Brad Pitt saves a woman on movie set

Actor Brad Pitt saved a woman from being trampled on while shooting for his new film World War Z.

The 47-year-old actor was shooting battle scenes for the horror apocalypse movie in Glasgow with 700 extras when the actress fell to the ground in the melee.

Pitt quickly scooped her up in his arms and put her back on her feet before she faced the risk of getting badly injured.

"Lots of people hurt themselves and Brad (Pitt) came to the rescue of one woman who slipped. I don't think she could believe it when Brad picked her up. He didn't have time to speak to her as it was mid-shoot.

"But she said afterwards how grateful she was, despite having a grazed knee," femalefirst.co.ukquoted a source as saying.

Bollywood Star Salman Khan postpones his treatment in the US

Actor Salman Khan, who was supposed to leave for the US Saturday for treatment of a medical condition causing acute pain in his head, cheeks and jaws, postponed his trip to Sunday for an undisclosed reason.

Denying a media report that he has postponed it due to Hurricane Irene that has hit the US East Coast, his manager said that it had nothing to do with the hurricane.

"He was supposed to leave last night he is leaving tonight (Sunday). He has nothing to do with the hurricane and he just postponed it for a day " Salman's manager told IANS.

In medical parlance, Salman is suffering from trigeminal neuralgia and aneurysm for which he's going to the US.

Salman had disclosed to media that the he had the first attack of pain in the left side of his face during the making of his film Partner (2007) and the pain came back while he was shooting for Veer (2010). He is continuously suffering from this pain since last year.

Movie Review: Chatur Singh Two Star

Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Amisha Patel, Suresh Menon, Satish Kaushik, Sanjay Mishra, Gulshan Grover Music: Sajid-Wajid Director: Ajay Chandok Producer: Mohammad Aslam Writer: Rumi Jafri

As the end credits roll, the makers of Chatur Singh Two Star unleash a string of outtakes. These guys obviously have no clue that the film that they have foisted upon us is no better than what they have left out of it.

Indeed, Chatur Singh Two Star looks like a film that has been put together with sequences that would have been better left in the editor’s recycle bin. Not one scene in this load of cinematic rubbish comes remotely close to making any sense. Yes, asinine is the word to describe this unfunny mess.

Chatur Singh Two Star is a classic demonstration of how not to make an action comedy. The script is completely harebrained, the acting is outrageously bad, the dialogue utterly inane, and the ‘comic’ gags are, to say the least, so awfully brainless that they might raise some laughs for all the wrong reasons.

The eponymous hero, played by a thoroughly out of place Sanjay Dutt, is no Jacques Clouseau and Chatur Singh Two Star is no Pink Panther. Without a Govinda or an Arshad Warsi by his side, Dutt doesn’t pass muster as a comedian.He makes a complete hash of a role that should not have been written in the first place.

The character seems to have been conceived by somebody who has an old score to settle with the whole wide world. The film does not hide the identity of the perpetrator: a title card right at the outset lets on that the film is based on a “novel” titled Chalak Jasoos by M. Raza. How bright!

Screenwriter Rumi Jafri, who has a reputation to protect as a writer of comedies, obviously wants the blame for this piece of tortuous twaddle to be shared.

The bumbling cop that Dutt portrays is a dreaded creature within the Mumbai police force for he has the knack of botching up whatever he touches. And he quickly becomes a pain for the audience too.

Facial contortions, outlandish get-ups and general imbecility in the name of comedy are the character’s stock in trade. To make matters worse, Chatur Singh also has a sidekick called Pappu (Suresh Menon). He only adds to the mayhem with more unbridled overacting.

The supporting cast of the film has actors who, in more able directorial hands, might have made an impression. But Chandhok reduces Anupam Kher, Satish Kaushik and Sanjay Mishra to buffoons. What did these actors see in the screenplay to agree to be treated so shabbily? Rather difficult to fathom.

A corrupt politician (Gulshan Grover) is bumped off by a sharpshooter while he is being treated to a raunchy number by a red chiffon-clad secretary (Amisha Patel). The latter is framed for the murder. The conspirators spirit her away to South Africa in search of a man who knows the whereabouts of a missing cache of diamonds. Inspector Clueless and his lackey are sent in pursuit. Time to run for cover!

Nothing sums up Chatur Singh Two Star better than the brain-numbing climactic sequence. All the characters end up in Cape Town, don the masks of sundry animals and chase a red pouch of diamonds. Chatur Singh becomes what he himself proudly claims is a cross between a lion and a donkey.

This is a film that proffers madness without the slightest semblance of method. It’s just as well that there are two stars in its title. It doesn’t deserve any.

(Chatur Singh Two Star receives ZERO stars)

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Movie Review : Not A Love Story

Cast: Mahie Gill, Deepak Dobriyal, Ajay Gehi, Urmila Matondkar, Zakir Hussain Music: Sandeep Chowta Director: Ram Gopal Varma Producer: Sunil Bohra, Shailesh R Singh Writer: Rohit Banawlikar

A wannabe actress (Mahie Gill) lives alone in Mumbai. No big deal that. Life is a struggle for her. No big deal again. She believes that stardom is only one role away. No big deal either. When the girl eventually lands an assignment that promises to change her life, disaster strikes. This is a real big deal and Ram Gopal Varma, a director who has been off the boil for quite a while now, makes a fair fist of bringing the grim fate of an urban babe in the woods to the screen.

The protagonist of Not A Love a Story is not a protagonist at all. She is like the solitary gasping fish in the glass bowl that the restless camera catches each time to door to the girl’s pad opens. Her fate isn’t in her own hands.

The fishbowl may not be a terribly original visual metaphor for the sense of loneliness that assails her, but it isn’t entirely out of place in Not a Love Story.

The aspiring star is a girl constantly under watch: her possessive boyfriend (Deepak Dobriyal) keeps track of every move she makes, calling her virtually every hour of the day. It is clear that the “fishbowl” of her life is about to crack. When it does, there’s blood on her hands and dead man in on living room floor.

A dark, disturbing reconstruction of a senseless crime of passion that shook the nation three years ago, Not A Love Story sees director Ram Gopal Verma hitting the right buttons for a change.

Obsession, passion, murder, crime, guilt, punishment – these are the key elements that constitute the crux of Not A Love Story. Varma cloaks his narrative in a grimy, grainy shell as a means to capturing the tale’s claustrophobic core.

While the film does underscore the sheer pointlessness of an act of violence that snuffs out a life and sets off a catastrophic chain of events, it does not pass any moral judgment. It simply watches askance as the couple sink deeper and deeper into a moral quagmire of their own making.

The film kicks off with the customary disclaimer disavowing any resemblance to a real-life incident, but this really doesn’t take anything away from the impact of what unfolds in the course of the first few reels.

Not A Love Story has an edgy, frisky feel that lends the narrative a tangible veneer of realism except when the background score (Sandeep Chowta) tends to go off-kilter in a desperate bid to make its presence felt.

The crucial scene of violence eschews graphic excess. The act of the murdered man’s body being chopped is played out off-camera, with Varma employing telling reaction shots of the two actors on the screen.

Both Dobriyal and Gill prove able allies in this strategy. They go about their jobs with clinical precision, their eyes and faces conveying a wide range of emotions – shock, dread, hysteria, distress, sorrow, resignation.

Varma, creator of such well-crafted portraits of the Mumbai underworld as Satya, Company and Sarkar, seems to have regained much of his form in Not A Love Story.

He announces his intentions with the opening sequence itself. The young couple, madly in love, is about to be separated because the girl has decided to leave for Mumbai to pursue an acting career. The air is thick with foreboding as the man, anguish writ large on his face, smothers the girl with his manic love.

His love for the girl seems no more neurotic than the girl’s ambition to make it big in showbiz, a fact underlined by the repeated playing of Yai re yai re zor laga ke naache re, the anthem-like Urmila Matondkar chartbuster from RGV’s Bollywood breakout, Rangeela.

Once the couple has disposed of the body of their victim, Ashish Bhatnagar (Ajay Gehi), an executive of a film production company, the film shifts focus to the investigation and the prosecution.

While the first bit is engaging enough, thanks as much to the script as the understated acting of Zakir Hussain as a CID inspector who gets to the bottom of the truth, the second bit degenerates into a farcical battle between loud lawyers desperate to construct a defence for the obviously indefensible.

The lovers are anything but loveable characters. And this tale is a tragedy woven around the ugly face of love. Downbeat? Yes. But it’s engaging and watchable – if for nothing else, for the flashes of the RGV of yore.

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Kareena Kapoor wants Salman as bodyguard!

What could be better than a long drive during the monsoons in a Range Rover with Kareena Kapoor? She comes across someone who has no starry tantrums and is very warm and friendly.

She was in Ahmedabad to promote her new film Bodyguard with Salman Khan. She inquires about the new things in the city and it feels like one is chatting with a new friend who was trying to know more about the city and not someone who is Bollywood's top heroine.

The talks gradually shift to her upcoming film Bodyguard where Kareena plays the character of Diya. Though her last two films with Salman didn't work, she is sure the tables will turn this time. ""In the past, our scripts let us down. While for my current film, our chemistry comes alive as it is based on romance. Audience have also not seen Salman in this avatar since long romantic hero. This film is a package of action, comedy and romance. I feel a script and character are important to make a film successful,"" she says.

Personally, Kareena hates to be surrounded with bodyguards. ""I don't mind having one, only if Salman agrees to be my bodyguard. Which girl would say no to him?"" she laughs.In reel and real life, Kareena is fashionable yet traditional. How does she strike a balance between the two? ""In the film, I had to maintain the Indian look and yet look fun and vivacious at the same time. Personally, I love to wear casual clothes as I am more comfortable in them,"" says this fashion icon who loves to shop only from abroad.

Not just films, Kareena is also ruling the commercial world. Today she is seen in a lot of commercials with Saif Ali Khan. ""I have been seen in the same brands that I am doing since years. Saif and I are seen together now as the brand owners have signed us together, it isn't something that we are promoting as a couple. I try and do whatever I can do special and different to stand out from the rest. I have worked hard and finally it is paying off,"" says Kareena.

If you are someone who wants to know more about Kareena, then she says that she has been busy with work since four to five years and has hardly got any time for herself. ""I haven't got the time to think about what I like to do,"" says Kareena on a parting note.