It's all happening in the Beach Party Capitol of the world..Miami is the setting for Dharma Productions latest offering "Dostana" - serving a cocktail of all ingredients to do with Friendship, Fun, Frolic and that thing called Love but with a slight twist, there is a small case of pretending to be Gay!!
When Sameer (Abhishek Bachchan) and Kunal (John Abraham) are turned down for an apartment because the land lady doesn't want 2 strapping young men to corrupt her young sexy niece Neha (Priyanka Chopra), they go to plan "G" - they pretend to be "Gay" to secure the apartment.
All is well till they meet the sexy siren Neha and thus begins a journey of fun, frolic and a test of friendship like never before when Neha’s boss Abhimanyu (Bobby Deol) enters the fray as the third contender for her affections, it gets even hotter under everyone’s vests and bikini’s and the boy’s get down and dirty, in sunny Miami.
Sooraj Barjatya one more VIVAH
Chandni belongs to a middle-class family, living in one of the tiny by lanes of old Bhopal. She lives with her father and younger siblings- Anuj and Sandhya. Chandni, who is deeply attached to her school going brother and sister, is trained in classical and folk music. During a stage performance she falls in love with Prem...
Prem hai
ls from a rich business family. He is an unconventional ghazal singer full of mischief and pranks...
Life is picture perfect until, on the day of their engagement Chandni,s father passes away... suddenly she becomes the eldest in her family. On one hand, her 'mehendi' adorned hands are beckoning her to the dream home for her fiancé and the other hand are her siblings, whom she cannot take along with her. Chandni decides not to marry so that she can bring up her little brother and sister with self-respect.
Prem understand her and stands by h
er through thick and thin as she goes through her struggle. He unconditionally waits for Chandni for 12 long years until she fulfills all her responsibilities as an elder sister.
'Truly... sometimes the greatest love stories are... the ones that stand the test of time.'
Golmaal Returns, the much-awaited follow-up of the uproariously comic smash-hit Golmaal, arrives with renewed star power, chartbusting music and more laughter than before!
Gopal (Ajay Devgan), who lives with his wife Ekta (Kareena Kapoor), sister Esha (Amrita Arora) and a dumb brother-in-law Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor), gets stuck in a yacht after saving an attractive woman Meera (Celina Jaitly) from some goons.
Both end up spending the night on the yacht and when he comes home the next day, his painfully suspicious wife, a hardcore fan of saas-bahu serials, smells fish.
Gopal knows it's going to be hard to quell her suspicion so he concocts a cock-and-bull story about having stayed the night with a fictitious friend called Anthony Gonsalves. Ekta refuses to buy his yarn and writes to Anthony (on a fictitious address given to her by Gopal) asking him to visit her.
Gopal convinces his junior at work, Laxman (Shreyas Talpade) to pretend to be Anthony. Everything goes according to plan till the address to which Ekta had written to Anthony turns out to be real!
If that isn't complication enough for Gopal, a dead body is discovered at the location where he had saved Meera. The Investigating Officer, Madhav (Arshad Warsi), who is Esha's boyfriend and cannot stand the sight of Gopal, learns that the latter had been missing from home that eventful night and begins checking on him.
Madhav's investigation results in hilarious chaos and tricky situations where a new lie must be invented at every instance to conceal the previous lie!
Fashion movie is an eye opener for every Indian who aspire to become Model in the Market
this movie brings the understanding of modeling profession
The journey of the rise and fall and phoenix like re-birth of India's number one Supermodel.
Set against the glittering backdrop of the glamorous but ruthless world of haute couture
fashion, this tells the story of one small town girl with a dream and the determination to make it a reality
Meghna Mathur knew in her bones that she was meant to be famous. Ever ambitious and bright with stars in her eyes, even as a girl with conservative parents from a small north Indian town – she dared to dream of bright lights and the big city…
The world of fashion – the clothes, the colors, the make-up. . . all of these form a part of a fascinating world that Meghna's longed to be a part of.
Meghna never wanted to compromise on anything on her journey to success – as she puts it - whoever said intelligent women couldn't be glamorous?
She reaches the peak of her success and rises to walk the ramps for leading designers across India.
The fashion world lies at her feet – the parties, the brand endorsements, the photographers, the models, the romance and of course - the shows, the shows, the shows!
However karma catches up with Meghna as she slowly starts to pay the price for her fame and her journey to the top.
Her attempt at a comeback was going to be a near impossibility . . .
However she was never a woman to turn away from a challenge…
"Fashion" explores the world of style through the emotional personal journey of the key people that make the industry - the dream-weavers of that elaborate world of glamour: the models, designers, photographers, businessmen, agencies etc.
While the whole of America and the rest of world is celebrating the historic victory of Barack Obama in this year's presidential election, here in Kochi, an advocate has expressed absolute delight over the news that his 1991 Harvard Law College classmate has won the race to the White House.M. Ajay, an advocate by profession, settled in Kochi City, who hails from Calicut District in Kerala has reason to rejoice today.
The first word he expressed on Obama's victory was: "This is a breaking point in history, it is like man in moon I am absolutely delighted, I cannot be otherwise and I am sure other friends will be feeling the same around the world".
Ajay, during his studies in 1990 to 1991 at the Harvard Law College, happen to meet Obama as he became popular after being the first African American to be elected as the Editor of Harvard Law Review, a famous on campus magazine.
He says, though it is difficult to remember each and everyone during college time, but his fame and ability made him popular Generally, it is difficult to remember each of your classmates around 18 years ago, but Barack was the first African American to be elected editor of the Harvard Law Review and it was the main focal point in the entire campus so we had a chace to note him love and adore him during those days," said Ajay.
According to Ajay, Obama's was a great planner organiser, an expert in bringing people together and had an ability to make people forget their differences. Maybe, that is what which made helped him to get to this point, he said.
"He was a great organiser, he has the uncanny ability to make people forget their differences come and vote together as a team take them along as friends and reach their objectives in a planned manner and has all the ability to become a great man and there he is as the US president elect
That saying poignantly encapsulates the history of the civil rights movement and the meaning of Barack Obama's groundbreaking presidential victory, summing up the movement that has transformed both the law and society in the 53 years since Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Her act of defiance in 1955 became a spark that helped ignite the civil rights movement, laying the ground for the march on Washington in 1963, where the Reverend Martin Luther King delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech.
Now, a big part of the dream is being fulfilled with Obama's victory in Tuesday's election. The son of a Kenyan student and a white Kansas woman, the Illinois senator will be sworn into office Jan 20 as the first black president of the United States of America.
He is living proof of the progress that can be achieved, even in a country that abolished slavery less than 150 years ago and still enshrined legal segregation in some states less than 50 years ago.
"The potency of the moment will travel far beyond the precincts of blackness," journalist Terence Samuel wrote on TheRoot.com, a website of black thought.
"One of the truest things that Barack Obama has is that his story would only be possible in America. His success has been a repudiation of an ugly past and some absolution for our long and sinful racial history. That is an American story, and this is a different America."
Africans first arrived in the North American mainland in chains, not long after English settlers arrived in Virginia in 1607. The institution of slavery gradually became a central pillar of the economy, especially in the plantation agriculture of the South.
After the 13 original colonies gained their freedom from Britain, the US Constitution of 1787 was only forged by the striking of a brutal compromise between Northern free states and Southern slave states. Three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for the purposes of taxation and apportionment in the House of Representatives.
The so-called Three-fifths Compromise, counting African-American slaves a 60 percent of a human being, is sometimes described as the republic's Original Sin, condemning successive generations to strife.
Slavery was finally ended with the Northern victory in the US Civil War in 1865, freeing an estimated four million slaves, 10 percent of the entire country's population.
But that did not end discrimination against black people in the US.
They suffered from a lack of education, from a paucity of economic opportunities and from a fabric of laws like poll taxes, grandfather clauses and literacy requirements that kept them from voting across the South. The former slave-holding region's rigid system of apartheid subjected African-Americans to constant humiliation, and lynchings and beatings were commonplace and mostly unprosecuted.
Quietly gathering steam during the first half of the 20th century, the civil rights movement finally achieved the enforcement of black rights including voting and access to public services.
Keys to the end of institutionalized racism were the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
But the scars of brutality and prejudice are deep.
Blacks, who are 13 percent of the US population, have made steady social and economic gains but are still mostly poorer than average, suffer worse health and shorter life expectancy, and account for 45 percent of prison inmates.
"We do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery," Obama said in March, during a major address on race relations.
While justifying the anger that many blacks feel at that legacy, Obama noted that many whites feel disenfranchised and resentful. He called on both sides to work together to heal those racial wounds.
"For the African-American community, that path means embracing the burdens of our past without becoming victims of our past. It means continuing to insist on a full measure of justice in every aspect of American life," he said.
"But it also means binding our particular grievances - for better health care, and better schools, and better jobs - to the larger aspirations of all Americans."
The mere prospect of his victory was greeted as a once-in-a-lifetime moment for many blacks.
"I can't express what this means," Nathan Whitaker, a 67-year-old black contractor in Oakland, California, who grew up in then-segregated Alabama, told DPA. "As a kid I experienced segregation and racism of the worst kind. I had to come to California to escape it. And now we will have a black president. Hallelujah!"
But the jubilation that many feel is also tempered by apprehension.
"A black president is not magic," said web designer Ebhodaghe Esoimeme, 23. "He's not going to make inequality change overnight, and he's sure not going to change it in four years."
Eddie Glaude, a professor of African-American studies at Princeton University, perceived "an uneasy juxtaposition of excitement, presented by Obama, and the realities on the ground of so many black folk catching hell".
But Obama's achievement may also bolster African-Americans' faith in their fellow citizens.
"They're riding around in cars with a bumper sticker with a black man's name on it," said Scott Williams, 43, a barbershop owner who lives in San Francisco. "It makes me trust people more."
Television personality Oprah Winfrey and Reverend Jesse Jackson react after projections showed that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) will be elected to serve as the next President of the United States of America during an election night gathering in Grant Park on November 4, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.
