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Director: Rohan Sippy
Cast:Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai
RAJ (Abhishek Bachchan) lives in New York with his mother, Dr. Malhotra (Suhasini Muley). They are very close and share a great rapport. But there is one issue that they can't see eye to eye on: his mother wants him to settle down... Raj won't hear of an arranged marriage.
When Raj visits India for his cousin's wedding, his maternal uncle (Satish Shah) emotionally blackmails him into agreeing to arrange meetings with eligible girls. To make matters worse, the person his uncle chooses as the matchmaker and go-between for these meetings is the one person Raj has already antagonized in his 24 hours in Mumbai. That person is NAMRATA (Aishwarya Rai), Raj's uncle's favourite employee at his design studio. She is only too happy to put Raj through this torture.
After a series of meetings with potential brides, it becomes apparent to Namrata that finding a match for this particular suitor is not only a nightmare, but an exercise in futility. In the process of fighting over the correct way to seek out a soul mate whether through aranged meetings or by waiting for true love.
A man who does not believe in marriage and a woman who can't... Can true love find a way? In a light-hearted journey that offers honest answers to questions about love and the quest for a perfect mate, KUCH NAA KAHO is a heart-warming offering from debutante director Rohan Sippy.
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Director: Rohan Sippy
Cast:Abhishek Bachchan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani & Nana Patekar
First it was a string of special appearances that
he did for films produced or directed by friends whom he just couldn’t refuse, like Salaam Namaste, Ek Ajnabee, Home Delivery. And now, on the heels of Bunty Aur Babli, here’s another Abhishek Bachchan film that features him as a con-man. Only, this one’s got a better plot that’s much tighter, and after quite a while, here’s a script that’s not an afterthought but the centerpiece of the entire creative effort Rohan Sippy has put into crafting Bluffmaster.
A fast-paced con caper with a humungous sting in its tail, Bluffmaster opens smartly, and quickly introduces the characters with deft thumbnail strokes. From the word go, director Rohan Sippy takes the plot by the scruff of its neck, and within 10-15 minutes, the story is ready to zoom. Really, Bluffmaster scores because it is an entertaining con caper slickly told with the help of some excellent performances for characters that have been extremely well crafted.
Although the hugely popular album has several songs, one feared they would slow down the film, and that would have hit at the biggest strength of the film – pace. Mercifully, Sippy hasn’t used too many songs in the film – Sabse Bada Rupaiya’s remix sung by Chetan Shashital and with a couple of lines used from Mehmood’s original song, is used to package and introduce Abhishek as the stylish conman. Of course, Abhishek’s singing debut ‘Right Here Right Now’ is the best song of the lot, well picturised in the film to take the story of Roy’s relationship with Simmi forward, and again, as an end titles bonus, where we see a stylish picturisation on Abhishek, Priyanka and Riteish.
Overall, a great job by Rohan Sippy, but I cannot imagine him or anyone else having been able to achieve what he has if it weren’t for Sridhar Raghavan. Raghavan who? The scriptwriter, that’s who. The man who wrote Khakee, and has crafted some of the best thrillers on television too in the past, including C.I.D. and Aahat. Raghavan’s screenplay, intriguingly complex and challenging to lovers of twists in the tail, keeps coming at you from all sides as the story unfolds with its edge-of-the-seat mix of humour and drama, and only when all the pieces fall together to make a perfect picture can one really appreciate how well crafted the whole thing is. On the honesty front (to the viewer, that is), Raghavan’s script cannot be faulted except for one place, where, in an effort to build realism, Roy and Dittu are mercilessly beaten up by interrogating police officers. Watch the film and then come back to this statement – it’ll make sense for the obvious reasons then.
OK, now, for the long and short of it: Bluffmaster is a slickly packaged comic con yarn that
is racy, doesn’t take liberties with logic, holds your attention, and keeps you trying to outguess the climax. It succeeds, you fail in guessing the climax, and when you have a taut screenplay that is urbanely tongue-in-cheek, peppered with some very funny lines, peopled with well detailed and very funny characters performed by some of the best cast actors for each role, and good music completing the package … well, you have a four star entertainer. Kudos to director Rohan Sippy for Bluffmaster.
(thebharat.com)
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Director: Milan Luthria
Cast: John Abraham, Sameera Reddy, Nana Patekar
Two. It’s an interesting number.
Two sides of a coin, two halves in a day, two ways to look at life, two guys in our story and two hours in which to tell it.
Two hours that tell the story of a day in the life of two opposites…
Raghav Shastri (Nana Patekar), an Insurance Salesman to the world, but a caustic, instinctively witty cabbie in reality, who needs thirty thousand rupees by the end of today…
And Jai Mittal (John Abraham), the equally acidic heir to a resourceful business family, who needs a bit more… Three hundred crores actually.
Also by the end of the day.
Jai needs to contest his father’s will in court… and needs Raghu’s cab to get there.
Raghu needs every rich sucker he can get as passenger…
So the two meet…
And a predictable cab ride kicks off a roller-coaster journey that leaves you laughing in a most unlikely place… the edge of your seat…
Because on either side of the seat that divides them are our two problems…
Two attitudes, two egos, and two distinctive brands of humour. |
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Director: Nikhil Advani
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone
Made in China is soon going to be rolling- not out of the factories of Guangzhou- but from India, the biggest producer of movies worldwide!
Starring India’s top notch action-comedy star Akshay Kumar, the film is directed by Nikhil Advani for producers RSE Orion Films. Keeping them company is supermodel turned actress Deepika Padukone, along with Chinese actors. The film has been written by Shridhar Raghavan (Khakee, Bluffmaster, Apaharan) This marks the first time any Indian crew has crossed the Great Wall!
From the hustle bustle of Mumbai bazaars to the hutongs of Beijing, the electric energy of Shanghai and sheer breathtaking Chinese landscapes, Made in China chronicles the lunatic adventures of a hapless simpleton cook from Mumbai . As he goes to seek his destiny, he finds himself thrown into a crazy world of megalomaniac villains, femme fatales, crazy inventors, Chinese mysticism and outlandish kung fu assassins.
Commenting on the same Ramesh Sippy said “ India & China have captured the public imagination like no other countries at this point in time. We're making a film that marries together the best of their filmmaking traditions- which merges Indian sty
le dance and masala with Chinese Kungfu and Beijing Opera. And there could be no better partner than Warner to help us reach out to audiences worldwide.”
Blaise Fernandes – Country Manager for Warner Bros. Pictures (India) quotes as follows “We are excited to be a part of this production because of the outstanding talent that is associated with it”.
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