Shahrukh Seen Like Never Before 

In Karan Johar’s film ‘My Name Is Khan’, SRK will be seen like never before.

Karan Johar claims to have moved to a new level altogether with his film My Name Is Khan , which is a touching drama about a man who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome and becomes a terror suspect in the US because of his Muslim name.
The director says that in his entire career in Bollywood, he hasn’t made anything like this before.
“In all my 11 years as a filmmaker, I've never felt the experience to be so different. Content-wise ‘My Name Is Khan’ is diametrically opposite to whatever I've done in the past,” K-Jo is quoted by a news agency.
“And Shah Rukh plays a completely different human being...I've never directed that person before,” he added.

Amitabh Bachchan Unwell Again 

Cine icon Amitabh Bachchan is down with stomach pain much like the one he had in October last year.
The superstar arrived in Mumbai earlier this week from a trip to London. However, since the pain had returned even before he reached Mumbai, Amitabh Bachchan went straight to his doctor after landing in the city.
“I drove straight to my doctor on arrival late last night, and after some external physical examinations, I was subjected to CT scans this morning. The results do not show anything, but the trouble exists, albeit in a much smaller scale than the last time,” Bachchan wrote on his latest blog post.
Big B also cancelled his previously scheduled trip outside Mumbai on Wednesday. He doesn’t want to take any chances with his health.
“I would not want to get moving again and land up in unknown territory and end up in hospital. It’s disturbing to be in such state. Frustrating that despite extreme care, a repetition of this problem keeps occurring. So medications and rest have been the order of the day with a prayer that there be no further complications,” he wrote.
Big B gave his fans a scare last year when he was admitted to a Mumbai hospital on his birthday. The superstar underwent medical treatment for a few days and was discharged from the hospital after a few days. But he took a month long bed-rest before resuming work.


Kambakkht Ishq – Movie Review 

Kambakkht Ishq Not another dumb comedy from a man whose mere gummy grin and goofiness can leave you crackling with laughter! Akshay the repetitive Kumar, the winning stallion on whom Bollywood producers with bulgy wallets love to bet, is failed yet again by a raggedy script stitched with juvenile humour, sleazy dialogues and painfully kitschy melodrama.
The movie could be a litmus test for your LQ (laughter quotient). Sample this – the hero is detained at an airport for suspected possession of drugs. He’s taken to an interrogation room where an oversized black female smacks him face down on the table, pulls his pants down, puts on a glove on her hand, and looks for ‘hidden drugs’ in the hole that’s not hard to guess. Find that funny? Here’s more! Akshay’s sidekick Vindoo Dara Singh gulps down a protein shake mixed with Viagra and, his hormones stirred, begins to see the females at a wedding party in bras and bikinis. Not that funny? Check this out. The wedding party turns into a bash fest, with the guests punching, kicking (sometimes at objectionable places) each other and even farting. Cakes fly and land on the faces of the bride and the groom’s bro.
Even if you have stomach for this kind of humour, a visit to the theatre playing Kambakkht Ishq might leave you with an upset tummy, definitely not because of laughter.
The film is a fuhad farce about the battle of the sexes. Viraj ( Akshay Kumar ), a stuntman in Hollywood, thinks women are only good for making love. Simrita ( Kareena Kapoor ), a certified man-hater, thinks men want just one thing (not hard to guess, again) from women. The two are pitted against each other when Viraj’s brother Lucky ( Aftab Shivdasani ) and Simriti’s friend Kamini ( Amrita Arora ) get married. Both Viraj and Simriti don’t approve of the marriage and try to break the match.
From then on Viraj and Simriti keep bumping into each other – in airports and planes, in exotic Italian towns and in operation theatre in hospitals.
Director Sabbir Khan and his band of writers (Kiran Kotrial, Anvita Dutt Gupta, Ishita Mohitra) seem clearly clueless where to take the story so they keep spinning it in circles and throw in a couple of Hollywood faces like that of Sylvester Stallone, Denise Richards and Brandon Routh to flaunt to the audience how Bollywood has graduated from desi item babes to videshi atom bombs.
And having run out of the ration of gags, the director gives the story a few melodramatic twists in the end. Wow! That’s innovative! So we see Akshay giving emotional award-acceptance speeches and feeling the kick of his conscience when he gets the chance to bed Kareena. Ironically, it’s here, when the movie wants you to take kerchiefs out, that you laugh genuinely at the sheer foolishness of the kitschy sentimentality.
The brand of humour that dots ‘Kambakkht Ishq’ has already been exemplified. The less said about the music the better. The dialogues are so sleazy that you’ll keep shying away from the aunty sitting next to you. For the most part Akshay calls Kareena ‘bitch’ and she likewise calls him ‘dog’.
Among performances, only Akshay shows his characteristic sparkle here and there. He’s the one who makes the movie worth sitting through while Kareena, playing a surgeon part-timing as a model, overacts most of her part. Neither the anorexic Amrita Arora nor the brooding Aftab are funny. The same goes for Javed Jaffrey who hams through his role of a man looking for opportunities to mint money out of lawsuits. If only he could be sued for his terrible performance.
Last words – ‘Kambakkht Ishq’ may get footfalls in theatres but the film is a damned dead comedy. Watch this no-brainer at your own risk.


Don't call me lucky: Katrina 

Katrina Kaif Katrina Kaif feels belittled if someone calls her lucky because her films do well at box office.
Akshay Kumar may have run out of hit movies, but Katrina keeps delivering them one after the other. Now that her latest release New York is pulling crowds to theatres, the gorgeous gal is ecstatic. And she wants to be acknowledged for her work rather than luck.
“Saying I’m just lucky kind of annihilates all the hard work that I have put into my films,” she is quoted as saying in a media report.
Katrina said a film succeeds because of the labour put in by its director, actors, writer and the remaining team. To attribute the success to luck is to take away credit from the entire cast and crew.
After the failure of Yuvvraaj which she said was close to her heart (we know why), the beautiful actress is glad to have another hit film in her résumé. And she’s very optimistic that her upcoming films – Blue , Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani and Rajniti – too will fare well at theatres.