There’s a Bollywood double feature with a difference on SABC 3 today. At 2pm you can watch a rerun of the film Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai
(My Heart Is With You), one of the stronger films in the Bollywood line up. At 10pm there’s a screening of the monumentally successful Now or Never concert featuring the cream of Bollywood talent performing in South Africa.
The matinee feature stars Anil Kapoor and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai as strangers brought together by a series of unpleasant events and circumstances that eventually fall in love. Kapoor plays Avinash a respected businessman, who offers his home to a young lady, Preeti (Rai), who is victimised by society through no fault of her own. Surprisingly for a Bollywood film, it takes a harsh look at the conservative attitudes of a sector within the Indian community and the negative way that this reflects on woman in society. Quite often families shun their daughters, who have in their eyes brought shame to the family name, even if they were not really at fault. It is a poignant love story, extremely well acted by its leads and confidently directed by Satish Kaushik, a director with a chequered career. However, with this film he is in command of his subject for the most part, only faltering by including some completely unfunny comedy sequences, which do more harm than good to the flow of the film. The music score by Sanjeev and Darshan provides melodious relief from the drama that fills most of the screen time. At three hours, the film is about half an hour too long and could have been edited more judiciously, perhaps cutting out the silly comedy track completely. However, the film is definitely worth watching.
If you’ve never been to a Bollywood concert before, then you must watch the Now or Never extravaganza, which was held on the 28th December at the Absa Stadium in Durban last year. It was promoted by local film producer Anant Singh’s company Videovision and showcased the talents of arguably Bollywood’s top stars. The list of actors headlining the bill included Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, hearthrobs Hrithik Roshan, Shahrukh Khan and Sanjay Dutt. The female component comprised the talents of Bollywood’s most beautiful and sexy stars including Kareena Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Sushmita Sen, Prety Zinta and Rani Mukherji. Videovision Entertainment won the 2003 Best Live Production Award of the Technical Production Services Association of South Africa for their work on this concert. A record crowd of over 50 000 people attended the concert. This event marked the first time that so many popular stars of Indian cinema have performed together in one show. So join the stars as they pull out all the stops to entertain their legions of fans in the Now or Never concert, tonight on SABC 3 at 10pm.
(My Heart Is With You), one of the stronger films in the Bollywood line up. At 10pm there’s a screening of the monumentally successful Now or Never concert featuring the cream of Bollywood talent performing in South Africa.
The matinee feature stars Anil Kapoor and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai as strangers brought together by a series of unpleasant events and circumstances that eventually fall in love. Kapoor plays Avinash a respected businessman, who offers his home to a young lady, Preeti (Rai), who is victimised by society through no fault of her own. Surprisingly for a Bollywood film, it takes a harsh look at the conservative attitudes of a sector within the Indian community and the negative way that this reflects on woman in society. Quite often families shun their daughters, who have in their eyes brought shame to the family name, even if they were not really at fault. It is a poignant love story, extremely well acted by its leads and confidently directed by Satish Kaushik, a director with a chequered career. However, with this film he is in command of his subject for the most part, only faltering by including some completely unfunny comedy sequences, which do more harm than good to the flow of the film. The music score by Sanjeev and Darshan provides melodious relief from the drama that fills most of the screen time. At three hours, the film is about half an hour too long and could have been edited more judiciously, perhaps cutting out the silly comedy track completely. However, the film is definitely worth watching.
If you’ve never been to a Bollywood concert before, then you must watch the Now or Never extravaganza, which was held on the 28th December at the Absa Stadium in Durban last year. It was promoted by local film producer Anant Singh’s company Videovision and showcased the talents of arguably Bollywood’s top stars. The list of actors headlining the bill included Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, hearthrobs Hrithik Roshan, Shahrukh Khan and Sanjay Dutt. The female component comprised the talents of Bollywood’s most beautiful and sexy stars including Kareena Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Sushmita Sen, Prety Zinta and Rani Mukherji. Videovision Entertainment won the 2003 Best Live Production Award of the Technical Production Services Association of South Africa for their work on this concert. A record crowd of over 50 000 people attended the concert. This event marked the first time that so many popular stars of Indian cinema have performed together in one show. So join the stars as they pull out all the stops to entertain their legions of fans in the Now or Never concert, tonight on SABC 3 at 10pm.
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