Sunny Leone's Ragini MMS 2: first teaser out

The first teaser of Sunny Leone-starrer Ragini MMS 2 is out.

The Ekta Kapoor's film is a sequel to the 2011 horror movie that featured Kainaz Motivala and Raj Kumar Yadav. Directed by Bhushan Patel, the teaser of the film promises a chilling treat.

This will be Sunny Leone's second venture in Bollywood after Jism 2.

Talking about the film, Tanuj Garg, CEO of Balaji Films said, "We will take the story forward from where part one left off. Those who haven’t seen that film will also be able to enjoy it, as it will be explained in the beginning. It’s a spook fest; it’s got sensuousness, drama and Sunny Leone."

Ragimi MMS 2 is slated for release on January 17, 2014.

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Horror Story movie review

Star cast: Karan Kundra, Nishant Malkani, Ravish Desai, Hasan Zaidi, Aparna Bajpai, Radhika Menon, Nandini Vaid, Sheetal Singh

Director: Ayush Raina

The film is laden with spookily created jarring sounds and successfully builds the fearsome aura.

The film is heavily inspired from flicks like The Exorcist along with the climax turning into a bhoot-fair of sorts!

Vikram Bhatt’s expertise over the genre is impressionable but Horror Story isn’t the best of his work. The film uses too many ideas from popular films like The Ring and lacks tremendously on elaborating the writer’s imaginative bent! It is a brazenly written, uninspired work lacking originality and freshness. You can easily give this one a miss unless you are desperate to scare yourself, in which case I assure you, the film will need a great deal of effort from your side to numb you off!

The film begins with a man walking up Hotel Grandiose into Room No. 3046 and jumping off the building. The story swiftly cuts to a nightclub where a bunch of friends are gulping down shots to bid farewell to one of their closest buddies. News flashes show that the Hotel is shutting down for good, and that’s when spooky stories about the haunted place unspools to the gang!

The friends in a gusto of being foolhardy decide to go check out the place. Like luck would have the property is indeed haunted by a witch who wouldn’t stand anyone loitering around there. The friends are soon pinned down by the paranormal intervention as each of them will have to pay for entering the haunted land!

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Grand Masti movie review

The makers of Grand Masti have been promoting the film as an adult comedy so we obviously can't blame them for the non-stop adult humour in it but what we can and should blame them for are a lot of other loopholes.

 

Grand Masti, as we know, is the sequel to the 2004 hit movie Masti. As the opening scene shows college students Amar, Meet and Prem (Ritesh Deshmukh, Vivek Oberoi and Aftab Shivdasani respectively) are teaching their juniors how to have a good time at college. So when they say 'A stands for', the camera zooms into the girls' backside and there is a montage of tight close up of girls wearing hot pants and even lesser. As soon as the point is loud and clear they move on to the letter 'B' and the director focuses on the women's chest. The opening scene sets the ball rolling and makes it clear as to what one can expect in the next two hours ten minutes. Once out of college, Amar, Meet and Prem are married and well, not having a good sex life. So their only hope is the reunion at their college SLUTS, of course the full form is something else, 'Shree Lalchand University of Technology and Science'. Back in the campus, the three boys are chasing three hot women whose names are Rose, Mary and Marlowe of course pronounced as 'Roz Meri Maarlo'!

We knew what to expect from the posters and promos but the problem here is that the humour is cheap and forced. The makers have not just gone too far but they have scrapped the bottom of the barrel to dig out the cheapest possible double meaning jokes. Throughout the film, the close up of private parts, male and female both, leaves you disgusted.

Funny and Cheap are two different things, this one is definitely the latter!

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John Day movie review

John Day does a few things right. It stars the venerable Naseeruddin Shah in his best performance since Sona Spa. It is a straight up revenge thriller without any songs to interrupt the flow. It’s shot in some locations that have seldom, if not never been used in Bollywood thrillers. Some of the dialogues are good. We’ve now reached the end of the rosy section of this review.

What really destroys the film is that even in the final hour it never feels like anything is at stake. The climactic scene falls completely limp because the story never makes you care about anything that’s going on.

Incomplete, boring and confusing comes easily to the mind when describing the film. All in all, a bland thriller. One can't help but think that Naseeruddin's character John Day is similar to the role he played in 'A Wednesday'. While in 'A Wednesday' he played the common man taking a stand against the system and correcting a few wrongs, in 'John Day' he plays a man who has his own reasons to do what he does.

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Krrish 3 full song Raghupati Raghav

After watching the teaser of Raghupati Raghav from Rakesh Roshan’s Krrish 3, we were restlessly looking forward to seeing the full song featuring the Greek God, Hrithik Roshan’s fabulous dance moves. What Roshan junior brings to the dance floor is refreshing and he keeps getting better and better.

So when we saw Duggu’s full song, it was a feeling of deja vu – especially the set up and the theme –celebration! Remember, we have seen the dancing star doing something similar in the first installment of the Krrish franchise – Koi Mil Gaya where he impressed his girlfriend Preity Zinta? In the Krrish 3 song, the Agneepath actor is seen wooing Priyanka Chopra who’s truly awestruck by Roshan’s moves

 

 

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Will The Lunchbox be India’s official entry to the Oscars?

It seems that Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchox continues to leave the audiences awestruck with its unusual storyline and brilliant performances by its actors. Looking at the reactions to the film, the Irrfan Khan-Nimrat Kaur-Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer is being looked upon as an Oscar favourite by some of the critics from both Bollywood as well as Hollywood.

Michael Moore, an Oscar-winning filmmaker tweeted that The Lunchbox was one of his favourite films at Telluride Film Festival.

While bestselling author Salman Rushdie tweeted: “I loved The Lunchbox, big hit at Telluride Film Festival, best Indian film in a long time. Strong foreign film Oscar contender, in my view.”

Film critic Aseem Chhabra also couldn’t stop praising the film. “Looking at how people at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals have reacted to The Lunchbox, I think that film has a good chance of being nominated for the Oscars. It has all the right elements that would make it appeal to the Academy. I don’t have a crystal ball, and there many other good Indian films in 2013.But I think India’s chances appear stronger with The Lunchbox,” he said in an interview.

The Lunchbox has been successful in garnering critical acclaim way before its release. The film will release in India on September 20.

 

 

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Chennai Express collects Rs 225.67 cr till fifth Monday

The Shah Rukh Khan-Deepika Padukone starrer Chennai Express has raked in Rs 225.67 crore till the fifth Monday. The film has turned out to be one of the most successful films ever in Indian cinema.

Trade analyst and film critic tweeted, “#ChennaiExpress [Week 5] Fri 23 lacs, Sat 29 lacs, Sun 41 lacs, Mon 31 lacs. Grand total: Rs 225.67 cr net”.

The collections of Chennai Express have proven to be a historical hit at box office and now it becomes the highest grosser ever in India and worldwide. The action-comedy film is also maintaining a good business in the overseas markets and has become the 3rd biggest grosser in overseas circuits.

Taran also tweeted the overseas collection of the Shah Rukh Khan starrer, “#ChennaiExpress *total till Sunday* UK £ 2,140,294 [Rs 21.84 cr], USA-Canada $ 5,220,926 [Rs 33.51 cr], Australia A$ 798,880 [Rs 4.78 cr]”.

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