Jumbo's Story

As a young elephant, Jumbo is taunted by the other elephants because he is fatherless. Naturally, Jumbo is curious about his father, and he's told that his father is a war elephant for the king.
So Jumbo wants to find his father. Still a young elephant, he wanders off in search of his father.
He is soon captured by a raiding party. In trying to escape from the camp, the young elephant is befriended by a boy prince, who has been ransomed to his foes. The prince has the ability to calm Jumbo into thinking clearly, and Jumbo makes his escape.
A weakened Jumbo then comes upon a village where humans and elephants are working together. He is befriended by a beautiful young elephant cow, but is then chained up until he is tamed. Jumbo soon learns to value the humans who have captured him. Under the training of a wise, old mahout, he becomes bigger and stronger.
A local warlord comes around annually to collect tax from the village, and his taxes have become greedier each year. The village rebels, and with the humans and elephants working together, the warlord and his beasts are defeated.
The call then goes out from the king for elephants for his army. Jumbo is taken to the palace. There, he is seen by his mother, who calls out to him. Jumbo goes wild in trying to break free from his chains to meet his mother. The King notices this, and remembers Jumbo from his childhood. The king is able to calm Jumbo, and from then on Jumbo serves as the personal war elephant of the king.
In battle, Jumbo meets a giant war elephant with fiery eyes that was responsible for the death of Jumbo's father, and Jumbo gets a chance to acquit himself in battle for the glory of the kingdom, and take revenge.

Aryan Vaid to tie the knot soon?

Aryan Vaid who became popular after his romancing act in Big Boss -1 with co contestant Anupama Verma and was seen sobbing in the first season of Big Boss is going to settle down in life after a stormy affair with Anupama Verma.

The model turned actor will be tying the knot with American photographer Alexandra Copley early next year. The actor was spotted hand in hand with his lady love at a recent television awards event. Aryan, known to be a ladies' man has hung up his Casanova boots and is ready to settle down.

When asked about her affair with Anupama Verma, he said "It was sad that the relationship didn't work out but sadder that she went around talking negative stuff against me for publicity. Even I could have done that but I chose not to."

Aryan confirms the engagement and adds, "It's too personal to disclose any details."

Ghajini: Movie Review

Aamir Khan, the actor, has the habit of springing surprises. Post TZP, one had assumed that he was now onto meaningful, serious cinema. Then he springs his surprise by working in AR Murugadoss' Ghajini, a true blue masala film. But what Aamir manages to do, is retain his seriousness. He brings a rare maturity and seriousness into his portrayal of the character of Sanjay Singhania, the protagonist of Ghajini. In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that Aamir's performance in Ghajini gives the good old masala potboilers a muchneeded shot in the arm. Like all formula fare, Ghajini's story is, in a certain sense, predictable, but what raises the bar here is the manner in which the movie has been shot, its screenplay, and its rivetting performances by the lead pair of Aamir and Asin. The point really to note here is how good intentions, backed by a perfectionist streak, can transform even the most done to death revenge formula into such a rivetting movie.

The film's USP is naturally Aamir Khan and quite deservedly so. Except for Asin, none of the other characters are worth more than a mention. A lot of that, of course, has to do with their relative importance in the general scheme of things. But the only flaw in the film which stands out glaringly is the lack of a suitably menacing antagonist. Pradeep Rawat's Ghajini is hardly menacing enough to create the perfect counterfoil to Aamir's Sanjay Singhania. Also the clash between Asin's Kalpana and Ghajini, is weak and seems more like a rushed job, as if the director and storywriter, could not wait to get on with the blood and gore portions.

Despite the film's running length of some three odd hours, director Murugadoss manages to hold the attention of his audiences, as the narrative moves back and forth, into the past and then back into the present, never once losing the thread. There has been much speculation about whether the film is based on Christopher Nolan's Memento or not. But that fact hardly bothers one as Murugadoss's protagonist and his tale has the audience glued to their seats.

Ghajini is the tale of a cell company head honcho, Sanjay Singhania, a shy, diffident tycoon, who finds love with a smalltime model and good Samaritan, Kalpana (Asin). Love blossoms between the two with Kalpana never realizing that Sanjay, who she thinks is Sachin, is actually a tycoon. She mistakes him for a struggling model and tries to help him out with a break for an underwear ad. However, Kalpana's clash with Ghajini (Rawat), brings their love story to an end. All that Sanjay is left with, is a mind that has a memory span of only 15 minutes, a diary which details his life until that fateful day when Kalpana was killed by the goons, some photographs and the various tattoos on his body, which give his life a purpose and mission, which is to find Ghajini and kill him.

Aamir's transformation from the shy, diffident, mature lover boy to the superbly beefed up, revengehungry Sanjay, is remarkable. The surprising thing about this film is the fact that actually Aamir does not speak much. He has very few dialogues, but what he does do is speak volumes with his eyes and his body language; even his silences are more eloquent than the spoken word. That is what makes Ghajini stand out, even from those early Rajkumar Santoshi collaborations with Sunny Deol. As the narrative alternates between the dark present and the warm memories of yesterday, one finds oneself almost missing the shy lover boy. In fact, it's probably been ages since Aamir has played the conventional lover boy and he is so convincing and pleasing that one is loath to let go of him. His stark portrayal of the revenge driven Sanjay is of course masterly, giving as it does a neat touch to the archetypal action hero of yore. The action sequences are deadly and have been executed with clinical precision.

Besides Aamir, the other loveable factor about the movie is Asin, who makes her Hindi film debut with Ghajini. She breezes her way through the role of Kalpana, with a spontaneity and simplicity which is quite captivating. She more than manages to hold her own opposite Aamir and excels in the scene when she is hounded by the goons. As for the rest of the cast, Jiah Khan as the helpful medical student and Rawat as Ghajini are just about competent.

AR Rahman's music is the other highlight of the movie. Two numbers, specially, 'Behka, Behka Sa' and 'Guzarish' really stand out. The numbers have also been beautifully choreographed and captured on camera by cinematographer Ravi Chandran, who does agreat job with the rest of the film as well.

Murugadoss reveals his hold over the cinematic medium as he retells an oft heard tale in a fresh and innovative manner. Ghajini is a commercial, masala film and it makes no bones about it. In fact, it would be no exaggeration to say that the film celebrates the return of the commercial potboiler. This formula works.!

Ghajini's release for Hearing Imparied People

BIG Cinemas will screen 'Ghajini' with English sub-titles in selected cinema halls here from next Friday. This will be done so that hearing impaired and all those who don't understand Hindi can watch the Movie.

'We have decided to do this especially for the benefit of the hearing impaired and those who don't understand Hindi. The idea is to ensure that the movie is viewed by maximum number of people,' Tushar Dhingra, COO of BIG Cinemas, said in a press statement.

The sub-titled digital prints of 'Ghajini' will be screened at BIG cinema's property at Vadala in central Mumbai and at the Metro Big Cinema in South Mumbai.

Don't compare me with Priyanka:Deepika

She is beautiful, hot and taller in person. Actress Deepika Padukone earned large fan following just after her first release Om Shanti Om. Within a short period of time, she acted with some of the top heroes of Bollywood like Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar and Saif Ali Khan. But the talented actress doesn’t like to be compared with anybody. First it was Sonam Kapoor with whom she compared, now she is being compared with Priyanka Chopra.

Deepika said, “I am different. Don’t compare me with Priyanka Chopra just because she’s done stunts in Drona and I’ve done action sequences in Nikhil Advani’s upcoming movie. Each person is unique and so am I. I worked hard for six months to learn those stunts and was specially trained by experts from Hong Kong.”

Who will be New Age Madhubala ?

Director Milan Luthria is all set to make a film on the life of underworld don of 60’s to 80’s Haji Mastan named 'Once Upon a Time in Mumbai'.

Haji Masten was in love with the bollywood queen of that period, Madhubala and so the director Milan is currently confused about who to choose to play the role of Madhubala.

The bollywood actresses who are being considered to play this role are Katrina, Kangana and Priyanka. The final decission about who will the lucky one to play the role of legend Madhubala is yet to be taken. No doubt all the three glams gals are excited to play Madhubala.

Most likely, Ajay Devgan will be playing the role of Haji Mastan and Emraan Hashmi will be playing the role of young Dawood.

Akshay Kumar and Priyanka together in HongKong

Earlier Akshay Kumar-Priyanka Chopra were considered a hit jodi in Bollywood. But for many reasons they had stopped to work together inspite of the success of Suneel Darshan’s Andaaz and Abbas-Mustan’s Aitraaz. Therefore Priyanka Chopra decided to team up with others Bollywood actors.

Akshay Kumar did the movies like Bewafaa, Talaash, Tashan with Kareena Kapoor but these films could not do well. After that she worked with Katrina Kaif and both of them gave some good films to Bollywood. Now it is said that.

Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopra performed together on stage on Thursday for Christmas at the Convention Centre in Hong Kong for a show known as ‘From Chandi Chowk To Hong Kong.’Priyanka Chopra said, “I performed on stage with Akshay Kumar in Hong Kong.

It was a great experience for me. Akshay is a very nice person and and has a charming personality.” Bollywood hot actress Bipasha Basu joined them. In Hong Kong people were desperately craving to see Akshay Kumar and Priyanka Chopara together.