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  • Box Office: ‘Bangistan’ bombs; ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ crosses Rs 300 crore

    Box Office: ‘Bangistan’ bombs; ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ crosses Rs 300 crore

    MUMBAI: Coming from a production house, which is known to churn out quality films, Bangistan fails to deliver. Produced by Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s Excel Entertainment, the movie was expected to be a commercial entertainer. However, Bangistan, inspired from a British film Four Lions – about four waylaid terrorists, is an utterly senseless film exhibiting total lack of the film medium. The film managed to put together just about Rs 1 crore on its opening Friday and despite expected improvement over Saturday and Sunday, the first weekend collections stand at a measly Rs 3.35 crore.

     

    On the other hand, Jaanisar, was marketed as ‘From the maker of Umrao Jaan’ and to his credit, Muzaffar Ali did make Umrao Jaan and Gaman, two hugely appreciated films. However, his latest lacks the purpose and the human interest story that his previous two films had. This film lacks identification for any kind of audience, as a result of which, meets with a disastrous fate at the box office: no takers.

     

    Ajay Devgn’s experiment with a family thriller sans action, Drishyam, does not quite work despite all three of its previous versions in Malayalam (original), Telugu and Tamil remakes making their mark at the box office as well as with critics. While critics stayed divided over handing out stars in ratings to the film, ticket buyers remained mostly indifferent. Except Devgn, that too not the way his fans like to see him, the rest came as a patch up job.  You make an economical film but admission rates remain the same at the cinema halls and audiences expect their money’s worth. After an opening weekend of Rs 27.6 crore including collections from paid previews on Thursday before regular release, the film ended its first week with Rs 41.3 crore.

     

    Masaan could muster praise from the critics as well as few who paid to watch it but not enough to register at the box office. It added Rs 1.05 crore to its first week figures taking its two-week total to Rs 3.45 crore.

     

    Bajrangi Bhaijaan still holds sway over the audience also getting some repeat footfalls as it collects over Rs 29.4 crore in its third week. This takes the film’s three-week tally to Rs 301.45 crore.

     

    Bahubali: The Beginning (Hindi- Dubbed) continues to do well during its fourth week. The film has added Rs 10.9 crore to take its four-week tally to Rs 98.85 crore.

  • Muzaffar Ali’s ‘Jaanisaar’ with Imran Abbas & Pernia Qureshi almost complete

    Muzaffar Ali’s ‘Jaanisaar’ with Imran Abbas & Pernia Qureshi almost complete

    NEW DELHI: Filmmaker Muzaffar Ali, who is remembered for the first version of Umrao Jaan starring Rekha, is back at the helm of yet another period drama, set in 1877.

     

    The new film, which is once again the story of a revolutionary dancer, is about the love between a westernized young man and a girl who is deeply rooted in the ethos of revolution. The guy is brought up in England and when he sees what British is trying to do is not right for the country, he becomes a rebel.

     

    Jaanisaar, produced by Meera Ali, also features Creature 3D fame Imran Abbas and Pernia Qureshi, who is considered to be India’s one of the leading style icon and fashion entrepreneur.

     

    A song shoot was held in the capital in a farmhouse at Gurgaon. Most of the shooting of the film was done at the same venue.

     

    When asked about the long gap from direction, Ali said, “I was actually working on a lot of stories and various projects but then this story seemed the best to portray the modern and different period cinema.”

     

    He also revealed his interest in promoting Uttar Pradesh by saying “my interest is really doing things in UP (Uttar Pradesh).”

     

    Abbas added, “I am fortunate enough to work with Ali as my career’s first Pakistani TV series was also named Umrao Jaan where I played the character of the prince, Siddharth. Ali sir is a very understanding person to work with. I indeed gained a lot from him.” 

     

    Qureshi said, “I am very nervous not only because it is my first film but also because Muzaffar sir was a dream to work with. As we all know that he directed Umrao Jaan with the legendary Rekha, so I was a bit scared but he proved to be very comfortable during the shoot.”

     

    The shooting of the film is almost complete and the release date will be announced soon, Ali said.

  • Remake of Umrao Jaan on the cards

    Remake of Umrao Jaan on the cards

    MUMBAI: Muzzafar Ali, who had produced and directed the Rekha-starrer 1981 film Umrao Jaan, is planning to make a sequel.

    For the upcoming film, Ali and writer Javed Siddiqui want Rekha to play a cameo. At the end of the original, Umrao Jaan (Rekha) is seen coming back to her kotha without it being shown what is going to happen to her in the English regime.

    “Here we have a story in which we have Umrao Jaan as an older and more mature person. But we don‘t know if this would happen or not,” wondered Siddiqui.

    Umrao Jaan, based on the Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada, is based on the life of famous Lucknow courtesan.

    Rekha‘s performance as the central character in the film had won her the first National Award.

    In 2006, J P Dutta had come out with the remake of Umrao Jaan with Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan in the lead roles. However, the film failed miserably at the box office.

  • Veteran filmmaker Dutta passes away

    Veteran filmmaker Dutta passes away

    MUMBAI: Veteran writer- director-producer O.P. Dutta passed away at the Kokilaben hospital in Mumbai yesterday.

    Dutta began his career in 1948 when he directed Pyaar Ki Jeet. This was followed by films like Hamari Manzil (1949), Surajmukhi (1950), Ek Nazar (1951), Parbat (1952), Malkin (1953), Lagan (1955), Hulare (1957) and Aangan (1959).

    Later, he went on to collaborate with directors such as Ramanand Sagar, Rajender Singh Bedi, Kaifi Azmi and others.

    Dutta has been credited for writing the story and dialogues of all JP Dutta‘s films, including Ghulami, Hathyar, Border, Refugee and his final film Umrao Jaan.

  • B4U Music launches new VJs

    MUMBAI: B4U Music introduced two new faces to represent the evolving international face of the network- Asad Shaan and Khushboo. He channel claims that the VJ launches are part of its ongoing initiative to pump in freshness and vibrancy into its programming and content presentation.

    VJ Asad has a background in acting and has studied at Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and New York Film Academy. He is has also won the title of Mr. Asia in UK.VJ Khushboo has extended her modeling and choreography career to television.

    While Asad anchors shows like Video Active, Flash, Star Stop, Special on B4U Music and CentreStage and Bollywood Unlimited on B4U movies, Khushboo is the face of Video on call, First cut, India Top 10 and Bollywood 20 to 1 on B4U Music

    B4U Television Network is currently in the process of revitalizing its brand image. The network operates two television channels – B4U Music and B4U Movies. B4U Movies recently acquired worldwide telecast rights for Guru, Umrao Jaan and Nishabd.

  • A special review of ‘Umrao Jaan’ on IBN 7

    Watch Premier 7 for an exciting weekend!!!

    New Delhi, November 2, 2006: To spice up the weekend for the viewers, IBN 7 presents a special review on ‘Umrao Jaan’ on Premier 7 on Saturday, November 4 at 7:30pm. Premier 7 is a must watch to know more about the making of the movie. Audience can also catch charismatic Aishwarya Rai with Abhishek Bachchan as they talk about the making of ‘Umrao Jaan’ and lots more.

    The show will also feature a special celebrity guest invited to watch the weekly film release and give his/her point of view regarding the cast, story, direction music and other elements of the film. The guest will rate the film on a scale of 0-7 and Anshu Sisodia (show host) will rate it too as per IBN 7 standards.

    To add up some more fun, Premiere 7 will feature previews on forthcoming Bollywood & Hollywood films, updates on star lives, box-office results, and top rated songs and lots more.