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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014 EAST COAST EDITION
SRK to compete with Ben Affleck at box office Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Happy New Year’ and Ben Affleck’s Hollywood film ‘Gone Girl’ will release during Diwali IANS, NEW DELHI
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en Affleck’s Gone Girl is slated to release in India on the Diwali weekend along with Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Bollywood entertainer Happy New Year. The David Fincher-directorial movie will release in theatres on October 24, a day after the festival of Diwali, and
Happy New Year is expected to come on the same day. Based on a best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl features Affleck as a writer who is caught in a media circus when his wife goes missing and the police suspect he is responsible. Rosamund Pike plays his wife, while other characters are essayed by Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, and Carrie Coon. The film, which examines dis-
honesty, the media, the economy’s effects on marriage, and appearances, released in the U.S. on October 3. Meanwhile, SRK-starrer Happy New Year is among Bollywood’s much-awaited entertainers this year. Directed by Farah Khan, the multi-starrer heist drama also features Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Sonu Sood and Vivaan Shah.
Gone Girl features Affleck as a writer who is caught in a media circus when his wife goes missing and police suspects him
KJo to co-produce movie on Dhyan Chand MUMBAI: Filmmaker Karan Johar has decided to bring the life of hockey legend Dhyan Chand on the big screen. The late hockey player, popularly known as ‘The Wizard’, won three Olympic Gold medals in 1928, 1932 and 1936. And Karan has joined hands with Pooja and Aarti Shetty to share the legend’s story. “My friends Pooja...Aarti Shetty and I are honored and proud to have the rights to tell the story of the legendary sportsman #DHYANCHAND,” Karan tweeted on October 7. The news was also shared on the official page of Karan’s Dharma Productions. The tweet read: “Karan Johar, Pooja & Aarti Shetty to produce the official biopic on the life of the legendary sportsman #DHYANCHAND.”
Bang Bang!’ mints `175 million gross worldwide IANS, NEW DELHI
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rithik Roshan and Katrina Kaifstarrer Bang Bang! has turned out to be a money-spinner. The `1.40 bn film has collected `1.75 bn gross worldwide in four days. In India, it has raked in `1.345 bn gross, in the overseas territories it has collected `411.4 million since its release on October 2, said a statement. Directed by Siddharth Anand and produced by Fox Star Studios, the film has also been praised by filmmaker Karan Johar. Karan tweeted: “Hrithik Roshan has superstar all over his demeanor!!! His every move in #bangbang is bang for the buck!!!!.” The action thriller also stars Danny Denzongpa, Jaaved Jaaferi, Deepti Naval, Kanwaljit Singh and Jimmy Sheirgill.
Sunny Leone’s Telugu song cost `15 million CHENNAI: Adult star and actress Sunny Leone’s Telugu song Devadas Breakup has been made on a whopping budget of `15 million. The song, for the upcoming film Current Theega, has also been dubbed in Hindi. “The item song is made on a budget of `15 million. It will reach audiences directly through national music and entertainment channels. This is for the first time that almost a full song is released in Telugu and Hindi before the release of the film,” the production house said. Manchu Manoj plays the lead in Current Theega, which features Rakul Preet Singh as heroine. It also stars Jagapathi Babu in an important role while Sunny will be seen in a cameo. — IANS
‘Haider’: Vishal Bhardwaj’s masterstroke Film: “Haider”; Cast: Tabu, Shahid Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Kay Kay Menon, Narendra Jha; Writer-Director: Vishal Bhardwaj; Rating: *****
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hakespeare lives! Seldom if ever, has a Shakespearean tragedy been given such a magnificent treatment in cinema of any language. Sure, the narrative is fractured and fatally flawed at times, but like the hero’s villainous uncle, who lies limbless writhing in pain in the Kashmiri snow pleading for death at the end, the narrative dares you to end the pain of a people who wear their brutal existence on their sleeves. Haider is a beast that just won’t be tamed by regular cinematic definitions. There is flamboyance and subtlety, both at once in the treat-
ment. Elegance and earthiness rub shoulders in the execution of what is regarded as one of Shakespeare’s most complex tragedies. And to place Hamlet in militant Kashmir ...what a masterstroke! Haider is the kind of rarest of rare
cinema that unfurls wave after wave of exquisite narrative fuel into the frames, providing a kind of compelling narration that is propelled as much by the passionate writing as the intuitive direction. Bhardwaj understands his Shake-
speare inside out. He transmutes Hamlet into Haider with an unbridled fearlessness, tempered by a restraint of treatment that goes a long way in imparting an urgent sense of beauty to the work. The basic idea is compelling to the core. Freeing his narrative from the fretful freedom of excessive self indulgence seen in his last film Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola, Bhardwaj’s vision takes wings creating one of the most complex and compelling mother-son relationships seen before and after Yash Chopra’s Deewaar. That Tabu and Shahid play the mother and son torn by the agonizing disappearance of the man they both love (Narendra Jha, a surprisingly well cast actor in a role that is more about absence than presence) is a blessing for Bhardwaj’s Shakespeare. — Subhash K. Jha