Eleven girls and a coach with a stubble. Chak De! India was a fine example of a brilliant movie based on a semi-fictional account of a real life hero Mir Ranjan Negi. That was a new beginning of the Indian celluloid.A real life scenario with which common man may relate plus a tinge of melodrama constitutes a fine recipe for a brilliant movie. Madhur Bhandharkar was the one of the first ones to realise this. Chandni Bar, Page 3, Corporate and Jail; all based on real life smitten blockbusters. Incidently, Shimit Amin's directorial debut was Ab Tak Chappan and he followed it up with Chak De!
This year apart from Jail, there were two more interesting movies with a reality taste. New York and Kurbaan: both had a back drop of 9/11. Also, Khuda Ke Liye, an acclaimed movie had a similar flavor- 9/11 and trauma. Furthermore, A Wednesday was another brilliant movie that released the anguish of a common man against merchants of death.
Now, cut to future. Two movies are eagerly awaited. First; romantic saga of Nehru and Lady Mountbatten- Indian Summer which is on hold for some reason and second is Rajneeti. We have talked a lot about the former. So, lets gossip about Rajneeti. Rajneeti has Katrina Kaif and Ranbeer Kapoor in lead roles and is a directorial effort by Prakash Jha.
Jha, after success of Gangajal and Apharan, needs no introduction and soon the movie will also grab a chunk of news feed for reasons. Katrina is playing a role of female politician with a rumor of role being inspired by career of Sonia Gandhi. Some what like Suchitra Sen's role in Aandhi that was inspired by life of Indira Gandhi. Then there are rumors about something going between KK and RK on the romantic side. There is a bad news too...According to news, Nana Patekar who was going to play an important role had left the movie because of some clash of egos between Jha and Nana. Sources from sets are attributing it to Nana's fietry temperament and tantrums leading Jha losing his cool. Since Nana is always a pleasure to watch...
A lot more in the pandorqa box. Check out this space for further...
2 comments:
Rajneeti & Indian Summer seem to b two promising films. All the best to both, hope to see some good cinema
m too eagerly waiting for rajneeti coz i want to see wat justice katrina does to her role...ranbir is fab...n regarding indian summer...just wish it gets released!
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