Mere Brother Ki Dulhan 2011

Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (Hindi: मेरे ब्रदर की दुल्हन; English: My Brother's Bride), also known by the abbreviated form MBKD, is an upcoming Hindi-language film that marks the writing and directing debut of Ali Abbas Zafar and stars Imran Khan, Katrina Kaif and Ali Zafar in the lead roles. Produced and distributed by Yash Raj Films, the film is a romantic comedy set around a love triangle. It is set to release in July 2011.

Premise

Not much is currently known about the film other than it is a "topsy-turvy story" set amongst upper middle class families in northern India, and that Imran Khan plays a character who falls in love with his brother's (Ali Zafar) fiancée (Katrina Kaif).

Cast

• Imran Khan as the male lead, an upper middle-class boy from Dehradun
• Katrina Kaif as the female lead
• Ali Zafar as the brother of the male lead, engaged to the female lead
• Preity Zinta as the sister of the male lead
• Parikshit Sahni in an unspecified role
• Kanwaljit Singh in an unspecified role
• John Abraham in a cameo role

Production

Yash Raj Films announced the then-untitled project on 5 August 2010. Ali Abbas Zafar, who's been an assistant director on a number of Yash Raj Films productions such as Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Tashan, New York and Badmaash Company, makes his feature writing and directing debut with this film, which has been described as a comedy of errors by lead actor Imran Khan. After Band Baaja Baaraat, this marks the second Yash Raj Films production in a row to be helmed by a first time director who was previously an assistant director. Zafar is originally from Dehradun, where much of the story is set.After years of working with Yash Raj Films, he submitted three love stories to producer Aditya Chopra, who eventually greenlit Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, enabling Zafar to start writing his 150 page long script.
Like many Bollywood films, Mere Brother Ki Dulhan has suffered allegations that it is a rip-off of an American film even before filming wrapped. According to these sources, the film rips off Dan In Real Life, in which Steve Carrell's character also falls in love with his brother's girlfriend (played by Dane Cook and Juliette Binoche respectively). It should be noted that this theme is fairly widespread in fiction and not at all limited to these films and unless Mere Brother Ki Dulhan's scenes mirror those of Dan In Real Life exactly, it is safe to say that Zafar's film is an original work. The film has also drawn comparison to an earlier Yash Raj Films production, Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai.

Casting

Imran Khan and Katrina Kaif play the romantic leads in the film, and their involvement was announced in the same press release as the initial production company announcement. Both actors were among the most popular Bollywood actors at the time, having delivered huge hits in the recent past, and this is the first time they've been paired together. They were initially to star together in 7 Days In Paris for director Sanjay Gadhvi, but the film has been indefinitely postponedThus, while their pairing has made the film quite anticipated,some media publications have alleged that their casting was an attempt by Yash Raj Films to end a recent string of box-office flops and disappointments.While this is Imran Khan's first movie for Yash Raj Films, Katrina Kaif had previously worked with them (and then assistant director Ali Abbas Zafar) on the critical and commercial hit New York. She was able to take the role thanks to the postponement of Dostana 2 to which she was already committed. Her role has been reported in the media as different than characters she's played so far, and alternatively described as a "friendly, simple Delhi girl" or a "rebel with a grungy punk look". Prior to shooting, the director selected some 20/25 tattoo designs for Kaif to choose from for her character.
The role of Katrina Kaif's fiancé and Imran Khan's brother was initially offered to Ritesh Deshmukh who turned it down after initially accepting it.It was then given to Ali Zafar (no relation to the director), an actor who'd received rave reviews for his recently released first film Tere Bin Laden and who confirmed his participation via his Twitter account..A popular singer, Zafar will also perform his own character's singing in the film and described his casting as "a dream come true" and his role as a "parallel lead role". Interestingly, this marks an Indian film where none of the three leads are fully Indian, as Khan is Indian-American, Kaif is British of partly-Indian descent and Zafar is Pakistani. The film additionally stars a new actress whose name hasn't been revealed yet.
On 17 October 2010, several media outlets reported on the casting of Preity Zinta in an unspecified "glamorous role". The actress however quickly denied the report on her official Twitter page.

Release

While a firm release date isn't set, Yash Raj Films is aiming for a July 2011 date. The studio drastically changed their marketing tactics with this film by revealing the its title and two stills a week into filming, whereas they have previously been very secretive about sharing such information until about a couple of months before the theatrical release.

Dum Maaro Dum 2011

Dum Maaro Dum (film)
Dum Maaro Dum (Hindi: दम मारो दम) is an upcoming Hindi language Thriller film being directed by Rohan Sippy, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Rana Daggubati, Bipasha Basu and Prateik Babbar. Aditya Pancholi will also be in the film. The film's shoot has been progressing for several months in Goa. Deepika Padukone will be seen doing an item number for the film, on the remix version of the hit song "Dum Maro Dum". The song has been composed by Pritam. This is the first Bollywood film to be mixed in Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound After delivering a superhit in the form of Bluffmaster, Abhishek Bachchan and Rohan Sippy are coming together in this film. The film is set to release on April 22, 2011, in both India and the United States.
Plot
The film revolves around the lives of six Indians who meet in Goa, India and how their lives change forever once involved in drug mafias.
Cast
Abhishek Bachchan as ACP Vishnu Kamath
Aditya Pancholi as Lorsa Biscuta a.k.a. the Biscuit
Bipasha Basu as Zoe
Rana Daggubati as DJ Joki
Prateik Babbar as Lorry
Gantois Gomes
Govind Namdeo
Anaitha Nair
Mariah Pucu
Bugs Bhargava
Gulshan Devaiya
Muzammil S. Qureshi
Vidya Balan in a Cameo
Deepika Padukone as Special Appearance in song, "Mit Jaaye Gham (Dum Maaro Dum)"
SoundTrack
Director Rohan Sippy launched the song Dum Maaro Dum during the 2011 India - South Africa World Cup match on Saturday 12th March 2011 . 45,000 people attended the match at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur. The music is composed by Pritam Chakraborty. Lyrics are penned by Jaideep Sahni.Dum Maaro Dum will be the first film to be released in Dolby Surround 7.1

Thank You (Hindi: थैंक यू) is an upcoming Bollywood romantic comedy film directed by Anees Bazmee and produced by UTV Motion Pictures. It features Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol, Sonam Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Irfan Khan, Celina Jaitley & Rimi Sen. The movie is slated for early 2011 April release. Thank You is about three married men trying to have some fun outside their marriage. And Akshay Kumar plays a detective who specializes in extra-marital relationships. Some scenes in this film are being shot in Vancouver and Toronto, Canada and Bangkok.

Plot

The film, which has been co-produced by UTV Motion Pictures and also sees Irfan Khan, Celina Jaitley and Rimi Sen in pivotal roles, outlines the story of three married friends (played by Deol, Shetty and Khan), who want to spice up their humdrum lives by embarking on extramarital affairs. Kumar is playing a marriage counsellor, while the three leading ladies play the suffering wives.

Cast

1. Akshay Kumar as Aarosh Singh
2. Bobby Deol as Ram Sharma
3. Suniel Shetty as Sanjay Narayanan
4. Irrfan Khan as Dev Menon
5. Sonam Kapoor as Sonia Mehra
6. Celina Jaitley as Meghna Naidu
7. Rimi Sen as Ramya Sen
8. Mallika Sherawat as Special Appearance in song, "Razia"
9. Vidya Balan in a Cameo

Production

Sonam Kapoor replaced Katrina Kaif since the director wanted to have a change with Akshay Kumar's love interest.

Rani Mukherjee born on March 21, 1978, is an Indian film actress who works in Bollywood movies.

Making her acting debut with Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat (1996)

Mukherjee had her first commercial success with Karan Johar’s romance Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), her biggest hit so far, and won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance in the film.

She later starred in many films, most of which fared below expectations. She re-invented her image with Saathiya (2002), which was commercially and critically successful.

Rani Mukherjee

In 2004, her performances in the hit Hum Tum and the critically acclaimed Yuva earned her the Best Actress and the Best Supporting Actress awards at the Filmfare, making her the first actress to win two major awards in the same year.

She received unanimous praise for her role as a deaf and blind girl in the film Black (2005), as well as many awards for her memorable performance, establishing herself as a leading actress in Bollywood.

Mukherjee comes from a film-oriented family of Bengali origin. Her father Ram Mukherjee is a retired director and one of the founders of Filmalaya Studios while her mother Krishna was a playback singer.

Her brother Raja Mukherjee is a film producer, now turned director. Her maternal aunt, Debashree Roy, is a national award-winning Bengali film actress and her cousin, Kajol, is a popular Bollywood actress.

Mukherjee is a trained Odissi dancer, and began learning the dance in the tenth grade. Mukherjee studied at Maneckji Cooper High School in Juhu, and later enrolled at Mithibai College in Mumbai.

After doing a short cameo appearance for the first time in her father’s Bengali film Biyer Phool (1992), Mukherjee made her acting debut four years later, as the protagonist of Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat (1996).

Her performance as a rape victim in the film was well received, but when the film failed at the box office, she returned to college to complete her education.

Rani Mukherjee

Mukherjee as Tina Malhotra in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998), her biggest commercial success to date. Pictured with Shahrukh Khan.

Mukherjee returned to films in 1998. Her first release that year was Ghulam, opposite Aamir Khan; the film did well at the box office. The song Aati Kya Khandala made Mukerji popular among the masses, earning her the nickname of Khandala Girl.

Karan Johar’s directorial debut, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, co-starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol, followed for her that year. The movie was a blockbuster, and she received her first Filmfare Award in the Best Supporting Actress category.

In 2005, Mukherjee starred in four high-profile films: Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black, Shaad Ali’s Bunty Aur Babli, Amol Palekar’s Paheli and Ketan Mehta’s The Rising.

Mukherjee was offered the lead role in Mira Nair’s Hollywood film, The Namesake (2007) but owing to clashing dates with Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, she could not commit to the project.

Gossip columnists have linked Mukherjee to many industry figures, but she has strongly denied every single rumor of romance.

Several gossip columns have also claimed that she is regularly in feud with some of the Bollywood actors and actresses, but Mukherjee has denied this.

Mukerji changed the English transliteration of her surname from Mukherjee to Mukerji several years ago. At the time, it was reported that she did this for numerological reasons. In 2006, Mukerji stated that numerology was not a concern; her name had been put down as Mukerji on her passport, and she wanted to be consistent.

Mukerji has three homes in Mumbai, including her childhood home.

She bought a bungalow in Juhu for herself and her parents in mid-2005. The house went through a two year renovation with the interiors done by Twinkle Khanna and Sussanne Roshan.

In June 2005, Mukerji was widely criticized following the publication of an interview with British newspaper Desi Xpress. Mukerji was asked to name her idol and she replied, “Adolf Hitler”. However, in an interview with Times Now a year later, she denied ever mentioning Hitler’s name.

In November 2006, Mukerji was shooting for the film Laaga Chunari Mein Daag in Varanasi when avid fans crowded the set. Security personnel beat the crowd back. A media storm followed as various groups insisted that Mukerji should have stopped the security guards. Mukerji later issued an apology.

In March 2004, Mukerji visited the sandy dunes of Rajasthan to boost the morale of the jawans. It was for a show where entertainers and stars visit Indian troops in far-flung regions to encourage them along with the NDTV team.

In February 2005, Mukerji performed at the HELP Telethon Concert to help raise money for the victims of Tsunami in company with other Bollywood stars.

She was highly involved in the Temptations 2005 show in New Delhi. The actress helped to raise funds for the National Centre For Promotional of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP), a leading disabled rights’ group.

Mukerji donated her prize money, her half-share of 50 lakh rupees from her 2007 appearance on Kaun Banega Crorepati with Preity Zinta, to the Holy Family Hospital. She said that this institution looks after children with heart problems.

Mukerji is a stage performer and has participated in two world tours. Her first world tour was in the year 1999 with Aamir Khan, Aishwarya Rai, Akshaye Khanna and Twinkle Khanna. It was called the Magnificent Five.

Five years later, Temptations 2004 came along. It was the most successful Bollywood concert in its time. Mukerji performed alongside Shahrukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal and Priyanka Chopra in nineteen stage shows across the globe.

In 2005, Mukerji was a guest of honour at a state dinner to greet General Pervez Musharraf in company of the Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh.Mukerji was the only Bollywood actress on the elite guest list.

She appeared along with various other Bollywood actors at the Closing Ceremony of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, as part of a performance showcasing Indian culture, on behalf of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Rani Mukerji was on the top slot of Filmfare’s ‘Top Ten Bollywood Actresses’ list for two years in a row (2004-2005). She was also placed number one on Rediff’s ‘Top Bollywood Female Stars’ Rankings for three consecutive years (2004-2006), while in 2007, she was ranked at number five.

In February 2006, Filmfare Magazine placed her eighth amongst the “Ten Most Powerful Names of Bollywood”, an achievement she repeated from the previous year, where she was ranked at number ten as the only woman on the list. In 2007, she was ranked higher at number five.

On Women’s International Day 2007, Mukerji came in the fourth position on the All-Time Best Bollywood Actresses Ever Listing.

She was placed at number #36 by UK magazine Eastern Eye as one of “Asia’s Sexiest Women” (Sept/2006). Mukerji is frequently featured in various lists by Rediff.com, among them, Bollywood’s Most Beautiful Actresses, Bollywood’s Best Dressed Women and Women of Many Faces.

After the disaster of ‘Dil Bole Hadippa’, Rani Mukherjee is keeping distance from the Yash Raj camp. Not once but she snubbed Yash Raj Films head three times during a recent award ceremony. Both crossed each other’s path couple of times but Rani did not share pleasantries to the senior member of the film fraternities.

An eyewitness narrates the incident,“Everyone who walked past Yash Chopra spoke to him with utmost respect. Even those who saw him at a distance went up to him and greeted him. However, Rani did not make any such efforts.”

“She arrived at the function a bit late but she passed by Chopra at least twice, without looking at him even once. Moreover, both Rani and Chopra were standing quite close to each other at the bar area, where they had a good chance to mingle but they didn’t. While leaving, Rani kissed a few colleagues goodbye and left with a friend,” the eye witness added.

Everyone present at the event shocked to see Rani’s behavior. Rani is said to have an alleged relationship with Yash Chopra’s son Aditya Chopra and this did not go well with Yashji. Aditya has filed a divorce from his wife Payal and his family blame Rani for the break-up as they love their daughter-in-law Payal a lot.

So... it's time. The Indian team is all set to cast its glad eye on the beautiful World Cup once again; the country is already in a celebratory mood and expectations have blown the roof away too.

It's a scary scenario, really: can we, therefore, just stop for a moment and think of the worst? What will happen if India fail to cross the Bangladesh hurdle? What will be the fallout if the team crashes out of the tournament, sooner than hoped or expected?

Just imagine. Well, almost instantly, a pall of gloom will envelop the nation; the people will plunge into another of their melancholic phases; it will feel like the world has come to an end.

Somewhere, there will be a flicker of anger too; somewhere, a hint of simmering emotion. A few pockets might even reach break point, as they did in 2003 and 2007.

And that is the real danger, the real test before Incredible India: can it show it has matured enough to cope with failure? Does it love the game enough to understand that it is nothing but a game?

Will we accept that the players have, and will always, give it their best shot? Are we ready to brush aside any fiasco as just the home jinx? The next few weeks will probably answer some of these complex questions.

But, luckily, all this is just a worst-case scenario: the chances are that India will get off to an emphatic and bold start; that the players, at least some of them, are still reeling from the humbling in Port of Spain.

Revenge is clearly in order; a big win should be the perfect balm for the past and an even better booster for the future. Thankfully, the team is high on confidence; it is on a roll actually, even if you discount the warm-up matches. It has enough experience in the ranks to hoodwink pressure and crunch situations; at the same time, it has enough gumption to not give a damn about the pressure or the crunch situations.

More importantly, it can chase any total without even batting an eyelid; if Tendulkar doesn't tower over the opposition, Sehwag will overpower them with raw energy. If Gambhir provides solidity at No. 3, Kohli adds finesse at No. 4.

After that comes the mayhem: Yuvraj is ready to go berserk while Yusuf has already done that; Dhoni can provide solace or take the fireworks to a higher level. Zaheer and Harbhajan can drive a few too; if they don't, Sree Santh will at least drive them all crazy.

The bowlers, hopefully, won't have much to do, apart from smile; after 45 days, if you see them laughing, you can be sure know that the entire country will also be smiling.