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Bollywood Circuit

Posted: December 16, 2009

De Dana Dan

Director: Priya Darshan
Writer: Priya Darshan
Producers: Ganesh Jain, Girish Jain
Stars:

Katrina Kaif
Aksay Kumar (Best Actor recipient - Filmfare, International Indian Film Academy)
Sunil Shetty (Best Villain recipient - Filmfare)

Tri-genre: crime situation comedy
Story Situation: heist
Satisfaction Rating: good
Maturity Rating: 7+

Plotline: Two Indian guys in Singapore, Nitin (Akshay Kumar) and Ram (Sunil Shetty), are lucky in love but not in their livelihoods.  They both work low-level jobs.  Nitin is not only poor but deep in debt.  Then their well-heeled girlfriends, Anjali (Katrina Kaif) and Manpreet (Sameera Reddy), deliver an ultimatum: earn enough money to elope or their families will demand that each girl accept an arranged marriage.  Now desperate, the guys come up with a scheme to make fast money.  They will dognap Moolchandji, the pampered pet of ritzy snob Archana (Archana Puran Singh).  Moolchandji runs away.  The police think Nitin has been kidnapped. And just when the guys learn the ransom money is on the way, the plan falls apart as a Tong boss, a hitman, a white collar crime investigator, a showgirl, an ambassador, a frustrated wife, a letch, a drunk and a dead body noboby wants all get in the way.  The film re-teams the comedic trio from Hera Pheri after a 9 year lapse.

Posted: December 8, 2009

Kurbaan

Director(s): Rensil D’Silva
Writer(s): Rensil D’Silva (Best Screenplay recipient - International Indian Film Academy award)
Producer(s): Hiroo Johar, Karan Johar (Best Picture nominee - International Indian Film Academy award)
Star(s):

Kareena Kapoor (Best Actress recipient - International Indian Film Academy/Filmfare awards)
Saif Ali Khan (Best Actor recipient - International Indian Film Academy/National Film/Filmfare awards)

Tri-genre: Conspiracy thriller suspense
Story Situation: suspicion
Satisfaction Rating: good
Maturity Rating: 13+

Plotline: While on sabbatical from her New York teaching job to visit her sick father in Deli, aloof beauty Avantika (Kareena Kapoor) falls in love with local silver-tongued adjunct professor Ehsaan (Saif Ali Khan).  They marry and he accompanies her back to America where they settle into an Indian community.  But when the panicked Indian Muslin daughter-in-law (Nauhee Cyrius) of her neighbor confides that she fears for her life, Avantika slowly begins to suspect that her new husband may be part of a radical terrorist cell.