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naveen

@Mrs-KaranKundra

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Posted: 16 years ago

Welcome to the FILM OF THE WEEK thread. Each week we can discuss older (well ones not been released in the last few weeks) movies here.

You can discuss anything from chemistry of the actors to the stories.

Rules:

No bashing each other other or actors.

Keep on topic(basically just on movies no personal life of actors)

If you do not like the movie you are free to say but in a appropiate way no ' its a c**p movie

FILM OF THE WEEK:

NAMASTEY LONDON

Directed by	Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Produced by	Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Story	Suresh Nair
Screenplay	Suresh Nair
Dialogue	Ritesh Shah
Cinematography	Jonathan Bloom
Music	Himesh Reshammiya
Lyrics	Javed Akhtar
Background Score	Salim - Sulaiman
Sound Design	Kunal Mehta
Production Design	Paul Burns
Choreography	Saroj Khan, Ashley Lobo, Pony Verma, Rajeev Surti
Editing	Amitabh Shukla
Art Direction	Jayant Deshmukh, Rupert Allen
Costumes	Alison Forbes, Rocky S, Vikram Phadnis
Executive Producer	Preeti Bubna Ali

Story:

Katrina is a spoilt british brat and taken to punjab where she is forced to marry akshay, she marries him but since its not a legal marriage in uk she doesnt accept it.N ow our punjabi puttar has to win his british queen......and she is set to marry her english boss, and on the last second she realises that she luves akshay and the significance of the marriage she did not take seriously.

1.What is your favourite scenes?

2.Favourite thing about the film(Aside from couples chemistry lol)

3.the element of leaveing home n roots and moving to a diifferent place

4.akshay's attraction

5.katrina's accent

6.picturisation

7.ur personal rating n comments

thanks nina for letting me do this

Edited by Ektas_Angel - 16 years ago

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Posted: 16 years ago

Firstly no need to thank like i said in the PM its good if other people from the forum get involved since everyone posts.I added abit more to the story part hope you do not mind not majorly just few more words. You did a really good job :) :) :)

Now this film ...I love the punjab part and the humour is actually funny unlike some akshay films i have seen.Film made some good points about marriage though and upens character was good point they made with that story about faith. However i hate how Katrinas character is sterotyped her character is typical how indian films potray british asian kids and i detest that. Also how they made every none asian person rascist and igorant as well as marrying a 100 times i found stupid.

1.What is your favourite scenes? Has to be in punjab especially where she sees all those guys that saas bahu type and analytical one were hialarious.

2.Favourite thing about the film(Aside from couples chemistry lol). It was funny..

3.the element of leaveing home n roots and moving to a diifferent place...they showed it well and you could see both there points but i found katrinas character a bit narrow minded

4.akshay's attraction..he was sweet how he still stood by katrina

5.katrina's accent..it suited the character well because she was from uk

6.picturisation..was really good , colourful

7.ur personal rating n comments

I have said most above i liked it alot more than welcome and singh is king give it about 6-7ish

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Jhanvi

@desigrl05

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Posted: 16 years ago

1.What is your favourite scenes?

During Jazz and Charlie's engagement, when Akshay has tears in his eyes but he's still happy for Kat

2.Favourite thing about the film(Aside from couples chemistry lol) Something that all NRI girls can relate to, its good to see something thats not showing a desi girl doing pooja in the morning and being a bit of a rebel...we're not all goody two shoes, its nice to see they showed best of both worlds

3.the element of leaveing home n roots and moving to a diifferent place

I think they showed it pretty well, but im not sure how Akshay's character would be in real life...I don't think desi men have the patience to go thru all that Akshay did...that must've been farfetched

4.akshay's attraction

Too many short comings...he saw and he fell in love...thats it?...it seemed too bollywoodish and cut short

5.katrina's accent

Thats how she speaks, for once in her life she didnt' sound uncomfortable saying her dialouges

6.picturisation

Nice, mainly focused on the movie and put a nice backgdrop

7.ur personal rating n comments

Has to be one of my favorite movies, I like the desi and foriegn mixed element in there rather than havng an all out "funjabi" movie

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Jessi

@mz.jess

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Posted: 16 years ago

1.What is your favourite scenes?

I had lots and lots, actually! One of them would be at the engagement of Jazz & Charlie. He made me so emotional. (Akshay)

2.Favourite thing about the film(Aside from couples chemistry lol)

I agree w/ Jhanvi. They showed the best of both worlds 😳

3.the element of leaveing home n roots and moving to a diifferent place

I have seen many people who have gone thru such things, but usually the opposite. Meaning, its women who are left neglected.

4.akshay's attraction

I just love his comdey & sweetness. =]

5.katrina's accent

Everyone, is always like this movie suits HER because she is a girl w/. that accent and relates to Jazz. But seriously I think its cause she got a good role. And taht is why the movie was a huge sucess.

6.picturisation

It was nice & colourful. wide images/screenplay liked it.

7.ur personal rating n comments

Awesome Movie. One of my favorites. A break from the usual bollywood types we do get. It has a realistic effect &//* funn stuuff.

Rating: 8.5/10! which in my standards is VERYYY VERYY HIGH.

Great choice for a movie! 😃

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Posted: 16 years ago

- My favorite scenes in NL.. I have lots actually. I love the scene where Arjun jumps at Jazz at night when she can't sleep because of the mosquitoes! Akki looked soo cute. 😳 I also love Jazz's engagement.. when Arjun makes that speech and Jazz translates for him. Not that he really needed her to. 😉 And then after the engagement, he was drinking and crying. Such an emotional scene and Akki pulled it off very well and loved the joke in the end, "mujhe rugby khelna nahin aata." 😆😆 I loved the ending as well.. when Jazz says no and runs after Arjun. The ending was nice, how we get to see them both in Punjab on the bike so in love. 😍

- The couple had great chemistry and this is one movie where I think Katrina actually acted.. well.. acted well in. Akki as always was brilliant.. I liked the concept, but I disliked how Jazz's dad tricked her into going to India! She would've gone willingly and when he put in her biodata online, I was mad. 😆😆 Some of the scenes were really funny too.. especially when all of Arjun's family is on side and we've got Jazz's family on the other side and he's just staring at her and laughing.. 😆😆

- I think they showed everyone side very well.. especially the mom's. Jazz's dad could not blame her mom for all of that. He was afraid of going to out with her. I think she did a great job!

- Akki looked sooo good in the movie!! Especially in Chakna Chakna!

- I would give this movie 9/10. It was really good and I've seen it at least 10 times! Not as much as Vivah, but you know. 😉⭐️

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Mandy

@mandy0310

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Posted: 16 years ago

1.What is your favourite scenes?

One of my favorites had to be during Jazz's engagement

2.Favourite thing about the film(Aside from couples chemistry lol)

The storyline and the music

3.the element of leaveing home n roots and moving to a diifferent place

I agree with desigrl05, I don't think Akshay's character would've been so patient in real life.

4.akshay's attraction

He was a total sweetheart throughout the film

5.katrina's accent

This role suited her perfectly, she is from the UK and I think it made it easy for her to get into the role.

6.picturisation

It was beautiful!

7.ur personal rating n comments

I really liked this film. I think it is one of the better films between Akshay and Katrina. I would give this film a 8/10

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naveen

@Mrs-KaranKundra

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Posted: 16 years ago

1.What is your favourite scenes?

hmmmm i think one lines which i found cute was wen they come 2 london akki is waitig for his suhaag raat "yahan to koi saheliyan bhi nhi hain jo kamre main dhaka mar ke darwaza band kar de"

2.where akki tells upen not to leave his religion n convert

2.Favourite thing about the film(Aside from couples chemistry lol)

has to be akshay

3.the element of leaveing home n roots and moving to a diifferent place

ok i can very much realte to this becaus ei left home n came to uk so ya i was feeling as i was watching my own story

4.akshay's attraction

he was superb his best film i like

5.katrina's accent

well i luved it it was soo original

6.picturisation

ya that was gr8

7.ur personal rating n comments

7.5/10

i watched this film wid my frend sadia maria n my sis we had gone over to sadia's house for a sleep over also watched janeman that night so that was gr8

n afterward sadiafell in luv wid akki