Salman Khan Takes Tubelight to Manali

Salman Khan and Team Tubelight will shoot in Manali for four weeks

                                        On Saturday, actor Salman Khan reached Manali in Himachal Pradesh for the shoot of Kabir Khan's movie Tubelight, revealed an official. 

Besides shooting at Naggar, known for its quaint old houses, the film will have scenes of the majestic Rohtang Pass, the gateway to Lahaul-Spiti, and Solang Nullah, a government official told IANS. 

He said the film crew would stay here for four weeks.

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Earlier, the second schedule of Tubelight was to begin in the Kashmir Valley, but it was deferred owing to prevailing unrest there, an insider said. 

In July, the film was shot in Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir. 

A large crowd gathered at Bhuntar airport near Kullu town to receive Salman, who was wearing a Himachali cap. 

dham, a traditional community feast being organised by state Rural Development Minister Anil Sharma to felicitate his daughter-in-law and son. 

Arpita married Aayush, the grandson of former telecom minister Sukhram, on November 18, 2014. 

Don't Breathe 

• Genre:
  Thriller, Horror
• Cast:
  Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto
• Director:
  Fede Alvarez
• Three friends in Detroit break into a blind man's home for what they think will be easy cash in the tense thriller Don't Breathe. Fede Alvarez, who directed the 2010 remake of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead, effectively sets up a brutal cat-and-mouse game; the problem is that sometimes you don't know who to root for.
• The criminals are not completely unsympathetic. Alex (Dylan Minette) seems like he might have a conscience, but he still helps his friends break into rich people's houses, using information from his father's security company. Rocky (Jane Levy) has a terrible home life, and dreams of running away to California with her little sister to escape their abusive mother. Money (Daniel Zovatto) has no apparent redeeming qualities, gleefully leaving personal bodily fluids behind at one of the houses they break into.
  
  Although Alex usually makes sure his friends don't steal so much that they'd be convicted of grand larceny if caught, the thieves learn of a huge target: a blind Iraq War veteran (Stephen Lang) may be sitting on the $300,000 cash settlement he won after his daughter was run over by a car. This could be their ticket out of the city. But their intended victim is not nearly as helpless as he seems.
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• Despite the violence, the real horror of Don't Breathe may be the sense of futility that all its characters feel, whether or not they can see.
  

            Yea Toh Two Much Ho Gayaa 

CAST:Jimmy Shergill, Arbaaz Khan, Pooja Chopra, Bruna Abdullah

DIRECTION:Anwer Khan

GENRE:Comedy




STORY: Acting on instinct, Mann bashes up a guy who eve-teases his girlfriend. Unfortunately, the guy turns out to be the younger brother of a gangster in Thailand. Will Mann suffer the same fate or will luck favour him? 

REVIEW: Scenic locales, beautiful ladies, comedy and action; Yea Toh Too Much Ho Gayaa (YTTMHG) has everything that goes into making an entertainer. Yet, it doesn't really entertain.

AKIRA AKIRA

                                        AKIRA

• Action-Thriller
• Cast:
  Sonakshi Sinha, Anurag Kashyap, Konkona Sen Sharma, Amit Sadh
• Director:
  A R Murugadoss

SPOILERS ALERT

Sonakshi Sinha is an eye-catching action star and director-turned-actor Anurag Kashyap evil incarnate in A R Murugadoss' intriguingly titledAkira. Both pull off their roles with astonishing aplomb.

The film as a whole is, however, patchy. Its facile genre sleights - rogue cops, wronged innocents and bloody confrontations - hit home only sporadically. 


Despite pitchforking a kickass female protagonist into the spotlight, and also writing an upright cop role for an actress (Konkona Sen Sharma), Akira does not seem as radical a commercial Hindi film as one might expect it to be.

Hindi movie fans have seen action dramas aplenty about the police-underworld nexus. In Akira, a cynical segment of the police force is itself the underworld. 

But, for all its aggressive shots at trying to be different, the film plays out as no more than a crime drama in which an aggrieved protagonist fights tooth and nail against forces that might get away with murder if the former does not intervene. 

There is obviously no suggestion in the screenplay that the heroine's deaf-mute father (Atul Kulkarni in a special appearance) was ever a Kurosawa fan.

Nor does the director's approach to the supercharged crime drama reveal any stylistic traits that might please those that have been weaned on the Japanese cinema legend's timeless masterpieces. 

To put all speculation at rest, the film informs the audience right at the outset that Akira is a Sanskrit world that means "graceful strength". It then proceeds to spell out exactly who embodies it. 

The heroine of the film is Akira Sharma (Sonakshi Sinha), a college student who is sucked into a violent conflict with four Mumbai policemen spearheaded by a vicious, cocaine-snorting assistant commissioner of police, Govind Rane (Anurag Kashyap).

Akira is taken away to a remand home for children. Misfortune follows her even after the move to Mumbai, where she runs into a snarky sister-in-law, a bully at the college and, of course, the quartet of cops who want to eliminate her.

They succeed in packing her off to a mental asylum where the presiding psychiatrist declares her insane. 

But Akira is obviously no pushover. The film is replete with action sequences in which the heroine has a go at groups of men double her size and comes up trumps.

Several women, including the ACP's mistress, are subjected to extreme indignity and violence in the course of the film. So, Akira also has a heavily pregnant policewoman Rabiya Sultan (Konkona Sen Sharma), who steadfastly follows the leads that could bring the wrongdoers to book.



While she treads the path of law, Akira is left to resort to her own rough and ready methods in the fight for justice.

It is all rather contrived. Akira is a natural do-gooder who happily lends a helping hand to those that need it.

In one scene, she is invited by the college principal to deliver a speech. A group of trouble-makers among the students mess up the sound system. Undeterred, Akira alights from the stage and addresses a group of deaf-mute school students with the help of sign language.

Akira is no breakthrough for women power in Hindi cinema. The heroine is actually only a female version of the swaggering supermen played on the big screen by the likes of Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar. 

She might be far daintier and slighter built, but there is absolutely nothing that is beyond her. 

She suffers a lot on account of her courage, but her invincibility is never in doubt. And that robs the film of any real possibility of springing any real surprises. 

Kidaari

kidaari  

Nikhila Vimal eyes Sasi with a romantic intention. Their love story doesn’t hamper the proceedings in any manner. It is sort of a minor achievement as a film such as this could have, without doubt, gone down as an average outing had the romance portion disrupted the flow of narration. A strong character is essayed by Suja Varunee. She is both: a scheming vamp, and a poor mother. It’s hard to sympathize with her as what she does to take revenge against Ramamoorthy and Sasi baffles us. Her character will turn into a point of discussion in the future for sure.

Prasath has to be given a few pats on the back for giving tough and wonderful sketches to all his characters. Even minor characters make a mark. Sample this: an old man keeps talking about his ‘disciple’kidaari. It works neatly as a comic relief. 

savitri

STORY: A contemporary adaptation of Hindu mythological tale of Satyavan and Savitri (found in Mahabharata), the film revolves around Savitri (Niharica Raizada), a loyal and devoted wife, who can go to any extent to save her husband Satya (Rajat Barmecha) from the clutches of death, even if it requires her to negotiate with Yama (Om Puri plays the God of death). 

REVIEW: Savitri grows up to be a 'warrior' after a childhood memory scars her for life. She decides to learn martial arts in order to protect herself and her family. She falls in love with Satya and wishes to marry him but a Hindu pandit opposes the decision. "Your husband will die if you marry him," he warns. Without paying heed, she gets married to Satya and moves to the U.S, where he resides. But a chain of unfortunate events posing a threat to her husband and father-in-law's (Gulshan Grover) lives follow, forcing her to unleash the fighter within her. 

CAST:Niharica Raizada, Rajat Barmecha, Om Puri, Gulshan Grover

DIRECTION:Param Gill

GENRE:Drama
























 

Weekend

STORY: Seven friends go on a trip to Goa. After a night of hard partying, one of them is found dead, another one unconscious and the rest missing. Thus begins a whodunit story. 

REVIEW: Pitched as a thriller, the film opens as an attempt to shed light over crimes in Goa and takes a fictitious course soon after. But it does take references from criminal activities that brought the state in news. 


After celebrating a friend's birthday and some drunken brawls amongst themselves, seven friends retire for the night. The next morning, Lakshya (Hariharan), one of the seven, is found unconscious on the beach. During the course of further investigation, the police learn that another person from the group is found dead in the hotel but the remaining ones are nowhere to be found. The case is handed to 'super-cop' Ali Ansari (Malhotra) and Lakshya is the prime suspect. As the investigation proceeds, missing pieces of the puzzle start falling in place. Meanwhile, Lakshya convinces Ansari of his innocence but the chance arrest of a drug-lord (Bhattacharya) puts onus back on the lad. 

Missing on a Weekend tries to build up, a la The Usual Suspects style. It succeeds in keeping you hooked for a while but soon gets predictable. In the process, it ends up looking like a long episode of a desi crime series. Unnecessary item songs, repetitive dialogues and shoddy editing make it a tardy watch. Plus, there are several loopholes that are left unattended to. 

For a film that banks on a fresh crop of actors, there's little to look forward to in terms of performances. Karan (who is singer Hariharan's son) shows some spark but the rest of the new cast urgently needs to take acting lessons. Malhotra, a seasoned actor, who has delivered memorable performances in Black Friday and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag to name a few, plays the brooding, tough cop convincingly. 

AKIRA

The film sees Sonakshi as an ‘action star’. But will it make an impact on the audience? Here’s our Akira movie review.

Director: AR Murugadoss
Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Anurag Kashyap, Konkona Sen Sharma, Amit Sadh, Atul Kulkarni

About 20 minutes into Sonakshi Sinha’s Akira, there’s a protest sequence in front of the Asiatic Steps in Mumbai. The sequence encompasses all the elements from a college protest – a mob of students, a few havaldars, a nostril-flaring sub-inspector animatedly yelling into the walkie-talkie about how he needs tear gas, stones, and finally a gunshot that disperses the crowd. As the crowd is dispersed, we see Sonakshi Sinha (the hero) still seated in the middle of a now-deserted road. She walks towards the cops in slow-motion with heavily distorted electric guitars blazing in the background.

a flying jatt

TIGER'S SUPER-SOFT SUPERHERO POWERS A FLYING JATT! 

STORY: Aman fears heights, dogs and industrialist Malhotra who sends merciless Raka to grab Aman's land - but what happens when Aman discovers his own superhuman powers? Can he defeat Raka - and the power behind him? 

REVIEW: So, straight away, the best thing about A Flying Jatt is the fumbling Jatt played by Tiger Shroff. Wicked industrialist Malhotra (Kay Kay) wants Aman's family's lands, which hold a sacred tree, for his polluting industries. Aman's mother, Mrs. Dhillon (Amrita), ferociously opposes Malhotra - but Aman quakes before him, intimidated by most things on earth, including his own martial arts students. 

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Can Aman ever stand up to Malhotra and his huge henchman Raka (Nathan) - and can he fight his own fears? 

Tiger does a neat job as Aman, shivering superhero who fights crime but also buys 'do kilo lauki' on the way home. Tiger's evolution, from a kind but confused kid on the block, to a focused and fierce fighter, comes across well as do the film's light moments, including Aman as 'Sunny Leone'. Amrita Singh, literally playing a Tiger Mom, displays feisty panache, berating her son for having 'dole-shole, no jigra', delivering wisdom with slaps and guzzling drinks galore. The banter between her, Tiger and Aman's fun-loving brother Rohit (Gaurav) is fresh good fun. 

Sadly, as Aman's love interest Kriti, Jacqueline adds little zing to this party - her role consists of grinning incessantly and delivering mystifying dialogues ("I like karate - it's like, so, hah!") in an accent that reminds you - with longing - of Katrina Kaif. Kay Kay is much too leashed - despite his ability, Malhotra's malevolence simply doesn't ooze through. As Raka, who literally enjoys toxic power, Nathan Jones growls, grunts and grins in a manic sort of way. These don't make him scary - just cartoonish. 

And there lies the trouble with A Flying Jatt - the full, stark shebang of a superhero versus super-dark powers never comes through. The villains remain cardboard cut-outs and the clash grows predictable. These thrills don't chill. On the upside, for children, A Flying Jatt provides clean entertainment - with its innocence, it evokes more Haathi Mere Saathi and less cool-cat Krrish. The film takes off only because of its simplicity - a flying jatt who's afraid of heights, a rarity in dark times of Udta Punjabs.

akira

STORY: Akira Sharma (Sonakshi Sinha) is your average Jane from Jodhpur. Early in life she sees an atrocity committed on a neighbour and learns to defend herself. And, a spitfire is born. 

REVIEW: Our screen ki Akira is Khan, Kumar and Kapoor rolled into one. She punches and defends better than most khiladis. Her progressive, school-teacher father, Atul Kulkarni had her enrolled in karate classes instead of dance classes that girls her age frequented. But Akira learns that a Durga avatar cannot help you fight a regressive society and corrupt administration. So instead of being given a medal of honour for trying to save someone early in life, she is sent to a remand home. Not only does she lose three precious years of her life; she also loses her doting father.