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WTF is this! Trust Bollywood to do it! And when its directed by Samar Khan, what else can you expect.

Its called “Make It Large – A Tribute to Michael Jackson”. If you are wondering whats the funda of “Make it Large”, then click here. If Shah Rukh Khan is here, can commerce be far behind. The video is produced by Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Idiot Box. Even in this s0-called-tribute to MJ, its Royal Stag Seagram selling thier brand philosophy! The Red Chillies homepage even has a quote from Royal Stag’s VP (Marketing) explaining their brand connect with MJ! Trust the marketing guys to sell a dead man too!

The song is written by Vishal ( Of Vishal-Shekhar duo), composed by Vishal- Shekhar and features Shankar Mahadevan, Shaan, KK, Shreya Ghoshal and Prabhudeva. The video also features Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra, Katrina Kaif, Anoushka Sharma, Shahid Kapur, and Yuvraj Singh.

We think this is the worst tribute to Michael Jackson! The lyrics redifne the word corny, music is horrendous and the voices are all over the place. No two voices in sync! We really could have done without it. Do let us know what you guys think.

The first look of Vipul Shah’s big budget London Dreams is out. The film stars Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan and Asin. The video quality is not very good but if you are too curious, do check out.

He is one of our favourite filmmakers. From complete indie to big hollywood studio blockbuster, its been a long journey and Christopher Nolan rarely disappoints. Give us Memento and Prestige anyday, anywhere…any number of times.

The dude is back! The first teaser trailer of his new film Inception is just out. The film features Leonardo DiCaprio, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, Ellen Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ken Watanabe, Tom Hardy and Michael Caine. Your mind is the scene of the crime…woohoo!

According to rumours floating in the blogosphere, Inception is about entering peoples’ minds and their dreams. A technology to do so has been developed and is done through an injection. Leonardo DiCaprio and his team work to enter the minds of other characters in order to retrieve and plant information. Summer of 2010…the countdown begins!

Whats Your Raashee ?Because he seriously needs to check his daily horoscope reports. If the teaser, music and promos of Whats Your Raashee is any indication of things to come, we are running far far away from it. The song Jao na (dont go) sounds “please please run away” to us! Just check out the song promo. Its the first song promo that have been released.

What the fuck is this ? Who would release such a bad first song promo of the film ? Is it the same Ashutosh Gowariker who shot Yeh jo desh hai tera (Swadees), O re chori (Lagaan) and Khwaja mere khwaja (Jodhoa Akbar)! Unfuckingbelievable!  This is horrible. And it seems, its shot on chroma. You can easily make that out. Mumbai roads….late night…why would you go for chroma!

First Harman Baweja, then the fuckall teaser, then this song promo and now the music of Whats Your Raashee…..nothing seems to be going right. The album has 13 songs. I heard it thrice, none of the song stays with you. Zero repeat value. The arrangement make it sound like we are going back to Nadeem-Shravan days! I would even vote it for Javed Akhtar’s worst work.  Sample this….pyaar pyaari nayi nayi nyaari nyaari….aisi hai baatein teri saari….dil maine khoya jaan vari….kyunki pyaari pyaari…tukbandi was never so dull!

Music is by debutant Sohail Sen. Am all for new talent but yes, talent is the key word! Or was i searching for Rahman in the album ? Naah, am not going back to it again!

……is on Airtel digital tv OR ……dil titli….dil titli sa….kabhi yaadon…kabhi sapnoo ka!

Like us, if you madly scan the newspapers every morning then you must have noticed the ongoing viral campaign in the front pages of some newspapers, where Saif Ali Khan is searching for a young girl. Has just a pic of hers. Since he doesnt have any new film soon, it had to be a brand endorsement. Yes, its Airtel digital tv. The first tv commercial of the campaign is out. Dil Titli…Check it out.

It also features his girlfriend Kareena Kapoor. Honestly we are getting lil bored of this Saifeena or Kaif or whatever you want to name them!

BTW, dil titli is the new jingle that we have in loop. Finally got something to replace Bajaj Allianz’s yeh kis pyaari hifaazat me befikri ki haalat hai! Dil Titli is written by well known lyricist Swanand Kirkire, sung by new singer Nikhil D’Souza and music is by Rupert. The concept by JWT Delhi.

Karan Johar is great tv, almost always. On any side of the camera. And more so, if its small screen. This time its Anuradha Sengupta on the other side and we think she is one of the best interviewer on Indian television. Do check out this interview of Karan Johar who featured in her show Beautiful People on CNBC TV18. All the talks on My Name is Khan that you havent heard anywhere else! Karan means serious business and how!

 

The first look of Rahul Dholakia’s Lamhaa is out. The film stars Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu and Kunal Kapoor in lead. And surprisingly, the promo looks good. But Bunty Walia (producer) & Rahul Dholakia ? Strange bedfellows!

Kaminey 2Finally, the audio and video of the original Dhen Tedan song is out. Though Vishal Bhardwaj has admitted it many times in his interviews, but those of you who still cant recall, click the play button. Its sung by Suresh Wadekar and Roop Kumar Rathod for Vishal’s directorial debut on television. Remember the series Gubbare ? Check out young Sharman Joshi. The original was also by Vishal Bhardwaj and Gulzar.

And for the full audio track click here.

She smiled, posed, looked confused and clueless, but caught everyone’s attention too…Harleen Kaur, the coy kudi who ran away with Saif Ali Khan in Love Aaj Kal. And whoever saw Imtiaz Ali’s Love Aaj Kal, they surely asked one question…who is that girl ?

In google search, Harleen Kaur (Giselle Monteiro) has been in top five since friday. The makers of the film smartly kept her away from all the attention though lot of newsprint and airtime was devoted to the film. Here is our earlier post on her.

And those of you who are still googling her, here is her first tv interview done by CNN IBN. Yes, the girl can talk, unlike what she looked in the film, with just four lines diloagues which were alter on dubbed. Katrina Kaif in the making ? Well, only if she can patao a Salman Khan!

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Coen BrothersThe Brothers are back! what a joy! Aha..we just love them. Name any film of theirs and we bet, we can  watch it one more time. And give us Miller’s Crossing some million times, we still would not get bored.

The first trailer of A Serious Man is out. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. This one looks like Coen Brothers’ version of Synecdoche, New York. Dark, funny, insane. And how often a film’s trailer is cut on the sound of a man’s head being slammed across a wall. We are loving it!

And here is the synopsis of the film, according to Slashfilm…

A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man’s search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and “F-Troop” is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous colleagues, Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed), who seems to her a more substantial person than the feckless Larry.

While his wife and Sy Ableman blithely make new domestic arrangements, and his brother becomes more and more of a burden, an anonymous hostile letter-writer is trying to sabotage Larry’s chances for tenure at the university. Struggling for equilibrium, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?