Friday, August 27, 2010

[ItzToday.com] SRK's wife Gauri Khan feels herself old for movies

[ItzToday.com] SRK's wife Gauri Khan feels herself old for movies

SRK's wife Gauri Khan feels herself old for movies

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:54 AM PDT

SRK's wife Gauri Khan feels herself old for moviesBollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's wife Gauri, who is said to be the most stylish and glamorous celebrity spouse, feels she is too old to foray into films.

"I am quite old now. Had I been young, I would have done one," Gauri told Shah Rukh when he asked her Shah Rukh would she work in film as well.

She said this Thursday at an event to annouce them as the brand ambassadors of D'Décor, world's third largest furnishing company.

Shahrukh Khan says, "Farah Khan and I are still friends"

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:52 AM PDT

Shahrukh Khan says, Farah Khan and I are still friendsSuperstar Shah Rukh Khan has cleared the air over a reported rift with choreographer-director Farah Khan, saying that just because he wasn't on her next project didn't mean that they weren't friends.

He wished her luck for her next film "Tees Maar Khan", for which she signed on Akshay Kumar instead of Shah Rukh.

"My friendship with all is as it was before, love them the same way. Many times if we are not working with each other doesn't mean that I hate her or end of friendship. I don't take my wife's decision, how could I take others. I want to see everyone doing well.

"When I am shooting with someone, I am more in touch with him. This time I am not in touch with Farah but wish her all the success and hope this film ('Tees Maar Khan') becomes a bigger hit than 'Om Shanti Om', which was her last film. I just hope she become even a bigger producer. Yes, she is a friend of mine. I am not doing a film with her, which doesn't mean I don't love her," said Shah Rukh.

Shah Rukh played the lead role in Farah's last film "Om Shanti Om".

My film can wait, says Vikram Phadnis

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:49 AM PDT

Fashion designer Vikram Phadnis has for present put on the backburner his plans to wear the director's cap.

"I've known the (film) industry for 15 years as a technician and so I understand that things should happen when they should. I know it (my film) is taking time, but that is the way it is. Nothing in my life that I have planned has happened on time, so I've stopped planning," Phadnis told IANS.

"So it (the film) will happen when it should happen. Meanwhile, it can wait, as I am enjoying what I am doing (designing)," added Phadnis, who started his career as a choreographer.

Probed more on his "dream project", he said: "It is a romantic musical. I wrote my script one and half years ago but as time passed by and more movies released, it has undergone certain changes in its approach."

What about the star cast, as he is friends with many Bollywood stars?

"I haven't cast anyone yet. Things got to fall in place first, then comes the casting."

Antardwand Movie Review

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:48 AM PDT

Film: "Antardwand"; Cast: Raj Singh Chaudhary, Swati Sen, Vinay Pathak, Akhilendra Mishra, Himanshi; Writer-Director: Sushil Rajpal; Rating: ** ½

Set in rural Bihar where nothing works except the law of the lawless, "Antardwand" takes the firm and gripping route to expose a hinterland-headline - the kidnapping of marriageable boys by desperate fathers of wannabe brides.

This was a prevalent malpractice in Bihar until some years ago. Not so much any more.

Debutant director Sushil Rajpal's film works more for its deeper resonances than just the surface sincerity. It is not so much the sensational value of the theme ('dulha uth gaya') that makes "Antardwand" watchable as the treatment of the layers of socio-political irregularities and caste aberrations that generate a society of anarchy where kidnapping an aspiring groom is serious business.

The narrative is punctuated with bouts of savage humour. When the Delhi University civil service candidate Raghuveer (Raj Singh Choudhary) with a pregnant girlfriend (Himanshi), is kidnapped just yards away from his parents' home in rural Bihar, his confoundedness, and rage at the bizarre confinement is expressed in bouts and spasms of indignance.

The director knows the milieu well. He doesn't waste time exploring rural Bihar just because he has chosen to film his story on location.

The narrative never loses its momentum. Rather than opt for a dry docu-drama tone, director Sushil Rajpal has chosen to format the film as a thriller. The pace from the moment of Raghuveer's kidnapping to his escape is largely relentless.

The second-half of the plot gets more introspective as it becomes the story of the humiliated bride (newcomer Swati Sen, well cast) who finds herself with a man who has been forced to marry her. The rage of confinement and the anguish of rejection ooze out of the tense frames.

Sequences in the couple's bedroom with a gigantic tell-tale double-bed at its centre, capture the ironical nullity of a marriage based on bullying tactics. There is an element of naïve desperation in the couple's shared space.

The writing is hard-hitting but relentless, supple and slender. There is ample room for innuendoes in the dialogues and situations.

"Antardwand" avoids the easy road to realism. The ambience does not depend on how the actors pitch the accent in the spoken word or their body language. Though these are authentic, it's the deeper malaise of a society buried neck-deep in prejudices and superstition that the director focuses on.

The camera work by Malay Ray is exploratory but non-judgemental. Scenes of characters moving in and out of dark old-fashioned interiors are shot without wallowing in symbolism.

The performances are thoughtful. Akhilendra Mishra and Vinay Pathak pitch into the ambience of rousing realism as the father of the bride and the kidnapped groom, respectively. Raj Singh as the precious groom last seen in Anurag Kashyap's "Gulaal" again reveals an admirable ability to blend into the bleeding fabric of mofussil mayhem.

The film is suffused with sincerely sketched characters. Jaya Bhattacharya as the bride's far-from-persecuted bhabhi (sister-in-law) and for that matter the unknown actor Dadhi Raj Paney who plays Akhilendra Mishra's faithful servant, bring a kind of fringe fertility into the storytelling.

The finale is self indulgent in its idealism. A society so breached by gender and caste biases cannot be lit up by a sudden beam of optimistic light.

But no harm in trying.

"Antardwand" is a commendable attempt to examine the underbelly of rural Bihar. It doesn't purport to shake up the status quo. The film only wants to remind us that we need to heal our collective social conscience before curing the discrepancies that feed into our dream of emerging from the darkness into the light.

"Akshay Kumar too costly" says Feroz Nadiawala

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:46 AM PDT

Akshay Kumar too costly says Feroz NadiawalaProducer Feroz Nadiadwala waited for four years for Akshay Kumar to return to the third instalment of "Hera Pheri" before they parted ways because of the price factor.

"I first started discussing the third 'Hera Pheri' movie with Akshay in 2006. I never wanted to make it without him. It's sad that we couldn't come to an agreement. Akshay is like a brother. But I can't afford him. I hope we work together again very soon," said Feroz.

With Akshay gone, Feroz had to change the entire cast of "Hera Pheri".

Now Abhishek Bachchan plays Akshay's role, Nana Patekar has stepped into Paresh Rawal's shoes and Sanjay Dutt has been cast in place of Suniel Shetty.

This, according to Feroz, would remain the lineup of actors for the "Hera Pheri" films to come.

Feroz is delighted with the script that Anees Bazmi has come up with for "Hera Pheri 3". "It's going to be one of the funniest comedies in living memory," he said.
Posted by Suresh at 7:26 PM

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