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Neil Nitin Mukesh
Deepika Padukone and Neil Nitin Mukesh just can’t stop complimenting each other. According to Deepika, “Neil is such a well brought-up guy, absolutely impeccable in his manners. Besides being a brilliant actor he’s also a great technician. I see him turning director soon. My other co-star Imran Khan in Break Ke Baad is great fun too. We shot in Delhi and bonded immediately.” (it seems she really loves to bond…can she bond well with James Bond? What do you think?)
When asked about her alleged link up with Mallya Jr (not again) she says, “Can’t I be seen with the people I’m working with without being linked to them?..” This lady had been linked up with people since the time she did her debut in Bollywood…it was Indian Cricket captain M.S Dhoni, then Yuvraj Singh, another cricketer and obviously there’s Ranbir Kapoor (her all time favorite).
According to sources, Neil is so protective of Deepika that everytime she had to perform any stunt, he gets tense… (so caring!!!) You lucky gal!! May you have many more PROTECTIONS like this…Going great babe…
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I am waiting with bated breath for Madhur Bhandrakar’s Jail. This, not because I am an avid fan… Good God no! Heaven forbid if such an unfortunate event ever occurred! Unlike my nitpicking, carping sister, I am waiting for his upcoming movie because I am really looking forward to the full monty of Bollywood’s breath of fresh air, aka Neil Nitin Mukesh.
He claims he was embarrassed when he first discussed doing the scene with Madhur. He was wondering how his family would take it. Thank God, he didn’t listen to the voice of reason and decided to go au naturel.
For all you women out there, Neil has stripped completely and you will be able to see a lot of skin on him! And girls, if we’re in luck, Bhandarkar’s camera will slip and give us a sneak peek of something more! Whew! Where’s the fire brigade? This hottie is sending temperatures soaring to dangerous levels. And girls, let’s be honest here….we need a new drool tool now that cranky pre-pensioners Sallu and SRK are losing hair, muscle tone and credibility.
The only thing we need to see now is whether a hot guy stripping completely in a movie draws as much a crowd as the antics of the bouncy, boob-brigade bimbos like Rakhi Sawant or Sherlyn Chopra.
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There was once a time when Yash Raj Films lay the rules about what was kosher in Bollywood-land. And so, for a good two decades, generations of desi audiences were brought up on sappy bubblegum romances, the occasional family drama and bucket-loads of glycerin tears.
Enter the early 21st century when names like Fox, Warner Bros., and Universal Studios became common knowledge, www.imdb.com was no longer a vague site intended for gora moviegoers, and the Minority Report generation who began demanding sound scripts which actually made sense to anyone above the age of 2. Flummoxed, our fat cat producers, and rip-off directors flew into a tizzy, grabbing at darker, ‘more meaningful’ plots (whatever that means) and more intense acting.
Apart from the occasional Dil Chahta Hai and Lagaan, theater-goers were still unimpressed. What’s worse, the Indian Film Association had now woken up to the existence of foreign entries into the Golden Globe Awards, and a mandatory requirement for participation was ‘no plagiarism’.
Once again, Bollywood went through a major cinematic revolution, and we began to receive movies like Black, Salaam Namaste, and other more ‘youthful’, ‘current’ themes. As an afterthought, our filmmakers began to study Hollywood with a renewed interest, in order to decipher what exactly it is that Warner and Co. do, that RGV Productions couldn’t replicate.
The answer? Superhero and Science Fiction.
The idea caught on like a blazing fire. So, we had Krissh with its ‘faster than a horse’ Hritik Roshan (desi Superman anyone?) and 2050: A Love Story starring Hurman Baweja, Piggy Chops and titli raani. While Krissh did moderately well, filmmakers could not fathom how to recreate a superhero who didn’t look, talk and walk exactly like Krissh. So, they turned to science fiction.
The disastrous reception of 2050: A whatever story notwithstanding, our filmmakers decided to give Science Fiction another go, especially given the mega bucks that could roll in should the success of Koi Mil Gaya be recreated.
And so, at the fag end of 2009, we are faced with not one, but two mega-budget science-fiction ventures:
- There’s Ra 1: Starring SRK as a super robot who works for an intelligence agency.
- There’s Magic Man starring Neil Nitin Mukesh. What magic has to do with science is still an issue that boggles the mind, but I guess we’ll just have to wait for some promos to figure out exactly how ‘magical’ science can be.
Given our desi Bollywood frat’s penchant for over-exaggeration and masala, I just hope we don’t have to deal with a very handsome super robot who falls in love with a super robot-ess, and has little super-robot children, and only solves crimes when he isn’t busy wooing the super robot in-laws and fighting super robot jealous ex-boyfriend. Not to mention breaking the momentum of the plot every 10 minutes to start lavish song and dance routines with a 200 hundred other vacuous-looking robots in tow.
And please people, if we’re going to be spending crores of rupees on hiring unnecessarily expensive stars, let’s also set aside some budget for special effects so that your movie doesn’t end up looking and sounding like a 5th grade science project, shall we?
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Given his track record of making movies inspired by real life, I had been wondering what Madhur Bhandarkar’s next movie Jail would be based on. And it now turns out that at least some of the inspiration is from the infamous BMW case of Sanjeev Nanda and Alistair Pereira.
Now, this is what I like about this guy. He has the guts and the will to handle a tough, real subject. Something, which we can never expect from the likes of Karan Johar and company. Even Ram Gopal Verma’s movies, for that matter, dish out doses of un-reality, albeit in the realm of the gory and the mysterious. He did give us some good ones like Kaun and Bhooth, for instance, and Rangeela, of course, but lately he has lost his touch, and keeps losing it more with every subsequent film.
Anyway, Bhandarkar keeps exploring the life each one of us lives, and never fails to surface with something that shakes us up. Of course, he does make it filmy, can’t blame him for that though. No one wants to watch documentaries, and everyone wants BO success in order to survive.
So, I am actually looking forward to Jail, stuffed as I am with regular Bollywood fare like Love Aaj Kal, etc. Also, in this age of ‘made-up reality’ shows, I’m choking for something that I won’t find too hard to believe.
But Bhandarkar is snipping Jail ruthlessly here and there to appease the dreadful Indian Censor Board. After doing away with a nude scene of Neil Nitin Mukesh, he’s also left a masturbation scene out, it seems. Let’s pray that in his efforts to compromise, we don’t end up with something that looks like it’s a hybrid between KJo and RGV’s creations. Argh!
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Madhur Bhandarkar, fearing more snips and swipes from the censor board, has decided to not let Neil Nitin Mukesh go completely nude after all in his movie Jail. And, when you see the pale and pudgy Neil in the pic above, I think you’ll agree it’s a wise decision not only practically, but also aesthetically. There’s only so punishment we are willing to take from Bollywood.
Frankly, I am surprised at how lean Neil can look with clothes on, and how plump he actually is in the buff. After New York and all that basketball with John Abraham, wasn’t he inspired to get more in shape? I mean, I don’t see an iota of muscle anywhere, dude! Maybe you forgot that the camera adds 10-12 pounds and you should factor that in when preparing for a nude scene? A few less pancakes, lattes and chapatis perhaps?
Very sad, considering that this scene in Jail could have been a milestone marking male nudity in Indian cinema.
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Everyone’s scared of Sallu
Filed under : John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Ranbir Kapoor, Salman Khan, Vivek Oberoi
While the almost invisible Vivek Oberoi runs off to somewhere safe and far away from Salman Khan at any given opportunity, Katrina Kaif is thinking twice about accepting roles she would otherwise have died for, only because they are cast opposite John Abraham.
Is Sallu bhai really the bully he’s made out to be? After the tiff with Salman nearly six years ago, Vivek is still struggling to get a foothold in Bollywood, when new kids like Ranbir and Neil Nitin Mukesh seem to be doing far better.
But if Katrina dilly-dallies too much over such plum roles, it’d be a real waste. Yeah, Sallu’s her lucky mascot and all, but will he also prove to be her undoing?
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