Special 26

frikkin’ awesome trailer. Don’t understand a word but looks good to me..

Hey, Viacom18, how about adding subtitles to trailers blazing around the Internet worldwide? not everyone, who loves Indian films, knows Hindi..

 

 

renaming my paw pal “SpeedySingh”

This shall be my anthem.

 

If Rob Lowe can play a Canadian hockey coach who is fluent in Hindi, coaching a Punjabi ice hockey team,  then there are no more boundaries.

 

I used to be ein ShellyMingh,  now  I shall be SpeedySingh.

 

 

And if you think I am cute… you should watch

“Speedy Singhs” – the movie.

 

PS there is apparently an English language version, which my Port Washington Library didn’t acquire since we are all speaking Hindi here :-)

but I must say it was fun listening to Rob Lowe hindi bol rahe tha.

Read up on the movie, co-produced by Akshay Kumar, starring Vinay Virmani and Anupam Kher, here on IMDb:

http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1736552/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

a huh.  mystery solved. it even comes with an English title.. “Breakaway”  ( I like Speedy Singhs better…).

so, okay, the movie is a X-ing between Bend it like Beckham and The Cutting Edge. Great for teenagers and hockey fans alike.

 

If you enjoy the idea of an all Indian ice hockey team but you think it’s fiction, think again:

 

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Khiladi holladi holladidum

releases Dec 7th

Action: Akki in his hottest, pheromoniest Khiladi avatar! Get ready!! Looks like fun.

I love Akshay Kumar in action-packed roles. He’s a bit older now but age doesn’t seem to interfere with his sexiness. Whereas I find that Salman Khan and Shahrukh have lost some of their legendary sex-appeal [ but maybe that’s just me],  this little gangster hasn’t.

He’s a bit heavier around the middle but I don’t mind. hey, and that’s the keyword: MIND. Akki sparkles with genuine enthusiasm and it’s somehow contagious. Salman looks a lit bit worn out. Shahrukh turned slightly introvert, Akki seems to enjoy himself. Even in lukewarm or disastrous movies, he is always a breeze of fresh air. so yes, I am looking fwd to the movie.

 

Most of all, however, I’d  like to see him pairing up again with John Abraham! That would be my greatest joy. They make such a power-team! Garam Masala, Desi Boyz… Action/Romance/Comedy: Can you make it a triple play!?

crouching tiger fighting Khiladi 786

 

What happened to good old fashioned somewhat realistic fight scenes? (ahhh if it wasn’t for the silly sound effects..)

 

crouching tiger hidden something whatever has ruined it for us. I knew it then. That was the end of an era. Since then we have learned to filmistically fly up walls and through the air like birthday balloons. Sorry but it’s getting old on me. Give me stuff people can actually do.

Aside from that I am happy to see Akki back in action mode.

Akshay tweeting OMG songs but mum on Joker

You always wonder what it means when actors are not available for the promotion of their upcoming movies. Sometimes their schedule won’t permit and they are shooting somewhere else, but often it means there are differences and the actor is not happy with the end result. Or there was a mega fight on set, 8 on the richter scale.

I remember Abhay Deol shining through absentia during the promotion of “Aisha” – which I didn’t think was such a bad movie. It wasn’t GREAT but certainly enjoyable. And I loved Sonam Kapoor as his filmi love interest. I never figured out what happened there.. did he feel unappreciated? I thought it looked really awkward that Sonam was doing the promotional stuff all by herself. Doesn’t look good when the heart of the movie is a love story and only one half is showing up on the promotional parcours.

Now here with Joker we know it’s not exactly a love story, it’s about a village. But why isn’t Akshay Kumar mentioning the movie on twitter or anywhere else? What’s behind that? Apparently he is not so shy in promoting OMG Oh My God. a movie that won’t come out until end of September.

If you google News for promotion of the movie Joker, you will see that the Bollywood media octopus is scratching its head. The moloch doesn’t know what’s going on either. Farah Khan is stated as saying they want to promote the aliens and not Akki. What the….? Is she kidding us?  and that Akki and Sonakshi were ‘overexposed’ during Rowdy Rathore? Hey, that was a pretty bad movie! Not that it was Akki’s fault.

Now we learn that Sonakshi Sinha might skip all promotional gigs too. Akki complained about the lyrics of a song “I Want to Fakt You” not being family-friendly. Haha. He has a point there, I guess.  But  doesn’t FAKT refer to FACT and the A is pronounced as in PACKED? He complained also apparently about the fakt that Joker wasn’t released or shot in 3D, as originally planned.

Now my feeling is that if the end product is good and the actors believe in the movie, they will be happy to promote a film, regardless of differences, creative, financial or other.

So in this case,  are the actors pushed out of the picture and replaced by aliens in a new marketing strategy, as Farah Khan (the damage controller) wants us to believe or are Akshay and Sonakshi jumping from a sinking ship before it goes nosedown Titanic?

We shall see in the next few days.

Personally I have nothing against aliens promoting their flicks. It’s about time they get full recognition as a minority on this planet. I also pledge they should have access to free education and healthcare.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mere Nishaan from OMG

Akshay Kumar ‏@akshaykumar

Sharing an exclusive footage with you’ll from the song Mere Nishaan from OMG Oh My God which also happens to be my per… http://say.ly/hId44ov

beautiful song from the upcoming movie Oh My God with the one and only Akki.

Shirish Kunder’s Joker hitting the cinemas

Shirish Kunder is back in the headlines, this time with his first cinematic oeuvre “Joker” and Akki is back with his irresistible smile. Sonakshi Sinha his leading lady. Choreography by Farah Khan.  I am in.

the trailer looks entertaining, the story, if I may say so,  ridiculous… which doesn’t mean it cannot be fun. Here is the synopsis I found on Imdb:

In 1947 when the maps of India and Pakistan were being drawn, an oversight ensured that the village of Paglapur didn’t find a place in either country. The village had the distinction of housing the largest mental asylum in the region and in the mêlée that ensued during partition, the asylum inmates broke loose, drove away the villagers and established their own republic in Paglapur. And that’s how it stayed for the next 60 years! While the world outside changed, Paglapur remained isolated, with no electricity, television or sanity. Now, decades after the world forgot this village, a NASA scientist of Indian origin, Agastya and his beautiful wife find themselves on the road to Paglapur. Agastya is working on a top secret project for creating a device to communicate with aliens. So why is he in a village whose colorful inhabitants include a man who speaks in gibberish, another who thinks he is a lamp post and everyone else who think Mahatma Gandhi is still around, fighting for independence? And more importantly, what are they going to do that will soon turn the universe’s spotlight on this forgotten village?

OMG, a divine comedy starring Akki

 

OMG Oh My God! is starring Paresh Rawal, as an antique store owner Kanjibhai and Akshay Kumar, looks like Krishna to me, but I am no expert on Indian gods. Other cast members include Sonakshi Sinha ( in an item number) and Mithun Chakraborty.

The film is  written and directed by Umesh Shukla.  Plot: Antique store owner Kanjibhai is taking God to court.

…is about time somebody does! :-)  can’t wait to see the outcome

 

In Bollywood we make love, not war. case in point: Akki

This is today’s tribute to my eternally simmering Akshay Kumar infatuation:

Rishte Naate from De Dana Dan

♥

the little rascal heartbreaker. god knows how many sleepless nights he’s caused ladies worldwide.

Bollywood stars should not be allowed to get married. Point d’exclamation!  Don’t you have that in India where the priest asks “If anyone objects to this marriage, speak now or forever hold your peace”  ?  in Akki’s case, a million, a gazillion objections, or objectionees…

oh well, too late now anyways. plus, he goes to bed at 8 o’clock… any admirer with a nine to five job would throw the towel..

..at him. not that it would wake him up :-)

 

PS don’t let Sunil Shetty throw you off track in this clip… 

Joker

I just watched the trailer today for the first time on Namaste America. Not a big fan of Farah’s husband, whatshisname,  just kidding, but this movie looks like idiotic, moronic  and mega sillyonic fun. Not to be missed.

 

 

Maybe it’s just because I love Akki to death.. he can do no wrong in my eyes :-)

But a movie making fun of crop circles and UFOs is right up my alley.

I hope the movie is as much fun as its trailer.   And If it is, I take everything back I ever said about Shirish Kunder.  Or half of it.  Three quarter.

Oh man, I am just like a Bollywood villain, who at the very end of the movie asks the audience for forgiveness.  Be that as it may, I hope the movie will do well, not for Shirish exactly, who’s been mean to my idol Srk,  r’member that? but for Akki’s sake.

Ever since Slapgate, I’ve waited to thrash this movie, but now that I’ve seen the trailer, the wind is out of my sails and I am actually looking forward to it. But don’t be surprised if I go back to bashing once I’ve seen the whole film :-)

Bottomline, of course, is that I want EVERY Bollywood movie to succeed at the box office, since it keeps my passion well-financed and floating.  Wishing Shirish, Akki, Sonakshi and everyone else all the best for Joker’s release in August.

Question is, will it release here in the US?