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Mayank Shekhar's Review: Chance Pe Dance

Posted by blog master Saturday, January 16, 2010

Director: Ken Ghosh
Actors: Shahid Kapoor, Genelia D’Souza
Rating: *1/2

A popular perception of Bollywood films in the West is that they’re musicals. This notion is only partly correct.

Many are left disappointed to learn that the stars of these films can’t sing. They lip-sync. Fine vocalists behind those songs rarely get their due. Few know music composers by face. Dance steps that movie-stars perform to aren’t the toughest to imitate either. The leading man of our cinema is often not even the best actor of his own film crew. He is just the better looking.

This makes the Bollywood star, hogging all the attention and money alone, the most over-rated figure of any pop-culture.

To be fair, Shahid Kapoor can dance. He can certainly move his body, even if his performances don’t move you much. This claims to be a dance film entirely. On paper, the proposition doesn’t read half as brain-dead as it appears on the big screen.

Since he was born, gauging by his looks, everyone assumed the boy in this film would be a hero one day. He began to believe in the myth.

We’re meant to follow the struggles of this wannabe, determined as he is to make it in showbiz. Even if this show-town looks anything but the grimy human factories of Lokhandwala the filmmakers know better. The Delhi, the hero considers back-home, is a mini Punjab full of Sikhs.

He rehearses dance on the giant Mumbai wooden floors Jennifer Lopez may have practiced on before. Govinda, Hrithik Roshan, Shiamak Davar, he says, are the legends of his field. His tiny apartment from the inside may well be the shanty of big-city America. When we weren’t looking, and he had hardly dough for breakfast, the hero also packed in for himself the 8-pack abs.

He does the multiple rounds of film auditions. The journey, and its conclusion, is predictably known. The music should take care of the rest. It doesn’t.

Songs don’t take the motionless picture forward. This is not a musical. The filmmaker here is merely a director of music videos, and there is one after half a dozen others: “Back straight. Attitude. Feel the music.” Sure.

Between those patchy, over-decorated music television tracks, the banal hero fails a courier boy’s job; sleeps in a car (when he could’ve moved in with his girl); joins a school to teach dance; enlists kids to win a competition; enlists himself to win a talent hunt… The show goes on, and so on, and so forth. As does the refrain: “Tu star ban sakta hai. Tu star ban gaya. Mein star banaunga….” (Whatever that means).

We may as well fear for the minor effect on li'l Gauravs and Sameers taking such silliness vaguely seriously. Seeking 'nautanki' fame is anyway turning into a bit of a national disease.
source-hindustantimes.com

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Yash Raj Films' Pyaar Impossible adopts the beauty and the geek formula, but its director Jugal Hansraj does an average job of handling the subject.

It's no college love story, as has been projected in the promos. But the film does begin at university, with ample campus shots to make you feel sorry you went to one with less imposing buildings.

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Uday Chopra is Abhay Sharma, a bespectacled geek, clad in boring trousers and shirts with a half-sleeves sweater and braces most of the time. Abhay is head over heels in love with the hottest babe on campus, Alisha (Priyanka Chopra).

Alisha is a spoilt brat of a girl, and after a particularly tipsy night in which she almost drowns (no prizes for guessing who saves her), the girl is out of college. Abhay's fantasy and he part ways.

Seven years later, Abhay is still single and still geeky – a replica of his dad (Anupam Kher). He is trying to sell new software he's built, which eventually gets stolen by a shrewd businessman Siddhu (Dino Morea). Siddhu is about to sell the software to a firm in Singapore, and our man Abhay lands up there to exercise his intellectual property rights.

No surprise that Abhay bumps into Alisha there who happens to be the company's PR official. But rather than taking her help to win his case, Abhay ends up being her nanny after finding out she's a divorced mom with a six-year-old kid, Tanya.

Sounds familiar? You bet. All the nanny and babysitter drama is straight out of so many English films, and you kinda don't know where the film is headed. At the same time, it's predictable.

The second half is more watchable, as Abhay endears himself to the kid and eventually wins her mom over – but with a lot of help from the kid, of course. In fact, it's Tanya who ultimately makes the two come together. (It was a dog in Hum Aapke Hain Koun...!, and a kid in Pyaar Impossible just like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai – why can't two adults do it for themselves?)

The best moment of the film, though, is when Abhay is about to tell Alisha "everything", and the bell rings…. Kudos to Jugal and the actors for that.

But sadly, the humour in the film fails to generate any laughs. Surprising, since it's the 'Dhoom' Uday Chopra we have here.

Priyanka Chopra lifts an average film up several notches. Without her presence, the film is nothing. She is carrying it on her shoulders, almost – there are a few places where she looks bored and is getting on with it. But she seems fully in character and has truly matured as an actor, following up on a successful 2008 and a Kaminey in 2009.

Uday Chopra seems to fit in the role with ease, with his mannerisms and look almost perfect (except a strand of grey hair visible in his sideburns in one scene). In his effort to please his love Alisha, it almost seems like the actor Uday is trying his best to please the audience, who've more or less rejected him as a main lead (although loved him in roles like Dhoom).
Dino Morea is confident as the menacing Siddhu aka Varun Sanghvi. It would do him good to stick to negative roles.

The little girl who plays Priyanka's bratty kid Tanya is super cute and makes you smile. Also, with her eyes, she could pass on as Jugal Hansraj's daughter! Anupam Kher is good as Uday's father, but has more of a cameo than a full-fledged role.

But in the end, the film works only post interval, when the 'feel good' mood takes over. The parallel software story doesn't quite generate too much interest, although that's the reason Romeo meets Juliet again and wins her.

But what was refreshing was, the hero doesn't pull a face when he comes to know his love of seven years is divorced and has a kid. He simply accepts both. Not that he has a choice, but then there's a message there.

Verdict: There is nothing new in Pyaar Impossible. Watch it only if you don't mind a predictable story with a hot Priyanka Chopra, and some catchy music.

Pyaar Impossible Movie Rating: 2.5/5 (0.5 extra for Priyanka Chopra)

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Posted by blog master Tuesday, January 5, 2010

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Genelia D'Souza is upset with rumours of her wedding with actor Riteish Deshmukh. The actress says she isn't getting married to anyone for the time being.

"To set the record straight, I am not getting married to anyone. I have always maintained that my personal life is not something I would like to discuss. But this time since it was something that would affect my family, I decided to take a stand," said Genelia in a statement released here Tuesday.

"My films and my brands are my priority as of now and I'd like to keep it that way. And if I do decide to settle down, you will hear it from me when as and when it happens," she added.

A tabloid had reported the romance brewed between Genelia and Riteish on the sets of Tujhe Meri Kasam (2003) and that they are planning to get married this year.

"It's rather funny that we have to read about the progress in our lives in the press before we even know it ourselves. I wonder how news like that can be put out without any confirmation from the people whose lives are being discussed," she said.

Genelia is right now looking forward to the release of Chance Pe Dance. She is paired with Shahid Kapoor in the film, which is releasing on Jan 15.
source-http://www.ndtvmovies.com
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Indians retreat from racism claim

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NAGPUR: Bollywood actor Aamir Khan wants his film '3 idiots' a tax free film and should be shown on Doordarshan while asserting that its an
anti-ragging movie.

Aamir along with his co-stars and Director Rajkumar Hirani, who hails from city, was here for the show, told on Tuesday that the film has a strong social message to the society.

To a query on recent ragging incidents in KEM College, Mumbai, Hirani, defending his movie, said there was no question of students picking up ragging. Indeed the film is based against ragging, he added. On some political parties opposing it, Hirani and Aamir pleaded innocence.

To a question on suicide committed by three school children in Mumbai, he said these days children are under considerable stress and parents are pressurising them to do certain things which the child does not want and not liking.

Parents should realize children's likings and dislikings and allow them to grow, he said. Children need counselling and they should not left alone or ignored. Children are more alert nowadays, he added.

Talking about his movie, Aamir said, 'Tare Jamin Par' was based on primary education while '3 idiots' was on higher education system. Lauding the present education system, Aamir said, "Our Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal was doing good job in bringing changes in the education system and we all should support him."
 source-http://economictimes.indiatimes.com
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