Friday, May 25, 2007

2004 L.O.C. Kargil


Starring : Abhishek Bachchan, Ajay Devgan, Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Sunil Shetty, Manoj Bajpai, Sanjay Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee, Esha Deol, Raveena Tandon, Namrata Shirodkar, Ashutosh Rana
Producer : J.P Dutta
Director : J.P Dutta
Music : Anu Malik
Lyrics : Javed Akthar

At the center of the movie are a number of characters who have been given the challenging task of driving the enemy out of the Indian territory in Kargil. There is Capt. Vikram Batra ( Abhishek Bachchan ) of J&K Rifles, a golden-hearted man with an iron will. Capt Vikram is a true leader who infuses in his men the fiery passion to fight the enemy to the very end.

There is Lt. Manoj Pandey ( Ajay Devgan ) who believes that ‘some goals are so worthy it is glorious even to fail’.

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is Lt. Balwaan Singh ( Akshaye Khanna ) the tough jaat from Haryana. He is a man of few words and doesn’t flinch in looking his enemy straight in the eye.

Lt. Col Y. K Joshi ( Sanjay Dutt ) aka Y K Joe is a senior officer who doesn’t believe in just giving orders to his juniors but rather leads them standing first in the line of fire.

There is young Capt. Anuj Nayyar ( Saif Ali Khan ), a man who has promised his lover ( Kareena Kapoor ) that he will return from the battlefield to reunite with her. He is a brave man who sacrifices his life laughing in the face of death even though his promise to his beloved remains unfulfilled.

There is the hardy rifleman Sanjay Kumar ( Sunil Shetty ) who is inseparable from his guns and has the capacity to bump off many before even sustaining a scratch.

Another tough man in the battalion is Grenadier Yogender Singh Yadav ( Manoj Bajpai ) whose real strength lies inside his mind and soul rather than in his body. He is the man who takes 15 bullets in his flesh and bone and still survives the battle.

There is Major Deepak Rampal ( Sanjay Kapoor ) who was on the leave but rushed to the battlefield to join his soldier friends.

So the onus to fight the enemy falls on the shoulders of these men and their colleagues (played by Bikram Saluja , Ashutosh Rana , Nagarjuna and others).

The enemy is strong and has the advantage of being on the mountain peaks. But the determination of these men is no less strong. Their valor and their love for their country is much higher than the mountains where their enemy is perched.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

2004 Veer-Zaara




Starring : Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Hema Malini, Amitabh Bachchan
Producer : Yash Chopra
Director : Yash Chopra
Music : Madan Mohan
Lyrics : Javed Akhtar
Release : Nov 12, 04

A simple girl by nature, Zaara is happy to marry the man of her parent’s choice, Raza. She has come to India to fulfil her surrogate Hindu mother’s last wish: To immerse her ashes in the holy river.

But the bus in which she is travelling meets with an accident. It is at this point that she meets Veer. Their initial friendship starts off on a sour note, but before they realize it, they fall in love.

2005 Bunty aur Babli

  • Starring : Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Amitabh Bachchan, Tania Zaetta
    Producer : Yash Chopra
    Director : Shaad Ali
    Music : Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
    Release : 05/27/2005

    Bunty Aur Babli is the story of two dreamers who don many guises on their journey to riches and fame. On their trail is an eccentric cop.

    The film stars Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee and Amitabh Bachchan in the leading roles.

    Abhishek Bachchan plays Rakesh, a man who dreams big but lives in a small town named Fursatganj. Rakesh’s mind is a fertile ground for all kinds of schemes, ideas and plans to become rich. However, he knows he can achieve nothing living in his small and sleepy town. So he sets out to write his own destiny and realize his dreams of riches.

    Rani Mukherjee plays Vimmi, the self-proclaimed queen of the little-known Pankinagar. She is unlike the other girls of her town. She is uninhibited, wrestles in her father’s akhaada and teases boys, rather than the other way round.

    Vimmi, too, is a dreamer. In her mind she is a beauty queen, a clever woman who can outfox anyone and so on… Vimmi sets out on a journey to fulfill her dreams.

    As fate would have it, Rakesh and Vimmi, the two dreamers of our story, meet accidentally and are rechristned Bunty and Babli.

    Realizing the similarities of their dreams, the two chum up and set out on a journey that will make them rich and famous but at the expense of the people they will fool.

    On their journey together, Bunty and Babli don many guises. They become spiritual gurus, bureaucrat and secretary, gangster and moll, business partners, hen pecked husband and pregnant wife, lawyer and sexually harassed client, vagabonds and lovers etc.


2005 Paheli



Starring : Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Juhi Chawla, Sunil Shetty, Amitabh Bachchan
Producer : Red Chillies Entertainment - Shah Rukh Khan
Director : Amol Palekar
Music : MM Kreem
Release : 06/24/2005

The film has Rani playing a village girl. She is married to a man who is only interested in money. On the day of their wedding, her husband leaves for an important business. However, when he fails to return home after a long time, he is presumed dead by the villagers.

Shahrukh plays the ghost who falls in love with Rani's character. He takes on her husband's appearance and enters her life. The lovelorn beauty finds love, caring and tenderness in her husband's apparition.

Five years later, the husband returns home. The villagers and relatives are bewildered to see him. Now arise many dilemmas in the mind of the character played by Rani. She has to choose between the ghost's eternal love and her husband’s ephemeral affection

2005 Mangal Pandey-The Rising


Starring : Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Amisha Patel, Toby Stephens, Coral Beed
Producer : Bobby Bedi
Director : Ketan Mehta
Music : A.R Rahman
Lyrics : Javed Akhtar
Release : 08/12/2005

Set against the backdrop of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, ‘The Rising’ tells the tale of a heroic sepoy who spearheaded the movement that later became the struggle for Indian freedom from the colonial British.

Through a colorful ensemble of characters, the movie tells the tale of friendship, love, betrayal and mutiny. It is the story of friends, lovers, enemies – story of exploiters and the exploited.

The protagonist of the film is sepoy Mangal Pandey (Aamir) who saves the life of a British commanding officer William Gordon (Toby Stephens) in a fierce battle in the Afghan wars of the mid 19th century. Despite the difference in their rank, Mangal and Gordon become good friends.

Their friendship is tested with the arrival of a charming and beautiful young aristocrat, Emily Kent. In the meantime, Gordon saves a beautiful young native girl, Jwala (Amisha), from the funeral pyre of her late husband, and falls in love with her.

Differences arise between Mangal Pandey and Gordon when the controversial new gun cartridges are introduced in the infantry of which Mangal is a part. The new cartridges require soldiers to bite through their greased casing, made of animal fat. And the Indian soldiers in the infantry refuse to use them.

Gordon assures Pandey that the cartridges have no animal fat, but the truth turns out to be the opposite.

Mangal Pandey leads a mutiny against the British, thereby setting off a wave for India’s freedom from its imperialist rulers.