Looks like Papa Roshan is going to have more on his hand when he releases his son Hrithik Roshan’s (BTW, he’s one of my fav actors) “international” movie, co-starring Barbara Mori: Kites. Kites is directed by Anurag Basu and has music composed by Rajesh Roshan.

The other day, I was listening to a song from the movie called, “Tum Bhi Ho Wahi” and as soon as I heard the opening portion, it came to my mind that the music seemed familiar from some foreign tune. It turns out that my hunch was right. The song is “inspired” by (or shall I say lifted from) a song whose samples were used by Akon in his hit song “Lonely“. The song is Bobby Vinton’s Mr. Lonely.

Oh, Bollywood! Where is Thy Brain? Stop this kind of lifting or inspiration that may embarrass us all as Indians.

Talking about movies always makes me feel excited! Every time I watch a movie or even strike a conversation about the latest flick with a friend, I find myself engrossed in the excitement.

I remember the time (about three months, I guess) before Ram Gopal Varma’s Aag was released into theaters, I was all the more excited about Amitabh Bachchan playing the character of “Gabbar” which had been made an iconic bad guy by the late Amjad Khan. By the team the crescendo of hype was reached amongst all the controversies involving everything from the plot device to the title of the movie to the names characters in the movie, I stayed faithful to the remake’s cause just because of Mr. Amitabh. He was the biggest star and had taken up a huge challenge. But when the time of release came and judging from the promos, I found the end product looked nothing like the original or even what it had set out to do. Everything about the movie had changed, not to mention the character names! This resulted in Aag becoming the biggest dud of that year! How I regretted the fact that this movie got made and actually made it to the theaters.

There are millions like me whose expectations are met with duds and so when I found this great article showcasing the biggest duds or flops of the decade churned out from Bollywood, I decide to share it with you!

Read the article and drop your comments and thoughts about what you think a director/producer should do if they can’t do justice to a cause?

Pradeep Sarkar of ‘Parineeta’ fame is all set to direct his next for Yash Raj Films starring Deepika Padukone and Neil Nitin Mukesh. The pairing of the two stars will be totally fresh and it will interesting to see what the film is going to be all about!

Read the full story here.

So, first half of 2009 is already behind us and now it’s that time of the year again when we sit and look at the movies which have grossed and have been hits with the audience this year.

I have pulled a rough top five list of Movies based on their total gross in India until 14th July 2009 from Indiafm.com which gives us the following results:

I will try to update the above list as and when more movies overtake any of the movies listed above.

Last Friday was blank. Except for a few low budgets non Producer’s association affiliated releases, no big releases lined up at your nearest multiplex. The reason? The Producer’s strike protesting against the revenue sharing model with the multiplexes. Single screens remain unaffected by this. Producers are demanding a fair revenue share from the multiplexes while the plexes are not even agreeing to review the current model.

This has put our industry in a state of limbo. This means that for the many weeks to come, there ain’t going to be any big release to the theaters!

So much for the relief people used to get. Let us wait and see what this brings us to.

Here’s an exclusive theatrical trailer of the forthcoming Shahid Kapur starrer, Kaminey, unveiled on Indiafm.com. The movie is directed by Vishal Bhardwaj (Maqbool, Omkara) and is a comedy (?). Well, I enjoyed the trailer and hope you do so as well.

Here’s the trailer:

Amitabh Bachchan will be playing legendary tiger hunter and conservationist, Jim Corbett in Priyadarshan’s forthcoming movie, “Grrr”.

Priyan had this to say about casting Big B in the role of Jim Corbett:

he could envisage none other than Big B in the role of the fearless Jim Corbett

The film will be about the man-eating tigers of Sunderbans and is going to be a thriller.

Priyadarshan has so far directed the Big B only in commercials and this will be his first directing the Shahenshah in a movie.

Interesting to note here that Priyadarshan’s last outing, Billu (Barber), had the Badshah of Bollywood: Shahrukh Khan in it.

An exclusive promo of 8*10 Tasveer starring Akshay Kumar and directed by Nagesh Kukonoor (Hyderabad Blues, Rockford, Iqbal) has been put up by Bollywood Hungama (formerly, Indiafm.com).

A really thrilling promo that’s sure to catch your attention right from the first second. Akshay is looking really good and intense. Watch it for yourself:

Well Akshay Kumar is returning again with Season 2 of Khatron Ke Khiladi (Fear Factor India). It’s titled Level 2 and as the star says, it’s double the dangers this time. Watch the trailer and decide:

Indiafm or Bollywood Hungama has just premiered an exclusive title song promo of the forthcoming Akshay Kumar starrer, Chandni Chowk to China.

Watch the video: