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The end of a generation of entertainers. May God bless their souls.

Chalo ek baar phir se

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Tum agar saath dene ka

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Neele gagan ke tale

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Above pictures courtesy: TimesofIndia, Chicagotribune

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It’s the biggest marriage of Bollywood and Hollywood in the history of cinema. Anil Ambani’s Reliance Big Entertainment and Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks SKG have inked a $1.5 billion deal to set up the new DreamWorks.

“The new age studio will be based in Los Angeles and produce six films per year for the next six years. The rights for all these films across platforms — theatres, DTH, television, DVDs — will remain with Reliance for the territory of India,” a top official in the Reliance ADA Group said.

“Serious negotiations began a few months ago but the deal was finally signed in Los Angeles on Friday. The deal is in part equity and part debt. The debt will be syndicated by JP Morgan Chase. But we can’t talk about the exact debt-equity ratio now,” he said.

According to the deal, DreamWorks will become a 50:50 joint venture of Spielberg, current DreamWorks chief executive Stacey Snider and Anil Ambani’s Reliance Big Entertainment. Snider has also worked as chairman of Universal Pictures.

David Geffen, one of the co-founders of DreamWorks and its current principal, will exit. Spielberg retains the rights to the name DreamWorks and is expected to affix it to the new entity, a news agency report said.

Spielberg is Hollywood’s most successful director of all times. Some of his well-known films are Raiders of the Lost Ark , ET and Jurassic Park . In May at the Cannes Film Festival, Reliance Big Entertainment had announced production deals with some of the biggest names in Hollywood such as Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Jim Carrey and Nicholas Cage.

Earlier this year, the company bought over 230 cinemas in USA and another 50 in Malaysia. Some theatres were also taken over in Mauritius and Nepal.

“The company is looking for other opportunities in the movie exhibition sector around the world,” the company official said. At present, Reliance Big Entertainment is producing about 70 films in nine languages across India.

“The deal gives DreamWorks co-founder Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Chief Executive Stacey Snider the financial support they need to leave Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Pictures and start a new venture. Dreamworks was sold to Viacom in 2006,” the Wall Street Journal website reported on Friday.

“The marriage between some of Hollywood’s biggest names and an Indian conglomerate is less surprising than it seems. The new deal comes in the wake of a financial drought in Hollywood, with the industry looking to foreign investors to replace some of billions of dollars that Wall Street poured into film financing in recent years but has since evaporated with the crumbling credit markets,” the newspaper said.

Above news courtesy: TimesofIndia

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Watching movies endlessly these past few weeks.  But iam unable to find any time to write a detailed review of them. If and when i find time, i will write something detailed about the ones i liked.  As of now, a list of the movies and my ratings.

Basic Instinct -1 (4/5)
Taken  (4/5)
A Wednesday (4/5)
21 (3/5)
Mumbai Meri Jaan (3/5)
Charlie Wilson’s War (3/5)
Rock On (3/5)
Chamku (2/5)
Hijack (1/5)
Mukhbir (1/5)
Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam (0/5)
C Kompany (0/5)
Meet the Spartans (0/5)
Aeon Flux (0/5)
Basic Instinct -2 (0/5)

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3:10 to Yuma

My rating **** (4/5)

Transsiberian

My rating *** (3/5)

Ugly aur Pagli

Ranvir Shorey is brilliant.  Mallika Sherawat is ok.  And the movie is a copy of the Korean hit “My Sassy Girl”.

My rating ** (2/5)

Bachna Ae Haseeno

Another lousy product from the Yash Raj stable.  Cant believe that their standards have gone down so much.  The movie is so boring that it was a drag watching it.  And for all those who believe that Ranbir Kapoor is the next big thing, they can go take a hike.  His face is too wodden with hardly two expressions on it and cant act to save his life.  But when Abhishek ‘butt ugly’ Bachchan can survive, any moron can too.

My rating * (1/5)

Singh is King

Easily one of the worst movie i have ever seen in my life.  The worst rubbish to come out of the hindi film industry in the past few years.  Sad, such crap is the biggest grosser this year.

My rating (0/5)

Above pictures courtesy: IMDB & Santabanta

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Pathetic lyrics, but you cant discount the fact the songs are damn catchy. Especially the rendition of “Socha Hai” and “Rock On” by Farhan Akhthar.

An aside, the posters of the movie simply rock.  A refreshing change from the ones you regularly see for the Bollywood movies.  It really makes me miss those initial days here in Singapore when i used to wear all those gothic bling bling and rockstar kinda Tshirts and jeans   Miss those days.  Cant believe how i have mellowed down so much. Heh.

Above pictures courtesy: Santabanta

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