Darn, that is ABSURD!

But in our theatre where every thing is supposed to be DD, besides two bigger rooms, whenever I saw a film, sound was FLAT/CRAPPY! and owner insisted it is DD!

BTW, Imho, CD of No Entry is a Fair, CHAL CLAO SOUND TRACK from Anu Malik's Camp! But for one thing, for entire sound track, the pace never drops!

Rana!! I am not implying any vulgarity to any one here, though, imho, difference and line between, decency and vulgarity is very thin!

What I meant was SEX APPEAL, SKIN SHOW, BIMBETTE< ugly or good, e.g in DUS STYLE DEEDAR DE! BIKINIS, INDOOR, OUT DOOR! on Whites, Browns or Blacks! Just for ART SAKE, I guess!! or Show sake!

It is VERY OBJECTIVE, but I surrender to masses, that it sells delightfully. Sooner a director masters this art, it is better for his repute and pocket and finances!

Your next inline Hit following in shoes od DUS and MUSSAFIR is CHOCLATE!

Here is a REVIEW that might explain what I meant: My apologies, if I heart any ones sentiments here!

Movie Review : A workable sex comedy sans vulgarity

Producer: Boney Kapoor
Director: Anees Bazmee
Cast: Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Celina Jaitley, Esha Deol, Fardeen Khan, Lara Dutta
Music: Anu Malik


Situational comedies - you know the kind where characters run helter-skelter generally to protect and protest against excesses of love and libido - are hard to pull off, more so in Hindi where the language renders itself to diverse dimensions and distortions which dilute the impact of the drollery.

"No Entry" manages to do the near impossible: it does a sex comedy without overt sex and vulgarity. The upmarket, high profile star cast ensures a high quality, cleaned out satirical scenario freed of annoying innuendos.

Nonetheless, the swiftly flowing slapstick replete with grossly overblown dollops of mistaken identity and other intensely corny contrivances take the comedy this farce, and no more.

Farcical comedies about infidelity are not alien to Hindi cinema. B.R. Chopra's "Pati Patni Aur Woh" gave the late and great Sanjeev Kumar a chance to do the incorrigible flirtatious husband with a deadpan ingenuity that his successors have found hard to replicate.

Salman Khan did one in David Dhawan's "Biwi No 1". His role as Prem the skirt chaser with an incredibly gullible wife (Esha Deol) seems a carryover from Dhawan's earlier marital farce.

In fact, a lot of the material in this over-extended tryst with the titters seems to owe allegiance to the David Dhawan school of thought. Writer-director Anees Bazmi is ensured a sizeable chuckle from the audience by the suspiciously misogynist bent of the dialogue.

Except for Bipasha Basu, the women are portrayed as either screeching and whining or stupid.


For an intelligent actress like Lara Dutta playing a melodramatic and over-suspicious Punjabi wife (very similar to what Tabu played in Biwi No 1, though Lara's Punjabi accent keeps slipping in and out) requires all the acting skills at her disposal. Lara and the rest of the cast derive a great deal of pleasure from the at-work-but-in-leisure mood of the naughty comedy.

Among the guys Anil Kapoor (playing the bullied husband for the second time in two weeks after "My Wife's Murder") is bang on with his comic timing. Fardeen Khan as Kapoor's associate and sidekick tends to get hammy in the hysterical moments. Like the rest of the cast, Fardeen musters enough mirth to keep us interested in the inane in-through-the-outdoor mood of the comedy.

The men are constantly chasing the women, while their spouses are constantly chasing their skirt-chasing husbands. The confusions of infidelity (including Boman Irani, doing another delightful little turn as an unctuous politician with a battleship for a wife) are gross examples of political incorrectness.

But who's looking for rhyme in a madcap comedy without reason?

Bazmi's satirical skills are evident in the way he designs some of the more prominent "items"(that's what the sequences seem to be). The uniformly well tuned performances help give the film the timbre of a tightly wound humour. Alas, the comedy runs out of steam after a while.

If only our directors knew where to flag down the farce before tedium attacks and humour begins to wane. Also the songs, all jukebox style and done on sets that seem to have been cart-lifted from MTV's storerooms, do nothing except add ersatz adrenaline to the racy narration.

"No Entry" is a workable sex comedy. Unlike "Masti" and "Kya Kool Hain Hum", this one steers clear of bilgy babble and vulgar gestures. It also creates a compendium of original images representing the rapid-fire fadeout of that immensely popular genre known as the drama of infidelity.


Marriage as an institution is held up for considerable satirical scrutiny, bordering on ridicule. As in earlier sex comedies the guys are shown to be cunning Casanovas while the women are happy being seductively daft.

The exception is Bipasha Basu whose fiery-siren act as the bargirl and hooker named Bobby has a lot of inner strength and chutzpah. Bipasha's powerful pouty presence is finally negated by a sob story that's appended to her character. Apparently Bobby just "seemed" to be having fun while hooking guys. In reality she's a woman collecting money for her ailing husband's hospital bills.

Oh puhleeze!


© Copyright 2005 by MusicIndiaOnLine.com

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By next day, Film was being fed through Dolby Digital reader (manager took me to the projection room and showed me the set up. No Entry title song was ON and sounded great) and the film was playing in Dolby Digital glory at Rainbow cinema #5. Screen in theatre # 5 is huge.
ENJOY

NO ENTRY beats all other (except I-Max) films in North America in Per Screen Average by over 800 dollars. No entry is listed at $ 6500 per screen average (48 screens), 40 yrs old got $5674 (2868 screens; 2nd week) and Brothers got $ 4888 (3087 screens; 1st week) per screen average.

(Mangal Pandey got $ 1330 per screen average (40 screens))

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/

Bollywood still struggles abroad

Arthur J Pais | August 31, 2005 15:40 IST

Anees Bazmee's comedy No Entry -- starring Anil Kapoor, Salman Khan, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu and Lara Dutta -- may have tickled the Indian audience's funny bone, but it had a harder time in the United States and Britain.

The film earned just about $312,000 over the weekend on 48 screens in the US, opening at number 26 on the chart. It did not make it to Britain's top 10 list, which was led by Jay Chandrasekhar's The Dukes of Hazzard. While Dukes grossed $3.2 million, No Entry reportedly grossed $220,000 in Britain.

The lucrative overseas market, which often helps big budget Hindi films recoup investment, continues to be in the dumps for several weeks now.

The final success or failure of any film depends on the hit it takes in the second and third weeks. Most desi films come down by about 50 percent in the second week. Only a few, like Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black, fall by 20-25 percent in the subsequent weeks, earning the sobriquet of sleeper hits.

It may be tough for No Entry to match the estimated $750,000 gross of the Salman Khan starrer Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya in America and $950,000 in the United Kingdom. Given that the new film has a far bigger cast than MPKK, it was expected to gross at least $500,000 in the US, several exhibitors said.

Meanwhile, Mangal Pandey: The Rising continued to plummet on both sides of the Atlantic. After plunging by about 65 percent in the second week, it slid by about 70 percent in the third week, earning a meagre $53,000 on 40 screens in North America. It fell from 31st position to the 50th on the weekly chart. Its three-week was $874,000 and the film, distributed by Yash Raj Films, has no chance to crawling to $1 million. In the United Kingdom, the film has earned a mediocre (for a big budget venture) $850,000.

Many viewers complain that despite a strong performance by Aamir Khan and awesome visuals, The Rising did not fully satisfy them emotionally. Some fans said the film looked like a documentary. "Had it showed the Englishman joining the Indian rebellion, it would have made a much stronger impact," said a young man.

Apart from MPKK, recent Bollywood films that have done good business abroad are Bunty Aur Babli (about $2 million in UK and US) Parineeta (about $1.6 million on both sides of the Atlantic) and Paheli (about $2.5 million in UK and US).

Meanwhile, desi producers are hoping for a big hit in Salaam Namaste, starring Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta.

Is SUNIL DUTT in NO ENTRY??

It's either Sunil Dutt or some one like him in 5-6 shots in NO ENTRY.

It's the, 'Best Couple Competition' scene and there is a figure in the audience that very much looks like Sunil Dutt.

Is that Sunil Dutt??
Was Sunil Dutt ever a part of this film, and producers had to elliminate his role because of his untimely death??

Sunil Dutt had nothing to do with the film.

Just saw this film on B4U. It was as hammy and rubbish as the Tamil original "Charlie Chaplin"

I really wanted to enjoy "No Entry" since my family told how great it was, after seeing the film at the cinema. Also, the director has a fairly decent filmography, especially when it comes to adapting scripts from south-Indian films. Sadly, what I saw was a dissapointment.

I can't see why this film is currently one of the highest grossing Indian film of 2005.

Amen!!both music and cinema has gone pathetic, rubbish way!

This movie totally sucked. It was just fucking HORRIBLE. Anyone else think so?

Really, I'm utterly shocked that this trash is the "most succesful [Hindi] film of 2005." It's not funny; it's subject matter is much too "risque" for it to be "family entertainment," yet, through sheer cowardice and stupidity, it maintains far too "clean" a nature to be enjoyable. Salman Khan is a terrible actor, and he's himself in this film. Fardeen Khan is horrible, as well, but he's "accpeptable" here. Anil Kapoor and Lara Dutta are all right, but, really, who cares? This is one of the most "forgettable" "comedies" of '05, yet, here it is...successful. Similar things can be said regarding 2005's bore-fest, Bunty Aur Babli. Man, I HATE when dumb-ass films make so much money.

Amen commando dude!!!now it is making sense!