Hijack Movie Previews

Cast: Shiney Ahuja, Esha Deol, K K Raina, Mona Ambegaonkar, Kaveri Jha
Director: Kunal Shivdasani

This action thriller revolves around Vikram Madan (Shiney Ahuja), a ground maintenance officer at the Chandigarh airport.

Due to unsocial working hours, he has only one close friend, Rajeev, chief of security at the same airport.

As luck would have it, the flight in which Vikram’s daughter is travelling to Amritsar from Delhi, is hijacked.

A group of six terrorists takes control of the aircraft in mid-air, to secure release of Maqsood (KK Raina) who had been captured by the Indian police.

The terrorists threaten to kill the passengers if their demands are not met.

Abdullah, who remains a mystery till the end of the film has masterminded the whole hijack operation.

Under pressure to save his own daughter and other passengers, Vikram has no alternative but to sneak into the aircraft.

He manages to do just that with the help of on-board air hostess, Saira (Esha Deol).

As tension rises, Vikram takes matters in his own hands by killing the terrorists one by one but in the process some passengers come in the line of fire.

Will Vikram and Saira manage to save the rest of the passengers in time? Or do they face the wrath of the terrorists?

Filled with fast paced action sequences, Hijack is one of the first thrillers of its kind to emerge from India defying all Bollywood norms.

Inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster, Die Hard, Hijack consists of a sensible script with no unnecessary sub- plots to dilute the on screen tension.

With 20 years experience in advertising, Kunal Shivdasani makes his directorial debut in Hijack.

Shiney Ahuja is said to have done all his stunts in this action pack thriller whilst action choreographer, Allan Amin has gone to great lengths in achieving some unbelievable stunt sequences.

Meanwhile, Brazilian model, Mariah makes her Bollywood debut in the promotional song in this film.

Money Hai To Honey Hai Movie Preview

Cast: Govinda, Aftab Shivdasani, Upen Patel, Ravi Kishan, Celina Jaitley, Kim Sharma, Hansika Motwani, Isha Koppikar
Directed by: Ganesh Acharya

Money Hai To Honey Hai revolves around six characters. Happy-go- lucky guy, Bobby (Govinda) lives for today. He neither thinks nor bothers about tomorrow.

His father thinks he's good for nothing. So he challenges his dad to prove him wrong by leaving home.

Then there is Lala bhai (Manoj Bajpai), who suddenly becomes wealthy by winning million pounds on the lottery. Emotional and kind hearted, he loses all his winnings and is penniless within months.

Writer Gaurav (Aftab Shivdasani) works in an advertising agency. His honesty and sincerity shows in his advertising campaign. Always misunderstood by his colleagues, Gaurav eventually gets fired. Even his girlfriend dumps him and marries another guy.

Manik (Upen Patel) is a struggling model whose endorsement is limited to cheap under garments. He comes across Dolly Kumari, a successful and single middle aged fashion designer (Archana Puran Singh).

Hoping to make it big in the advertising world, he has a relationship with her against his wishes.

Successful television actress Ashima Kapoor is unhappy with her career and desperate to star in films. She finally gives up television and waits for that elusive break.

Shruti (Celina Jeitely) is a struggling dress designer, who sells her designs on the cheap to Dolly Kumari. Meanwhile Dolly adds her own tag and sells the same merchandise for double the price.

One day, they all receive a message on their mobiles from a Mr Jaiswal informing them they have become the owner of his group of companies worth 1,000 million rupees.

As instructed by Mr Jaiswal, they reluctantly arrive at a resort. With formalities of transferring the ownership complete, they celebrate their good fortune. But this does not last long.

A lawyer reveals there's a loan of 1,200 million rupees which is outstanding and must be repayed. Until then they will be put under house arrest.

A Korean company now proposes to buy the companies but these six characters choose to decline the offer. They put all their ideas together and come up with a clever plan to make garments on the cheap.

But will they be successful in their new business venture? Will they make enough money to pay up their debts?

Bachna Ae Haseeno

Why do girls always fall for the wrong guy? Their mothers warn them about him.

Their friends shake their heads disapprovingly. Their minds tell them to escape while the going is good. But no! Oh no! Their hearts are another story altogether.

You see, they are always sending all the wrong signals. His name alone is enough to scramble their brains and set their hearts racing.

Meet Raj (Ranbir Kapoor). He is the stuff of dreams, with the looks of a 'butter wouldn't melt in my mouth' good boy.

Who can blame him for falling in love as many times as love is fortunate enough to find him. It's not his fault that he's a heartbreaker, its in his DNA.

Come… discover his three love stories; Raj and Mahi (Minissha Lamba), Raj and Radhika (Bipasha Basu), Raj and Gayatri (Deepika Padukone).

Different ladyloves at different times in his life. And each one of them teach him a little bit about love and a little bit about life, in their own sweet, sexy or sassy way.

Come fall in love... three times over!

Ugly Aur Pagli

Ugly Aur Pagli Movie Preview

Cast: Shiney Ahuja, Esha Deol, K K Raina, Mona Ambegaonkar, Kaveri Jha
Director: Kunal Shivdasani

This action thriller revolves around Vikram Madan (Shiney Ahuja), a ground maintenance officer at the Chandigarh airport.

Due to unsocial working hours, he has only one close friend, Rajeev, chief of security at the same airport.

As luck would have it, the flight in which Vikram’s daughter is travelling to Amritsar from Delhi, is hijacked.

A group of six terrorists takes control of the aircraft in mid-air, to secure release of Maqsood (KK Raina) who had been captured by the Indian police.

The terrorists threaten to kill the passengers if their demands are not met.

Abdullah, who remains a mystery till the end of the film has masterminded the whole hijack operation.

Under pressure to save his own daughter and other passengers, Vikram has no alternative but to sneak into the aircraft.

He manages to do just that with the help of on-board air hostess, Saira (Esha Deol).

As tension rises, Vikram takes matters in his own hands by killing the terrorists one by one but in the process some passengers come in the line of fire.

Will Vikram and Saira manage to save the rest of the passengers in time? Or do they face the wrath of the terrorists?

Filled with fast paced action sequences, Hijack is one of the first thrillers of its kind to emerge from India defying all Bollywood norms.

Inspired by the Hollywood blockbuster, Die Hard, Hijack consists of a sensible script with no unnecessary sub- plots to dilute the on screen tension.

With 20 years experience in advertising, Kunal Shivdasani makes his directorial debut in Hijack.

Shiney Ahuja is said to have done all his stunts in this action pack thriller whilst action choreographer, Allan Amin has gone to great lengths in achieving some unbelievable stunt sequences.

Meanwhile, Brazilian model, Mariah makes her Bollywood debut in the promotional song in this film.

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Harman versus Imraan- The battle of the debutants

Aamir Khan is determined to make a success out of his nephew Imraan’s career, come what may. And even if that means taking on the competition headlong, so be it. Anything for family, seems to be the marketing motto, as Harry Baweja puts in 80-crore plus Priyanka in the hi-fi sci-fi Love Story 2050 to ensure his son’s super success on July 4.

Enter Aamir Khan with nephew Imraan’s Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na and on same Friday as Harman’s debut. “The Bawejas were shocked,” says a source close to the film. “They had planned and strategized their film’s release almost six months in advance. They had spoken to all their potential competitors from Salman and God Tussi Great Ho to Ram Gopal Varma and Sarkar Raj to Apoorva Lakhia ’s Mission Istanbul and Aziz Mirza’s Kismat Konnection to Yashraj and Tips. Harman called them up personally to make sure his film comes on a freed Friday. Then suddenly Aamir showed up to create an almost Saawariya-Om Shanti Om crisis. Jaane Tu’s release was nowhere in sight when Love Story 2050 was announced. Suddenly they came out of the blue! ”

Harry Baweja made a panic call to Aamir. Says the source, “Harry Baweja knows Aamir from the time he did B. Subhash’s Love Love Love where Harry was an assistant director. Ever since then they’ve been in touch. When they spoke, Aamir told Harry he was indeed thinking of coming on 4 July. The reason given was that Sanjay Gadhvi’s Kidnap in which Imraan has a key role was coming on July 25. Aamir reasoned that Imraan couldn’t have two releases too close to one another. Later, the Bawejas were horrified to know that Kidnap was scheduled for August 22. Harry urged Aamir to move his film to July 11. But Aamir is adamant. ”

Incidentally, Genelia Dsouza who plays Imraan’s leading lady is also Harman’s girl in his second release Victory. “The Bawejas first trailer started on a Sunday. That same day a blog went up saying ‘Imraan Versus Harman’. That’s when the Bawejas first came to know that the Khans were planning to release on the same day. Since then there has been a systematic campaign to bring down Harman on the blogs with comments like ‘Harman looks gay’. He looks like a lot of things. But not gay. One of the blogs comments cattily on actors like Hrithik Roshan and Harman Baweja relying on their physique. Someone even broke into a website (wikipedia.com) sponsoring Harman’s film and defaced it. They even changed Harman’s picture to an unidentifiable man, and said the film was budgeted at 60,000 rupees and was to be released for 30 seconds in July 1950. The Bawejas traced the defacers to Delhi. The identity of the hackers was used just once, to deface Harman’s face.”

Harman smiles off all the competition. “Healthy competition is always welcome. I’d rather focus on my work. We’ve just started the promotion of our first song. It’s one of the costliest songs ever filmed.”

Jannat Movie Review

Cast: Emran Hashmi, Sonal Chauhan, Samir Kochar, Javed Shaikh, Vishal Malhotra

Director: Kunal Deshmukh
Ratings: ***

More, more, more…The motto of motorised materialism seems to have overtaken contemporary life. Everyone wants the good things in life in the shortest time possible. The acquisitive spirit has seldom been defined with such economy of storytelling as in “Jannat”.

Not surprisingly, a lot of Mahesh Bhatt’s latest exposition on the excesses of materialism is shot in shopping malls, expensive restaurants and posh stadiums where money flows like unadulterated honey.

And when our hero sees the love of his life staring at a diamond ring he walks into the showroom and breaks the display window.

Get what you want by force and forget those homilies that papa preached at the dinner table about the virtues of honesty. “Honest money means hard work and little reward,” says a wry character in “Jannat”. He’s obviously not read Ayn Rand.

Sanjay Masoom’s scathing dialogues scamper across the film’s lush skyline to create a language of wannabes who would stop at nothing to get that new villa on the Gold Coast.

Let’s then applaud one more moral fable from Bhatt’s sensible stable.

“Jannat” tells us to waste not, want ‘nought’…By all means covet the zeroes on that pay cheque. But don’t forget that if you run after the zeroes your life ends up in the zero zone.

Forty years ago in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s “Satyakam” Dharmendra had refused to succumb to all the temptations of materialism that were strewn in his path to salvation. Lying dying of cancer, he’s asked by his wife: “Finally what do you have to say about your life of integrity?”

“I’ve lived,” Dharmendra says at the end of “Satyakam”.

Can Emran Hashmi (playing the small-time wheeler dealer who turns into a cricket match-fixer, criminal and moral transgressor) turn around before his gruesome death to say he has lived?

Yes, Arjun (Emran) has loved. At heart “Jannat” is a dark tragic love story. While the girl’s innocence and the man’s corruptible countenance resembles “Kalyug”, the whole dilemma of the beloved being instrumental in destroying the criminal hero echoes “Gangster”.

Both “Kalyug” and “Gangster” were superior in content and treatment.

Debutant director Kunal Deshmukh cannot escape the clichés on existentialism that have come to surround Bhatt’s cinema…the morally conflicted Shakespeare-meets-James Hadley Chase hero, the independent-minded strong and value-based heroine, the hero’s trusted and loyal friend (Purab Kohli in “Woh Lamhe”, Shaad Randhawa in “Awaarapan”, and now Vishal Malhotra), the ideologue father whose principles are held up to ridicule until the hero discovers the hard way that dad’s remedies are the best to deal with ethical ambivalence.

These lingering leitmotifs get a renewed, if not luminous, life in every Bhatt production. But “Jannat” lacks the resonance and staying power of some of Bhatt’s earlier films about crime and punishment from “Naam” to “Gangster”.

Cleverly and cautiously Deshmukh’s film brings in the cricket element, which has audiences ignoring the pitfalls of rejuvenating Bhatt’s age-old iconoclasm.

The stock footage of real-life cricket matches are used well and sparingly in the plot. The stress, as ever in Bhatt’s saga of our stressful times, is on the clashing colliding crisscross of human relationships.

Emran’s father’s sequence in his son’s luxurious bathroom where he comments on the basket of soaps is a whammer.

But the wheeling dealing in the greenroom and clubs with cricketers of indeterminate nationality behaving like debauched goblins smacks of amteurishness. The murder of the Australian coach turns the Bob Woolmer scandal into a climactic add-on. May his soul rest in peace.

But what stays is the protagonist’s passion for money as opposed to his love for Zoya (Sonal Chauhan). The end-game where the engagement ring is juxtaposed against the gun is arresting in more ways than one.

While Emran interprets the over-reaching get-rich-quick schemer’s part with a native cunning, one misses that suave and smooth transitions in the character that perhaps a Naseeruddin Shah or even a Shahid Kapoor would bring on the table.

But Emran is charming enough to let the protagonist’s journey from a chawl to Cape Town look interesting. He’s constantly getting author-backed roles of the angst-ridden social outcast (a garage-sale version of Amitabh Bachchan) which he plays with a fair amount of sensitivity.

Debutant Sonal has much more to do than be the decorative doll she seems equipped to be.

She’s the weakest link in the powerplay where the politics of the playing field is extended to an engrossing exposition of greed atonement.

Some of the supporting cast, especially Jawed Shaikh as the cricketing don and Abhimanyu as his silent henchman, come to grips with their characters better than you would expect in a film that has scant space for anyone except the man who would be king.

Size zero is not healthy: Shilpa Shetty

Amid plethora of media reports of actresses of tinsel town; from Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to Priyanka Chopra to Bipasha Basu to Kareena Kapoor striving to achieve ’size zero’ through their rigorous fitness regimes, Shilpa Shetty, the ‘original Bollywood actress with a healthy body’, today said all this talk of ’size zero’ was a misnomer.

”Contrary to popular perception in the media, achieving ’size zero’ is not healthy. In fact, for someone being called ’size zero’ is not a complement. So, it is wrong on the part of the media to call someone ’size sero’,” Shilpa said at a function for the release of ”Shilpa’s Yoga”, an instructional video based on the ancient Indian practice of Yoga.

On the media increasingly calling her the main reference point for actresses trying to achieve a so called ’size zero’ body, Shilpa said, ”I am not size zero, maybe ’size eight’ but definitely not ’size zero’.”

About the media talk of Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor being the latest example of someone achieving ’size zero’, Shilpa said, ”I don’t think Kareena is ’size zero’, maybe ’size four’ or ’size five’.”

On her recipe for fitness, Shilpa said she was not in favour of indulging in crash diets to achieve a fit body.

”My Philosophy in life is ‘eat well and work out hard’. At the same time, if you want to be healthy and fit, you need to have some discipline in terms of the diet you consume,” the actress said.

Talking about her latest Yoga DVD, Shilpa said, ”it has been shot at the beautiful backwaters of God’s own country ‘Kerala’.” She said the video was targetted at the international market.

”I was inspired with the idea of coming with this video after being told that all the Yoga DVDs in the market till now have been done by international experts on Yoga.

It surprised me to know that no Indian had till now come up with a video about Yoga which originated from India. So I decided to come up with one myself,” Shilpa said.

The training and workshops in Yoga, which went into the making of the DVD, however, had the actress hooked on to the art.

”It was a great experience shooting for this video. In fact, after working on this DVD, I have myself become a great fan of Yoga. Practicing it has helped me achieve a healthy mind, body and soul.

”It is a management system for life and the most holistic approach to life that I have come across. It strengthens, tones and cures. It works on body, mind and soul. In short I can say that Yoga has had a spectacular impact on my life,” Shilpa said.

Directed by Manisha Jha, under the instruction of well-known Yoga instructor Shiv Kumar Misra, ‘Shilpa’s Yoga’ is picturised on the scenic beach with ceremonia elephants and Kalaripayattu fighters in the background and demonstrations of asanas in a simplified manner.

”The concept of the DVD is to make Yoga look simple, something that can be practised by anyone - from ten-year-olds to a 60-year- old,” the actress said.

In reply to a question on whether she wanted to give competition to Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev, Shilpa said, ”there is no question of competition with Baba Ramdev. I am myself a big fan of him.

I admire him as a person who single-handedly has created a huge awareness for Yoga in the country and made it so accessible.” Also present at the launch of the DVD were the joint managing director of Shemaroo entertainment Atul Maroo and its director Hiren Gada.