You need to have a strong stomach to absorb ISHQIYA. It’s high on drama, it’s wild, it’s real. But it’s not dark, it’s not sleazy, it’s not crass. Frankly, you don’t expect debutante director Abhishek Chaubey to make a stereotypical fare thanks to the tutelage by his guru Vishal Bhardwaj, who loves to swim against the tide and undertake risks in film after film.

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You could call ISHQIYA a distant cousin of OMKARA. Set in Gorakhpur in North India, the film has a rustic feel, depicts characters that may make you uncomfortable and is laced with saucy lingo. Yet, it’s different than OMKARA.

Two thieves, Khalujaan [Naseeruddin Shah] and Babban [Arshad Warsi], are on the run from their boss, Mushtaq. They seek refuge at a friend’s house, but instead meet his widow, Krishna [Vidya Balan]. The time spent together draws the duo to her, Khalu with his tinted vision of old-fashioned love and Babban with his lustful eye. But the past catches up with all three!

There’s no denying that the promos had prepared me of the journey ahead, yet it took me a good 15-odd minutes to get into the world of Khalujaan, Babban and Krishna. But once you get sucked into their world, the blurred images start getting clearer and clearer and you become an active participant in their journey.

The first hour passes in a jiffy, but the story actually gets dramatic and volatile in its second hour. It’s at this stage that things start getting more and more unpredictable. The story does a somersault every 10 minutes and by the time it reaches its finale, you’re curious to know how the debutante director would conclude this saga. The end, of course, will have its share of advocates and adversaries, but the fact remains that it’s offbeat.

Every actor in ISHQIYA delivers a sparkling performance! Naseeruddin Shah is superb as a romantic. He is matchless in the sequence when he learns the truth about Vidya and Arshad. Arshad packs in a bravura performance yet again. Post MUNNABHAI films, Arshad should be liked in this one the maximum. Vidya continues to surprise. It’s a dynamic performance undoubtedly. PAA and ISHQIYA are two landmarks in her career.

On the whole, ISHQIYA is definitely worth a watch. The film has a riveting plot, great performances, soulful music, an absorbing story and skilful direction to make the viewer fall in ishq with it. It should appeal to the hardcore masses as also the multiplex junta.

He suffers from a progeria like syndrome. Mentally he is 13, very normal, but physically he looks 5 times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives with his mother Vidya (Vidya Balan), who is a gynaecologist.

Amol Arte (Abhishek Bachchan), is young, progressive and a full of ideals, politician. He is out to prove to the world that ‘politics’ is not a bad word. He is a man with a mission. Auro is Amol’s son.

Paa is a ‘rare’ story about a father-son, son-father relationship.

INTRODUCTION:
It is the first full-length feature film directed by Sajid Khan. It released on August 24, 2007. It is based on the 1987 film 3 Men and a Baby.

PLOT:
Arush Mehra lives a fairly wealthy lifestyle in Sydney, Australia along with two room-mates, Tanmay Joglekar, and Ali Hyder. He works for a food chain, while Tanmay entertains children as ‘Eddy Teddy’, and Ali takes care of their apartment. All three are womanizers and usually end up sleeping with around 30 different women every year. Arush travels to Delhi to attend Arjun’s wedding, and this is where he meets with Isha Sahni, who also resides in Australia, he impresses and wins her over, both get intimate, and shortly thereafter Isha catches him sleeping with Devika, and both split up. Arush returns to Sydney and forgets about this incident. Then one day they find a baby right outside their door with a note to take care of her. The trio suspect each other of being the father, then attempt to get rid of the child, but change their mind, look after her, name her Angel, adore her, and start a frantic and hilarious search for her mother. A few months later Isha shows up, takes Angel in her possession and returns home. The trio now mend their ways, and Arush attempts in vain to win back Isha, and ends up challenging her to marry someone else in 7 days. With Isha’s attractive looks and wealthy background it will not be long before she finds someone to wed her, and by the look of things Arush may end up never seeing Angel ever again.

CAST:
Akshay Kumar … Arush
Fardeen Khan … Ali “Al”
Ritesh Deshmukh … Tanmay aka Eddy Teddy
Vidya Balan … Isha
Boman Irani  … Bharat

BOX OFFICE:
Heyy Babyy opened to packed houses in over 650 cinemas in India The opening was at 90%+ and continued to do well in the days following.It has done a gross of Rs. 66 crores in India, $1.4 million in USA and £763k in UK

Overseas, the film opened to a huge response and has taken the second biggest opening in the UK after Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love (2007).Heyy Babyy debuted at number 10 and made £289,761 at a screen average of £4,765.

PLOT:
It has been chronicled in the Geeta that Eklavya wanted to be Sage Dronacharya’s disciple in order to excel at bow and arrow shooting, but was refused because of his low caste. He decided to teach himself, and did excel to such an extent that Dronacharya felt threatened that he would beat his ace disciple, Arjun, so he asked Eklavya for his fee – his right thumb, which Eklavya dutifully cut off and presented it to his Guru. Now in modern India, Nishab, whose father was Eklavya, who gave his life trying to protect his master, has now been re-named Eklavya himself, and has been entrusted to guard the lives of Rana Jaywardhan, Ranimaa Suhasinidevi, and their children, Harsh and Nandini, will be called upon to pay the ultimate price, after he learns that his master, the Rana, has been killed. Eklavya, who also carries a dark family secret, slays the two assailants of the Rana, but then in the process also finds out that th! e one who hired them is his very own son. What will prevail – duty or the love of his son?

CAST:
Amitabh Bachchan … Eklavya
Sanjay Dutt … Pannalal Chohaar
Saif Ali Khan … Prince Harshvardhan
Vidya Balan … Rajeshwari “Rajjo”
Jackie Shroff … Rana Jyotiwardhan
Jimmy Shergill … Udaywardhan
Boman Irani … King Jaywardhan
Raima Sen … Princess Nandini
Sharmila Tagore … Queen Suhasinidevi
Parikshat Sahni … Omkar Singh

AWARDS:
This movie was chosen as India’s official entry to the Oscars to be considered for nomination in the Best Foreign Film category for the year 2007.

INTRODUCTION:
The movie weaves a number of love stories together thanks to the relationships of the people within it. The film is Advani’s second directorial venture after Kal Ho Naa Ho. The shooting of the film begun in November 2005 and was finished by July 2006. The movie released on January 25, 2007.

PLOT:
Six young couples in different situations, face different quandaries. All their problems are apparently caused by love, too much, too little, love for the wrong people, love for people who don’t want it, unrequited love, amnesia-afflicted love and what have you. Each of the 6 stories is moderately developed, the most believable being the Hindu-Muslim couple – the Ashutosh-Tehzeeb story. Then there is the starlet hungry to make it big, hatching up a publicity stunt which backfires – the Kkamini-Rahul deal. The third pair is that of Stephanie-Raju pair, she searching for her faithless Indian boyfriend and he the Indian taxi-driver who ferries her around the country. And then there is the Shiven-Gia yuppie marriage fiasco, with the groom with the cold-feet. The fifth story is of the stable married couple – Vinay-Seema, whose 15 year marriage is threatened when the husband wants more than just boring, suburban life. The sixth couple’s story is of Isha-Sohail as a rural couple unable to give vent to their passion. The film runs through these six stories almost in parallel, taking us to their respective conclusions.

CAST:
Salman Khan as … Rahul
Priyanka Chopra as … Khamini
Anil Kapoor as … Vinay Malhotra
Juhi Chawla as … Seema Bakshi Malhotra
Akshaye Khanna as … Shiven Dungarpur
Ayesha Takia as … Gia Bakshi Dungarpur
John Abraham as … Ashutosh Raina
Vidya Balan as … Tehzeeb Hussain Raina
Govinda as … Raju
Shannon Esrechowitz as … Stephanie
Sohail Khan as … Ram Dayal
Ishaa Koppikar as … Phoolwati
Anjana Sukhani as … Anjali
Kushaal Paunjabi as … Rohit Chaddha
Stuart Parkinson as … Extra – Dance Lesson scene

INTRODUCTION:
The film began shooting on February 18, 2007 for a 41-day schedule at Jaipur, India and was released on October 12, 2007.
Originally Aishwarya Rai and Katrina Kaif were the first female choices for this film but they turned down the offer due to the film’s irksome comedy style and were replaced by Vidya Balan and Ameesha Patel.[2] Vidya Balan had to take Kathak lessons for this film. Incidentally, Vineeth played the same role in the Rajnikanth-starrer Chandramukhi in 2005 which was the Tamil remake of Manichithrathazhu.

PLOT:
After the passing away of her parents, Radha gets adopted by Badrinarayan Chaturvedi. Her childhood was spent with Badrinarayan’s nephew, Siddharth, and the family planned to get them married after they mature. When Siddharth grew up, he re-located to America. When the time came for him to return, Badrinarayan started to make preparations for the wedding, but ended up being surprised when Siddharth is accompanied by his wife, Avni. Due to his ancestry, Siddharth undergoes a formal coronation ceremony and moves into a huge manor. Avni starts exploring the manor and finds out that there is an entire floor that is under lock and key. She gets a key and enters the forbidden floor and unleashes a vengeful entity and a series of incidents. The family suspect Radha to be the perpetrator, prompting Siddharth to summon his seemingly bumbling Pyschiatric pal, Dr. Aditya Shrivastav, to shed some light into this seemingly occult mystery that will soon endanger everyone’s lives.

CAST:
Akshay Kumar as Dr. Aditya Shrivastav
Vidya Balan as Avni Siddharth Chaturvedi/Manjulika
Ameesha Patel as Radha
Shiney Ahuja as Siddharth Chaturvedi/Raja Vibhuti Narayan
Paresh Rawal as Batukshankar Upadhyay
Rajpal Yadav as Chhote Pandit (Natwar)
Manoj Joshi as Badrinarayan Chaturvedi (Badri)
Vineeth as Professor Sharad Pradhan/Shashidhar
Asrani as Murari
Tareena Patel as Nandini Upadhyay
Rasika Joshi as Janaki Upadhyay
Vikram Gokhale as Shri Yagyaprakashji Bharti
Kaveri Jha as Girja Upadhyay (Uncredited)

BOX OFFICE:
The film opened to a 85-95% response, which was the second best opening of the year after Partner. It was well-liked by cinema-goers for its mild comedy and psychological horror and suspense. It was director Priyadarshan’s 8th successive super-hit movie. Akshay Kumar and Vidya Balan were particularly praised by critics for their roles as Dr. Aditya and Avni.

INTRODUCTION:

PLOT:
Gurukant Desai (Abhishek) is the ambitious son of a small-time school teacher (Rajendra Gupta). After failing at school and earning his pessimistic father’s displeasure he travels to Turkey for work. There he does well, but opts to return home to work for himself. Home, and lacking enough capital to start his own business, he marries his best friend Jignesh’s (Arya Babbar) elder sister for her dowry money. The lady in question, Sujata (Aishwarya) has a tainted reputation, since she has attempted previously to run away with a lover. Now, “saved” by Guru, she becomes his loving and devoted wife. Guru embarks in his new business venture in the city with his wife and her brother (who is his partner), and thus starts his journey.

CAST:
Abhishek Bachchan……. Gurukant Desai
Aishwarya Rai……..Sujata Desai
Mithun Chakraborty……..Manik Dasgupta
Vidya Balan…..Meenakshi “Meenu” Saxena
R. Madhavan……Shyam Saxena
Arya Babbar……Jignesh
Roshan Seth……Judge
Mallika Sherawat……Jumpa

BOX OFFICE:
Guru opened well upon release, gaining momentum as the days went by.In the United States, Guru, opening on a limited release, registered very good collections in its opening weekend, fetching 3 crores during this period, with a very high screen average.[10] By its seventh week, the film has netted 41.65 crores in India,collecting 13 crores in the U.S. and the U.K..As of February 23, 2007 Guru, released Jan 12, has grossed approximately Rs.80 crores across the world.

AWARDS:
Filmfare Awards:

Winner – Best Art Direction – Samir Chanda
Winner – Best Background Score – A. R. Rahman
Winner – Best Music – A. R. Rahman
Winner – Best Choreography – Saroj Khan for “Barso Re”
Winner – Best Playback Singer (Female) – Shreya Ghoshal for “Barso Re”
Nominated – Best Film – Mani Ratnam
Nominated – Best Director – Mani Ratnam
Nominated – Best Actor – Abhishek Bachchan
Nominated – Best Actress – Aishwarya Rai
Nominated – Best Supporting Actor – Mithun Chakraborty
Nominated – Best Lyrics – Gulzar for “Tere Bina”
Nominated – Best Playback Singer (Male) – A. R. Rahman

INTRODUCTION:
Halla Bol stars Ajay Devgan and Vidya Balan in pivotal roles and 11 celebrities Bollywood celebrities who appear in the film as themselves.[1] Produced by Samee Siddiqui, the film’s score and soundtrack was composed by Sukhwinder Singh, whilst Nataraja Subramanian and Steven Bernard are the cinematographer and editor respectively.
The film touches upon many issues that have come into the public eye in India lately, such as the Jessica Lall murder case

PLOT:
Ashfaque (Ajay Devgan) is a small town boy aspiring to be a film star in the Hindi film industry. He joins a street theatre group run by a reformed dacoit Sidhu (Pankaj Kapur) who uses street theatre as a medium to bring about an awakening in the masses. Ashfaque struggles to give a creative vent to the actor in him in order to realize his dreams.

Ashfaque’s determined struggle pays off and he gets a break in films. He gets a new screen name – Sameer Khan. With the passage of time, the roles start becoming better and he moves up the success ladder in a very short time. Soon, he becomes Sameer Khan the superstar – one who can enact any role with finesse, get under the skin of any and every character with ease and walk away with audience applause.

Amidst all adulation and applause, he slowly loses his own identity. He forgets his real self and imbibes all characteristics of the various roles essayed by him on screen. Corruption takes over his entire system, alienating him from all loved ones, including his wife Sneha (Vidya Balan).

Things take a new turn when at a high profile party Ashfaque witnesses the murder of a girl named Ritu Sahani committed by the son of a producer and a minister. All the celebrities present give false reports so as to avoid controversies including Ashfaque. As he returns home from an award ceremony he is reminded of the past events and he decides to change himself and fights for justice.

CAST:
Ajay Devgan … Ashfaque/Sameer Khan
Vidya Balan … Sneha
Pankaj Kapoor … Sidhu

INTRODUCTION:
Directed by debutant Pradeep Sarkar,the film was based upon a screenplay by the film’s producer, Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The movie featured Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan and Sanjay Dutt in the lead roles.
The film primarily revolves around the lead characters, Lalita and Shekhar. Since childhood, Shekhar and Lalita have been friends and slowly this friendship blossoms into love. A series of misunderstandings surface and both of them are separated with the conniving schemes of Shekhar’s father. The plot deepens with the arrival of Girish who supports Lalita’s family. Eventually, Shekhar’s love defies his father’s greed and he seeks Lalita.

PLOT:
Circa 1962 in Calcutta, India, live three neighboring families in a upper middle-class area. Gurcharan lives in a palatial home (Haveli) with his wife, and two beautiful daughters, Lolita and Koyal. He is retired,unable to find suitable work and must live off of his savings, ends up mortgaging his house with his neighbor, Navinchandra Roy, and hopes to get his daughters married within his means; there is Charu Sharma, who lives with her brother and sister-in-law, who has a wealthy brother, Girish, who lives in Britain. And finally there are the Roys – Navinchandra, a hard-nosed businessman, who will never undertake anything unless there is a high level of profit for him, his son, Shekhar, who he hopes to groom after himself, and his quiet, devout wife. Navin realizes Gurcharan’s plight and offers Lolita a job at his office in order to enable the family to survive. Shekhar and Lolita are attracted to each other, but Navin does not approve of this, as he wants Shekhar to get married to Gayetri Tatya, the daughter of his wealthy business associate. Then chaos descends on these families when Girish returns home, is attracted to Lolita and would like to marry her; Lolita finds out that Navin is bent on recovering his loan by evicting her family to a filthy go-down until they can find other means, and intends to build a five star hotel. Lolita must now act quickly to get her father to return the loan amount to Navin. But how will Gurcharan get 1.50 lakhs in so short a time? It does look like his family is destined to be evicted and face a life of destitution.

CAST:
Saif Ali Khan …..Shekhar Rai
Sanjay Dutt……Girish
Vidya Balan…….Lalita
Diya Mirza…..Gayatri
Raima Sen……Koel
Sabyasachi Chakraborty……Navin Rai.

BOX OFFICE AND RATINGS:
Released with a “U” (Universal: Suitable for all ages) certification by the Central Board of Film Certification of India,, Parineeta notched up Rs. 206 million in India at the end of 2005. Its overseas success was notable as well with gross collections of Rs. 36 million in the United Kingdom, Rs. 35 million in North America, and Rs 15 million in the rest of the overseas.

AWARDS:
Apart from winning the National Award for the Best First Film Director, Parineeta won five Filmfare Awards.
Best Art Direction to Keshto Mondal, Tanushree Sarkar and Pradeep Sarkar
Best Choreography to Howard Rosemayer
Best Debut to Vidya Balan
RD Burman Award to Shantanu Moitra
Best Sound Recording to Bishwadeep Chatterjee
It was also nominated for an additional nine awards which ranged from the categories for Best Film, Best Director, three for actors portraying Lalita, Shekhar and Girish to four nominations for the soundtrack.
The film also won a prominent awards in the form of two Star Screen Awards, three Zee Cine Awards among a notable awards.
Apart from these, the film was nominated for an eclectic mix of awards.

INTRODUCTION:
It is the second film in the popular Munna Bhai series of Bollywood. Sanjay Dutt stars in this film as Munna Bhai, a Mumbai (Bombay) underworld don, who begins to see the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi. Through his interactions with the image of Gandhi, Munna Bhai begins to practice what he calls Gandhigiri to help ordinary people solve their problems. His sidekick, Circuit, is portrayed by Arshad Warsi.

PLOT:
Munna is in love with the voice of popular Radio Jockey Jhanvi. Her effervescent greeting of “Good Morrrning Mumbai” on her daily radio show makes Munna’s heart skip a beat each time he listens to her. Life is beautiful for Munna–his “dadagiri” business is flourishing, he listens besottedly to the radio for hours every day, he dreams of marrying Jhanvi. There is just one “minor” problem. Jhanvi thinks Munna is a “Professor of History.” And in all her innocence, Jhani even invites Munna to give a history lecture to her family. Poor Munna! What should he do?! As Munna tries to sort of this “minor” entanglement in his otherwise perfect life, Circuit comes up with a bright solution.To woo her, he has to study about Mahatma Gandhi. This brings about a new change in him and he tries to change the lives of people around him using his ‘Gandhigiri’. Whether the teachings of M.K. Gandhi are relevant in today’s world or not, and can Munna change his and other’s lives for better or not, only ‘Lage Raho Munnabhai’ can tell.

CAST:
Sanjay Dutt……Murli Prasad Sharma or “Munna Bhai”
Arshad Warsi……..Circuit, Munna’s sidekick
Dilip Prabhavalkar…..the image of Mahatma Gandhi
Vidya Balan…….Jhanvi, radio-jockey and Munna’s love-interest
Boman Irani…….Lucky Singh
Dia Mirza…… Simran, Lucky’s daughter, engaged to Sunny
Kulbhushan Kharbanda……Kkhurana, a wealthy but superstitious businessman
Batuk Maharaj…….Kkhurana’s astrologer
Abhishek Bachchan…….Sunny, Kkhurana’s son, engaged to Simran
Jimmy Shergill…….Victor D’Souza, who having lost his father’s money, needs Munna’s advice
Parikshat Sahni…….Victor’s father

BOX OFFICE AND RATINGS:
Lage Raho Munna Bhai was the third top grossing Bollywood film of 2006, according to boxofficeindia.com, earning Rs 69.97 crores (699 million) net gross in India alone (and has also been rated a “Blockbuster”).It was also financially successful overseas,earning Rs 7 crores (70 million) gross in the United Kingdom, Rs 10.25 crores (102 million) gross in North America, and Rs 4.25 crores (42 million) gross for the rest of the overseas proceeds.[33]

The film was rated as “U” (Universal: Suitable for all ages) by the Central Board of Film Certification of India and PG–13 by the Motion Picture Association of America.Similar ratings were awarded in other countries such as Australia and the UK.

AWARDS:
Lage Raho Munna Bhai is the recipient of four National Film Awards and four awards for Best Film/Critics Best Film
Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie
Bollywood Movie Award – Best Film
GIFA Best Film
Star Screen Award Best Film.
National Film Award for Best Lyrics in 2007 for the song {{Bande Mein tha Dum}}

It also won a number of other awards including best story and best dialogue in several award ceremonies. Some speculated that it would represent India as an entry for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Although ultimately losing to Rang De Basanti as India’s official submission, the film’s producers submitted it as an independent entry.