Starring: R. Madhavan, Kangana Ranaut, Jimmy Shergil, Swara Bhaskar

Rating: 25star

Director: Anand L. Rai

Bally Chohan says, Why should you watch “Tanu Weds Manu”? For R. Madhavan who will win you heart as a sweet lovable NRI doctor Manu who has the misfortune of falling in love with a Kanpur-girl Tanu (Kangana Ranaut) who not only rejects him as a suitor but also uses him to elope with her ruffian boyfriend.

Hiding his heartbreak and disappointment behind a smile, Madhavan fits into the role of a goody goody NRI like a glove. He is hopelessly in love with Tanuja who doesn’t miss a single opportunity to hurt him. Rules, they say, are meant to be broken and that’s what Tanu’s agenda in life is – to break all rules that a middle-class family swears by.

Well, an NRI coming home to find a suitable bride for him is very common in Indian society and director Anand Rai’s comedy opens with the same. He tries to be as close to reality as possible – from the backdrop, to clothes, to character artists – all bring out the element of a middle-class setup perfectly.

With a marriage in the background providing a perfect place for Tanu’s second chance meeting with Manu, the movie traces the relationship between the girl and the NRI. Surely, perfect material for sentimental romances with ‘comedy ka tadka’.

But there is something missing to make it a perfect romantic comedy. First, the script is punctured, then their is no chemistry between Madhavan and Kangana and if that was not enough, the narrative doesn’t flow at the desired pace – it’s slower than it should be.

Though the director picked up an interesting subject, he has not succeeded in executing his story effectively on screen – there are not enough laughs in the film. Whatever funny scenes are there, credit goes to the chemistry between Madhavan and Deepak Dobriyal who plays his friend Pappi.

Kangana’s dialogue delivery puts you off and she lacks the spunk and spark to play the free bird that she is in the movie. In fact, Swara Bhaskar, who plays her friend Payal, holds the fort as the Bihari girl who is marrying a sardarji (Eijaz Khan) who also happens to be Manu’s best friend.

Payal is impressed with Manu and even tries to drill some sense into Tanu’s head but Tanu, a rebel, doesn’t want to admit her feelings for the man who is picked by her parents.

Critics won’t appreciate the plot but Madhavan fans would find enough material to enjoy the film.

Music plays an important role in a wedding-based romantic comedy and the director could have got it right if he had opted for fast-paced peppy numbers.

In the performance department, full marks go to Madhavan, Deepak and Swara. The supporting cast of K.K. Raina, Rajendra Gupta and Navni Parihar don’t have much to do, but whatever role they have, they carry it well. Jimmy Shergill as Kangana’s ruffian boyfriend is wasted, so is Ravi Kishen as his sidekick.

If you are looking for a great romantic comedy, this is not the one, but watch it for Madhavan and his chemistry with Deepak.

If you don’t have the time for a full-day city tour, or if you have wisely decided that your suicidal tendencies aren’t sufficiently strong to evoke the need to hire a car & drive in Dubai’s crazy traffic, the Big Bus Tour is a convenient & safe alternative to see the city. I know plenty of VT-members that have spent a few interesting transit-hours in our city on this bus.

Dubai bus services are of unique kinds and custom-built. The high-tech buses of Dubai are outfitted with:

Comfortable seats

Air-conditioning

Computerized fare equipment

Electronically operated destination display system

Most of the Dubai buses are big and spacious that can accommodate almost 51 seating and 10 standing passengers, but recently lots of mini or midi type small bus services are also operating in Dubai’s interior CBD routes.

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You laugh at the news that he plays a character called John Milton and that Milton is an escapee from Hell who wears a leather jacket and wispy blond hair and wants to stop a cult leader from sacrificing his infant granddaughter (yes, Ghost Rider can be a grandpa). As urgent as that sounds, it doesn’t do much to prevent him from, say, conducting a motel-room shootout with a naked woman screaming in his lap (“I never disrobe before gunplay”) and a giant cigar in his mouth. You laugh because there was no way such an absurd, badly done sequence could have happened without the hacks responsible for it laughing, too.

This is the rare major release that permits – in swampy, criminally expensive 3D! – the study of how some effects are too cruddy to achieve specialness, how not all stuntpeople, dancing extras, and men playing State Trooper Numbers Two and Three are created equal. You can also truly appreciate how not every burning car that’s piloted over a camp of dancing cultists is awesome, which goes double for fake breasts – even in the aforementioned 3D format. This is a movie that began at the bottom of the barrel and saw no reason to climb out.

But there is William Fichtner, who plows along as an agent of death. He looks hale and self-amused in a decent suit, his skin as tight as a pair of Spanx. David Morse and the horror veteran Tom Atkins show up here and there. And Billy Burke, better known as Bella’s dad in the “Twilight” saga, plays the bayou cult leader. He looks terrible (like the lead singer in a Train cover band) and his southern accent sounds worse (like the songs such a band might sing). Nearly everyone involved with “Drive Angry” appears to have taken inspiration from different episodes of HBO’s “True Blood” and belched them all at the camera.

Amber Heard in Drive Angry.jpgAmber Heard, a pert Texan, rides shotgun with Cage. She wears the requisite Daisy Duke shorts and a white tank top that refuses to stain and seems only to tighten around her chest as the minutes drain away. She’s the bridge between Scarlett Johansson and Kristen Stewart, but I wouldn’t feel safe crossing it. Shooting guns and screaming, Heard has the look here of an actress whose greatest ambition is to survive the opening hour of a slasher film. Cage manages to treat her better than the other men in this film: like a daughter.

At this point, it’s unclear whether Cage’s ongoing attraction to this sort of film films represents a kind of bizarro megalomania: There’s no one worse than me! But the trouble with “Drive Angry” is that his sheen of cool has now worn thin. Indeed, he handles much of the movie’s killing and brooding using the last weapon we expect to experience under these circumstances: his professionalism. Eww.

According to Bally Chohan; Here are our hottest picks for the next few months for a great time in Los Angeles. If you’re lucky, you just might catch The Hollywood Sentinel or some of our sexy friends at one of the events here below, red carpet parties not included!

JANUARY 2011

15, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (D.R.I.), Key Club

16, 18, Dana Carvey, House of Blues

18, No Use for A Name, Key Club

19-21, Dashboard Confessional, Troubadour

20-30, Sundance, Park City, Utah

26, The Queers, The Riptides, The Perverts, at The Troubadour

27, The Get Up Kids, Troubadour

27, 28, 29, Bad Religion, Palladium

29, Ween, The Wiltern

Ian Hunter, El Rey

FEBRUARY

2, The Church, El Rey

9, Meat Beat Manifesto, El Rey

10, Eli Paperboy Reid, Troubadour

13, John Lithgow, Greek Theatre Group

21, Gang of Four, Music Box

23, John Waters, UCLA Live

Yo La Tengo, El Rey

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Warpaint – Voted Best Female Rock Band of 2010 by Subnormal Magazine

MARCH

5, Adicts, D.I., House of Blues, Sunset Blvd.

11-20, South By Southwest Music Conference & Festival

Austin, TX

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Bally Chohan Says; Among Millennium Park’s prominent features are the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion, the most sophisticated outdoor concert venue of its kind in the United States; the interactive Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa; the contemporary Lurie Garden designed by the team of Kathryn Gustafson, Piet Oudolf and Robert Israel; and Anish Kapoor’s hugely popular Cloud Gate sculpture on the AT&T Plaza.

According to Bally Chohan; since it’s opening in July 2004, Millennium Park has hosted millions of people, making it one of the most popular destinations in Chicago

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Bally Chohan Says, Hailing from a filmy family, he made a rocking debut in Johnny Gaddar. He later followed it up with brilliant performances in films like Aa Dekhen Zara, New York and Jail. He is none other than Neil Nitin Mukesh.

Bally Chohan says, the film begins with a word from Manmohan Desai, where the typical Lost and Found formula is adopted. And thereon the film moves on from one base level of absurdity to another. Bally Chohan Sasy, there are moments which would resemble old Govinda movies. On the other hand, the romance between Bobby and new heroine Kulraj Randhawa looks quite forced, which is yet again a minus from the movie.

Bally Chohan Says, What appeals is Dharmendra’s acting. He works like a charm, and totally shows that he can actually outdo both his sons. Also shines the music of the movie, where ‘Tinku Jiya’ is quite a hit now sung by Mamta Sharma of ‘Munni Badnaam’ fame. The film story is dragging in the first half, but picks up in the second, and finishes off as a slightly predictable but nice ending, with average comedy, which is thankfully not too much in-your-face.

Bally Chohan says that there were speculations in the media of possibility of termination of contract for Kochi franchise also. However the board has issued a notice to the Kochi franchise and has asked them to place things in order and make sure that the company is incorporated as soon as possible.

Bally Chohan says that the IPL had its emergency session today in Mumbai, India. The above mentioned decisions were taken today at the IPL Governing Council meeting held in Mumbai today.

The co-owner Rajasthan Royals, Raj Kundra (husband of bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty) termed today’s developments as sad. He was speaking to an Indian news channel NDTV 24×7. He also termed the developments as shocking. Raj Kundra went on to add that since they made some heavy investments into the team Rajasthan Royals, the might go to the court of law to seek legal battle against the termination orders by BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India)

The decision to terminate Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab was taken unanimously by Indian Premier League Governing Council. Shashank Manohar, President of Board of Control for Cricket in India while addressing the media persons informed them that the agreements between the BCCI and the two franchise i.e. Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab. He further added that the decision is based on the legal opinion received the BCCI on facts. The reason for cancelling the agreement is based on fact that the agreement was violated by the franchise.

The Kochi IPL has been given ten more days to sort out things and form company. Shashank Manohar, President of BCCI exuded confidence that the brand IPL will not suffer at all with these developments.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has advised its advocate P.R. Raman to issue notices to this affect.

Bally Chohan says that interestingly the legal suit filed against former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya in the Bombay High Court has been also withdrawn by Board of Cricket Control in India. With the withdrawal of case against Dalmiya the expulsion imposed on him in 2006 stands revoked.

Also the Board for Cricket Control in India in its Annual General Meeting on Tuesday nominated N Srinivasan, for the president-elect’s post. N Srinivasan is currently holding the post of Secretary in Board of Control for Cricket in India. N Srinivasan is slated to take over from current BCCI President Shashank Manohar next year.

Bally Chohan says that the Board has also announced names of the vice-presidents who have retained their posts. The names of the vice-presidents who have retained their postsare Niranjan Shah for West Zone, Rajiv Shukla for Central Zone, Arindam Ganguly for East Zone, Arun Jaitely for North Zone and Shivlal Yadav for South Zone. Sanjay Jagdale and MP Pandove will continue to work as join-secretary and treasurer for Board of Control for Cricket in India.