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  • Judwaa 2 hopes to entertain

    Judwaa 2 hopes to entertain

    *Judwaa 2 came after a long gap that was filled by mediocre and non-entertaining films. There were no films in the last few months which could draw out the families from home to watch a film.

    Two weeks before Diwali was not the right time to release a film but, to counter that, there was also a long holiday weekend with Dussehra on Saturday and Gandhi Jayanti holiday on Monday.

    The film rode on the brand equity of the 1997 original, Judwaa, starring Salman Khan in dual role. Salman even helped promote Judwaa 2 through its promos. The film took a decent opening last Friday with Rs 155 million as Saturday improved by bounds as expected, and so did Sunday as the film put together Rs 579 million for its opening weekend.

    Gandhi Jayanti holiday may have have proved to be a major boost to the film’s collections.

    *Sanjay Dutt’s comeback film, Bhoomi, has flopped. The film could add little to its opening weekend, and had just made about Rs 95 million for its first week.

    *Haseena Parkar proved to be another disaster. One wonders at the choice of such subjects to make films! Films and Rani Laxmi don’t work but someone somewhere thought a film on Haseena Parker will work? The film managed to collect Rs 63 million in its first week.

    *Newton proved to be surprise packet as its choice as the Indian entry for the Foreign Language Oscar coincided with its Friday release. Two other films to release on the same Friday, Bhoomi and Haseena Parker, being way below par, Newton got a boost as the people’s first choice. The film, which was poor on day one, picked up to end its first week with collections of Rs 112 million.

    *Lucknow Central managed to add just about Rs 75 lakh in its week two to take its two week total to Rs 110 million.

    *Simran added Rs 13 million in its week two to take its two week total to Rs 158 million.

  • Haseena Parkar….Who!

    Haseena Parkar….Who!

    Director Apoorva Lakhia seems to be getting excited about all the wrong ideas. Last time, he watched the 2004 Hollywood film, Man On Fire, came back jet speed to India and launched a Hindi ‘remake’.

    By the time he launched his movie, Ek Ajnabee, the original had fallen flat. Instead, what Lakhia could have done was adapt the book, Man On Fire, written by AJ Quinnell in 1987. The movie had left out all the best parts of the story.

    This time, he has dug out the life of Haseena Parkar (Sharddha Kapoor), post her brother, Dawood’s (Siddhant Kapoor) departure from India. Along with an important man from Dawood’s coterie, she continues with collection and extortion business of Dawood. Her brother, Dawood, may have left Mumbai, but his enemies were still around. Soon, Haseena’s husband, Akur Bhatia, is killed.

    This is about all that the writer-director have on their hand which is not enough, and it shows her becoming woman of power to facing the law. The film ends up glorifying Parker, and one wonders how she merited a film be made on her or her story be told!

    If the makers think casting Shraddha and Siddhant, the real brother and sister, was some sort of a coup, it was no such thing.

    However, what was funny was and advertorial in newspaper supplement which claimed: Sharddha-Siddhant shed tears on the sets of Hasena Parkar! What kind of a childish promotion is this?

    There is nothing to write home about performances. Shraddha tries to justify the role of Haseena and there is nothing to compare if she is living up to the original.

    Also, whoever had played Haseena would not have made much difference as one can’t take a liking to negative character for no reason. Rest don’t matter.

    Haseena Parkar will prove to be liability.

    Producers: Nahid Khan.

    Director: Apoorva Lakhia.

    Cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhant Kapoor, Ankur Bhatia.

  • Sonakshi to play lead in biopic on Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar

    Sonakshi to play lead in biopic on Dawood Ibrahim’s sister Haseena Parkar

    NEW DELHI: Actress Sonakshi Sinha will soon be seen in her very first biopic, which is based on the controversial story of Haseena Parkar, the late sister of Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.

     

    Although Ibrahim has 12 siblings, she was the closest to him but died in 2014 having suffered a heart attack.

     

    Her intriguing story is now being made into a film that is being produced by Mubina Rattonsey and directed by Apoorva Lakhia.

     

    Titled Haseena – The Queen of Mumbai, the film is expected to raise eyebrows.

     

    It will cover 40 years of the emotional saga of Haseena and what it meant to be Dawood Ibrahim’s sister.

     

    Lakhia is known for his love for making biopics on underworld dons. The film will roll out for shooting early next year.