'Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey': movie review

Nobody remembers 'Pehla Nasha' (1993); the aficionados recall 'Baazi' (1995) as a slick flick; everyone and their uncles and aunts raved over 'Lagaan' (2001); the multiplex audience were wowed by 'Swades' (2004); the sheer opulence of 'Jodhaa Akbar' (2008) made us draw in our collective breaths. And then there was a lull.
Sadly thought, the deluge that followed thereafter was unmitigated mediocrity. If director Ashutosh Gowariker next 'What's Your Rashee' (2009) was a disaster, he seems to have forgotten the lessons rather quickly. A man who made just four movies in ten years leading up to 2008 has since made three more thereafter.
One cannot fathom why he should be hell bent on continuing in the same streak? Why would he want to turn a lesser known political upheaval of pre-Independence India into a history lesson told in what can at best be described as a historic way of storytelling? Seems like directorial ennui is making Gowariker seek glory in history, his own and that of the country!

Source: MSN

Pregnancy rumours hit Aishwarya in Dubai

Rumours related to Aishwarya Rai Bachchan have again started making the rounds. The rumours, this time, are related to her pregnancy not in India but in Dubai.
But rumours have become such a routine affair for Ash that she does not even clarify them. We presume that she chooses to laugh it off.
Ash had some interviews scheduled in Dubai, but they were cancelled at the last moment leading to speculation among the small community of Indian journalists in the Middle East.
" Unless it is a case of dodgy Indian curries that is slowly but surely emanating, the rumour mills are grinding to grist the possibility of a classic Ash diva tantrum because she is pregnant," quoted the local newspaper in Dubai.
Sources had informed the newspaper that Ash was not well and hence had cancelled the said interviews. This is not the first time that the buzz about her pregnancy hasreached us.
Had we believed in all these gossips Ash and Abhishek should have had a few babies by now. We guess we should leave the couple alone and give them the benefit of doubt and the honour to make the announcement themselves.
After all, their marriage was the biggest ever in Bollywood and when the Bachchans will confirm any such news it would surely be the biggest one, too.

Source: India Today