The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Ghajini Music Review
Posted On Thursdayat6:45 PM by Ark_Light_333
The soundtrack of Aamir Khan's GHAJINI, marks the return of maestro A.R. Rahman for the fifth time in 2008, he had made himself a very prolific year. In january 2008, we experienced the deliverance of one of Rahman's most ethereal and epic soundtracks in Jodha Akbar. Ghajini has six songs composed by A.R. Rahman and lyrics by Prasoon Joshi. Some songs are similar to the tamil version of Ghajini.
Sound Tracks of Ghajini:
Song Singer(s) Duration Notes Guzarish Javed Ali, Sonu Nigam 5:29 Picturised on Aamir Khan and Asin Aye Bachchoo Suzanne D'Mello 3:48 Picturised on Asin Kaise Mujhe Benny Dayal, Shreya Ghoshal 5:46 Picturised on Aamir Khan and Asin Behka Karthik 5:13 Picturised on Aamir Khan and Asin Latoo Shreya Ghoshal 4:30 Picturised on Jiah Khan Kaise Mujhe Instrumental 5:46
G H A J I N I
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Ghajini is a 2008 bollywood film directed by A R Murugados and produced under the Geetha Arts banner by Allu Araving. The film was a remake of its tamil film of the same name, which was also directed by Muragadoss. The original film was adapted from critically accalimed Hollywood psychological thriller Memento, directed by Christopher Nolan. It starred Aamir Khan and Hindi debutant Asin Thottumkal as the lead pair with Jiah Khan, Pradeep Rawat and Riyaz Khan essaying supporting roles.
The film is a romantic action thriller that explores the life of a once-rich businessman who suffers from anterograde Amnesia following a violent encounter. With the aid of polaroid images an permanant tattoos on his torso, the businessman single-handedly tries to avenge the murder of his vivacious model girlfriend, Kalpana, who was killed shortly before he was also attacked leading to his diagnosis of amnesia.
Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan), is a rich businessman who owns a cellular phone company named Air Voice. Kalpana (Asin Tottumkal), an advertisement model goes around telling her advertisement crew that she is the love interest of Sanjay, in spite of her having never met him and also goes to the extent of giving an interview about her relationship to a popular magazine. Sanjay happens to hear about this through the media and wants to settle scores with her. On his way, he catches a fleeting glimpse of a young woman helping handicapped children cross a street. It is love at first sight for Sanjay. He moves on to confront Kalpana at her advertisement studio. He is pleasantly surprised to realize that she is the same helpful woman he saw a while ago. He chooses to hide the fact from her that he is Sanjay, calling himself as Sachin. Kalpana eventually falls in love with him.
Once, while on a train to Mumbai, Kalpana saves a group of young girls from abuse by a group of goons led by GHAJINI (Pradeep Rawat). After a few days, the same goons come to Kalpana's house in order to avenge their embarrassment. Incidentally, Sanjay arrives at the scene and finds Kalpana is murdered. The irony showcased is that Kalpana never finds out that he is Sanjay. Ghajini then strikes the downcast Sanjay on his head severely with a metal rod. Sanjay survives the blow, but acquires anterograde amnesia because of the trauma of his brain injury. At any given time, he does not remember anything that happened more than 15 minutes back, although he frequently has flashbacks of Kalpana's murder. He determines to take revenge on those responsible for Kalpana's death. The rest of the story is about how Sanjay, along with a medical college student Sunita (Jiah Khan), goes about finding Ghajini and the goons.
Rab ne bana di Jodi
Posted On Wednesdayat5:15 PM by Ark_Light_333
| Song | Singer(s) | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai | Roop Kumar Rathod | 04:44 |
| Haule Haule | Sukhwinder Singh | 04:25 |
| Dance Pe Chance | Sunidhi Chauhan, Labh Janjua | 04:22 |
| Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte | Sonu Nigam | 06:36 |
| Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai | Shreya Ghoshal | 01:43 |
| Dancing Jodi | Instrumental | 3:59 |
Yuvvraaj
Posted On Sundayat9:11 PM by Ark_Light_333
Yuvvraaj is a 2008 Indian film starring Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan, Zayed Khan and Katrina Kaif based on the classic Hollywood movie Rain Man. It is produced and directed by Subhash Ghai. American Jacob "Coby" Hadas makes his Bollywood debut with a small part in this film. Ghai's favourite, A.R. Rahman, will be providing the music for this film. The film is slated to be released on November 21, 2008. Yuvvraaj is a musical story of a fragmented family of three brothers Deven Yuvvraaj (Salman Khan), Gyanesh (Anil Kapoor) and Danny (Zayed Khan) fighting and playing games with each other to inherit their father's wealth. Deven Yuvvraaj is a struggling singer who signs an agreement with his girlfriend Anoushka’s (Katrina Kaif) father Dr. Banton (Boman Irani) to be a billionaire in 40 days. To acquire this wealth, he has to go through an emotional roller coaster journey of joy and pain with his two estranged brothers Gyanesh Yuvvraaj and Danny Yuvvraaj who he meets after 12 years. On meeting them, he realizes that they are two individuals who are completely opposite to each other, which makes his task all the more difficult.Deven Yuvvraaj is an easy cool guy for whom life begins with himself and ends with his love Anushka. A quarrel with his father was reason enough for him to leave home and live as a struggling singer. Devoid of family values he is forced to journey through the circle of love for the sake of money to complete his love story. And as he journeys he softens into a likeable and lovable character. Gyanesh Yuvvraaj is the centerpiece of all action. An autistic savant, he is completely removed from the idea of money and therefore his enormous inheritance has no impact on him. All he wants is love. He withers without it. By some stroke of destiny he has a genius disorder. Since childhood he was brilliant in all aspects of music. He enters Deven’s world of music and effortlessly becomes the superstar that Deven dreamt of being. Danny Yuvvraaj is the real prince who lived life super-large. A passion for flying kept him floating on an air-cushion filled with his father’s money. A playboy and a brat he was sure that the inheritance would be his. Unable to deal with the loss of his playground (as casinos and clubs threw him out) he strikes at Gyanesh in an attempt to get back what he thought was rightfully his.Anushka is a beautiful, angelic girl passionately in love with her cello and Deven. A girl of very high values she refuses to marry Deven unless her father accepts him willingly.
Sound Tracks of Yuvvraaj:
Song Singer Duration
Main Hoon Yuvvraaj Salman Khan 1:13
Tu Meri Dost Hai Benny Dayal, Shreya Ghoshal & A R Rahman 6:13
Shano Shano Sonu Nigam, Srinivas, Karthik, Timmy,
Sunaina, Vivienne Pocha & Tina 6:22
Tu Muskura Alka Yagnik & Javed Ali 5:37
Mastam Mastam Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Naresh Iyer & Benny Dayal 6:17
Zindagi Srinivas 5:09
Dil Ka Rishta Sonu Nigam, Roop Kumar Rathod, A R Rahman,
Clinton Cerejo, Suzanne D'Mello, Vivinenne Poch 7:39
Manmohini Morey Vijay Prakash 3:11
Shano - Remix Krishna Chetan 2:37
Titanic 1997
Posted On Tuesdayat8:23 PM by Ark_Light_333
Titanic is a 1997 disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It features Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson, and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, two members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ill-fated 1912 maiden voyage of the ship. The main characters and the central love story are fictional, but some supporting characters are based on real historical figures. Gloria Stuart plays the elderly Rose, who narrates the film in a modern day framing device. Production of the film began in 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the real wreck of the RMS Titanic. He envisioned the love story as a means to engage the audience with the real-life tragedy. Shooting took place at the Akademik Mstislav Keldysh for the modern scenes, and a reconstruction of the ship was built at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California. Cameron also used scale models and computer-generated imagery to recreate the sinking of the ship. Titanic became at the time the most expensive film ever made, costing approximately US$200 million with funding from Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. Originally slated to be released on July 2, 1997, post-production delays pushed back the film's release date to December 19, 1997. After word broke out that Titanic's release date was pushed back, the press believed that Titanic would fail and cause the downfall of Fox and Paramount. Despite low expectations, the film was both a major critical and commercial success, winning eleven Academy Awards including Best Picture and becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, with a total worldwide gross of approximately $1.8 billion.Filming Titanic was an arduous experience for all involved. The schedule was intended to last 138 days but grew to 160—twenty days shy of six months. Many cast members came down with colds, flu, or kidney infections after spending hours in cold water, including Kate Winslet. Several left and three stuntmen broke their bones, but the Screen Actors Guild decided, following an investigation, that nothing was inherently unsafe about the set. Cameron never apologized for running his sets like a military campaign, although he admitted, "I'm demanding, and I'm demanding on my crew. In terms of being kind of militaresque, I think there's an element of that in dealing with thousands of extras and big logistics and keeping people safe. I think you have to have a fairly strict methodology in dealing with a large number of people." After almost drowning, chipping an elbow bone, and getting the flu, Winslet decided she would not work with Cameron again unless she earned "a lot of money." Of course, Titanic's central aspect is the love story between Jack and Rose, and the crush it has on Cal. The romantic story isn't original, but this is not a bad thing. Cameron re-invents the story to fit the time period and its characters. Everything fits perfectly, with nothing ever seeming contrived or awkward. Jack's immediate interest in Rose, and Rose likewise, is completely understandable. She is suffering emotionally, and Jack is there to support her. Themes from Romeo and Juliet are included, such as Rose being an upper-classman, and Jack being lower class. But the emotional connection between Rose and Jack is almost palpable, and this fuels the film's first two hours. We watch the trials of Jack and Rose, and as they overcome them, the ship comes closer to destiny. With a ship as large as the Titanic was, it was destined to crash. And of course, the ship isn't stocked with enough lifeboats to accommodate the 2,200 passengers. In the end, over 700 people survive, while the rest drown, freeze, or commit suicide.
Titanic is rated PG-13 for disaster related peril and violence, nudity, sensuality, and brief language. The nudity is not inappropriate, as it is done tastefully. Winslet appears topless, but Cameron never exploits the nudity. If we do manage to see her topless, it is not because Cameron wanted to, but because the camera happened to be there. Titanic is a grand epic motion picture which is sure to sweep the Oscars. This is the first film since Schindler's List that I have wanted to win Best Picture, and has a good chance at doing it.
Titanic is by far the best film of the year. Titanic will be remembered as an instant classic, going down in history as the most expensive film ever made, but also as one of the best films ever made. Titanic received steady attendance after opening in North America on Friday, December 19, 1997. By Sunday that same weekend, theaters were beginning to sell out. The film debuted with $8,658,814 on its opening day and $28,638,131 over the opening weekend from 2,674 theaters, averaging to about $10,710 per venue, and ranking #1 at the box office, ahead of Tomorrow Never Dies. By New Year's Day, Titanic had increased in popularity and theaters continued selling out. Its biggest single day took place on Valentine's Day 1998, making over $13 million on that day, more than six weeks after it debuted in North America. After it was released, it stayed at #1 for 15 consecutive weeks in the U.S. box office, an undefeated record 1998 US box office. By March 1998, it was the first film to earn more than $1 billion worldwide.[31] Some theaters in Australia, India, and South Africa ran it for more than one year. The movie stayed in theaters in North America for more than nine months before finally closing on Thursday October 1, 1998 with a final domestic gross of $600,788,188, and making more than double that amount overseas with an international gross of $1,248,025,607. The film accumulated a grand total of $1,848,813,795 worldwide, and to this day Titanic retains the record as the most successful box office film in history.
The Birth of Film
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The movies of the time were seen mostly via temporary storefront spaces and traveling exhibitors or as acts in vaudeville programs. A film could be under a minute long and would usually present a single scene, authentic or staged, of everyday life, a public event, a sporting event or Slapstick. There was little to no cinematic technique: no editing and usually no camera movement, and flat, stagey compositions. But the novelty of realistically moving photographs was enough for a motion picture industry to mushroom before the end of the century, in countries around the world.
Krazzy 4 Music Review
Posted On Thursdayat5:48 AM by Ark_Light_333
Krazzy 4 is the another comic caper starring Arshad Warsi,Irrfan Khan ,Rajpal Yadav and Suresh Menon in it in the roles of four crazy persons. The story of Krazzy 4 is based on the life of these four crazzy guys which is somewhat similar to the previous comedy flicks like Dhol and Dhamaal. Shahrukh Khan and Hritik Roshan are also doing two item numbers in the film. But the music of Krazzy 4 doesn’t look to be catchy enough like the earlier films of Rakesh Roshan which used to be the plus point of his movies. The music of the film is composed by Rajesh Roshan.
| Song | Singer(s) | Lyrics | Picturised on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Break Free | Vishal Dadlani | Asif Ali Beg | Shahrukh Khan |
| Dekhta hai Tu Kya | Kiri Sagathia, Sunidhi Chauhan | Javed Akhtar | Rakhi Sawant, Makrand Deshpande, Irrfan Khan |
| Ik Rupaya | Bhavin Dhanak, Jimmy Moses, Kiri Sagathia, Labh Janjua, Rahul Vaidya, Sudesh Bhonsle | Javed Akhtar | Ninad Kulkarni, Rajpal Yadav, Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Suresh Menon |
| Krazzy 4 | Vishal Dadlani | Javed Akhtar | Hrithik Roshan |
| O Re Lakad | Kailash Kher, Neeraj Shridhar, Sowmya Raoh | Javed Akhtar | Juhi Chawla & Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Rajpal Yadav, Suresh Menon |
GOLMAAL RETURNS Movie Review
Posted On Wednesdayat7:31 PM by Ark_Light_333
GOLMAAL RETURNS is a forthcoming Bollywood film directed by Rohit Shetty. The film is a sequel to the 2006 film, Golmaal with Ajay Devgan, Tusshar Kapoor and Arshad Warsi reprising their roles and Shreyas Talpade the role originally played by Sharmin Joshi. Kareena Kapoor, Anjana Sukhani, Amrita Arora, Celina Jaitley are new additions to the cast. Produced by Dhillin Mehta under Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision LTD, the film is expected to release on Wednesday, October29, 2008. The film is a remake of the Original Aaj ki Taaza Khabar 35 years ago, the Kiran Kumar - Radha Saluja comedy AAJ KI TAZAA KHABAR [1973] is the inspiration for GOLMAAL RETURNS No issues with that, it's an interesting concept. Originally expected to commence shooting for the film in Dubai on a forty day schedule, the cast shot for the film in Goa a twenty day schedule. Shooting later continued in places like the Filmistan Studios in Mumbai, South Africa and Bangkok.Gopal thinks that it’s difficult to convince her by telling her about the incident that actually took place the prior night and hence, he invents a story about spending the night with a fictitious friend named Anthony Gonsalves. Ekta does not believe his story as she knows that he never had a friend by that name, and hence, she decides to write to Anthony to come and visit her. Gopal convinces his junior at work, Laxman [Shreyas Talpade], to pretend to be Anthony. Everything goes according to plan till the real Anthony turns up. If that isn't complication enough for Gopal, a dead body is discovered at the location where he had saved Meera. The Investigating Officer, Madhav [Arshad Warsi], who is Esha's boyfriend and also who cannot stand the sight of Gopal, learns that the latter had been missing from home that eventful night and begins checking on him.
Writer Yunus Sajawal takes an interesting premise, but instead of upgrading it, only downgrades it with lacklustre situations. The writing is so weak, so lifeless that after a point you sit motionless, looking at the goings-on mechanically, instead of being a participant.
A few sequences do entertain you, but they're few and far between. Not enough to camouflage the defects. In view of the fact that the writing is so weak, there's not much that director Rohit Shetty can do to save the ship from sinking. However, the dialogues are howlarious. Music is not as inspiring. 'Tha Karke' is the best track, while 'Tu Saala' [well promoted] isn't there in the film and 'Meow' comes during the end credits. And you're exasperated by then!
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