Buzz edition no. 4

Shahid’s birthday is coming up so I thought I’d start with some news about that…

Shahid is gifting himself guitar lessons for his birthday, I’m sure he’ll be strumming away in no time!

Deepika would like to work with Madhur some time in the future… I wonder what Fashion would have looked like if Deepika had been in it, I think she would have looked a lot more innocent. I want to see Karthik Calling Karthik!

Leap Year, a Hollywood film has been inspired by Jab We Met, is set to release on 26th Feb. Here’s the trailer:

I know if I watch this I’ll constantly be comparing their acting and plot to that of Shahid and Kareena’s. Here it also hits me as Geet’s character is a lo more annoying than in Jab We Met.

While we’re talking about these two… Shahid and Kareena are apparently friends again as they were talking at SRK’s party celebrating the success of MINK.

SRK tends to do well overseas… tell us something we don’t know. MNIK has broken records overseas.

On Times Of India, there is a regular article about celeb tweets, they are normally quite entertaining and here’s today’s. SRK just bamboozled me there…

There’s a rumour Shahid and Anushka ran away from the sets of Badmaash Company to practise kissing because they were no good the first time round. Apparently, they went and bought books on the topic and returned and gave a perfect smooch. The reporter says they were in Mumbai but the earlier report that came out saying the had lip locked in the first place said they had been in Bangkok when they shot the kiss. The moral of the story: if you’re going to lie, lie convincingly!

That’s all for this edition!

Salman’s Joining Twitter and a couple of mini reviews

Salman Khan is joining twitter but I hope he refers to us as more than the ‘common people’ like he did on his blog!

Love Aaj Kal

I probably didn’t do it justice with my miniscule review in one of my previous posts.

I just cant understand how one can possibly enjoy this! Throughout this, all I wanted to do was doze off, what was there to enjoy?

Now generally I think Saif is OK and Deepika is quite sweet but I saw very little in either of their performances here. The parallel storylines weren’t hard to follow but I found myself drawn to Rishi Kapoor’s past a lot more than Saif’s present storyline. Thier love seemed so much more simple and clean, while the modern one seemed more about lust than love! Jai and Meera hit me as plain confused, by the intermisiion I was yelling for them to just quickly discover that they loved each other and be together and spare me the pain!

The only performance I liked was that of Giselle Montiero, in her debut as the sweet longing Harleen Kaur. Another plus point was the music, it’s generally enjoyable and doesn’t slow down the narration.

I’m disappointed with Imtiaz Ali, after giving us the superb Jab We Met, why did he have to plague us with this?!?

Overall: It dragged on for far too long and the storyline just wasn’t captivating enough!

Rating: 1/5

Dostana

Dostana’s a nice flick that no one should take seriously.

The first half was entertaining but the second let me down. Priyanka’s role was a cakewalk and she fit right into the skin of her character. John and Abhishek were totally entertaining but I felt the rather touchy issue of gay relationships could have been handled by Karan with a bit more care. I mean *SPOILER* if an inspector comes over to check if you’re gay, the last thing you want to do is overact in front of him! Surely he’s not that stupid? Well, apparently he is. *SPOILER*

Bobby Deol needs to take classes in chemistry as the second half was spoilt partly due to him. I didn’t think the transition from slapstick humour to rona dhona was smooth enough.

Overall: Just watch when you have some spare time on your hands

Rating: 3/5