The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 film in a modern setting loosely adapted from the 1922 short story of the same name written by F. Scott Fitzgerland. The film is directed by David Fincher, and stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. The film was released on December 25, 2008.  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is not a movie one could have predicted from the makers of  Se7en, Fight Club and Zodiac. It follows the life of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt), who is born with the appearance and physical limitations of a man who is 85 years old. Abandoned in a nursing home by his father, Thomas Button, Benjamin begins aging backward on the outside of his body. While in the home, he meets Daisy (Cate Blanchett), a young aspiring ballerina. As the film progresses, the two fall in love, while struggling to deal with the issue of one growing younger while the other grows older. Nominally based upon the F.Scott Fitzgerald's story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the film has very little resemblance to its source material beyond the premise. The film begins with Benjamin Button's birth in New Orleans in 1918. His mother dies in childbirth and his father, Thomas Button (Jason Flemyng), upon seeing Benjamin's ancient crinkly face, races from the house in horror with the bizarre baby cradled in his arms. He leaves the newborn on the stairs of a nursing home run by Queenie (Taraji P.Henson), a practical woman with a lot of love to give. The score to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was written by French composer Alexandre Desplat. 

Other Casts:

Julia Ornold as Caroline
Mahershalalhashbaz Ali as Tizzy
Jared Harris as Captain Mike
Elias Koteas as Monsieur Gateau
Ed Metzger as Theodore Roosevelt
Phyllis somerville as Grandma Fuller
Tilda Swinton as Elizabeth Abbott

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Ghajini Music Review

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:

SongSinger(s)DurationNotes
GuzarishJaved Ali, Sonu Nigam5:29Picturised on Aamir Khan and Asin
Aye BachchooSuzanne D'Mello3:48Picturised on Asin
Kaise MujheBenny Dayal, Shreya Ghoshal 5:46Picturised on Aamir Khan and Asin
BehkaKarthik5:13Picturised on Aamir Khan and Asin
LatooShreya Ghoshal4:30Picturised on Jiah Khan
Kaise Mujhe Instrumental5:46


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G H A J I N I



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.




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Rab ne bana di Jodi

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (A Couple Made by God) is a Bollywood film that stars Shahrukh Khan and newcomer Anushka Sharma in pivotal roles. Directed by Aditya Chopra, who earlier directed hits like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) and Mohabbatein (2000), Rab ne bana di Jodi released on December 12, 2008.
Summary:
Surinder Sahni (Shahrukh Khan) is an introverted, responsible, sincere, realist working as a govt employee in a company named Punjab Power. Taani (Anushka Sharma) is an extroverted, flamboyant, fun-loving, vivacious, dreamer set to get married to the guy she loves. Unforeseen circumstances, however, forces Taani to get married to Surinder and Taani finds herself in a love-less, routine life due in part to the large difference in their age and personalities.To escape her mundane marital life, Taani learns dancing and wants to participate in a dance competition, a reality show called "Dancing Jodi". Surinder wants to make his wife happy and supports her. He then,with the help of his childhood friend Balwinder Khosla 'Bobby' (Vinay Pathak), metamorphoses into an alternate persona, named Raj who is a quick witted, outspoken, smart, dashing, fun loving person who fortunately becomes Taani's partner in the competition.Taani, not able to recognize that Raj is the same one with whom she is married to, eventually starts to feel that Raj's personality and nature are more in tune with what she is comfortable with. Raj expresses his love for Taani and then they plan to elope from Amritsar on the night of the dancing competition. Surinder doesn't tell the truth to Taani because he wants to find out with whom Taani is really in love with. In the morning of the competition, Tanni realizes that her true love is Surinder and not Raj. She denies Raj"s feelings and tells him the truth. And at last Surinder presents his reality to her. Hence the story ends merrily. 

The Soundtrack of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi was released on November 6, 2008. The music is composed by Salim-Sulaiman who also composed for other Yash Raj Films such as Aja Nachle (2007), Chak De India(2007), and Roadside Romeo (2008)The song "Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte" pays tribute to Bollywood legendary actors Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand,Rajesh Khanna, Shammi Kapoor and Rishi Kapoor. The song is picturised on Shahrukh Khan and has special appearances by Kajol, Bipasha Basu, Lara Dutta, Preity Zinta and Rani Mukherji. Each paragraph of the song contains lyrics that represent titles of songs filmed on the respective actors tributed.

SongSinger(s)Duration
Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta HaiRoop Kumar Rathod04:44
Haule HauleSukhwinder Singh 04:25
Dance Pe ChanceSunidhi Chauhan, Labh Janjua04:22
Phir Milenge Chalte ChalteSonu Nigam06:36
Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta HaiShreya Ghoshal01:43
Dancing JodiInstrumental3:59


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Yuvvraaj

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



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