By Anurag.
Directed by: Rohan Sippy
Produced by: Ramesh Sippy
Starring: Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Rana Daggubati, Prateik Babbar, Aditya Pancholi, Monty Munford.
Music by: Pritam Chakraborty
Cinematography: Amit Roy
Editing by: Aarif Shaik
Distributed by: Fox Star Studios, Ramesh Sippy Entertainment
Grade: C: Ek Baar Chalta Hai
Rohan Sippy’s Dum Maaro Dum is a slick action-crime thriller, that revolves around six Indians who meet in Goa and how their lives change forever, once they find themselves caught up with the drug menace.
ACP Vishnu Kamath (Abhishek Bachchan) is assigned by the Chief Minister of Goa to exterminate the drug mafia, which was spreading like a plague. Mercy (Muzammil S. Qureshi) and Rane (Govind Namdeo), his two assistants, assist him in carrying out his assignments of catching Lorsa Biscuita aka Biscuit (Aditya Pancholi), who is the main drug dealer in that area.
Laurie (Prateik Babbar) is a young simpleton, who falls prey into the drug web, after getting caught red handed, smuggling cocaine from the country. Joki (Rana Daggubati), Laurie’s well wisher, pleads of Laurie’s innocence to the ACP, trying to make him realize that Laurie was a mere pawn.
Zoe (Bipasha Basu), Joki’s chick, was caught in the same drug web five years ago, that Laurie was in now. It was Biscuita who came to her rescue by using his influence to get her out. But, in return, he made Zoe his girlfriend despite being married. Hence, Joki’s concern for Laurie.
The story further unfurls itself with the ACP realizing that the drug racket was actually not carried out by Biscuita but by an invisible man named Michael Barbusa, who uses various aliases to operate from different cities.
The story comes to its climax with ACP completing the given task of busting the drug racket along with Joki and Laurie.
The narration and the dialogues, make the flick worth watching. The director did a splendid job by keeping the suspense alive till the end. The unexpected twists thrown in the end worked wonders for the production. While the first half showed some movement in the theater, the second made sure the audiences were glued to their seats.
Abhishek Bachchan did an amazing job as a tough cop. The only thing that played against his cop stature was his pot belly and double chin.
Rana Daggubati was dull initially, but played the climax spectacularly. Prateik Babbar portrayed his innocence, brilliantly.
Bipasha Basu was naturally good.
Pritam Chakraborty did an awesome job on the music, Amit Roy’s cinematography was appealing, Aarif Shaik’s editing is the biggest plus point. Deepika Padukone’s raunchy item number adds glamour to the entire movie.
Final word: An adrenaline pumped thriller, not best suited for the romantic ones.

abhay deol & anushka sharma on people mag.

Looking at this still, what do you think??? Will the movie be a HIT or a MISS???

How do you like the chemistry?. I am totally loving it. This photo shoot is by Atul kasbekar.

Watched the first promo of 'Ready'. Expect yet another super dhamaal,
super entertainer from the darling of the masses - Salman Khan.
CREDIT-twitter- Taran Adarsh tweets.

Kangana Ranaut On Cover Of FilmFare 27/April/2011

Sussanne Roshan's photo shoot for Harper's Bazaar India

Minissha Lamba on MW magazine (April 2011)

It’s a story that would touch anyone’s heart — Rohan Rathore, an IIT-Guwahati student, loved a girl who didn’t reciprocate his feelings. He composed a heart-wrenching number for her and died of cancer 15 days later. The song, titled Emptiness, became a rage online, with around 15 lakh views and eight dedicated Facebook groups with thousands of fans. However, there is a hitch. Apparently, Rohan Rathore does not exist. Gajendra Verma, a 21-year-old sound recordist from Mumbai, says that he has sung the song, written by Aseem Ahmed Abbasee, a writer, and Verma’s friend, Monami Roy.

To counter the Rohan Rathore story, Verma will be releasing the complete album with six songs next month, and has already posted the song on YouTube, with a slideshow of his pictures. “I had composed the tune for a project one-and-a-half years ago. I had sent the song to some people for feedback, and I think it got leaked then,” says Verma.

Reacting to allegations that he and Aseem cooked up this story to publicise the song and increase downloads, he says, “Why would I publicise my song using someone else’s name?” He adds, “I feel really bad when I see someone else’s name on my song. I don’t even know how Rohan Rathore’s name got attached to it. I know that the voice is mine.” Aseem Abbasee, the lyricist, says he is unaware about the Rohan Rathore story. “I wrote this song when Gajendra approached me for it. Its unfortunate that it got stolen and people attached a false story with it.”

Shortly after the song became popular, fans got curious. Sumit Lal wrote, “I finally dug out the story. No one at IIT-G knows who Rathore is.” “People like the song because of the story behind it,” read another comment.

Rani Mukherjee-sizzling Femina Megazine 2011 April cover-Rani looking gorgeous in black blouse anfd flowing ghagra-lots of silver jwellery and truckloads of alltitude...!!!

India’s highest wicket taker of the Cricket World Cup, Zaheer Khan, is all set to tie the knot with his long time girlfriend Isha Sharvani, an actress from Bollywood.
We hear that Khan’s proud parents were insistent on getting Zaheer married. Like an obedient son, Khan has agreed to it.
Buzz in the industry is that the couple plans to tie the knot this year. A source close to the couple said, “Ever since they gave their relationship a second shot, they have come even closer than before. Wedding bells are in the offing.”
Zaheer and Isha’s love is said to have only grown stronger after hitting a bump. The two first got friendly way back in 2005 when Isha performed at an event. They kept bumping into each other at parties and social dos and eventually led a strong relationship for two years. But cracks began to appear in 2007 when the two decided to separate.
However, In 2008, the duo gave their relationship a second chance. This time things worked out and the two have been together since then.
While Zaheer is busy with the ongoing IPL season, Isha simply said, “I really don’t want to comment on this.”

Bollywood actress Shazahn Padamsee graces the cover of Femina for the month of April 2011.
Like the cover???

‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ poster is copied from 2005 Hollywood flick Lords of Dogtown. When the poster was out, people couldn’t stop raving about Hrithik Roshan’s hot body and the way the poster looked but now, after learning that the poster has no originality, it has come a a big disappointment to many.
Something very similar happend with the movie Anjaana Anjaani. It can be recalled that the makers of Anjaana Anjaani had to withdraw the first poster of the film as it was a direct lift from the Oscar nominated 2009 film An Education.

Looking awesome as always.

Shahid Kapoor's pic for Peta

Suzanne Roshan on Hi! Living magazine (April 2011)