

Stock analyst Vishal (Devgan) moves in with his wife Swati (Matondkar) to the 12th floor of a Mumbai block. ROSEMARY'S BABY: No, just Ajay Devgans screen wife Urmila Matondkar in BhootAjay Devgan and Nana Patekar in French beards, Urmila Matondkar without her 1980s curls and Fardeen Khan with a designer stubble? Varma hopes there's more to the film than that. Pass the popcorn, Bollywood's biggest summer ever is here. But do, do expect a fightback, the last stand of an industry in the deathlike grip of a decline of imagination. Don't expect: an avalanche of brave new ideas small personal movies the death of Old Bollywood financed by distributors. Will his tagline (be scared) live up to its scary promise?Įxpect: glossy, invariably imported special effects spectacular Devdas-like sets more babes lots of Preity Zinta. And there is an over-articulate director who loves to put other people's money where his mouth is. There's the boy wonder director whose hallmark is his Hallmark card sentimentality. There's the falling star whose ever-protective father is hoping to play starmaker again (no doubt so that the happy family can play pass-the-cheesy-smile on Simi Garewal's show again). Dutta is trying to recreate in LoC-Kargil, during the high-altitude shoot of which two unit members lost their lives? Or the funny-sad dialogue Shah Rukh Khan uses to woo Rani Mukherjee in Chalte Chalte?Įight movies, costing Rs 200 crore, will put to test just not Bollywood but several reputations as well. Mil Gaya? Or in the hard-nosed courage that J.P. "In a content-free zone, what they are looking for is a soul," says lyricist Javed Akhtar.Ĭould it be found in the alien that an Australian special effects house created to befriend Hrithik Roshan - an 11-year-old trapped in a 25-year-old's body - in Koi. They're also over and done with movies where the hair has more of a role than actors and muscles speak more than words. Audiences have had enough of picture-perfect faces and postcard locations. With even one-man hit factories like Karan Johar talking of a cinematic 1857, producers/directors have to - Godfather-like - go to the mattresses. But thanks to last year being its worst in recent memory, with the industry losing over Rs 300 crore, money is no longer the solution.
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