Friday, January 21, 2011

Dhobi Ghat Review: Ghar Ke Na Ghat Ke...

Dhobi Ghat Review Kiran Rao’s Dhobi Ghat is the story of four Mumbai based characters who, while dealing with personal demons end up crisscrossing each other’s paths and in the process change forever. Laced with some magical moments Dhobi Ghat might stir the viewer to some extent but on the whole the film comes across as a much manufactured exercise with a slight hint of pretense.



Shai (Monica Dogra), a New York based investment banker on a sabbatical of sorts, meets a reclusive artist, Arun (Aamir Khan) and they hit off like a house on fire. Shai thinks that the chemistry is good enough to explore further but Arun’s a different man by the daylight. Shia decides to concentrate on vacation assignment of photographing people with strange vocations and befriends Munna (Prateik), a local washer man who dreams of becoming an actor. As Munna shows her the sights of the city she clicks his portfolio. They end up spending most of their time together but she can’t seem to get Arun out of her head. Arun shifts into a new house and gets lost in the life of the earlier tenant Yasmin (Kirti Malhotra) through the three video tapes he finds in the house. Shia locates Arun through Munna who happens to be the common link between the two and surreptitiously starts photographing him. While Arun gets immersed in Yasmin’s life that is going from bad to worse, Munna starts falling for Shia who still pines for Arun but will the four get what they want?

Kiran Rao’s Dhobi Ghat walks the same path as most Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu films like Babel, 21 Grams or Amores Perroes. The whole deal of three or four characters whose lives collide and alter the course of their very existence has been done to death and Rao’s film does have a big Inarritu hangover. So much so that she even gets the Mexican auteur’s regular Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla to do the background score. Having said that her characters are unique, their stories interesting enough to follow but Dhobi Ghat tries to be something different from what it ends up being.

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Cast: Prateik, Monica Dogra, Kriti Malhotra and Aamir Khan

Written and Directed by: Kiran Rao

BUZZ RATING 2/5

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Dhobi Ghat Movie staring Aamir Khan

Dhobi Ghat is an Aamir Khan home production and a Directorial debut for his wife Kiran Rao. Dhobi Ghat is releasing on 21 January 2011. The star cast of Dhobi Ghat includes Aamir Khan, Kirti Malhotra, Kitu Gidwani, Monica Dogra (Debutant), Nafisa Khan, Prateik Babbar (Debutant).

Friends sharing with you stills of Aamir Khan in Dhobi Ghat.


Aamir Khan in Dhobi Ghat

Aamir Khan in Dhobi Ghat still

Debutents Prateek Babbar and Monica Dogra in Dhobi Ghat

Prateek Babbar in Dhobi GhatDhobi Ghat Wallpaper

Dhobi Ghat Wallpaper

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Friends what do you think will Dhobi Ghat be a critical as well as commercial success?

Phaas Gaye Re Obama - DVD & VCD Launch

Neha Dhupia, Rajat Kapoor, Sanjay Mishra, Manu Rishi Chadda, director Subhash Kapoor & producer Ashok Pandey along with Uday Suneja from Eagle Home Entertainment launched the DVD & VCD of successful film ‘Phas Gaye Re Obama for home viewing at Inorbit Mall, Malad Mumbai

Director Subhash Kapoor, Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dhupia,  producer Ashok Pandey, Uday Suneja from Eagle Home Entertainment1

Sanjay Mishra  Rajat Kapoor Neha Dhupia producer Ashok Pandey at DVD launch of Phas gaye  by Eagle Home Entertainment

Eagle Home Entertainment has brought out the DVD at Rs. 299 and VCD at Rs. 149, of successful comic caper ‘Phas Gaye Re Obama’ starring:

Rajat Kapoor

Rajat Kapoor at launch of DVD VCD OF PHAAS Gaye Re Obama

Neha Dhupia

Neha Dhupia at launch of dvd of Phas Gaye Re Obama

Rajat Kapoor  and Neha Dhupia at launch of dvd of Phas Gaye Re Obama

Manu Rishi Chadda

Manu Rishi Chadda at launch of dvd of Phas Gaye Re Obama

Sanjay Misra

Sanjay Mishra at launch of dvd of Phas Gaye Re Obama

Amol Gupte, Devendra Chaudhry, Avantica etc for home viewing. The film‘s produced by Ashok Pandey under the banner of Revel Films Pvt Ltd. and directed & written by Subhash Kapoor. According to Surendra Suneja, MD of Eagle Home Entertainment, “we have released the DVD of Phas Gaye Re Obama because the film was a very entertaining film, something viewers can watch at home with their families. An association with Crossword for the launch is esteemed.”

Director Subhash Kapoor, Sanjay Mishra , Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dhupia,  producer Ashok Pandey, Uday Suneja from Eagle Home Entertainment1

Storyline

Phase Gaye Re Obama, one of the few hits of 2010, is a comedy set against the backdrop of global recession that originated in USA. The film traces the journey of OM Shashtri, an American citizen of Indian origin, who loses all his wealth overnight to this recession & the bank asks him to vacate his home unless he pays up mortgaged amount of $100,000 within 30 days. Seeing no other option OM comes to India to sell a small piece of an ancestral property. But within days of landing in India he is kidnapped by a 'recession-hit' underworld gang who think that he is still a millionaire. What happens to Om, the hotchpotch between the 'poor' gangs to cope with their 'poor' catch & statement made by small town Indian gangsters to President Obama...is what largely forms the plot.

NOTE: DVD MRP – 299, VCD MRP – 149

Sanjay Mishra , Rajat Kapoor, Neha Dhupia