Asha Bhosle's 77th Birthday

The glamorous faces shine like stars in the shimmering world of silver screen and gradually disappear with time..what has remained intact& youthful, through the ruthless beating time is one voice that became the voice of these shining stars since last seven decades.. This is the Voice of Hope… This is the Voice of Asha..

Asha Bhosle, who started singing at a very young age, today has more than 10,000 songs to her credit. After a series of hits sung for Helen, she was tagged as “cabaret singer”. She got a major break to sing for the leading lady in B.R.Chopra’s “Naya Daur” which actually started a new phase in her career and then there was no looking back for her.

Shemaroo Entertainment celebrates the 77th birth Anniversary of the charismatic singer and offers her fan a repertoire of her works. Shemaroo brings Platinum Asha (6 VCD/2 DVD Pack), The Immortal Collection: Asha (6 VCD Pack), Ultimate Unremix : Asha  (2 DVD  Pack), Sargam ke Sathi – Pancham / Asha (DVDs), A Musical Journey With Asha Bhosle (DVDs), Asha Solo – Kal, Aaj, Aur Kal (DVDs), Magic Of Asha Bhosle – Vol. 1-8 (VCDs) and a series of Duets of Asha with Kishore and Rafi(DVDs/VCDs).

Platinum Asha, as the name signifies, reflect 75 different moods of Asha. Her voice will surely make you groove with her peppy numbers and make you cry with her sad melodies, and touch you deep inside with her romantic songs. The pack covers diverse genres, like folk lore, cabrets, gazals, sensuous songs and a lot many. It features many of her award winning songs including Dum Maro Dum.. from “Hare Rama Hare Krishna” and Dil Cheez Kya Hai.. from “Umrao Jaan”. The DVDs/VCDs have premium packing and are economically prized at Rs 299/-

The Immortal Collection: Asha (6 VCD Pack) & Ultimate Unremix : Asha  (2 DVD  Pack), both feature solo songs of Asha. Unaffected with the wrinkles of time, her voice paints the rainbow of emotions in these packs. Exotically packaged, these packs have some of the most beautiful songs sung by Asha Bhosle ever. The packs are economically prized at Rs 299/- each.

Sargam ke Saathi is a single DVD, that celebrates the musical bondage between the music maestro R. D. Burman and the inimitable Asha Bhosle. Their work together still stands as an unparallel one!! Other single DVDs of Asha include A Musical Journey With Asha Bhosle, Asha Solo – Kal, Aaj, Aur Kal, Duets Of Asha With Rafi & Kishore and Golden Collection Of  Mohd.Rafi & Asha Bhosle Duets. Shemaroo also has a series of her Duets in the Magic Duet Series and her solos – Magic Of Asha Bhosle on VCDs in its basket. These are priced at a very low rate to suit every pocket.

Hope is Asha and ASHA is forever.. Go and grab your Asha TODAY!!

Arjan Bajwa

India’s superstar, Salman Khan has been inspiration for many Indians. Whether bringing health awareness in the youth of today or doing an unconditional charity, Salman has made a place as an idol today in India and abroad. His star power is unavoidable and which is one of the reasons for his success at this age of his career too. However not just common man, Salman also inspires many among the Bollywood. One of the latest examples is shot to Fashion Fame lad Arjan Bajwa, who was bowled over by Salman Khan’s kind gesture of blood donation lately where Salman pulled Aamir Khan as well to do serve the humanity. Arjan had his birthday on 3rd of September and he started off his day by donating blood at a hospital in Mumbai, following the footsteps of Mr. Salman Khan. Though Arjan was scheduled to shoot for Hema Malini’s directorial venture- “Tell Me Oh Khuda”, but he had seeked permission from Hema ji to reach on the sets a couple of hours late as he wanted to make his birthday special this year.

“I attend my friend’s birthday parties which are very common but doing something for others is what I had always thought of and what better than donating blood? And when I saw Salman Bhai doing it for humanity, it gave me a boost and motivated me to start my birthday in a useful fashion. Also my mother is in town so her presence will double up the joy of birthday for me”, says motivated Arjan.

“Also I had met Salman Bhai recently at IIFA this year and I am a big fan of him like many others in our film fraternity. He is a true icon.” Adds Arjan.

Pranchiyettan and the Saint

Directed by : Renjith
Produced by : Capitol Films
Starring  : Mammootty, Priya mani, Innocent, Jesse Fox Allen
Music by : Ouseppachan

Pranchiyettan and the Saint Cast

* Mammootty as Chirammal Enashu Francis, a rich rice vendor but uneducated and is always in search of some easy way to get respectable positions in society. He is also known as “Pranchiyettan” and “Arippranchi”, a nickname he always hates.
* Priya mani as Padmashree, a Mumbai-based interior decorator who hails from Thrissur.
* Innocent as Vasu Menon, a close friend of Pranchi.
* Jesse Fox Allen as the Saint.
* Siddique as Dr. Jose, a former classmate of Pranchi.
* Khushboo as Dr. Omana, a former classmate of Pranchi and wife of Dr. Jose
* Jagathy Sreekumar as Deena Dayal, an idealistic teacher, who lives as per Gandhian principles and leads a simple life.

Pranchiyettan and the Saint Story : Pranchiyettan hails from a rich family that is traditionally into the business of selling rice. But he has an inferiority complex about the fact that he is not that educated. And so Pranchiyettan hankers for social acceptance. He simply cannot understand why people who are less affluent than him can get respectable positions in society. And so he is always in search of some easy way to get there, with the help of friends like Vasu Menon (Innocent). But sadly for him, that kind of acceptance always eludes him. He hates his nickname, “Arippranchi”, which he got as a result of the family rice business. To get rid of the nickname he starts a jewellery shop only to have people call him “Arippranchi the jeweller”. Padmashri (Priyamani) is a Mumbai-based interior decorator who hails from Thrissur. She invites Pranchiyettan to inaugurate a painting exhibition, after learning about his generosity. It is Dr. Omana (Khushboo), the wife of Dr. Jose (Siddique), who introduces Padmashri to Pranchiyettan. The latter is the couple’s former schoolmate. After a while, Pranchiyettan realises the futility of yearning for acceptance. Meanwhile he meets a 15-year-old boy named Poly (Master Ganapathi). Pranchiyettan’s interactions with Poly changes his perception of life.

Pranchiyettan and the Saint Promo  Trailer

Tumbhi

Well known filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, in association with Tumbhi (www.tumbhi.com) – a premium portal for artists in the fields of acting, music, modeling, writing and fine arts, will make six short films which will be screened in India as well abroad, particularly at all the leading short film festival across the globe.

IT entrepreneur and producer of critically acclaimed movie “Banaras – A mystic Love Story”, L C Singh, with the blessings of Punkaj Parashar, Javed Siddiqui, Sameer, Om Katare, Nirav Shah, Uday Singh, Neeraj Roy and other esteemed personalities, is launching Tumbhi, an online portal that promises to transform the lives of artists, art lovers and art seekers around the world. It gives undiscovered artists around the world a global platform to express their true artistic talents and to further spur their latent creativity.

Tumbhi aims to be the undisputed leader of newly created content on the new emerging medium of internet.

Singh and Kashyap & associates will continue to exploit the talent from Tumbhi for making films in the future as well.

Tumbhi has forged an alliance with Carving Dreams – a leading talent management company, to manage future events and artists of Tumbhi.

Kashish Dhanoya

Kashish Dhanoya is a beautiful actress, who is very much on gossip now days, as her first Hindi film “Ek Aadat”, releasing soon. Although, before this movie she has also worked in Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi and one English movie, But “Ek Aadat” is her first Hindi film. In movie “Ek Aadat” her co-actors are Aryeman and Puneet Tejwani, Mukesh Wasani is the Producer and Prakash Saini is Director of the film. Kashish Dhanoya, born in Delhi and completed her graduation has never thought that she will be building her career in acting. Then how did she come to this profession of acting? When asked she replied, “Maybe I wanted this to be my profession or you can say it’s just a co-incidence. After completing my studies I went to my uncle’s place who was a manager in Reena Roy’s production company, and then I thought why I can’t try my luck in films.”

Ek Aadat is Kashish’s first Hindi movie but due to some reason this movie was not released, but now it is going to release, why? When asked, Kashish replied, “it is true that Ek Aadat is my first film because of some reason it was not released and during that point of time I have worked in Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi and one English movie” while talking about her character in Ek Aadat she said that, “The character name is Soniya, who gets involved in a complicated situation, where she loves a boy but gets involved in a physical relation with an another guy and she doesn’t want to lose either of them.”

While asked about bold scene shot in the movie? Kashish replied, “This you will come to know only when you will watch this film, and some scenes are done according to the requirement of the stories”.

This is your First Hindi Film even though you the bikini shots you don’t have any hesitation.

She replied, why should I it’s the demand of the role as I am playing a bold character in the film.”

How was the experience of working in the first film? She said, “It was good, as there are many shades of Soniya’s character, while playing this character she realized Soniya’s emotions and feelings.”

Divya Dutta

Actress Divya Dutta is renowned and praised for her acting and whatsoever be her character she embroils into it completely, the similar thing happened when she signed Sky Motion Picture “Life Express- a Film about Surrogate Mother”.

In this movie she has acted the character of a Surrogate mother. Before acting in the movie, to make her character strong and imposing she wished to meet those women’s who are actually Surrogate Mothers. For this she had to visit a village ’Anand’ in Gujarat, which is famous for surrogacy nationally as well internationally. At the village Divya met surrogate mothers, realized there emotions and feelings to make the character more lively.

Do you know “Anand” village is the same place which is popular for Amul Milk.? And for surrogacy too. Because there is lot of poverty, so to overcome it most of the women’s do surrogacy and lessen their problems.

Crook- It's Good To Be Bad

Mahesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt’s Vishesh Films, a banner known vividly for its out of ordinary films and chartbuster music, is back with a bang after successful ventures with films like Jannat & Raaz The Mystery Continues. Their films always had an issue to address but in a typical Bollywood Style. This time it is the issue of Racial Discrimination with the Indians abroad and especially highlighting the recent attacks on Indians in Australia. The film stars Emraan Hashmi and known for giving way to the newcomers in the industry, this time too, Vishesh Films is giving break to a new girl Neha Sharma in this film. The film also casts ‘Fashion’ Boy Arjan Bajwa. Directed by Mohit Suri, the film has all the elements to make it a masses’ film- Romance, Comedy, Action, Thrill and ofcourse an issue, which sums it all. The Music of the film is on Sony Music and has been scored by Music maestro Pritam, whose association with the ‘Bhatts’ has been very fruitful lately with hit albums like Jannat and Tum Mile.

The story of Crook is about Jai, who has a knack of getting into trouble. His Father was a gangster who wanted to reform. On assurance from his friend Inspector Joseph, Jai’s father agreed to rat on his evil bosses. Inspector Joseph guaranteed him that he would find Jai’s father and Jai a safe passage into the world of good once his bosses have been exposed. But the unexpected happened. Jai witnessed the fatal double cross on his father, despite his confession, by a senior police officer. Joseph’s valiant effort to save him went in vain. This traumatic incident left a lasting impression on Jai’s mind that there was no point in being good and that ‘It’s Good to be Bad.’ Joseph adopted Jai out of guilt and tried to instill his Christian values of finding a God within but the memories from the past had already cast themselves deep in Jai’s mind. Despite repeated attempts to reform him, Joseph failed to ignite the light of good within Jai’s soul. And when matters went almost completely out of hand with Jai’s checkered criminal life, Joseph arranged an alternate identity for him as Suraj Bhardwaj and sent him away to Australia – a land far away from his past.

Jai had promised Joseph in Australia he would stay clear of any trouble. It was a golden chance to feel the grass on the other side of the fence. Almost immediately after landing, Jai met Suhani, an Indian Australian with an unadulterated honest vision of ‘one world’. Although she hailed from a conservative traditional Punjabi family that took pride in being Indian, Suhani secretly fostered a much liberal outlook towards life. Her elder brother Samarth was just the opposite. Samarth was convinced that Australians had a one-point agenda to bring Indians down. Jai found his home with the bumbling punju boys GoldE and gang. They were happy go lucky ‘sardar’ boys who knew that the ticket to heaven was through attaining a permanent residency in Australia. GoldE almost echoed Joseph’s voice when he warned Jai to stay out of trouble and concentrate on his work – he arranged for Jai to get a job as a taxi driver in Samarth’s garage. Suhani was intrigued by Jai’s manner. He was flirting but with a flair. He was lying but in style and he was conniving but with a pure heart. She could spot in the first instant that she met Jai that beyond his prankster lying front, Jai had a deeper side to himself that he refused to acknowledge.

Jai knew that if he could make Suhani fall in love with him he could eventually attain permanent residency by marrying her but her brother was too much of an obstacle. So while Jai was busy scheming for Suhani’s love he was also flirting with Nicole, the stripper from a nearby strip club. But his problems with Nicole were almost similar to Suhani’s as Nicole’s brother, Russel, was a rowdy skinhead from the block. Trouble followed Jai where he tried to run away from it as he witnessed the cold-blooded racial assault on Samarth. Going to the police would mean an investigation on Jai’s credentials and walking away would mean losing Suhani. Jai had fled from India to find a new hassle free life and now found himself in the heart of a racially disturbed city. Jai’s plight grew as the racial attacks spread across the city. The only way to deal with the issue at hand was to take the bull by its horns. He found himself at a crossroad of good and bad. But ironically the line dividing good and bad was running straight through his heart. It was a time when Jai had to figure whether it’s Good to be bad or it is Good to be Good.

Combining their creative strength & business acumen, the Producers of Crook, Bhatt brothers started Vishesh Films in 1986. Since its first film Kabzaa, the company has come a long way, with a number of hit films to boast of. Forming the banner for films like Aashiqui, Sadak, Ghulam and Murder, relevant cinema is the essence of Vishesh films. The company is highly receptive to the ever changing society and believes in translating these changes onto film. The movies are high concept, low cost, films which present its actors with challenging roles. Vishesh Films is all about harnessing young, dynamic human capital and weighing it with economic self sufficiency, hence reaching new heights of efficient film – making. There are several other movies through which Vishesh Films have made a spectacular mark in this Blazing Bollywood industry with Raaz, Tamanna ,Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin, Tadipaar, Daddy, Jannat and Raaz The Mystery Continues. Tum Mile. They are now back with CROOK- It’s Good to be Bad, which hits the cinemas on 8th October, 10.

DT Cinemas

The exciting innovative concept ‘Blind Show’ promises to showcase movies yet to get released with who’s who of the city for certain selected shows and some legendary old blockbusters as well

New Delhi, 31st August’10: DT Cinemas launches the exciting, one of its kind ‘Blind Show’ for its viewers at DT Star Cinema, Vasant Kunj to escalate entertainment to new heights. The leading Multiplex chain of the DLF Group has unveiled exciting Blind shows every Thursday 8-9 pm which would be exclusively screening movies yet to get released the next day with certain PG3 society as a part of the audience for certain selected shows or any legendary old blockbuster. The viewers would come to know of the movie being screened on the ticket counter itself when they plan to purchase the tickets for that particular day’s ‘Blind Show’.

On the occasion, Mr. Anant Verma, Director and Business head, DT Cinemas says, “Under the activity, we aim to strengthen our mantra of being the complete movie destination. DT Cinemas would screen all genres of movies through this innovative blind Show platform which will be aimed to majorly attract outgoing movie buffs interested to experiment with the latest releases or any such interesting concepts/ schemes floating in the market. This will surely surprise the audience when they would come to know about the next day release they would be watching a day before.”

Blind Shows with DT Cinemas aims to create awareness about DT Cinemas doing something different than a normal Red Carpet Premiere or a Press Conference being hosted time to time by other multiplex players. Every Thursday people get to watch movies before the release or a blockbuster.

The excitement & surprise factor to the movies is yet to build on with this exciting activity of DT Cinemas which is on at DT Star Cinema, Vasant Kunj.

So be a part of it to get the best unlimited movie experience before hand !!

Elsamma Enna Ann Kutty

Directed by : Lal Jose
Produced by : M. Renjith
Written by  : M. Sindhuraj
Starring    : Kunchacko Boban, Ann Augustine, Indrajith, Jagathi Sreekumar, Nedumudi Venu
Music by    : Rajamani