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Movie Review - Jia Aur Jia – By Suhel Johar

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Jia Aur Jia Is A FLOP Show From The Word Go. Directed by debutante Howard Rosemeyer Jia Aur Jia is a female-oriented road film. Starring Richa Chaddha and Kalki Koechlin in the lead roles, the film also features   Arslan Goni in a prominent role. The title of the film clearly shows that film is about two Jias — Jia Venkatram, the role played by Richa Chadha and Jia Garewal, the role played by Kalki Koechlin. Both Jia Venkatram and Jia Garewal are unexpected tour partners, who are on a budget trip to Sweden. Both explore new things about each other in which few things shock both girls. There they meet a slouchy guy Vaasu Krishnan (Arslan Goni), who claims to do nothing in his life because of his rich dad and that’s what most of the guys in Sweden do. All of a sudden they start partying with this new person, the duo then become trio which emerges a love triangle between three. The film ends with a weird predictable twist of one Jia going to die soon and desires to li

Movie Review – Rukh – By Suhel Johar

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Rukh Is An Off The Beaten Track Mystery Drama Film That Is Thrilling And Engrossing.     Manoj Bajpayee, Smita Tambe and Adarsh Gourav starrer Rukh is a Mystery Drama film. It’s not easy to be courageous enough to challenge the genre-bound filmmaking, especially for a first time director. Atanu Mukherjee’s Rukh challenges existing norms and our sensibilities as we get confused in our attempt to fit this mystery drama in a bracket. It might look like a typical whodunit in the beginning, but you realise within minutes that Rukh is more about fighting the inner demons than those outside. Rukh is the story of Dhruv (Adarsh Gourav) who is sent to a boarding school after he assaults one of his schoolmates. However, this is just the beginning of his troubles. Later, he gets the news that his father Diwakar Mathur (Manoj Bajpayee), a textile businessman, has died in a road accident. Dhruv comes back home to take care of his grieving mother Nandini (Smita Tambe), but as time

Movie Review – Secret Superstar – By Suhel Johar

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Secret Superstar Is A Must See.   After Last year's Dangal , Aamir Khan and his onscreen daughter Zaira Wasim make a comeback to silver screens, this time with an emotional tale of dreams, aspirations and ambitions trying to come out the chains of misogyny, chauvinism, and liberate itself, in debutante director Advait Chandan's Secret Superstar . The film revolves around Insia Malik (Zaira Wasim), an average small-town girl, who aspires to be a singer. She isn’t a stellar student. She sits through the classes with a dull face, sometimes humming a song inside her head. She isn’t much of a head turner. But don’t you pass her for a mouse. This unflinching 15-year-old Vadodara girl is the protagonist of Advait Chandan’s Secret Superstar . Her household isn’t a very warm space. Her father Farook Malik (Raj Arun), a brooding man with a white collar job, is a wife-beating misogynist. When he goes about hitting and harassing his wife Najma (Meher Vij), the girl and her li

Movie Review - Golmaal Again!!! – By Suhel Johar

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Rohit Shetty-Ajay Devgn's 'Horror' Comedy Golmaal Again!!! Is A 'Mindless' Comic Caper.   Rohit Shetty is back to films , two years after the disastrous SRK starrer Dilwale , and this time around, he has chosen to play safe by making Golmaal Again!!! , the fourth installment of his successful franchise — Golmaal . Rohit Shetty, who has been entertaining audience with Golmaal series for over a decade now, has come up with a package that is clearly glitter filled with suspense. Golmaal Again!!! operates under a much defined nucleus and while Shetty has brought its previous cast together for the franchise, he has twisted the story with a blend of horror and melodrama. The masses maker known for his penchant for slapstick comedy sequences and over the top action packed screenplays. Rohit goes about unapologetically full blast – given his signature scale. Golmaal Again!!!   starts with Ana Mathew (Tabu) a librarian living in Ooty who can see and talk to sp

Recipe - Nawabi Chicken – By Suhel Johar

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  Recipe - Nawabi Chicken Ingredients For Marination Boneless Chicken: 250 gm Yogurt: 2 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste: 1 tbsp Lemon Juice: 1 tbsp Chicken Masala: 2 tbsp Turmeric Powder: 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder: 1 tsp   For Gravy Oil: 4 tbsp Chopped Onion: 2 tbsp Cumin Seeds: 1 tsp Chopped Green Chili: 1 tbsp Fresh Tomato Puree: 1 cup Crushed Chili: 1 tbsp Salt: As per taste Tomato Cubes (Seeded): 2 Kasuri Methi: 1/2 tsp Garam Masala: 1/4 tsp Fresh Coriander: For garnish   Method Cut the chicken cubes in small pieces Combine marination ingredients in a mixing bowl. Add chicken cubes and mix them well. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Heat up a Karahi/wok.   Add oil, onion, Cumin Seeds and Green Chili. Fry till onions turn light golden in colour. Add marinated chicken and cook each side for 2 minutes.   Add fresh tomato puree, crushed chili and Salt, stir well and cook with the li

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  Secret Superstar - Releases in cinemas on 19th October. Secret Superstar traces the journey of Insia (Zaira Wasim), a 14 year old girl from Baroda, whose dream of becoming a singer changes her life and the lives of everyone around her. She faces stiff opposition from her father who acts like a stumbling block in her desire to become a famous singer. The film showcases Insia taking to anonymously chasing her dream of becoming a singer. The song Main Kaun Hoon allows Insia to introduce herself as a singer who reveals her emotional state of self-discovery via the song.   Starring : Zaira Wasim, Meher Vij, Raj Arjun, Tirth Sharma, Kabir Sheikh, Farrukh Jaffer and Aamir Khan.   Written & Directed by : Advait Chandan Music : Amit Trivedi Lyrics : Kausar Munir Cinematographer : Anil Mehta (ISC) Editor : Hemanti Sarkar   Golmaal Again!!! - Releases in cinemas on 20th October, 2017. Golmaal Again!!! , the fourth installment of the popular franchise looks

Ajay Devgn To Remake Jigarthanda With Farhan Akhtar and Sanjay by Suhel Johar

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  Ajay Devgn has picked up the Hindi remake rights of the 2014 Tamil film Jigarthanda.   However he won’t be playing the lead in the Hindi remake instead he has decided to cast Farhan Akhtar and Sanjay Dutt as the main leads. A quirky black comedy, directed by Karthik Subbaraj, Jigarthanda had Siddharth, Bobby Simha and Lakshmi Menon in the lead. The plot revolves around Karthik (Siddharth), an assistant director who is thrown out of a reality new filmmakers show, as his short film was disappointing. Heartbroken, Karthik has the support of one of the judges who believes he has the stuff to be a great director and is willing to back him if he does a script on a real life gangster. Karthik travels to Madurai looking to make a film based on the life and times of the notorious gangster Assault Sethu (Bobby Simha). The rest of the plot deals with how Karthik makes his film with the help of a friend. Farhan Akhtar would take on Siddharth's role while Sanjay Dutt gets in

Sara Ali Khan's First Look Pictures From Kedarnath Remind You of Young Amrita Singh – by Suhel Johar

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After wrapping the shoot of the film at Kedarnath Temple, Team Kedarnath took to social media to share the first look of the debutante Sara Ali Khan. She looks awesome in the two photographs of her debut film Kedarnath that have been officially shared by the film's team as part of promotional material. The photos of Sara will indeed make you do a double take for her unmissable and striking resemblance to her mother, actress Amrita Singh. Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh’s daughter Sara’s debut has been a part of rumour mills for the longest time. After initial reports claiming Karan Johar will launch her, the youngster signed Abhishek Kapoor’s ‘Kedarnath’ opposite Sushant Singh Rajput. Instead of an ultra-glamorous role to kick off her career, Sara has decided to don traditional outfits for her character in the love story. The 24-year-old actor can be seen wearing a floral salwar-kameez with bright blue umbrella on a sunny day in the green mountains of Uttarakhand's

Padmavati Trailer And Posters Killing The Internet by Suhel Johar.

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The trailer of Padmavati which was released only a couple of days has created a rage on the internet and audience just can’t get over the beautiful trio of Deepika Padukone – Shahid Kapoor – Ranveer Singh.   Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s period film Padmavati , starring Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Shahid Kapoor in the lead role is one of the most awaited films of 2017. In fact, after witnessing the grandeur of Baahubali 2 - The Conclusion , the audience is eagerly waiting to experience the larger than life drama on the big screen once again. Even before the Padmavati first look of Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh and Shahid Kapoor went viral like a virus. The buzz they created amongst all cinegoers is just amazing with Deepika’s unibrow being a highlight. Firstly Deepika Padukone revealed her posters of Padmavati looks and they were killing the internet. Later Shahid Kapoor revealed his killer looking posters and made everyone fall in love with his Padmavati look