Cutting Chai with Bhawana Somaaya - Day 186

Shudh Desi Romance heals 

6.9.2013, Mumbai

Aditya Chopra produced aur Maneesh Sharma directed Shuddh Desi Romance YRFilms banner se ek aur prem kahani hain.

Iss baar location hain Jaipur, kirdaar teen:  ladka Raghu yaane Sushant Singh Rajput. Ladkiyaan do, yaane Gayatri/ Pariniti Chopra aur nayi ladki Tara/Vaani Kapoor aur samasya sabki same: Commitment!

Jaideep Sahni likhi ye anokni prem kahani refreshing aur contemporary hain aur Raghu/ Gayatri/ Tara aaj ki pidhi ke naujawan jo apna dil/ dimaag pal pal badalte hain.

Har love story mein ek buzurg zaroori hota hai. Iss film ka mazedaar buzurg hai Rishi Kapoor.

Nayi ladki Vani Kapoor impressive hain. Parineeti Chopra natural aur Sushant Singh Rajput Kaipo Che ke baad ek lambi udan ke liye taiyaar hain.

Director Maneesh Sharma ne peechli baar Band Baja Baraat se humara swagat kiya tha, iss baar wo hume baraat mein shamil kar dete hain.

Film ka plot thoda repetitive hai aur pace kuch dheema. Shudh Desi Romance na hi desi hai aur na hi shudh – magar romantic zaroor hain

Shudh Desi Romance ko pyaar mein nayi bahar lane ke liye, Big Entertainment Ratings milte hain 3.5 stars.

Bhawana Somaaya / @bhawanasomaaya

Cutting Chai with Bhawana Somaaya - Day 185

Zanjeer Take 2

05.9.13,Rajkot

It is more than a month that Sanjay Dutt has been inside the jail and in a few hours from now his second film will be released that Sanjay will not be there to watch it. His producer and his director have been issuing statements about how much they miss him and want to screen the film for Sanjay and his inmates inside the jail. In Zanjeer Sanjay has done a qawwali song but this is not the first time he will be singing a qawwali on screen.

Years ago, before he  was launched as a hero in Rocky by his father Sunil Dutt, Sanjay starred as a child star in Ajanta Arts 1972  starrer Reshma aur Shera where he was a part of a qawwali scene wearing the bandi –topi the complete costume.  Though the actor has starred in almost 150 films and done all kinds of roles, he never got another opportunity to enact a qawwali number 41 years later in Zanjeer.

Dutt plays Pran saab’s role of Sher Khan in this re-imagined version of Zanjeer and instead of ‘Yaari hai iman mera…’ sings 'Khochey pathan ki zubaan…' Director Lakhia is confident that this is among Sanjay’s most memorable performances. Lakhia says Priyanka is the new age Jaya Bhaduri and Ram Charan, the new angry man. He has introduced new characters of Mahie Gill and Atul Kulkarni to make the film more contemporary.

In 1973 a chain/ Zanjeer altered t destinies of two actors : Amitabh Bachchan, for whom the film proved the end of   failure and Rajesh Khanna, for whom it was the beginning of the end…Let’s wait and watch whose career is altered this time round.

Bhawana Somaaya / @bhawanasomaaya