First Look : SRK's Happy New Year Poster Released

The first poster of "Happy New Year" Shah Rukh Khan's next venture is out now. The poster looks fun and we feel that it is mostly similar to what Prabhudeva's R...Rajkumar posters if one may say so. The animated feel seems to be the click of Bollywood now.

Produced by SRK's Red Chillies, the movie will see the reunion of SRK and Farah Khan. They had a mid time crisis which resented SRK from doing one of her previous flicks. Although we feel that Shahrukh was right by skipping the project.

The movie also features Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani and Vivaan Shah.

Deepika Padukone will be playing the lady love for Shahrukh Khan once again, after their well established success in "Chennai Express".

Indiatoday quotes that Farah Khan was excited with this project and is really having high hopes for it doing better than her previous disaster, Joker!

Talking about the film, Farah said, “My dream project ‘Happy New Year’ takes another step towards realisation with the first poster being launched today. I believe in cinema that entertains and with a dream cast like this we hope it will be the most entertaining film of the year. Shah Rukh and I have had a dream partnership always and with this our third collaboration we hope it will be a very HAPPY NEW YEAR indeed!” - from Indiatoday

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- Unknown Updated at: Thursday, January 02, 2014

SRK at Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi Music Launch

It has been time and again proved that in Bollywood nobody is a permanent friend or a permanent enemy and the latest to follow this philosophy is, SRK and Farah Khan.  We all know Farah Khan is all set to make her acting Debut in Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi‎, opposite Boman Irani. But it came as a pleasant surprise when we saw Shahrukh Khan present at the music launch of this upcoming flick.

 Shah Rukh had come to unveil the third poster of 'Shirin Farhad...’ in which Farah Khan and Boman Irani have recreated the magic of the characters - Simran and Raj of the movie 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge'

 Shah Rukh praised Farah and said: "She is one of the most finest and talented director we have with us. I thank Farah for giving me some nicest moment in her films."

He then along with Boman and Farah performed a jig on stage, where the superstar played Raj of "DDLJ", Farah played Simran and Boman played Amrish Puri.

It was good to see these thick pals turned arch rivals trying to put aside their misunderstandings and be friends again.

Not so long ago the animosity between Farah & SRK had been one of the hottest topics of the town. Since the time Farah Khan chose Akshay Kumar over SRK in Tees Maar Khan things had turned sour between these best friends. A year later the most scandalous incident took place which shook the entire industry. Shahrukh Khan slapped Shirish Kunder, Farah’s better half, at a party spoiling the hopes of their reconciliation. Back then in a text to the media Farah said "Shah Rukh has always told me that physical abuse is the worst way to sort out a problem. It means the attacker has either a personal or professional crisis going on. It saddens me to see him doing the same."

Later reports said that Sajid Khan and Sajid Nadiadwala intervened and played an important role as peacemakers in the whole process, eventually mending their friendship. SRK’s presence in Shirin Farhad’s music launch can be considered as a good sign. Hope it continues to be the same forever!

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- Unknown Updated at: Thursday, July 26, 2012

Sonakshi and Parineeti out of question - Farah Khan

Juggling between her acting and directorial jobs, Farah Khan is too busy but finds time to clarify the rumors. The next venture of Farah, Happy New Year is massive one and it already has Shah Rukh Khan leading from the front. But the choreographer turned director turned actor has still not announced the leading lady. The opportunity was explored by Tabloids by mentioning that the movie will see Sonakshi Sinha or Parineeti Chopra, the young talents of Bollywood playing opposite SRK. But the director has come forward to clarify this and says  that both are not going to be leading from the front.

"We are not in talks with them (Sonakshi and Parineeti). We have not approached any one of them yet. I do meet Sonakshi regularly, she is beautiful and lovely. But we have not yet taken a call," Farah told PTI in an exclusive interview. 

"Shah Rukh has just come back from London so we need to sit and work out figure out as to who is right for that role. It is a big role and then there is only one heroine in the film," she said. 

The 47-year-old choreographer-filmmaker said she had planned ‘Happy New Year’ (HNY) even before her directorial debut ‘Main Hoon Na’ and was preparing to HNY immediately after ‘Om Shanti Om’.

"I am very excited. We are hoping to create the magic that we did with our earlier films. We have SRK and Boman Irani in the film and the other cast is not finalised yet. I can't talk much about the project," Farah Khan said.  As she is hoping for a third successful run for her outing with SRK.

"There are like four heroes and one heroine. Boman is there in the film. We have SRK, Boman and two more heroes. Boman is a full hero now (referring to Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi where he plays the lead)," she said. 

The movie is likely to see Abhishek Bachchan and John Abraham in the other two leads, but Farah failed to confirm the other casts and crew.

The shooting for Happy New Year will begin from December this year. 

Meanwhile the director is happy about her debut in Shirin Farhad Ki To Nikal Padi, she says "If somebody is making a film where the hero and heroine are 40 plus and it is a romantic comedy, is a great thing to do. For a 47-year-old mother of three, married, making a debut as a lead heroine is a big thing. Looking at this it feels that Indian cinema is changing. I think everyone should be proud of this thing,"

We will wait and see in a few more weeks as to how this goes!

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- Unknown Updated at: Thursday, July 26, 2012

KJO - Bhansali Fight revived?

One the king of romantic genre and another the master of classy movies. The fight was eminent and long termed, but the presence of Bhansali on the birthday party for Karan Johar had buried the rumors about their rivalry, but it seems that all is not well! The two had their differences and kept to their stand for the past long years. It was Bhansali who decided to end the saga and went ahead with the friendship gifts.

But the recent absence of Bhansali at the promotion party of 'Shirin Farhad Ki To Nikal Padi' has started out the rumor of the fight. The debut movie of Bela Saigal, which is co-produced by Bhansali and Eros, was made the arena to display his anger. 

As the media is aware, Bhansali is close with the director and Boman - Farah, so the only reason why he wasn't arriving was the presence of  Karan Johar on the list. And there is a stronger reason for this to be believed as one had snapped the 'Heroine' from another!

There is speculations that Bhansali is not happy with Kareena and Karan as Kareena had walked out of Bhansali's 'Ram Leela' citing the dates issue (news here) and she had joined Karan Johar's crew for his next production. That seems to have miffed the producer-filmmaker. 

But a friend of the filmmaker attributed the absence to the music recording of his next, Ram Leela. "If you notice, Bhansali attends only the launch and first look events for his films. He never comes for the other promotions," added the friend.

A source revealed that it was Farah who invited Kjo for the poster launch. "Farah has been trying hard to reach out to a larger audience with her debut venture. She invited Karan. Also, the poster recreated the Kuch Kuch Hota Hai poster, a Dharma Productions' venture," added the source.

Dressed as Rahul and Anjali of Karan's 1998 blockbuster, Farah and Boman enacted a small scene. Bela and Karan were also a part of the act. But Bhansali, who had been a part of the first look launch of the film along with Madhuri Dixit, missed it.

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- Unknown Updated at: Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Happy New Year - SRK with 8 Packs??

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Farah Khan is not letting the Romance King go do an easy job, she has done it earlier and she is planning to do it bigger this time. Shahrukh who had increased his gym hours to get the six-pack look in Om Shanthi Om, directed by Farah Khan, will be see in the ultimate 8-pack look for her upcoming movie 'Happy New Year'. Atleast that is what the plans are currently for Farah. 

A source close to the film’s unit says, “Farah has conveyed to SRK that they need to go a step further as the audience expects more from them as a team. SRK has agreed to work hard and get an eight-pack by the time the film goes on the floors around September.”

The story behind him removing his shirt in OSO goes like this, SRK was supposed to remove his shirt and act in Main Hoon Na, but at the time he evaded such acts and promised Farah to do it the next time and when Farah came up with OSO, he showed it out with six-packs on!

Although the director herself has two minds on this, “It’s been five years since he sported a six-pack, so of course we need to go beyond that. I need to present him differently. We will surprise the audience again. But until SRK says it’s okay to talk, I can’t confirm his look,” says the director.

SRK is co-producing the film with Farah. She says, “We make a good team. Our last fight has made our bond grow stronger.”

SRK is currently out in London romancing the two bollywood beauties, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma. The movie directed by Yash Chopra, is still in progress and unfortunately unnamed!

John Abraham into the pack?

The movie 'Happy New Year' is filled with stars as it will see Abhishek Bachchan and Boman Irani coming together again with SRK and there is a rumor that John Abraham will be joining the crew. As Farah plays the safe game, she doesn't want her movie to lack fun. 

A source close to the actor said, "Farah wanted someone with a very cool body language for the fourth male lead. She had been toying with the idea of casting John for a long time. The deal was sealed a few days before John flew off to Turkey to shoot for ‘Race 2’."

As for John, "He is very happy he will be working with Shah Rukh for the first time. And he is excited he will share screen space with Abhishek, with whom he enjoyed great camaraderie during the making of ‘Dostana’ and has been good friends with ever since," said the source.

The decisions are still said to be on boards, but it should be soon announced as the party is coming.

Watch out !!

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- Unknown Updated at: Friday, June 29, 2012

Ferrari Ki Sawaari : Starts Slow, but gains pace and get 25 crore!

Rajesh Mapuskar's comedy flick, Ferrari Ki Sawaari had started slow on the releasing day as most of the theaters had only 60% occupancy. But Eros entertainment has now come up with the collection details and the movie is said to have collected a sum of Rs. 25 crore already, which is marking it as a hit. The responses were mostly guided by the cast as Sharman Joshi did not have a big hit after '3 idiots' so it was a bit confusing for the audiences to reach back to him. But it seems that he has found the light and as we have the latest reports, more people are coming in for the movie and the latest reports mention a occupancy rate of 80% across screens.

The movie was a small budget one with under Rs. 10 crore budget has yet slammed the boxoffices for being a neat and clean family movie. Ferrari Ki Sawaari, which sees Sharman Joshi in a solo lead for the first time, is a ‘big dose of emotion and comedy’. A clean family film, Ferrari Ki Sawaari is about a young father with single motive in life that of fulfilling his son’s dream. The movie also stars ace actor Boman Irani, along with Ritwik Sahore. It is directed by debutant director Rajesh Mapuskar and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra in association with Eros International.

On Friday, the film collected Rs.3.04 crore and the collections increased to Rs.4.5 crore on Saturday and on Sunday it was Rs.6.40 crore, making a total of almost Rs.14 crore. 

Sharman Joshi was humbled by the responses that he received over the movie. "I am feeling too happy. We are very, very thankful to the people for their love. We are very humbled by the love and affection they are showing. Thank you very much," said Sharman. "In Bombay and in the whole country, every show is earning a huge collection and we are expecting Rs.25 crore in the first week and it's only going to grow bigger and stronger," he added. 

Boman Irani mentioned that he is happy for the movie and Sharman, "I would only say that after 3 Idiots, Sharman is like a family member in the Chopra camp. Sharman is a fantastic actor and it would be so unfair of our directors and producers if they don't use a talent like Sharman in our films," he said. 

"I am so happy that Sharman got this role and he essayed it so fantastically. And I feel good that such a good actor is with us," he added.

so lets sing along.. fa fa fa faa rarara riii.....its Ferrari Ki Sawaari!

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- Unknown Updated at: Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Boman Irani On Kissing : Mallika Sherawat is a nursery rhyme!

Now there can't be any other witty tactics than this. Boman Irani, who is pairing up with Farah Khan, the famous choregrapher-director for their upcoming movies 'Shirin Farhad Ki Nikal Padi' is happy about his outing. He says they both had a good time and he just adds the tease at the end of the press meet by saying "“Kissing scenes? Oh, there are lots of kissing scenes. We rehearsed kissing all the time,” says the 52-year-old, during a recent visit to the Capital.

The movie is about two 45 year old getting close to each other and ending up in marriage. Trailer of the movie has already been released (Trailer Here) and the characters are extremely hilarious. When asked if it a remake of any older day flick, he says "No. Not at all.”. The movie is going through post production and the actors are already starting at the promotions of the movie. 

When asked about kissing scenes, the reporters asked him if he was going to be a competition to the movie 'Khwaish'(2003) which had set a record for liplocks and Mallika Sherawat holds it safe,  Irani says, “Mallika Sherawat is like a nursery rhyme compared to them (the kisses in his film).” The actor will also be seen wearing only a towel, in a scene in the film. 

Was this inspired from actor Ranbir Kapoor’s towel scene from Saawariya (2007)? “It’s not that. In Saawariya, Ranbir Kapoor had his back to the camera. I don’t have my back to the camera. I face the audience in the towel,” he adds. And are these the reasons why he decided to call this film his dirty picture? “I never said that. The press said it. It’s a very innocent picture. It’s about two 45-year-old’s falling in love. How much more innocent can it be?” says Irani. 

When asked about his experience on working with Farah, he says “It was quite an experience to work with Farah Khan, who went on and on about how nervous she was. But she had no reason to substantiate that fear. She was completely enjoying the attention, and the camera, and she just took to it like fish to water.” 

On the contrary, Farah Khan was nervous about the movie and she says that her brother was making fun when the movie was announced and her friends were nervous about her acting. She even adds that her brother made a long comedy scene about her and Boman.

But ever since the release of the movie trailer, things have said to change, "Before the promo came, my friends and brother were laughing at me. In fact my brother joked a lot about Boman and me. He had made a long joke book about Shirin Farhad. He said it would be a single screen film," Farah says. "After seeing the promos, the reaction has been stupendous. It is unbelievable. Actresses, actors, my industry friends and normal people have been telling me that they are dying to see the film," she said.

So the comedy flick will be one which is eagerly awaited!

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- Unknown Updated at: Friday, June 15, 2012

Ferrari Ki Sawaari : Filled with freshness

With just one day to its release the movie 'Ferrari Ki Sawaari' adds a fresh feel as the overall roles played by the actors and the director are the main factors to this. The director Rajesh Mapuskar, who had successfully ran campaigns of advertisements had decided to quit the ad industry and try his luck with movies. Together with Vidhu Vinod Chopra productions, he is now able to have a strong platform to launch his story. Mapuskar feels that it is the confidence that the producers puts on him that drives his confidence in taking the movie to the next level.

To add to the factor, Sharman Joshi takes up the lead role and this time he would be playing the role of a father who works keenly on fulfilling his son's dream. Which is again a new territory for Sharman Joshi as he has never done anything similar and as he says he never has the looks of a father! "I went through all the emotions. It was frustrating, tiring, exhausting. Factors of fear came in. It had been about two-and-half years," the 33-year-old told. Continuing about his effort for the movie and fulfilling the character he adds "But you have to deal with them if you are committed to something. It requires patience. I was not willing to short sell myself. I was looking for the right kind of work that would excite me. Quality work takes time. I am not here to put out a barrage of movies,"

“I had to convince the director that I can pull of the role (of a single parent), as I don't look like a father at all. It was very challenging for me as an actor” says the actor. 

The missing romantic side

The movie attempts to change the way story is narrated as it has mainly three characters that drive the story, that of Sharman Joshi, his son and Sharman's father, played by Boman Irani. Boman Irani's role is already much appreciated on the promo's, he plays a cranky old father. Mapuskar feels that he is glad that he has the great crew to back his story and is always obliged to Boman Irani for committing for the debut movie.

The film takes a lot of risks — it is actor Sharman Joshi’s first film as a solo protagonist, it has no romantic angle but is about a father’s quest to fulfil his young son’s dreams and it has a first-timer like Mapuskar at the helm. And in Chopra’s own words, it was considered by many as “financial suicide’’. The production house, however, went ahead to give a chance to a budding director “who had not filmed anything before” but had worked as an assistant director in the Munnabhai series and 3 Idiots.

“In Ferrari Ki Sawari, Sharman’s character does all the things a mother does for a child in a traditional Hindi film,” Irani said. Asked if the production house was relying too much on its home-grown formula that combines a humourous look at human failings and the feel-good factor, Irani said they were not “changing anything just for the heck of changing”.

“The filmmaking process is complex in which an actor is translating the director’s vision on screen,” said Irani, adding that he can get into the skin of the character he is essaying through keen observation and exploring the theme in depth.

Ask Sharman if he hates doing the usual romantic hero role in the Hindi movies, he says he isn't interested yet in those but he did not failed say “But I still have a lot of years ahead of me and I may end up surprising audiences by running around trees and doing all the things that Hindi film heroes do on screen,” he added. 

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- Unknown Updated at: Thursday, June 14, 2012

Vidya's Dance is a lavani song not item number - Chopra

With the first teasers for 'Ferrari Ki Sawaari' the crowd is in anticipations for the teasers for the much promoted Vidya Balan item number in the movie. The audience has been eagerly waiting and media did try to hook up with Vidhu Vinod Chopra on the topic and he clarified that the song that Vidya is part of is a cameo in Lavani, and he doesn't want it to be called as an item number.  "I don't like the word, item number...it puts me off. Item number means our film is not good, so we got an item girl to do an item song. We are doing a 'lavani' (a Maharashtrian folk dance) in the film. The scene is a part of a wedding which Sharman attends in the film," says Chopra.

"The director (Rajesh Mapuskar) went to Pune to look for dancers. He messaged me from Pune and recommended Vidya, but I told him to leave it. He told me again to ask her so I sent a message to Vidya. She said she had been dying to do a 'lavani' for 15 years," he said. It is said that Vidya has already started the preparations for the movie. She has rehearsed 15 days for the songs and is said to be in the rhythm for the dance. With 'Chikni Chameli', the cameo by Katrina Kaif in Agneepath - Vidya Balan has a heavy task ahead of her to out do the song without getting compared. 

The collaboration with Vidya and Chopra had started from the early days and the two had given mighty hits like 'Parineeta' and 'Lage Raho Munnabhai'. When asked about the missing heroine in the latest movie Chopra was quick to respond "We don't make movies for leading men, leading women or item numbers. We don't believe in that. We believe in a good story that is well told," the filmmaker said. "I remember when 'Parinda' was released, a Punjab distributor told me that the film would flop because Jackie Shroff doesn't have a heroine, but the movie did well." Chopra added. Directed by debutant Rajesh Mapuskar, 'Ferrari Ki Sawari' stars Sharman Joshi and Boman Irani in the lead, and is slated to be released on June 15.

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- Unknown Updated at: Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Houseful 2 will be blockbuster - Sajid Khan

Houseful 2 will cross 100crore in one week

The latest movie from Sajid Khan is already making news. The director is known for his controversial stands and opinions. The event at award night between Sajid Khan and Ashutosh Gowarikar was quite famous for its time. The director had made controversial statement during his movie 'Houseful', when he mentioned that this movie will be the one which will have highest gross collection. The movie did a business of 74 crore rupees in India alone. This proved to be greater hit for Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Riteish Deshmukh, Arjun Rampal and Lara Dutta. The only one who fell out of Sajid's prediction was Boman Irani who had done '3 Idiots' with Aamir Khan which did a business of 202 crore rupees.

The director is now back with his latest movie 'Houseful 2' which he mentions will gross over 100 crore in the opening week. Sajid Khan, while speaking to the media mentioned that it is not the emotional part that makes him say these values instead, he does thorough calculations while making claims. The recently returned director who had completed the final schedule for Houseful 2 was speaking to the media. He said that he has a strong script and the one which will stay for longer time. 

He went ahead mentioning that a superhit movie will always be a superhit movie and if it improvises, it gets to be the blockbuster.

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- Unknown Updated at: Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Don 2 Trailer Unveils

Finally Don2 previews!

Ever since we had seen Shah Rukh Khan in the long hairs, there were greater anticipations for the Farhan Akhtar directed Don 2. The movie is to be coming to theaters by December 2011. 

The movie had a prequel DON which had been a super hit in the Industry which had inspired the director to make a sequel to it. The action sequences seems to be greatly crafted. The star cast remains the same with Shah Rukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Boman Irani. The additions to the casts are Lara Dutta and Kunal Kapoor. The audiences will be delighted to see Hrithik Roshan too, doing a cameo for the movie. 

The prequel Don was inspired from Amitabh Bachchan's 80's movie Don, the director had modified the story from the original and had presented a different ending to the audience. The theatrical trailer is set to be released on 15th of July when Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara releases. 

King Khan will be brushing his six packs again and his latest look with long hair will be a joy to watch!

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- Unknown Updated at: Thursday, July 14, 2011