Saturday, June 11, 2011

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Salman Khan’s Ready unstoppable at box office

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 02:16 AM PDT


New releases fail to dent the box office collections of 'Ready'

Competition is scared of Salman Khan. Filmmakers have flinched at the thought of releasing their movies not just alongside Ready but even a week before or after. And those who have braved the competition have found fewer footfalls coming their way, this Friday's release Shaitan being the case in point.

Produced by Anurag Kashyap, Shaitan opened to a rather poor 20 to 25 percent response at theatres. Even the flattering reviews by critics failed to see more seat bums in theatres.

The crowds continued to be drawn to Ready, which though panned by the critics, is minting money like there's no tomorrow. First it became the second highest grosser of the opening weekend (second only to Salman Khan's own Dabangg), now it has rounded off its first-week collection with a figure of Rs. 69.50 crores, thereby taking the third position on the list of all-time first-week collections of Bollywood films.

Aishwarya Rai will not attend IIFA Awards this year!

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 02:09 AM PDT


Hubby Abhishek Bachchan confirms that he and Aishwarya will skip IIFA in Toronto

They are no longer part of the IIFA event. Though the Bollywood's smashing jodi Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai has given some outstanding and memorable dance performances on IIFA stage, they are not going to perform at the award function in Toronto this year. So, that entire buzz that Aishwarya will be at IIFA is nothing but hogwash.

Recently a Toronto magazine allegedly used Aishwarya Rai's name in an IIFA related story. The magazine Toronto Life had Aishwarya's photograph on the cover which said "Toronto is hosting the Bollywood's Oscar with celebs like Aishwarya Rai."

Abhishek Bachchan, much aware of the all the IIFA hype and hoopla, decided to clear the air. Bachchan Junior tweets, "Just to clarify….Neither Aishwarya nor I will be performing or attending IIFA Toronto, classic case of jumping the gun!"

Shaitan - Movie Review

Posted: 11 Jun 2011 02:02 AM PDT


However morbid or mawkish, violent or vacuous -- looks beautiful in slow motion. Fatal accidents happening in slow motion, bottles smashed broken on people's faces, jaws fist-clobbered in dilated time. Everything dark and morose gets an intriguing appeal when shot on overcranked camera, which director Bejoy Nambiar's film Shaitan relies on more often than not.

With an overt nod to producer Anurag Kashyap's cinema (Kashyap's long-canned film Paanch in particular), Nambiar (also the co-screenwriter with Megha Ramaswamy) spins a tale of drugged debauchery and delinquency of paanch friends in Mumbai.

There's Amy (Kalki Koechlin) a disturbed NRI still coming to grips with the shock of her mother's death at an early age. There's Dushyant (Shiv Pandit), a drug peddler with devil-may-care attitude. There's the rich and reckless KC (Gulshan Devaiya). There's Tanya (Kirti Kulhari), a reluctant model and actress with a crush on KC. There's the geek and freak Zubin (Neil Bhoopalam)
Posted by Suresh at 11:10 PM

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