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Friday, September 1

Title: "Gadar 2: A Blockbuster Sequel That Reignites Bollywood's Glory"


The idea behinding making the second part of Gadar 2 was that even if 10% of the person who watched the Movie Gadar will come to watch Gadar 2 then about 5 crore tickets shall be sold. However the producers were not much convinced and move was made on a very tight budget. While actors these days change more than 100 crore for a film, Gadar 2 was made on a budget of 60 crore. Can you imagine that??
Now with movie all set to earn 500 crore mark. The profit margin is huge.

In the ever-evolving landscape of the Indian film industry, few movies have managed to leave an indelible mark like "Gadar: Ek Prem Katha" did in 2001. Its unforgettable love story set against the backdrop of India's partition struck a chord with audiences and became an iconic film. Over two decades later, Bollywood fans were in for a treat when "Gadar 2" hit the silver screen, proving that some stories are timeless and continue to resonate with generations.

A Cinematic Marvel

"Gadar 2" was released amidst a wave of anticipation and nostalgia. Directed by Anil Sharma and produced by Dharmendra, the film aimed to capture the essence of the original while delivering a fresh storyline. It promised to take audiences on a rollercoaster of emotions, much like its predecessor did.

Plot and Performance

The sequel brings back the legendary Sunny Deol as Tara Singh, a character that catapulted him to superstardom. Opposite him, we have the talented Ameesha Patel reprising her role as Sakeena. Their chemistry and performances are as captivating as ever, with Sunny Deol's powerful dialogues and action sequences, and Ameesha Patel's graceful portrayal of a woman torn between love and duty.

The story of "Gadar 2" continues the saga of Tara and Sakeena, who are now grandparents. The film delves into the struggles faced by their grandchildren as they navigate a world still plagued by societal divisions and conflicts. The film effectively conveys the message that love transcends time and boundaries, a theme that resonates deeply with the audience.

Box Office Triumph

"Gadar 2" achieved tremendous success at the box office, becoming one of the highest-grossing films of the year. It's a testament to the enduring popularity of the original and the emotional connection people have with its characters. The film's gripping narrative, coupled with stellar performances, kept audiences glued to their seats and drew repeat viewers.

Impact on Society

Beyond its entertainment value, "Gadar 2" serves as a reflection of the current socio-political climate, addressing themes of unity, tolerance, and love's power to overcome hatred. In a world marked by division and discord, the film's message of love and unity has struck a chord with audiences across generations.

Legacy and Future

The success of "Gadar 2" has revitalized the discussion around sequels in Bollywood. While some sequels fail to capture the magic of the original, "Gadar 2" stands as an exception, proving that when done right, sequels can reignite the nostalgia of the past while telling a fresh and relevant story.

Conclusion

"Gadar 2" has not only solidified its place in the annals of Bollywood history but also reminded us of the enduring power of storytelling. With its captivating plot, remarkable performances, and timeless message, the film has not just succeeded at the box office; it has reaffirmed the emotional connection between cinema and its audience. Bollywood's love affair with "Gadar" is far from over, and it leaves us eagerly awaiting what the future holds for Tara and Sakeena's descendants.

Thursday, April 30

Condolnece to Shri Rishi Kapoor & Irfann Khan

Unbelievable, no bollywood fan would have ever imagined that bollywood will loose two stars in less than 24 hours. Yesterday we lost Irfan Khan and Today morning we got the news of sudden demise of Rishi Kapoor ji. Both the actors were fighting against cancer and were recovering after the treatment abroad.

While the acting career of Rishi Kapoor last more than 40 years. In his first inning as an actor Rishi ji acted in around 92 films as lead actor. Many of his movies were blockbuster hits including the debut movie Bobby. Bobby in fact was second highest money making of the 70s second to Sholay. After the 90s he took a break from acting and make a comeback and featured in many successful films playing character roles and few negative roles including one a Rauf Lala in Agneepath and in D-day.

Last movie he worked was The Body. 


During the last few years he was not well and was diagnosed with leukemia in 2018 and he spend around an year in New York for treatment. Came back last year (Sept 2019)

Awards:

  • National Film Award for Mera Naam Joker
  • Filmfare Award for Best Actor for Bobby
  • Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
  • Honoured by Russian Government for contribution to cinema
  • Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for Do Dooni Chaar 
  •  Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Kapoor & Sons
He also directed the moved Aa Ab Laut Chalein.


Irfan Khan who died one day prior was one of the most versatile actor of the current times. He is known for his immense acting skills that reflects in the roles he played be it Maqbool, The Killer, Lunchbox, Paan Singh Tomar, the list goes one.

He struggles a lot in the initial years and had been seen mainly in TV serials for many years. Till he got break in the movies. His debut movie Salaam Bombay was released in 1988 where he played a small role. Even after this the struggle continued till he came into limelight for the roles he played in Haasil and Maqbool (released in 2003 and 2004 respectively).

He was busy in bollywood and at the same time was getting good roles in hollywood as well. Like Rishi Kapoor, Irfaan also had health issues and he also spend some time in USA for treatment. He was diadnosed with neuroendocrine tumour.

We pray that lord give courage to the families to bear this loss and may there souls rest in peace.






Friday, January 13

R.I.P OM PURI- OUR FAMOUS STAR IS NO MORE WITH US


The famous actor Om Puri is no more. He dies of heart attack at the age of 66 on 6th January 2017.  It is a big loss for Indian cinema. He was born on 18th October 1950. He was the most iconic journalist, script writer and most talented actor.  He appeared in both Indian and Pakistani films. He also appeared in American and British movies.

His debut film was Ghashiram Kotwal, 1976. Let’s take a view on his acting carrier.


Bollywood Films: Bhavni Bhavai (1980), Sadgati (1981), ArdhSatya (1982), Mirch Masala (1986), Dharavi (1992), Aakrosh (1980), Disco Dancer (1982),Arohan (1982), Gandhi (1982), Zamana (1985 film),Maachis (1996), Gupt (1997), Dhoop (2003),Chachi 420 (1997), Ghayal (1990),Hera Pheri (2000), ChorMachayeShor (2002), Malamaal Weekly (2006), Singh Is Kinng (2008), Mere BaapPehleAap ( 2008), Billu( 2008),Sangam (2009), Hangman (2010), Don 2 (2011) and much more.

British Films - My Son the Fanatic (1997), East Is East (1999) and The Parole Officer (2001).

Hollywood Films- City of Joy (1992), Wolf (1994), The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) and Charlie Wilson's War2007

Hindi Television Serials -Kakkaji Kaheen (1988)Mr. Yogi (1989)

Awards and Nomination

He got Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Akrosh (1980) and National Film Award for Best Actor award ( 28th and 29thNational Film Awards) for Ardh Satya (1982) and Arohan (1982).
He got nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Maachis (1996), Gupt (1997),Pyaar to Hona Hi Tha (1998) and Ghayal (1990)
In 1984, he got Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Best Actor for Ardh Satya
In 1998, he got Brussels International Film Festival Best Actor for My Son the Fanatic.
In 1990, he got Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award.
In 1998, he got Grand Prix Special des Amériques Montréal World Film Festival for exceptional contribution to the cinematographic art.
In 2004, he got Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to The British Film Industry.
In 2009 he got Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1999 he got nominated BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for East Is East.
He has received an honorary OBE.

He contributed so much to Cinema industries. A star who never gone die in our hearts.

WE WILL MISS YOU SIR!!!

Friday, May 10

Sanjay Dutty to Surrender by May 15

A known actor in Indian cinema with a large fan following Sanjay Dutt, now have to surrender  on May 15, the coming Firday and serve pending 3 years in jail. The actor was accused and convicted under the  "Arms Act" and sentenced to 5 years in prison for case of serial blasts in Mumbai in the year 1993. Since Dutt has already served 1.5 years in jail, he would be required to serve pending 3.5 years in jail now. 

Sanjay Dutt is the son of leading bollywood actors  their time. His father Sunil Dutt and mother Nargis Dutt were the leading bollywood stars. Sanjay Dutt made his debut in the year 1981 and since then he is known for his work in various hindi movies. He has enjoyed success in all movie genres like action, romance, comedy. He is mostly known for the movie in which he acted as a gangster, thug or police inspector. 

Some of the very popular movies of Sanjay Dutt include: 

  • Rocky
  •  Vidhaata
  • Main Awara Hoon
  •  Jeeva
  • Khal Nayak
  • Mera Haque
  •  Ilaaka
  •  Taaqatwar 
  • Naam
  •  Kabzaa
  • Sadak
  • Saajan
  • Vaastav
  • Munna Bhai MBBS
  •  Shootout at Lokhandwala 
  • Agneepath
  • and lot more...
Thought Mr. Markandey Katju the chief Justice of Press Council of India has appealed to Maharashtra Governor to pardon the actor, we'll have to wait for any further decision by the Governor. 



Sunday, June 3

My Favorite Bollywood Super Star Wallpapers: Shilpa Shetty

Though Shipla Shetty is not active in movies from last few year, she still remains the actress fans admire of. Her beauty, dance and figure once stole hearts of many people. Apney was the last movie she acted, however she has been in media limelight being the owner of the Rajashtan Royals IPL Cricket team.

Happily married to business man Raj Kundra, Shilpa recently gave birth to a baby boy. This Bollywood actress has tasted success is almost all the fields she tried. She has been leading Bollywood actress of her time, won the British Big Brothers TV show and her IPL team won the first IPL tournament.

Taking a look back at her acting career, Shipa acted as leading actress in many of Bollywood, Tamil, Kannad and Telugu films. Her debut film Baazigar was the biggest hit of that year. Movie also starred Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan. Baazigar established her in Bollywood. Before I mention the list of some of her top movies, lets take a look at some of her career highlights:
  • 2004 DIVA of the year by Sahara Group
  • She is known to be the actress with best figure in Bollywood
  •  Winner- Big Brother Season 5
  • Donated all the money she got form the movie Phir Milenge to AIDS charity. Movie itself was on AIDS awareness and was hugely appreciated by United Nations.
  • Worked with her sister Shamita Shetty in the movie Fareb in 2005. This was the first and the only time in Bollywood history that two sisters worked together in a movie. 
Some of the known and famous movies Shilpa Shetty acted: 
  • Baazigar
  • Aao Pyaar Karen
  • Main Khiladi Tu Anari
  • Aag
  • Gambler
  • Chhote Sarkar
  • Himmat
  • Dus
  • Pardesi Babu
  • Lal Baadshah
  • Dhadkan
  • Jung
  • Indian
  • Karz
  • Badhaai Ho Badhaai
  • Phir Milenge
  • Life In A... Metro
  • Apne

Some Wallpapers Of Shilpa: 






Tuesday, May 8

Bollywood Star in Hollywood Movie - Irfan Khan to play villain in Spiderman movie

In the upcoming movie of the series Spiderman series of movies, a very famous and known actor of bollywood Mr Irfan Khan will play the role of super villain. Its not the first time that Irfan Khan is acting in a hollywood movie. Actor has worked in movies like Mighty heart, New york I love you, Namesake and Hiss etc. Incidentally many other actors from bollywood are getting roled in hollwood movies as well like we saw Anil Kapoor play a role in MI-4.  I must not forget both these actors (Anil Kapoor and Irfan Khan ) acted in the Oscar winning hollywood movie Slumdog Millionaire as well.

In the Spiderman 4, Irfan Khan will play the role of lesser known villain from the world of spider man. He is supposed to play Nels Van Adder or the Proto-Goblin.

Notedly we might see a new Spiderman in the new spiderman movie as well. This time Andrew Garfield of the Social Network fame is said to play new spiderman under new director Marc Webb.

Movie is all set to release in July 2012 and I am sure the 3D release will definitely boost the popularity and fan following of  the Spuider-man franchise in India and around the world. 

Please aslo check the youttube videos below:

Wednesday, March 14

Tuesday, February 21

Indian Actress with and without makeup – Part 2

In the first part of this series “Indian Actress with and without makeup” we posted pictures of various leading actress of bollywood with and without makeup. Recently cameramen’s lens captures Kangna Ranaut without any makeup. Now before you take a quick look at the pictures of her without makeup let me tell you that this leading lady of bollywood look more or less like “Ugly Betty” or Jassi without Braces of “Jassi Jaisi koi Nahin”. Now here is the magic of makeup the one who looks like most beautiful women on the screen with makeup can just turn out to be another ordinary girl in the town without makeup. Please take a look at the images for your reference we’ve added some images with makeup as well.





Please keep tuned when the camera lenses catches more celebrities without makeup J Till then have a great time.

Thursday, January 12

First jobs of Bollywood Super Stars – Part 1



Do you know what was the first job of your favorite super stars before they made it big on the entertainment industry? Or do you know what they want to be before destiny turned them into leading super stars in the bollywood film industry.


Read the article below and know about the first careers and other interesting facts about the bollywood stars.

1. Rajnikanth: And all of us know he is not only the true super star of India but also second highly paid actor in Asia after Jackie Chan. Rajnikant did many jobs like labourer and bus conductor before entering the film industry in south and later in bollywood.




2. Akshay Kumar: This khiladi of bollywood originally worked as a chef in Bangkok, give martial arts training to students. It was a coincidence that one he got the opportunity for modeling and he find that very interesting. In his own words the modeling job was very amazing for him and all he had to do is go to an AC room, give a photo shoot and earn handsome amount of money. The amount he used to get for his first modeling assignment was worth more than one month of his hard work as a chef or martial art teacher. This persuaded him to take acting seriously and change career path to acting in bollywood.

This was the part one of the series will introduce you to the first job of other bollywood actors and actresses in the later parts of this series.

Monday, November 21

Super Stars Birth Dates - Say Happy B'rthday to your favorite star

Its always a wish to greet your favorite celebrity on the birthday. Here I am posting list of the birthdays of few popular super stars of Bollywood. I'll keep on addin to this list so please don't be sad if your favorite super star (actor or actress) birth date is not included in the list.

  • Amitabh Bachchan : 11th October 1942
  • Rajesh Khanna : 29th December 1942
  • Dharmendra : 8th December 1935
  • Kamal Hassan : 7th November 1954
  • Salman Khan : 27th December 1965
  • Shahrukh khan : 2nd November 1965
  • Aamir Khan : 14th March 1965
  • Abhishek Bachchan : 5th February 1976
  • Ajay Devgan : 2nd April 1969
  • Akshaye Khanna : 4th April 1975
  • Akshay Kumar : 9th September 1967
  • Sanjay Dutt : 29th July 1959
  • Anil Kapoor : 24th December 1959
  • Arjun Rampal : 26th November, 1972
  • Bobby Deol : 27th January 1967
  • Vivek Oberoi : 3rd September 1976
  • Dino Morea : 9th December 1975
  • Emran Hashmi : 24th March 1979
  • Fardeen Khan : 8th March 1974
  • Govinda : 21st December 1958
  • Hrithik Roshan : 10th January 1974
  • John Abraham : 17th December 1972
  • R Madhavan : 1st June 1970
  • Nana Patekar : 1st January 1951
  • Shahid Kapoor : 25th February 1981
  • Ranbir Kapoor : 28th September 1982
  • Saif Ali Khan : 16th August 1970
  • Sunny Deol : 19th October 1956
  • Sonu Nigam : 30th July 1973
  • Sunil Shetty : 11th August 1961

If you want the add to the please fee free to send the actor/actress name along with date of birth and I'll add to the list.

Wednesday, September 21

listen favorite songs online, embed or download

Listen to this wonderful song from upcoming bollywood movie titled sahi Bande Galat Dhande.







Naino wali whiskey dul dul jaye

You can read the movie review at Hindi Movies

Monday, August 29

Michael Jackson the King & superstat of POP

For all MJ fans please wish him Happy B'day and pray that his soul is in peace. you can know more about Michael Jackson at http://great-michael-jackson.blogspot.com

Friday, July 8

Highly Paid actresses - Hollywood High Income Actress


Angelina Jolie once again remains the highly paid actress and this time she shares the number one spot for highly paid actress with Sarah Jessica Parker. Both ladies earn $30 million annually and made it to the top. Angelina Jolie had quiet success last year with successful movies like Salt and The Tourist.






Sarah Jessica Parker however took everyone by surprise when she was ranked highly paid actress with Angelina. Her success came from hit TV series Sec and the City but she also earns a good amount of money from endorsements.





Tuesday, June 21

Old songs remix good or bad thing - Part 2

This is in continuation to my previous post on old bollywood songs being included in new bollywood movies titled Old songs remix good or bad thing.

There I listed you the comparison old songs and new version of the same songs in the umpoming bollywood movies alongwith videos. Just yesterday I was watching the trailers of new bollywood movies and I was surprised to see one more sons being compied and this time it is the one of the super duper hit song of that time. The song is oyee oyee oyee oyee ooo ouaaa.

The sone oye oye was originally used in the movie Tridev and this time the new version is included in seques of the hit movie Dhamaal called Double Dhamaal. Watch and enjoy both the songs below:


Oye oye from the movie Double Dhamaal (the new version)


The original oye oye song from movie Tridev
: Actually there were a couple version of the song in the movie so including both the songs here:

Female version of oye oye


Oye oye tirchi topi waley:

Tuesday, May 3

Bollywood Super Stars Wall Papers Video Presentation

Like to share an interesting video clip I found, I bet no matter what kind of movies you like, you will definitely find the wallpaper of you favorite bollywoob super star in the video.

Thursday, April 21

Salman Khan Wallpapers from Maine Pyar Kiya to Dabang

Salman Khan is no doubt the undisputed king of Bollywood. He has been the trend setter in Bollywood be it style of fitness. He never shied away from trying different looks in his movies and all his looks has been instant hit among youngsters. In his initial years yougsters were copying his hair styles that he done in movies like Maine Pyaar Kiya, Pathat ke phool, Baaghi etc. Then he set the craze for body building from his movie Pyaar Kiya to Darna Kya, One again his Radhe hair style was hit in the Movie Tere Naam. Few other movies he changed his looks include Dabang, Kyun Ki etc.

Below are few wallpapers of Salman Khan from his different movies:





Tuesday, April 19

Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 4 Female Contestants Wallpapers

Khatron Ke Khiladi season 4 has the new pattern this time. Curretn season will feature male contestants from general public and top female models to partern them and add glamour to the show. Below are the female contestants of the show:



  1. Poonam Pandey: Has been featured in Kingfisher calendar and also created buzz by promosing to go naked in India win the cricket world cup 2011.


  2. VJ Bani: A famous VJ of tv channel MTV.



  3. Kashmeera Shah: Bollywwod actress and item girl. She has been participating in variety of reality shows in the past and is considered to be the one who can increase TRPs.



  4. Aarti Chabria: Actress in bollywood and South.



  5. VJ Mia: Another MTV VJ, she also had been a face of Kingfisher Calender shoot of 2007



  6. Diandra Soares: One of the leading super model in the country



  7. Mauli Dave.



  8. Sambhavna Seth: This sexy lady works in bhojpuri movies and also active in many realty shows. Also features as a contestant in Big Boss Season 2



  9. Smita Bansal: Respected actress of the small screen.



  10. Aashka Goradia: Another lady from the small screen.



  11. Alesia Raut: Indo russian model very sexy when on the ramp



  12. Anjum Chopra: Female cricketer played for Indian cricket womens team and also active in commntry and post match discssion for cricket matches.



  13. Dina Singh - Wife on Vindu Dara Singh, who is friend of the host Akshay Kumar. Perhaps thats the reason she is in the show.