Indeed a decent sound track, way better than their recent other dudds!!

Well, My personal favourite is Lata's number""kaise piya se" I dont seem to have enough of it!, no doubt, N-S gave her just the right tune for her age to sing!imho, she sounds better than the way she sounded in VZ!

The song vaguely resemble to ""aaey re aaey yeh kaya hua" from DTPH, but despite a very good number!
Btw!! listen to Lata in Page 3..another good number along with Asha, and Adnan Sami!

this soundtracks ROCKS !!!

excellent music by NS....captivating promos...ARAIK 2 AK'S together for the 1st time bring it on !!! i predict the 1st hit of 2005 !!!( Taran can kiss my ass if he doesn't agree !!! )

Bewafaa´ Gets Bigger And Hotter !
By: Abid
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Boney Kapoor´s Anil-Akshay-Kareena starrer is becoming ´hot´ among exhibitors . The movie all set to release on 25th February , is attaracting good MGs (minimum guarentees) and advances from cinemas across India .

It was recently booked on an MG of Rs. 10 lakhs in Aligarh ( ´Veer-Zaara´ got an MG of 12 lakhs here) . In Nagpur , the distributor has an offer for an MG of Rs. 11 lakhs , but he is demanding more . Jwala cinema in the Taj city Agra has also booked the film on exciting terms for the distributor . Producer Boney has received a formidable offer from as far as Katihar in Bihar from a third party .

Bombay distributor Ramesh Sippy is thrilled to bits as he has concrete offers from at least 3 buyers for the sub-distribution rights of Saurashra . Independent of these offers , there are third parties who are willing to acquire the films rights for a multiplex or two .

Likewise , Sippy has to decide whether he wants to sell the rights for Thane or keep them himself . It is the winning musical combination of Nadeem Shravan and director Dharmesh Darshan which is weaving the magic . The music of ´Bewafaa´ is definately ´ruling the hearts and charts´ with only the recently released ´Lucky-No Time For Love´ offering some competetion .

There were rumours in the trade , throughout last week , that Boney was contemplating postponing the film´s release from 25th February to April because of the India-Pakistan cricket matches in March . But looking at the heat being generated by ´Bewafaa´ , Boney would be making a terrible mistake if he decides to do so .

Well, Brilliant Taran Adarsh has given Movie 1-1/2

Although First he says it's good but at bottom .... He can't make up his mind.

1st Day 1st show Audience reacion looks encouraging.

http://www.indiafm.com/broadband/05/feb ... ndex.shtml

Looks like Bewafaa has ended the lull for Boney Kapoor. The film has opened to housefull boards.

Getting into the directors seat after a leap of 2 years is Dharmesh Darshan who seems to have pulled off the soppy saga this Friday.

Bewafaa has two heroes…Nadeem-Shravan. The talented two have scored a melodious beat for the film. Movie buffs have simply loved the music. “I think the music is awesome. ‘Ek Dilruba Hain…’ is my personal favorite” a girl gushes.

People have loved the drama, tears and the emotional pads that the film waddles on. Dharmesh Darshan has been lauded for the extravaganza that he has dished. The film predictably finds favor with the fair sex. From professionals to the aunties, Bewafaa has been thumped..
Bewafaa has stepped on a welcome note, lets see if the film maintains the thick crowds.
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It has opened in a big way in Toronto and Montreal. Not in Ottawa.

http://www.cinemaclock.com/aw/cmva.aw?p ... &f=Bewafaa

"Bewafaa"
Playing this week at:

Albion (Golden Theatres)
1530 Albion Road, Etobicoke
Fri, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu: 4:30, 8:30
Sat, Sun: 2:45, 6:15, 9:45

DOLBY DIGITAL
Coliseum Mississauga (Famous Players)
309 Rathburn Rd. W. (at Duke of York Blvd), Mississauga
Every day: 1:45, 5:30, 9:00

Woodside (Golden Theatres)
1571 Sandhurst Circle, Agincourt
Fri, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu: 4:30, 8:30
Sat, Sun: 2:00, 5:30, 9:00
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http://www.cinemaclock.com/aw/cmva.aw?p ... &f=Bewafaa

"Bewafaa"
Playing this week at:

AMC Forum 22 (AMC)
2313 Ste-Catherine Ouest, Montréal
Every day: 1:25, 5:00, 8:30

DOLBY DIGITAL
Méga-Plex Sphèretech 14 (Cinema Guzzo)
3500 boul. Côte-Vertu, Saint-Laurent
Every day: 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

http://us.rediff.com/movies/2005/feb/25bewaf.htm

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The crux of the film is Kareena, but the script doesn't give her a chance. Anjali's character is written with cryptic cruelty. She doesn't love Aditya, but won't leave him. She loves Indian Raja, but doesn't really care how he feels, or what he goes through. In the end, to justify her position, she sobs out a 'mother can't leave her kids' finale, calculated to have the 'masses' in throes of applause.....
The masses groaned. They seem tired of bull.

and there you go, ladies and gentlemen....thats bewafaa for you (this years Nth well deserved dud)

Time for Darshan's to BITE DUST! and Alas!! Poo could not shine in author backed role either!
She needs 8 more years or even more like sister to create a mark!

Are film makers such as Darshan sheer idiots or do they take their audiences to be imbeciles ?!

This has to be the most insulting movie made this year....i hope Darshan and gang have to sell the shirts of their backs to survive after this !

Movie Review : 'Bewafaa' is Hindi cinema at its worst

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Producer: Boney Kapoor
Director: Dharmesh Dharshan
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Sushmita Sen and Anil Kapoor
Music: Nadeem-Shravan


Film: "Bewafaa"; Starring Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Sushmita Sen, Shamita Shetty, Manoj Bajpai, Kabir Bedi and Nafisa Ali; Directed by Dharmesh Darshan.

"Bewafaa" had it all. A great looking star cast, a huge budget and an interesting, traditionally bound plot inspired by B.R. Chopra's bold and progressive 1960s drama "Gumrah". But director Dharmesh Darshan throws it all away.

At first you are saddened by the sterile drama that he has created out of a potentially dramatic scenario. Then you're filled with rage at the extravagant and sad waste of precious resources.

At a time when films like "Page 3", "Black" and even a much-vilified film like "Sins" tries to take our cinema beyond the mundane, "Bewafaa" tries to pull it back into the stone age.

"Bewafaa" leaves you with the dread of the dead. The characters aren't only dwarfed and diminished but finally defeated and destroyed by the director's dysfunctional equations between time and space.

Darshan's directorial vision is purely from a decadent decade, possibly the l960s, when actors were made to stand against imposing backdrops to look "glamorous".

The plot, for those unfamiliar with Chopra's "Gumrah" is about the dilemma of a woman who must marry her widowed brother-in-law for the children's sake. Mala Sinha heaved a hefty melodramatic life into her role. Kareena Kapoor in the same role is crippled by a script that wants her character to cheat on her husband and still come out smelling like plastic roses.

Where she needed to breathe fire she simply stands in trendily designed saris trying to fit into a wifely role that the plot conceived for her.

It's a losing battle. The director's obsession with eye-catching surfaces gets in the way of the cast's most honest wishes - whatever they might be. While Anil Kapoor, Kareena and Akshay Kumar under play at crucial points, Manoj Bajpai and Shamita Shetty - playing an over-sexed, under-brained couple go so over-the-top, they topple into the pretty abyss that Darshan creates out of his glossy imagination.

There is also a group of socialites (a favourite satirical target in Dharmesh Darshan's cinema) played by the director's favourite Navneet Nishan among others who walk the raunchy path to invoke more revulsion than wrath.

Sapped of all passion "Bewafaa" is a film about marriage and adultery without any sex. If Anurag Basu's similarly plotted "Murder" made the adulteress strip on camera, "Bewafaa" goes the shudder way. All the characters stand stiffly in designer clothes that they don't know how to get out of.


Scene after scene of potential warmth is frittered away in frozen languor. For a film about family ties and human relationships, no two people (except Sushmita and Kareena in an early scene of sisterly bonding) seem to connect.

Scenes of purported familial warmth such as the one where Kabir Bedi and his family dance in the drawing room are so phoney, they are funny. At the end when Anjali (Kareena) lectures her lover Raja (Akshay) about how impossible it is for a mother to betray her children, you gawk at her rhetorical posturing.

Nowhere do we see her mothering and nurturing her dead sister's twin girls - the reason why she marries her tight-lipped brother-in-law in the first place.

It's not the characters, it's the director's obsession with surface tensions that destroy the plot's inherent drama. Rather than focus on the various fascinating angles to human bonds and accompanying obligations, Darshan has chosen to make a sanitised, emotionless, impotent, self-important, aimless and pointless film.

Every character and the songs they croon are designed to create an impression. In the absence of a spirited inner world, "Bewafaa" fails to create any sympathy for the vivacious young girl forced to sacrifice love for family duties.

Promising on paper, hollow in execution, "Bewafaa" represents the worst, most damaging type of cinema in Bollywood.

Bewafa starting in Ottawa from Today.
http://www.cinemaclock.com/aw/cmva.aw?p ... &f=Bewafaa

"Bewafaa"

Playing this week at:

Kanata 24 (AMC)
801 Earl Grey Dr., Kanata
Fri, Sat, Sun: 1:15, 4:55, 8:30
Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu: 4:55, 8:30

Box-office Report

(The verdict is based on all-India collections and indicates the overall status from the date of release)

Bewafaa
Director: Dharmesh Darshan
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Sushmita Sen, Anil Kapoor & others
Plus Points: Strong production values and publicity
Weak Points: Mediocre performances, average music (except 'Ek Dilruba Hai'), remake of an outdated 'Gumraah'
Box-Office verdict: Flop (Encouraging opening weekend)

Chehraa
Director: Saurabh Shukla
Cast: Dino Morea, Bipasha Basu, Preeti Jhangiani
Plus Points: None
Weak Points: Everything
Box-Office verdict: Disaster

Jurm
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Cast: Bobby Deol, Lara Dutta, Milind Soman, Gul Panag
Plus Points: None, barring a somewhat sincere act by Gul Panag
Weak Points: Miserable direction, production design, performances and music
Box-Office verdict: Flop

Sheesha - Some Mirrors Lie
Director: Ashu Trikha
Cast: Neha Dhupia, Sonu Sood
Plus Points: Neha - the bold
Weak Points: Neha - the non-actress
Box-Office verdict: Flop

Chaahat - Ek Nasha
Director: Jai Prakash
Cast: Aryan Vaid, Manisha Koirala, Preei Jhangiani
Plus Points: Not Available
Weak Points: Tacky music, performances, script and execution
Box-Office verdict: Flop

Black
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Nandana Sen, Shernaz Patel, Ayesha Kapur
Plus Points: Unparalleled performances, direction and cinematography
Weak Points: sluggish, emotionally hollow, arty
Box-Office verdict: Average (Strictly)

Shabd
Director: Leena Bajaj
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Aishwarya Rai and Zayed Khan
Plus Points: Excellent cinematography, interesting storyline
Weak Points: Poor performances and screenplay
Box-Office verdict: Flop

Blackmail
Director: Anil Devgan
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Suniel Shetty, Priyanka Chopra, Dia Mirza
Plus Points: None Whatsoever!
Weak Points: Weak performances, Music, Direction, Screenplay
Box-Office verdict: Flop

Page 3
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Cast: Konkona Sen Sharma, Tara Sharma, Bikram Saluja, Sandhya Mridul and Others.
Plus Points: Unique Concept, Strong Ensemble Cast
Weak Points: Weak music and production values, hyperbolic and exaggerated moments.
Box-Office verdict: Average (hit in Mumbai and Delhi multiplexes)

Kisna
Director: Subhash Ghai
Cast: Vivek Oberoi, Isha Sharvani, Antonio Bernath
Plus Points: Fabulous cinematography, lilting music, a fantastic performance by Antonio Bernath
Weak Points: Weak Storytelling, Slow, an unconvincing performance by Vivek
Box-Office verdict: Flop


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Now, the contradictory Box Office repot from Plannet Bollywood:
http://www.planetbollywood.com/BoxOffic ... 111105.php

´Bewafaa´ the movie that was . trashed left right and centre by the honourable critics , some of them may have written the reviews based on what they read about the movie! But once again the actual paying audience like before ( like in the case ´Veer-Zaara´ , ´Swades´ and ´Baghbaan´ ) . showed that they care two-hoots about these so called critics, giving ´Bewafaa´ the best opening of 2005 ( All India) . ´Bewafaa´ also collected around 2 crores from US and UK during the first weekend itself , with impressive print averages of £6,019 and $ 4,623

This time critics were right. Film hype and hit music fooled paying audience, including myself.

I was looking forward to see this masala movie. It was supposed be a remake of Gumrah. But Bewafa is no Gumrah. One a classic and other a junk. Gumrah was a horror film in comparison. Shashikala spelled terror whenever she appeared on the screen. Manoj Bajpai could behave or act in the way he did in Bewafaa is stupidly embarrasing.

Only interesting bit, that a few Montrealers will find is the tourist attractions of Montreal and a few Quebec parks in the first half an hour.

If rana was disappointed, worse than BAP then you can imagine da stink!
seems it is more patheter than pathe BAP!

I try my best to stay away from anything made by the Darshan brothers and Nadeem Shravan - it's usually crap.

Maybe they should start making action films - IMHO, Lootere was the best film they've made.

(And on a side note, does anyone else find the song ripped off from Mundian Te Bach Ke in Barsaat embarrassing poor?!)