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Bipasha bonds with Ranbir and Neil
Bipasha Basu has bonded very well with her young co-stars Ranbir Kapoor and Neil Nitin Mukesh .
After a successful pairing with Saif Ali Khan in Race , Bipasha has paired with two newcomers of last year in her upcoming films. She has already shot with Ranbir Kapoor in Italy for Yashraj Films Bachna Ae Haseeno .
Bipasha says she bonded with the young Kapoor scion very well.
“Ranbir is a super-cute and we got along like house on fire,” the sultry actress is quoted as saying in a media report. Bips added that she had a ball working with Ranbir and Siddharth Anand (director) in Italy.
After the Italy schedule, Bipasha flew to Miami to be with her beau John Abraham for a few days before heading to Bangkok to shoot Freeze with Neil Nitin Mukesh.
Bipasha says bonding with Neil is special because he is also a Capricorn like her.
“As for Neil, we’re both Capricorns, and like me, Neil is extremely organized,” Bipasha is quoted as saying.
In ‘Freeze’, Bipasha plays a DJ while Neil plays a photographer.
Bipasha said she has known two Capricornians – Uday Chopra and Hrithik Roshan – and she bonded with both of them.
Bipasha is expected back in Mumbai by mid June when John’s film Aashayein is set to premiere.
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Bollywood condemns Tamil moral police
The incident took place some time ago, but Bollywood is still fuming over a police complaint being filed against actress Mallika Sherawat for wearing a revealing dress at the audio launch of “Dasavatharam” in Chennai.
Here’s what they say:
Malaika Arora: I think Mallika has become a favourite punching bag in the press. Leave the girl alone. It’s ridiculous. Maybe the moral police in the south should take a closer look at their own films for obscenity.
Rahul Khanna: I feel sad for the moral police. Perhaps they’re jealous of Mallika’s legs. They seem to have a lot of free time on hand - why not use it for issues more important than the length of skirts?
Hema Malini: I was there in Chennai. Mallika’s dress was looking good. She too was looking very good. But perhaps the dress was a little too short for the occasion. Who knows!
Sonu Sood: Some people have all the time in the world to measure dress lengths. Good for them. At least moral policing keeps some people busy. At the same time I feel some celebrities dress a certain way to attract attention and create controversies. Ignore them. It will avoid unnecessary publicity.
Amrita Arora: It’s ridiculous. What’s wrong with wearing a short skirt? And why only target Mallika for it? Girls in colleges and work places across the country are wearing them. Go get all of them, you moral cops! By the way there’re much more serious things to be done.
Sophie Chowdhary: I think the reaction to Mallika’s skirt is ridiculous. According to me, the outfit is definitely not vulgar or offensive. Surely there’re a hundred other issues in our country to get upset about. Leave Mallika and her clothes alone.
Diya Mirza: I think they’ve no right to comment on Mallika. I think they should instead give attention to the sleaze content in some of their films. Stop pointing fingers at someone just because you’ve nothing better to do.
Lilette Dubey: Who’s this self-appointed brigade? And what are they afraid of? Influencing youth of this country? A generation that’s now exposed to movies, fashion and images from around the world right there in their homes? It’s up to the individual to decide what she wears and, if she can handle the public gaze, then it’s her prerogative to dress the way she wants.
Priyanka Kothari: I think the moral police are more publicity crazy than any other section of our society.
Samir Soni: I believe what is moral or immoral is an extremely personal decision. No group of people have the right to force their value system on us unless an individual’s action inconveniences others or obstructs someone’s fundamental rights.
Gul Panag: Why should it be anyone’s business what someone wears or doesn’t wear? The moral police should close down Khajuraho or dress up the sculptures in ’suitable’ clothes before attacking anyone.
Sandhya Mridul: With due respect, the actresses down south wear clothes that seem pretty suggestive and sexy. So what’s their problem? The moral police all over the country should keep tabs on the real moral issues rather than the clothes actresses wear. Incidentally, why are only actresses pulled up? Why not the males who nowadays pose in less than women?
Pooja Bedi: I think the more importance the media gives to such people, the more such cases we’ll see. The quickest route to fame is to sue celebrities. Morality is so subjective. Do these moralists want to take us back to the days of the purdah? And should their standards of morality be applicable to society? Was there a dress code at the music event? If not, how could they expect a girl with a glamorous sexy image to land up in a salwar-kameez?
Nandana Sen: It’s absurd! Mallika is beautiful and has a style of her own. How can anyone have the right to say that style is wrong? Should we all start wearing uniforms now to make everyone happy? Clothes are one of the ways in which a person expresses her or his individuality. Dictating what another individual wears is as ridiculous as a third party forbidding you, a writer, from choosing certain topics, or me, an actor, from taking on certain roles.
What’s the issue with Mallika’s clothes? If the concern is protecting women’s dignity, why don’t we create a safe and protective environment so that little girls aren’t thrown into fires for stepping beyond boundaries that should never have been set up?
Courtesy : www.bollywoodworld.com
Movie Review: Dhoom Dadakka
Cast: Sammir Dattani, Shama Sikandar, Shaad Randhawa, Aarti Chhabria, Anupam Kher, Satish Kaushik and Gulshan Grover
Director: Shashi Ranjan
Ratings: *
By the time Sammir Dattani and Shaad Randhawa get into drag, this unfunny comedy has dragged on way past ‘bad’ time.
Everyone uniformly hams through this painful piece of cinematic travesty. There is so much screaming and ranting across the length and breadth of this outrageous ode to idiocy that you wonder if the producer-director Shashi Ranjan intended to provide earplugs for all those brave hearts who would sit to the end of this haphazard comedy of terrors.
No earplugs, what we get are shrill banshee ring-tones of risqué ragas sung at an ear-splitting pitch, and phallic jokes.
If lately you’ve been wondering where the Bollywood comedy has been heading, here’s the answer.
Comedies can’t get any baser or brainless than “Dhoom Dadakka”. The gags make you gag. The items and innuendoes are embarrassing not because they try hard to be vulgar, but because they fail miserably to be sexy.
Vulgarity in this comedy of disembodied context depends completely on how many of the characters are crammed in one line of vision in every scene. They all stand making faces and gesticulating as though trying to attract the lifeguard’s attention from a sinking boat.
The double meanings flow is in abundance mostly from the moist painted trembling lips of Deepshikha, who keeps referring to the size of ‘big’ things every time she spots a male member of the cast in her vicinity.
“Dhoom Dadakka” is a jumbo-sized non-event.
Before you fall of your creaky bed in comic splendour, let’s move on to the main ‘coarse’ in this pickled over-spiced platter in a hotel that’s probably named Romp Teri Giggle Maili.
The two guys, Sammir and Shaad grimace and giggle, roll their eyes and suck in their cheeks to indicate lies buried too deep for jeers. Add two girls - Aarti Chabria and Shama Sikandar trying so hard to be glamorous it’s pathetic.
The characterisations take the cult of one-upmanship down to the level of a ‘nukkad nautanki’, what with every actor getting lost in the confusion of their mistaken identities.
In no time at all, the plot suffers from an identity crisis. Shashi Ranjan, who earlier made us laugh with his supposedly serious study of marital stress in ‘Dobara’, doesn’t know whether to indulge tongue-in-cheek comedy of the Hrishikesh Mukherjee variety or just do the out-and-out no-fools-stops comedy of the David Dhawan-Anees Bazmi variety.
Eventually, the confusions that dominate the plot overpower every sense of aesthetic decency. In the end game where the entire cast runs around an amusement part looking for amusement, the two heroes get into drag to tease laughter out of an audience that’s long since ceased to be entertained or amused.
In one chase sequence Shaad pees copiously on a street of Bangkok. You get jailed for dirtying the streets of Bangkok. Alas, there are no laws for desecrating the rules of aesthetics in cinema.
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