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Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor to star in Ayan Mukerji’s next!

It is confirmed that Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor going to work in Ayan Mukerji’s next!

Rumours about Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor teaming up for a film have been doing the rounds for a while now. Just a few days back, we told you that the Highway starlet is likely to romance Jr Kapoor in Ayan Mukerji’s mythological superhero flick. And now the new has been confirmed by Karan Johar who will be producing the film under his banner. The talented filmmaker took to Twitter to announce this piece of information. He tweeted, “AYAN MUKERJI’s next for Dharma productions is slated to begin mid next year and release December 23rd,2016.

RANBIR KAPOOR and ALIA BHATT…” We are sure Mahesh Bhatt’s beti must be super happy coz the talented lass has been eagerly waiting to work with Ranbir Kapoor. Even Katrina Kaif’s beau recently made a statement saying he would love to work with Alia.

Saturday, 1 December 2012

Ranbir Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor in Karan Johar’s next?

Ranbir Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor in Karan Johar’s next?

Karan Johar’s period drama is likely to bring B-town’s glam cousins together on the big screen

Ever since the filmmaker announced directing a period drama next, after his youth rom-com Student Of The Year, there have been all kinds of stories doing the rounds regarding the film’s starcast. Firstly, it was news of Ranbir Kapoor sharing screen space with Shahrukh Khan; later rumours suggested that Ranbir has been finalized as the lead, while Karan’s close friend SRK not star in the film at all.

Now, if the latest goss is to be believed, the Dharma Productions’ head honcho has pulled off a casting coup of sorts. While SRK might not star in his close buddy’s film, Karan is considering Saif Ali Khan – not in place of SRK, sillies! In all probability, the Chote Nawab will play a very significant cameo, and might get to romance his real life begum Kareena Kapoor. While Ranbir’s leading lady has not been finalised yet, our alert birdie feels that there are chances of Ranbir and Kareena teaming up as brother and sister in the film. How smart, Karan! Remember how Zoya Akhtar too tried to get Ranbir and Kareena play siblings for her upcoming movie a few months ago.

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Will Barfi! be disqualified from the Oscar race?

The film might find passing the originality test of the Academy Awards jury next to impossible. Is there still any hope for it to win a trophy? Read on to find out…

Insiders say that when Mani Ratnam’s Nayagan starring Kamal Hassan was sent as India’s official entry to the Oscars in 1987, it was disqualified by the jury and did not make it to the nominations for Best Foreign Language Film because one scene in the film had uncanny similarities to the classic Hollywood flick The Godfather. But some believe that cannot have been the only reason.

This makes us wonder if Barfi which clearly has copied several scenes from classics like Singin’ In The Rain (1957) and Charlie Chaplin’s short The Adventurer (1917), should be sent for the Academy Awards, considering there is a big chance that it will not make it to the nominations.

Irrfan Khan has been quite vocal about how the Ranbir Kapoor-Priyanka Chopra-Ileana D’Cruz starrer is the wrong choice, for the same reason. “How can Barfi! stand a chance of making it to the nomination list of Oscars? In spite of knowing that few scenes from Barfi! have been copied, our film federation chose it over original. Only original films should be sent to the Oscars,” said Irrfan in an interview.

And Irrfan is probably right. The Academy Awards selection committee in India has chosen Barfi! as this year’s official entry from India, but it stands a great chance of being thrown out at the start because of the plagiarism charges that have already been heard dogging it. The negative buzz back in India won’t help it either.

What could probably save the movie is a written clarification at the beginning which says ‘Inspired from classics like Singing In The Rain, Charlie Chaplin’s The Adventurer and City Lights and The Notebook‘ or ‘A tribute to great cinema made by legends like Charlie Chaplin, Gene Kelly and Nick Casavetes, which inspired me to make Barfi! –Anurag Basu’.

But there are several more copied scenes, including from Mr Bean’s Holiday, Back To School, The Goonies, and more. So how many clarifications will UTV Motion Pictures manage to put in? And even if it is done, there is no guarantee that the film will pass the jury’s originality test.

On the other hand, there is still some hope for the film. Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist, which won the award for Best Picture this year is said to be inspired from several sources. The breakfast table montage in the movie was clearly lifted from Citizen Kane and the music took inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. In fact, The Artist is said to be a remake of the 1954 musical A Star Is Born, directed by George Cukor.

Leaving the objective principles of fair selection aside, if the jury believes that the artistic inspirations ofBarfi! are appropriate and the end product is marvellous, these copied elements may be condoned.Barfi! is definitely walking on thin ice. Perhaps that coveted statuette can save it from breaking through and drowning.

Saturday, 22 September 2012

Barfi! selected for Oscars

Barfi! selected for Oscars

The Anurag Basu film will be sent as India’s official entry to the Academy Awards 2013

The Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and Ileana D’Cruz starrer Barfi! that released last week has been named India’s official entry to next year’s Oscars. It’s a big victory for this Anurag Kashyap film as it beat 19 other films – including Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Paan Singh Tomar, Soojit Sircar’s Vicky Donor and Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani – to get selected for the Academy Awards 2013.

Barfi! revolves around a happy-go-lucky deaf and mute character played by Ranbir, who falls in love with an autistic girl played by Priyanka Chopra. Ileana makes her Bollywood debut with this movie.

The film has music by Pritam Chakraborty. The heartwarming romantic comedy won over the critics and the audience, and has already earned over Rs 60 crore at the box office. Let’s wait and watch if the film that has been loved in India manages to impress the Oscar jury to get into the final five!

Thursday, 20 September 2012

Barfi! Has Excellent Weekend

Barfi! Has Excellent Weekend

Barfi had an excellent weekend of around 34 crore nett as per early estimates. The film opened very well at multiplexes on Friday and the multiplexes which opened lower jumped huge either on Saturday and Sunday. By Sunday the film was doing well all over apart a from a few single screen dominated areas.

The film was released on around 1300 screens on 700 theatres and these collections are phenomenal for such a release. The occupancies were huge at multiplexes with houses running at capacity or near capacity. Other big openers are being released on 2500 screens nowadays with likes of Ek Tha Tiger even going close to 3500 screens.

The trending on the weekend suggests it will hold up very well on Monday as multiplexes will see very strong collections. The weekend has emerged the biggest for a Ranbir Kapoor starrer edging out the multi-starrer Raajneeti which collected in the 33 crore nett range.

Friday, 14 September 2012

Barfi! Has Strong Start At Multiplexes

Barfi! Has Strong Start At Multiplexes

Barfi had a strong start at multiplexes all over. The film opened to 80% collections in Delhi city, Kolkata was fantastic with 90% and even Jaipur collections were 70%. Smaller centres like Meerut and Moga also managed excellent collections in the morning shows.

The single screens will open lower but the releases is very limited with just 300 odd single screens with most of the screen space in multiplexes.

The biggest opening for a solo Ranbir Kapoor starrer till date is just under 10 crore nett of Ranbir Kapoor and the chances are there that Barfi! could match or even beat it on the strength of business at multiplexes.