First Look : Vikalp

Entertainment

Release Date

January 7, 2011

Genre

Thriller

Producer

Parmeshwar Vyas

Subhash Dudani

Keshar K. Shinde

Director

Sachin P. Karande

Star Cast

Deepal Shaw

Alok Nath

Chetan Pandit

Nirmal Pandey

Abhijeet Lehiri

Pankaj Berry

Akshay Singh

Onkar Shinde

Jyoti Joshi

Abhay Joshi

Music Director

Dev Sikhdar

Vijay Narayan

Story / Writer

Vishal Vijay Kumar

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All you wanted to know about 'Tees Maar Khan'

After delivering two blockbusters namely Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om, Farah Khan is back with her third directorial venture Tees Maar Khan. The film re-unites the super-hit jodi of Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. Ever since the first promo was out, it has been quite the hot topic of discussion. The music of the film especially the 'Sheila Ki Jawani' track is already topping all the popularity charts.

With Tees Maar Khan having a grand Christmas release on Dec 24, we at Bollywood Hungama bring you all that you wanted to know about the film in this exclusive section. Enjoy!

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Movie Review Hide and Seek

'Hide & Seek' - This whodunit in mall works (IANS Film Review; Rating:**1/2)

By Subhash K. Jha

Film: "Hide & Seek";

Cast: Purab Kohli, Arjan Bajwa, Mrinalini Sharma, Samir Kochhar, Amruta Patki, Ayaz Khan;

Director: Shawn Arranha;

Rating: ** 1/2

So whodunit? Put a bunch of assorted men and women into a shopping mall not to shop, but to get bumped off. And voila, the whodunit takes the characters to shop until they drop, one by one.

There's a Santa Claus with a hatchet in hand running around the deathly-still, sparkling clean but eerie mall. The polished surfaces of the mall glisten with a glorious promise of gore. This, we've got to see.

Luckily, the unravelling of the mystery of the murderous mall is not a disappointment. "Hide & Seek" packs in a punch.

Srikant Saroj's camera stalks the corridors with a restless energy. The whole project seems to have been conceived and designed so that an emptied-out shopping mall could be used as a venue for some hardcore scares.

Once the six friends-turned-enemies are clamped shut in the mall, the plot thickens in rapid fire motions. The characters, including a north Indian-hating Marathi politician, played rather loudly by Arjan Bajwa, and a nerd-turned-filmstar played by Ayaz Khan, create a stifling circle of tension, some of it palpable, others pale.

On the whole, the mayhem-in-the-mall holds together.

On occasions, the characters are driven into postures of terror more by exterior forces rather than by a genuine sense of plotting urgency. The most heart-in-the-mouth moments feature debutante Amruta Patki caught alone in a movie theatre and later cowering in a ladies toilet as 'Santa with the axe' stalks her down the washroom.

So what's "Hide & Seek" really about? Is it about six high school friends who once got caught in a party plastered with jealousy, intrigue, rape and murder? Or is it just mayhem in a mall caught on a camera that knows how to zig-zag through the serpentine corridors?

Either way, the film offers interesting possibilities of high anxiety. Debutant director Shawn Arranha displays skill and control in the way the individually aggravated characters are kept in check when they come in contact with one another.

The performances are enthusiastic, Purab Kohli being particularly interesting to watch as a mentally disturbed young man who thinks love is just a wish away.

Some of the acting does get over-the-top although the director seems to avoid excess as much as he can in a film belonging to genre where gore is glory.

Grant the film a few extra points for inventiveness. Also, the 'slash-and-maim' quotient is minimal. And the end-game where we the audience are played with as much wicked relish as the characters, is the kind of twist amateur whodunits revel in.

For an evening of chills, this one is sufficiently equipped. But don't look for too much more in the haunted shopping mall than meets the eye.

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Movie Preview: Acid Factory

Our memory is the source of all emotions. It is also the source of our guilt. What if a killer would wake up one day with his memory erased? Would his crimes cease to exits? What if an innocent wakes up one with his memory erased and perceives himself to be a criminal? Would that change his perception of reality?

Faltering memory continually alters the constancy of truth. Short term memory loss denies you of an identity throwing you into an abyss of excruciating agony.

Acid Factory is about a group of characters whose sense of past has vanished in a haze of coma like they have woken up from sleep only to discover that reality could be a figment of their imagination.

Their sense of right or wrong is heightened by this state of complete distrust and self-righteousness. As the story reveals through the hazy mist of confusion confounded by loss of memory, the audience is just shown the tip of the iceberg.

A high-octane thriller where every second counts and every flash of your past is either a step towards realization of the true self or the horror of the discovery of who you really are. And then the games begin as our characters start to create stories just so that they can stay in the right but what if a roomful of people realize the majority is evil?

Wouldn't your instinct of survival dictate you to renounce yourself to evil to survive? Acid Factory plays out as a thriller, a morality play on the inside and a cat and mouse chase on the outside.

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On sets: Ajab Prem Ki Gajab Kahani in Pune

Ranbir kapoor and Katrina Kaif were in Pune on 3rd of March for the shooting of their film Ajab Prem ki Gajab Kahani.

They were shooting for a song of this movie in Cybercity in Magarpatta City Pune.

The shooting of this film has been done in various places like Goa, Ooty, Turkey, Mumbai and now in Pune.The film is comedy with a romantic touch. In this film for the first Katrina Kaif will be seen romancing with Ranbir.The film is directed by Rajkumar Santoshi. Its also said that Salman Khan is also making small appearance in the film.

The film will release sometime in June-July, 2009.

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Movie Preview: Aa Dekhen Zara

By Bollywood Hungama News Network

Ray Acharya (Neil Nitin Mukesh), a struggling photographer has nothing going for him... until he inherits a very 'special' camera from his grandfather which changes his life in a way that he could not have imagined in his wildest dreams.

The 'power' of the camera changes Ray's destiny overnight. His life becomes one big roller coaster ride that takes him from rags to riches and also helps him meet the love of his life, Simi (Bipasha Basu) who is an exciting sexy DJ with a mind of her own. Everything is hunky dory and moving towards 'happily ever after'.

As they say with great power comes great responsibility and in Ray's case, also great danger. He must now face up to the dark side of reality and win not only against the evil forces but also against fate.

Aa Dekhen Zara is a fast-paced, romantic musical thriller with some great edge of the seat action.

Can Ray change his date with fate? Aa Dekhen Zara.

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