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• Kidnap mp3 songs
  Kidnap is slated to release on October 2,2008.The movie stars Sanjay Dutt , Imran Khan , Minissha Lamba , Vidya Malavade and Rahul Dev. Kidnap is a high octane edge of the seat drama about a power tussle between a young boy and the father of the girl he kidnaps. Sanjay Gadhvi of Dhoom & Dhoom 2 fame is the director and the music is composed by Pritam and Sandeep & Sanjeev Vyas. After impressing us with his dream debut in Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na,Imran Khan is seen in a villainous role in this movie.
• Karz (1980) mp3 songs
  Karz was released in 1980 and was directed by Subhash Ghai. The movie mainly stars Rishi Kapoor,Tina Munim(Now Tina Ambani),Simi Garewal,Raj Kiran,Premnath and Pran. The music which was composed by the duo Laxmikanth-Pyarelal went on to become the charbuster on famous Binaca Geetmala. They won the Filmfare Best Music Director Award for this movie. The story is about the reincarnation and the revenge.The movie had some classic songs which inlcudes " Ek Haseena Thi " and " Om Shanti Om " by Kishore Kumar. And " Dard -E-Dil " by Mohd.Rafi.

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Kidnap is slated to release on October 2,2008.The movie mainly stars Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Minissha Lamba,Vidya Malavade and Rahul Dev. Kidnap is a high octane edge of the seat drama about a power…

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• Jab We Met mp3 songs
  Jab We Met is a romantic comedy hindi movie. The movie which was written and directed by Imtiaz Ali, stars Shahid kapur and Kareena Kapoor in the leading roles. This movie is the about the story of a bubbly Punjabi girl (Kareena Kapoor) who meets the Mumbai businessman (Shahid Kapur) in a train and how she changes the businessman's life. Kareena Kapoor won all the major awards in the Best Actor in a Leading Role - Female that year. The music was instant hit and remained at the top for many weeks and was composed by Pritam.
• Taare Zameen Par mp3 songs
  Taare Zameen Par is an award-winning movie directed by Aamir Khan and produced by Aamir Khan Productions. The film tells the story of eight year old Ishaan (Darsheel Safary) who suffers greatly until a teacher Nikumbh (Aamir Khan) identifies him as dyslexic . Amole Gupte is the writer and creative director for this movie,whereas Shankar,Ehsaan & Loy the trio are the music composers and Prasoon Joshi is the lyricist. This movie won all the major awards for Best Film category. Even the politician LK Advani had tears in his eyes after watching at a special screening in Delhi.

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Taare Zameen Par is an award-winning movie directed by Aamir Khan and produced by Aamir Khan Productions. The film tells the story of eight year old Ishaan (Darsheel Safary) who suffers greatly until…

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• Hum Kisise Kum Naheen (1977) Songs
  Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin was released in 1977. It went on to become one of the all time musical hit.The movie stars Rishi Kapoor, zeenat Aman, Tariq, Kaajal Kiran, Om Shiv Puri, Jalal Agha & Amjad Khan. This movie was produced and directed by Nasir Hussain,music was composed by R.D Burman. Mohd Rafi won the National Award for Best Playback Singer and Filmfare Award in the same category that year for the super hit song " Kya Hua Tera Wada ". Other hit songs in the movie are " Chand Mera Dil " , " Bachna Ae Haseeno ", Tum Kya Jano Mohabbat Kya Hai " & " Mil Gaya Humko Saathi " which were part of the famous medley.
• Ijaazat (1987) Songs
  Ijaazat is an acclaimed Hindi movie directed by Gulzar was released in 1987. This realistic movie,also known as art cinema or parallel cinema, stars Naseeruddin Shah, Rekha & Anuradha Patel in the leading roles . This movie is about the divorced couple who accidentally meet in the waiting room of the railway station and how they discover about their lives without each other. R.D Burman composed one of his best compositions for this movie and all the four songs were sung by Asha Bhosle and she recieved a National Award for Best Female Playback Singer,while Gulzar got the Best Lyricist Award.
• Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar Songs
  o Jeeta Wohi Sikandar is a 1992 Hindi sports drama film from the Indian Bollywood film industry, directed by Mansoor Khan (who earlier directed Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak). The film stars Aamir Khan, Pooja Bedi, Ayesha Jhulka, Asrani, Aditya Lakhia, Mamik, Sanam Oberoi, Deepak Tijori, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kiran Zaveri, Anjan Srivastav, and Faisal Khan. The music was by Jatin Lalit.
• 1942 A Love Story Songs
  1942: A Love Story is a Hindi movie released in 1993. The movie stars Anil Kapoor, Manisha Koirala, Jackie Shroff, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa and Pran. The movie was the first ever to be given a U/A rating while featuring a scene, previously considered inappropriate for young children, showing the actors kissing. The film was a musical hit and was released some time after the death of the music director, R.D Burman. The film received five Filmfare Awards.
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  Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak ,which was released in 1988, is a Bollywood film written by veteran producer/director Nasir Hussain and directed by his son Mansoor Khan. The film introduced Hussain's nephew, Aamir Khan to Indian moviegoing audiences. Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak is a landmark movie in the history of Indian Cinema.

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Rock On - Bollywood Movie Review

Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Kenny Luke, Purab Kohli, Prachi Desai and Shahana Goswami
Director: Abhishek Kapoor
Rating: ****

A large number of our films are about life. Some are about music. Seldom has a film blended the music of life into the fabric of a film with such seamless expertise. “Rock On” is that rarity where every component, character and episode falls into place with fluent virility.

You know there’s great skill involved in the way the characters are interwoven into a pastiche of the past pain and the present gained. But the craft never shows up on screen.

In essence what we see in “Rock On” is that cliché called a slice-of-life cinema turned inside out. The story of four musicians, who have given up their true vocation in pursuit of routine ambitions, is nothing new.

The inspirational muscles grow into the plot through the subtle treatment of the characters, each crying from within without making a song and dance of their emotions unless we’re talking about the robust rock soundtrack created by composer trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy where the rhythms just blow your mind. The music manifests the protagonists’ emotions in a tangential light.

But the on-stage energy, so capably choreographed and captured in the film, is a very small part of the film’s epic design.

The stage where we see Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Kenny Luke and Purab Kohli come together and then fall apart is actually a metaphor for the podium of existence where life for this quartet of closet-musicians plays out a cruel game of hide and shriek.

For a film where wounded hearts bleed profusely, there’s very little melodrama in the treatment.

Director Abhishek Kapoor prefers understatement to bellowing out the message. The film brims over with un-italicised dramatic tensions. And that’s where Farhan scores as an actor. He is equally at ease expressing the angst of a thwarted musician and a husband whose sweet caring near-angelic wife (Prachi Desai) leaves no stones unturned to bring back a smile to her husband’s face.

The other marriage between the embittered musician Arjun and his tirelessly slogging wife Shahana Goswami is trickier. Here we see how the narration dodges and hops over the pot holes of pedestrianism, and converts the trite into the timeless by making the human relationships obtainable rather than obtuse.

The characterisations are first-rate. These people are all casualties of suburban paranoia brought into the frames of a film that requires no camera lenses to locate the strengths and foibles in their personality. We don’t need to pinpoint their pain and passion. We accept them as they are.

Covering a much wider distance than the acres covered by “Dil Chahta Hai”, “Rock On” simply redefines the human-interest drama by creating a plot that accommodates the highest notes in the range of human emotions without straying into shrillness… quite like the sweet Prachi, who sings Lata Mangeshkar’s “Ajeeb dastaan hai yeh” with disarming innocence and sincerity in a film where rock music is the propelling factor.

Aligned with pain and passion, every character builds his own hell and comes out of it without a discernible yell in “Rock On”.

Jason West’s cinematography makes special place for the heart in his art. While on the polished surface we see the glisten of sweat and the trickle of a tear intangibly, the camera shoots the sets in a light that constantly reflects the characters’ inner world.

And the seamless editing by Deepa Bhatia fuses the past into the present in a way that makes time appear to be a pivotal but unobtrusive character in the plot.

The performances are all so apt you wonder if any other actor could have achieved so much with such austere lucidity. Farhan believes in the less-is-more theory giving his role of the band’s lead singer all he has got without tripping over the scale.

Purab, earlier made an accomplished presence in “My Brother Nikhil”, imparts an impish cockiness to the drummer’s part while first-time actor Luke Kenny as the dying keyboards plays is poignant without bringing on the violins.

But the truly revealing performance comes from Arjun Rampal. As the embittered guitarist clinging to family and music with desperate bravado, his eyes convey a wealth of pain and hurt.

And we may well ask director Abhishek Kapoor the same question. Nothing Kapoor has done in his inglorious past prepares for the sheer guttural glory and power of “Rock On”.

Chamku - Bollywood Movie Review

Cast: Bobby Deol, Priyanka Chopra, Danny Denzongpa, Irrfan Khan, Riteish Deshmukh
Director: Kabeer Kaushik
Rating: * 1/2

First things first - what kind of a name is “Chamku”? Is it the name of a detergent or a whitener? No, it’s the name of a Maoist-turned-government-assassin who later becomes an avenging angel.

This is director Kabeer Kaushik’s second film and he had raised hopes after his gritty “Seher”. One went to see the film with serious reservations about the name of the film and really nothing else.

One thought maybe Kaushik could turn around the luck of Bobby Deol, who is desperately in need of a hit. But soon you realise that Bobby, who plays the protagonist Chamku in the film, is luckless.

An evil Thakur shoots Chandrama Singh’s family. Chandrama’s name is shortened to Chamku by Maoist leader Danny Denzongpa and grows up as his favourite lieutenant. He’s serious, morose, with one single expression on his face. Clap clap, that’s called acting.

Then Chamku is encountered and lies in the hospital with the same depressed look as a government agent Irrfan Khan, dependable as usual, makes him an offer.

He’s now trained to kill, we’re told. So he goes around killing, till he meets lovely Priyanka Chopra, who is wasted in the film.

Here the director lets go of a potential comic sequence when Bobby is about to introduce himself to the girl.

Eventually love happens, songs happen, even pregnancy happens. So much happens and Chamku looks even more depressed. By then, so are you.

It doesn’t take you long to understand that the Maoists and the government-assassin- looking-to-get-out angle is just a guise for an often repeated revenge drama.

Danny’s character should have been etched out with better imagination. The action sequence set in a train is handled well, but it isn’t enough to redeem the film.

Honestly, there’s little shine in this “Chamku”.

C Kkompany - Bollywood Movie Review

Cast: Mithun Chakraborty, Tusshar Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Rajpal Yadav, Raima Sen
Director: Sachin Yardi
Rating: **

Apart from a rather sad and overdone vulgar joke on the surname ‘Jha’, “C Kkompany” steers clear of turning the comedy into full-fledged farce.

This is the down market “Munnabhai” of the year. It tells us, it is okay to be a loser as long as your heart is in the right place. The bank balance stands a chance of being enhanced by hook or by crook provided you can get the formula for converting the zero in your life to some zeroes in your cheques.

Unlike the avalanche of films with a trio of male protagonists from “Masti” to “Dhol” to “Golmaal”, this one isn’t about three jobless youngsters ogling up skirts and barking up the wrong trees.

The interesting mix of three generation of heroes played by Anupam Kher, Rajpal Yadav and Tusshar Kapoor, brings a span of social comment into the plot.

If Anupam (suitably wizened) is badgered by his rather innocuously ungrateful son and daughter-in-law, Rajpal is hounded by the pathos of being not tall enough to compete with the Bachchans of the world.

In fact, the film’s most touching moment ensues when Rajpal masquerading as a bird in a mall is confronted by his bitter wife and son. That moment defines the whole theme of working class mores as defined by the cult of globalisation and materialism and the ensuing guilt of the collective middle class as the attitude of anything-goes qualifies the way we mould our morality.

The idea of three losers forming a company to extort a positive morality out of subverted system of governance is not new.

“C Kkompany” gets it right on the plot level. However, the execution gets cumbersome with an excess of gags and episodes that run from the ridiculous to the mundane.

The most interesting character is that of the comic gangster Dattu Satellite, who loves Ekta Kapoor’s serials. Dattu’s ring tone is the signature tune of “Kyunkii Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Tthi”. And because the film is produced by TV tycoon Ekta Kapoor’s company (Balaji Motion Pictures Ltd), whole battery of Balaji actors troop in and out. The home-viewing treat becomes a casualty of overkill.

‘Plotshots’ are taken at Ekta. She sportingly allows herself to be bullied by Mithun Chakraborty’s character in her own office.

Also endearing is the sublimation of extortion and gangsterism as odes to philanthropy. One by one the episodes of this homage to Ram Gopal Varma’s underworld concoction move from the three losers to the wider good of society at large.

The narration loses its way in the journey. And “C Kkompany” ends up being neither here nor there. Just an interesting idea gone astray.

The performances tend to blend into the fabric of giggly gangsterism. The trio of ‘heroes’ get into their roles with the opposite of gusto. Mithun goes over-the-top with the much relish.

What makes us giggle are the digs at Ekta Kapoor’s saas-bahu serials and actors. But they cannot sustain two hours of comment on the quirks and mores of the middle class. Maybe this film had its heart at the right place. But the vision just doesn’t match up.