Hollywood wants to be part of Bollywood

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Brajeshwar

Saawariya Hollywood is keen to make moolah out of India’s Bollywood. Wait, wait! They are however not trying to conquer it with their Hollywood fanfare. Instead, they want to join hands with Bollywood.

Sony Pictures Entertainment is the first in a wave of American studios to produce their own kaleidoscopic Bollywood musicals – Saawariya – complete with color dance sequences and high pitch songs. Saawariya is a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film starring Salman Khan and Rani Mukherjee. Aishwarya Rai was originally offered the lead role but declined because Salman Khan had already signed.

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We’ll no longer copy Hollywood movies – says Bollywood

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Brajeshwar

It looks like Bollywood finally woke up to the fact that it is a copyright infringement when they blatantly copy Hollywood movies. Well, it is just that Hollywood don’t care to get down to that level of Bollywood to fight out. In a recent development, the re-maker copier film producer Ravi Chopra, son of BR Chopra is making another plagiarized version of My Cousin Vinny with Govinda. However, they claimed that the copyright this time is bought and not plagiarized.

Govinda was seen before in Kyunki Main Jhooth Nahin Bolta – a plagiarized version of Jim Carrey’s Liar Liar. He recently did a smashing hit Partner which was a raunchy ripoff of the Will Smith starrer – Hitch.

How to watch movies for FREE in India (almost)

Posted on August 8, 2007 by Brajeshwar

Yes, I saw some sort of development around a cubicle with Hutch banners at the Fame Cinemas, InOrbit, (Malad, Mumbai, India). Upon asking around, I found out that Hutch have been running a scheme whereby if you SMS to them from your Hutch Subscriber’s number, you can always get a second ticket free to your first movie ticket.
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The Simpsons Movie

Posted on August 7, 2007 by Brajeshwar

Multiplexes across Mumbai, India released The Simpsons Movie today without much fanfare and publicity; and the America-centric movie were able to make us Indian laugh-out-loud all along the 90 minute movie.

Well, in a time when Computer animation brings up worlds of unsurpassed beauty, one movie dares to be ugly – – in 2D.
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Cash

Posted on August 5, 2007 by Brajeshwar

There were no good movie releases this month and Simpsons was not released in Multiplexes, so I went for Cash, a super-promoted syper-hyped movie supposedly trying to mimic a Hollywood action flick genre. A movie that reminds you of Ocean’s movie (was it 11 or 12?), “Kill Bill”, Cash was a disappointment at best that I never finish writing this review till this lazy wet monsoon weekend.
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CBC employees need explicit permission to blog

Posted on August 4, 2007 by Brajeshwar

Any CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) employee who wants to start a personal blog which “clearly associates them with CBC/Radio-Canada” now requires their supervisor’s permission, according to a new policy “guideline document.” The guideline states that, all CBC employees are “expected to behave in a way that is consistent with our journalistic philosophy, editorial values and corporate policies.”
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India can do military Nuclear test only if Pakistan and China does

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Brajeshwar

Recently, India and the United States have made a historic breakthrough in their relations, striking a deal on civilian nuclear co-operation. The agreement would allow nuclear fuel for India’s Tarapur reactor. The US helped build the reactor but later reneged on contractual obligations to supply fuel for it because India refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The deal recognises India’s unique position as a nuclear state with rights and benefits which is outside the club of the five permanent nuclear powers. The United States made a commitment to invite India to participate in international nuclear research, something that India has demanded for years.