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Neha's bags are packed, ready to go

Posted by Unknown Kamis, 12 Juli 2012 0 komentar

Neha Dhupia is all set to take off on a holiday across Europe with close friends

Neha Dhupia is planning a holiday to Europe with friends. The actress takes off later this month. For a while now, she was keen to take a break. She was waiting for her film with Sonu Sood to release and then to wrap up her endorsement assignments before flying off.

Says Neha, “I am looking for a break and hopefully everything will work out this time. Normally when you plan in advance, something or the other crops up.

But this time I am determined to make it happen. My friends and I are pretty excited about this vacation. One of them stays in the US and she is flying down specially for the trip.”

The actress had been exploring the possibility of visiting European countries for a while with her pals that include Italy, Germany and Spain. “I can rough it out on holidays and shun the comforts. Actually we are even weighing the options of a backpacking trip at some places. Let’s see how it works.”

For her a holiday spells chilling out, binging and savouring the local sights. “I do all the touristy things possible in the region. It gives me a great high just being with friends and doing nothing with shopping thrown in.”

So will her Venezuelan beau Jimmy be among the pals? That she is not saying.

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Hollywood-Bollywood come together for vegan cookbook

Posted by Unknown Rabu, 04 Juli 2012 0 komentar

A host of Bollywood celebrities like Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha and Neha Dhupia, as well as Hollywood biggies are set to share their favourite vegan recipes for a book titled "The Bolly Holly Vegan Cookbook".

Poorva Joshipura, head of animal rights organisation People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India and vice president (International Operations), PETA Foundation UK, is working on the project.

"It will be perfect for everyone - veteran vegans, curious newcomers and those who just want to try the occasional meatless meal - as well as both kitchen novices and culinary wizards, " Joshipura, a food enthusiast herself, told.

"The recipes will allow readers to enjoy vegan versions of old-time Indian regional favourites and to explore dishes that they might never have heard of before. The book will reveal how easy it is to turn traditionally meat or dairy-laden Indian dishes - and those from faraway lands - into more enjoyable and far healthier vegan delicacies, " she added.

Other Indian actors who will provide their inputs for the book include names like Sonu Sood, Raveena Tandon, Amrita Rao, Celina Jaitly and Jacqueline Fernandez.

The book will also contain writing from Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA US, as well as by nutrition expert and author Neal Barnard, also the founder of Washington-based The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).

"The Bolly Holly Vegan Cookbook" is expected to hit the stands in 2013.

PETA India's US affiliate counts Hollywood stars like Pamela Anderson, Alicia Silverstone, Sir Paul McCartney, Bryan Adams, Stella McCartney and Eva Mendes as their supporters.

Joshipura has signed with Jacaranda Press to represent the book and she feels it would help readers to understand how a vegan diet helps celebrities to be in perfect shape.

"Learning what celebrities eat can reveal the secrets behind their shiny hair, slim figures, toned bodies and smooth, healthy skin. Every chapter of the book will offer celebrity tips, quotations and facts about the benefits of vegan eating.

"Best of all, it will be fun - full of colourful pictures of celebrities' favourite dishes, with cinematic terms used throughout the text of the book to liven up the pages, " added Joshipura.

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Neha the opportunist?

Posted by Unknown Sabtu, 30 Juni 2012 0 komentar

Actress on why she is seen more at brand endorsement events rather than on the big screen

Of late, Neha Dhupia has been more visible at brand endorsement events than on the big screen. From colas to cell phones and from bathroom fittings to shaving foams, the actress is on an endorsement spree.

The actress is a much sought after name at such events. However, with her new film lined up for release — Kabeer Kaushik’s cop drama with Sonu Sood and Naseeruddin Shah — she has been taking time out for the film’s promotions as well.

Says Neha, “It is not that I am only paying more attention to brand endorsements. I have a film releasing and there are two more lined up. But at the same time I have been getting a lot of offers for endorsements. So when it’s coming my way. Why shouldn’t I make the most of it?”

She adds, “If the people concerned are approaching me with such offers, why should I let go of them? It works both ways; there is a demand for me and when I am available, it’s like why not?”

The actress was recently in New Delhi for her upcoming film’s events. “My character is that of a de-glam wife of a cop. It’s been ages since I was seen in a sari on screen, so I am looking forward to it.”

Neha also has Saurabh Shukla’s rom-com with Ranvir Shorey and another project with Emraan Hashmi coming up soon. Buzz is that she will also feature in Rensil D’Souza’s film with Karan Johar as producer.

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Maximum is a minimum-fuss crime drama

Posted by Unknown Jumat, 29 Juni 2012 0 komentar

Starring Naseeruddin Shah, Sonu Sood, Neha Dhupia, Amit Sadh, Vinay Pathak

Written & Directed by Kabeer Kaushik

Rating: *** ½

With a kind of brisk businesslike immediacy and the least amount of fuss Maximum takes us into the world of encounter killings and the internecine war in Mumbai’s police department which threatens to destroy the very institution built to mend the wounds and fissures in the social fabric.

Writer-director Kabeer Kaushik seems to be a born minimalist. His earlier film the underrated Saher was also steeped in the khaki colour. In Maximum the world of legally-enforced corruption is created with such a lack of back-projection, history and vocalized subtexts that you often feel the director takes his audience for granted.

This is not the case. Kabeer Kaushik only presumes that we are intelligent enough to enter the murky morally ambivalent world of his characters without being led by the hand. It’s a dark unlit and often dreary world ignited by repugnant flare-ups of violence where cops are shown to behave like hardcore criminals. You really can’t tell the two sides apart.

Naseeruddin Shah who plays a ruthless encounter cop Arun Inamdar is introduced to us when a victim lies bleeding in front of the cop. Characteristically director Kabeer Kaushik plunges into the scene of crime when the dark deed is done. We see Inamdar watching the victim bleed to death and then pumping two bullets into the chap to make sure there’s no unfinished business here.

This is a world of unmitigated immorality. Bullets are fired not to stop but to merchanidize crime. And the lawmakers are shown to be as corrupt as the ones they set out to nab and mend. Pratap Pandit, as played by that fine versatile actor Sonu Sood, is a man of a few words, much action.

We are not given a chance to know him closely. He shifts gears so often we’re often left looking briefly at gaping wounds that can never heal in our socio-political system. The view is swift and disconcerting.

The narration assumes a peculiar pace. Though there are bloody shootouts, grim exchange of dialogues, item girls gyrating in smoky dance bars, and car cashes on Mumbai’s deceptively glistening roads, the underbelly of the film is coated with a deathly silence.

As guns roar and Daniel George plays out an elegiac evocative background score to underline the senselessness of the violence, we can see the characters’ selfimposed emptiness in the face of the volatile noise that they’ve created around their lives.

The hollowness hits you in the head more than the heart. And when the emotions seize the plot in a vice-like grip we feel terribly sorry for the characters for the deathtrap that they’ve built for one another and finally themselves.

The film opens in 2003 at the height of the encounter killings in Mumbai. Two encounter specialists played by Sonu Sood and Naseeruddin Shah are at loggerheads the way any two professionals in the same job-space are bound to be.

Admirably the director doesn’t use the two principal characters to form a central conflict. This is a world deprived of moral and legal bearings. Dog eats dog. Cop kills cop.

Kaushik’s narration is as ruthless and stripped of humour and other sources of cinematic solace as the world his characters inhabit. A certain amount of familiarity with the world of encounter killings is assumed on the audiences’ part.

We are expected to understand the subverted value-system of the encounter cops who do their social cleansing and in the process get so embroiled in blood, their hands are soaked in the very blood that they are meant to wash away.

Hence our ‘hero’ Pratap(based on a real-life encounter specialist) is shown to kill criminals, extort money from builders and businessman and hobnob with the powerful and profance. And yet he returns home to a loving wife(Neha Dhupia, blending into the saree folds as fluently as the slit gowns that she generally wears) and a daughter. The father-daughter scenes are done with a tremulous tenderness.

Sonu Sood invests immense emotion in these scenes. His performance takes him through several moral dilemmas. Years pass. Sood’s body language expresses the deplorable shift in power equations. Here’s a performance that again proves this underrated actor’s unimpeachable versatility.

“When you are slipping you either fight back or you keep quiet, ” he tells his journalist-friend, played by an interesting actor Amit Sadh. They share keema-pao at an Irani restaurant. As the years pass earlier the cop paid, later the scribe does.

A subtle illustration of a power-shift that says so much about the socio-economic equations of Mumbai. The journalist’s character remains a kind of sutradhar who gets willnilly sucked into the power game between crime and politics.

By the end of the film we really don’t know who is in the crime folds for the money and who’s there for the power.

Maximum is a film that’s far more in-charge of its out-of-control sharp-shooting cops than it seems. Yes, there have been any number of films about encounter cops. But this one gets at the underbelly of desolation and isolation of such cops as effectively as Shimit Amin’s Ab Tak Chappan.

The are some brilliantly executed shootouts. Note Neha Dhupia’s haunting alaap just before a pen-ultimate exchange of fire. And the climactic confrontation between Sood and Naseer’s character on a station leaves us sickened yet invigorated…

The stunning endgame is one of the many pleasures of watching Maximum. A layered sharp and sagacious look at the internecine world of encounter cops, Maximum is a minimum-fuss crime drama where the characters are so austere in their emotions they somehow seem to be constantly shadow-dancing with their conscience.

The performances by Sonu Sood and Naseeruddin Shah propel the plot to a gripping summit. But there isn’t enough of Naseer. Vinay Pathak as a UP ka politician and Amit Sadh as a journalist both trying to make sense of Mumbai’s confounding cosmopolitanism add considerably to the film’s powerful personality.

For Sonu Sood Maximum is a new beginning.

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Small films make it to big screen this weekend

Posted by Unknown Kamis, 28 Juni 2012 0 komentar

Nowadays, small is big at the box office. After san stars medium budget "Gangs Of Wasseypur" set the cash registers ringing last week, the ticket window is gearing up for a string of small budget movies - "Maximum", "Dal Mein Kuch Kaala Hai" and "3 Bachelors" - coming out Friday to woo movie buffs.

"Gangs Of Wasseypur", inspired by a real life story, is a crime thriller. Director Kabeer Kaushik's "Maximum", featuring actors Sonu Sood, Naseeruddin Shah, Neha Dhupia, Amit Sadh, Arya Babbar, Anjana Sukhani and Vinay Pathak is also from the same genre.

The story of the film goes back to 2003 in Mumbai where a war against the underworld had been declared. And the responsibility was on two chosen officers - Pratap Pandit (Sonu) and Arun Inaamdar (Naseer), the shoot-out specialists.

Both are equally ruthless. Their motive is maximum control. But they are not alone in this game. There are other players. Moving at every level, they take the drama through a complex interplay of politics, land deals, fake shootouts and dirty money.

The story moves through five long years and ends on a railway platform.

The item number "Aa ante amalapuram" is already popular.

The other two films will - "3 Bacheors" and "Dal Me Kuch Kala Hai" - will lighten up the mood as they are comedies.

"Daal Mein...", Pakistani actress Veena Malik's Bollywood debut movie, will seen her in a double role.

The story is a tale of a budding actress, played by Veena, who is over motivated to become successful in Bollywood.

Dabu, a man in his forties, a total looser, has a weak point which is luxurious life and women. He is obsessed with this budding actress. At some point all of a sudden he gets rich after hitting a roll-over prize of birthright. Dabu decides to share his destiny and his future with her.

Directed by actor Anand Balraj, the film also features Jackie Shroff and Vijay Raaz.

On the other hand "3 Bachelors" is a humorous take young men's love life. The story is about two young bachelors and one young at heart bachelor.

With actors Sharman Joshi, Manish Nagpal, Raima Sen and Ria Sen in lead characters, the film went on floors a decade back and is seeing an abrupt release now.

The story is a mix of comedy, romance and confusion. TV show "Astitva" fame Ajai Sinha has directed it.

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