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  • Grazing goat pictures launch the trailer of Bhaji In Problem

    Grazing goat pictures launch the trailer of Bhaji In Problem

    MUMBAI: The wait for the official trailer release of one of the biggest Punjabi blockbuster of the year, Bhaji in Problem came to a halt with Grazing Goat Pictures launching the much awaited trailer amid great reception and laughter.

     

    Bhaji in Problem is Grazing Goat Picture’s second regional film production after the poignant Marathi film 72 Miles Ek Pravas which was directed by National Award winning director, late Rajiv Patil of Jogwa fame. With Bhaji in Problem, Akshay Kumar and Ashvini Yardi are all set to give their audiences a comic relief.

     

    Soon after the trailer was launched with Besharam’s release, audiences were found tweeting and describing the trailer as hilarious and expressing their eagerness to watch the film. Some people also called it the dhamaka trailer, re-instating the fact that the film indeed looks as a promising blockbuster for all Punjabi and comedy film buffs.

     

    The film is the story of Gurpreet Ghuggi, who plays the character of Sundeep Cheema, juggling between two wives. His life ends up in a complete chaos with the entry of Gippy Grewal who plays Jeeta and falls in love with Preet played by Ragini Khanna. In this comedy of errors of epic proportions, both sides know the deepest and the most intimate secrets of the other, which each of them want to protect at any cost and holds it over the other’s head. The film is a budding laugh riot and as one hilarious situation unfolds after another, the film only gets more interesting and engaging.

     

    Bhaji in Problem stars some of Punjab’s most reputed stars Gippy Grewal and Gurpreet Ghuggi who are joined by Sasural Ghenda Phool’s Suhana Raghini Khanna, and veteran actor Om Puri as central characters. The film is directed by Smeep Kang who has delivered successful hits such as Carry on Jatta and Lucky Di Unlucky Story. The film also sees cricketer Harbajan Singh make a friendly appearance along with producer Akshay Kumar, who is a Punjabi himself, having an extended appearance.

     

    Honing in on the huge success of their first film venture, OMG: Oh My God, and their first Marathi film, the critically acclaimed 72 Miles Ek Pravas, Akshay Kumar and Ashvini Yardi have further spearheaded the popularisation of regional cinema with Bhaji in Problem.

  • THE BOSS MEETS ETV VIEWERS

    THE BOSS MEETS ETV VIEWERS

    NEW DELHI : ETV and Honda created a platform for the viewers of ETV to personally meet the Bollywood superstar, THE BOSS : Akshay Kumar along with the other star cast of the movie today, at Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi.

    ETV partnered with Viacom 18’s movie BOSS, to promote the movie through a customized contest designed for it’s viewers to participate and win couple movie tickets, as well as a chance to meet Akshay Kumar in person. The initiative was presented by Honda Dream Neo.

    The BOSS contest, that was aired on ETV Uttar Pradesh/Uttarakhand, ETV Madhya Pradesh/Chhattisgarh, ETV Rajasthan and ETV Bihar/Jharkhand, created an excitement among the viewers to meet Akshay Kumar. An aggressive participation was seen during the contest.

    10 winners were selected at the end of the contest. Sanjeev Srivastava, from Kota, Sridhar from Dehradun, Yogendra from Noida, Bhagat Aggarwal from Gorakhpur were the winners to name a few. Akshay Kumar was present at the event to meet these winners personally in order to congratulate them, get pictures clicked and sign autographs for them. Immense excitement and nervousness was seen among the winners as it was a dream come true experience for all of them.

    Senior representatives from ETV, Honda and Viacom 18 were present at this do.

    Honda and Viacom 18 expressed their gratitude and congratulated ETV to have initiated this activity like never before and mentioned about their willingness to associate in the future too.

    Akshay Kumar talked about the upcoming Grand Finale of ETV Rajasthan Ke Superstars, scheduled for 16th October, 2013, in Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur and congratulated ETV to have created a platform with such a noble cause of honoring the ordinary people, for doing something extraordinary for the society.

    The BOSS star interviews and clippings of this meet and greet show, will be aired in this week, only on ETV! Keep watching…

    ETV Network offers enriching infotainment via 12 regional channels; ETV has its strong foothold in over 10 states of India- Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh Bihar, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Orissa, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Apart from being present in all the state capitals, ETV provides unmatched regional coverage with specialised dedicated teams for small towns and districts. With its own Earth Station for up-linking and expediting timely transmission of news, ETV is among the country’s biggest satellite TV operations. For more information, visit www.etv.co.in 

  • Not so bossy after all

    Not so bossy after all

    MUMBAI: Boss reminds you of a brand of hand mixer of the same name. It is a blend of similar films from 1970s and 80s with two brothers, a principled father and a misunderstanding where brothers are parted. Traditionally, one takes the illegal route while the other is the father’s blue-eyed boy. The brothers come together to prove blood is thicker than water a decade and a half later. How is the film contemporary? In those days, a mother slapped her elder one and threw him out, here it is done by the father; the hero does not have a childhood sweetheart pining and waiting for him to return; the music is louder and lyrics make no sense most of the time and mainly, the fight is over the villain’s sister.

    Producer: Ashwin Warde
    Director: Anthony D’Souza.
    Cast: Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Danny Denzongpa, Ronit Roy, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao Hydari, Johny Lever, Parikshit Sahni, Govind Namdeo, Sanjay Mishra

    The film starts in an old-fashioned way, trying to set the pace of the film with action by various artistes for the first 40 minutes before it introduces Akshay Kumar with yet another action sequence, a greedy one because it refuses to end! The only action hero of yore who does not have a fight scene is Mithun Chakraborty.

    Akshay Kumar, who has been banished from his home in Banaras by his father, Mithun, ends up in Haryana in nick of time to save the local don and Big Boss, Danny. Seeing honesty mixed with anger in the young lad, Danny takes him under his wing to make him his heir, and names him Boss. Big Boss’s front is as the owner of a transport fleet but otherwise he is a supari contractor. On the other side is a policeman, Ronit Roy, who wants to be the commissioner of police and to achieve this, he handles the dirty deals department for the wannabe CM, Govind Namdeo.

    It is time to work on a family story and to absolve Akshay of his childhood act which led to his ouster from home. Akshay’s kid brother, Shiv Pandit, is romancing Aditi Rao Hydari, the sister of Ronit. Ronit wants her to marry Namdeo’s son in exchange for the Commissioner’s post. Namdeo wants an outsider to kill Shiv so fingers don’t point at him. The contract to kill him is given to Akshay. At the same time, Mithun gives a contract to save Shiv to Akshay. The brothers combine to foil all the evil plans of the villains through expected twists and turns with no pretence of logic or justification. It is supposed to be old-fashioned entertainment after all!

    A remake of the 2010 Malayalam movie, Pokkiri Raja, the film maintains its south flavour in treatment and even the choice of fighters and junior artistes. It also sticks to south style of action and stunts which is too much in vogue with Hindi films lately. Action and light banter of Akshay is what the film counts on to entertain the viewers. Direction is fair. The photography is good. Some one-liners are funny, some flat. Music is a lot of noisy stuff which makes following the lyrics tough. Akshay is his usual self in the roles he plays on regular basis now; a carefree character with unbeatable energy and fighting power. Shiv gets scope to showcase his action prowess and also his romantic side. Aditi Rao Hydari is okay. Mithun seems miscast in an Alokenath kind of role. Parikshit Sahani’s presence in the film is unexplained since he just has to hang around Mithun. It is nice to see Danny on screen after a long time. Ronit makes a perfect villain against Akshay. Johny Lever and Sanjay Mishra are okay with their comic input. Govind Namdeo is the usual villain like his many such roles before.

  • Not so bossy after all

    Not so bossy after all

    MUMBAI: Boss reminds you of a brand of hand mixer of the same name. It is a blend of similar films from 1970s and 80s with two brothers, a principled father and a misunderstanding where brothers are parted. Traditionally, one takes the illegal route while the other is the father’s blue-eyed boy. The brothers come together to prove blood is thicker than water a decade and a half later. How is the film contemporary? In those days, a mother slapped her elder one and threw him out, here it is done by the father; the hero does not have a childhood sweetheart pining and waiting for him to return; the music is louder and lyrics make no sense most of the time and mainly, the fight is over the villain’s sister.

    The film starts in an old-fashioned way, trying to set the pace of the film with action by various artistes for the first 40 minutes before it introduces Akshay Kumar with yet another action sequence, a greedy one because it refuses to end! The only action hero of yore who does not have a fight scene is Mithun Chakraborty.

    Akshay Kumar, who has been banished from his home in Banaras by his father, Mithun, ends up in Haryana in nick of time to save the local don and Big Boss, Danny. Seeing honesty mixed with anger in the young lad, Danny takes him under his wing to make him his heir, and names him Boss. Big Boss’s front is as the owner of a transport fleet but otherwise he is a supari contractor. On the other side is a policeman, Ronit Roy, who wants to be the commissioner of police and to achieve this, he handles the dirty deals department for the wannabe CM, Govind Namdeo.

    Producer: Ashwin Warde
    Director: Anthony DSouza.
    Cast: Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Danny Denzongpa, Ronit Roy, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao Hydari, Johny Lever, Parikshit Sahni, Govind Namdeo, Sanjay Mishra

    It is time to work on a family story and to absolve Akshay of his childhood act which led to his ouster from home. Akshay’s kid brother, Shiv Pandit, is romancing Aditi Rao Hydari, the sister of Ronit. Ronit wants her to marry Namdeo’s son in exchange for the Commissioner’s post. Namdeo wants an outsider to kill Shiv so fingers don’t point at him. The contract to kill him is given to Akshay. At the same time, Mithun gives a contract to save Shiv to Akshay. The brothers combine to foil all the evil plans of the villains through expected twists and turns with no pretence of logic or justification. It is supposed to be old-fashioned entertainment after all!

    A remake of the 2010 Malayalam movie, Pokkiri Raja, the film maintains its south flavour in treatment and even the choice of fighters and junior artistes. It also sticks to south style of action and stunts which is too much in vogue with Hindi films lately. Action and light banter of Akshay is what the film counts on to entertain the viewers. Direction is fair. The photography is good. Some one-liners are funny, some flat. Music is a lot of noisy stuff which makes following the lyrics tough. Akshay is his usual self in the roles he plays on regular basis now; a carefree character with unbeatable energy and fighting power. Shiv gets scope to showcase his action prowess and also his romantic side. Aditi Rao Hydari is okay. Mithun seems miscast in an Alokenath kind of role. Parikshit Sahani’s presence in the film is unexplained since he just has to hang around Mithun. It is nice to see Danny on screen after a long time. Ronit makes a perfect villain against Akshay. Johny Lever and Sanjay Mishra are okay with their comic input. Govind Namdeo is the usual villain like his many such roles before.

  • A sequel to ‘Khiladi’ without Akshay Kumar

    A sequel to ‘Khiladi’ without Akshay Kumar

    Think of Khiladi, the superhit movie of the 1990s and without Akshay Kumar. Yes! producer Ratan Jain who has decided to make a sequel to the 1992 blockbuster plans to cast a newcomer in the movie for the lead role.

     

    Directed by Abbas-Mustan, Khiladi starred Akshay Kumar in the lead role, also featuring Ayesha Jhulka and Deepak Tijori, among others.

     

    Films that I have made are not too old. I started working in the 1990s, so yes, youth knows about my film. Yes, we are trying various ideas to come up with different films,” Jain said.

     

    “I don’t know about remake, but we are planning to make a sequel to Khiladi.  It’s in a very early stage, we are still scripting,” he added.

     

    Jain, who had worked with Akshay in Dhadkan as well, plans to rope in a new face for the movie.

     

    “Most probably we will cast a new comer for the sequel,” he said when asked about the cast.

  • Akshay’s Boss gets into the Guinness Book for the largest poster

    Akshay’s Boss gets into the Guinness Book for the largest poster

    Actor Akshay Kumar’s film has created another record even before its release – it has entered the Guinness of World Records for the largest film poster in the world, a record so far held by Michael Jackson’s This Is It.

     

    Akshay’s fan club, which calls itself Team Akshay, decided to swing into action. Logistics were put into place and work had begun to make a special poster of Boss that would be the largest poster in the world which was completed in four months.

     

    The largest poster in the world was achieved and unveiled at Little Gransden Airfield, Little Gransden, UK, on 3 October. Macro Arts (UK) did the manufacturing of the poster. Incidentally, Macro Arts is the same company that had made Michael Jackson’s poster.

     

    The world’s largest poster of Boss is 58.87 metres wide and 54.94 metres high. When the Guinness officials came to measure it, it was recorded that the Indian Boss film poster had beaten Michael Jackson’s record by a 15 to 20 per cent margin.

     

    The official certification for the same was done in the UK itself and the Boss poster also finds a mention on the official Guinness website.

     

    Actor Akshay Kumar said, “It’s a matter of honour. I thank everyone who made this possible.”

  • Akshay Kumar pays tribute to Feroz Khan in ‘Har Kisi Ko Nahi Milta’

    Akshay Kumar pays tribute to Feroz Khan in ‘Har Kisi Ko Nahi Milta’

    MUMBAI: Akshay Kumar stands for versatility in Bollywood as he is known for encompassing roles from different genres readily and adeptly. From his action films to his comic roles, Akshay does everything just perfectly.

    The actor will be seen donning a cowboy avatar in the film BOSS, for the song Har Kisi Ko Nahi Milta.

    Akshay was keen on shooting this video in true Feroz Khan’s style, the Bollywood superstar has always been a big fan of Khan. He wanted the look of the song to be very stylish and quite larger than life, that’s where the ranch (farmhouse style with horses, mills) setting came in. This is Akshay’s way of paying respect to the great actor and director Feroz Khan.

    Along with Akshay the song features Sonakshi Sinha and has a backdrop in a ranch with beautiful white horses running around the duo.

    When quizzed Akshay about him donning the late Feroz Khan’s style he said, “I consider Feroz Khan to be the Boss of coolness and style. I hope I have been able to do justice to his personality.”

    Produced by Viacom 18, Cape of Good Films and Ashwin Varde Productions, BOSS is directed by Anthony D’souza and stars Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao Hydari, Johny Lever and Danny Denzongpa.
    The BOSS will hit the screens on 16 October.

  • Akshay Kumar pays tribute to Feroz Khan in ‘Har Kisi Ko Nahi Milta’

    Akshay Kumar pays tribute to Feroz Khan in ‘Har Kisi Ko Nahi Milta’

    Akshay Kumar stands for versatility in Bollywood as he is known for encompassing roles from different genres readily and adeptly. From his action films to his comic roles, Akshay does everything just perfectly.

     

    The actor will be seen donning a cowboy avatar in the film BOSS, for the song Har Kisi Ko Nahi Milta.

     

    Akshay was keen on shooting this video in true Feroz Khan’s style, the Bollywood superstar has always been a big fan of Khan. He wanted the look of the song to be very stylish and quite larger than life, that’s where the ranch (farmhouse style with horses, mills) setting came in. This is Akshay’s way of paying respect to the great actor and director Feroz Khan.

     

    Along with Akshay the song features Sonakshi Sinha and has a backdrop in a ranch with beautiful white horses running around the duo.

     

    When quizzed Akshay about him donning the late Feroz Khan’s style he said, “I consider Feroz Khan to be the Boss of coolness and style. I hope I have been able to do justice to his personality.”

     

    Produced by Viacom 18, Cape of Good Films and Ashwin Varde Productions, BOSS is directed by Anthony D’souza and stars Akshay Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao Hydari, Johny Lever and Danny Denzongpa.
    The BOSS will hit the screens on 16 October.

  • Shraddha Kapoor to star opposite Akshay in Gabbar

    Shraddha Kapoor to star opposite Akshay in Gabbar

    The Aashiqui 2 fame Shraddha Kapoor is indeed going places. After witnessing a massive turnaround in her career post the film, she has now been signed opposite Akshay Kumar for Gabbar. The development is close on the heels of her giving a nod of approval to Shahid Kapoor’s Haider.

     

    Producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali was quite positive about Shraddha making the cut since he felt the pretty girl carried just the right kind of innocence that the character demanded.

     

    This will be Shraddha first movie in the big league opposite a superstar like Akshay. Incidentally each of her next three films, The Villain, Haider and now Gabbar, has the leading man in the title, playing the central protagonist.

     

    Not too long ago a certain Sonakshi Sinha also started on the similar lines with Dabangg, Rowdy Rathore and Son of Sardaar; so Shraddha seems to be having a gameplan.

  • Boss ties-up with Chacha Chaudhary

    Boss ties-up with Chacha Chaudhary

    The popular comic character Chacha Choudhary is tying up with Akshay Kumar because both the comic character and the actor in his forthcoming Boss are middle class persons who help people in distress.

     

    Akshay’s character of Boss will be featured in a special edition of the comic book in Hindi and English showing him joining Chaudhary to fight the enemies. The edition will be launched by Akshay in Delhi.

     

    Akshay said, “I have been a fan of Chacha Chaudhary and Sabu since my childhood. I feel honoured that my character of Boss will now be featured alongside them in a special comic book.”

     

    Comics of the character have become a cult brand and sold over 10 million copies over the years.

     

    Speaking about the tie-up of Boss with Chacha Chaudhary, Viacom 18 Motion Pictures head – marketing Rudrarup Dutta said, “Chacha Chaudhary is a legendary Indian character, an entire generation has grown up reading Diamond Comics’ Chacha Chaudhary. This special edition will have the Boss – Akshay Kumar – join the team to vanquish their enemies. Apart from a unique medium which connects with the target audience, especially children, to promote the film it also is a matter of pride to be part of this collector’s edition of one of the most loved Indian comic books.”

     
    Produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Cape Of Good Films and Ashwin Varde Productions, Boss is being released on 16 October.