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Salman Khan & Katrina Kaif’s Bharat Trailer is Out

One of the most sought-after and successful jodi of Bollywood, Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif is back on-screen once again with Bharat.

Bharat is an official remake of Ode to My Father, a 2014 South Korean blockbuster. It traces the journey of a man and a country together. The film follows Salman Khan’s character’s journey from the age of 18 to 70, showing the history of India through the life of an ordinary man named Bharat (played by Salman). The three-minute trailer shows Salman in five different looks, from a motorcycle stuntman to an employee in an oil-mining company and then as a navy officer.

Apart from Salman and Katrina, the film also features Jackie Shroff as Salman’s father and comedian Sunil Grover as his best friend. The film also stars Disha Patani, Tabu, Sunil Grover, Satish Kaushik, Nora Fatehi, and Shashank Arora. Ali Abbas Zafar and Varun V. Sharma have written screenplay and dialogues of the film. Bharat’s music has been composed by Vishal-Shekhar and Irshad Kamil has penned its lyrics. Helmed by Ali Abbas Zafar, who has earlier directed the Salman and Katrina in Tiger Zinda Hai (2017), Bharat will hit the screens on June 5, 2019.

Kalank Review

Abhishek Varman’s Kalank is a lavish period drama set in the 1940s. Pre-independent India provides a perfect background to this visually stunning movie featuring an ensemble cast. The cast includes Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Aditya Rao Kapur, Sonakshi Sinha, Madhuri Dixit and Sanjay Dutt in the lead roles.

Kalank is set in the time of partition, in a fictional town on the outskirts of Lahore called Husnabad. At the center of the story are Roop (Alia) and Zafar (Varun). Zafar is a blacksmith and the illegitimate son of a courtesan Bahar Begum (Madhuri) and rich aristocrat Balraj Chaudhury (Sanjay). Roop is the second wife of Balraj Chaudhury’s legitimate son Dev (Aditya). When Roop finds herself attracted to Zafar, what begins as a revenge plot ends up becoming a love story with disastrous consequences.

Kalank’s lavish and extravagant sets are definitely a visual treat. One look and you know that the film seems to heavily borrow a lot from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s universe of period dramas. But Kalank is let down by its tiring, over-crowded and heavily melodramatic script. Not just the songs, everything from its action to the dialogues looks choreographed. Even though it has a talented multi-star cast to lift it up, Kalank’s story leaves little to the imagination.

Actress Surveen Chawla Blessed with Baby Girl

Hate Story 2 star Surveen Chawla welcomed a baby girl on April 15. Announcing the happy news, Surveen shared a photo of her daughter’s tiny feet on Instagram and wrote, “We now have her tiny feet to fill the tiny shoes! Blessed by her wonderful arrival in our little family! Welcoming our daughter Eva.” The comment section of her social media was soon filled with congratulatory messages from her fans. Her friends from the small screen such as Ekta Kapoor, Rubina Dilaik, Aashka Goradia, Tisca Chopra, Ronit Roy and more congratulated her on Insta.

Surveen married Akshay Thakker in 2015, in Italy. However, she kept the news of her wedding under wraps for almost two years. In November last year, Surveen had revealed the news of her pregnancy on social media. She has always been active sharing her feelings and her beautiful pregnancy looks with her fans.

Surveen has worked in many Bollywood and Punjabi movies, including Parched, Singh vs Kaur, Ugly and Disco Singh. Apart from movies, Surveen is also well known for her stint in TV shows such as Kahin Toh Hoga, Kasautii Zindagi Kay, and Kaajjal. She was last seen in web television drama Sacred Games, starring Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Radhika Apte.

Arjun Kapoor’s India’s Most Wanted Teaser Out

Arjun Kapoor will soon be seen back on the big screen with Raj Kumar Gupta’s action-thriller India’s Most Wanted. The teaser of the movie was recently released and it looks thrilling and intriguing to its core.

Arjun plays Prabhat Kapoor, a man who volunteers to catch the most dreaded terrorist, referred to as India’s Osama. It is a secret team mission to track down the terrorist who has engineered 52 bomb blasts and killed 433 people between 2007 and 2013 in different cities of India. The most thrilling part of this manhunt is to see the team of five catch a terrifying terrorist without any guns. Arjun Kapoor shared the teaser on his social media with description “The unbelievable story of the manhunt for India’s Osama. An operation that had no guns, only guts.”

Apart from Arjun, India’s Most Wanted also stars Amrita Puri, Rajesh Sharma, Prashanth Alexander, Shantilal Mukherjee, and Gaurav Mishra. Amit Trivedi has composed the film’s music and Amitabh Bhattacharya has written its lyrics. Raj Kumar Gupta, who is known for directing Aamir, No One Killed Jessica and Raid, has directed, written and co-produced India’s Most Wanted. It is scheduled to release on May 24, 2019.

Student of the Year 2 Trailer Launched

Seven years after introducing us to his fictionalized and highly stylized version of Riverdale with Student of the Year (SOTY), Karan Johar is back with his college love story. The trailer of Student of the Year 2, featuring Tiger Shroff, Ananya Panday, and Tara Sutaria is out. Produced under the Dharma Productions banner, SOTY 2 has been directed by Punit Malhotra.
SOTY 2 is quite similar to the first version – a campus triangle love story with a competitive background. This time too Karan Johar has introduced new faces in Bollywood, debutantes Tara Sutaria and actor Chunky Panday’s daughter, Ananya Panday. However, unlike the earlier offering, SOTY 2 has a brash villain in form of a rich, spoiled brat who beats the hell out of Tiger Shroff and gets him thrown out of the college, played by Aditya Seal.SOTY 2 also stars Hollywood actor Will Smith in a cameo. Will Smith will also be seen shaking a leg to the recreated version of the “Radha” song from SOTY. The film has recreated another classic song “Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani” from Randhir Kapoor’s Jawani Diwani (1972). The film will release on May 10, 2019.