seat edge thriller, maybe a bit in the ‘Wild Wild West’ or Mackennah’s Gold model.

Assembling maybe the most explosive star casts these days in Bollywood, debutant director Vijay Krishna Acharya has certainly given himself all the chances of striking gold. Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan back together, a long time after their successful Main Khiladi Tu Anari and Keemat days. Then you have Kareena with her all new look and the oldest ‘young man’ of Bollywood, Anil Kapoor. All this backed by the Yashraj banner is an irresistible combination and movie buffs are smacking their lips. Don’t think that the debutant director is a greenhorn, he scripted both the Dhoom(s). Have you watched the teaser where Anil Kapoor goes in his characteristic desi English ‘First impression is the last impression’.

Sirf-Life looks greener on the other side

Four couples from different walks of life, different lifestyles, different problems-everything is different. Yet, their paths cross and the story moves towards a culmination. It is a look at the fast paced life of people, a tongue in cheek perspective, as the director liked to call it.

Clashing with a Yashraj biggie is not something that a producer would want to do. But the makers of this movie seem to know their target audience (the multiplex) and have calculated their chances well. Having a star cast that can bring in movie lovers: Kay Kay Menon, Manisha Koirala, Ranvir Shourey and Sonali Kulkarni: the movie with some intelligent marketing could do well for itself.

From Last Week

Hope and a Little Sugar

Well, without being sarcastic, we have to say that the movie’s performance at the box office has been hopeless. Not to say that it is bad cinema, on the contrary it has got extremely good reviews. But a subject that caters to a minor cross section of the audience can never hold on.

U, Me aur Hum

Holding fort at the box office over the last week in the absence of anything substantial and keeping the business rolling was Ajay Devgan’s directorial debut. But this movie too couldn’t pick up as expected. Though aided by positive word of mouth the film just failed to gain momentum. Not a failure by any means, there is a feeling of unrealized potential for the movie to be an above average grosser.

Krazzy 4

Alongside U, Me aur Hum this movie has hung on. But it too suffered a heavy drop over the week reducing its chances of being termed a real hit. This is a bit disappointing considering the surprisingly good opening that it had got off to.

Meanwhile, the industry which had initially put on a brave front has conceded that the IPL is eating into the big summer pie. Having been proclaimed an instant success, the IPL is threatening to hit Bollywood during May. Hope Tashan can change all that.

Sneak Preview

Mr. Black Mr. White

Earlier titled Gopi Kishan, this movie looks like a comic caper with Arshad Warsi doing the honors with Suneil Shetty for company. But it will have to contend with Tashan which will have completed one week by May 2.

Anamika

Horror returns to Bollywood on May 2nd with Anamika. Directed by Anant Mahadevan and starring Dino Morea along side Minnisha Lamba, the movie will look to scare you, so be ready.

Pranali

Looks like another brave filmmaker is getting ready with his attempt at offbeat cinema. We do not know much about Pranali at this point of time but it appears to be a hard -hitting drama portraying contemporary society.