New Films

Banner: UTV Motion Pictures Bhandarkar Entertainment
Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Mugdha Godse, Kangna Ranaut, Arbaaz Khan, Harsh Chhaya, Madhur Bhandarkar, Karan Johar
Direction: Madhur Bhandarkar
Production: Ronnie Screwvala
Music: Salim-Sulaiman

"Fashion" explores the world of style through the emotional personal journeys of the key people that make the industry - the dream-weavers of that elaborate world of glamour: the models, designers, photographers, businessmen, agencies etc.

Banner: A B S combines
Direction: Shafi
Cast: Prithviraj, Kunchakko Boban, Jayasurya, Roma, Bhavana
Production: Anto Joseph
Lyrics: Vayalar Sharath Chandravarma
Music: Alex Poal

Director: Samir Karnik
Star Cast: Salman Khan...Balkar Singh, Sunny Deol... Vikram Shergill, Bobby Deol... Dhananjay Shergill, Mithun Chakraborty...Dr. Naqvi, Preity Zinta...Kuljeet Kaur, Sohail Khan, Vatsal Sheth, Amrita Arora, Riya Sen
Lyricist: Jalees Sherwani, Rahul Seth
Music Director: Sajid Wajid, Monty Sharma
Cinematography: Binod Pradhan, Gopal Shah
Banner: Future Picture Company Pvt.Ltd

Heroes is the story of one journey. A journey enriched with moments and experience that changes the outlook of two young boys. Sammy and Ali are childhood friends. They have taken joint decisions in life, right from choosing a school to taking up a career. Even though they are not like-minded, they are together because they rely heavily on each other - two bodies, one soul. Sammy is an eccentric boy, high-spirited and has an uncanny knack of finding humor in the weirdest of situations. He's generous, compassionate yet impulsive. He is like a kid who needs to fall to learn how to walk. Ali on the other hand is quieter and more mature.



Heroes is the story of these two boys who travel a thousand miles to deliver three letters as a part of their film school assignment. But little do they know that the journey they have embarked upon will give a new meaning to their life. They discover the power within themselves to change lives and events that are of importance. Heroes emphasizes on the simple experiences that can awaken feelings of patriotism. A fun road trip for two boys and a series of experiences that finite emotions that have never been experienced before, this is the underlying crux of the film. The film is an attempt to bring out the new age meaning of patriotism - 'You don't have to be a soldier to love your country'

Cast: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Sohail Khan, Sharman Joshi, Isha Koppikar, Gul Panag Amrita Arora, Dilip Tahil, Suresh Menon, Sharat Saxena,Arbaaz Khan
Direction: Atul Agnihotri
Production: Atul Agnihotri
Music: Sajid, Wajid

Hello... is a tale about the events that happen one night at a call center. Told through the views of the protagonist, Shyam (Sharman Joshi), it is a story of almost lost love, thwarted ambitions, absence of family affection, pressures of a patriarchal set up, and the work environment of a globalized office.

Shyam is losing his girl friend because his career is going nowhere as he trudges his way around in a call center. His girl friend, Priyanka (Gul Panag), is also an agent like him at the call center who is about to be snatched by an NRI techno geek.

t is a night when dreams will finally crumble. Or will it? For there is that call from God. Narrated as a tale within a tale as a beautiful woman (Katrina Kaif) meets the auteur/ narrator (Salman Khan) and promises him a story on the condition that he has to narrate it further….

Banner: Dharma Productions
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Bobby Deol, Shilpa Shetty
Direction: Tarun Mansukhani
Producer: Karan Johar
Music: Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani


What started off as a small lie for getting to stay in an apartment turns out to be a nightmare for the two guys. The cool headed fun loving best friends Sameer played by Abhishek Bachchan and Kunal played by John Abraham never thought that the land lady's niece Neha played by Priyanka Chopra will be so gorgeous and one among them after the meeting will fall for her charm so quickly. So now how to get out of the mess that is standing like a hurdle? What is the way out of the simple lie of being a gay couple forced to be made because of the same old land lady who had insisted that she cannot give the apartment because she thought the two dashing young men will corrupt the mind of her beautiful niece if allowed to stay there.

When situations have already got hot and slippery, the third good looking man enters the picture to create more mayhem. The person is none other than Neha's boss Abhimanyu played by Bobby Deol who also wants Neha as his own. Now what will be the ultimate games that Sameer and Kunal will play to end up things in the way that they wanted?

The shoot of Sagar alias Jackie Reloaded, a sequel to Mohanlal's 1987 blockbuster Irupatham Noottandu directed by K. Madhu, will start in mid-December. The film will be shot in the exotic locations of Goa, Mumbai, Dubai, and Kochi.

To be directed by Malayalam's most stylish director Amal Neerad of Big B fame and produced by Antony Perumbavoor under the banner of Ashirvad films, the film will be a stylish thriller on the lines of the Tamil film Billa. It is learnt that producer Antony Perumbavoor has approached South India"s costliest actress Nayantara to play one of the heroines, while Meena will play the other heroine.

Sagar Alias Jackie, written by S.N. Swamy, Jackie, after killing the Chief Minister's son, escapes from India to Dubai where he slowly becomes a big underworld don. However, he returns to Kerala as his enemies try to trap him in an 'explosive' case. How he sorts them out is the story in a nutshell. The film is expected is grace theatres on March 31, 2009 as Mohanlal's big summer release.

Soldier-turned film maker Major Ravi, whose earlier films Keerthichakra on the Kashmir conflict and Mission 90 Days on the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have won accolades from many corners, is now ready to release his third movie Kurukshetra.

The movie tells a story based on the Kargil war with superstar Mohanlal in the lead role. Mohanlal's role is that of a Colonel with tolerance and the determination to protect his compatriots. Tanya Singh and Nehak Bhatia will be playing the female roles in the film.But none of them are the pair for Mohanlal.

The story, dialogues and screenplay are by the director himself. Cinematographer Lokanathan is handling the camera. The film has four songs, one of them in Hindi. Siddarth is the music director. Along with Mohanlal, Siddique, Biju Menon and Suraj Venjaramoodu are among the cast.

Banner: Amma Creations
Cast: S.P.B. Charan, Siva, Kajal Agarwal, Premji Gangai Amaran, Vaibhav, Vega, Prakash Raj, Jayaram
Direction: Venkat Prabhu
Music: Yuvan Shankar Raja

The movie features S.P.B. Charan, Premji Gangai Amaran among others in the lead cast. Vega, model from Mumbai, will play the heroine in the movie. Yuvan Shankar Raja will score music for the film.According to Venkat Prabhu, "It is a different film from ‘Chennai 600028’. I am keen not to reproduce the same in 'Saroja'. It would be an entertainer and worth watching".

Banner: Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd
Release Date: October 2, 2008
Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
Star Cast: Sanjay Dutt...... Vikrant Raina, Minissha Lamba...... Sonia Raina
Imran Khan...... Kabir, Vidya Malvade, Malaika Arora, Amrita Arora, Rahul Dev, Reema Lagoo, Sophie Choudry...... Special Appearance
Cinematography: Bobby Singh
Choreography: Remo
Action: Allan Amin

When you carry the baggage of super-successful films like DHOOM and DHOOM 2, the expectations from your subsequent outing is bound to be gargantuan. Unfortunately, KIDNAP falls short of expectations. You expect a seven course meal, but you're served mere crumbs.
Let's introspect. Where does it falter? The boy versus man concept holds tremendous scope and writer Shibani Bathija could've come up with an enthralling revenge drama. But KIDNAP fumbles, stumbles and falls on its face. The cat-n-mouse game is hardly enticing and that is its biggest drawback.
KIDNAP comes close to ZINDA in terms of plotline. There're similarities between the two films. But KIDNAP isn't as dark and gruesome as ZINDA. Also, KIDNAP loses focus after a promising start.

The hallmark of any revenge fare is the suspense quotient. In this case, there's a motive behind what Imran does. And money is definitely not the motive here. So far, so good. But the purpose of kidnapping the billionaire's only daughter as also the chain of events that lead to the culmination is such a put-off. Things keep deteriorating as they reach the finale.
KIDNAP belongs to Imran Khan. Watch this youngster take giant strides and you know that he has arrived. He carries the cold look effortlessly. Sanjay Dutt looks disinterested, as if he is about to break into a yawn. Minissha Lamba is miscast. She doesn't look like a 17-year-old in the first place. Also, the generous dose of skin show doesn't gel with someone who's held captive. Vidya Malvade is efficient. Reema Lagoo is a mere prop. Rahul Dev's character looks forced.

On the whole, KIDNAP fails to grip you and that is its biggest flaw. At the box-office, KIDNAP being teen sensation Imran Khan's immediate release after the blockbuster hit JAANE TU… YA JAANE NA would ensure a strong opening weekend, but the poor merits are sure to take a toll once the initial euphoria subsides. Disappointing!

Director Ranjith's Malayalam super hit Nandanam (2002), which was the debut film of both Prithviraj and Navya Nair, will soon be remade in Tamil by Ranjith himself.

The surprise element is a cameo by Dhanush as a human avatar of Lord Krishna.
The Tamil screenplay is being written by writer-director Viji, who wrote the screenplay of Mozhi and also wrote and directed Vellithirai.The shooting will start in January 2009, after Prithviraj and Priyamani complete the shooting of Mani Ratnam’s Ravana.

Banner- Orient Films
Director- Jayaraj
Cast- Ranjith, Siddique, Neenu Mathew, Meghanathan, Nishanth Sagar, I.M.Vijayan, Augustine, Karthik Prasad etc.
Cinematography- M.J.Radhakrishnan
Music- Johnson

Malayalam film industry is facing a new controversy during the festival season of Ramzan, when the major films of megastars like ‘Kurukshetra’ starring Mohanlal ‘Maya Bazaar’ of Mammootty, and Suresh Gopi’s ‘Bullet’ are scheduled to be released tomorrow on October 1st.

Cine Exhibitors Federation (CEF), an organization of 'A' class theatres in Kerala demands for a restriction in the number of releasing centers for the films. Screening of new releases in larger number of centers would harm the other films. They insisted that there must be only 48 releasing centers in the state whereas the films’ producers want their films to be screened for release in 90 centers. Film producers association and the B-C Class theatre owners consider this restriction as harmful to the solidarity of the film industry in the forthcoming festival season.

However, the Film producers association cleared that the demand of CEF is the breach of contract signed last march, which says about permitting any number of releasing centers in the state.