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EMI is an insipid attempt at making movie. It looks like a half hearted job. The movie was shaped to be a light hearted film with a social message and in many ways, Sattar Bhai of EMI takes on Munnabhai of Munnabhai Series….Unsuccessfully. The movie EMI had a good concept,the characters and their problems with loans looked genuine. The problem was Sanjay Dutt or Sattar Bhai’s approach to resolving the issues. In the movie, Sattar Bhai’s Goodluck Recovery Agency has a job outsourced by All India Bank to recover the pending money from borrowers. The borrowers, con man Arjun Rampal and his wife Mallaika Arora, divorcees Neha Uberoi and Ashish Choudary, Khulbushan Kharbanda, an old man who had taken loan for his son’s education, Urmila Matondkar who borrows to pay off a goon who can help the bank settle insurance money of her dead husband are all held up in debt trap and Sattar Bhai’s job is to take back the money. However Sattar Bhai uses the Munnabhai formula, empathises with the borrowers and teaches them a thing or two about managing finances. But the sad part is that he is not accurate it. Many a times, the movie deviates into a silly romance between Sanjay Dutt and Urmila Matondkar. Credit management solutions goes for a toss and there are times when Sanjay Dutt gives long sermons about how a person can be a good husband or a good son, instead of helping the people find a way out of the debt mess. The movie stops rather than ends and you are left wondering if the problems are indeed solved.
Plus points of EMI: Some of the dialogues of EMI are rib tickling especially “Pyaar se toh bache paidey hotein hain” and “If your matter is personal, so is the loan”.
Minus points of EMI: EMI loses it plot after interval, there seems to be no synchronization between the direction and script of the film
Performances of EMI: Sanjay Dutt is spot on as Sattar Bhai. Equally convincing and brilliant is Ashish Choudary. Arjun Rampal comes across as a cool customer while Neha Uberoi impresses in a small role. Urmila Matondkar seems to have lost her flair.
Verdict: EMI gives a sense of d??j?? vu and you get the feeling that the makers were not really excited about the movie themselves.

Shahnaab Alam has been Nominated on Board of an Australian Film Initiative as an AdvisorShahnaab Alam, the executive producer of Yash Raj Films who produced ‘Dhoom’ has recently been nominated as an adviser in the board of an Australian Film Initiative. While producing this film, he has also got a substantial exposure in working with some big shot names in the Indian silver screen like that of John Abraham, Abhishek Bachchan, Uday Chopra, Esha Deol, and Rimi Sen. Mr. Alam has also remained the executive producer of the wonderful film ‘Socha Na Tha’, a movie that marked the debut of the talented actor Abhay Deol and Ayesha Takia. This film too is well accepted by the audience.Shahnaab Alam movies, therefore, are well accredited with considerable critic appreciations and profit. Today, he has gained a huge amount of popularity and success in his field. And it is perhaps that is why, the Australian film initiative named him as their adviser. Mr Alam’s experiences and creative understanding of the process is sure to help the initiative a lot. AAFI is a recognized Australian film body that promotes and facilitates cinematic trade in between the Australian film fraternity and the rest of the world. Mr Alam, therefore, is believed to be playing a crucial role in establishing a closer working relationship between the film industries of India and Australia from the AAFI.Shahnaab Alam Bollywood has been a prominent name in the Indian film industry. Apart from being executive producers of the mainstream cinemas, he has also been credited with unconventional productions and has shown a mettle to go out of the box while claiming an achievement. A few of the laudable efforts that come under his name are ‘Ghoom Taana’, a short musical film; and two music videos, based upon the tracks from the album ‘Truth’. In both of these two projects, Mr Alam has remained the producer of the respective units and contributed much to their eminent success.In ‘Ghoom Tanna’, along with Salman Ahmed, the lead singer of renowned Pakistani band ‘Junoon’, Shahnaab Alam initiated the project. This film features an eponymous song sung by Subha Mudgal featuring Nandita Das. It has both the Pakistani and Indian support crews and casts in equal numbers and is produced with a noble aim to strengthen the Indo-Pakistani friendship. He has also been associated with producing music videos on the musical compositions of Aman Ali Khan and Ayan Ali Khan, the well renowned sarod-brothers of India.Shahnaab Alam Facebook can also give you more information about this notable individual, and also about his works and achievements. You can also get in touch with him herewith. So, if you have some queries or just wish to learn more about him, visit his Facebook profile.

The Sony Playstation Portable, PSP, is one of the best selling video game systems for a very specific reason. Sure, it has great graphics and is portable, but you can also do many things with it – you can watch movies, play music & much more!

Since the system is small, it does not allow you to play DVDs, so you do have to seperately buy the actual movies you want to watch on PSP. At $20 a video or even more this can get very expensive, even more expensive than DVDs.

The worst part of the expense is that many times the psp movies cost more than actual DVDs but they can only be played on a PSP and no where else.

But, methods have now been discovered that will allow you to download an unlimited number of psp movies right onto your PSP without ever having to pay per file again. Actually you can get movies, games, music and almost any PSP file you can think of – all for free now.

Now you no longer have to pay $20 or more for the PSP movies, you can simply download them using a special software right onto your PSP and you’re good to go.

Getting Instant PSP Movie Downloads

To start watching PSP movies, you first need to find the source file for the movie on the internet. You have 2 options here, you can either spend hours looking for it on the internet or you can use a “easy-to-use” database such as PSPNerd which gives you immediate access to every PSP file you ever need.

The way these download sites work is by allowing you to do a targeted search through a very specific network (that the company has researched and fonud for you). On this network, you can find any PSP movie you want.

You then download the file onto your computer, from there you will simply connect your PSP to your computer and use a free software (That these sites also provide you with) to transfer the movie from your PC to your PSP.

You can do this rather quickly and it can save you a ton of money rather than having to pay for every file!

With so many “Reality” shows in today’s time (both nationally & abroad) it’s very important to understand why and how a reality show clicks. There have been so many mega-successful shows in US/UK and their counterparts in India (and so many flops) that it is necessary to learn what works and what doesn’t. In this post we try to analyze deeply as to what are the different elements of a reality show and what should be taken care of while creating a new reality show.Almost all of the reality shows in India or elsewhere are localized versions of already popular US or UK shows. Here are some of the shows which have worked (in India) and some which haven’t. We’ll then analyze all the aspects to understand what it takes to make a successful Reality Show:Mega-successful shows-??? Kaun Banega Crorepati (Who wants to be a millionaire)- KBC 6 seems to be breaking records months before the show goes on air. The registration lines, which opened on 28th may, got 425,000 registrations against 179,000 last year.??? Indian Idol (American Idol)??? Dance India Dance (So you think you can dance)??? Bigg Boss (Big Brother)??? Successful Shows-??? Fear Factor India (Fear Factor)??? Jhalak Dikhla ja (Dancing with the stars)??? Sa Re Ga Ma Pa??? Boogie Woogie??? Masterchef India (Masterchef US/Australia)Flops-??? Zor Ka Jhatka (Wipeout)??? India’s Minute to Win it (Minute to Win it)??? Survivor IndiaContestants: No doubt contestants are single biggest asset of a reality show. Wrong selection of contestants can make or break the entire show. Contestants can be broadly categorized as- “Common man” and “Celebrities”. Depending upon the format of show creative team may decide to have common man or celebrities or a mix of both as contestants. For pure talent based shows like KBC, Dance India Dance, Indian Idol etc it’s imperative to have common people as main contestants otherwise it looks too dramatic and unreal (remember how we feel when a celebrity wins 50 lacs in a KBC episode?). Celebrities as contestants work very well for reality shows in which drama quotient needs to be high. Questions have been raised about such reality shows being truly “real” but now audience have kind of understood that reality shows involve either good “editing” or good “drama” to look exciting on TV. Some such shows are Bigg Boss, Survivor India, Zor Ka Jhatka. Example of shows having combination of both “common man” and “celebrities” as contestants include Fear Factor (India) and Jhalak Dikhlaja.Host: Even though host is 3rd most important thing it indeed plays an important part in taking the show to next level i.e. from success to mega-success (like Amitabh in case of KBC), Khatron Ke Khiladi (with Akshay Kumar as host) or from utter failure to moderate success (Dus Ka Dum could have bombed badly if Salman wasn’t there). But in case a show lacks above 2 important characteristics chances of it failing increases- SRK could never save Zor Ka Jhatka and even KBC with SRK couldn’t attract audience as much as Big B. My tip: Get a host with good sense of humour or with lot of character- Raghu/Rajiv and Rannvijay are known for their tough/macho characters and they don’t need Akshay Kumar.

There are some drama movies that deal with emotional themes. Dramatic themes in these films include subjects like alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, poverty, religious intolerance, crime and corruption. These type of movies stand in contrast to action films that show the fast-paced action and physical conflict with the help of superficial characters. Almost all films have dramatic element in them, but the drama films typically focus on the drama of the main issue.

Some well-known drama movies include the Godfather(19 72), Citizen Kane (1941) and Schindler’s List’ (1993). All these films have been able to create a deep impact on the mind of the viewers. They talk about an essential conflict that is highly required in such type of movies. This is the reason that these films are the most talked about among thousands of people even these days.

One most popular movie that has captured the attention of the viewers world wide is the Godfather. It is one of all-time favourite films for people. The third part of this film came in 1990, but it was not as impressive as the first two in 1972 and 1974. The third part focuses on an ageing Michael buying a huge real estate company from the Vatican in 1979, but in doing so he faces trouble from the European criminals. After this, when Micheal falls ill, he gives his business to his nephew (Andy Garcia). Micheal is brought up in a tight-knit family.

Luck did not really favour him in his life. His first wife dies in a car accident. His second wife Kay ( Diane Keaton) divorces him and he never remarries again. He and Kay have two children. Micheal ends up his life by dying alone with only his puppy to mourn for him.

Another interesting drama movie is Citizen Kane. It is an innovative and breathtaking study of a character that is played by Orson Welles. He looks amazing in the role of the wealthy and powerful newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane. The story unfolds a series of flashbacks that refresh the memories of the viewers who know Kane. This is a great film to watch because the visual style is just stunning and inventive even today. The star cast of the film is also very experienced one. So, do enjoy this superb drama film and know about the life of newspaper tycoon-Kane.

So, it can be concluded that drama movies are one of the best option to know the issues in society. They depict the picture of different cultures and traditions. One can know about the emerging evils in the society by watching these movies. They can easily be enjoyed from various sites where you do not have to spend even a single penny, because there are so many websites that offer film watching free of cost.

Christmas 2011 season has come, have you any plans? Get busy to decorate your Christmas trees, find the most headache Christmas gifts, listening to Christmas music, Christmas parties, books and so on. You’ll get puzzled when thinking of all these stuffs. Well, maybe you should relax your brain and enjoy some of the classical Christmas movies with your family.1. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)This film has become a staple of Christmas. Set in the imaginary town of Bradford just after World War II; George Baily gets the attention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody, when he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve. It is not only considered as one of the best Christmas movies, but also one of the 100 greatest movies ever made by the American Film Institute.2. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.

Does Santa really exist? This movie makes you think twice about the existence of Kris Kringle. In this ageless flick, a department store Santa Claus challenges the city of New York to believe in the magic of Christmas.3. White Christmas (1954)Even if you haven’t seen this movie, you’ll surely have heard the famous song written by Irving Berlin, sung by Bing Crosby, the best-selling single of all time. The story tells about a successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general. You should never miss the outstanding feel-good musical with great performances.4. A Christmas Story (1983)Budget: $4,000,000Box office: $19,294,144Even if the criterion for greatest holiday movie was only how many catch phrases it’s generated, A Christmas Story might still finish on top: “You’ll shoot your eye out!” “I triple-dog dare you!” Underneath the slapstick and jokes is a warm but unvarnished look at the frenzy that Christmas creates in children, and how, if you’re lucky, the holiday will show you what’s really important in life.5. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)Budget: $27,000,000Box Office: $71,319,546It’s Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark’s continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon. Highlights include a ridiculous, over-the-top Christmas light display; a sled-ride from Hell; and an intruding, terrifying squirrel incident.6. Home Alone (1990)Budget: $70,000,000 (1-3)Box office: $914,792,040 (1-3)No kids like to be left home alone on Christmas Eve while the other family members go for a Christmas trip. It’s every parent’s nightmare that bad guys come when the kid is home alone.

The movie tells a boy named Kevin McCallister who successfully protected the house from two bad guys using booby traps. Macauley Culkin became a household name by playing Kevin in Home Alone 1-3. The moral: Crime doesn’t pay, especially on Christmas Eve.7. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)Budget: $18 millionBox office: $75,082,668Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween town to help him put on Christmas instead of Halloween – but alas, they can’t get it quite right.8. Elf (2003)Budget: $33 millionBox office: $220,443,451A human being raised as one of Santa’s elves, have you ever thought of that? The story tells about a baby name Buddy who stowed away in Santa’s sack and was taken to North Pole. He was raised by elves, but after inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, he was sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity. But his father had no idea he was ever born. Will Buddy find the true family love in the end?9.

The Polar Express (2004)Budget: $165,000,000Box office: $306,003,319This file is an adaption of a children’s book with the same name published in 1985. This is the story of a young hero boy on Christmas Eve who boards on a powerful magical train that’s headed to the North Pole and Santa Claus’s home. What unfolds is an adventure which follows a doubting boy, who takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole; during this ride, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery which shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.10. A Christmas Carol (2009)Budget: $175 – 200 millionBox office: $325,286,646It is Jim Carrey’s first role in Walt Disney Pictures film. Jim Carrey plays a multitude of roles, including Scrooge as a young, middle-aged, and old man, and the three ghosts who haunt Scrooge. The story is an adaption of Charles Dickson’s novel with the same name. Scrooge believed in “greed is good” and on the Eve 3 ghost chased him to show him respectively his past, the happiness of his fellow men on Christmas Day and the final consequences of his greed. Scrooge waked up on Christmas and embraced the spirit of Christmas.In addition, I have made a PowerPoint presentation edition for this article on an attractive Christmas PowerPoint templates and upload it to PowerPoint sharing website (for example, ) and video sharing website (for example, ) after converting PPT/PPTX to video with Moyea PPT to Video Converter().Slideboom:

Stand by Me is a 1986 movie, adapted from Stephen King’s story The Body. The Body appeared as a novella in King’s collection Different Seasons. Different Seasons also contains the stories The Shawshank Redemption, and the Apt Pupil, both of which were made into movies.

Often described as a coming of age film, the story is of four boys who take a journey through the woodlands near their homes to find the body of a dead boy. The story is told by the main character Gordon Lachance, who is a budding writer.

Vern, one of the boys, hears his older brother talk of the missing boy, whose body is alleged to be in the woods. The boys decide to undertake the journey, to find the body of the boy. The journey takes two days, because of which the boys lie to their parents, telling them that they are staying at each others houses.

The boys experience many difficulties along the way, which reveal the past and present struggles of the characters. Chris Chambers, played by River Phoenix, is from a family of criminals and alcoholics. Chris is stereotyped because of his family. However he proves to be intelligent and has a desire to break his stereotype. Teddy Duchamp, played by Corey Feldman, has a physical deformity, after his mentally-unstable father held his ear to a stove. Teddy now has to wear a hearing aid. Vern Tessio, played by Jerry O?Connell, is overweight and timid. He is easily scared and often picked on. Gordon Lachance, played by Will Wheaton, is the narrator and thus the primary character of the story. Gordie is a quiet boy with a passion for books and story telling. He is rejected by his family after the death of his football star older brother. The end of the story reveals that Gordie has become a writer and we have just witnessed the story as he was writing it.

The film has a reoccurring theme of showdowns. These occur between two or more characters in the film. The first brief showdown is between Chris and Ace on the sidewalk when Ace threatens to burn Chris’s face while he has him in a headlock. Chris “gives” and Ace releases him. The next is when Teddy faces off against an on coming train at the beginning of the boys’ trek. He says he wants to make a dramatic “train dodge,” and just before it hits him, Chris grabs him and forces him out of harms way. The third showdown that happens is between Teddy, once again, and the junk yard man and his dog. They yell and call names, but when the junk yard man brings Teddy’s unstable father into the picture, Teddy breaks down and starts to cry. Another showdown occurs when Ace pulls up to some locals who seem to have a history of racing cars with him. They remain neck to neck for a short period before a truck appears in the other lane coming toward Ace. Ace and two of his buddies (who seem petrified) do not change lanes, but decide to stay on the wrong side of the road and face off with the on coming truck. The other car in the race looks scared for them. Before they crash, the truck swerves off of the road, spilling all of its supplies while Ace goes on to win the race. The final showdown is between the younger gang and Ace’s crowd at the body. The two groups trade harsh words before Ace pulls a knife on Chris, but is soon too skittish to use it after Gordie fires a shot in the air with Chris’s gun. He then points it at Ace, which chills him and scares him away, along with his group. These are only some of the major showdowns that occur in the film.

There are several minor changes to the movie script from the original Stephen King story. However, the story is faithful to King?s original. Stephen King told cast and crew after a private screening of the film that it was his favorite adaptation of any of his works up to that point.

Stephen King is said to have witnessed a child being killed by a train, whilst he was a child himself. It is easy to conclude that the story was influenced by King?s experience.

The title of the film comes from the Ben E King song of the same name. Stephen King?s original story is called The Body.

The good news: Digital technology is now available to everyone. The bad news: Digital technology is now available to everyone.
There was a time not too long ago when if you wanted to make a short film and submit it to film festivals you had two choices. You could choose between shooting it in 16mm or 35mm. The people who made these films were either film students from universities or serious film makers who were confident risking their money (or someone else?s) to create their vision. For the most part, these people had a story to tell and a plan. Simply ?experimenting? or ?dabbling? in film was (and still is) a costly endeavor.

Enter the digital age. The cost of playing with visual images today is virtually non-existent thanks to inexpensive camcorders and simple desktop editing programs. Technology has created a way for anyone of any age to experiment with moving pictures. As film festivals grapple to keep up with this changing technology, many have begun to accept submissions made in digital format. This has created a challenge as festivals everywhere are now being inundated by home spun amateur material more suited for MySpace or YouTube. The sheer volume of these submissions is causing concern to many in the festival circuit. Polished film makers fear that quality films are being overlooked because the viewing staff simply can?t watch every submission. Other film makers worry about festival staff risking burnout, because the overload might cause them not to be able to recognize a good film when they finally get to one. Festival directors and coordinators are also feeling the pinch.

According to Mark Felicetti, a member of the board of directors of the Valley International Film Festival near Los Angeles, ?We once had 50-100 submissions. This past season we had approximately 500, give or take a few. Of the short films submitted, fifty percent were disturbingly poor.? He continues, ?The stuff we receive might have one clever idea or include a funny bit, but you can?t make a movie out of a bit. These things may be hilarious at family gatherings, but they don?t belong in a film festival.? The solution for some festivals has been to simply accept films only shot on traditional film format, which has proven to be effective in weeding out the dabblers and those less serious. For other organizations who accept digital formats including festivals/ showcases on line, they might have to re-define their criteria for acceptable submissions.