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Between the stress of meeting deadlines, traffic jams, financial obligations etc. it's easy to forget the importance of taking some time out to enjoy a few chuckles with your special someone every now and then. You meet, you know, you get engaged and then you get married. Then the dialogues start - 'Marriages are Made in Heaven, Love Is Blind, Marriage is an Institution, Behind Every Successful Man There is a Woman' and all. The couple look like 'made for each other' after they tie the knot and 'made by each other' in the subsequent years that follow. Welcome to the 'Perfect Match', where the pitch is unpredictable and the bowlers are seasoned. Bollywood Hungama's London correspondent and UK's Harrow Observer columnist brings you a special interview with Amrita Rao, the confidant and one among the three relationship experts, who will be helping all wannabe brides find their perfect groom in a reality TV show called 'Perfect Bride' which premieres tonight on Star Plus. Meanwhile, Rao gets busy talking about the show, her ideas on marriage, her ideal man and much more in this 'Knotty Affair' special.
How real is this reality show going to be?
I think the best part about the show on an initial achievement note is the fact that Star Plus managed to find candidates that are genuine and have come here with the soul intention of getting married. None of them have come here to become a hero or an aspiring model. That was one of the highlights that attracted me towards the show, it being a genuine one.
How did the contestants come across? I mean, the boys side and their mothers.
I met the guys and they were all genuine. I think the boys are fabulous. Each one of them is doing really well for themselves. They are very well educated too. They are very good looking also. None of the girls will have any reason to say 'No' to them unless their mindsets do not match.
What about their mothers?
I met the extremely broad minded saas who doesn't mind her daughter-in-law waking up late and doesn't mind if she cannot cook. She is chilled out. But I also met those who want their daughter-in-laws to cook food. They came across as a bit conservative. But all in all, it's going to be a very interesting battle on the sets.
Marriage is going to be one of my life's biggest decisions
And the girls?
The ten girls are very beautiful. They come from Jaipur, Allahabad, etc. They are sweet and innocent. I like one contestant by the name Neha. I saw her portfolio and she was riding a bike in one of her pictures. She came across as quite outgoing.
So what's you're role going to be Rao?
I'm going to be like a friend to these girls. I'm going to be somebody who will be asking certain questions to the boys and their mothers. Questions, which the girls might not be able to ask or are shy too, as the girls don't know the boys yet. Also, some Questions which will bring out their personality, their bent of mind, etc. If these girls want, they can confide in me.
Have you got friends who confide in you?
Yes. I have. I had some friends in school. I wasn't their agony aunt but their agony friend.
What sort of questions or queries did your friends come up with?
Their major problems happened because of miscommunication.
What would you want to know from the guy you were to marry tomorrow?
Firstly, I'd want to know if he is ready for marriage because most guys are not.
Which means that you will only date a guy who'd want to marry you?
Not necessarily. I don't think there is any compulsion as such.
How important is marriage for you?
It is going to be one of my life's biggest decisions. It is something that can change your career, future, your place of residence, etc. It can even change your personality.
Do you think the time gap between ones engagement and marriage can make or break a relationship?
Yes. It's a good reality check. I've got some of my friends who got married when they were really young and at that time they got into it just because they'd given their word. Later on, they not only found themselves in distress but got divorced. I think a proper time gap is essential. I don't think there is any difference between love and arrange marriage today. I am very much in for a live-in relationship.
What characteristics would you look for in your ideal husband?
I'd look for someone who is extremely comfortable with his personality and his achievements. I don't want anyone who compares himself and his achievements with me. A man with a good sense of humour too is important. He should be taller than me (laughs).
What about a good rich guy?
I don't mind. But I'm rich too. I am just kidding (laughs).
I am very much in for a live-in relationship.
Aren't you rich?
Sort of! But not much.
Do you believe in the saying that one should get married at the right time and at the right age?
I have seen this with some family friends of mine. When you either pass that eligible age to get married or you can't find anybody or you are not ready for it, a girl will then have to be happy with somebody who is possibly divorced.
Would you get married to a man who is divorced?
Yeah. If I like him and I can relate to him, it does not matter. I'm sure my family will also have their share of question and answers on it.
Would you follow the age old tradition of cooking for a man who has come to see you?
Yes I would. If I'm really excited about the whole idea, I would. But after that it depends if they still want to accept me or not. I think it's a risky proposition (laughs).Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 12 Sep 2009 | 7:16 am Muzammil Ibrahim makes a comeback!Remember Muzammil Ibrahim, the actor who starred in Pooja Bhatt's critically acclaimed, but commerically unsuccessful flick Dhokha? The dude is making a comeback with a spate of movies lined up! Deepti Kaul tells more.Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Cinema' | 12 Sep 2009 | 6:36 am Claudia Schiffer says no to surgery
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Source: Entertainment - Google News | 12 Sep 2009 | 4:26 am Katrina aghast at 'controversial' TV images of Ranbir & her hugging on street
There are many reasons why Katrina ko bahut gussa aata hai. Earlier this week a television channel went ballistic with an image showing her reaching out and hugging Ranbir Kapoor on the road. The suggestive clipping had the channel wondering aloud what Salman Khan would have to say about Katrina's public display of intimacy.
Katrina is defiant and cheesed off. ''Nothing .Why should he have anything to say about a scene from a film? It's a scene we shot for Rajneeti on a street of Bhopal. Obviously some camera outside our unit shot and decided to up the channel's TRPs with one more scandal story. But it's disgusting.''
Katrina sees this as a clear case of 'match'-mixing. ''First of all it's illegal to shoot people without their knowledge. And then how can they pass off a shot from a film as a paparazzi scoop?''
Getting indignant Katrina says, ''People can easily see I'm dressed for the character in Rajneeti. And am I so dumb as to indulge in a public display of affection with my co-star? Grant me more common sense.''
The lady who's in Bhopal shooting non-stop with Ranbir for Rajneeti took off for Delhi on Tuesday to shoot for Vogue. She had to skip the music release of Salman Khan's Main Aurr Mrs Khanna in Mumbai. ''Another controversy?'' she sighs. ''Weâre all busy with our commitments. And Iâm also busy fighting off strange allegations.''
Strangest of them all is the one that Ayesha Shroff shot off alleging that the surname given on Katrinaâs passport was 'Turquotte.' ''That's my mother surname,'' is all Katrina will say before clamming up on the subject.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 12 Sep 2009 | 4:12 am Subhash K. Jha speaks about I Can't Think Straight
It's a pity that films about alternate sexuality have to come wrapped in diverting and/or glamorized packaging. Hence, Deepa Mehta's much-applauded Fire was not so much about lesbianism as about two neglected daughters-in-law in a crowded Delhi home finding comfort in each other's arms. Even Ang Lee's overrated Brokeback Mountain was set in the 'Wild' West where apparently rodeos and ranchers have their own moral codes.
Where is that one modern film on alternate sexuality set in a normal humdrum place we all can recognize and be comfortable in?
Shamim Sarif's I Can't Think Straight is set in the urban jungle. And the most amusing aspect of the rather-flimsy plot is that the characters' genteel gestures of classiness are often shown to secrete desires and cravings that don't tally with conventional definitions of decorum.
So what do we have here? An upperclass Muslim girl Leyla (Sheetal Seth, soft vulnerable and surprisingly in-sync with the character's sketchily-written inner world) whose snobbish parents (Dalip Tahil, Antonia Frering) are preparing for her lavish wedding when Madam Meets Eve.
The bond that grows between Leyla and the mysterious enigmatic enchantress Tala (Lisa Ray) could have done with serious fleshing out...and we don't mean only the external positioning of the cosmetic material.
The narration done in that breathy husky tone that women often adopt when trying to show they're in control, leaves out room for any deeper development beyond the surface gloss.
The film looks fetching, thanks to Aseem Bajaj's camerawork. The stately interiors of the homes and the jetsetters trying to look as if their suits are ironed while they are wearing them, give out the feeling of a film rich in texture. But alas, the content remains de-vitaminized, sapped of any life-giving energy.
Leyla's progression from self-denial to self-realization is surprisingly devoid of pronounced punctuation marks. She lives in a world of SMS abbreviations rather than poetry. It's all done in one breathless take, in a manner of speaking.
Disappointing beyond the surface and empty at the core I Can't Think Straight makes you wonder what the director was thinking. Straight or otherwise.
The film's release-timing is rather unfortunate. People would want to see Lisa Ray for all the wrong reasons.
But we can't feel kindly towards such an anaemic because Lisa is ill.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 12 Sep 2009 | 4:11 am Shahid Kapoor: HADIPPA is a complete contrast to KAMINEY - GlamSham
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A coming- of - age- Dil Chahta Hai - changes- gender-comedy, about four 18-going-on-adulthood girls. Pari (Natasha) is the upper-class snob who often funds fun fundas for her middleclass best-friend Jiya (Vega). Their equation is a very distant descendent of Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna in Namak Haraam. Add to the twosomeâs on-and-off bonding a couple of more inseparable friends Rakhi (Maanvi) and Sanya(Annchal) and you have a bubbly bouncy brew of backslapping and bonhomie during times of picnics, parties, growing up and realizing life is not a fun zone.
Aamras is high on content. Debutant director Rupali Guha who is veteran Basu Chatterjee's daughter pays a winking homages to her dad and his colleague Hrishikesh Mukherjee. At the girls' picnic the man-in-charge is named Parimal Tripathi (Ashish Roy), a la Dharmendra in Chupke Chupke.
Guha gives a sweet and sometimes slyly amusing spin to the high-school hijinks of a foursome that just wants to have fun, but soon gets to know that life has other plans. However, the director fails to carry off the emotional high-points (like the rich Pari's anger and jealousy when Jiya gets a boyfriend or the death of Jiya's mother). Happily Guha has cast a quartet of newcomers in the lead who make the energized trivia of teen life seem believable and warm. The film has that quaint cosy feeling that the director's father specialized in. The script moves forward at a measured and even pace, even when it's let down by uneven technical details.
Of late there have been some frank and forthright exposes on school-going mores and values. Director Robby Grewal's Mera Pehla Pehla Pyar and Satish Kaushik's recent Teree Sang showed the compulsive fixation on dating and match-making among post-adolescent teenagers. In Aamras the foursome's friendship is done with sincerity. However the cosy intimacy wears thin when the principal characters begin to behave like one-dimensional stereotypes rather than the real people you tend to believe them to be initially.
The script crams too much into the narrative's fragile frame. Loud malfunctional families, the laughable arrogance of the rich, friendship and jealousy over parties and friendships, stealthily-shot kisses on the phone, a stabbed and dead beloved mother-figure and a painting competition where the middleclass girl sacrifices her chance to go to Paris for the rich insufferable snoot of a friend. All this, and more! It's like placing heavy baggage on a tender shoulder.
Finally the film's narrative seems to have bitten more than it can chew. You like the film for its sweet and honest intention rather than execution. The performances by the four girls range from the warmly credible to the passable. The girls make a convincing quartet. The supporting cast of veterans is surprisingly lackluster. What's that hideous hammy avatar that Reema Lagoo assumes to play the flirty teacher? Basuda would cringe at that one.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 12 Sep 2009 | 3:23 am Subhash K. Jha speaks about Vaada Raha
This one springs a pleasant surprise. Warm gentle, moving and utterly devoid of artifice, Vaada Raha is the kind of old-fashioned emotional drama that can never go out of fashion.
Samir Karnik's cinema never tries to be fashionable. Last year he gave us the outstanding Heroes, a segmented drama on the joys and sorrows of being part of contemporary India.
Like Karnik's little-seen Nanhe Jaisalmer, Vaada Raha focuses on the unique and emotional bonding between Bobby Deol and that wonder-kid Dwij Yadav.
Before we go any further, this would be the right time to say little Dwij is an outstanding talent, bringing to his tender persona the experienced wisdom and maturity of a life lived well and long.
As a boy who spreads sunshine in a hospital (Karnik could have made the hospital a little less precise and prop-motivated), Dwij is to Vaada Raha what Darsheel Safari was to Taare Zameen Par. The relationship that grows between the paralyzed doctor Bobby Deol and the bright boy conveys the warm vibrations of a pair that really cares for one another.
The inspirational plot about how the doctor heals himself through the subtle and insistent urging of the boy from the next ward, is not quite that suspenseful drama where we bite our nails about the next sharp turn in the narration.
Karnik's narration is free of curves and dips. Except for that sharp and painful twist at the end (Karnik had shocked us at the end of Nanhe Jaisalmer as well) the director keeps the fable-like ambience free of overt cinematic devices.
Most of the film's dramatic energy emanates from the interaction between Bobby and the boy in a hospital room where the childâs imagination illuminates the proceedings without cluttering the emotional graph.
At times, Karnik's storytelling lapses into naivete. The hospital looks like a meeting point for angels rather than sick people. The fringe characters are caricatural but minimized in their utility.
The film's goodness of heart and nobility of purpose are incontestable.
Whatever the loopholes and however deep the plot sags in parts, Bobby , in what is unarguably the best performance of his career, and little Dwij, a true synthesis sparkle spunk spirit and innocence, carry the film to a point where it merits a viewing.
One question: what is Kangna Ranaut doing here? She sings a duet, smiles vacantly and dumps the well-to-do hero after he suffers from spinal shock. Her logic being, she wants him to be self-sufficient.
Spinal shock? Kangna's character suffers from worse.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 12 Sep 2009 | 3:10 am Aamras is sweet, but must try harder to please - Times of India
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Director Madhur Bhandarkar doesn't want an A certificate for his film this time.Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Cinema' | 11 Sep 2009 | 9:39 am American Center to premiere Hollywood moviesThe capital's movie buffs will be able to watch the latest Hollywood films at the American Center here, before their release in the country.Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Cinema' | 11 Sep 2009 | 9:19 am Music review: Main Aurr Mrs KhannaAfter Wanted, composer duo Sajid-Wajid returns with the music of another Salman Khan starrer, Main Aurr Mrs Khanna. The album cannot be considered a sure-shot hit but is decent in parts.Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Cinema' | 11 Sep 2009 | 9:11 am Clash of the queens!Former beauty queens Sushmita Sen and Lara Dutta couldn't see eye to eye while shooting for the film Do Knot Disturb. Read on to know the details of what transpired between the two.Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Cinema' | 11 Sep 2009 | 8:27 am Shiney Ahuja's bail plea rejectedA Mumbai court today rejected the bail application of Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja, accused of raping his teenaged domestic help.Source: Entertainment News | 11 Sep 2009 | 7:45 am Ajay Devgan whips himself black and blue in 'London Dreams'When Ajay Devgan first heard he had to whip himself in "London Dreams", he wasn't comfortable with the idea.Source: Entertainment News | 11 Sep 2009 | 7:22 am Akira Kurosawa comes to Delhi!Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa, was one of those distinguished directors who was given an Academy award for Lifetime achievement. Eleven years after his death, on the occasion of the director's birth centenary, a series of film festivals, dedicated to the path breaking movie maker is being organised across India, reports Parmita Uniyal.Source: Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Cinema' | 11 Sep 2009 | 7:20 am Rupali Guha, Basu Chatterjee's daughter, makes her directorial debut with Aamras
The Chak De casting director Abhimanyu Ray was debutant director Rupali Guha's savior. After Rupali saw the way the new girls had been cast in Chak De, she gathered the courage to make her first film Aamras with four new girls.
"After Chak De, I was adamant. It had to be fresh faces no matter how much the pressure to get stars. I'm glad I stuck to my guns. The four news girls Vega, Natasha, Manvi and Aanchal are the backbone of my film about girl bonding."
Debutant director Rupali Ganguly has a hard act to follow up. Her father is the formidably prolific Basu Chatterjee and her father-in-law is the equally-formidable Dulal Guha. Both legendary in their own right.
And yet Rupali had to knock from door to door to get her first screenplay approved. "I went to everyone from UTV onwards. They all said, 'Who'll watch this film?' Or worse, 'Get Shahid Kapoor to play the boyfriend.' How could I fit Shahid Kapoor into a film about the bonding among four 18-year old girls played by four absolutely new faces?"
The story of Aamras was born from debutant director Rupali Guha's 13-year old daughter's Jonaki's experiences.
Says the director, "When I was growing up, I had just one best friend and then I had my family. My daughter has a circle of eleven close friends from different strata of society. And she comes home with very different experiences. I needed to understand her world of incompatible emotions. Aamras has given me a chance to open up my daughter's world."
Next, Rupali is working on script called Cinderella about a girl's dreams of a Prince Charming falling to pieces.
Regrettably, Rupali's father Basuda is in Kolkata and has not seen the complete film. "I can't wait for his reaction," says the nervous daughter, and a mother whose daughter is nervously wondering how much of her life her mom has put on screen.Source: BollywoodHungama.com Features | 11 Sep 2009 | 7:12 am Priyanka Chopra wants 'Dhan Te Nan' in female voice
After the success of Vishal Bhardwaj's 'Dhan Te Nan' in Kaminey, Priyanka Chopra is keen to have a female voice to the song. The actress had a word with the director and they soon plan to record the song with a female singer.
A source reveals, "Priyanka was in love with the song the moment she heard it. She always used to dance and sing on the sets to the song. PC complained to Vishal of being biased to Shahid Kapoor and giving him such a peppy song. At a recent award function, Priyanka chose to dance on this number even though it was a male voice."
The source continues, "Piggy Chops has now requested the director to have a female version recorded to the earliest so that she can dance to the tunes of this song at various functions. Currently, the director and Priyanka are busy with the various other commitments, but will soon record a female voice."
A source close to Priyanka reveals, "Priyanka totally loves the song and has spoken to director Vishal sir for having a female voice to the song. Nothing has been finalized but hopefully one will hear the female version soon with PC dancing to it."Source: BollywoodHungama.com News | 11 Sep 2009 | 6:20 am Shiney Ahuja's bail rejected again - Rediff
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