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The song “Dum dum” from Yash Raj Films’ “Band Baaja Baaraat” was originally composed for Shah Rukh Khan-starrer “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi”, says a source. The song, sung by Himani Kapoor and Benny Dayal, was not used in “Rab Ne…”. “Since the ‘Band Baaja Baaraat’ team needed a similar track for the film, ‘Dum dum’ was used. So in a way it was a very special musical gift to director Maneesh Sharma from Aditya Chopra,” said the source. “Band Baaja Baaraat”, featuring Anushka Sharma and newcomer Ranveer Singh, is releasing Dec 10.
Union dumps AFL-CIO for its positions on ObamaCare, immigration reform
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has cut ties with the AFL-CIO, citing in part the private-sector union’s support for ObamaCare and immigration reform. In an August 29 letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, leaders of the 40,000-member union said they have become “increasingly frustrated” with the federation’s policy positions on such matters as immigration and health care reform. “We feel the federation has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all working people,” wrote Robert McEllrath, president of the San Francisco-based ILWU. McEllrath said his union supports the single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy while the AFL-CIO backs Obama’s tax on its so-called "Cadillac" healthcare plan, according to Breitbart.com, which first reported the story. "President Obama ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and at the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention, you stated that labor would not stand for a tax on our benefits," the letter states. The letter also states both groups have historically supported comprehensive immigration reform with a clear path to citizenship and protecting undocumented workers from deportation and being fired. “However, the immigration bill you recently asked us to support imposes extremely long waiting periods on the path to citizenship … .” the letter states. The group acknowledges its short and rocky relationship with the CIO, getting kicked out for being “too red” during the anti-labor, McCarthy era and rejoining as late as 1998, after the AFL-CIO merger. In the letter, McEllrath also thanked the AFL-CIO for help in a 2002 labor-contract negotiation.
Tusshar plays dumb
Tusshar has many different and exciting roles up his sleeves. In the film, Golmaal, he is playing the role of a dumb character and yet the role is full of mischief. Tusshar is also sporting a complete new look for the movie. Hopefully, this dumb character speaks something of his performance.
Vidya Balan Dumps Mentor
Vidya Balan is making news. Her latest radio jockey avatar in 'Lage Raho Munnbhai' has been received extremely well. In fact, 'LRM' is all set to be one of the biggest hits of all time and may well overtake 'Krrish' in the race of this year's biggest blockbuster. After her ripe romance rumours with co-star John Abraham, Vidya has taken the biggest risk of her life by refusing mentor Pradip Sarkar's next with the Yash Chopra banner. Balan is citing the obvious 'date hassles' considering she has 'Eklavya', 'Salaam'e-ishq' and 'Guru' up for release besides the impending 'Chandramukhi'. But the friction between Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Pradip Sarkar is also one of the reasons for the distance between the two. Apparently Vinod is not pleased with Sarkar's decision to work in a production other than Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions and Balan on a tight-rope had to opt for one of the two. She being a woman of the world opted for the producer who took a risk by signing her for three films when not even one of her films had been released. It is being said that Konkana Sen Sharma shall be fitting into Vidya's shoes for this biggie. Let's wait and watch what turn relationships swing in this Chopra's tug-of-war.
Amol Palekar's Dumkata a tribute to Basuda and Hrishida!
In his 26 year long career as director, Amol Palekar has made eleven films and is all set with his 12 th film Dumkata, which the director says is his tribute to Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chaterjee! Amol Palekar was an integral part of their genre of film and hence has decided to make a light hearted family film in the shape of Dumkata. Says the director, "My fans have always asked me to make films similar to the legendary ones of Hrishida and Basu da, whose films I was an integral part of. Dumkata is that film, as we don't have enough films for children. They have to relish the Hollywood combos or second rate Indian attempts, I'm sure Dumkata will offer something original to our little ones!" The story, screenplay and dialogues have been written by the writer of his last three films, Sandhya Gokhale. The cast of 'Dumkata', which deals with an urban couple and their two children, includes Om Puri, Sachin Khedekar and Sharnaz Patel along with child actors Khush Mallick and Aseem Desai. The music has been given by the terrific trio Shankar Ehsaan Loy and the film will also see Om Puri with his rock solid base voice singing rap for the first time! Well, fans of Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee now have Dumkata to look forward to!
"Filmmaker in me was dumb to experiment with Big B in Nishabd and Aag" - RGV
In a very bad and not totally darkened theatre (because of the light leaking through some vents and gaps in the closed doors) called Ramapriya in Vijayawada town in Andhra Pradesh, for the first time I consciously began to understand the phenomenon of Amitabh Bachchan. The film that was playing was Khuddaar and the scene which was going on at that precise moment was, when Amitji learning the lie his own brother told him, barges into the discotheque where his brother is grooving away with a girl. As he shouts at the DJ to stop the music and looks at his brother at the far corner with hurt filled eyes, a gang of vicious looking bouncers move towards him. He looks at them and with an emotion choked voice says that he will break their legs if they try to stop him. There was an audible gasp in the theatre from the viewers as he said this. The interesting point is that none of the guys in the theatre could speak Hindi as Vijayawada is a Telugu speaking town. So what did they connect to? It is just the raw emotions of anger, betrayal, helplessness and above all the hurt he managed to communicate through his body language, his voice and his eyes. As I looked at the faces of the people sitting in the theatre I could see a tremendous sense of awe, admiration, respect and above all a connectivity in their faces. Each and everyone of his viewers connected to him deeply through the characters he portrayed in his various films. Each and everyone wanted a brother or a friend or a leader like him. Even after volumes spoken and big fat books written on him, I think it is still very easy to underestimate his incredible influence and his unimaginable impact not only on cinema but also on at least on a couple of generations conscience. Kids loved him in Amar Akbar Anthony then and Kids love him now in Bhoothnath. I have seen street goondas emulating him from Kaala Patthar, Kaalia etc and modern day gangsters are awe-struck with his intensity in Sarkar. Women used to swoon over his romances then and today's women would want a life-partner like him. Old people back then wanted a son like him and today's old people see the reflections of their own life through his performances in movies like Baghbaan etc. His contemporaries back then were dying of jealousy and unable to understand what is making him tick and today's stars and technicians resume cannot be completed unless and until they feature with him at least in one film. For me Amitji is raw, real and gritty and he hit me like a thunder bolt both as a viewer and as a director. His charisma, his screen presence, his personality made such an impact both on me and millions of others like me unsupported by today's so-called massive production values. Unlike today's superstars he never had to hide behind catchy songs or lavish sets or exotic foreign locales etc. Any random man you pick on the road anywhere in the country, and if you ask him what you remember of Amitabh Bachchan, he is bound to come up with at least a hundred of his favourite scenes, dialogues or moments from Amitji's various films whereas if asked about any of today's superstars I doubt that they will remember beyond their hit songs and their films box-office collections. From the time of being awestruck with him in Zanzeer, Deewaar etc to consciously understanding his screen prowess post Khuddaar (which incidentally largely was responsible in influencing my own technique of shaping up characters in my films), my biggest desire cinematically was to do a film with him which eventually I realized in Sarkar. In the run up to the making of Sarkar in my several meetings with him I started seeing a very different side of him other than what I only perceived through his films. Behind the obvious power and intensity was a sensitivity and vulnerability and also listening to his thoughts made me sense his incredible versatility as an actor. By that time my proximity to him blinded me as a viewer of him as a star and the filmmaker in me got greedy and dumb enough to experiment with him as an actor which resulted in Nishabd and Aag. It's not so much only about the quality of those films that I am talking here but it is just the idea of casting him in those roles. By Ram Gopal Varma