj also stopped short of breaking into the US top ten slot! So much for a movie which was ripped apart intentionally.

Sarkar Raj has been declared a hit officially, with it’s business raking in Read more

Haal-E-Dil promos strike the right chord with the audiences!

Tadka spice - Haal-E-Dil’s current promotional campaigns have hit the right spot, but there’s more to the movie than it seems!

The current promotions of Anil Devgan directed and Kumar Mangat produced Haal-E-Dil, which run up to a length of about a minute have become a rage, thanks to the slick editing of the shots and the gentle touch to the scenes telecast on the small screen. Close-ups of of all the three new faces who are stepping into Bollywood with Haal-E-Dil are targetting the right audiences and gaining all the desired and due atention. The movie stars Kumar Mangat’s daughter Amita, Shekhar Suman’s son Adhyayan and a very popular face in Indian commercials, Nakuul Mehta.

In fact, Haal-E-Dil’s music, which seemed to be the most striking feature of this movie has got competition now. Not by the anything secondary but by the very things which will draw a lot of crowds expectedly: the beautiful shots, the cinematography (re: camerawork) and the emotional scenes which have become Haal-E-Dil’s promos’ high point. No one expected that a film starring three fresh faces would be setting a benchmark of it’s own in the way films are promoted on the small screen, especially in the times of producers lining up grandiose trailers in the theatres, and not much on the television.

Haal-E-Dil is Read more

Ram Gopal Varma ki aag - part two!

Tadka spice - No no, we aren’t giving a belated review of Ramu’s favorite movie… then what? Check it out!

It couldn’t get hotter than this - RGV venting his ire at critics in a no holds barred manner… ouch! Ram Gopal Varma has finally spoken out against all those critics who had bugged him during the time when his movies were falling flat on their faces. Seems like Ram Gopal Varma was waiting for the right oppurtunity to speak out against all those, and the recent success of Sarkar Raj has given him the perfect chance to give it all out to those who had said that he had lost his sheen.

Sarkar Raj has been recieved very well by the viewers, and is on it’s way to getting the tag of a commercial hit, after having earned critical success, even though some of the ‘known’ names had pulled him down, or at least tried to do so. On his blog, Ram Gopal Varma has taken pot shots at the reviews by quite a handful of critics, and also challenged their thinking abilities, by quoting excerpts from their reviews, and providing answers to their ‘questions’ on Ramu’s craft’s authenticity. And in what he termed as a direct contact to his audience, he has done it in an engrossing, entertaining and humorous way, which has Read more

Ugly Aur Pagli - get ready to roll in the aisles!

Tadka question - Pyaar Ke Side Effects made it big time on the Box Office, but will the makers be able to charm us the same way with Ugly Aur Pagli?

“She knows how to love… She knows how to be gentle… But she doesn;t know where to stop!”
“This summer, the makers of Pyaar Ke Side Effects, re-introduces, Love, The wicked style, 99 slaps, 1 kiss”

Well, so goes the napshot promotional teaser of Ugly Aur Pagli, starring Pyaar Ke Side Effects gal Mallika Sherawat and the guy who has got ‘cranky’ as his middle name, Ranvir Shorey.And from the looks of it, the makers of PKSE are back with another treat of a show.

The teaser of Ugly Aur Pagli starts off all lovey-dovey with the focus on Mallika Sherawat’s character, that is when poor Ranvir Shorey is shown sitting at a restaurant/bar where she knocks her head dwon heavily on the table and there are empty vodka shots lying around. Ranvir Shorey’s character has been shown as a desperate one, often at the recieving end of Mallika’s fury. The ‘wicked’ style love has been shown quite well with devil horns and a devil tail which are seen in the teaser.

The packaging is slick, not intended to bore you any moment. Mallika looks hot as usual, but this time she looks a lot more stylish than ever before, while Ranvir is Read more

Shahid Kapoor’s Kismat Konnection has everyone hooked

Tadka question - Do you find yourself addicted to Kismat Konnection’s latest promo featuring Shahid’s dance moves? Well, welcome to the ever-growing club!

Kismat Konnection’s first promotional song video has hit the small screens, and it has got the nation konnecting itself with the moves of Shahid Kapoor and music by Pritam! ‘Kismat konnection ho jaye‘ has been setting the television screens ablze with the fiery combination of Pritam’s music, Shabbir Ahmed’s lyrics and choreography by Ahmed Khan. But what has beaten all this itself is the moves by Shahid Kapoor and a very sexy galm image of Vidya Balan, far better than her Heyy Babyy days!

Kismat Konnection’s (virtually) trademark had caught on big time with the viewers. Though to some of them it might have sounded like a peepni, but the fact remains that the tunes were catchy. And the way they have been used in the promo featuring the song, Pritam’s efforts seem to have paid off quite well. The song has caught on with the listeners like wild fire and the shots are very sexy too, with interesting angles in the video. But all thanks go to the performer Shahid. As once a part of Shiamak Davar’s troupe, this boy has come a long way.

Kismat Konnection was always Read more

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan - still packs a punch!

Tadka spice - Aishwarya’s fan following might have virtually dipped post her marriage, but great work keeps her busy!

For Him Magazine India recently conducted a poll on who was the sexiest woman alive today and the results were a mix of beauties from both Hollywood as well as Bollywood! And the reigning queen bee of Hindi Film Industry, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was rated no.6 in the poll! Though beauties like Katrina Kaif (no. 1), Kareena Kapoor (no. 2), Deepika Padukone (no. 4) and Bipasha Basu (no. 5), all were voted ahead of her, but none of these beauties have got as interesting a career graph as Aishwarya, who put India on the world map!

Aishwarya has scotched al rumours of working only with husband Abhishek Bachchan, as well as starting a family with him! Aishwarya’s projects at hand have her paired opposite the likes of John Abraham, to working with Steve Martin and Rajnikanth. Reports suggest that she is even ready to remove her differences with King Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, which cropped up during the shooting of Chalte Chalte. Yet the producers have been waiting all this while for this peice of news. Her internationally most awaited venture, which would have her working with Hollywood legend Meryl Streep is under final stages of pre-production.

About the movie with Meryl Streep, she said that Read more

Three releases this Friday- which one will you go for?

Tadka question - Khushboo, Summer 2007 and Mere Baap Pehle Aap: which appeals you enough to go to the theatre near you?

Come June 13, and three releases are going to hit the movie halls. With Khushboo, Summer 2007 and Mere Baap Pehle Aap, all hitting the theatres this Friday, the cine-goers seem to be too badly spoilt for choice, what with Sarkar Raj and Aamir having already gained immense critical acclaim and great beginnings, and Jannat still trying to create a heaven for itself at the Box Office. Phew! What are the Tadka readers gonna do now? Well, here’s help.

Mere Baap Pehle Aap would clearly come out to be the top choice in case you wanna go in for the tried and tested. Priyadarshan is at the helm of affairs and this man can strictly make you laugh as well as think about the turmoils his movie plots unfold on the big screen. The prospects get even better with Akshaye Khanna and Paresh Rawal trying to tickle your funny bone, with able help for Genelia, who has made a sorta comeback to Hindi cinema after ruling the South. No brownie points for guessing that the treat gets even better with Archana Puran Singh, and Om Puri, whom the audiences have been dying to see on screen, though the promos seemingly have been kept low and a rushed affair.

In case romance takes over your moods, pyaar ki Khusboo haazir hai janaab! This Pahlaj Nihalani direction, starring newcomers Avantikka and Rishi Rehan has got loads to pull you Read more

Movie review - Sarkar Raj

Tadka spice - It couldn’t get better than this for Ram Gopal Verma and the three Bachchans! Sarkar Raj is a winner from the word go!

Jai Maharashtra…!!! No, no, Paresh Rawal doesn’t go around parading as Shivaji in Sarkar Raj folks. This is the slogan of a family who work for the benefit of their people and yet are on the wrong side of the law at times.

Bhaiyon aur behnon, Sarkar Raj pesh karte hain, ek baar phir, Nagre family, masala maar ke (re: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan). Ram Gopal Verma is back in business, and thankfully for him he has been able to not just cast a coup of sorts, Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (oooh! she’s fiery in this one), but he also manages to get such great scenes out of them that you’ll be chanting while coming out of the halls: Ram-u naam Satya ka hai! Meaning - Ram Gopal Verma is at his best again, underworld, Mumbai and people, something he started with movies like Satya…

…and quite well at that! This time, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starts it all (fasaad ki jadd!) As an NRI businesswoman, she comes into amchi Mumbai looking for only profits, and gets the able support of the Nagre clout. But hamare Abhi-shake bhaiya! How can he not think beyond profits? It’s his people na, and the reigns of the Sarkar Raj are in his hands too because Pa is a little old right now! And then come the dushmans, the enemies of this family who provoke people against the project in order to Read more