Priyanka Chopra's sister goes topless in her debut film

Priyanka Chopra's sister Barbie Handa is going topless for her debut film 'Zid'. Barbie has also changed her name to Manara. Barbie says that she has no problems in exposing her body. She says if she has a hot body she has no problem in flaunting it. In fact she had no problem in doing bold scenes in the film. Earlier, Meera Chopra and Parineeti Chopra have also entered Bollywood. They are also Priyanka Chopra's cousins. Among all theses girls, only Parineeti Chopra.besides Priyanka have made a mark in Bollywood. All all the sisters chant slogans for their darling sister Priyanka Chopra, who they say, is very helpful.

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Here's what the nation actually wants to know: Stories of Siddharth Mallya's crotch

India has a new pastime - and it's not sharing articles that claim to investigate 'five things only boys who don't grow chest hair will relate to'. And suchlike. This new pastime is far more invigorating than following Chetan Bhagat on Twitter, requires way more imagination than trending #YoRahulSoDumb and is nearly as disturbing as asking your Facebook friend to loan you his virtual pet goat on Farmville.

So, India's latest obsession is, *deep breath*, Siddharth Mallya's crotch.

You can now thank me for bringing you the most enlightening bit of news to have hit us Indians after the list of black money hoarders in our country.

Mallya will now host a web-series called Sid Sessions, that you can access on YouTube. Ah, now stop smirking you cynics. If there can be Nigella Bites and Rachel Allen Bakes, why can't there be Sid Sessions, pray? Yes, it does sound like a show on exotic massages, but I guarantee, there's more cleavage on display right in the first episode than there has been in all Nigella shows and RGV item numbers put together.

Now that we have your attention, lets move on to the show and the questions Siddharth Mallya answers in them.

One third of them have to do with his crotch.

The format of the show is simple - Mallya attempts to answer questions that people send him on social media.

Now consider this: Siddharth Mallya and people who actually have things to ask about him, and his genitals, put together. That could be the best thing to have happened to our part of the world since Akshay Kumar with his pre-waxing era chest met Rekha, who had a mouth with a mind of its own in Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi.

So the first 'question' that came Mallya's way is this: 'You gotta nice bulge. Humm.' It came from a Twitter handle called 'bhawana010', which we have failed to trace at the moment.

"Where have you seen my bulge?" Mallya wonders, with the same kind of heart-wrenching honesty with which Rahul Gandhi is believed to have expounded when he declared that poverty was a state of mind. However, Mallya puts up a brave face despite the objectification of his genitals and goes on to advise 'kids' that they shouldn't wear something that fits too tightly around their crotches.

While you are tempted to believe that Mallya is offering the endangered Indian male crotch a way to beat the prying eye - like the dutiful Delhi mother offers a dupatta to the daughter stepping out in a ganjee to catch a bus - that's not what he has in mind. He goes on to explain how wearing tight clothes will ruin a man's sperm count.

Women of the country, notice now cleverly Mallya just tried to beautify the manscape around you.

Soon after, someone asks, "You sly fox, how's the rod doing?". And then another asks, "Do you have d***?"

To answer the former, Mallya, has a conversation with the said part of his body and then he declares, "He says he is doing fine."

Given that you have just survived this little heart-to-crotch chit-chat, thank Mallya for giving you new strength and conviction to survive the sight of Baba Ramdev's armpits. Or Arvind Kejriwal's singing. Another season of Bigg Boss. And an entire Mumbai local-full of damp-patches. Precisely, most such everyday hassles you have to deal with in the country.

Following the revelation of India's obsession with Mallya's genitals, if you have started making enquiries about property prices and rentals in North Korea, hold on for a little more. He will now proceed to fortify you against any intellectual catastrophe that might strike you in your lifetime.

Another Twitter user, apparently, says, "Shameless creature... Pay ur kingfisher debts." To which Mallya shows that apart from possessing a telepathic relationship with his crotch, he owns superior sarcasm. He answers the question saying, "While I am at it, let me also stop the ISIS and maybe find a cure for cancer as well... and several other things which I have absolutely no control over?"

Take note Mr Senior Bachchan. Here's how, maybe you could justify the junior in Happy New Year. And Dhoom:3. And Players.

We want to conclude this article with a silent prayer for Russel Brand, who, we hope doesn't watch this video and feel way more miserable than anyone who has been dumped by Katy Perry should.

And a plea to Sid Mallya: Could you tell your fans that spelling 'friendship' without its vowels on Facebook can decrease a man's sperm count? You will be doing us women a great favour.

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Bigg Boss 8: Sushant gets nominated thanks to Upen Patel

The game inside the Bigg Boss 8 house is getting interesting with each passing day. The new phone booth task seems to have taken a toll on everyone. 

After Karishma Tanna and Puneet Issar being tortured to sit inside the phone booth and perform tasks, it was housemate Sushant's turn to take the onus. When Sushant went inside the phone booth, he was asked who in the house understands him the most. Sushant without even thinking much takes Upen Patel's name. The mysterious voice on the other side of the phone orders him his first task. The voice tells him to convince Upen to shave his head and become bald. However, to Sushant's misfortune, Upen disagrees to do it and says I will shave off my eyebrow, my chest but not my head. He further says that he's an actor and can't play with his appearance. Upen tells Sushant that he is really close to him and he doesn't need to prove that through a task.

After miserably failing to convince Upen, Sushant is then given another chance to persuade anyone from the boys to shave their heads. However, no one agrees to Sushant's proposal and he fails twice in the same task. As a result of this Sushant gets nominated for next week. Now, even if Sushant is saved from elimination this coming Saturday he will again be nominated next week.

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The new serial kissers of Bollywood

Sushant Singh Rajput seems to be the new actor to join the serial kisser bandwagon. According to a report in DNA, Sushant and co-star Swastika Mukherjee have shot the longest kissing scene for their upcoming film Detective Byomkesh Bakshy. The report quoted director Dibakar Banerjee stating that he wanted to throw Sushant Singh off guard and hence he had not briefed the actor about his intentions of shooting a lengthy kissing scene. 

The report further stated that Sushant was displeased at the end of it, but when he saw the final shot, he seemed fine with it. Previously he had kissing scenes in Shuddh Desi Romance and is all set to share a hot lip-lock with Anushka Sharma in PK. The actor seems uninhibited when it comes to locking lips on the silver screen. While Sushant may give Emraan Hashmi a run for his money, read on to know about the other competitors in the industry. 

Siddharth Malhotra, who entered Bollywood with the film Student Of The Year, kissed Alia Bhatt in the movie. In his next film Hasee Toh Phasee, the actor was again seen in a hot lip-lock with Parineeti Chopra. 

He also kissed Shraddha Kapoor in his next, Ek Villain! 

Arjun Kapoor too is on his way to be the next serial kisser. The actor has emerged as an expert in love-making scenes. In his debut film Ishaqzaade, he was seen kissing Parineeti and in his next film Aurangzeb the actor was seen doing intimate acts with Sashaa Agha. Arjun Kapoor and Alia Bhatt set the temperatures soaring as they kissed onscreen in 2 States. 

While talking about his intimate moments, Arjun said in an interview to TOI, "It's the most natural thing to do. When a man falls in love, the first thing he will do is to kiss the girl. I think Emraan has broken the myth. Also, the audience today is sensible and understands the context of a scene. The love-making scene was integral to Ishaqzaade and Aurangzeb and was done aesthetically. We did not do it to add sleaze." 

Ranveer Singh too is the new entrant in the gang of kissers. The actor was confident with his chemistry in his debut film Band Baaja Baarat with Anushka Sharma and was seen getting involved in a hot lip-lock. Further, he was seen kissing Deepika Padukone in Ram Leela. He was also snapped planting a kiss on Deepika's cheek at the Hello! Awards.

Ranbir Kapoor, who did a kissing scene with his ex-flame Deepika Padukone in Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani is confident about his scenes. He even had a a kissing scene with Southern hottie Ileana D'Cruz in Barfi! In an interview with the Times Of India, Ranbir said, "Kissing onscreen is extremely technical! 

You have to see if the light is coming right, if your face is in the right position for the camera. Besides there are so many people around! I am an actor and it's a part of my acting. I also don't usually need retakes. I am a good kisser." 

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King Khan revels in stardom

The 48-year-old is happy that the audience liked the Farah Khan directorial, which minted a record INR 45 million on its opening day. 

Since the 1990s, Shahrukh Khan’s movies have been creating fireworks at the box office during the Diwali festival. Remaining true to tradition, the superstar’s latest Happy New Year (HNY) continued the trend by turning out to be a money-spinner.

King Khan’s HNY released a day after the festival of lights and he says superstition has got nothing to do with it. “It is good to release films on a holiday,” he adds. “You get that extra benefit of a day off… I am lucky. The movies (that released during Diwali) have done well, but I am not superstitious like that. Any day is good if I get a good holiday,” said Khan whose movies like Baazigar (1993), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and Om Shanti Om (2007) all released on Diwali were runaway hits.

Riding high on the success of Happy New Year, the 48-year-old is happy that the audience liked the Farah Khan directorial, which minted a record INR 45 million on the opening day of its release. “I was expecting a lot of people to watch the film as it was a holiday. And the number is indicative of the fact that so many people came to see the film,” said Shahrukh.

“If they came and didn’t like it, it would’ve been sad. I’ve gotten to understand that 70 to 80 per cent of the audience liked it as a family film,” said Shahrukh, whose company Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. produced the film. While some critics have given positive reviews, quite a few panned it, Shahrukh is unperturbed by the critics’ mixed response to the film because his aim is to entertain masses, not just classes, he says. “I respect their views but I don’t make films for such a niche audience of five to seven people. I try to make films for larger spectrum of people,” he said.

The film’s success also spells fortune for its ensemble cast  — Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Jackie Shroff, Boman Irani, Sonu Sood and Vivaan Shah. Despite the success of Happy New Year, work for the star, doesn’t stop as he will be tied up with Fan and Raees in the coming months.

While masala entertainers mostly click with the audience, asked if he would like to feature in any Hollywood adaptation, he said: “I’d rather do a film that is more original but if somebody comes up to me with a story and says it’s an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and if I like the film, I would do it.”

He also shared that he likes Hollywood films like Bad Boys and Men In Black. 

Published in The Express Tribune, October 29th, 2014.

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Official now? Lovebirds Anushka Sharma, Virat Kohli enjoy dinner together

Rumoured lovebirds Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli seem to have thrown all caution into the air as the couple has been openly flaunting their relationship of late. A day after being spotted at the ISL match, the duo made yet another appearance at a popular nightspot in Mumbai on Monday night (October 27)

Love is in the air! Anushka Sharma was absolutely radiant with a wide smile on her face. 

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'Happy New Year' creates history, makes Rs 45 crore on first day!

New Delhi: One of the most awaited films of this year—'Happy New Year' released a day after Diwali, and received a thundering audience response the very first day. According to a renowned trade analyst, the film has raked in Rs 45 crore on the opening day, a record for any Hindi film so far.

According to the data generated by the trade pundit—'Happy New Year' has made Rs 44.97 crore on the opening day, which means in Hindi—Rs 42.62 crore, Telugu Rs 1.43 crore and Tamil Rs 92 lacs.

'Happy New Year' has been directed by Farah Khan, and has Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Sonu Sood and Vivaan Shah in pivotal roles. The film is a heist comedy-drama, majorly shot in Dubai.

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Salman Khan nominates Rajinikanth for Narendra Modi’s campaign

We reported earlier that when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swacch Bharat movement on Gandhi Jayanti (October 2), he nominated Kamal Haasan, but failed to nominate Rajinikanth. Modi also nominated Salman Khan, who, in turn, nominated Rajinikanth recently. 

Getting into the festive spirit during Diwali, Salman took to social media to inspire his fans to join the campaign which is aimed at keeping the country clean. Besides nominating his fans, he nominated politicians, businessmen and actors, including Rajinikanth.

Salman's post read, "I nominate the following for Swachh Bharat campaign and request them to further nominate 9 more people. First, I nominate my fans on Facebook and followers on Twitter. Each one of us can make a difference. And I nominate Aamir Khan, Azim Premji, Chanda Kochhar, Omar Abdullah, Pradeep Dhoot, Rajat Sharma, Rajinikanth & Vineet Jain."

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Happy New Year review: This SRK starrer is like Ocean’s 11 re-written by baboons

Masala entertainment movie making lesson number 1: if you cast Shah Rukh Khan in your movie, it will eventually make money, no matter how stupid, tiresome and humorless it is. Case number 157: Happy New Year, aka the new Farah Khan Vanity Project for the lowest of the lowest common denominator audience.

There are hundreds of ways in which a movie could disinterest you, although few films come as close to scaling the peak of boredom as Happy New Year does. This is a film that exists for no other reason but to parade the astonishing star power of its hero to the aam janta. Intelligence and quality don’t matter. Sure, there have been worse desi films this year, but none have treated its audience in such a casually dismissive fashion. The movie looks and feels like a home video project that was intended for appreciation by precisely two people in the entire universe - Farah and Shah Rukh Khan.

I was about an hour into Happy New Year before I started wondering what the heck it was about. It seemed to be about Charlie (SRK) planning a heist against a magnate (Jackie Shroff) with his friends to avenge his dead dad. But then, for some reason, they participate in a dance competition that’s supposed to be a front for the heist. This ridiculous contrivance could only be present because Farah Khan wanted some closure on her career before she became a filmmaker.

Diamonds, a safe, an underground tunnel, a hacker, a getaway plan – it sounds like the right ingredients, but all of it is so incredibly idiotic and illogical that Happy New Year feels like Ocean’s 11 re-written by baboons. There are a couple of fascinating things: Anupam Kher, who plays Charlie’s father is credited not as a special appearance, but as an “Emotional Appearance”. Charlie is named Charlie only because he can call his henchmen ‘Angels’. Even the iconic water fountain shot in Oceans 11 is reused here, probably to rub it in our faces.

That’s pretty much it. Set aside the astonishingly stupid plot, and all we're left with is an unending series of self-referential jokes on SRK’s earlier movies. When Charlie is about to lose a boxing match he says, “Badi badi matches mein choti choti cheez hoti rehti hai.” When Charlie has to instill confidence into someone, he says, “Main hoon na.” It’s so blatant and lazy it feels like you’re listening to a microphone planted under the bar stool of one of the stars on an off night.

There are other people in the cast, but this movie is only about SRK. The others don’t even get a chance to get a word in edgeways. One feels for Abhishek Bachchan, who’s given two roles and yet less screen time than Sonu Sood and his chest. Speaking of which, the male torso is displayed to a fetishist level here, beginning from SRK’s unintentionally hilarious intro: the man rises from the ground topless, dripping with wet mud. A hose pipe fires water on his body in slow-mo, and we zoom in on his left nipple, zoom out and zoom in on the right, then zoom out again. Kind of like in Batman and Robin.

How Farah Khan, who gave us hints of good satire in Om Shanti Om got sucked down into this vortex of ineptitude is anyone's guess, but Happy New Year is uncommonly stupid and tacky enough to make Sallu’s heist film Kick look as complex as Memento. Deepika Padukone once again has a weird accent, but is the least unlikable aspect of the movie, even though her character is an affront to depiction of women in cinema.

There are only a few things worse than Happy New Year, like

A) Vivaan Shah wasting his skills on fluff like this,

B) An Anurag Kashyap-Vishal Dadlani sex tape.

The latter actually exists in the movie. Kashyap also later appears in the film applauding the heroic heroes in the movie – it’s an unsubtle attempt by Farah Khan to proclaim once and for all that commercial cinema will always enslave indie. My reaction to this echoes Bachchan’s character quirk in the movie – violent, non-stop vomiting.

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Ketan Mehta: Raja Ravi Varma painted nudes and we couldn’t possibly clothe his paintings while replicating them

The city's annual Film Festival is nearing its end and Nandan, a state-run theatre, is full of people sitting everywhere-- on chairs, armrests, the staircase and even the floor. Kolkata is used to such madness. But this particular screening is different as its an Indian film with mainstream actors.


....That day I watched Ketan Mehta's Rang Rasiya standing. Cut to Mumbai, 2015: The Randeep Hooda-Nandana Sen starrer is inching towards a October 30 release. I catch up with the director to talk about the film I watched three years ago.

Why was the film in the cans for so long?
It is an expensive, ambitious film and I was looking for a distributor who has the sensibilities to market it. Also, I think now the time is right. The audiences today is far more mature, film literate and receptive to new ideas.



The film has frontal nudity. How many cuts have you got?
The CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification) has passed the film with zero cuts. The Revising Committee not only passed it but even applauded it. Raja Ravi Varma painted nudes and we couldn't possibly clothe his paintings while replicating them. That would be a gross injustice to not only his art but his life-long struggle for artistic freedom which is the backbone of the film.



But certain Hindu organisations have called for a ban on the film?
I knew from the beginning that making a film on Raja Ravi Varma would leave me vulnerable to controversies. Today he is feted as the first modern painter of India but in his time he faced social wrath for giving a human face to Hindu gods and goddesses. It was considered blasphemy! Over the decades, artists have faced such attacks, be it MF Husain or a young art student. Venues have been vandalised, artworks mutilated and their creators beaten up. This film is my way of standing up for creative freedom.

Nandana, has apparently told you not to release any new promotional material without her consent...
That was just a rumour. It was very brave of Nandana to take up the role, and she has stood by the film like a rock.

You have been quoted as saying that you don't want to work with stars. Did the box-office failure of Mangal Pandey: The Rising with Aamir Khan scare you off?
(Laughs) I'm not against investing in actors, only the larger-than-life stars. My stories are about characters and it's easier for actors to become characters. My next film, Manjhi—The Mountain Man, is the true story of an ordinary man. A star could never do justice to the role.

Is that why you have cast Nawazuddin Siddiqui, the poster boy of indie cinema?
I cast Nawaz before Gangs of Wasseypur happened and he became what he is today. He is a brilliant actor and looks every inch the part.

You seem to have a fondness for biopics...
It is not the genre but the story that draws me. I cannot make a film if the story doesn't inspire me. Moreover, we live in cynical times and need a little inspiration.

Remakes seem to be the flavour of the season. Any film you want to remake?
I have so many stories that they would last me five lifetimes. Why repeat one that has been already told?

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Movie review: Kaththi is a masala-messiah tale with action, romance thrown in

Film: Kaththi
Cast: Vijay, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Satish
Director: AR Murugadoss
Rating: 2.5/5

If you've seen AR Murugadoss's Ramana, you are likely to agree that his Kaththi is just a stylish version of the former made on a lavish budget, bigger star, bigger issue, prettier heroine (with no scope for performance) and a lot of melodrama (plight of farmers).

If Vijayakanth was the messiah of Ramana, he's replaced by Vijay in this film. It's evident in the scene where Jeeva (Vijay) tells his villagers not to give up farming even if he has to lose his life, after being bruised up by corrupt cops. He's taken back inside for another round of beating and we see hundreds of farmers weep. Doesn't it remind us of crucifixion?

Kaththi is a commercial film and naturally audiences except some heroism, action and romance in it. But here Murugadoss has portrayed his hero as a messiah, a man of the masses willing to even sacrifice his life. What would he do to make it a masala film? He smartly uses the dual hero concept by introducing us to a crook Kathiresan (Vijay), doing time in a Kolkata prison. As a rule in any film with two heroes, Kathiresan finds himself in the shoes of Jeeva.

Kathiresan as Jeeva is too cool to care about a bunch of senior citizens. But eventually when he comes to learn about Jeeva, he's ashamed and guilty. He plans on running away, but a scene requires him to show his heroic side. A pre-interval fight sequence where Kathiresan happily announces that he will henceforth be called Jeeva.

Post interval, we see Kathiresan gradually turning into another messiah of sorts. But his transformation from Kathiresan to Jeeva is not handled as convincingly as it ought to be. Murugadoss uses this section of the film to indict multinational corporations (MNC) who steal the livelihood of farmers and media for not willing to give villagers a voice.

Towards the end, Murugadoss goes all guns blazing to bore us with startling statistics about the takeover of MNCs. He talks about MNCs manufacturing strawberry-flavoured condoms when most children in villages don't even get to eat the fruit. Who even eats strawberries on a daily basis? Farmers would any day prefer some rice over fruits. It makes sense if you talk about other fruits such as apple being used in beauty products, but strawberry is a bad example. All this is extremely preachy and unrealistic to believe or even commend.

Kaththi does feature a few good moments. A fight sequence involving a bunch of coins is extremely well choreographed. The coins were donated for Jeeva's cause by a group of farmers now employed in low-life jobs. When he uses these coins to beat the henchmen sent by MNC stooges, there's a strong emotional reverberation to the scene. But it's also a flawed scene because the fight takes place in the dark, but for some reason audiences can very clearly see Vijay. 

When this action sequence is repeated in the climax, it loses its charm because we appreciate something creative only the first time. It becomes monotonous when it's done the second time. But it's these masala moments that leave Vijay's fans into a frenzy.

Vijay shines in both the roles. As Jeeva, he does touch your heart with an honest performance. But Murugadoss's others characters are extremely weak. The film features the most uninspiring romantic track that makes us feel extremely sorry for Samantha. 

The film would've still worked even without a heroine and a love portion. Neil Nitin Mukesh looked terrific in the initial moments, but once again suffers due to poorly developed character.

Kaththi, which translates to sword in English, is largely blunt at the important edges. It reeks of overdose of melodrama and the need to preach.

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PK team plans to hold special screening for Sanjay Dutt

The crew of upcoming film 'PK' is planning a special screening for the film's pivotal actor Sanjay Dutt, who is currently in the Yerwada jail. Aamir Khan along with film's director RajKumar Hirani and female lead Anushka Sharma unveiled the film's first trailer last evening here.

Asked if the team is holding any special screening for Dutt, Aamir said, "We are planning to write a letter to the authority if we can screen the film for Sanjay Dutt and all the people there. So he can watch the film." Dutt, 55, shot for his portions in the comedy-drama before going to the jail last year to serve his remaining term in the 1993 bomb blast case.

In the third motion poster of 'PK', which was released last month, Dutt was introduced in a bandmaster avatar, while Aamir sported an ill-fitted khakhi uniform.


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Movie review: Happy New Year a below average film

Farah Khan's masala flick Happy New Year has everything going well businesswise but it's extremely low on content. It's grand, beautiful, shot in exotic locations across Dubai, has all the SRK moves which fans love, a hit Jodi (Shah Rukh Khan - Deepika Padukone), it's visually appealing but there is nothing else apart from that!

Happy New Year is a heist thriller with a lot of naach gaana. Charlie (Shah Rukh Khan) wants to take revenge from Charan Grover (Jackie Shroff) because he betrayed Charlie's father (Anupam Kher), which landed him in jail and led to his death.

Grover runs a safety lockers' business and now that he will be shielding an expensive diamond at the Atlantis Hotel in Dubai, Charlie will steal it. Coincidently the day the diamond is going to arrive there is a dance competition at the same hotel. Charlie forms a group of people who are good enough to steal but not good dancers. The team (Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani and Vivaan Shah) now will take the help of a bar dancer Mohini (Deepika Padukone) to learn dancing and will eventually make their way to the vault.

The film is predictable and yes sometimes that's fine. You know the hero will make his way to the locker eventually but the journey to that locker should be gripping and entertaining and sadly this one is full of cliches. There are very few portions which are actually funny. Most of it is just illogical drama making no sense. It's not that I walked into the cinema to watch Happy New Year and find logic but in the film things don't fall into place and there are petty jokes. For instance, the Korean Dance Team is called Chicken Chilly and some dance moves make fun of Boman Irani while he gets recurring fits, now that's just bizarre!

Shah Rukh Khan has worked hard on his body for this film and he does a fine job of flaunting it. Extremely full of energy most of the times, he entertains. Deepika puts in sincere efforts but is limited because of the writing. Boman Irani plays a Parsi and is the funniest of the lot. Sonu Sood is brilliant. Abhishek Bachchan performs well too and so does Vivaan Shah.

Vishal Shekhar's music is good for the film, some songs set the mood since dance performances are a part of the plot.

Visually Happy New Year looks great but why wouldn't a film with a big banner, a talented filmmaker like Farah Khan, a good cast and great locations? That's never the challenge. The challenge is to entertain and Happy New Year falls short in entertaining, it's long length of over three hours being the weakest point.

There is no doubt that Farah Khan knows the craft well but she is yet to give an entertainer like Om Shanti Om.

If you go and watch Happy New Year, you will surely sit through it but will you walk out smiling? I can't take that guarantee.

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