KOCHADAIIYAAN - Official Trailer

Kochadaiiyaan – An upcoming Tamil period film directed by Soundarya R. Ashwin and written by K. S. Ravikumar. 

Cast: 
Rajinikanth (in three roles)

Deepika Padukone
R. Sarathkumar
Aadhi
Shobana
Rukmini Vijayakumar
Jackie Shroff
Nassar. 

The film will be released in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, English, Hindi and Japanese.

SAIF - KAREENA WEDDING CEREMONY

Saif - Bebo Glittering

Saifeena @ Sangeet Ceremony

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Saif-Kareena's Sangeet ceremony

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Ibrahim Ali Khan - Saif's Son

Sara Ali Khan - Saif's Daughter

Soha Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu

Karisma Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor

Preity Zinta - Karan Johar - Sonam Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

       

ENGLISH VINGLISH Movie Review

English Vinglish truly marks the rebirth of a star 'Sridevi' who has returned to film industry after 15 years at the age of 49. In her heydays of the eighties she ruled Bollywood, Kollywood, Tollywood  often driving films to blockbuster status without bothering who the hero was. The movie has been directed by Debutant writer-filmmaker Gauri Shinde.

 

The movie is about the story of Sashi (Sridevi), a middle-aged Maharashtrian housewife who earns her own money by making sumptuous ladoos and selling them to the experts. Sashi is ridiculed for their poor linguistic skills by their English speaking family. Sashi finds herself as an object of potshots by her husband (Adil Hussain), who has little respect for her real talent and her 7th grade daughter who feels ashamed to even introduce her mother to her school folks. Sashi flies off to New York to lend a helping hand at her niece’s wedding where she smartly grabs the opportunity to enroll herself into English speaking classes. In no time, Sashi becomes the most committed student in her class and starts watching English movies to improve her English reading and writing skills. She does everything more significantly to earn respect that she duly deserves from her family. In her pursuit of literature, she finds her classmate, a Frenchman (Mehdi Nebbou) getting attracted to her plain simple personality. Despite several barriers, Sashi manages to achieve her goal.

Sridevi is so charming and hats off to her for the awesome performance. She has not acted but lived as Sashi with the right portions of susceptibility, control, and quiet strength, delivering a performance that is nothing short of perfect. With the meaty role in ‘English Vinglish’ after 15 years, post watching the film, I have just one word for the actress - FLAWLESS! 

‘English Vinglish’  film is a poignant dollop. No doubt, the film leaves you with a big smile on your face. There's also a delightful cameo by Amitabh Bachchan for Hindi and by Ajit Kumar for South Indian languages. Both the actors are good at stealing the scene with flawless comic timing. Overall, ‘English Vinglish’ is a complete family entertainer and worth every penny! Yes, Sridevi is back!

Barfi! - Movie Review

If I am asked to describe Anurag Basu’s ‘Barfi’ in a single word ‘Masterpiece’. Storyline - life is about finding happiness in small things rather than in being wasted in lusty pursuits. The acting of Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra leaves the audience speechless. Cinematographer Ravi Varman captures the lovely North Bengal in a splendid way and each frame looks like a beautiful painting.

The movie narrates the story of the character Barfi who has a speech and hearing impairment who lives with his ageing father in Darjeeling of 1970s. Barfi is innocent and simple hearted guy who is more appealing for his cute Chaplin-meets-Mr. Bean acts. Shruti, a typical rich girl who visits Darjeeling loses her heart to him despite the fact that she is engaged to a wealthy man back in Kolkata. After a short romance, she leaves Barfi heartbroken to marry the moneyed man as she chooses money over true love. There comes an autistic Jhilmil Chatterjee belongs to an affluent family in Darjeeling where her sensitive needs were barely cared by her family. Meanwhile Barfi’s father is battling kidney failure and Barfi looks for all ways to get the money for his father’s treatment but in vain. So he decided to kidnap Jhilmil for money with the help of his friend. As story moves on Barfi and Jhilmil realize that they are made for each other to share their lives. On the other hand, , Shruti feels that even after 6 years of marriage still she has strong feelings for Barfi.

Ranbir Kapoor delivers an award-winning performance through the character ‘Barfi’. No doubt Priyanka Chopra who played the role of Jhilmil Chatterjee would be the award winning woman and bollywood newbie South Indian actress Illeana D’Cruz sticks to her character and adds beauty to the magical tale of Barfi. The story moves back and forth from 1978, 1972 and 2012 in an easy-to-follow fashion and the film’s songs are simply touching.

Overall ‘Barfi’ is a classical sculpture and a sweet treat to audience with perfection in casting, acting, comedy, romance, emotions, story, screenplay, cinematography etc. Kudos to the director for his romantic comedy movie with an unforgettable character ‘Barfi’.

DIRECTORS MARCHING TOWARDS BOLLYWOOD

Directors-Actors Sasi Kumar and Samudrakani are best friends who make it a point to cast the other in the film that one of them directs. Having starred in the Samudrakani-directed Nadodigal, which has turned out to be a huge hit, Sasi Kumar is all set to direct a film soon. He made an announcement a few days ago. However, the latest news we have is that the film will be made in Hindi too. Sasi Kumar has already instructed his buddy Samudrakani to tone down his weight for this film. He also plans to sign up Abhinaya, the speech and hearing impaired girl, who played an important role in Nadodigal. After the actresses, the directors are marching towards Bollywood!!

DEEPIKA PADUKONE LOST TO AAMIR KHAN

Deepika Padukone recently faced defeat at the hands of Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan. No, it wasn’t a box-office face off or even a war of words. The actors played a badminton match against each other at the Cricket Club of India (CCI) last week. Padukone teamed up with her father, badminton pro Prakash Padukone, and Aamir partnered with badminton player Aparna Popat, at an exhibition game before the final of the Tata Open Badminton Tournament. Though it was a close match, Aamir and Aparna bagged the win. But Deepika wasn’t upset.

For the 23-year-old actress, success and failure are all part of the game. The daughter of a badminton ace, Deepika feels that her background has equipped her to balance the highs and lows in the film industry. “I know how to deal with success and failure. I have learnt this as a sportsperson myself and from my father,” Deepika said. She added “she does not regret making her relationship with Ranbir Kapoor public. If you deny or accept that you are a couple, there is a problem. But we have learnt to keep details of our relationship private. Speculation and controversies are other side of being an actor”.