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Originally posted by: doly_455
hi rachna........he shud keep on givin good music as he always does........i too missed his music but he too needs a break.....he cant give music 24x7
ya i guess thats true... he did deserve the break
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Originally posted by: doly_455
hi rachna........he shud keep on givin good music as he always does........i too missed his music but he too needs a break.....he cant give music 24x7
ya i guess thats true... he did deserve the break
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TORONTO: Two of India's hottest movie stars took Canada by storm on Thursday night with the launch of "Guru" the first Bollywood film to premiere outside India.
Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai were greeted by about 1,000 giddy, shrieking fans amid a blaze of camera flashes and TV lights at the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre in downtown Toronto.
Top Bollywood director Mani Ratnam and composer A.R. Rahman were also on the red carpet.
Before being whisked into the screening, Bollywood's royalty -- nicknamed "India's Brangelina" after Hollywood royalty Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie -- stopped to wave and blow kisses to fans, many of whom had waited for hours for a glimpse of the pair.
"The Indian film industry, as you know, is the largest film industry in the world. And we want to reach out to the audience overseas," Bachchan told TV reporters outside the theatre.
"So it's wonderful to come here in person and actually premiere a movie -- you know, mainstream," said Rai.
"Guru" is a rags-to-riches love story starring Bachchan as a man who becomes a major force in the business community. Rai, a former Miss World who is rumoured to be Bachchan's fiancee, plays his wife.
While there is speculation the film was inspired by the story of Dhirubhai Ambani, one of India's leading industrialists, organizers say it's really a story about any Indian who started from scratch and made it in the world.
Organizers said Toronto was chosen for the premiere because it is cosmopolitan and because "Never Say Goodbye" (Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna), another Bollywood film screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, got a stellar reception.
The gala crowd reportedly far outnumbered that for Brad Pitt's film "Babel," which has been nominated for an Oscar.
"We have been watching Mani Ratnam's films for a long, long time," said Roger Nair, the film's Canadian distributor. "It's time every body could watch it now."
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Premiering the film in Toronto also made sense because South Asians comprise the city's second largest visible minority group behind ethnic Chinese.
For fans like Angelica Gupta it was a way to link South Asian communities in Canada and India.
"It's a really big deal, and everyone cares," said Gupta.
Official statistics are scant, but it has been reported the Bollywood film industry is the biggest in the world in terms of viewers, with an audience of more than 3 billion, compared with Hollywood's 2.6 billion in global ticket sales.
India's film industry, valued at about $1.75 billion in 2006, is forecast to nearly double to $3.4 billion by 2010, according to estimates by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
In Canada, Bollywood's profile has been boosted by the work of Indo-Canadian filmmakers like Deepa Mehta, whose latest movie, "Water", has been selected as the official foreign-language entry from Canada at this year's Academy Awards.
Thursday's premiere is expected to help bolster Bollywood's profile in North America, as well as that of the film's stars.
Rai, 33, has already achieved fame outside India by starring in films like "Bride and Prejudice", a Bollywood version of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice".
Bachchan, 30, is the son of Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan and his wife, Jaya, who is also an actress.
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TWO OF India's hottest movie stars took Canada by storm on January 12 night with the launch of 'Guru' the first Bollywood film to premiere outside India.
Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai were greeted by about 1,000 giddy, shrieking fans amid a blaze of camera flashes and TV lights at the Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre Centre in downtown Toronto.
Top Bollywood director Mani Ratnam and composer AR Rahman were also on the red carpet.
Before being whisked into the screening, Bollywood's royalty - nicknamed 'India's Brangelina' after Hollywood royalty Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - stopped to wave and blow kisses to fans, many of whom had waited for hours for a glimpse of the pair.
'The Indian film industry, as you know, is the largest film industry in the world. And we want to reach out to the audience overseas,' Bachchan told TV reporters outside the theatre.
Organizers said Toronto was chosen for the premiere because it is cosmopolitan and because Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (Never Say Goodbye), another Bollywood film screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, got a stellar reception.
The gala crowd reportedly far outnumbered that for Brad Pitt's film 'Babel,' which has been nominated for an Oscar.Premiering the film in Toronto also made sense because South Asians comprise the city's second largest visible minority group behind ethnic Chinese.
In Canada, Bollywood's profile has been boosted by the work of Indo-Canadian filmmakers like Deepa Mehta, whose latest movie, 'Water', has been selected as the official foreign-language entry from Canada at this year's Academy Awards.
http://www.gg2.net/viewnews.asp?nid=2186&tid=top_stories &catid=Top%20Stories
Ratnam was also on the red carpet alongwith A R Rahman , who has composed the music of the film.
Before being whisked into the screening, Abhishek and Ash stopped to wave and blow kisses to fans, many of whom had waited for hours waiting for a glimpse of the pair.
"The Indian film industry, as you know, is the largest film industry in the world. And we want to reach out to the audience overseas," Abhishek told TV reporters outside the theater.
"So it's wonderful to come here in person and actually premiere a movie -- you know, mainstream," said Ash.
'Guru' is a rags-to-riches love story starring Abhishek as a man who becomes a major force in the business community. Ash plays Abhishek's wife in the film.
Organizers said Toronto was chosen for the premiere because it is cosmopolitan and because Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, got a stellar reception.
The gala crowd reportedly far outnumbered that for Brad Pitt's film 'Babel', which has been nominated for an Oscar.
"We have been watching Mani Ratnam's films for a long, long time," said Roger Nair, the film's Canadian distributor. "It's time every body could watch it now."
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I initially set out to write a straight music review, proceeding song by song, but soon realized that was not the way to approach this little slice of ambient Bollywood. The album has the "playing in the background" and hence unintrusive quality of some of Talvin Singh's work — except these are also supposed to be filmi gaanas! As I've framed I See You it sounds like a paradox, although I like to believe that it is not an incoherent one, as it insinuates itself into the listener's mood, sneaking by in its filmi disguise.
Vishal's and Shekar's orchestration is impressive here, and the duo is ever conscious of the intended effect: even the most seemingly resonant tracks here — "Subah Subah" and "Haalo Haalo" — sound much louder when one sings them than they do on the album, where the vocals are never permitted to escape the wider music in which they are embedded. The achievement — of control and effect — is particularly impressive in the case of "Haalo Haalo", an ostensibly "straight" neo-Punjabi tune sung with customary enthusiasm by Sukhwinder Singh and Sunidhi Chauhan. Vishal-Shekhar do not allow this song to "get away", smothering its immediacy beneath layers of electronic abstraction.
The overall result is a glossy, bejewelled album, certainly impressive, though verging on the lifeless, at least for my ears (Midival Punditz are equally electronic, but far more luxuriant and in-your-face; the musical aesthetic of I See You is almost ascetic by comparison). But — and this is a rarity these days — I See You is an album, and what lingers is the cumulative effect, rather than any one track (although "Haalo Haalo" comes closest with its relative energy and addictive refrain).
As for the rest of the songs: Sunidhi Chauhan's vocals are an especial revelation in "Sach Hui" once the unmistakably ambient beginning that pays homage to A.R. Rahman's "Chinatown" from Fire is out of the way. I for one had not expected her to sound so sweet and girlish as she does here, far from the muscularity and assertive sexuality of Omkara's "Beedi". While I certainly don't want the Vishal-Shekhar treatment on a regular basis as applied to Chauhan's resonant voice, in the context of this album it works, serving as a reminder that she is no one-trick pony.
"Kehna Jai Jo", with its half-hearted nod to lesser fare from Strings, is the least of the album's four songs, although I stress that the variance is — by design — not large here. This is not an album to pick tracks from, but one that will either work for you as a whole — or won't. It's worth checking out because it's interesting, which is more than I can say for most of what is out there at the moment.
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