Shahid-Kareena's farewell Kiss!

You may call it an irony of fate. Finally a Shahid and Kareena film is getting good reviews but now the couple has drifited apart and moved on with their lives. The two also locked their lips for last time in Imtiaz Ali's Jab We Met which is touted to be their their last film together.

According to sources, the rift appeared mid-way through the making of ‘Jab We Met’. When Shahid and Bebo began shooting the film they used to be upbeat and inseparable on the sets.

Half way through the film they were not the same anymore. Shahid began keeping to himself while Kareena used to be busy on her cell phone.

However, sources say, the two actors never let their personal differences affect their work.

So when director Imtiaz Ali asked them to shoot a passionate kissing scene, the two did not show any reservations.

Members from the film’s crew say Shahid and Bebo had no difficulty in stoking up passion and giving a perfect kissing scene.

Now that's what we call true professionalism.

- SantaBanta.com

"We are not close right now" Kareena said

"We are not close right now" Kareena said, as a Non official source reported . This seems to be regarded as the begining of the spat between these two widely discussed stars in bollywood. The body chemistry seems to flourish on the eve of shooting of 'Tashan'. Their latest movie 'Jab We Met' is on doorsteps of release. Director was very upset with the news as it will impose negative effects on the public.

Sunny, Irrfan, Konkona in 'Right or Wrong'

Mukta Arts’ next venture in association with Ikkon Films P. Ltd.’s RIGHT OR WRONG, starring Sunny Deol, Irrfan Khan, Konkana Sen Sharma, Isha Koppikar, Kirron Kher, Aryan Vaid and Anjan Srivastava, started shooting from 5th September. The film is being written-directed by Neeraj Pathak.

Other credits include music by Monty Sharma, cinematography by Ravi Walia and costumes designed by Simple Kapadia. The film is slated for an early next year release.

Buddha Mar Gaya - Movie Review

Starring : Anupam Kher, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, Mahbanoo Mody-Kortwal, Rakhi Sawant
Directed by Rahul Rawail
Rating: None

Whose laash is it anyway? Decades ago Kundan Shah killed us with laughter in a comedy about a corpse that needed curious manoevering.

To his corny credit, Anupam Kher plays an inert deathly-still corpse in Rawail's feel-crude film as convincingly as Satish Shah did in Kundan Shah's film.

But the catchline 'You'll Die Laughing' is not really applicable in Buddha Mar Gaya…. one just dies of shock and shame watching the director of such modern classics as Arjun and Dacait plunge to unimaginable heights of infantile crudity.

The ensemble cast of this pitch-black comedy is devoid of all motivation except a searing self-serving greed. Every member of this multi-millionaire malfunctional family scoffs at all moral values and sniggers at finer sentiments.

In a sense Rawail's family's complete lack of innocence is in direct and devilish contrast to the family Sooraj Barjatya gave us in Hum Aapke Hain Koun and Hum Saath Hain.

Cunning, wicked, evil and vulgar, the family in Rahul Rawail's films spoofs the aesthetics of the archetypal Family Drama with a lingering appetite for red-hot crudity. It's hard for us to share their enthusiasm for the low life, specially when the dead man's grand -daughter performs an item song in front the corpse-pretending-to-be-alive.

The opera of the grotesque opens with the death of a tycoon (Kher) who dies while making love to the indefatigably saucy Rakhi Sawant. She eventually seduces and kills several other men from Vinay ( Bheja Fry) Pathak to Prem ('Mera Naam Hai Prem') Chopra.

What are all these talented actors doing in this over-heated over-cooked comedy of a disintegrated generation?

"What a glorious death. He came and went simulatenously, " says the dead man's grandson who finally turns out to be the dead man's son sired by the (now-dead) old man in lieu of his gay son (Mukesh Tiwari), secretly having an affair with the family godman (Om Puri) who's also doing it to the dead man's plump sister (Mohbanoo Mody-Kotwal, coming a long way off from her extraordinary 'Mrs Nair' act in Black).

By the time the cacophonic bump-and-grind satire creaks to a halt, you are looking at a film that makes a fashion statement out of anarchic iconoclasm.

By simply disregarding and rubbishing social institutions like the family nucleus and the rituals of death and mortality (Ranveer Shorey plays a cremation-ground broker who sells bodies to the 'needy') Buddha Mar Gaya attempts to give a tantalizing twist to the school of stripped-down satire.

But sorry, it isn't comic or cool to cut up the patriarch into pieces, literally.

This could be elected the one 'comedy' that tells you how not make a supposedly funny film. First of all, please don't convert the joint family into a circus of circumstantial irreverence…not if irreverence means anything from alternate sexuality to incestuous intentions.

Marigold - Movie Review

Cast: Salman Khan (Prem), Ali Larter(Marigold Lexton), Nandana Sen(Jaanvi), Helen, Suchitra Pillai, Ian Bohen (Barry), Shari Watson, Vikas Bhalla, Vijayendra Ghatge, Kiran Juneja, Gulshan Grover, Rakesh Bedi
Director: Willard Carroll

Marigold is a musical romantic comedy about a young American woman who travels to India.

There, she finds her life transformed in the most unexpected ways by her experiences and adventures.

Beautiful and bad-tempered American actress Marigold Lexton (Ali Larter) arrives in India with no luggage.

Stranded in Goa when finance for her low budget Hollywood movie falls apart, Marigold finds herself in a small role as part of a Bollywood musical.

Eager to prove herself, she enlists the aid of Prem (Salman Khan), the film's choreographer. Talented and hard working, Prem left his privileged life behind to follow his dreams.

After several heated arguments, during Marigold's dancing lessons, she experiences renewed confidence and growing love for Prem.

In rapid succession, Marigold discovers that Prem is not only descended from royalty but is about to have an arranged marriage to a beautiful Indian girl, Janvi (Nandana Sen).

Unable to deal with this development, Marigold angrily departs Prem's family estate. But she is urged back by Janvi who confesses that Prem doesn't love her and never will.

Another complication unfolds in the form of Marigold's boyfriend, Barry (Ian Bohen), who arrives unexpectedly in India and finds Marigold emotionally drained but still very much in love with Prem.

Does love ultimately triumph? Will Marigold and Prem ever be brought together? And what happens to Janvi and Barry? This romantic journey, pure Bollywood style has all the answers.

Kaisay Kahein - Movie Review

Starring: Rajveer and Neha Julka With Kunal Kumar, Aditi Govitrikar, Meghna Malik, Chavvi Mittal and Zarina Wahab
Music: Pritam
Directed by Mohit Hussein

Kaisay Kahein is a modern-day love story that pits romance against career. What happens when love breaks into the lives of two career-minded people?

Aditya (Rajveer) is a young banker with a bright future, but with no time for anything personal. That is till Radhika (Neha Jhulka) comes into his life.

A hardcore TV journalist devoted to her work, she meets Aditya during a sting operation. They fall in love, but the relationship is negotiated around their careers. Their professions remain priorities.

To keep their love alive, they decide to keep their personal lives separate from work.

But it's easier said than done, as love can't keep up with the erratic demands of their careers. Aditya can't leave his job and Radhika decides to take a much-awaited promotion that would take her away to another city.

Can love survive long-distance? Can Aditya and Radhika find the same passion in them as before?