Bollywood Bonanza: Movie Release Dates

Indizen

Genre
Comedy / Social
Shooting Studios
Sankraman Studios
Filmcity
Filmistan
Producer
Rakesh Roshan
Sunaina Roshan
Director
Jaideep Sen
Star Cast
Arshad Warsi...... Raja
Irrfan Khan...... Mukherjee
Dia Mirza...... as herself (Special appearance)
Rajpal Yadav...... Gangadhar
Suresh Menon...... Dabboo
Rajat Kapoor...... RK Sanyal
Zakir Hussain
Juhi Chawla...... Dr Sonali
Ashwin Mushran
Hrithik Roshan...... special appearance in item song
Rakhi Sawant...... special appearance in item song
Sunil Pal...... Taxi Driver
Shahrukh Khan...... special appearance in item song
Makrand Deshpande...... drunkard
Mukesh Rishi
It's a mad, mad, mad world out there
Someone's nutty about money …
Someone's deranged by power…
Someone's cracked with stress…
Someone's unhinged by overwork…
Someone's insanely in love….
It's a mad, mad, mad world out there
And everybody's worried they're going bananas….
Except the Krazzy 4
Because they know they're already Krazzy!

Raja's anger knows no bounds, he'll hit out at the slightest provocation or even without. Intermittent explosive disorder is what the doctors call it. 'Sarphira', is what everybody else does!

Dr Mukherjee is your perfect doc - clean and orderly, not a pin out of place. So what's wrong with that? Obsessive compulsive personality disorder, that's what.

Schizophrenic Gangadhar lives in the past…his mates are Nehru and Gandhi, Tilak and Patel! He's so busy fighting for swaraj and freedom, he's lost his sanity!

Cute Dabboo is everybody's pet. So what if he hasn't spoken for years? So what if he's frightened all the time? So what if he's autistic?

Dr Sonali treats them all. She has faith that all it needs is a little time and lots of patience to make them normal…to make them part of the mad, mad, mad world out there…

But are the Krazzy 4 ready for the world?

And is the world ready for them?

Indizen

TASHAN

Release Date
April 25, 2008

Language
Hindi

Genre
Action

Shooting Locations (City & Country)
Greece

Producer
Aditya Chopra

Director
Vijay Krishna Acharya

Star Cast
Anil Kapoor...... Bhaiyyaji
Akshay Kumar...... Bachchan Pande
Saif Ali Khan...... Jimmy
Kareena Kapoor...... Pooja
Sanjay Mishra...... Bhaiyyaji
Manoj Pahwa
Yashpal Sharma

Character Sketches:

Bachchan Pande (Akshay Kumar)

NAME: Bachchan Pande

AGE: 30 as per police records, 25 as per Chachi, 26 as per Omprakash, I think 28

MARITAL STATUS: Don't understand question

QUALIFICATIONS: Can steal electricity anywhere, Can break all bones of body with guarantee

WORK EXPERIENCE: Fully experienced

ACHIEVEMENTS: Recovered everything from a cow to a bungalow

AIM: Become killer

Jimmy (Saif Ali Khan)

NAME: Jimmy Cliff (Jeetender Kumar Makhwana P.S. Keep it confidential)

AGE: Depends on the age of the girl across the table

MARITAL STATUS: Not interested but always available

QUALIFICATIONS: Qualified enough to fix any girl in record time and ya of course, graduate

WORK EXPERIENCE: In the past two years working in a call center and coaching English

ACHIEVEMENTS: Highest number of girlfriends from class 5 to graduation

HOBBIES: Can't you guess

AIM: To stay alive

Pooja (Kareena Kapoor)

NAME: Pooja Singh

AGE: What is it got to do with you

MARITAL STATUS: Hot and single

QUALIFICATIONS: 34-22-34

WORK EXPERIENCE: More than you think

ACHIEVEMENTS: Still to achieve my main goal

AIM: To fool everyone

Bhaiyyaji (Anil Kapoor)

NAME: Lakhan Singh urf Bhaiyyaji

AGE: Remember not but young at heart

Indizen

Apr 25, 2008
Sirf - Life Looks Greener On The Other Side
Tashan
SIRF
Language
Hindi

Genre


Producer
Sanjay Kotadia
Ghanshyam Patel
Kanu Patel

Director
Rajaatsh Nayar

Star Cast
Kay Kay Menon...... Gaurav
Manisha Koirala...... Devika
Ranvir Shorey...... Akash
Sonali Kulkarni...... Namita
Parvin Dabbas...... Amit
Rituparna Sengupta...... Suchita
Ankur Khanna...... Rahul
Nauheed Cyrusi...... Shalu

Life is like a highway in the night, you don't know what awaits you on the next turn, still people move on with hope in their heart and dreams in their eyes. Sirf - life looks greener on the other side, takes an insight into the lives of these people…how the pace of the city affects their relationships…how they deal with it…how the problems of one person bring comical relief for others. No matter what happens life has to go on.

The film revolves around four couples played by Kay Kay Menon with Manisha Koirala, Sonali Kulkarni with Ranbir Shorey, Parveen Dabbas with Rituparna Sengupta and Ankur Khanna with Nauheed Cyrusi. While one couple has money, they are looking for love. Other has love but money is missing in their life and the third couple is searching for trust. Fourth couple has to find time to nurture everything else that they have.

Indizen

May 2, 2008 Anamika
Mr. White Mr. Black
Pranali

Anamika

Director
Anant Mahadevan
Star Cast
Dino Morea...... Vikram Singh Sisodiya
Minissha Lamba...... Jia Rao
Koena Mitra
Aarti Chhabria...... Anamika
Achint Kaur
Gulshan Grover
Prithvi Zutshi
Vishwajeet Pradhan
Jatin Garewal...... Special Appearance

Mr. White Mr. Black (May 2, 2008)

Director
Deepak Shivdasani
Star Cast
Sunil Shetty...... Gopi
Arshad Warsi...... Kishen
Sandhya Mridul
Upasna Singh
Vrajesh Hirjee
Tania Zaetta
Sharat Saxena

Gopi (Sunil Shetty) a simpleton, arrives in Goa from Hoshiyarpur. His mission – to hand over an incredibly tiny piece of land to his childhood friend Kishen, which was his father’s last wish.

Kishen (Arshad Warsi), now a conman, swindles people with a little help from his accomplice, Babu (Atul Kale), to earn enough money to educate his sibling Divya (Mahima Mehta) who’s studying in London.

Kishen, however, has managed to hide his profession from Anuradha (Rashmi Nigam) merely saying that it’s Hari, his twin, who is the bad guy.

Kishen avoids Gopi like he’s bad news. He’s not going to give up his flourishing business and travel to Hoshiyarpur just to take possession of a measly piece of land!

Gopi, in his mission of chasing Kishen, is given a helping hand by Tanya (Anishka Khosla), daughter of the owner of KG Resorts.

Cardamom

Whee more lovely movie release updates! Thanks for keeping us in the loop, Indizen

Anyone seen Tashan yet? I think I'm going tomorrow night. Is it a good masala flick? Soundtrack is so-so for me so far.

C

anarkali

Thanks for the great updates, Indizen.

For anyone who's inteested in one person's opinion, I saw Tashan on Saturday (here in Melbourne). I went with very low expectations, and was pleasantly surprised. It was very funny and took the mickey out of the genre quite nicely. Anyone who's learning hindi will get a big belly laugh out of the heavily accented Hinglish used throughout the movie. I'm still giggling thinking about the plot surprises and 'what the...!' moments.

U Me aur hum however was a massive letdown I'm afraid. The whole first part was barely tolerable with really obnoxious protagonists (i use the term loosely), lots of disco lights, scantily clad western dancing girls (ho hum), excessive consumption of alcohol and poo jokes. Horrendous script. Utterly cringeworthy. Where was the damn editor?

I think I'm so scathing because I had pretty high expectations of Ajay as director and they were not just disappointed, but dashed into smithereens. (don't know why my expectations were so high, as actors don't necessarily make good directors).

The second half was an improvement on the first, and good performances from the leads. One really sweet moment where the cast sing an old movie song ("Chalte chalte" from Pakeezah ?sp, I believe) in their own voices (not miming to playback) unaccompanied, at a party, like normal people. Also, the framing narrative was nice. I did notice the similarities to the Notebook.

Anyway, it would be fun to hear other opinions, especially what folks thought were UMAH's redeeming features...

anarkali

I really enjoyed Tashan. It's not particularly 'masala', it's more thriller - a fair bit of violence, criminal activity and bare flesh. Some romantic masala elements which were sweet to watch. I was worried it would be terrible with both AKs in one big movie (neither are favourites of mine), but Anil Kapoor makes a hilariously comic villain, and Akshay plays a country boy (similar to his role in Namastey London) who wants to lead a life of crime.

Cardamom

anarkali - Thanks for weighing in I will most definitely try to catch it tonight. That's too bad about U Me aur Hum. I may get it on DVD - I like to keep up with Kajol


C

Indizen

Tashan, Krazzy 4 and U Me aur Hum at box office

All eyes were set in on to this week's release Tashan for its formidable cast and the Yash Raj label. In fact this was the film that people were expecting could survive alongside the IPL fever. Sadly Tashan disappointed big time with its masala potboiler treatment.

Its position at No 1 on the charts shouldn't be taken as a positive sign to its prospects. It could get the spot only because there was no simultaneous big release. In fact the preceding week too didn't have a big release (Hope and a Little Sugar).

See report: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/2996305.cms

NeeliAankhen

Re: U Me Aur Hum - I have a soft spot for the big Bollywood romance, and will forgive a lot if something delivers "emotion," but though I was content enough during UMAH, I doubt I'll ever see it again, which is unusual for me.

Positive things about it to me - it's Bollywood at least making a try at a romance with an adult protagonist - Ajay is a grown man, not "boyish," when he meets Kajol. I like the role he created for himself. Kajol is a wonderful screen presence, and the sets are beautiful, and the water (much of story occurs on cruise ship) is a fine blue.

Didn't like/don't recall songs.

Briped

Yes, went on the premier night in Vasco. I don't understand a word of Hindi, and thought that's why I didn't get the film. When I read the reviews the day after I realised that I had understood far more than I thought, and that I wouldn't have understood more even if it had been in my mother tongue. Does this make sense to anybody but me? Well, my point is that the film was so terrible I couldn't believe it, and chose to think that it was because I didn't understand it. Had good fun, though
Britta

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Indizen

This week's comedy has had very poor ratings:
Mr Black and Mr White
Arshad Warsi is completely wasted in this brainless film.
- The Times of India

Cardamom

OK so I finally went to see Tashan - I was crying by the end from laughing. That movie had to be purposefully done to be over the top. I mean, the the ending included every cliched bollywood shoot-em-up-movie scenario. Where did those ninjas come from? hello?! So funny!

I also agree with Briped it helps to understand some hindi to find some of it funny. I have about 9 mos of Hindi under my belt so listening to Anil Kapoor's lines was pretty amusing. This movie had to be a joke? if not then...wow

Also, the glasses of wine I had with dinner before the movie also helped - I find a little alcohol makes any Bollywood movie more amusing I would recommend seeing this movie if you have a few drinks and want to see a lot of stereotypes in hindi flix played out to the max (Dil Dance Maare anyone??)

C

Indizen

May 9, 2008
Bhoothnath


Jimmy

Jimmy
Director
Raj N Sippy

Star Cast
Mimoh Chakraborty...... Jimmy
Zulfi Syed
Aashish Vidyarthi
Ehsaan Khan
Rati Agnihotri
Vikas Kalantri
Rahul Dev
Shakti Kapoor

Mimoh Chakraborty is the son of Mithun Chakraborty, the 70s icon who was an action hero who danced as well.
This one is about a guy who works as a DJ in addition to his regular job...

Bhootnath

Genre
Drama / Children

Shooting Studios
Mehboob Studio

Producer
Ravi Chopra

Director
Vivek Sharma

Star Cast
Amitabh Bachchan...... Bhoothnath (Kailash Nath)
Juhi Chawla...... Anjali Sharma
Shahrukh Khan...... Special appearance
Aman Siddiqui...... Banku (Aman Sharma)
Priyanshu Chatterjee
Rajpal Yadav...... drunkard Anthony
Satish Shah...... Principal Irani

Aman Siddiqui as Banku (Aman Sharma)

Perfect Dennis the Menace…he loves to play pranks, make up stories and trouble his mom. His innocence is deceiving. Since he has moved to Nath Villa, he's made a special friend. Bhoothnath!
Amitabh Bachchan as Bhoothnath (Kailash Nath)

His 'imaginary' friend, Bhoothnath is his partner in crime. Bhoothnath, who initially is reserved and irritable in the film, transforms when he finds a grandson in Banku. He shares a very special relationship with Bhoothnath. The two are inseparable. They play a lot of pranks at school and home. The bond between them personifies love and innocence.