It was the advent of Jeans that led to development of notion of health conscious and to have a toned body. It also had its rub-off effect on the female actors as well, and if a fault line were to be discerned that really swayed a nation in a big way and pushed it on to a journey of Jeans discovery, the campaign of Coke involving Aishwarya Rai could be one such fault line. Dressed simply in a white shirt and Jeans she apart from swaying Aamir Khan off his feet was able to literally swoon the whole country as well.

From the previous generation it was in SHOLAY that Jeans made its debut in a big way as attire that had element of rebel and exuberance of youth written on it, and it got manifest in the characters portrayed by Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra. As a matter of fact in SHOLAY for the first time probably in Hindi cinema, Big B had packaged a pair of Jeans with a Black shirt and it became a fashion statement.

As the generational shift acquired its mooring, Jeans slowly weeded out hose pipe pants and flaring bell bottoms, and it became the fabric which defined the chutzpah of the character. In ANDHA KANNON after a long time Amitabh Bachchan had returned to Jeans in a big way, and again the element of casual that he had brought to his character of Jaanisaar Khan got manifested in a big way through Jeans as well.

The generation of Big B probably did not patronize Jeans in a big way owing probably to the fact that this generation was at the cusp of nationalism, where Jeans still was considered as western attire.

But as the new generation made its debut in Hindi cinema, brought on the profuse dozes of Abba, BoneyM, Pink Floyd and Woodstock, Jeans came to make their presence felt in a big way in the world of Hindi cinema. The same kind of paradigm shift was noticed in case of the female actors as well, and experimentation with Jeans as an attire by the female actors also allowed them to experiment with their looks as well. If there was one film that can be considered as a film that promoted Jeans in a big way it was JAANBAAZ and it can always be a matter of debate whether Dimple Kapadia looked more beautiful in a Jeans in JAANBAAZ or in SAAGAR. Jury would go in favor of JAANBAAZ. Incidentally, Feroze Khan can be considered as the father figure of Jeans in Indian films, as right from the time when he made DHARMATAMA, followed by QUARBANI and YALGAAR, to JANBAAZ, his films are a living tribute to the humble Jeans in its most alluring manifestations.

It is a tribute to the fascination of Jeans that a film by name of JEANS was made in Hindi and the female character in this film was enacted by Aishwarya Rai sheer coincidence or fortuitousness, decision is left to sail in the wind. Even a song was written on Jeans epitomizing its association with youth, “Purani Jeans Aur Guitar”…

Jeans as it represents youth, the sense of aghast that is being experienced by the purists, may be condoned as an indulgence and exuberance of youth and nothing else.

Jeans represents youth and youth is allowed to err sometimes, but the magnanimity of the elders is to condone it and allow moving on.

The actor had been diagnosed with cancer about a year ago.

He is survived by his son Fardeen and daughter Laila.

Khan acted in Hindi films such as ‘Qurbani’ and ‘Jaanbaaz’.

Feroz Khan was born and brought up in Bangalore.

He made his debut as second lead in ‘Didi’ (1960).

He produced, directed and starred in ‘Dharmatma’, which was the first Indian film to be shot in Afghanistan and was also his first blockbuster hit as producer, director and actor.

The film was released primarily in the North belt of India and that too on selected screens. Moreover, since EROS has distributed the film, it didn’t really find premium multiplex chain for itself. Also, except for Punjab, the film didn’t see many theaters for itself in Delhi NCR, a region where TERA MERA KI RISHTA could have potentially found good audience.

”The idea was to go slow and release the film in select theaters to begin with. We hand-picked theaters in India while giving it a good release in overseas as well. The demand for the film has been overwhelming wherever it has been released. The target audience has loved the film which is already on a profit making zone”, says a source close to the production house.

Jimmy Sheirgill has the final word, ”Let’s stop blaming recession for all our flops. As the adage goes, a good film will always work. In the times when conventional Hindi films are being shown the door, mainly because they are poor products, a good film like TERA MERA KI RISHTA turning out to be such a huge success is a silver lining. It has further reassured me, especially after A WEDNESDAY that big ideas matter more than anything else.”

The couple have also enjoyed a successful run in Hindi films in this period. If Ash had her Jodha Akbar then Abhishek had his Dostana. The couple who ha already done a film together with Mani Rantnam, Guru, are now working together yet again in Raavan. The couple were supposed to be doing some reshooting in the jungles of Kerala, but Mani has himself been taken ill. He was admitted to the hospital and as a result the shoot has been cancelled, giving the couple a much-needed break together. According to reports, the couple have gone for a quick visit to Europe. Once they are back, Raavan is still to be completed. Besides that, Ash will probably be beginning work on her film with Sanjay Leela Bhansali, which also stars Hrithik Roshan. The couple will be seen again in Abhinay Deo’s next, which is said to be a thriller. One wishes the couple a long, happy married life.

There has been literally no audience for each of the films, hence resulting in near-to-nil occupancy at theaters, whether multiplexes or single screens. Such horrific is the situation at the box office that majority of these films may well get discontinued over the first weekend itself. All of them being films that have been ready for quite some time and are now being brought back from the cold storage, they didn’t find any takers in spite of zero competition from big or small releases.

Most of them being poor in content has only proven to be an insult to the injury. Let aside bad reviews coming their way, most of them have not even been reviewed by the critics, hence reflecting on how sad has their arrival been at the theaters.

The biggest film of them all could well have been EK SE BURE DO due to star value of Arshad Warsi attached to it. However, it has turned out to be a terrible film. The problems are aplenty here with the biggest one being that there is no storyline whatsoever. One wonders whether the film’s director would himself struggle if asked to simply give a two line synopsis of the film.

The film was in the making for 5 years, something that gets reflected in each and every frame of the film. Not just it looks dated with extremely poor cinematography adding insult to the injury, it also seems clearly disjointed. Also, you can sense time and again that the director didn’t have any control over the proceedings and shot scenes randomly depending upon availability of any actor, whether lead or supporting, that he could lay his hands on. No wonder, EK SE BURE DO turns out to be an extremely ‘buri’ film. It took 5 years to make this film though it would be a surprise if this one manages to stay even for 5 shows in theaters.

There were some hopes from COFFEE HOUSE considering the fact that with Ashutosh Rana in the lead, there were hopes of a reasonably quality outing. Sadly, this doesn’t quite turn out to be the case as the film drags on as a TV serial and not once do you feel like watching a feature film. Now that’s a pity considering the fact with so many characters in the film, the director could have played on smartly and got some fizz into the proceedings. However, nothing of those sorts happens with the film offering zero drama to its audience. Typically, a film takes some time to establish its characters, begin a story and generally ends with some conclusion. In case of COFFEE HOUSE, you don’t get to see any peaks or lows. It is one flat narrative that stays on from start to finish. Worse, it is a boring narrative which only makes the situation further dull and depressing.

As for PAL PAL DIL KE SSAAT, it arrived on one or two shows at a few multiplexes and neither Ajay Jadeja nor Mahie Gill were willing to revisit their ghosts of the past. A film which was made six years back, it suddenly arrived out of nowhere. However, no one was interested in this so called family film which was straight out of the 60s. It is quite obvious that Ajay Jadeja would have made up his mind to stay away from movies after his experience with PAL PAL DIL KE SSAAT. Moreover, Mahie Gill too seems to have been so much shocked by the experience of working in this film that it took her six long years to return to Hindi films with DEV D and GULAAL.

SCHOOL DAYS has got some decent reviews coming its way but sadly, the film has been watched only by critics so far. Auditoriums screening the film have met with zero audience occupancy and this movie about teenagers, which has hit the screens without any promotion whatsoever, has gone down without a trace. The other release of the week, ROYAL UTSAV, is set in pre-historic times and with soft porn as its underlining theme, it has not even managed to entice its target audience.

With the stand off between producers and multiplexes not really coming to any resolution in days to come, be ready to be subjected to such horrific affair for weeks to come. With big makers refraining from bringing their films to the theaters, it is only going to be small time films like the ones mentioned above that would grace the multiplexes screens in near future.

These films are TERA MERA KI RISHTA, EK SE BURE DO, COFFEE HOUSE, PAL PAL DIL KE SAATH, SCHOOL DAYS and ROYAL UTSAV. The biggest of them all is the TERA MERA KI RISHTA which is a Punjabi film starring Jimmy Sheirgill. However, since the film has a regional appeal, it has released only in Punjab and select theaters in the North belt along with overseas.

EK SE BURE DO is an Arshad Warsi-Rajpal Yadav starrer that has been brought to life from cold storage. A 5 year old project, it too has seen a patchy release with zero promotion to back it up.

When Mahie Gill would have signed PAL PAL DIL KE SAATH, she wouldn’t have realized in her wildest dreams that her debut film with Ajay Jadeja in lead would actually released six years after shooting for it. Worse, it comes at the time when she has made her presence felt in the industry with two Anurag Kashyap films – DEV D and GULAAL. The film is arriving unannounced.

Amongst the Hindi films, COFFEE HOUSE gets better show timings though. An Ashutosh Rana-Sakshi Tanwar starrer, it appears to be an art house cinema in the offering and is releasing out of nowhere. Ditto for SCHOOL DAYS which is a film about teenage children. Now where did this one come from? Frankly, outside the cast and crew of the film, no one is even aware about its existence.

Last of the lot is ROYAL UTSAV, the kind with which morning shows were filled with in good old single screen days. A film which gives an impression of being soft-porn in the offering, it features Vikram Kumar and Monalisa in lead roles.

With no mainstream film in the offering, dare to take your pick from the list above!

So Stallone is all set to make his “strong” presence felt in Hindi films. Said a source, “When Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor saw stallone for the first time, they could not stop gaping at him. Stallone all of 60 was in great shape and could give apna heroes a run for their money.”

Akshay, who plays a stuntman and Kareena a supermodel could not stop talking about Stallone. “A rock solid body at 60 is something to die for,” said an Onlooker. Kareena was surprised to see that a star like Sylvester Stallone did not have any chaperones around him. “He drove to the studio himself. Carried his food himself. He practically did everything himself. Sylvester Stallone was humility personified,” sources concluded.

‘I’m lucky that I am not singing the kind of songs that are being made today. These songs are just mere shouting. I’m known for singing calm, soothing numbers and I want to keep doing that,’ Sanu, who was honoured with the Padma Shri award this year, told IANS.

‘It’s not that I don’t get offers. I’ve been offered various songs in Bollywood films, but I refused. When I’ll be offered a nice, meaningful song, I’ll sing it,’ the 51-year-old singer said.

Sanu, who won the Filmfare best male playback award for five consecutive years, got his first break in Hindi films with the 1987 film ‘Aandhiyan’.

He has worked with almost all renowned music composers in the industry – from R.D. Burman to Jatin-Lalit – and sung hits like ‘Mera dil bhi’ (‘Saajan’), ‘Sochenge tumhe pyar’ (‘Deewana’), ‘Ye kaali kaali ankhein’ (‘Baazigar’), ‘Ek ladki ko dekha toh’ (’1942: A Love Story’) and ‘Do dil’ (‘Pardes’) among others.

Sanu says getting the Padma Shri this year was an honour and a responsibility.

‘I want to thank the government for bestowing such a big honour on me. It has come after 22 years, but at least they thought that I deserve it. I’m extremely happy and I know that it is a big responsibility. I’ll do more and better work now,’ said Sanu.

The singer also recently received an award from the Sur Aradhna Socio-Cultural society in the capital.

After judging reality show ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa – Vishwa Sera’ on Zee Bangla and viewing scores of others, Sanu says such shows are nothing but a way for channels to mint money.

‘Reality shows are nothing but games. It’s a good way of minting money by the channels. Public voting is a wrong way of selecting the best singer in such shows. You cannot always trust the public that whatever they choose is the best. Judges should be given this power. Otherwise what are they there for?’ Sanu asked.

He, however, admits that it is much easier for aspiring singers to get a chance to sing in films now.

‘It’s very easy today to get into the industry and get a song or two to sing. Today youngsters have various platforms which help them in getting recognition.

‘When we wanted to be a singer, it was very tough for us to break in. People were too used to listening to Kishore Kumar and Mohammad Rafi. Replacing such legends was not even conceivable, but to be able to get a song with them being there was also not easy,’ said Sanu, who had broken a Guinness World Record by singing 28 songs in a single day in 1993.

Currently concentrating more on regional languages including Bengali, Bhojpuri and Tamil, Sanu will be heard in his home production ‘Yeh Sunday Kyon Aata Hai?’ and also a few untitled projects.

“Yes, this is a big budget Punjabi film”, reaffirms Jimmy Sheirgill who comes straight after the success of A WEDNESDAY, a film totally in contrast of TERA MERA KYA RISHTA which is a feel good affair, “The intent was not to make a safe film by spending less but instead come up with something that increments the standard of Punjabi films while keeping Punjabi audience in mind.”

“Time and again, we hear people end up saying that ‘arrey, this is a regional movie so let’s skip it and rather watch a core Bollywood film’. However, this time around the team of TERA MERA KI RISHTA took a resolve that we would beat the issue/belief around regional flicks”, says Jimmy in an enthusiastic tone.

“I guess market is not fully tapped for Punjabi films. Audiences should watch Hindi films but Punjabis especially should not be ignoring Punjabi films. They should give it a priority and going by the response that the film has generated prior to its release, I can already see a HIT in the making”, says another prominent cast member of the film.

Starring Kulraj Randhawa in the lead (who was seen in popular TV serial KAREENA KAREENA a few years back, TERA MERA KI RISHTA also boasts of Raj Babbar, Anupam Kher, Gurpreet Ghuggi and Archana Puran Singh in supporting roles. The film is all set for a 10th April release.

In view of the interest that is being generated in using photographs as a base for construction of history photographs have indeed risen into eminence as a vital tool for construction of history, all over the world, and in India as well. It would not be out of context to inform that Asit Sen the comedian of yester years had a famous photography studio in Gorakhpur, in UP. Lets then rewind to the world of photographs.

COOLIE: Manmohan Desai was indeed one of the futurists who had the vision to understand its importance and he used it with panache in this film. The romance of Rishi Kapoor and Shoma Anand when it blossomed in the adulthood was on account of the pieces of a snap that both of them had from their childhood. The reference to it was in fact made in the song as well “Tasveer ka ek tukda tera paas hai aur ek mere pass”.

NASEEB: Manmohan Desai again returned back to the importance of photograph as the element to bring about a turn in the flow of the movie and he did it again in NASEEB. When Amjad Khan on the verge of death handed over the photograph of Pran’s innocence to Rishi Kapoor it culminated in the climax of the film.

JAANE BHI DO YAARON: One of the biggest laugh riots ever produced by the Hindi cinema, it brought out in distinct relief what important role a photographer can ply in the day-to-day life, more so if it is political life.

TRIDEV: Director Rajiv Rai had Shekhar Suman in the role of a photographer who was killed in the film as he had become privy through his camera to a discussion that had brought the existence of Amrish Puri into question

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GARAM MASALA: John Abraham and Akshay Kumar starrer film tried to explore the world of fashion photography in a humorous manner, but in a subtle manner also commented on the nature of job that fashion photographers handle these days.

DELHI 6: The character of Cyrus Sahukar as a photographer in this film again went on to underline the dubious halo that photographers have come to associate with their image.

GHAJINI: Aamir Khan’s mega hit film again revolved around construction of the past based on the photographs that he used to click; it was a sort of reconstructing the history of self through the photographs.

AA DEKHEN ZARA: Neil Nitin Mukesh and Bipasha Basu starrer film took on its own after discovery of a camera by Neil in the movie.

The evening saw the star cast present to tell us more about the movie which included Kunal Khemu, Soha Ali Khan, Boman Irani, Cyrus Broacha, Amit Mystry (making his debut in Hindi films), the directors Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D. K. “The movie is based on the genre of Smart Crime Comedy. It is slick, fast paced, realistic and importantly, very funny” said the directors Raj and Krishna.

The film is produced by Anupam Mittal and Aditya Shastri under their banner People Pictures and is schedule to release early May.

The announcement of the film was made last year but delayed because of the illness of Amitabh and other commitments of Abhishek. Moreover, Tabu, who performed splendidly in Cheeni Kum, is supposed to be in the film, but for reasons unknown she skipped the role only to be replaced by Vidya Balan.

The film will start its first 25-day schedule on March 2 in Mumbai and then at other locales in North India and outside the country.

AR Rahman wins 2 Oscars

AR Rahman, the Mozart of Madras, has won two Oscars at the 81st Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

A.R. Rahman won the two awards for original score and best song along with Gulzar for Slumdog Millionaire. Rahman perfomed his compositions O Saya and Jai Ho on the stage after he accepted the awards.

India’s Resul Pokutty won the best sound mixing Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire along with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke.
India-based Smile Pinky won the best short documentary.

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Amitabh Bachchan on Wednesday went to the suburban Bandra residence of Shah Rukh Khan’s residence in Bandra, Mumbai and wished him speedy recovery from his shoulder surgery.

SRK underwent the surgery to repair the tear in the main muscle of his left shoulder at the Breach Candy hospital on February 16 and was discharged on Tuesday.

Earlier, Bachchan had a telephonic conversation with Khan during which he told the actor not to take the post- surgery period lightly and avoid any kind of activity.

Shah Rukh Khan Press Meeting after Surgery

This film is written and directed by Manish Gupta, who earlier wrote Sarkar and directed The Stoneman Murders.

This film’s star cast includes Randeep Hooda, Rati Agnihotri, Suresh Oberoi, Deepal Shaw, super model Naomi Campbell, rapper Sticky Fingaz, Vincent Pannetta and others.

This film is scheduled for release in March 2009.

However, known for always maintaining authenticity in his films like Chandni Bar, Page 3, Corporate and Fashion, the director is trying to get permission to shoot the film in real prisons.

The film is about a middle-class family boy working in the corporate sector and how after one sudden incident, he goes to jail and how copes with that situation.

The multiple National Award-winning director Madhur Bhandarkar signed up Neil Nitin Mukesh and Mugdha Godse to play the lead roles in his film Jail.

Firoz is the son of veteran producer A.G Nadiadwala and related to producers A.A. Nadiadwala, A.K. Nadiadwala and Sajid Nadiadwala. All of them have been in film production since the last four decades.

Sajid Nadiadwala is making Kambhakt Ishq with Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Brandon Routh, Denise Richards, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

Intially, Amitabh’s AB Corp and Reliance ADAG’s Big Pictures were to produce this film. There were talks also with other big production houses.

Finally, D Suresh Babu, son of D Rama Naidu and the chief of Suresh Productions, a Guinness record holding production house, has decided to produce RGV’s Rann.

Suresh says that he has been waiting for an appropriate film to make his entry into Bollywood and he has chosen RGV’s Rann. Surely, the success of Geetha Arts Ghajini is having its influence on Tollywood’s production houses.

Two motorcycle-borne miscreants hurled a bottle of kerosene at actor Shah Rukh Khan’s Bandra residence, Mannat, at around 2.30 am on Friday. Nobody was injured.

Security personnel at Khan’s bungalow were unable to note the registration number of the bike in the darkness. A complaint was lodged at the Bandra police station.

According to reports, a fundamentalist group was upset with the use of certain words in the song, Marjaani, marjaani, featuring Khan and Kareena Kapoor in the film Billu.

On Friday morning a group of protesters gathered outside Bandra’s G-7 cinema complex, where Billu was being screened, and broke glass panes and tore away posters.

Bollywood actor Aamir Khan has said Shah Rukh Khan is scared to work with him and that is why they do not do any films together.

“Actually Shah Rukh feels scared to work with me. I often say let’s do a movie together but he always rejects (the offer),” Aamir told the television channel IBN7 in an interview scheduled for telecast Dec 24.

Recently, Shah Rukh sparked a controversy by proclaiming himself the biggest brand and saying there cannot be any competition with him.

While Aamir has a strained relation with Shah Rukh, his favourite actress happens to be Juhi Chawla, who is a close associate and business partner with Shah Rukh.

“There are many good actresses but the one I like the most is Juhi. She is a great actress,” Aamir said.

These days, Aamir is busy promoting his film “Ghajini”, which is scheduled for release Dec 25.

Asked about the kind of movies he wants to do in future, the actor said: “I always want to do movies which touch my heart and are totally different or based upon new subjects. I always want to surprise my audience.”

Though Aamir has worked with many reputed filmmakers he revealed that his favourite director is his cousin Mansoor Khan with whom he did “Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak”, “Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander” and “Akele Hum Akele Tum”.

“It’s my good luck that I have had a chance to work with all good directors. But my favourite director is Mansoor Khan, my brother. I have done three movies with him,” he said.

In “Akele Hum…”, Aamir starred opposite Manisha Koirala. The actor says he took more retakes for “Akele Hum…” than for any other film in his career.

“In this movie there was a song – ‘Aisa zakhm diya hai’. I took 40-50 retakes for it,” he revealed.

The Ghajini line will be launched by Aamir himself, following which he will take to the ramp. Looks like this Khan is taking no chances, pulling out all the stops possible to ensure that his movie becomes a bigger hit than Shah Rukh’s ‘Rab Ne Banadi Jodi’.

TAXIDRIVER: If there was one man who was single handedly responsible for using taxis as a vital cog in the structure of his films, it was Dev Anand and this journey had started with a big bang with this movie, where the taxi in different situations formed a vital linkage to the Hindi films.

The entertainment industry is in a state of shock over the multiple terrorist attacks here, killing 101 people and injuring nearly 287. While superstar Amitabh Bachchan described it as a “terrible situation”, veteran actress Sharmila Tagore termed it “devastating” and akin to her own house burning.

“Mumbai is under terrorist attack. Several locations have been bombed and terrorists are firing all over the city. Major hotels are under seige. Multiple action on. Army called out. Terrible! Terrible situation,” wrote Amitabh on his blog.

Sharmila, who is in Mumbai to shoot for a film, was devastated with the audacious terror attacks that started on Wednesday night and felt that there is “no near end to such activities”.

“I am from Mumbai. I’ve been here for so long that it was really devastating to see all that is happening in the city. There seems to be no near end to these terror activities,” Sharmila, who is also the Censor Board chief, told IANS.

“I was shooting in Madh Island yesterday (Wednesday), but because of the situation shooting was halted and we were asked to stay indoors. We hope to resume our work from tomorrow, but nothing can be said right now. We have to take each day as it comes,” she informed.

Sharmila has fond memories of the Taj Mahal Hotel, one of the two under siege.

“Initially, when I came to Mumbai, I stayed in the Taj Mahal hotel for a very long time. So when I saw the hotel burning, I felt as if my house is burning,” said a gloomy Sharmila.

Commenting on the security, she said: “I don’t understand how did the terrorists manage to take so much RDX inside the hotel? Only day before yesterday (Tuesday) I was at the Taj Hotel, even our Aviation Minister Praful Patel was there and there was so much security. My bag was properly checked. How did things became so bad?” she wondered.

Asked about her children, actors Saif Ali Khan and Soha she said: “Both Saif and Soha are out of the country and doing well. Saif is in Philadelphia and Soha is in Cape Town. Both of them are on their respective shooting schedules.”

Filmmaker Kaushik Ghatak, who recently directed “Ek Vivaah… Aisa Bhi”, said the situation in Mumbai was “unfortunate”.

“I know we can’t do anything about it but it is still very disturbing. So many people have been killed. So many able officers have also been killed. This is a big loss for the country,” said Ghatak.

The director foresees a negative effect of the attack on Bollywood. He said: “The industry will definitely be affected. As it is, so many producers are planning to set up their studios outside Mumbai. Even though no place is safe at the moment, repeated attacks are making the city even more unsafe.

“If attacks continue, people will not shoot in Mumbai and would prefer going out for entire shooting schedules. I have been glued to the TV set and have not gone anywhere. They have attacked places which we visit often.”

Mumbai saw an audacious terror attack where terrorists went on the rampage on Wednesday night. On target were high profile landmarks, including the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower Hotel, Oberoi Trident Hotel, Metro Theatre and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) railway station.

Could the young men behind the dastardly terror attack in the city have been influenced by a string of terror films – Bollywood and foreign – as their modus operandi shows an uncanny resemblance to some of the movies, including the recent “A Wednesday” and “Die Hard”.

The Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher starrer “A Wednesday”, which revolves around a fateful Wednesday when a man (Naseer) calls up retiring commissioner of police Prakash Rathod (Anupam) and tells him that he has planted bombs in five places around the city, brings alive the panic and havoc shown in the film.

The terror strikes also resemble the Aamir Khan starrer “Baazi” (1995) and the first installment of Bruce Willis starrer “Die Hard” (1988) in which innocent people are taken hostage.

Ram Gopal Verma’s action thriller “Contract” that released on July 18 had unintentionally given a kind of preview of the modus operandi used by terrorists in the July 26 Ahmedabad bombings. The film shows terrorists planning low-intensity strikes first and then bombing the hospitals where the injured are taken to – just as it uncannily happened in the actual bombing 10 days later.

Other movies that have been based on terrorism in Bollywood have been “Mission Istanbul”, “Mumbai Meri Jaan”, “Hijack”, “Black & White”, “Fanaa”, “Black Friday”, “Mission Kashmir”, “Dil Se”, “Sarfarosh”, “Roja” and “Bombay” among others.

Govind Nihalani’s “Drohkal”, Ayesha Dharker starrer “Terrorist” and Mani Ratnam’s critically-acclaimed “Kannathil Mutthamittal” were also on terrorism.

Sunny Deol too delivered an array of movies, including “Jaal: The Trap” and “Jo Bole So Nihaal”.

Other films on terrorism are “Fiza”, “Sheen”, “Dhokha”, “Qayamat: City Under Threat”, “Hindustan Ki Kasam”, “Zameen”, “Pukar”, “Dus”, “Yahaan”, “Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota” and “December 16?.

Britain based filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra’s “Shoot At Sight” and Pakistani director Shoaib Mansoor’s controversial “Khuda Kay Liye” also brought back the memories of such attacks, showing terrorists attacking without any reason and causing casualties.

The story of this film (directed by Anil Sharma) has been written by Salman himself and while we did show you some pics of the actor in his new look for Veer earlier, this picture gives you a clearer idea of what to expect from this flick.

Salman, who is always known for experimenting with his looks, is seen in a beefed up, bronzed look with unusually long hair. The actor is seen wearing a fur jacket and an ethnic neckpiece and kada (bangle) Also from the looks of it, Salman seems to be playing a warrior of another era given the fact that he is seen holding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other.

In the recent past, Abhishek Bachchan tried the ’superhero meets warrior’ look in Drona but unfortunately the film sank without a trace. Will Sallu bhai be able to pull of this warrior act in Veer, one will have to wait and watch.

Source : IndiaFM

Shekhar Kammula who was the mentor to the above mentioned two new directors will be trying to spread his golden touch into the Hindi speaking lands with the remake of the immensely successful flick ‘Happy Days’.

The director who started off his career with the movie ‘Dollar Dreams’ followed up with films like ‘Anand’ and ‘Godavari’. He will be presenting his debut Bollywood flick in association with Shekhar Kapoor.

Anish Kuruvilla is now creating his first film ‘Avakai Biryani’ and SaiKiran Adavi is also going to fly solo with ‘Vinayakudu’. It is heard that both these films are having very unique story lines and the two cub directors are to reach great heights just like their guru Shekhar Kammula.

We sincerely hope that both of them will be able to do great justice to the title of Guruvunu Minchina Sishyulu, in the future.

Shekhar is already known as an established film maker with a great talent and his disciples are just starting out of their own. But it seems that the industry insiders are so sure of the cinematic knowledge imparted by Shekhar to his juniors that they have now itself decided Anish and Sai Kiran to become just like their master.