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  • COLORS Khatron Ke Khiladi gears up to script Darr Ki Nayi Kahaaniyaa in Romania

    COLORS Khatron Ke Khiladi gears up to script Darr Ki Nayi Kahaaniyaa in Romania

    Mumbai: For years, Romania’s fairy-tale castles, picturesque villages, and awe-inspiring natural vistas have captivated adventurous travellers, making it a sought-after holiday destination. However, the script of this dreamy getaway is about to be rewritten as a destination of nightmarish dangers, where fears will be conquered, and legends of bravery will echo… Kyunki iss baar hongi darr ki nayi kahaaniyaan, in Romania! The idyllic landscapes that once lured tourists with their beauty will now witness heart-pounding stunts and nerve-racking challenges. Get ready for an adrenaline roller-coaster ride as COLORS brings the 14th edition of its iconic stunt-based show, ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’. Redefining the realm of danger-tainment, the channel calls upon viewers to grip the edge of their seats as they prepare to watch new chapters of daredevilry unfold amidst Romania’s stunning yet formidable terrain.

    Speaking about the show’s announcement, Viacom18 president of general entertainment Alok Jain said, “The enduring appeal of our flagship show, Khatron Ke Khiladi, continues to grip our viewers who eagerly await the exhilarating thrills it delivers year after year. The show’s 14th edition, buoyed by its massive fandom and success, marks, a significant first by bringing the legacy of battling fears to the picturesque landscapes of Romania. Collaborating with a brand that shares our pioneering spirit and values, we are delighted to introduce Hyundai as our presenting partner for the first time. Serving as an unparalleled platform for advertisers to connect with our engaged audience, the show will create disruptive and engaging opportunities for brands seamlessly integrating with its core theme. I would also like to congratulate Rohit Shetty on completing his 10th year with the show, where his action expertise and mentorship have been invaluable.”

    Host Rohit Shetty said, “Hosting Khatron Ke Khiladi each year is a tradition I enjoy while experimenting with new levels of stunts and action. Each season brings novelty, and the upcoming one is set to venture into scenic Romania for the first time. The new season will test courage and have viewers on the edge of their seats. I look forward to hosting the forthcoming edition and introducing spine-chilling stunts to the contestants.”

    Hyundai Motor India Ltd COO Tarun Garg expressed his enthusiasm for the company’s new collaboration with Khatron Ke Khiladi, one of India’s most thrilling and popular shows. He said, “We are immensely proud to associate with Khatron Ke Khiladi for the first time. At Hyundai, we continuously strive to partner with innovative ventures that resonate with the spirit of the masses. We believe this partnership will help us forge strong connections with our nationwide audience, offering them delightful experiences. We look forward to a successful collaboration that will add excitement to the upcoming season of Khatron Ke Khiladi. Join us as Hyundai’s innovation meets the adventurous spirit of Khatron Ke Khiladi on the entertainment journey ahead. Highlighting this association is the undisputed, ultimate Hyundai Creta, symbolic of all things impressive.”

    This season will feature Braveheart contestants from all walks of life including Abhishek Kumar, Shalin Bhanot, Aditi Sharma, Gashmeer Mahajani, Karan Veer Mehra, Shilpa Shinde, Sumona Chakravarti, Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia, Asim Riaz, Krishna Shroff, Kedar Aashish Mehrotraa, and Niyati Fatnani. Produced by Endemol Shine India, Hyundai presents ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi 14’, Special Status Indica Easy Hair colour and Vicks will premiere on COLORS soon.  

    Hyundai presents ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi 14’, Special Status Indica Easy Hair color and Vicks will premiere on COLORS soon.

  • Onspon.com appoints Aditi Sharma as VP

    Onspon.com appoints Aditi Sharma as VP

    MUMBAI: Aditi Sharma has appointed in Onspon.com, the only market place for evet sponsorship as Vice Presedent, North India Division.

    Aditi comes with 9+ years of diverse industry experience. A graduate in Capital Markets & Trading, she started her career in Banking and then moved onto creating a strong foot hold in flooring solutions, media and event industries. In these industries, she has amassed a repertoire of skills in the domains of strategic planning, sales & marketing, technology augmentation and business expansion.

    Alongside these, she has also built a strong foundation in training & customer service, network and business expansion.

    Over the last decade, Aditi has worked in multiple capacities. Prior to Onspon.com she was the Business Head at Snowmasters Special Effects Pvt Ltd and also worked with brands like Rediff.com, ABEC Ltd, Nora Floorings, Stonemaan Royale, HDFC Bank.

    Her passion lies in travelling, networking and painting owing to the armed forces background that she hails from.

  • Onspon.com appoints Aditi Sharma as VP

    Onspon.com appoints Aditi Sharma as VP

    MUMBAI: Aditi Sharma has appointed in Onspon.com, the only market place for evet sponsorship as Vice Presedent, North India Division.

    Aditi comes with 9+ years of diverse industry experience. A graduate in Capital Markets & Trading, she started her career in Banking and then moved onto creating a strong foot hold in flooring solutions, media and event industries. In these industries, she has amassed a repertoire of skills in the domains of strategic planning, sales & marketing, technology augmentation and business expansion.

    Alongside these, she has also built a strong foundation in training & customer service, network and business expansion.

    Over the last decade, Aditi has worked in multiple capacities. Prior to Onspon.com she was the Business Head at Snowmasters Special Effects Pvt Ltd and also worked with brands like Rediff.com, ABEC Ltd, Nora Floorings, Stonemaan Royale, HDFC Bank.

    Her passion lies in travelling, networking and painting owing to the armed forces background that she hails from.

  • Ekkees Topon Ki Salaami…20 guns too many

    Ekkees Topon Ki Salaami…20 guns too many

    Selling honesty as a theme is a tough proposal. It is considered boring and not as readily acceptable as corruption is. Ekkees Topon Ki Salaami juxtaposes one honest man who never wavered despite temptations and desperations, against a totally sold-out system including the local CM. How that honest man, in whom even his sons don’t have faith, finally gets his way is an interesting idea.

     

    Anupam Kher works for the Mumbai municipal department’s malaria control wing, setting out every day with his fogging machine diligently to do his job. His two sons, Divyendu Sharma and Manu Rishi, are totally wayward. Sharma, the dominant of the two, does hatchet jobs for the local CM and is the star of the local political branch (shakha).

     

    Divyendu holds a degree of influence over the CM, Rajesh Sharma. When he gets hurt at a pro-CM rally, the CM foots his five-star hospital bill. Divyendu’s hotline in the CM’s house is his girlfriend, Aditi Sharma. She is the trustworthy aide of the CM.

     

    There is a scandal breaking out against the CM; he is reported to have gifted a Rs 12 crore worth bungalow on sea-facing, government land to his concubine, Neha Dhupia. The news is all over and Neha has no scruples using it to gain mileage for herself. While she is busy telling the media the inside story, the CM is ashamed that he is in news for a meagre Rs 12 crore scam when anything below Rs 1000 crore is considered petty cash!

     

    Meanwhile, it is D day for Kher. He is due for retirement and goes to the office beaming for a golden handshake, a certificate and a box of sweets. Instead, what he gets is a humiliating discharge sans retirement benefits. His fault, the day before, the last day of his duty, was that he did not surrender his fog machine officially. He is accused of stealing it and selling it to cheat the municipality.

     

    Kher is humiliated and devastated, and on his deathbed as a result of the shame, but his son’s only care to scavenge on whatever little his dead bones have to offer. They want his pension and they want to inherit the municipality-allotted room. They want him to sign a letter asking for a pardon for stealing the fogging machine so his benefits are restored. Kher would sign that pardon letter on one condition; his sons should send him off with a 21-canon salute.

     

    Divyendu has sworn to fulfil his father’s last wish not knowing how!

     

    However, he sees a ray of hope. The CM’s sexual excitement with Neha has given him his third, final fatal heart attack. He is declared dead. Having died in office, he will get a state funeral along with a 21 canon salute.

     

    By this time, the sons have realised that if anybody deserved a 21 canon salute, it is Kher and not the CM. Since there is no way Kher can get that honour, things will have to be managed to make Kher take the CM’s place.

     

    This was a good idea, but, it consumes a lengthy second half and goes into too much detailing and emotional overload. By the time it happens the viewer is not emotionally connected, just relieved.

     

    The film has spoilt its bright idea by taking too long over it. The director has an eye for detail but no control over content and needed a better editor. Dialogue is funny at times and bland at others. Divyendu is impressive. Manu Rishi is a natural. Aditi is very good. Rajesh Sharma is good as always, a seasoned actor that he is. Neha is effective in a brief role. Kher plays the signature role he started off with in Saaranash. Uttara Baokar and Sudhir Pandey are fine.

     

    Ekkees Topon Ki Salaami would have been watchable had the approach had been on a lighter note towards its goal.

     

    Producers: Anurradha Prasad and Abhinav Shukla.

     

    Director: Ravindra Gautam.

     

    Cast: Divyendu Sharma, Neha Dhupia, Anupam Kher, Manu Rishi, Aditi Sharma, Rajesh Sharma, Uttara Baokar, Sudhit Pandey, Aashif Sheikh.

     

    Spark Is missing

     

    They just don’t work, these films about UP-Bihar local feudal gang lords-cum-politicians. After all, UP has one such gang lord in each village. It is the same old story: The more gun-wielding goons you have on your muster, the bigger your don-ness. Focusing on just one such gang makes things extra monotonous so Spark has some ex-loyalists from the same gang rising to form their own. Nothing you have not seen before; nothing that you have approved either.

     

    It starts like a 1970s film as some shotgun brandishing guys barge in to a haveli and shoot down two women and a man. However, because of an alert victim, a small child is hidden in a closet. He survives and makes this story into an unending saga.

     

    Rajneesh Duggal, like all other heroes, is a popular member of his college excelling at everything from dramatics to debates. During rehearsal, with the college lacking female talent, the college invites Shubhashree Ganguly. Both get acquainted but Duggal’s time in India has ended.

     

    Duggal gets into an altercation with the nephew of the biggest bahubali of the region, Ashutosh Rana, who, like in all such films and like all such bahubali types, literally runs the local governments, granting of contracts and so on. Duggal is bashed up by Rana. Ranjeet has brought up the orphan Duggal and loves him like his son. He decides to dispatch Duggal off to Germany to keep him away from trouble.

     

    As things would have it, Duggal spots Shubsharee in Germany; it is time to resume the romance because there won’t be time for that once the film moves into action mode.

     

    Back home, the villains have realised that the family they set out to kill 20 years back has one survivor, Duggal. However, they don’t know who he is, what he looks like and where is he. Only Ranjeet can reveal that.

     

    Govind Namdeo, an ex-henchman of Rana has branched out with his own ambition to be the next leader. He knows he can use Duggal against Rana by revealing to him that he is the one who ordered his family killed 20 years back.

     

    What follows are a lot of revelations you don’t really care to know, followed by too many back-stabbings. Finally it is time for the showdown where the hero deals with hundreds of gun-toting and sword-swishing goons, leaving him and Rana to fight it out alone.

     

    A very poor concept which is out of sync with any era, with direction to match. Duggal is okay while Shubshashree has a pleasant demeanour. Ranjeet supports well. Rana, Namdeo, Manoj Joshi are the loud villains performing more through decibels than acting. The musical score offers a few pleasant numbers. Some parts have been shot in Germany but it is no help.

     

    Spark is a poor film.

     

    Producer: Naresh Gupta.

     

    Director: V K Singh.

     

    Cast: Rajnees Duggal, Shubhashree Ganguly, Ashutosh Rana, Govind Namdeo, Manoj Joshi, Rati Agnihotri, Ranjeet.

  • Ladies vs Ricky Bahl a pretty average fare

    Ladies vs Ricky Bahl a pretty average fare

    MUMBAI: Ladies vs Ricky Bahl is one of those products from Yash Raj Films where the process of limiting the budget starts with the casting itself. The burden of drawing the audience falls on the lead pair, Ranveer Singh and Anushka Sharma, with the other three girls being little known: Dipannita Sharma, Parineeti Chopra and Aditi Sharma. For the main location you have Goa, much exploited in recent films but not so well exploited in this film.

     

    Producer: Aditya Chopra.
    Director: Maneesh Sharma.
    Cast: Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Dipannita Sharma, Aditi Sharma, Parineeti Chopra.

    Ranveer Singh is a conman who picks only on women, mainly playing with their emotional vulnerability. He gains the confidence of the girl he zeroes in on as well as that of her family; to them he comes across as perfect groom material. He talks the family into some attractive moneymaking proposal only for them to realise that Ranveer Singh had vanished and so had their money. In his list of victims he adds Parineeti Chopra, Aditi Sharma and Dipannita Sharma.

    Parineeti Chopra finds her gym trainer Ranveer Singh very attractive and falls for him in the blink of an eye. The only daughter, she has a moneybags of a father to whom Ranveer Singh sells a bungalow in upmarket Barakhamba Road in New Delhi. While the hero takes the first flight out of Delhi, Mr Moneybags lands in police custody for breaking and entering someone‘s property. The next target is a young widow in Lucknow, Aditi Sharma, cloth merchant. Her family is impressed by the zari work cloth material he shows them. He collects a huge order against a hefty advance before the girl and her family know they have been conned.

    The third victim, Dipannita Sharma, is an ambitious corporate executive busy decorating the company premises. Ranveer Singh sells her a dud MF Hussain painting. When her case is reported on a news channel, the three victims contact each other, eventually forming a brigade to play a counter con and get their monies back from Ranveer. To lure their target, they engage the services of a salesgirl from a mall, Anushka Sharma, who never lets a visitor leave without buying something from the mall.

    The film starts off on a promising note and does manage to hold interest until girls descend in Goa, where Ranveer runs his own small enterprise between conning victims. When the process of Anushka Sharma luring Ranveer into her trap starts the interest starts sagging. The three girls chasing as Anushka Sharma and Ranveer Singh do their thing is like kids‘ spying game! Whatever happens during this process is predictable and lacks twists and turns or exciting moments.

    With a linear script, the narration is sans challenges too; direction being just usual. Music, considering the theme, is a letdown. While there are no sad scenes, there is no trace of humour either and the dialogue is routine.
    Of the performers, Parineeta Chopra scores most points, playing her typical, rich, loud Delhi Punjabi girl; she fits the character to a T Aditi Sharma is mostly underplayed, that being her part. Dipannita Sharma is okay. Anushka Sharma is her natural self, not that her role offers any challenges. As for Ranveer Singh, it is very well to describe him as charming, handsome and smooth to establish his character but tough to convince the viewer.

    Ladies vs Ricky Bahl a pretty average fare.

     

    Lanka has no entertainment value

     

    Producer: ASA Production & Enterprises P Ltd.
    Director: Maqbool Khan.
    Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Arjan Bajwa, Tia Bajpai, Yashpal Sharma, Manish Choudhary, Yatin Karyekar.

    Lanka is a film about a small town real life inspired story. The real life stories such as Lanka are one off affair and are not known to catch the fancy of all cinemagoer. Usually these stories are so bizarre, that they have no entertainment value and to make such a film and expect the urban multiplex audience to accept is foolhardy.

    Tia Bajpai is a medical student having come to Bijnour where her father is posted as CMO at the local hospital; Manoj Bajpayee controls the town and his word is the law here. When he sees Tia Bajpai, he wants her to be his.

    Soon he takes control of Tia Bajpai and her parents‘ lives; they are literally under house arrest, being watched 24 hours by Manoj Bajpayee‘s goons and the family is at his complete mercy, helpless as he comes at whim and fulfils his urge. The third angle is added with the entry of Arjan Bajwa, whom Bajpayee loves like kid brother and for whom Manoj Bajpayee is the ultimate idol; he does what is expected of him, generally play escort to Manoj Bajpayee and do the killings for him. Having noticed the plight of Tia Bajpyee, he can‘t stay indifferent for long; he is attracted to her and decides to go against Manoj Bajpayee and help her escape. The end is on expected lines. There are side tracks of rivalries between communities which are of little interest.

    The subject is dry and can be described as a documentary genre at best, providing no scope for dramatics, music or humour. Performances are routine with Manoj Bajpayee doing what he has been doing in several films earlier, Arjan Bajwa is fair while Tia Bajpai fails to involve the viewer in her plight.

    There is nothing to write about for the box office prospects of Lanka since none exist.