"Why does anything with flying saucers and aliens have to be called sci-fi when our mythologicals mention spaceships?'' he asks, sounding suspiciously like Murli Manohar Joshi. Sitting in one of the film's Gothic sets, Rakesh Roshan prefers to call it a "fantasy film". Mil GayaThree years after he went from being super-dude to super-dud, Hrithik Roshan hopes papa's potboiler instincts will work for him in Bollywood's first scifi film - not counting Mr India and an obscure 1960s B-grader about Dara Singh's moon shot. Will Bhoot be his Raaz?ĬHILD'S PLAY: Hrithik Roshan plays the alien-friendly hero in Koi. After Road and Company, Varma needs a hit. The movie also top-lines the acting talents of Rekha, Nana Patekar, Seema Biswas, Khan and the rarely seen Victor Banerjee. Drawing on our everyday fears - ghosts behind doors and the walk to get water from the refrigerator at bedtime - Varma hopes to scare people in the place they feel secure, the heart of a big city. This time he promises more than just a "boo film". In the last Varma horror flick, The Exorcist-inspired Raat, audiences were too busy yawning to feel scared.
Haunted by ghosts, Matondkar now descends into an abyss of paranormal experiences. The previous occupant had plunged to her death from here. Stock analyst Vishal (Devgan) moves in with his wife Swati (Matondkar) to the 12th floor of a Mumbai block. ROSEMARY'S BABY: No, just Ajay Devgans screen wife Urmila Matondkar in BhootAjay Devgan and Nana Patekar in French beards, Urmila Matondkar without her 1980s curls and Fardeen Khan with a designer stubble? Varma hopes there's more to the film than that. Pass the popcorn, Bollywood's biggest summer ever is here. But do, do expect a fightback, the last stand of an industry in the deathlike grip of a decline of imagination. Don't expect: an avalanche of brave new ideas small personal movies the death of Old Bollywood financed by distributors. Will his tagline (be scared) live up to its scary promise?Įxpect: glossy, invariably imported special effects spectacular Devdas-like sets more babes lots of Preity Zinta. And there is an over-articulate director who loves to put other people's money where his mouth is. There's the boy wonder director whose hallmark is his Hallmark card sentimentality. There's the falling star whose ever-protective father is hoping to play starmaker again (no doubt so that the happy family can play pass-the-cheesy-smile on Simi Garewal's show again). Dutta is trying to recreate in LoC-Kargil, during the high-altitude shoot of which two unit members lost their lives? Or the funny-sad dialogue Shah Rukh Khan uses to woo Rani Mukherjee in Chalte Chalte?Įight movies, costing Rs 200 crore, will put to test just not Bollywood but several reputations as well. Mil Gaya? Or in the hard-nosed courage that J.P. "In a content-free zone, what they are looking for is a soul," says lyricist Javed Akhtar.Ĭould it be found in the alien that an Australian special effects house created to befriend Hrithik Roshan - an 11-year-old trapped in a 25-year-old's body - in Koi. They're also over and done with movies where the hair has more of a role than actors and muscles speak more than words. Audiences have had enough of picture-perfect faces and postcard locations. With even one-man hit factories like Karan Johar talking of a cinematic 1857, producers/directors have to - Godfather-like - go to the mattresses. But thanks to last year being its worst in recent memory, with the industry losing over Rs 300 crore, money is no longer the solution. If that still doesn't work, take the movie to Australia. If a star doesn't work, get a pricey designer. If the story doesn't work, buy an expensive star. RAW superspy Sunny Deol is on board, fist-wading through the baddies, single-handedly pulling off the rescue in a sequence that cost the producers as much as Rs 10 crore.īollywood has always thought of money as the solution to all its problems. Half-a-dozen army helicopters are in hot pursuit of a blood red train hijacked by nuclear terrorists Amrish Puri and gang, hurtling through picturesque Jungfrau, a snow-bound town perched at a vertigo-inducing 14,000 ft on the Swiss Alps.
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