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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Bollywood coming up with all merry n gay attitudes!

The latest movies like Dostana and Fashion have again tickled the long subdued topic of homosexuality to the forefront and into the mainstream cinema.

Although every producer- director teams up to bring a ‘hat ke’ project, for long homosexuals have largely been supposed to be out of the orbit of the various formulas and incarnations that control the Bollywood box office.

Movies like Deepa Mehta’s Fire and Onir’s My Brother Nikhil that have made stirring efforts to break the orthodox depiction, but have been labelled as ‘parallel’ cinema. However, the current wave of films, like Fashion and Dostana, may be able to bring the much awaited acceptance to homosexuality.

Mahesh Dattani made a bold effort “Mango Souffle” to look at the gay community without prejudice and to de-marginalize homosexuality in our cinema. But the efforts went in vain as the film hardly got an audience worth citing.

With the release of Karan Johar’s Dostana where the Bollywood hunks and lead actors, Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham, pretend to be a couple in a bid to rent an apartment in Miami. Madhur Bhandarkar’s recent release, Fashion, in one of its sub-plots, has Harsh Chayya and Samir Soni play a homosexual fashion designer-couple thus indicating of the acceptance of the odd among the audience.

For many years, homosexual were essentially comic characters meant to lampoon men who, in every day jargon, aren’t “normal”. Like in- Shah Rukh Khan and Saif Ali Khan in Kal Ho Naa Ho where Shah Rukh and Saif’s characters were mistaken to be gay by the latter’s housekeeper; Anupam Kher subsequently played in Rahul Rawail’s “Mast Kalander” and David Dhawan’s “Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge” and not to forget Sanjeev Kumar playing an effeminate character in A. Bhim Singh’s “Naya Din Nayee Raat”.

Now in Madhur Bhandarkar’s “Page 3″ for the first time a gay character is looked at without chauvinism and comes closest in Indian cinema to portraying a gay character with some air of sensitivity.

The director Madhur Bhandarkar comments: “All the characters you see in ‘Page 3′ is based on people I know. In our films, gay characters are used as props and gimmicks. In my film, Rehaan plays an identifiable character. We cannot reduce any community of people to tokens and emblems. We’ve to treat them as real.”

Homosexuality is still in the pothole of ‘minorityism’ and Hindi cinema has a long way off from pulling it out. The filmmakers can get honest about the matter on screen only when they gain courage to accept their own sexuality.

dostana gay movie

dostana gay movie

Bollywood Stars at Food Oscars in Mumbai

It was the gala night at the so called Oscars of the food and nightlife industry in the ‘The Times of India Food and Nightlife Awards’ 2008-09 held at ITC Grand Central in Parel. The show which was consisted of delicious cuisines served by 30 of Mumbai’s best restaurants had the gathering of Bollywood Celebrities at the party to enjoy delicacy.

All the, who is who, of Bollywood industry were presented at the party including Salman Khan, John Abraham, Kajol, Ajay Devgun and many more. Just have the glimpses of celebrities in the part pictures below.

Bollywood stars at food oscars

Bollywood stars at food oscars

Bollywood stars at food oscars

Bollywood stars at food oscars

Bollywood stars at food oscars

Bollywood stars at food oscars

 

Lara Dutta follows Salman Khan’s footsteps

Lara Dutta is all set to don the cap of a scriptwriter. The beautiful lady is nowadays busy working on a script for her project; the actress will be playing the lead in the movie.

Lara has her own reasons for picking up the pen. She says, “Scriptwriters in Bollywood aren’t writing anything in depth for the role of a woman. The scripts glorify the hero while the heroine is merely the love interest, and I think it’s high time in my career that I do more meaningful roles so, I have penned a women-oriented film.”

The actress further clarified that it is not a feminist film by quoting, “My movie has equal space for the male and the female protagonists. The male lead will have a lot to contribute to my film.”

Do we see the motivation coming in from her ‘Partner’ co-star Salman Khan who is busy these days with ‘Veer’ which has been scripted by him and in which he plays the lead?

lara dutta

Sohail Khan and Ness Wadia joined the DJ Night

It was the great DJ night at the hot spot of Mumbai, Dragonfly, where all the renowned DJs like WhoSane, Designer Hippies and Karan Bhoj were joined by Sohail Khan and Ness Wadia on November 15th.    Have some of the pictures from the DJ night held at Dragon Fly.

dragonfly party

dragonfly party

dragonfly party

dragonfly party

 

Hrishitha & Shweta - Brides in backless avatar?

Hrishitha Bhatt and Shweta Salve are not new names for Bollywood. The former did a few quite forgettable films early in a career before disappearing from the scene and the latter took a big jump from small screen to the silver screen grabbing a few modeling assignments, music videos and some blink and miss roles. However, on thing is common with both- the two are ultra-gorgeous and so it seems given the latest Bridal shoot of Nisha Merchant. The shoot has the duo in backless ghagras making their bridal look sexy and tempting.

Nisha Merchant is one of the Top Fashion Designer in Fashion Industry and Bollywood too. She’s the one who’ll take that chic urban silhouette and add a touch of ultra-ethnic embroidery to make it sublime. Or mix up ultra trad with uber glam to come up with glad rags that turn my girl-next-door friends into wedding-day goddesses. Her deft design hand has been evident in every distinct collection she creates. Check out the latest Bridal Collection of Nisha with hotties Shweta and Hirshitha posing for the camera.

Bridal wear backless

Bridal wear backless

Bridal wear backless

Bridal wear backless

Bridal wear backless

Bridal wear backless

Chitrangada shoots for the promotional video of ‘Sorry Bhai’

Chitrangada Singh made her start in Bollywood through serious cinema like ‘Hazaron Khwahishen Aisi and ‘Kal – Yesterday and Tomorrow’ but the gal is all set to change her image with her first commercial venture ‘Sorry Bhai’.The film has been directed by Onir and is all set to release on 28th November. Chitrangda has recently shot for a promotional music video which comes with the title ‘Sorry Bhai’. The video has just been unveiled on the music channels. The number has soft dance moves associated with it, the number is a feel good light hearted banter between Sanjay, Sharman and Chitrangda. The film revolves around them with the storyline as Chitrangda all set to get married to Sanjay before she falls in love with his younger brother Sharman. In the song Sharman questions them and the duo tries to make peace with him and explain their point of view.Though Gaurav Dayal has composed the entire soundtrack of SORRY BHAI, the title song sees Vivek Phillip chipping in as the guest composer. He also writes the lyrics along with Amitabh Varma for this song which is sung by K.K., Sunidhi Chauhan and Abhishek Nailwal.Onir is all praises for Chitrangda and says, “This is a gift that we all have given to each other. The promotional music video has been shot in all white color and would feature in the movie during the end credits roll. The video features Chitrangda along with the entire principal cast of the movie comprising of Sanjay Suri, Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani and Shabana Azmi.”


sorry bhai movie

sorry bhai movie

sorry bhai movie 

‘Delhi Belly’ to present Imran Khan in a new look

Just two films behind him and there is no questioning the newcomer Imran Khan’s versatility. His cute young lad look in ‘Jaane Tu…’ was quite different from his raw and rough look in ‘Kidnap’. Uncle Aamir Khan’s ‘Delhi Belly’ is going to present him in yet another look with long, dishevelled hair, a stubble and even with a leaner look. However, after the completion of ‘Delhi Belly’, Imran will have to regain the lost weight and muscles for ‘Luck’, which is heading towards completion.“I am on a strict diet, having one meal a day. That’s the demand of the character. He has to look lean. Aamir Uncle has asked me to follow a regime, you know how particular he is about everything,” says Imran.Talking of DELHI BELLY, Imran feels the film holds tremendous appeal for the international audiences. “It should prove to be that breakthrough film in the international markets. Aamir knows better, he must’ve done a lot of homework before plunging headlong into this film,” he adds. I endorse this viewpoint!

After ‘Luck’, Imran plans to take a break of at least a few months before signing his next venture. “I’ve been shooting non-stop, I need to unwind before I accept new assignments,” Imran states.

Imran Khan new look

Mallika Sherawat Awarded For Hilarious Performances

Though Mallika Sherawat is less reputed in Bollywood movie circles yet she has gained immense rewards and awards overseas. She is scheduled to be in LA in dinner party as recipient of United States Based Multicultural Motion Picture Association’s Diversity award and 2008 Renaissance Artist Awards at the 16th Annual MMPA’s Diversity Awards on Sunday 23rd November at Universal Studios Globe Theatre.  The Dinner party is expected to be joined by other leading international celebrities from the film and television industry.

These awards are presented for unique status to performers for the acting and character portrayal that bring about varying emotions in audience from humour to tears. Earlier these awards are given to Hollywood Actresses Salma Hayek, Halle Berry, and Monica Bellucci.  At the award ceremony other who will receive the prestigious awards is Ruby Dee-Davis.

mallika sherawat

Vie Lounge Becoming Popular Venue among Bollywood Stars

After the cast of hit movie Fashion celebration their success at Vie Lounge is soon frequented by the cast of ‘Goolmaal Returns’. All the stars of the ‘Goolmaal Returns’ including Ajay Devgan, Celina Jaitley and Tusshar Kapoor was at the party enjoying f champagne to celebrate the success of the movie. However, Kareena was not presented at the party due to fever as she was exhausted due to a party that she attended at Parel.

golmaal returns bash

golmaal returns bash

golmaal returns bash

golmaal returns bash

golmaal returns bash

celina jaitley photo

Shahruk Khan's Family Photos

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