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Desi News Corp - Desi News - July 2009 - Index

Now that the strike in
Bollywood is over, get
ready for a slew of bigbudget
releases.
Ten of the biggest:
My Name is Khan Producerdirector
Karan Johar seeks to
revive the magic of the Shah
Rukh Khan-Kajol pairing on
screen with this film that tracks
the travails of an NRI couple in
the US six years after the 9/11
terror strike. It is about a Muslim
living in California – Shah
Rukh being Rizvan Khan. And
this serves as the take-off point
for an emotional rollercoaster
on how Muslims in general are
discriminated against and the
kind of racial profiling a person
faces because of his name.
3 Idiots Aamir Khan, R
Madhavan and Sharman Joshi
play the protagonists in this
Rajkumar Hirani film, loosely
based on Chetan Bhagat’s
novel, Five Point Someone. The
comedy takes a dig at the education
system through three
It’s a blockbuster summer
engineering students. Boman
Irani and Kareena Kapoor play
supporting roles.
Blue This multi-starrer with
Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt,
Zayed Khan, Katrina Kaif and
Lara Dutta has been billed as
Bollywood’s first underwater
adventure. With a budget of Rs
1 billion ($25 million), it is also
supposed to be the costliest
Hindi film made to-date.
Paa R Balki of Cheeni Kum
fame once again treads the
untrodden path in this film
with Amitabh Bachchan cast
as the 13-year-old son of
Abhishek Bachchan. The
Can they recreate the magic of DDLJ?
‘boy’ suffers from a rare
genetic disorder, progeria,
which makes him age three
times faster than a normal
human being. This is a serious
film meant to create public
awareness about the affliction
which not only snatches away a
person’s childhood but the joys
of parenthood as well. Vid ya
Balan plays Amitabh’s 40-yearold
mother.
What’s Your Rashee Ashutosh
Gowarikar’s romantic
comedy marks the return of
last year’s Love 2050 lead pair,
Harman Baweja and Priyanka
Chopra. Based on Madhu
Raye’s novel, Kimball Ravenswood,
it is about a young Gujarati
man in pursuit of his
dream girl who he must find
within ten days to save his
family from almost certain ruin.
This leads to confusion, chaos
and a hilarious joy ride. Priyanka
plays 12 girls in the film, thus
beating Kamal Haasan’s
record of 10 roles in Dashavataram.
Kites Set in Las Vegas, the
film has Hrithik Roshan playing
a dance (salsa) teacher with
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