Wanted (2009)

(Wikipedia) – Radhe (Salman Khan) is a hard-core gangster . A sharp-shooter with a sharp brain, he works for Gani Bhai, the dreaded Mafioso, on his own terms. Totally fearless, Radhe singlehandedly eliminates Gani Bhai’s enemies, one by one – making more enemies in the process. The man is devoid of any principles; he is arrogant, ruthless and does not care about the emotions of other people.

Radhe’s astounded when young and pretty Jhanvi (Ayesha Takia) professes her affection for him. Jahnavi is a very simple innocent and a naive girl and she believes that everything is good in the world and nothing is bad. After she meets Radhe she realizes that all her previous notions were wrong and life after that becomes a roller coaster ride.

The introductory scene of Salman Khan’s character – aka the first fight scene – was nearly a straight lift of the fight scene from Deewar (1975) where Amitabh locks them in with him and gives them the key.

I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me.

This film just kept on getting better and better. I may dislike Salman Khan and generally avoid anything he stars in, but DUDE, this was so fun! And OTT Vinod Khanna was AWESOME. I’ll admit to making fun of Ayesha Takia’s watermelon boob job, and Salman Khan’s weave. I couldn’t not make fun!

It’s a predictable run-of-the-mill trashy action flick with over-the-top dishoom-dishoom fight scenes, dramatic zoom-ins, cheesy dialogue, and characters with their own theme-songs that play generally whenever they enter a scene. But man, they’re always fun!

I mean, I love films like Hero (China), Zemlya (Soviet Union), and Gaav (Iran) – but I have so much fun with trash films like Billa (Tollywood), Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (Turkey), and The Machine Girl (Japan).

The first song was surprisingly catchy. I had seen a couple teasers for it on the Eros channel on YouTube and it looked really lame. However, it was anything but. The song was fun and catchy, plus we had random appearances by Anil Kapoor, Govinda, and Prabhu Deva himself! I couldn’t actually find a complete version that featured Prabhu Deva dancing with Salman and Govinda, but THIS preview has all the best bits included.

Then we had a big Mughal-E-Azam reference for a while which had me in stitches.

A couple other songs were fun:

There were some more serious elements to it, what with the evil police officer who threatens to rape our damsel, and lots of gruesome killing (which was totally awesome, for the record).

Overall? It was entertaining. Would I watch it again? Perhaps if the mood was right.

Rating: 4/5

I ‘LOL’ed so hard near the end because of the lengths they went to get Salman to take off his shirt and show off his six pack.

It kind of reminded me of that fight scene from Bujjigadu…

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Bollywood Spectacular

Come and take part…

As part of the exciting finale of the Caldmore Village festival on May 31st 2010 leading local dancer Jaimal Mistry will be presenting a Bollywood Extravaganza and he wants you to get involved. So if you dance or play an instrument we would like to hear from you. There will be opportunities for everyone to get involved, whatever your level of experience or ability.    

Work towards the event starts soon, so come to one of the first workshops in January to find out more.

Workshops take place on  15th and the 22nd of January 2010, 6pm – 9pm.  At Blue Coat CofE Comprehensive School, Birmingham street, Walsall, WS1 3DH.

If you would like come to the workshops to know more about the festival  contact the Festival Co-ordinator Alan Cheeseman on  01922 646724 or by email alancheesemanltd@aol.com

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Mumbai terror suspect David Headley was ‘rogue US secret agent’

A key terror suspect who allegedly helped to plan last year’s attacks in Mumbai and plotted to strike Europe was an American secret agent who went rogue, Indian officials believe.

David Coleman Headley (aka Daood Sayed Gilani), 49, who was born in Washington to a Pakistan diplomat father and an American mother, was arrested in Chicago in October. He is accused of reconnoitering targets in India and Europe for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the Pakistan-based terror group behind the Mumbai attacks and of having links to al-Qaeda. He has denied the charges.

He came to the attention of the US security services in 1997 when he was arrested in New York for heroin smuggling. He earned a reduced sentence by working for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) infiltrating Pakistan-linked narcotics gangs.

Indian investigators, who have been denied access to Mr. Headley, suspect that he remained on the payroll of the US security services — possibly working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — but switched his allegiance to LeT.

“India is looking into whether Headley worked as a double agent,” an Indian Ministry of Home Affairs official said yesterday.

Mr. Headley, who changed his name from Daood Gilani, was in Mumbai until two weeks before the attacks on the city, which claimed 166 lives last November. It is alleged that he spent months checking targets in India’s commercial capital, using his Western looks and anglicized name to move in elite social circles, hobnob with Bollywood actors and even to pass himself off as Jewish.

Despite being firmly on the radar of the US intelligence agencies, he was allowed to return to India as recently as March. Indian officials are furious that their American counterparts did not share details of that visit at the time. The Indian media has raised the possibility that Mr. Headley was being protected by his American handlers — a theory that experts say is credible.

“The feeling in India is that the US has not been transparent,” said B. Raman, a former counter-terrorism chief in the Indian foreign intelligence service, the Research and Analysis Wing.

“That Headley was an agent for the DEA is known. Whether he was being used by the CIA as well is a matter of speculation, but it is almost certain that the CIA was aware of him and his movements across the subcontinent.”

According to Mr. Raman, it is probable that Mr. Headley, who was arrested when the US authorities learned that he was about to fly to Pakistan, was listed on the main database of the US National Counterterrorism Center, a facility used by the CIA and several other American agencies to track terror suspects.

Indian officials suspect that US agencies declined to share intelligence to avoid compromising other secret operations and to to be able to deny any link with Mr. Headley.

Analysts believe that the US may also have been anxious to avoid sharing information that could further raise tensions between India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed neighbors who have fought three wars.

According to documents put before a court in Chicago, Mr. Headley had links with the Pakistan Army and, through it, with al-Qaeda.

As well as helping to co-ordinate the Mumbai atrocity, Mr. Headley is accused of planning attacks on Mumbai’s Bollywood film industry, the Shiv Sena, a Hindu extremist group also based in Mumbai, a major Hindu temple, and a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

The US authorities allege that he was close to Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a former Pakistani schoolmate and businessman who is also being charged with planning to attack the Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. Mr. Rana is accused of having known about the attack on Mumbai in advance.

The CIA denied that Headley had worked for the organization.

“Any suggestion that Headley was working for the CIA is complete and utter nonsense. It’s flat-out false,” Paul Gimigliano, from the CIA’s Office of Public Affairs, said.

The Indian Home Secretary, Gopal Krishna Pillai, has said that his Government would seek the extradition of Mr. Headley — a request that has so far been stonewalled by US officials.

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Fool marks

The smartest thing about “3 Idiots” is that director Raju Hirani uses the student crowd of his IIT-inspired engineering college as a laughter track. This means when an idiotic joke is cracked, everyone in the audience thinks the next person laughed and so they laugh too. Which is ironic because one of the things that the story of “3 Idiots” attacks is herd mentality but that’s my explanation for the uproarious laughter that bounced off the walls every now and then during “3 Idiots” because this movie is not really a comedy. It’s actually bordering on tragic. And not just because the men in this movie have a thing for pulling their pants down and exposing rather unphotogenic bottoms in very unflattering underwear, although it really was very sad that there wasn’t one yummy specimen of masculinity in an entire college of men. If any of you find the boys dancing in their towels to “Aal Izz Well” attractive, you have problems that are far more serious than the butchering that the story suffers in “3 Idiots”.

In the first half of “3 Idiots”, two plotlines are set up. One is of a road trip that Farhan (Madhavan) and Raju (Sharman Joshi) take with an old college mate (Chaturlingam, played by Omi) to find their dearest friend in college, Rancho (Aamir Khan). The other is a tale told in flashback by Farhan of their time in college and the heroic antics of Rancho, a prankster who could crack the system and be a topper even while fighting the system’s intention of turning people into zombies. Rancho doesn’t believe in ragging or memorising textbooks. He loves learning, likes to think for himself and he would like people to feel the same thrill that he does when he invents his gadgets. And he’s aware that engineering isn’t the stuff to fire everyone’s pulse rate. At this point, to quote Rancho, aal is well. Ok, so Aamir Khan is an awful caricature of a 20-something and hams so much that Maharashtra could cheerfully stop pig farming for the next couple of years, but that doesn’t kill the experience of watching “3 Idiots”. Sharman Joshi is good, Omi and Madhavan are convincing; the script has its  moments. Most importantly, you can’t not cheer for the guy who takes on the system and champions the idea of being yourself.

Then comes the second half during which, with rigorous and meticulous care, the director and script team demolish everything that was well-set up in the first half and create so much unnecessary, teary melodrama that you have to wonder whether some glycerine manufacturer didn’t give the money to make “3 Idiots”. So the following happens in this chrono-illogical order:

1. In the present we discover Rancho is not Rancho. The fake Rancho (Aamir Khan) is bright but poor lad while the real Rancho (Jaaved Jaffrey) is a rich man’s idiotic son. The real Rancho’s dad decrees that the fake Rancho will get the grades and degrees in the real Rancho’s name. So the real Rancho goes off to London while the fake Rancho comes to study engineering. If you think this idea has holes in it, wait for the rest.

2. In the past, we see Boman Irani, who plays the principal of the engineering college, get into an ego tussle with Rancho (the fake one, naturally, being played by Aamir Khan). He embroils Farhan and Raju into his spat because he knows they are Rancho’s weak spots and remorselessly does a series of cruel, horrible things, including pushing Raju to attempt suicide. Irani’s character, who was initially shown as a slightly eccentric academic, turns out to be a monster who runs the college like a fiefdom. It’s difficult to decide which is more appalling: Irani’s character, his performance or the fact that we’re supposed to like him because he likes his grandkid and admits defeat to Rancho with utter lack of grace.

3. Also in the past, Rancho delivers a baby using a vaccum cleaner. It seems to be stillborn but instead of kicking the bucket, it kicks Rancho in the face when it hears the words “Aal is well” and so joins the living.

4. In the present, Raju and Farhan elope with Pia (Kareena Kapoor), whom Rancho had a crush on in their college days and the only woman in the world who doesn’t want to take off excruciatingly-heavy wedding jewellery while on a road trip. No, Raju and Farhan don’t both want to marry her; they want to reunite her with Rancho (who they’ve just discovered isn’t Rancho). Whom they haven’t met in some 10-odd years and whose real name they still don’t know. No matter. They know he’d want to marry Pia even though he flatly refused to marry her back in college.

5. Rancho turns out to be an inventor with 400 patents pending and a school in Ladakh.

It’s inexplicable to me that the people who began the story the way they did could actually finish it off like this.

I really, really wanted to like “3 Idiots” and, just for what it says in the first part, I hope it does well. I hope parents see it and I hope young people take some confidence from it. Some characters could have been less flatly written (like Omi and Raju) but neither this nor the pantomime versions of humans as played by Aamir Khan and Boman Irani overwhelm a heartwarming beginning. Unfortunately, what happens in the second part is that the system wins. Rancho isn’t able to rub the principal’s nose in the dirt and we are given no indication that he isn’t being a bastard to the next round of students or changing things at the college to allow more free thinking. An unnecessary romance is thrown in, possibly because the Bollywood system demands it. Glycerine and tears flow and it’s amazing that the outflow from the shooting from this film didn’t make up for the paltry monsoons this year. But most heartbreakingly, there’s so much cruelty in the script; particularly towards poor people, characters like Raju whose poverty and whose family’s misfortunes somehow become an uproarious joke. Except sitting in a plush, comfortable chair in a swanky movie theatre and wearing a skirt that cost half of how much Raju’s mother apparently earned in a month, I didn’t find it funny.

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Aamir Khan Crashes Wedding

Artists: Aamir Khan

Review: In a recent attempt to promote “3 Idiots“, Aamir Khan disguised himself as a hippie and attended a wedding function in rural Punjab.  Apparently pulling pranks has been his latest idea for increasing awareness about the film.  Once people realized who he was, he performed and danced with the crowd…Only to leave after inviting the bride and groom to his premiere in Mumbai.

Where were these “pranks” on August 15th, when (no not India celebrating it’s independence) I was celebrating my dependence?

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Bollywood’s sultry sirens with size zero figure

Priyanka Chopra,Kangana Ranaut & kreena kapoor

Jiah Khan

Kangana Ranaut

Katrina Kaif

Lara Dutta

Priyanka Chopra

Deepika Padukone

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Avatar

Avatar is the up coming Hollywood movie. It has created huge hype all over world. The main reason behind this the director James Cameron. His previous movies was  The Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens and Rambo : First Blood Part 2.

We know the sensations created by these movie. The classic movie Titanic was also directed bye James Cameron only. It has broken Box Office records in every country. That love story with an extra ordinary back drop has attracted every one. The lead cast of that movie Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslete are still famous world wide.

Every one expecting that, Avatar will create new history like Titanic. Its going to release with highest number of prints all over world. Producers has spent nearly 2500 crores on that movie.

Recently James Cameron has said that, every rupee appears on the screen. Already who has seen the premiere shows has spoken very high. Lets wait until December 18th for the surprises of Avatar.

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Review Before Release-III follow-ups

Azab Prems’ Ghazab success…London Dreams dashed & Kurbaan’s low collection are baffling

• Aladdin was a damp-squib and my opinion on it reflected that I was reading  too much into BigB blog. Aladdin was meant to be a children film which never was going to be Blockbuster but atleast I expected it to be entertaining! sigh! As I naggigingly fely in my Pre-review, Director Sujoy Ghosh really messed on the story like his previous Home Delivery.

• London Dreams was most tragic disaster. Its tragic not because of that I felt it would be a solid Hit. But a good movie was rejected by the masses. Movie was intense but I think the timing did it in. Afterall we just watched Ajay D in hilarious All The Best and Salman as macho ‘Wanted’.Music was also a let-down.
  
  

• APKGK & Jail : the youthfulness of Ajab Prem and trust associated with Raj Kumar Santoshi did-in Madhur Bhandarkar’s Jail… a surprise hit despite mainstream media critics siding with Jail. Jail was good but it drowned itself in over-confidence and over-expectation. People thought that Jail is already a hit so patronize APKGK.  My hunch was spot-on.

• Tum Mile- drowning and drowsing affair. Below average and bordering flop. Mahesh Bhatt no doubt blames it on Rahul Bhatt controversy. But poor films do lead to poor excuses.

• Kurbaan- is brilliant. such movie starts slow. Fingers crossd, I expect it to be bigger grosser than APKGK. It didn’t. Shocking. Can’t figure out why! May be clock has covered its full circle….Poor showing of Kurbaan is bad omen for Dharma Productions My Name is Khan
  
  

• De DAna Dan- the publicity is huge and good too. But…but the gags  shown are too common. As I mentioned in my pre-review De Dana collection were average at BO and that mainly due to Priyadarshans’ past reputation. And as reports come in it is sold at about 12 crore rupees on satellite television!
• Radio - inspite of brilliant music Radio is complicated and flops badly. Even a child have guessed it when the promo started. We want Music composer and singer in Himesh Reshamiyya back!

Paa is suuccessful mainly due to intelligent film making and marketing. Rocket Singh-SOTY is a flop (Perhaps now Yash Chopra and Aditya Chpra should make films by themselves and not rely on their assistants)

All eyes on 3 Idiots, Veer and My Name is Khan.

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Winter 2009

When you see the first of a few photographs of this meeting Rochas, it must immediately hit her inspiration into real fashion is really clever transform. I Totally adore Paris Fashion Week ,I want to tell that they only leave the best for last. And I also know , Its late again.

But I simply had to wait for my all time Awesome Brand chole to come.The Best part is that it suits all.The Another thing I do like though are the vertically striped stockings.Just Look at that…

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REVIEW: Salman rocks in WANTED!

He wears a Superman T-shirt, slides like the Spiderman and fights like the He-man. If you think this is too much, let me tell you, he dances as well. And boy! This time around he can make you fall for him in an instant with his moves. To put it shortly, Salman Khan rocks as Radhe – a tapori, a hitman – he listens to no one and works only for ‘money’bhai.

A good mix of romance, comedy and songs spice up this action flick. Salman looks nothing like we saw him in No Entry, Partner or Yuvvraaj. The actor has not only shed a lot of weight, he almost dropped his typical accent as Radhe.

Also starring Ayesha Takia Azmi in the lead, Wanted is a remake of the 2006 Telugu film Pokkiri. Wanted marks the Bollywood debut of ace choreographer-turned-filmmaker Prabhu Deva. Kudos to him for making Salman dance like never before. For the first time ever Salman seems to enjoy his steps wholeheartedly (with right expressions) and not dance for the heck of it.

Sallu’s Ganpati song, Jalwa, was apparently kept secret from audiences for very long before the release. Undoubtedly, it is the best of the lot. And why not, when someone like Prabhu Deva himself has choreographed it, nothing but the best is expected.

The film definitely has a South Indian touch and feel to it but the best part is, as a filmmaker Prabhu Deva doesn’t try to experiment much. Yet whatever he does (read silly) he does it with oodles of style.

Prabhu Deva’s take on Mughal-E-Azam’s song Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya with Sallu and Ayesha looks too funny. The lovey-dovey episodes between Sallu and Ayesha sometimes make no sense at all. Sample this… Sallu and Ayesha get stuck inside the lift. Ayesha is frightened and comes closer to Salman. She gives a coy smile and Salman smiles back as Ayesha innocently asks if it is Vicco Vajradanti… Being juvenile is an understatement at this point.

There are far too many songs, which could have been well avoided.

Even the bad man Prakash Raj, who plays the international Don Gani, makes you laugh intermittently especially in the scene when the Commissioner of Police holds him captive in the middle of the sea. Or when he accuses Salman of killing his men. Don’t miss his lines here as he rues, “Oh, why did you kill them? You can churn out several police officers everyday. But where will I get such goons? They were criminals, not animals that you have slaughtered them so mercilessly…” Corny it may seem, but you’ll still find yourself laughing your lungs out.

The film rides high on Salman’s star power. If there’s any film that can compete with Aamir’s Ghajini in terms of action, it’s definitely Wanted. Without getting into any controversy I’d like to say, Salman was certainly more fun watching as Prabhu Deva made his presence felt in every frame.

Albeit there’s a little twist in the end, the storyline is more or less predictable. Salman takes care not to upset his female fans either. So girls, if you don’t like him kicking butt (which I doubt when it’s SALMAN KHAN) you can simply sit back and drool over the star.

Ayesha Takia looks cute and much slimmer. Vinod Khanna is good and so is Govind Namdeo. Mahesh Manjrekar is brilliant as the slimy and corrupt cop.

VERDICT: An out-and-out entertainer, Salman is sure to enthrall you not only with his action but his brilliant dance steps.

RATING: 3/5

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Miss World 2009, Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra appointed judge

Former Miss World and Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra has been appointed as judge for the 59th Miss World 2009 pageant which will be held on Dec 12, 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa. .

Priyanka Chopra studied in the US in Newton South High School in Newton, Massachusetts then in John F. Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

The “Fashion” actress, packed her bags and went off to Johannesburg yesterday to be on the panel of judges for this prestigious event.

Priyanka Chopra shot to fame after winning the Miss World Pageant in 2000, then became a bollywood actress. She has acted in lead roles in a string of hit films.

Excited Priyanka Chopra said, “When Julia Morley, who is in charge of the beauty pageant, invited me to be a judge, I was ecstatic. There I was a teenager all those years ago, nervous as a help on the same platform. Now I’m going in a totally different capacity.”Read More…..

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Rocket Singh : Sales Man Of The Year

Rocket Singh : Sales Man Of The Year, is the up coming movie of Ranbir Kapoor. This is a comedy movie directed by Shimit Amin. After dealing two high emotional subjects Chak De India and Ab Tak Chhappan, this time he has opted lighter vein.

Haripreet Singh (Ranbir Kapoor) is very poor in his education. But he has dreams to earn big bucks. The way he opted to earn easy money is sales. He feels that selling the things which people not required a talent. He plays different tricks to do it.

His plans to sell the items which he had and how he has achieved his goal is the story. With this movie Shazahn Padmasee is going to made her debut into Tollywood with this movie.

Ranbir’s last movie Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani was also a comedy movie did very well at Box Office. His performance levels was on high sky. Let hope in this movie also he will do the same. After Wake Up Sid and Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani success, hopes on this movie is on high sky.

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Wacky lyrics set bollywood on fire !!!

Yes that’s true and that’s what I think. Bollywood is on fire nowadays with very wacky lyrics used here and there. Like for instance just have a look at Mann Ka Radio (written by Subrat Sinha) from RADIO. The lyrics is so refreshing and even at the same time wacky too. It’s a kind of new generation I hope. Ofcourse, the generation must change. There must be a new innovation now and then to keep the interest the people alive.

mann ka radio bajne de zara

ghum ko bhool kar jee le tu zara

station koi naya tune kar le zara

fultoo attitude de de tu zara

WOW!!! What a lyric it is… Good. But I have listened to many people who say that these kind of wacky lyrics are just a crap. But still I liked this one.

Well the next song I would like to name in this list of wacky lyrics is Chiggi Wiggi (written by Abbas Tyrewala) from the movie BLUE. What a sexy word Chiggi-Wiggi is!!! It’s just fantabulous. I am sure every music lover might have listened to this song. It’s simply great. The new Chiggi-Wiggi Style baby!!!

I wanna chiggy-wiggy with you boy

I wanna chiggy-wiggy with you boy

I wanna chiggy-wiggy with you fella

Just chiggy-wiggy with you baby

Now one can remember these kind of wacky lyrics very easily.

And I am working on a musical album which is a going big blast. It’s still under production. So a dear friend of mine (Dr. Zakir Husain) has written some beautiful lyrics for the album. So he has even written a wacky lyric for a duet song. I thought of sharing the lyrics with you people. But the album is still under production and due to security reason I am not able to share it. You people have to wait for it. The release date according to our plans is somewhere around May 2010 (we hope so).

So I hope we will be listening to even more wacky lyrics in the near future. A feeling tells me. Let’s wait and see.

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BOLLYWOOD BADSHAH SALMAN KHAN A GREAT FAN OF BIGG BOSS??

By Frank Franklyn – Futuristic Media Network

 

 

A special jasoos tells us that Bollywood badshah Salman Khan is a great fan of a particular television reality show. Now you don’t have to be a PhD in Bollywood entertainment to guess which TV show is catching Sallu miyas attention these days. It’s none other than Bigg Boss. And no points for guessing why. How can we forget that Sallu’s ‘special friend’ Claudia Ciesla is in Bigg Boss and the popular reality show has just entered its last phase now?

 

Our source tells us that once the show goes on air each evening, Sallu bhaiya tries to catch up wherever he is. If not, he will try to get the late night edition or will try to find out the outcome of the day from friends. And Fridays and Mondays – the eviction and nomination days respectively – are very special. Bollywood’s favourite star and heart-throb of millions of women the world over, will do everything to be in front of a TV set on Fridays and Mondays. We tried to ask Salman about his sudden interest in Bigg Boss, but all that he did was give us one of his trillion-dollar shy smiles. Ok Sally bhaiya we get the point. We will leave you to your TV set at least on Fridays and Mondays.

 

Meanwhile, the sexy, cute super model from Germany Claudia Ciesla may soon be seen as a cold-blooded killer in the brutal Raaj Varma Entertainment thriller movie THE LUCKY 13TH.  According to our sources, Claudia Ciesla’s role in the movie will demand her to brutally kill at least two people to survive as per the script of the movie.

 

While Claudia Ciesla may be locked away in the Bigg Boss house at Lonavla, a little birdie from Bollywood tells us that the 22-year-old German super model is soon expected to be seen in – as director Praveen Dodeja puts it – “the scariest movie ever made in India”.

 

Yes we are talking about the Praveen Dodeja directed; Raaj Varma Entertainment produced film THE LUCKY 13TH. Confirming this development Claudia Ciesla’s spokesperson and Executive Producer of THE LUCKY 13TH Flynn Remedios said, “Claudia Ciesla will most probably be a part of this project. We are trying to work things out as this is a big project and Claudia’s presence would add a twist to the story.”

 

While neither the director nor the Executive Producer were willing to share further details about the film, sources told us that The Lucky 13th will indeed be the scariest movie ever made in India. It is pregnant with blood and gore and is definitely a very, if not the most brutal film ever made. In the film THE LUCKY 13TH produced by Raaj Varma Entertainment, 13 young people all mysteriously inter-connected with each other find themselves in a desolate fort in the middle of no-where. A sinister fight to survive and get out of the place by killing the others is unleashed on the hapless 13 who have no choice but to heed the diktak of the evil monster. Only one will survive the ordeal, but not before he or she has brutally done to death the rest of the gang. The film stars German super model Claudia Ciesla (currently locked up in the Bigg Boss House, TV actor Swapna Tiwari, Jennifer besides 10 others.

 

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Sometimes, more is just more

My oldest daughter has a new summer job. She’s been a nanny for the last two summers and she’s having a hard time adjusting to a “real” job – one that doesn’t involve swimming in the pool each afternoon, playing board games or taking field trips to the local Natural History Museum. Sigh. Poor kid.

So, the other day — nice mom that I am — I bought her a pair of dangly earrings to wear to work and cheer her up a bit. I mean honestly, who can feel that badly when they are wearing gorgeous new jewelry?!

As I searched through the racks and cases I was struck by a wonderful trend — Bollywood-inspired styles — loads of multicolored beads, large hoops, shoulder-dusters — even pieces that featured carved elephants and raja-worthy faux gems.

Personally, I have been a huge Bollywood fan since I first saw Bride and Prejudice back in 2004 starring incomparably beautiful Aishwarya Rai. (How much fun CAN you have dancing around in your pajamas?!) Kitchy, yes. But oh so much fun!

The best part of any Bollywood production for me, though, is the fashion. Bright colors like lime green and shocking pink, fabrics shots with metallic threads, and of course, piles and piles of sparkly jewelry!

 Apparently, I’m not alone in this fascination for “more is more.” Just last night on So You Think You Can Dance (yes, I am a fan) the opening number for the “girls” was a fabulous Indian-themed extravaganza. There is something so wonderfully feminine and alluring about the Bollywood style — they never looked better.

 … maybe I’ll have to borrow those earrings myself!

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