Apne - A Movie Review

Cast: Sunny Deol, Dharmendra, Bobby Deol, Shilpa Shetty, Katrina Kaif, Kirron Kher, Victor Banerjee, Aryan Vaid
Director: Anil Sharma

Baldev Choudhary (Dharmendra) is an ex-boxer who has never achieved his dream of becoming a champion during his boxing career. This was mainly due to lack of financial support. So now he wants to fulfil his ambitions through his son, Angad's (Sunny Deol) success.

Though Angad pulled through fine, Baldev never forgot who ruined his chance of becoming a winner. Soon, an opportunity arrives for Baldev in the form of a television show.

He is supposed to train a local lad to get into this media hyped boxing show. But he is ditched for a better coach at the last minute.

Baldev's younger son Karan (Bobby Deol) has just launched his first music album. Seeing his father in trouble, he gives up his musical career and decide to take up boxing.

Karan works very hard and wins all the competitions to international levels.

But during his boxing match with the current world heavyweight champion, Karangets hurt.

He ends up paralyzed in a hospital bed. Baldev, who once wanted to achieve his life long ambition, is now about to loose his son.

He feels like killing himself. Angad steps in to turn the game upside down and bring his father the happiness of a lifetime in this touching drama.

Apne sees the all three Deols on the screen for the very first time.

Akshaye Khanna's Salsa dance in 'NAQAAB'

Producer Ramesh Turani and Kumar S Turani of Tips Film is coming with their most shocking thriller of the year,' Naqaab', very soon. This film cast consists of Akshaye Khanna, Bobby Deol and debutant model cum actor Urvashi Sharma.

Though it is a musical thriller the interesting part is director Abbas Mustan and the Taurani brothers have decided to keep a salsa dance in this film.

This dance will be performed by Akshaye Khanna and newcomer Urvashi Shrama. Earlier the talented Akshaye didn't get a chance to show his dancing skill to any of his films but this time he has got a chance to show his talent as a dancer.

Choreographer Raju Khan has been choreographed this dance sequence. According to Raju Khan, Akshaye Khanna has a flexible body so it was not so difficult for him to train him to get the steps right.

Before the final take both the actors has done few rehearsals to perform the best on screen. Salsa is an extremely sensual dance genre that needs a certain chemistry and comfort level between the pair. And choreographer Raju khan was extremely happy to see both the actors performing salsa so comfortably.

After the success of 'Humraaz' Bobby Deol and Akshaye Khanna will be seen together again in Naqaab.' Humraaz' was also a thriller which was critically acclaimed by almost everybody.

This time Akshaye Khanna is again doing a thriller not only that he is pretty excited about the newcomer Urvashi Sharma too. According to him Urvashi is having a professional attitude and she is an interesting part of this movie.

Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007)

Movie Information
Movie Name : Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Year of Release : 2007
Release Date : 15 June 2007
Banner : Yash Raj Films
Presenter : Yash Chopra
Producer : Aditya Chopra

Director : Shaad Ali
Cast : Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Bobby Deol, Lara Dutta
Music Director : Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Lyricist : Gulzar
Cinematographer : Ayananka Bose
Dialogue Writer : Habib Faisal
Screenplay Writer : Habib Faisal
Editor : Ritesh Soni
Art Director : Sukant Panigrahy
Costume Designer : Aki Narula
Sound Designer : Rishi Oberoi
Background Sound : Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Choreographer : Vaibhavi Merchant
Playback Singer : Shankar Mahadevan, Neeraj Shridhar, Alisha Chinai, Zubeen Garg, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Mahalakshmi Iyer, Vishal Dadlani, Vasundhara Das, Sukhwinder Singh
Publicity Designer : Fayyaz Badruddin, Yash Raj Films - Design Cell

Synopsis :

Busy London station. Delayed train from Birmingham. Two strangers waiting for the train... Rikki Thukral (Abhishek Bachchan) born in Bhatinda, living in London; and Alvira Khan (Preity Zinta) more Brit than the Queen herself, however with Lahori blood in her veins. Crowded café. One table to share. Two hours to kill. Perfect setting for the start of a love-story. Hitch? Both Rikki and Alvira are engaged and have come to pick up their fiancés who are coming by the same train. To kill time, they end up telling each other their “how I met my fiancé” stories. Rikki met his fiancé Anaida (Lara Dutta) at The Ritz (Paris), the same night that Princess Diana and Dodi walked out of the hotel and into the paparazzi. As Rikki says, “When two lovers die, another two are a born”. They dance... they sing... they're in love! Alvira, a princess by nature discovers her prince at Madame Tussaud’s. When a gigantic wax model of Superman falls from the ceiling, Alvira is a sitting target. But Steve the Prince (Bobby Deol), a lawyer by profession saves her life but steals her heart! They also sing, they also dance and they also fall in love...Stories unfold, time passes, the two strangers start enjoying each other. That Alvira is a Pakistani Brit and Rikki originally from India... that Rikki is crooked, earthy, and rakish: dabbler in various businesses; that Alvira is prim-n-proper, wannabe blue-blood, stiff upper-lip: Asst. Manager at House of Fraser’s... none of these details matter. They have gotten alarmingly attracted to each other!Their brief encounter has created a complicated quadrangle... Rikki Thukral and Alvira Khan have gotten themselves and Steve and Anaida into a lovely mess... To get out of it both of them bend over backward, thinking quickly on their feet, dancing around each other’s emotions... After all when you’re playing musical chairs with love, there’s nothing you can do but... Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (Dance Baby Dance)!