Daag The Fire directed by Raj Kanwar was released in the year 1999. Music of the movie is given by Rajesh Roshan and Naresh Sharma. Daag the Fire songs are sung by Anuradha Paudwal, Sukhwinder Singh, Alka Yagnik, Kumar Sanu and others. The movie stars Sanjay Dutt, Chandrachur Singh and Mahima Chaudhry plat the lead roles.
Daag is counted under the genre of crime, action, thriller and romance. The movie is quite good and has been rated average. It shows love story among youths and how different emotions are aroused with those feelings.
Diwali is an enthusiastic Sanjay Dutt supporter who has agreed to give us her take on Kancha, Sanjay Dutt's newest character in the acclaimed Agneepath, directed by Karan Malhotra. The Hindi Cinema Blog thanks her for her valuable contribution to more literature on this amazing actor and is glad to leave more detailed introductions to Diwali herself. :-)
Okay, for the record and for those who don't know me: I love Sanju. However, I do not call myself a "fan" – I prefer the attribute "supporter" for that is what I do: I support Sanju for better and for worse. Sure, you might point out that I was crazy enough to fly down to Mumbai from Germany for only a two day stay (!) two years ago just because I got an invitation to meet Sanjay Dutt. On the other side, this meeting confirmed my opinions about the human being Sanju (I always cared more for the human being than for the actor) and so I keep on supporting him running my website www.sanjay-dutt.info and my Twitter fanclub SanjayDuttFC for him. Even a series of flops (not undeserved in the case of those mindless comedies in 2011) cannot change my affection for him given that, as I said, the man means more to me than his movies.
When the news was out that Sanju would play the role of the villain Kancha in Karan Johar's Agneepath I got the immediate feeling that this could turn out to be one of his best movies. My confidence grew when I heard that he should go bald for Kancha for this sounded just too good. I guess I should add that I do not belong to those film fans who always want their favorites to look good/dashing/sexy/hot or whatever on screen. I love actors who don't care about how they look in their films and who do not shy away from ugliness if the role requires it. And Sanju is such an actor. He has proved it again and again since his early years in the industry. He never wanted to be a star given that, as he once said, stars fade while actors stay forever.
Diwali going bald for her role in the theatre
Bald is beautiful. Not only Anupam Kher can confidently say this but me too, because just shortly before even I had gone bald – I actually had shaved off my hair (which had been considerably longer than Sanju's) for a role in an open air theatre performance. Similarly to Kancha we also had tried to use prosthetics first but already when we put it on for the first time I knew immediately that this wouldn't work for me – it looked terrible, it felt terrible, and it would take hours and hours in the makeup room only to end up with an uncomfortable result. Why should I do this to myself? So I asked the hair stylist to throw the prosthetics away and shave my head completely. It was the best decision I have made in my life. I felt so free and authentic in my role and not for a second did I miss my long mane.
So that's why I first frowned when I heard that Sanju would use prosthetics. I then predicted that he would sooner or later be sick and tired of using these and would get rid of them. And right I was! When I got the news from the sets in Diu that Sanju finally had given short shrift to it all when the prosthetics had started melting and dropping in the heat, there I was, celebrating – for now I was sure that this Kancha would become something exceptional in Sanju's filmography.
Nevertheless, I still remember how I gasped when Dharma Productions launched the first look of Kancha on Sanju's birthday last year. This "Dark Lord of Bollywood" actually surpassed my expectations. It was so good to read all those positive reactions on the Internet! But this was nothing compared to what happened when the first theatrical trailer came out. I watched the launch live on the web and I had promised my friends to take some screenshots. When the trailer started – and Kancha appeared in the rain – my jaw dropped. Literally. I forgot to make screenshots. I forgot everything – I could only stare at Kancha.
At that moment I knew I would love Kancha. No matter how evil, cruel or brutal he would turn out to be, I would love him. I have seen each and every one of Sanju's movies, even those where he appears in the smallest cameos, but hardly ever the look of a role has appealed so much to me than that of Kancha. And I also knew already after seeing the trailer, that this would be one of Sanju's milestone performances – to be added to the line of Naam, Saajan, Sadak, Khalnayak, Vaastav, Mission Kashmir, Kaante, Pitaah, Shabd and the Munnabhai series.
And since yesterday I know this for sure. I saw Agneepath – and I saw Sanjay Dutt as never before. Maybe even as he will never be ever again.
Often before and even after the release of Agneepath I read media reports about "Khalnayak's Return" and about all the other negative roles Sanjay Dutt has already played. But in my opinion, these comparisons do not work because never before had Sanju embodied a character as thoroughly evil as Kancha. All his "negative roles" had either been anti-heroes like Khalnayak or Raghubhai in Vaastav, or they had grey shades or even positive traits, such as the gangsters in Kaante, Plan or Musafir. Even Raka in Zaarelay, one of Sanju's meanest roles until now, had turned out to have at least a bit of goodness in his heart.
Kancha, however, is evil. No ifs, ands or buts. I do not want to agree with the statement that he is evil personified, but he becomes, as sure as hell, a completely mean and mad psychopath. A villain without conscience who has fun torturing and killing people. Mad, menacing, unpredictable, dangerous. A man to fear. And a man to hate.
Obviously even Sanju himself felt this way when he dubbed his portions in the climax and suddenly felt sick, could not go on and needed a break. When Karan Johar asked him what was happening, Sanju admitted that he just could not stand his own sight. He couldn't believe that this cruel, evil, mad psychopath on the screen was actually him. Hrithik had felt similarly when, during the shooting of the climax, Sanju had stared at him in such an angry and dirty way that Hrithik, as he remembered later, fell out of his character several times.
For in real life, Sanju is the most gentle and gold-hearted man one could imagine. If there is one role which actually reflects Sanju's personality onscreen it is not Kancha, not Khalnayak, not Raghubhai but the loveable Munnabhai. No wonder Sanju was scared of his own sight as Kancha. No wonder Hrithik couldn't believe that Sanju could transform into such a menacing monster. I couldn't believe it either. Not that I had doubted Sanju's acting skills, but in Agneepath I saw him look, stare, laugh, grin and act like never before. It was incredible. It was Sanjay Dutt at his best, baddest and most awesome at the same time.
With Kancha, Sanjay Dutt has given a villain to the Hindi Cinema which in days to come certainly will be named and remembered in the same breath with Gabbar Singh and Mogambo. However, I doubt whether I want to see Sanju as a villain again. Not because he failed or couldn't do it or because I wasn't stunned (for I definitely was!) – but because I don't think there will ever be a way to top this larger-than-life performance.
I do not know whether Sanju will be given any awards for Kancha, for let us be honest: Even Rishi Kapoor delivered an amazing and award-worthy performance as the villainous Rauf Lala in Agneepath. On the other hand, I guess no award in the world could be more valuable and dearer to Sanju's heart than the praise he keeps receiving when people say that he is mindblowing in both the most sweet and loveable as well as in the most evil and hateable roles. Sanjay Dutt is the man who convinces the audience both as Munnabhai and as Kancha and will be remembered for both these characters. An actor can hardly wish for a better compliment.
On his promotion tour, before the Agneepath release, Sanju expressed his amazement over people obviously loving Kancha. I can understand him, actually you should hate this devil. But I cannot. I love Kancha for giving us a new and never imagined Sanjay Dutt. And I love Sanjay Dutt for giving us Kancha.
Establishing a list of the greatest songs of an entire year is always a difficult task BUT the Hindi Cinema Blog is one to love a challenge, so fasten your seat belts for the 2011 musical ride! We are recommending 12 tunes to start the millenium's 12th year! Check out our recommendations for the best Catchy Dance Tunes, Starry-Eyed Love Tunes and Alternative Tunes of 2011!
CATCHY DANCE TUNES 2011
And the winners are:
Akon sings for SRK's Ra.One
1.‘Chammak Challo’introduced the longest awaited film this year: Shah Rukh Khan and Kareena Kapoor's Ra.One, the song in question starring none other than Akon's voice. You may read our review of the film here.
2.‘Jalebi Bai’ (Double Dhamaal - starring Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi) has Shweta Tiwari strutting her item stuff and doing a Ritu Pathak lip-sync throughout the upbeat song.
3.'Character Dheela’ (Ready - starring Salman Khan and Asin) was criticized for its lyrics and Pritam was claimed to be incurring in plagiarism due to the song's extreme resemblance with 'Mohabbat Naam Hai Kiska' from 2001 film Ajnabee. In any case, the reggaeton-like rhythm invaded radio stations and had more than one of us nodding to the beat.
4. 'Singham’ (Singham - starring Ajay Devgan) reminds us a bit of the Dabangg title tune but we loved watching Ajay Devgan doing the macho man dance along with all those drums!
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara cast dripping RED tomato juice
5. Last but not least, 'Paint it Red’ (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara - starring Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif and Hrithik Roshan) had crowds dancing to a feel good, chill-out, catchy tune and we thank Shankar Ehsaan Loy for that one. Read our review of the film here.
STARRY-EYED LOVE TUNES 2011
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
6. ** Drum Roll ** The simply sweet and inspirational 'Khwabon Ke Parinday' from film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara placed Alyssa Mendonsa's deliciously unpretentious vocals in everyone's memory.
8. Pritam gifted the audiences a special soundtrack in Mausam, starring Sonam Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor. Our choice from this soundtrack is 'Rabba Main Toh Mar Gaya Oye', with the beautiful voice of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. Read our review of the film here.
Mausam
ALTERNATIVE TUNES IN THE SPOTLIGHT 2011
9. If our dear readers allow us to cheat a teeny weeny bit just this once, we want to recommend the entire Delhi Belly soundtrack, fitting it in as one song... Yes, we know, we know. It counts more songs than should fit in a Top Hits list but we guarantee that the raving is justified. Ram Sampath hit gold with an innovative album to accompany its quirky film, starring Imran Khan, Vir Das and Kunal Roy Kapoor. ‘Ja Chudail’ for example has the greatest heavy metal voice we have ever listened to in Hindi (Suraj Jagan). Other special mentions in the album go to the 'Bedardi Raja' Grind Mix, to the soulful 'Saigal Blues' (in our opinion the best track in the album) and the obvious hit: 'Bhaag DK Bose’. Read our review of the film here.
10. And since you already allowed us to cheat once, we want to repeat the feat for fun's sake and also recommend another full soundtrack in this category: AR Rahman's Rockstar, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Nargis Fakhri. Special mentions go to the gypsy-like 'Haawa Haawa', to 'Jo Bhi Mein', the instrumental 'Dichotomy of Fame', 'Kun Faya Kun' and 'Sadda Haq'. You can read our review of the film here.
Darrling - 7 Khoon Maaf
11. All right, moving on to more alternative musical pastures... The year opened with us celebrating the return of Vishal Bhardwaj and a smashing ‘Daarling’ for 7 Khoon Maaf.Read our soundtrack review here.
Bhare Naina - Ra.One
12. Our last recommendation is a song that closed this 2011 with a powerful and poignant rendition by Nandini Shrikar,Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani:'Bhare Naina' (Ra.One).
So ends another year filled with music and entertainment. You will now have a song to think about for each of the clock's 12 chimes as the new year sets in. The Hindi Cinema Blog wishes all our readers a fantastic 2012 filled with joyful entertainment shared with loved ones. Happy Filmi and Musical New Year!
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Shah Rukh Khan's dream film is finally out after much expectation this Diwali 2011.
The story of Prateek, a young boy who loves to play video games and how one of these games is brought to life is a concept that, according to director Anubhav Sinha, was born six years back when he watched a commercial that featured two children using a remote control on a human being. The original idea and Shah Rukh's dream of making a film that would cross all boundaries through the bold use of VFX resulted in developing a script about a superhero that, as Khan has explained, "saves mankind from Ra.One's (a new era Raavan) torment".
Ra.One has mainly created buzz prior to its release not only thanks to its all star cast and star cameos (Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt and none other than the legendary Rajnikanth) but also because it features visual effects and stunts that are absolutely new to Indian cinema and is an ambitious project that has seen huge collaboration between Indian and international teams. A visible example to the audience is that of the Ra.One soundtrack, which was composed by Vishal-Shekhar and includes the participation of internationally acclaimed singer Akon for two of its songs, "Chammak Chalo" and "Criminal", in accordance with a sporadic crossover musical trend in Hindi films.
The marketing of Ra.One has set a record as the "longest promotion in Bollywood history", having started as early as December 2010! One of the key elements in promoting the film has been keeping Arjun Rampal's avatar under tight wraps. The villain's skeletal look was only to be discovered late in promotions and this did create quite some expectation...
Part of the promotional strategies also included launching a Playstation 'G.One' game based on the film and featuring original dubbing by the movie's actors. Apart from the Playstation game, a social game application named Ra.One Genesis was also launched and has encountered unprecedented success. All sorts of collectibles have also been developed in accordance with the image of the film: G.One coffee mugs, T-shirts, watches, laptop skins, comics, video cameras and a collectible doll (similar to the Ghajini statuette, launched in 2009 by Aamir Khan).
Ra.One is the story of a father, Shekhar Subramaniam (Shah Rukh Khan), an un-herolike and Mr.Beany character who works as a graphics specialist in a video-game firm. Shekhar and his young wife, Sonia (Kareena Kapoor), have a son: Prateek (Armaan Verma). Prateek admires villains and therefore his father creates a highly futuristic video game in which the villain, named Ra.One, is more powerful than the game's good guy and also has a mind of its own. Prateek bites the bait and excitedly begins to play with Ra.One, oblivious to what is to come next: Ra.One comes to life in this dimension and threatens to kill Prateek and destroy everything in its path. Shekhar consequently brings to life his game's good guy: G-One (also played by a blue-eyed Shah Rukh Khan) to destroy evil. The film stunts and special-effects its way through the story that antagonizes both forces.
The effects will have you exclaiming "Wow!", heck, even the trailer had me exclaiming the same. Supernatural stunts, special effects and fellow action-movie inspired scenes set an electrifying tone. Technologically and novelty-wise it is undoubtful that Ra.One has what it takes to have viewers flock to the cinema. It bedazzles the audience with visuals and more visuals that are complex, modern and fiery, served at a very decent rhythm, particularly in the film's first half. The story is however no classic nor does it drive down a point of wisdom or a larger than life plot. Once the video effects are surpassed in the next decade or so, Ra.One risks not having the power of endearment generated by a graphically simpler Robot orKrrish. As an action film, Ra.One remains however a highly commendable incursion into a modern-day visual and promotional department, bringing expectations several notches up in India for films to come.
An action hero story this certainly is. However, as much as I want to believe the "hero with a heart" quote from the promotions, I have to stop and wonder... I sincerely remember feeling more emotional while watching Superman in the 80s (with sensibly less VFX) feel a quiet love for Lois Lane. Indian cinema had all the keys to bring in the necessary amount of emotion into the film but for some reason has not. As entertaining as Shah Rukh's presence can be and as pleasant as Kareena Kapoor is to watch on screen, I personally find the lack of emotions in the film a serious error, particularly coming from a trademark Indian film.
The story and game theme should be able to successfully make a mark among the gaming generation of youngsters. There is however an element that personally failed to engage me and was at odds (in my opinion) with what was promised in the promotional campaign: the film does have its good dose of below the belt, regionalist or even sexist humour, some of it even served by Armaan Verma (the little boy character!). Prateek is also a boy who is more worried by appearing cool than by being kind to others. All of the above to my judgement would not be suitable for a full-fledged "family film"...
Be aware that the second half of the film may seem as if a plot that was nicely being built up started unabashedly fizzling out. Having handsome Arjun Rampal successfully incarnate the evil forces was a good choice, but letting Prateek's mom also become Ra.One at a given point did seem way too far fetched even for a fantasy film and sadly made this viewer absolutely lose interest in whatever Kareena Kapoor had to do in the entire subsequent story.
Watch for huge entertainment of the eyes, not that much for plot or letting go off your emotions while you observe the lethal war between the pure and dark forces of the gaming universe. Do not expect to understand the reason underlying Ra.One's profound wrath either. The point is: Give your eyes a Diwali feast with handsome people on screen and state of the art VFX without asking for much more. Enjoy Ra.One for the phenomenal technological work that went into it and you will be able to say that your ticket was paisa vasool.
Amaanat was directed Raj N Sippy in the year 1994.
Star Cast:
The movie stars Sanjay Dutt and Akshay Kumar in lead roles. Other supporting star cast includes Kanchan, Hira, Kiran Kumar, Gulshan Grover, Mukesh Khanna, Farheen, Paintal, Mac Mohan, Ghanshyam, Neelam Mehra, Navneet Nishan, Satyen Kappu, Ram Mohan, Vikas Anand and Shashi Kiran.
Movie Review:
This movie falls under the genre of drama and action movies with a quality story. The story of the movie Amaanat revolves around a poor villager Vijay ( Sanjay Dutt ) whole lives with his young sister and mother. His sister was nearing her marriage so he decided to go to the city to earn some money for her marriage. Vijay headed towards the city of dreams Mumbai. When he reached there he bumped into a trickster and conman Amar ( Akshay Kumar ). Soon they became very good friends. Simple Vijay never knew about Amar’s work and so he decided to live at his place for the time being.Slowly he managed to get a job with a firm owned by a wealthy business man Aggarwal Seth’s ( Mukesh Khanna ). His hardworking attitude and simple nature helped him win the trust of the owner and he became one of the most important employees of the company. Time passed by and it seemed to him that he has earned enough money for his sister’s weeding hence he decided to return back. As he reached his village he was completely devastated to see his worst nightmare. Lankeshwar ( Kiran Kumar ), the powerful man in the village has destroyed his dreams. What happens next? This gives an interesting turn. Contribution by Akshay Kumar Is superb. Overall, movie is nice and enjoyable. The movie was above average at Box office.
Music And Singers:
Music of the movie is composed by Bappi Lahiri. Songs are sung in beautiful voices of Kumar Sanu, Ila Arun, Alka Yagnik, Bappli Lahiri with few others.
Achanak was directed by Naresh Malhotra in the year 1998.
Star Cast:
The movie stars Saeed Jaffrey, Govinda, Manisha Koirala. in lead roles.Other cast of the movie includes Raj Babbar, Dinesh Hingoo, Paresh Rawal, Johny Lever, Sanjay Dutt, Saeed Jaffrey, Dalip Tahil, Navneet Nishan, Tinu Anand, Rahul Roy, Shahrukh Khan, Viju Khote, Farha and Vishwajeet Pradhan.
Movie Review:
The hindi bollywood movie of 1990's comes up with a suspense thriller story that is wonderfully directed by the director Naresh malhotra. The movie revolves around the life of Arjun Nanda ( Govinda ), a young man who lives with his brother Vijay Nanda ( Rahul Roy ). One day he came across a beautiful girl called Pooja ( Manisha Koirala, he was instantly attracted towards her. It was the matter of time when both were in love with each other. They decided to marry each other very soon. But before they could marry each other, some unforeseen incidents started happening in their life.Both Anand and Pooja started feeling that there is someone who is trying to take their life. The unknown face tried to kill them both one numerous instances but somehow they managed to escape every time.And thus the story continues. Movie is nice and appreciable.The movie was praised loud among audience and did a good business at Box Office.
Movie's Music and Singers:
Music of the movie is given by Sameer Sen and Dilip Sen. Songs are well sung by Kumar Sanu, Hariharan, Abhijeet, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik and Hema Sardesai.
Parineeta is a 2005 Hindi film starring Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan, Sanjay Dutt, Diya Mirza and Raima Sen. This film is based on the 1914 Bengali novelParineeta by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. The film performed well in the box office and went on to win several prominent awards. The music of the film has been composed by Shantanu Moitra, who also won the R D Burman Award for his work. This album was requested by Jennifer. I hope you all enjoy listening to these beautiful tracks.
Lamhaa is an upcoming 2010 Bollywood action thriller film written and directed by Rahul Dholakia. The film stars Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu, Anupam Kher & Kunal Kapoor in lead roles. The music of the film has been composed by Mithoon with lyrics by Saeed Qadri and Amitabh Varma. The film would be releasing on 16 July, 2010.
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Aladin is an upcoming movie directed by Sujoy Ghosh. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Sanjay Dutt, Jacqueline Fernandez, Juhi Chawla and Sameera Reddy in pivotal roles. Aladin is a contemporary take on the classic fairy tale and boasts of a visual scale never seen before on Indian screen. Aladin will be released on October 16, 2009.
Aladin songs are composed by Vishal-Shekhar (composer of the magnificent Om Shanti Om songs.). The songs are pretty below average, btw give a time pass listen..
Pritam's 'All the best' songs were released on the same day as Rahman's blue songs.All The Best - Fun Begins is a forthcoming movie directed by Rohit Shetty. It's featuring Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu and Mugdha Godse in the pivotal roles. The film is slated for release on October 16, 2009. It's a okay okay album for me, btw liked 'Kyon'. Hope you like the songs
