*TOIJ71208/ /02/K/1* SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA, JAIPUR DECEMBER 7, 2008
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Meerabai Not Out (drama) ★★ Cast: Mandira Bedi, Anupam Kher, Ejaz Ahmed Direction: Chandrakant Kulkarni
Miss World! Yes, now you can actually cast a vote for People’s Miss World
Transporter 3 (action) ★★★ Cast: Jason Statham, Natalya Rudakova Direction: Olivier Megaton
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ith just a few days left to the finals, the countdown to the Miss World pageant has seriously begun. The spin in the story is: you, dear reader, are now empowered to choose the most beautiful woman in the world! Vote for your favourite beauty online and she will be crowned Miss People’s Choice at the Miss World Pageant. Your vote, Your Miss World. India’s Parvathy Omanakuttan, the Pantaloons Femina Miss India World 2008 is vying for support and attention of all Indians, as she tries to get the crown back to India after a gap of eight years. Parvathy is competing with 111 contestants at the 58th Miss World final which will be held at Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 13. The stunning Indian beauty, Parvathy is already a hot favourite in South Africa. She along with the other contestants have been on an adventurous safari in Limpopo. In an interview with South Africa’s The Times, she said, “We got to live in a typical tribal hut, which was an amazing experience. The huts were made in such a way that we were warm. There were no lights or air-conditioners, but we felt at home... I’m a nature freak.” Not only that, she’s actually captured South Africa’s attention wearing an apron and a white chef ’s hat and helped whip up a traditional Zulu dish. Parvathy’s interested in “experimenting with world cuisines”. With her dark, black hair, stunningly fit body, Parvathy has the potential to be a global beauty. Not only that, she can impress you with her sexy dance moves – be it Latin or classical ballroom. Now, Parvathy is urging Indians to help her by voting for her as Miss People’s Choice. Voting for Parvathy is simple. You just need to go to the Miss World website at www.missworld.com, register, select “Contestants”, choose India under “Visit contestant’s profile”, then select “10” when asked to rate her as “Miss People’s Choice.” The higher the ratings Parvathy receives, the better her chances of winning. It’s upto Indians now, to make Parvathy the next Miss World 2008. Parvathy’s motto in life has been: dream with your eyes open. And she’s dreaming to bring back the crown. Only you can help her fulfill that dream.
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eerabai isn’t an ordinary girl, with ordinary priorities. For her, marriage comes much below cricket and a husband seems redundant when she has Anil Kumble to fantasise about. A math teacher, she explains complicated numerical problems through cricket fundas and quizzes her prospective grooms on the Duckworth Lewis definition. Could have been an extraordinary tale of an ordinary girl who redefines girlhood, just like that spunky little Punjabi kudi in Gurinder Chadha’s Bend it Like Beckham. But Meerabai Not Out simply fails to transcend the ordinariness of its characters and eventually gets apologetic about the protagonist’s overriding passion for ‘unwomanly’ affairs like cricket, Kumble and the pitch. The film works partially in creating a heartwarming ambience of a close-knit middle class Maharashtrian family that lives out its highs and lows in a housing society in Dadar. The head of the family is the non-smiling elder brother (Mahesh Manjrekar) who gave up his dreams of being a Ranji player for bread and butter concerns. Naturally, he hates all things cricket, despite the fact that li’l sister, Mandira is crazy about it. So much so, she even goes for a cricket match on her engagement day and ends up arriving late, much to the discomfiture of her prospective father-in-law, Anupam Kher. Does her boyfriend stand by her, cricket mania et al or does he give her up for a traditional Indian miss? If you are patient enough, you might just get to know the answer and might even enjoy some of the breezy moments in the film.
It’s upto Indians now to make Parvathy the next Miss World 2008. Parvathy is dreaming of bringing the crown home, and only you can help her
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e’ve just identified the one thing that Vidya Balan is quite petrified of – and that is cats! Recently, when the actress was busy shooting, a cat made its way onto the sets and, sure enough, the mere presence of this billi was enough to get Vidya all worked up. Terrified of cats, the moment she spotted the creature, Vids rushed to her make-up van and refused to come out till it was shoo-ed away. But, before animal activists become all agitated on reading this, let us clarify that the actress never allows anyone to be cruel or even hurl stones at them. “Just shoo it away,” she tells her unitwalas who are always quite amused by Vidya’s feline fear! Is that the reason the actress keeps away from Bwood’s catfights, we wonder.
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he Transporter is back. This time with a human cargo: the kidnapped Natalya Rudakova who needs to be delivered to her father, a high-ranking Ukaranian government official. But before he can deliver his delectable package, he must contend with the blackguards who are hell bent on putting a spanner in his mission. Rudely interrupted by a trespassing car that breaks into his bedroom, while he is watching TV, the Transporter dons his best suit and drives off with the mysterious red head. For all Transporter fans, the good news is that part three of this high-adrenalin action flick is a few shades better than the desulto-
ry part two. Jason Statham is a fitting followup of Steven Segal and Jean Claude Van Demme and does manage to deliver a class act as the emotionless action hero who kicks butts, kills and then cleans up, donning a crisp white shirt immediately after the mayhem. Rest assured, the film doesn’t leave you bored at all and even offers you some classic action cuts. Paisa vasool entertainment!
Oh My God (drama) ★1/2 Cast: Vinay Pathak, Saurabh Shukla, Divya Dutta Direction: Sourabh Shrivastava
Burn After Reading (crime) ★★★ Cast: George Clooney, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt, Frances McDermond Direction: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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middle class man (Vinay Pathak) harbours millionaire dreams and is desperate to become another Dhirubhai Ambani. He sits under his hoarding and devises silly schemes to step into his icon’s shoes. God (Saurabh Shukla) gets tired of his bumbling efforts and sends him a suitcase full of green backs in a get-rich-quick divine scheme. But hey! he didn’t bargain for honesty, did he? Amongst a sea of corrupt, scheming, dishonest, greedy creatures, he ends up getting his plans foiled by this oddball: honest Raju who refuses to keep the suitcase with moolah in his house. And Raju isn’t alone in his ajooba (strange) status. His good wife, Divya Dutta too doesn’t want her husband to lose his values and become Ambani with ambivalent morals. So, even as God chews on chocolates and chips, Raju tries to get rid of the ill-gotten wealth, any which way. Nice morals, neat message, tedious film... Oh my God, is that really Vinay Pathak and Saurabh Shukla! Hard to believe, since the two actors have almost always delighted you with their slice-of-life portrayals.
I hope to get lucky Why Vidya Balan in love: Celina won’t be catty ctress Celina Jaitley, who turned 27 recently, says she has been unlucky in love but hopes god will bless her with more romance in life. “It’s about time I got lucky in love,” said the pretty lady, who celebrated her birthday with destitute girls. Celina sponsors some of these poor girls and she had a party for them. “Nothing makes me happier than seeing them smile,” she said. Meanwhile, Celina tried to cheer herself up by buying a swanky new car on her birthday. “I need that boost. I’ve been working hard and Golmaal Returns is a hit. So I need to indulge myself. I know a girl’s best friend are diamonds. But she needs a posh car to get to the jewellery store. So that’s why the car!” said the actress.
mine worker and a nurse — who travel to this ancient town to seek out their respective spouses. While Sanming hasn’t seen his bride and teenage daughter for 16 years, Shen Hong is determined to find her truant husband in order to divorce him. The film offers a compelling picture of the social and economic tumult that China, or any other developing nation, must undergo before it actually arrives on the global map of developed nations.
Still Life (drama) ★★★ Cast: Han Sanming, Shen Hong Direction: Jia Zhang Ke
he Coen brothers are famous for their quirky little films that spill over with unpredictable characters and teasing plots and sub-plots. Burn After Reading may not be their best, but it is an arresting piece of a crimegone-awry drama with an unconventional act by both George Clooney and Brad Pitt who discover their negative shades with apblomb. The plot links together a bunch of assorted characters and stretches from the US intelligence agencies to a downtown gym, leading up to the Russian embassy as a bunch of gym employees (Pitt and McDormand) lay their hands on the unpublished memoirs of a disgruntled CIA agent (John Malkovich). Pitt ends up in Malkovich’s house, in order to blackmail him, but gets embroiled in a do-ordie confrontation with his wife’s lover (George Clooney), instead. Clooney, meanwhile, loves to find companions through the internet and is in the middle of a clandestine affair with Pitt’s partner-in-crime, McDermond, who is determined to sell the CIA memoirs to the Russians. Zany, crazy stuff that needed some pace to really spruce up the drama.
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gripping docu-feature, Still Life focuses on the woes of development that leaves people homeless, uprooted and migrants for life. Based on the real life Three Gorges Dam Project on the Yangste River which demolished the entire ancient town of Fenjgie, the camera accompanies the two protagonists — a coal
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