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sknath
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The 21st Century Deewar...

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Amitabh in Deewar... again!
Aankhen producer Gaurang Doshi is set to launch Deewar -- Let's Bring Our Heroes Home. The film will star Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna and Bipasha Basu.

His earlier venture Aankhen, directed by Vipul Shah, starred Amitabh, Akshay Kumar and Arjun Rampal. The latter two actors had claimed that many of their scenes were edited, with Akshay claiming, 'the best stunt of my life where I fought sharks bare-handed did not see light.' Bipasha also complained she had been reduced to a song in the film.

"I know expectations are high after Aankhen," Doshi says. "I will not let the audience down. The film will be made on a huge canvas. I have a winner on my hands."


Now does this sound familiar... Spy Games, Behind Enemy Lines ? ???
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Kishi6406
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I don't watch Hollywood films, but they shouldn't bother making another American remake. We all just won't see the film, will we?
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DragunR2
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Kishi6406 wrote:
I don't watch Hollywood films, but they shouldn't bother making another American remake. We all just won't see the film, will we?

Not only will many of us see it, but screenshots will be posted the day the DVD arrives! The "Let's Bring Our Heroes Home" part does make it sound like Spy Game and Behind Enemy Lines, though let's hope it doesn't turn out that way.

Kishi, you don't watch Hollywood films? Why not? Even though they make a lot of mediocre movies, a lot of good ones are released as well, particularly at the end of the year. More good films than Bollywood, that's for sure. Don't let Kangaroo Jack sour you on Hollywood altogether.
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Kishi6406
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Nope, I don't watch Hollywood films. Watching Indian films makes me understand more about me. Whenever I watch them, I know why I am such a religious and cultured person. I'm very proud of my roots. Hollywood films just has too much cursing and sex and nudity that is crude and unecessary, and I can't handle all that. Plus, they just don't interest me.

I'm an all out international boy. I do everything international.
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dvd_pankhaa
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Watching Indian films makes me understand more about me. Whenever I watch them, I know why I am such a religious and cultured person. I'm very proud of my roots.

which indian movies are you talking about that make you understand yourself so well and make you so cultured?
are you watching some chosen movies?? if yes then there are some american movies that you can benefit from.

please enlighten b/c i fail to see this point of yours
b/c lots of indian films are giving me no such inspirations :oo:
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DragunR2
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Kishi6406 wrote:
Nope, I don't watch Hollywood films. Watching Indian films makes me understand more about me. Whenever I watch them, I know why I am such a religious and cultured person. I'm very proud of my roots. Hollywood films just has too much cursing and sex and nudity that is crude and unecessary, and I can't handle all that. Plus, they just don't interest me.

I'm an all out international boy. I do everything international.

If sex/nudity and cursing keep you from watching certain films, you miss out on some terrific films. But not all films have that. There are many R films that barely have any cursing in them. Maybe one f-word over the limit. Nobody was ever hurt by a little cursing. This is the time you should be getting even more into sex and cursing :p Please do not judge films based on superficial things like nudity or cursing or even violence. Judge them on the merit of the plot, acting, directing, etc. Pulp Fiction, for example, has a lot of cursing and is one of the best films of the 1990s.

I'm not criticising you for your choice, but you can watch both Indian and American movies at the same time. I can't think of many Indian films in 2002 that interested me, and I wasn't impressed with most that I did see. However, America has a pretty good independent film scene, and even the major studios produce really good films at times. We've discussed to death the numerous Hindi remakes of American and South Indian films, so I won't go into that here, but as many bad films as America produces, there are many creative and artistically successful ones. One has to search really hard to find an interesting Indian film, or be stuck with the latest unoriginal films.
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Sanjay
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Kishi6406 wrote:
Nope, I don't watch Hollywood films. Watching Indian films makes me understand more about me. Whenever I watch them, I know why I am such a religious and cultured person. I'm very proud of my roots. Hollywood films just has too much cursing and sex and nudity that is crude and unecessary, and I can't handle all that. Plus, they just don't interest me.

I'm an all out international boy. I do everything international.

It's great that you are proud of your roots but quite honestly it is hard to imagine anyone being able to get anything even remotely cultural out of the majority of the crap that pass of as Hindi films now a days. There is more crudity in Hindi films than Hollywood could ever even imagine. As mentioned earlier in the thread you are really missing out on some great films if you don't watch English films, which are on the average by far superior to our Hindi films.

By the way as an "International boy" you ought to be truelly global and watch good films in a ll languages.
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Kishi6406 wrote:
Hollywood films just has too much cursing and sex and nudity that is crude and unecessary, and I can't handle all that. Plus, they just don't interest me.

This coming from the guy who kept on asking for Jism screenshots :p
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Kishi6406
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This coming from the guy who kept on asking for Jism screenshots

Yeah, but I wasn't expecting a Bipasha chaddi show or anything!

I'm just saying, the films, even though in the worst condition, have just made me become more proud of myself. I'm proud to watch Indian films, and I'm proud of many of them, definitely not all. Hollywood films offer me nothing. My tastes are always changing, but for the past two years, my tastes have shifted 95% to Hindi films. Many of you know my favourite films of 2002, but seriously, there are only Company, Road, Humraaz, and Raaz that I can consider GREAT films! But even all the other films during the year just glue me to being with India, and it helps someone, especially since I'm four or five times removed from India.

Point is: Bollywood is for me, even with its low quality. Hollywood offers me no excitement.
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You do know that Raaz and Road are remakes of Hollywood films? Humraaz also, I think.
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BUT!...They were Indianised!
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Deewaar trailer @ IndiaFM - directdownload;

http://www.indiafm.com/cgi-bin/trailors ... ewaar1.zip

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***Amrita rao is back...


Amrita Rao, who made her debut with Arya Babbar in AB KE BARAS and was later cast opposite Ajay Devgan in THE LEGEND OF BHAGAT SINGH, has been signed for the female lead in DEEWAAR. “We needed a face that would pair off well with Akshaye and Amrita looks perfect for the part,” Gaurang tells me.

Incidentally, Amrita has been cast opposite new-find Shahid in Tips' forthcoming film ISHQ VISHK, directed by Ken Ghosh and Farah Khan's directorial debut MAIN HOON NA opposite Zayed Khan.

While on DEEWAAR, Gaurang has insured the film for Rs. 30 crores, while the cheque of the one-time premium of Rs. 22 lacs will be paid by the producer to the insurance company in a couple of days. “There could be mishaps on the sets, but I don't want to take chances. That's why I decided to insure the film,” the producers states.
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Kishi6406 wrote:
Watching Indian films makes me understand more about me. Whenever I watch them, I know why I am such a religious and cultured person. I'm very proud of my roots. Hollywood films just has too much cursing and sex and nudity that is crude and unecessary, and I can't handle all that. Plus, they just don't interest me.

I'm an all out international boy. I do everything international.

I respect your views but I'm surprised that you say that they make you understand more about you and that you can know why your such a religious and cultured person. I think the majority of Bollywood films are anything but cultured and religious, most of them are western clones or trying to make out India as just as westernised if not more than the west. India seems to have a warped India with how to look westernised. For example, Shah Rukh's pathetic attempts at being 'cool' as Rahul in KKHH, is not cool at all for Indians in the west, it's rather more stupid if anything, but it may be 'cool' for those in India.

The minority of bollywood films produced are the more successful and are the more 'cultured' types such as Lagaan, HAHK, DDLJ, Devdas, etc. But I think films like Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay (which both include 'cursing') are more true to life in the real India than Bollywood, which is fantasy land.

And as Sanjay said for you to be an International boy you should be looking as films from all over the world, not just US or UK, but French, Italian, HK, Jap, etc. And looking at films with cursing, sex & nudity, can only change you if you want to be changed or if you're easily influenced.
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Kishi6406 wrote:
Hollywood films just has too much cursing and sex and nudity... they just don't interest me.

Let the hormones kick in :D J/K :tounge:
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