Friday, May 22, 2009


8 X 10 Tasveer


After a flashback to a Jai Puri (Akshay Kumar) as a child, in shock at the edge of a cliff as his parents pull him away, the film jumps to the present day, finding Jai now a forest ranger in the woods near Alberta, Canada. Jai lives in a cabin with his girlfriend Sheila(Ayesha Takia, but has been estranged from his parents, Jatin(Benjamin Gilani) and Savitri Puri(Sharmila Tagore). Jatin is the CEO of a privately held Canadian oil company, Canoil. That oil exploration causes environmental damage is a great source of tension between father and son.
Jai has a supernatural or mutant gift: He is able to enter a photograph and vividly experience the events preceding the time of the photograph. Jai is unable to understand or explain this gift, except to recall that it started when he was very young. Jai tries to use this gift to help people (e.g. find people lost in the woods) despite the risks to his own body. Jai can remain in photographs only for a minute, and experiences life-threatening, stroke-like effects afterward.
Jai's father drowns in a boating accident under mysterious circumstances. Jatin was aboard his own boat, the Golmaal, and was surrounded by his wife; his brother(Anant Mahadevan), Sunder; longtime friend and lawyer Anil(Girish Karnad); and Adit(Rushad Rana), Jatin's surrogate son. Eccentric former cop Hapibulla "Happi" Pasha(Javed Jaffrey), who suffers from OCD, and whom Jatin had helped emigrate to Canada and start a life there, believes Jatin may have been murdered, and that everyone on the boat at that time may have had motive. The only clue is an 8x10 photograph of the four men, which Savitri shot a few moments before Jatin fell off the boat and had a hypothermia-induced heart attack.
Jai repeatedly uses his gift to enter the photo and experience the incident through the eyes of the four subjects in it. After each entry, Jai picks up various clues from the viewpoint of the subject. Happi follows up on these clues and tries to string together a theory. But Jai his body gradually weakening from the stress of entering the photograph. As well, Sunder is found hanged, an apparent suicide, and a mysterious party in a black SUV tries to kill Jai and Sheila. Later, someone makes an attempt on Savitri's life. Happi enlists the help of a nurse, Sally, whom he had left at the altar some unspecified time ago, who though resentful of Happi helps administer medical aide to Jai in order to help him find the killer.
After the knife attack on Savitri, Jai enters the photo one last time, at great risk to his weakening body, to find the final set of clues, and is set upon by his now-grown twin, Jeet — who had been presumed dead but had survived the fall to live a hellish existence — and the unfaithful Sheila. During a tussle, Happi arrives at Jai's cabin and tries to help, but Sheila kills him with an axe. Jeet and Sheila dump Happi's body, as well as that of their betrayed confederate, Adit, into the sea, and attempt to do the same with Jai. Jai ingeniously escapes, and attempts to reconcile with his long-lost brother. Touched, Jeet kills Sheila as she fires on Jai, but her shot kills Jeet. Sometime later, Jai moves in with his mother and they put up pictures of the truly-dead son

Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge


The Plot borrows heavily on the ideal driving The Producers. Anand Pawar (Kunal Khemu) an idealist chartered accountant in Mumbai, while and Raj Chopra (Paresh Rawal) is an idle film producer. They hatch a plan to raise money to produce a feature film and then actually make it for a pittance. They plot to make it so badly that audiences will reject it on the first day of its release. Anand and Raj believe this would give them a foolproof chance to decamp with the remaining invested funds. But Raj also has a hidden agenda. Things go haywire, so Raj makes Anand the fall guy and the latter ends up in jail.
As tables turn against Anand, he loses his job and his girlfriend, Neha (Soha Ali Khan), who refuses to marry a loser. Anand's squeaky-clean image goes for a toss and he decides to take revenge on Raj. Anand returns to Raj, and asks to join forces again. He insists that their master plan could still work out, only if they think much bigger. Anand explains to Raj how they can generate a whopping 105 crores from the stock market and then make their film with only 5 crores.
They begin working on their plan, and sign up Bollywood superstar Aryan Kapoor (Sonu Sood) at a token payment of three crores. Aryan is offered to act opposite his girlfriend, Riya (Hristita Bhatt), but she refuses. Raj then suggests Anand cast his girlfriend Neha, who has acting ambitions. Since they plan to make a flop film, Raj tells Anand that Neha will not only come back in his life, but also become dependent on him since her acting career will end after their film's disastrous fate. Anand agrees. Neha is thrilled to know that Anand is producing a film and that she is being cast opposite a big star.
Anand and Raj manage to make the film and release it deliberately alongside other big films that could overshadow theirs. Their plan seems to be right in track. But the film turns out to be a huge hit. Now the financiers and distributors are after Anand and Raj for their chunk of shares from the huge profit. Anand and Raj's problems multiply by the second.

Chandni Chowk to China

(Hindi: चाँदनी चौक टू चाईना, Urdu: چاندنی چوک ٹو چائنا) is a Hindi film which released on 16 January 2009. It is directed by Nikhil Advani and stars Akshay Kumar and Deepika Padukone in the lead roles, with Hindi cinema veteran Mithun Chakrabort and Hong Kong action cinema veteran Gordon Liu among the co-stars. In addition to being shot in China, many parts of the film were shot in Bangkok, Thailand, although some of the China scenes were shot in sets in the Shanghai Film Studio
Distributed in the U.S. and co-produced by Warner Bros. it is the third Bollywood movie made and distributed in partnership with a major Hollywood studio, following Sony's Saawariya (2007) and Walt Disney Pictures' animated feature Roadside Romeo (2008).It is Warner BrosPicture first Hindi film.
Sidhu (Akshay Kumar) is a lowly vegetable cutter at a roadside food stall in the Chandni Chowk section of Delhi. He longs to escape his dreary existence and looks for shortcuts with astrologers, tarot card readers, and fake fakirs, refusing to believe in himself despite his foster father Dada's (Mithun Chakraborty) best efforts. When two strangers from China claim him as a reincarnation of a war hero in the past and take him to China, Sidhu, thanks to devious translations by his con-man buddy Chopstick (Ranvir Shorey), believes he will be taken to an exotic land and feted as a hero. In actuality, the Chinese men want him to rid their Chinese village of the vicious smuggler Hojo (Gordon Liu).
Sidhu blissfully sets forth to China with Chopstick. Along the way he meets Sakhi (Deepika Padukone), the Indian-Chinese spokesmodel known as Ms. Tele Shoppers Media, or Ms. TSM, who is travelling to the land of her birth and of her presumed-dead [who is still alive] father and her twin sister, Suzy. Suzy, also known as the femme fatale Meow Meow, works for Hojo, not knowing Hojo tried to kill her father. Sidhu, through a series of lucky coincidences, initially manages to sidestep being beaten by Hojo's men, but Hojo eventually catches up with him and exposes him as the buffoon he really is. Hojo kills Dada, and a disgraced Sidhu, left for dead himself, vows revenge. He encounters an amnesiac vagrant who turns out to be former Police Chief Chiang (Roger Yuan), the father of Sakhi and Suzy. Chiang recovers his memory, with his Kung Fu skills still intact. Sidhu wishes to learn cosmo Kung Fu. Chiang takes Sidhu on as his apprentice, and after months of training, Sidhu sets off to defeat Hojo, free the village, reunite the sisters, and win Sakhi's love.