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Eros International & Next Gen Films present 3G a super natural thriller film produced by, Sunil Lulla and Viki Rajani.
Directed by Shantanu Ray and Sheershak Anand and written by Shantanu Ray Chhibber and Sheershak Anand, the film stars Neil Nitin Mukesh, Sonal Chauhan and Mrinalini Sharma in pivotal roles. The music of the film is composed by Mithoon, the film is scheduled to release on 15 March, 2013.

Synopsis

There are 4.3 Billion mobile phone users in the world. Every minute 60 thousand ''Phantom Calls'' are received worldwide. These calls have no known source of origin, no numbers and cannot be traced. Some people believe that these calls are spirits trying to connect to our world!

3G is the nightmarish story of Sam Arora and Sheena, a couple, who become victims of a series of events when Sam buys a 3G enabled second hand phone in Fiji islands while on a holiday.

One night they receive a Phantom Call which changes their lives forever.
They must face the unbelievable reality that the phone is somehow responsible for all that is happening to them and around them. The only way to stay alive, it seems is to unravel the mystery of the phone. But as the hours burn on, that becomes harder and harder to do.

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Technology is a part of our lives, what happens when technology wants to take our lives? 3G embodies the horror of a recurring nightmare that draws inspiration from the insecurities of modern life. In spite of all our technology and sophistication, we can't escape the unknown.

3G get ready for the killer connection!

Character Sketches

Neil Nitin Mukesh as Sam Arora

Sonal Chauhan as Sheena

As predicted by ApunKaChoice a few days back, Abbas Mustan’s action thriller Race 2 has made it to the 100 crore club.

 

As predicted by ApunKaChoice a few days back, Abbas Mustan’s action thriller Race 2 has made it to the 100 crore club.

Filmmaker Abbas-Mustan's action thriller Race 2 has become the first film of the year to enter Rs.100 crore club by grossing Rs.100.45 crore.

Made at a budget of Rs.60 crore, the film came out Jan 25 and earned Rs.100.45 crore in two weeks of its release.

"We are glad that 'Race 2' is continuing its great run at the box office and holding its position throughout," Gaurav Verma, director - India theatrical distribution, Studios, Disney UTV, said in a statement.

"We had complete faith in the film and are extremely happy that audiences have liked the film and have made it possible for the film to reach this position," he added.

Co-produced by UTV Motion Pictures and Tips Music Films, the film features an ensemble cast of John Abraham, Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Jacqueline Fernandez, Anil Kapoor and Ameesha Patel.

'Special 26' and 'ABCD' have a good weekend

The year 2013 has surely started on a good note for Bollywood. Following the entry of Race 2 in the 100 crore club, we now have two new releases Special 26 and ABCD - Any Body Can Dance raking in the moolah at the Indian box office.

Special 26, starring Akshay Kumar, Kajal Aggarwal and Manoj Bajpayee, showed an exceptional growth over its first three days at ticket windows. The film opened to a rather sedate start of just Rs. 7 crore on Friday (below par for an Akshay Kumar starrer), but it showed a rise in collections to Rs. 9 crore on Saturday and rounded off the weekend with Rs. 10.5 crore on Sunday. The film’s total business for the first weekend stands at Rs. 26.5 crore, which is a decent enough figure.

Likewise, ABCD - Any Body Can Dance, starring a host of newcomers besides Prabhu Deva and Kay Kay Menon, seems to have clicked with young audiences.

Despite competition from Special 26, the film did a good business over the first weekend. Its Friday collection was Rs. 5.5 crore and the rise in footfalls took the collection to Rs. 6.5 and Rs. 7.5 crore on Saturday and Sunday respectively.

In fact, the film’s cast and crew (including director Remo D'Souza) are already celebrating its success. Watch the video below:

Race 2' inches towards Rs. 100 crore!

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The 100 crore club is going to see a new entry soon, as Abbas Mustan’s film Race 2 continues its good run at the box office.

The film, starring Saif Ali Khan, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Jacqueline Fernandez, Anil Kapoor and Ameesha Patel, got mixed reviews from critics, but has fared well at ticket windows so far.

After an opening weekend collection that exceeded Rs. 50 crore nett, the film held up at the box office throughout the week and the collections touched Rs. 76.1 crore nett. The film added another Rs. 15.5 crore to its kitty in the second weekend, taking its ten-day total to Rs. 91.6 crore nett. Trade pundits feel that if the good run of Race 2 continues, it will enter the 100 crore club before the coming weekend. We’ll keep you updated.

Meanwhile, among the new releases, David has fallen flat on its face with a measly collection of just Rs. 2.41 crore in the opening weekend. In comparison, Kamal Haasan’s Vishwaroop fared much better.

Vishwaroop, the Hindi version of Vishwaroopam, released amid raging controversy and drew footfalls in good numbers. The film did a business of Rs. 1.89 crore on Friday. Its collection went up to Rs. 2.47 crore on Saturday and peaked on Sunday with Rs. 3.2 crore. The opening weekend total of the film stands at Rs. 7.56 crore.

The coming Friday would see the release of Akshay Kumar’s Special 26 and Prabhu Deva’s dance film ABCD - Any Body Can Dance.

Glam doll Deepika Padukone goes for specs in ‘Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani’

Deepika Padukone

Her last two films -- Cocktail and Race 2 -- had her in hot looks. However, for her upcoming Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, actress Deepika Padukone will be seen in a plain Jane look with spectacles. Is she playing a geek? It’s learnt that Deepika Padukone has a new look in Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, and for the first time she will be seen wearing spectacles on screen. Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani has Deepika in two-three looks. For the initial scenes of the film she plays a girl-next-door, and thus is styled in a geek look. Yes, a chasmish! Deepika shot for some portions in Manali last year, and her look in eye-gear was noticed by many. Well, generally whenever our Bollywood beauties sport chic frames covering their gorgeous eyes, it is more of a fashion statement than a need. A cool pair of cat-eye glasses is very much in trend for our actresses, and Deepika Padukone, too, in the past has flaunted chic specs with tashan, pairing them up with her short dresses and jeans (do check her on the coming pages). But for Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani she is into her character. As per sources, she is carrying the look very well. Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani is directed by Ayan Mukerji of Wake Up Sid fame, and also stars Kalki Koechlin and Aditya Roy Kapur besides Ranbir Kapoor in the lead. The movie has just completed its Kashmir leg of shooting.

'Special 26' is a breathtakingly smart film,

Special 26 movie review; Writer-director: Neeraj Pandey; Cast: Akshay Kumar, Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Shergill, Rajesh Sharma, Kishore Kadam, Divya Dutta and Kajal Aggarwal; Rating: ****

Gimme raid, said the fake CBI officers who in a daredevil swoop-down on a well-known jewellery outlet in Mumbai in 1983 escaped with loot worth lakhs. If done today, it would have been a heist worth crores.

But that's the devilish beauty of Neeraj Pandey's second feature film. Though set in a world where lakhs were a large fortune, he gives us a caper-thriller worth crores. The period detailing of the 1980s - the cars, hotel lobbies, clothes, hairstyle and most importantly, the attitude to wealth acquisition (scams were unknown back then, scandals were as far as the financials over-reachers went) - they all add a lustre of underscored believability to the proceedings.

Morality is a prime casualty in the tale.

Get this. There are two sets of CBI officers on duty in this deviously-plotted tale of daredevilry and drama in real time. The real and the fake teams are respectively helmed by Manoj Bajpayee and Akshay Kumar. Both put in impressively understated performances. But since Akshay Kumar is a bigger star than Bajpayee, he gets a bonus romantic track with the unimpressive Kajal Aggarwal.

The high energy-level in the plot - how high, just check out Manoj's introductory chase sequence across Connaught Place, it leaves you panting for breath - comes entirely from the way the quartet in the core group plans its various pseudo-CBI raids across the country from Kolkata to Mumbai, bringing to the plot a meticulousness that doesn't interfere with the entertainment quotient. After a point, you don't care about the headlines. It's all about the deadlines.

The goings-on resonate in rapid-fire speed, imparting the kind of urgency to the proceedings that "Oceans 11" would have achieved if it wasn't a caper devoid of a moral centre, or Race 2 were it not devoid of a soul.

"Special 26" achieves a rare synthesis of real-life credibility and cinematic flamboyance. Pandey's perception of cinematic licence is liberating. The real-life incident involving the CBI scam, which shook the nation, is given a sensuous spin that culminates in a completely unexpected and spectacular culmination.

Cinema, Neeraj Pandey tells us, is not only about being true to life. It is also about making life seem more engaging than it actually is. This is where the director's ability to punctuate socio-political anomalies with edge-of-the-seat excitement comes into full play.

The mix of fact and fiction was earlier applied by Pandey to the theme of terrorism and the wounded individual in "A Wednesday". No character who goes so audaciously against the law in "Special 26" seems particularly wounded or terrorised. You suspect they are all in it for fun.

The characters are not in search of a moral payoff and we are not eager to find it for them.

Neeraj Pandey weaves vivid vignettes into the main heist-format from each of the four protagonist's personal lives. One of them played with compelling gusto by Kishore Kadam washes his wife's clothes at home when he is not away carrying out fake CBI raids with his comrades. Another, played equally effectively by Rajesh Verma, lives in a sprawling joint family where everyone is caught sleeping while he sneaks out to do his clandestine thing with his pals. These moments define the individual and the crime.

Anupam Kher has a sizeable part as Akshay's right-hand man. A nondescript family man with an unending brood of children, Anupam's Sharmaji could've been the reluctant terrorist Naseeruddin Shah in Pandey's A Wednesday. Thankfully, Sharmaji decided to protest against his inconspicuous life with some serious con-jobs and not something more ... er, explosive.

Another reined-in but riveting performance comes from Jimmy Shergill as a conflicted cop who must redeem himself before the final reel. And what a resounding redemption! Jimmy, who has lately shaped into one of our finer actors, imparts a secret life to his duty-bound cop's role without being given leisurely space to do so.

Manoj Bajpayee is in many ways the film's main protagonist. In fact, he gets the kind of breathtaking breathless introductory chase sequence that Akshay Kumar would normally secure for himself. Curiously, Manoj underplays his part in a film where the performances are purposely italicised. In just a couple of shots with his screen wife, we get a full measure of Manoj's idealistic character.

Whether it's the lucid and long-limbed writing or the performances or maybe a yummy yoking of both, one doesn't know. But the narrative's over-all mood is one of urgent crises-point reached with minimum fuss and optimum energy. Pandey adds considerably to his narrative's credible climate by shooting on real locations, wherever the pseudo-raids take our 'hero' and his three unlikely associates.

Akshay Kumar as the mainstay of the governmental masquerade moves away from his by-now patent and predictable comic moves to deliver a surprisingly subtle unassuming performance. His Ajay Singh is a bit of a loner, a bit of an enigma. The only character he bonds with is Sharmaji. Anupam Kher and Akshay Kumar bring a very understated father-son feeling to their bonding.

Feelings are frequently hammered into place in the no-nonsense plot by a background score by Sanjoy Chowdhary. It was the same in Pandey's "A Wednesday" where the characters' silences were loudly interpreted and interrupted by the background score.

"Special 26" is not a film that favours soft creative options. It takes the heist-story audaciously through a complicated maze of morality without getting snarled in sermons and messages. This is a film that engages you while letting the protagonists cross mischievously from one side of the line of morality to the other.

Special mention in this special caper must be made of the editing by Sree Narayan Singh, which allows every character (even the small and cute cop's role played by Divya Dutta) to breathe as individuals, and the unassuming but illuminating cinematography by Bobby Singh that takes us to the cities of the raid without pausing to define the location.

Bobby died months ago. But then this film wouldn't let him die.

Saif will have to gift me this Valentine’s Day: Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor has her plan chalked out for this Valentine’s Day. No, she’s not going to be with dear hubby Saif Ali Khan, but she’s expecting a gift from him nonetheless.

Actress Kareena Kapoor, who tied the knot with actor Saif Ali Khan four months ago, will be busy shooting for Prakash Jha's film, Satyagraha, in Bhopal on Valentine's Day (Feb 14).

"This year, my Valentine's Day will be with Amit-ji (Amitabh Bachchan), Ajay Devgn and Prakash Jha. So it's not bad," Kareena told reporters at an event Wednesday.

On what gift she will give to Saif Ali Khan on V-Day, she said: "This year, Saif will have to gift me, I gave him the biggest gift in October. I have transformed myself into a 'begum' (wife). He should come and give me a gift."

The actress, who is fond of diamonds, said there was no special day to gift diamonds.

"There is no special day to gift diamonds to a woman. So there is no particular day. Any time, whenever he (Saif) feels like.”

Asked if gifting diamonds would affect Saif's budget, Kareena Kapoor said: "This question you should ask him. But now that Race 2 is also a hit, I don't think there should be any budget issue."

Shahrukh Khan’s 'Chennai Express' dilemma!

The competition to clinch the festival release dates is hotting up in Bollywood, so much so that Shahrukh Khan, who has the Diwali slot to himself every year, is left in a dilemma over the release of his film Chennai Express in 2013.

The coming year is going be crammed with some biggies for sure. Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar are already neck-and-neck to book the Eid slot for their respective films -- an untitled Sohail Khan production and Milan Luthria’s Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai 2. On the other hand, Yash Raj Films has announced the arrival of its much-awaited Aamir Khan-Katrina Kaif starrer Dhoom 3 on Christmas 2013.

As for Shahrukh Khan’s favourite slot Diwali, it might be taken in the coming year by Hrithik Roshan, who will arrive with his superhero flick Krrish 3.

In the melee of so many biggies, Chennai Express, starring Shahrukh and Deepika Padukone, may not stand the risk of going unnoticed, but it can’t seem to find a slot where it doesn’t have to compete with another big release for the box office moolah.

Just a passing glance at the release dates of 2013 shows us that Shahrukh Khan and Rohit Shetty have the option of releasing Chennai Express on August 15, but that would be less than a week after Eid, when Salman Khan would be ruling supreme at the box office.

Another option open for the Chennai Express team is to release the film in July. Rohit Shetty is known to have given the superhits like Bol Bachchan, Singham and Golmaal in July and he might try his luck again with Chennai Express. However, for that to happen the film’s shooting and post production work will have to be expedited.

In short, while other stars and producers are quickly pre-empting the lucrative dates, Chennai Express still doesn’t seem to know which track to take.

Fans’ verdict: Salman Khan’s 'Mental' most awaited film of 2013

Salman’s Mental rules

The new ApunKaChoice poll had the fans of Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan sparring over whose film is the most awaited of 2013. Eventually, Salman’s fans had the upper hand. The coming eleven months of the New Year have on offer some interesting films from Bollywood, featuring a host of superstars like Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgn, Hrithik Roshan, Ranbir Kapoor and, of course, Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan. If Hrithik would return as the superhero in Krrish 3, Ajay Devgn won’t need a cape or designer undies over bodysuits for his superhuman pummeling of the goons in Himmatwala. Aamir Khan will turn a baddie for Dhoom 3, and Ranbir Kapoor would be a shameless slicker in Abhinav Kashyap’s Besharam. Akshay Kumar will turn a conman disguising himself as a CBI officer, of all people, to pull off daring raids at the houses of influential people in Special 26, and Shahrukh Khan would be the quintessential romantic hero serenading Deepika Padukone in Chennai Express. But the most awaited of all the films, as per fans, is Salman Khan’s Mental with brother Sohail Khan. The film, earlier tentatively called Radhe, will go on floors soon and will hit theatres around Eid. In our poll we got an overwhelming 5575 votes (keep them coming, folks), out of which 41 percent voted Salman Khan’s Mental as their most awaited film. The contest was a neck-and-neck race between SRK and Sallu.

Watch: Katrina Kaif, Sonakshi Sinha on red carpet at Colors Screen Awards

Aamir and I having good time on the sets!

Katrina Kaif has never been known to be a clothes horse, and seldom does one spot her going overboard with her fashion choices. At the recently held 19th Annual Colors Screen Awards, the lady dazzled on the red carpet in an off-shoulder Naeem Khan gown with a serpentine pattern in black. While the paparazzi had their fill clicking her, the beautiful actress cared to speak about her work. She is presently working with Aamir Khan in Dhoom 3 and the obvious question is: “How’s it working with Mr. Perfectionist?” “When you’re working with Aamir Khan, you’re anxious, you always feel that you’re gonna learn something. He’s got such a reputation of a man who cares so much about his work, and honestly, we’ve had more fun than anything. I kind of thought that he would be very serious, he would be discussing the scenes, but we actually had really good time,” Katrina Kaif said. The actress also spoke about looking ahead at a busy 2013. The Colors Screen Awards were a glamourous affair with a lot of Bollywood beauties walking the red carpet. PHOTO GALLERY: The Best Dressed at Colors Screen Awards Ahead, check out the videos of the stars at the award show and also watch Sonakshi Sinha talk about her item song in Himmatwala.

Aamir Khan takes wife and son for 'Peekay' shoot

Aamir Khan sure can’t bear to stay away from his dear wife Kiran Rao and cute son Azad. So when work beckoned him to an outdoor shoot in Rajasthan, Aamir decided to take the duo along.

Bollywood star Aamir Khan Friday began shooting for his new film Peekay in Rajasthan and the actor made it a point to take his wife Kiran Rao and son Azad along with him.

Aamir Khan has a 45-day shooting schedule lined up in Rajasthan and he couldn't afford to spend that long a time apart from his family. So he decided to take them along with him, said a source.

Even while Aamir was busy shooting for Dhoom 3 in Chicago, he made it a point to take Kiran Rao and Azad with him. He had set up a complete home for three months there as he didn't want to be away from them.

Hrithik Roshan’s fitness secrets

Hrithik Roshan's upper torso is fabulous; his muscles broad and well built. His biceps have an enviable sharpness. The strength of his back muscles is admirable and his abs are super chiseled. That agile lean bod didn’t come overnight for Bollywood’s blue-eyed hero. “Commitment is Hrithik’s key

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to fitness,” says Satyajit Chaurasia, the fitness instructor who has been training Roshan for the last eight years. Eating junk

For a person like him who absolutely worships fitness, essaying the role of a paraplegic magician in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Guzaarish was a challenge. “He had to give up regular exercising for two months. Out of habit, he would still gym for 2 days a week but with lower intensity. To gain eight kilos in two months, he ate all sorts of junk food including one vadapav for every meal, pizza, samosas, sweets and chocolates,” says Chaurasia.

   

Losing 8 kilos in 40 days

Chaurasia says, “Since Roshan has been working out for almost 15 years, his muscle memory is fantastic. His metabolism is high, so with regular concentrated exercise and a strict diet he was able to lose 8 kilos in 40 days.” “A constant regime of one hour cardio and another half an hour stretches and exercises for abs was followed every morning,” says Chaurasia. “We did concentrated exercises for one or two body parts every day for one and half hour every evening.” After the exercises he would do 500-1000 times skipping for ten minutes everyday. This itself helped him lose 500-700 calories in one go.

Follows international fitness trends

“Roshan is always open to trying new techniques and style. He follows fitness trends worldwide and reads international magazines on fitness and bodybuilding. Exploring new fitness trends and inculcating them in his regime gives him a good mental boost and excitement while training. In the gym, he is like a school kid. He maintains a daily journal of his exercise routine.”

Monitoring Results

“He uses a Polar watch that can be tied on the wrist. The watch gives a calorie count and pulse rate. On the watch, he can look at his entire year’s work out results.”

Arms (Monday)

Biceps and Triceps

Dumbell 21 (for power and sharpness of bicep muscle) x Tricep pulley push down (for tricep muscles)

Barbell curl (for entire size and strength of arms) x Line tricep extension (Difficult, yet famous exercise. Good for size and strength) 

Concentration curls (for bicep peak and roundness of muscle) x Overhead tricep muscles (for sharpness of tricep muscles)

Hammer dumbbell curl (for outer biceps and upper forearm) x Tricep kick back (to be done with light weight; for sharpness of triceps) and Reverse curl (for outer forearm area, strengthens the wrist and gives good power hold in your fist)

Wrist curl (for inner forearm)

Chest (Tuesday)

Plain Bench Press (for complete chest) x Dumbbell fly (for outer pectoral muscles)

Incline Dumbbell press (for upper chest) x Cross pulley ( for inner definition/size and hardness of chest muscle)

Decline flies (for lower chest) x pullovers (expands rib cage and gives good posture)

Back (Tuesday)Chin ups (This exercise takes more strength. Best workout for the back. Gives good power and sharpness for size)

Dumbbell rowing (for lower leg and back – strengths lower lads muscles)

Rowing pulley (Different variation of back exercise, gives stability in the spine and again works for entire back)

Shoulders (Wednesday)

Side lateral (for front and middle deltoids//shoulder muscles)

Front raises (for front deltoid)

Tea cups (for front shoulder muscles)

Dumbbell press (for entire shoulders)

Shrugs ( for trapeze muscles near the neck)

Legs (Thursday)

Leg extension (For entire legs, the quadriceps i.e. front muscles of the leg)

Free squats (most conventional exercise, gives power and size to leg)

Lunges (helps give shape to the butt; Walking lunges helps lose lots of calories; takes care of lower body fitness)

Leg curls (for hamstrings i.e. backside muscles of leg)

Good morning (Hrithik’s favourite exercise for lower back)

Hyper Extension (for strengthening lower back)

CaLF Exercise (for calf muscles which is the most stubborn muscle to grow)

All exercises are to be done in 3 sets with repetitions of 10-12-15. Depending on energy levels take a break on the fifth day or continue the same routine.

Daily Diet

Breakfast

4 egg whites, 2 brown bread, a protein shake, nuts, corn flakes with milk, fruit platter.

Lunch

2 roti, green vegetables, chicken breast, dal, caesar salad, fish platter Snack

Protein shake, egg white sandwich/fruit plate

Dinner

6 egg whites, brown bread, ½ chicken or fish with stir fried vegetables

Caesar salad during workout

1 banana

Completely cut down on oil. Not more than 2 teaspoons of oil in a day.

Cut down on sodium and absolutely no sugar. Don’t fill the stomach more than 70% not complete 100%

4-6 glasses of water

45 minutes after workout, take a meal. Sleep at least one hour after the meal.