Waiting to see Govinda as Hanuman in Raavan

I am awaiting the release (sometime in May 2010) of Mani Ratnam's Raavan, a modern day take on Ramayana. The Hindi version has Abhishek Bachchan essaying the title role, while the Tamil actor Prithviraj will play Raavan in the Tamil version. The film has Aishwarya ing the role of Sita and Vikram as Ram, I think the scene stealers are going to be Govinda as Hanuman and Nikhil Dwivedi (a relatively unknown actor) as Lakshman. I think it will be Govinda's most important role of his life. The film, if nothing, will have spectacular photography and music (I expect a whopper from A R Rahman..the poor guy needs to surpass himself all the time..there are enough people ready to say that he is not giving his best, even though Delhi 6 happened in January.).

Salman Found Wanting in 'Wanted'

I hate to visit my blog once in a while and see it look like a dilapidated warehouse on a mountain highway. I promise to myself that I would post more frequently, even if it amounts to plain rambling. The noise in a film blog comes from raves, rants and comments, and not necessarily critiques and analyses. Let me start with my comment on Wanted, which is Salman Khan's biggest hit in the past few years. This is probably the first film after a long time, where he has attempted to act and not sleepwalk through the role. But whatever little I saw of Wanted left me wanting for something better from Salman. No doubt the crowds are lapping his performance in a film whose style and treatment is different from most run-of-the-mill masala stuff on the big screen. But I recommend that one should actually see Pokkiri, the Tamil version of Wanted. In what was a purely masala film, Vijay kept the screen on fire with his histrionics and dialogue timing. Wish Salman had borrowed some Vijay's (ada) style from him, or at least director Prabhudeva had made Salman add a bit more spice to his performance (I can hear a lot of Salman fans ready to throw brickbats at me, but I stand by what i say).