Safar of First Super Star of Bollywood comes to an End.

The  life of  first SuperStar of Bollywood, Rajesh Khanna has come to an end on Wednesday after a prolonged illness at an age of 69. Kaka, as he was popularly known enjoyed a rare status of glory and stardom in seventies. The last appearance of him in front of the camera was for an advertisement of a fan.

The two films - ''Aradhana'' and ''Do Raaste'' in 1969 were the  spring board  for catapulting him to heights of fame.  Hindi film's first superstar was born with the mega hit success of these two films. His famous crooked smile and head tilt  sparked hysteria amongst his legions of women fans.  He had that unique way of delivering a dialogue, unique dance style and  crinkling his eyes for which cine audience went mad from ''Aradhana'' in 1969 to ''Prem Kahani'' in 1975 till Amitabh changed the mood post “Zanzir”.

It had highest Collection in 1971

His real life was no different from the celluloid screen play.  Born on Dec 29, 1942 in Amritsar. He was adopted and raised as Jatin Arora by foster parents. In 1965, he won the All India Talent Contest organised by United Producers and Filmfare. The journey to filmdom started next year with his debut  in ''Aakhri Khat'' directed by Chetan Anand.

In his four-decade career, he appeared in about 163 films, of which 106 had him as the solo lead hero and 22 were two hero projects. He set a rare record of giving 15 silver jubilee  hits in a row which is unbroken till now. Silver Jubilee hit meant running of film in theatre for 25 weeks continuously.

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Cool Song "Kuchh to hai tujh se Rabta"

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Cool Song - 'kuchh to hai tujh se raabta'

The Rabta song from bollywood film Agent Vinod has a soothing  combination of Lyrics, Music and Voice.  The soft love song of the film  has become very popular. The audience build  a rabta  ( Meaning  contact , or some kind of Attachment in Urdu). The Lyrics penned by Amitabh Bhattacharya touch the hearts of the listener.

The casting of Saif and Kareena was to encash the real life chemistry between the couple. This peerless relation scorches the screen.

The song can be downloaded from :

In Male Voice

Link on YOU TUBE

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IN Shrey Ghoshal’s Voice

Shreya on YOU TUBE

word referred in song - Rabta/ Raabta 

(राब्ता)is an Urdu word which means 'contact.'

Now  the  Lyrics  are :

 

hmm Meharbaani jaate-jaate mujh pe kar gaya 

(ह..म्म  मेहरबानी मुझ पर जाते जाते कर गया )

Guzarta saa lamha ek daaman bhar gaya

(गुजरता सा लम्हा एक दामन भर गया )

Tere nazaara mila, roshan sitaara mila

(तेरा नजारा मिला, रोशन सितारा मिला )

Taqdeer ki kashtiyon ko kinara mila

(तकदीर की कश्तियों को किनारा मिला )

 Sadiyon se tarse hai jaisi zindagi ke liye

(सदियों से तरसे हैं जैसी जिन्दगी के लिए)

Teri saubat mein duaayein hain ussi ke liye

(तेरी सोबत में दुआएँ हैं उसी के लिए )

Tere milna hai uss rab ka ishaara

(तेरा मिलना है उस रब का इशारा )

Maano mujhko banaya tere hi jaise kisi ke liye

(मानो मुज़को बनाया तेरे ही जेसे किसी के लिए )

Kuch toh hai tujh se raabta  

(कुछ तो है तुझसे राब्ता )

Kuch toh hai tujh se raabta  

(कुछ तो है तुझसे राब्ता )

Kaise hum jaane hume kya pata  

(कैसे हम जाने हमे क्या पता )

Kuch toh hai tujhse raabta

 (कुछ तो है तुझसे राब्ता )

 Tu humsafar hai, phir kya fiqar hai

( तू हमसफ़र है, फिर क्या फिकर है )

Jeene ki wajah hi yehi marna issi ke liye  

(जीने की वजह ही येही मरना इसी के लिए)

Kehte hain:  (कहते हैं )

Khuda ne iss jahaan mein  

(खुदा ने इस जहान में )

Sabhi ke liye kisi na kisi ko hai banaaya

(सभी के लिए किसी ना किसी को है बनाया )

Har kisi ke liye

(हर किसी के लिए )

Aamir's Satyamev Jayate yet to crack the targetted Segment

During the month of May Aamri Khan’s  debut TV show is making waves across the nation.  This was a comeback of “watching TV together on Sunday morning” – the prime slot before the MTV culture griped the nation.

It gained a sudden spurt of support on the social media sites and a TRP good enough to please the advertisers. Everybody wanted to be first to make a comment on Twitter and Facebook. . So it was not a surprise that the show garnered overall rating of 4.27 TVR (including terrestrial of DD) in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, reports Indiantelevision.com.

The show is simultaneously being aired on many channels including Star Plus, Star Pravah (Marathi), DD National, Star Utsav, ETV (Telugu), Vijay (Tamil), Star Jalsha (Bengali), Star World (English) and Asianet (Malayalam).  According to to the data provided by TAM Media Research  the program reached to 8.96 million people in the age group of 4+.

Choosing so many channels together was with the objective to reach out  to have wider range of viewership specially in B Class towns. Here, the objective is not met as the data suggest that program is  a hit amongst the drawing rooms of big cities, but  is considered a boring dose in the targeted segment. The fact remains that the issues raised by SMJ are those for which lack of social awareness is the main culprit. The conservative  approach  of Indian middle class and  indifferent  law and order has taken us to this point.
The issue raised by him reminds of  a show, long back in 90s on DD, called “Rajni”. The issue, content  and  presentation are different but the appeal to touch viewer’s at their heart is same.  Let us hope the fate of this show will not be same as that of Rajni.

Star Tops in Viewership

Star Plus was most viewed channel last week  with five of its serials making place in the top ten programmes. 

"Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai" topped the chart followed by "Diya Aur Batti Hum", also from the same channel. 

“18th Annual Colors Screen Award” tele-casted  by colours was the only non Star Plus program making top the top five places.

“Balika Vadhu” who ruled the TRP race once is now at ninth spot.

Dimple Hingu commits suicide

A  Gujarati actress and model  Dimple Hingu allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in Surat. The actress  had  played lead role in two Gujarati films.

 "She was admitted to a private hospital   in not so stable condition by someone known to her. It was later  it was discovered that she had consumed poison," police said.  Her body was sent for postmortem at Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education,

She was introduced to TV and glamour world through a program called Woogi-Woogie. Dimple Hingu  was a  model  in promotion of sari and dress material products manufactured by city-based groups.  She had  featured in some video advertisements of local products.

 She made her film debut in Gujarati movie 'Rangilo Ratnakalakar' in 2006 as lead actress. She has appeared in more than 20 diffferent versions of films.  She is in lead role in  'Mota Ghare Tenu Sasaru' also. The movie is scheduled to be released in March.

She comes from  middle class back ground . Her father is a tailor and her mother a housew
ife. She has a brother studying in school.

Top Hollywood MUSIC Artist Serach in 2011

The guitar hero Les  Paul was at the top in serach amongst music artists of Hollywood during 2011. He died in 2009, but he has lived and performed through google all this year.

He was followed by the British Singer Amy WInehouse who  died of alchol poisoning on 23 July 2011 was at the number two position. This position is in true sense numero uno as Les is a google success. The controversial singer has to her credit  the UK's best selling album of the 21st century - Back to Black.

Winehouse's debut album, Frank, was released in October 2003 and very next year she was amongst the upper levels of the UK album chart. The first single released from the album was the Ronson-produced "Rehab". Time magazine had named "Rehab" the Best Song of 2007. With popularity graph also rose the dose of drugs  which finally took her toll this year. But her popularity did not end.

1. Les Paul  
2. Amy Winehouse
3. Enrique Iglesias
4. David Guetta
5. Eminem
6. Akon
7. Rihanna
8. Michael Jackson
9. Bryan Adams
10. Avril Lavigne

Are Politicians above Censor Board?

Prakash Jha`s Amitabh, Saif, Manoj and Deepika starrer, `Aarakshan` at last reached the screen all over India except three states of Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. The film has highlighted the evils on the screen as well as off the screen. The film story is based on caste and reservation in the higher education system in the country, and the ills that beset it.

Off the screen it has shown that no political party honours judgment of constitutionally formed institutes like censor board if it can get any mileage out of the contempt. The film passed without any cuts by censor board met with political road blocks. Besides the three state governments banning the release, any body who could catch media footage was ready to jump and oppose the screening of film.

Saif and Dipika in Aarakshan

Social activist and actress Shabana Azmi wrote on Twitter. "Am outraged that in spite of censor certificate, different groups are trying to prevent its release. Of what use is the Censor Board if after it certifies a film, different groups can prevent it from being released without even watching it! (sic),"

Many who opposed, including former union minister Lalu Yadav, had not even seen the film. Noted filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt tweeted, "We can't allow politicians to stop the release of Prakash Jha's Aarakshan!"

Such protests have resulted in financial loss to the producer. With the star cast and film script the it was expecting a grand opening. But, the opening of Aarakshan was below the mark on day one due to bans in Punjab, UP and Andhra. The first day due to this ban lost around 1.25 crore. From the territory of Mumbai and Delhi/UP were 1.75 crore and 54 lakhs respectively. The all India collections on first two days were estimated to around 10.00 to 10.50 crores.

After Munni, Sheila and Jalebi its Priyanka Chopra

At last Priyanka Chopra has also changed her decision to never do an item number, she would follow Sheila and Munni in a glamorous dance in Priyadarshan’s forthcoming film Tezz on a number scored by Sajid-Wajid.

Seductive gyration is now a compulsory recipe of bollywood films. Earlier, she had announced that she’d never join the item number bandwagon. Changing mind won’t help the actress in anyway except making a few more bucks.

Priyanka Chopra, already has many a sexy number under her belt. In past she has done a sexy song in Aitraaz – “Touch Me Baby” Also,an item number with Shah Rukh Khan in Billu. PC has a glamorous image and has been getting good dance numbers so deviation to solo items was not desired.

But, now media reports claim that Priyanka has shown keen interest in the item song as well. The dance in Tezz would be shot in Mumbai. A special set will be created to make this item number more bigger and better than Munni of Dabangg and Tees Maar Khan’s Sheila.

If lyrics are catchy and music is dancy, PC is no inferior to Malaika, Mallika or Katrina. So after Munni, Sheila and Jalebi its PC’s number to glue the audience. Anil Kapoor, Ajay Devgan and Kangna Ranaut are in the lead role of Tezz.

Amitabh Turns Real Farmer

Big B Amitabh Bachchan finally decided to act farmer in real life. As per
the TOI when AB was in Lucknow in November, he went to his farms and did
ploughing himself.

Big B had bought some agricultural land in Kakori near Lucknow. This time
when he went there with family, he drove tractor for 15 min.

There were controversies about the land he purchased as farmer in
Maharashtra last year.

Can Kangana Ranaut Knock Out competition?

New age tragedy queen Kangana Ranaut is in the lead role in the “Knock Out Movie” opposite Sanjay Dutt. With this fast paced thriller the pair directed by Mani Shankar plans to create an euphoria like Sunny Deol films.


In a very small career on silver screen Kangana has won prestigious Filmfare and National Film Award. She made her Bollywood debut in 2006 with Mahesh Bhatt film Gangster. The film was a commercially successful and her performance was also applauded. For this film she got two Filmfare awards for Best Female Debut and Fairever Fresh Face. She was adjudged best debut actress by Zee Cine Award, Stardust and IIFA.

Hence, her career started to roll further. Two years later in 2008 she won National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as a troubled model in Fashion. The film theme was around the dark side of the fashion world. Ranaut's portrayal of a supermodel who loses everything on drug abuse gained her widespread praise.

She was born in a small town called Bhambla in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh. Her family lives in Mandi. Before joining films Kangana took essential training for Kathak dance and modelling in Delhi. She even joined Asha Chandra's three-month course in 2004 to brush herself to face camera.

"It's been quite a journey...I came to the industry when I was just 17 with no real idea of what to expect. I was fortunate that 'Gangster' was a huge hit at the box office. I won a lot of awards and the industry gave me another chance. Otherwise, Bollywood is an industry that's very unforgiving towards outsiders," said Kangana to a magazine.

The path ahead for her is promising but not easy. The media reports rumour about her troubled relations with Salman and Aditya Pancholi in past. But she is entrepreneur by nature and harbours a dream of directing a film for which she already has a script in mind. She has designed the clothes for her upcoming movies 'Rascals' and 'Tezz'. Other upcoming films of her are : 'Dum Maaro Dum', 'Game', and 'No Problem'

So far, Kangna has got applauds from critics for the performance in 'Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai', 'Fashion', 'Life In A... Metro' and 'Gangster'. Some of the critics find the glimpses of legendary actress Meenakumari in her. Kangana considers Madhubala, Angelina Jolie and Parveen Babi as her role models.

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Ramya Krishna – A name unknown after 25 years and 200 films

The glamour world is a place where it takes years to make the name but no time to get lost. Even if she was a niece of the editor of one of the most popular Tamil magazine Thuglak. Cho Ramaswamy himself was a comedian, playwright, lawyer and columnist and a king maker in Tamil politics. His niece Ramya Krishna had become bollywood sensation when she was cast against Vinod Khanna in Dayavan more than two decades ago.



Ramya Krishna



But she got only nine hindi films thereafter including Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan with Amitabh and Khalnayak opposite Sanjay Dutt. She was directed by Mahesh Bhatt in Criminal. It was inspired by the 1993 American Film The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones Where she played the role of a sub inspector.

These banners and star cast coupled with the looks of Ramya should have made her in the slot where her contemporary Dhak Dhak girl Madhuri or later Kapoor sisters reached. But it did not happen since critics found her a waxed doll unable to act. Yet she hit a double century of the count of films.

Ramya Krishna was born on September 15, 1970 in Chennai and by the time she celebrated her 13th birthday she was known as the heroine of Mudal Vasantham. The movie released in 1982 when was a student of Std 8th. She first played the lead role in Vellai Manasu in Tamil opposite Y. Gee. Mahendra.

Though the bollywood directors did not find substance in her. Her looks got her work in South India. She acted in all regional language films of southern part.

Her role as Neelambari in Tamil film Padayappa opposite Rajnikanth brought her recognition and fame not only in South India but also internationally in Japan, Singapore, London and Paris. This film silenced her critics. The film was released in Telugu also as Narasimha.

During a span of twenty five years Ramya Krishnan has acted opposite two generations of Telugu superstars, including Akkineni Nageswara Rao, NT Ramarao, Krishna, Sobhan Babu, Chiranjeevi, Balakrishna, Venkatesh, Akkineni Nagarjuna and Jagapathi Babu.

Like Hindi Movies she has not been lucky with awards. She bagged only one prestigious Nandi Award from the Government of Andhra Pradesh. She also received Film Fare awards twice. In 1999 as Best Actress for Padayappa. Ten years later in 2009 for her film Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam she was judged Best Supporting Actress.

She has settled in Hydrabad after marrying Telugu director Krishna Vamsee in the year 2003. The couple has a son named Ritwik.

Salman as Comic-Book Style Hero in Veer

Salman’s much awaited Veer was released this week. Two and a half hour long film fails to impress the audience, though this has all masala, dialogues to draw whistles from certain section and melodious numbers.

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Costume drama Veer is a blend of Manmohan Desai films and and Hollywood warrior flicks. This mega-scale love story written by Salman himself and directed by Anil Sharma as Warrior hero fails to impress with the content quality.

The film is set in pre-independence era and revolves around a warrior tribe Pindharis. Jacie Shroff is villian as the king of Madhavgarh who cheats the Pindhari tribe to get favour of Britishers. Head of tribe Prithvi Singh is played by Mithun Chakraborty. He grooms his two sons – Veer and Punya (Sohail Khan) to take the revenge.

Zarine Khan makes debut as Yashodhara the princess of Madhavgarh. She carries the look fabulously and falls in love with Veer. Display of heavy jewellery to mark the wealth of Rajwada is beautiful. Her resemblance to Katrina was talked about by cine magazines.

There does not seem to be any logic in various patches which are not well integrated but are put just to bring out the heroic qualities of the central character. Be that the a strange swayamvar scene, killing of the wrestler or flared nostrils. Director Anil Sharma had done this before in Gaddar

Jackie Shroff is far off from the villainous presence of Amresh Puri who could leave more impact than hero himself. Mithun has brought the hurting pain of betrayal in his character.

The film can take you to the theaters only if you are hard core Salman fan else can be avoided. He is a comic hero in this film doing every thing successfully and winning over the princess at the end

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Comedy Filled Friday in Theaters

Two comedy movies for the audience this Friday. One is depending totally on the strength of the actor Rajpal Yadav and the other on its banner and theme. First is to woo the struggling middle class and the second targets the youngsters.

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Two comedy films are getting released today on first working Friday of 2010. ‘Pyaar Impossible’(PI). Directed by Jugal Hansraj is a Yash Raj film. Rajpal Yadav is as Lallan in Hello Hum Lallan Bol Rahe Hain. This week end audience can think of relaxing themselves with light tension free movies.

PI’s story rolls out from the campus of Ankert University, California, where every boy’s heart flutter like leaves in the wind for the most beautiful girl on campus. Everybody dreams of Alisha!. The role played by glamorous Priyanka Chopra.


Uday Chopra has written the script inspired by the old RK banner films and the ambience of its own Mohabattein. He plays the main lead role of bespectacled geek Abhay. He is studying Computers and loves Alisha more than MAC stores. His existence hardly matters for Alisha in the campus.


Abhay falls in deep one sided love. One day he musters up enough courage to go and express his true feelings to her and realizes that it is never going to happen. He comes to terms with the fact that Alisha is a Princess and he is just a Geek. That is when their ways eventually part to justify the title of the film.


Then comes the turn around their paths cross again. The fate again brings him face to face with the woman of his dreams, Alisha. This time to prove man behind those glasses and the deep love to her. The film is clearly targeting the youth without overdosing of messages.

Like other Yash Raj banner music is the positive part of the film. Alisha…Tu Kahan Main Kahan has freshness and the youngsters are going ga-ga over it on FM. Salim-Sulaiman duo has composed lyrics of Anvita Dutt Guptan. Besides the title song is a narrative song Ek Thi Ladki in the voice of a newcomer Rishika Sawant. Jab se tujhko hai jana, dil ne kaha na mana and Alisha sound good to the ears.

Santosh Thundiyil, has photographed to best of the glamour of Priyanka and put her in the slot of Princess of young hearts. The director Jugal Hansraj is known for his animation movies. With this movie he can prove the point that he can handle live characters as well.

Young audience may like this comedy filled romance as somewhere they find themselves as geek as Abhay. The film can give support to the sagging career of Uday and put Priyanka back in race with Katrina.

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Aamir is Number One Khan

After the success of 3 Idiots and record collection of Rs 240 Cr Aamir Khan is now the undisputed king at the box office. This has broken the records of Ghajni and the film is in the second week.

The other two Khans – Salman whose high budgeted Veer is in pipeline and SRK whose ambitious ventures My Name Is Khan will come screen this year, will have to cross higher bar.

Coming up first is Salman's period drama Veer directed by Anil Sharma and shot with a budget of Rs 50 crore. It’s said that Salman has a personal interest in the film since the story is written by the actor himself. In 2009 Salman had one hit ‘Wanted’ and two flops ‘Main Aur Mrs Khanna’ and ‘London Dreams’.

 

My Name is Khan releases worldwide on February 12. The film has high expectations as it is jointly produced by SRK and Karan Johar is a comeback by the hit SRK-Kajol and Karan Johar combination.

 

The film has reportedly been sold to Fox Star Studios for a record Rs 100 crore. SRK’s last venture Billu Badshah didn't work at the box office. To meet the new challenge Shahrukh has also started his Twitter account.

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