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ENTERTAINMENT:
CINEMA
Shyamalan
Unveiled
Lesser
known facts about M. Night Shyamalan and Unbreakable.
- That he
was 12 when Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark inspired him to be a
director. Eighteen years and six Oscar nominations later, Spielberg
asked him to write the fourth instalment of Raiders.
- That
Bruce Willis and Samuel Jackson were committed to working in Unbreakable
without even knowing what the film is about.
- That
he kept the chronology intact. The last scene of the movie is actually
the last scene filmed.
- That
Shyamalan wants to "make movies for the world". When he writes,
he has in mind his family and cousins.
- That he
has "another cool film idea", with a surprise twist at the
end.
Q&A:
JACHIE SHROFF
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| "I
am tired of being cute" |
After
18 years of acting, Jaggu dada is playing villain. He follows his chilling
Hilal Kohestani in Mission Kashmir with Gava Firozi in Farz.Shroff on
Bollywood and going bad.
Q. What
do you do in Farz?
A. This is
basically a guy with high-tech gadgets who believes in the bad things
of life. His brother is bumped off and then he decides to take revenge.
Q. So
how come you are switching tracks from hero to villain?
A. Actually,
I started my career playing a bad guy in Swami Dada. And in Hero, I was
an anti-hero. I stopped worrying about my image after that. I'm tired
of being cute and doing synchronised dances. I want to wipe these sweety,
sweety smiles off faces. (Laughs). Just kidding.
Q. So
what's most fun about being bad?
A. It's
fun when you work with technicians of a high calibre. They can make your
villany stand out. I'm just looking for interesting roles, not necessarily
bad ones. I just blindly follow the director into the film.
BOLLYWOOD
IS BUZZING ABOUT:
Kajol's
frumpy governess in Raju Chacha which has raised  eyebrows.
The actress, revamped by master stylist Manish Malhotra, was inexplicably
badly dressed throughout the film. But the grapevine has it that Malhotra
makes up in the forthcoming Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi, in which he glams
up not one but two Kajols. The actress plays twin sisters, one feisty,
one frail. So one wears nose rings and the other is in pastel salwar-kameezes.
But, thankfully, neither one is dowdy.
NO
SONGS NANDITA
 Hardly
had Nandita Das said yes to pairing with Sanjay Dutt in Mahesh Manjrekar's
Pita than pundits started proclaiming that the arty actress was "going
commercial". Not so, she insists. "Firstly, I never said that
I wouldn't do commercial cinema. I said I wouldn't do the typical mindless
films just as I won't do boring arty films. Pita is a realistic film about
a family's fight for justice." So does she get to sing any songs?
"There's definitely no scope to go to Switzerland," she says.
Thank God.
BOX
OFFICE
RAJU
CHACHA
Weeks in release: 1
Collections: Rs 66,67,035
The exorbitantly expensive film impresses neither the children nor the
adults.
Verdict: Average
KHILADI
420
Weeks in release: 1
Collections: Rs 42,26,806
It's time for Akshay Kumar to look for a new franchise.
Verdict: Flop
CHAMPION
Weeks in release: 2
Collections: Rs 24,01,161
Sunny Deol 's back in action mode but the audience doesn't seem to bite.
Verdict:
Flop
Mumbai collections
only
Source: Trade magazines
-with Natasha Israni
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