Thursday, February 8, 2007

Movies Coming This Season

The schedule of release dates goes topsy-turvy the moment cricket matches and school/college examinations are announced. With the World Cup [cricket matches] slated from 13th March to 28th April, a number of films have decided to re-schedule the dates. Let’s have a quick look at the changes this week…

Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd., Abhay Deol, Minissha Lamba, Shabana Azmi, Boman Irani, Kay Kay Menon, Raima Sen, Amisha Patel, Karan Khanna, Sandhya Mridul, Vikram Chatwal, Ranvir Shorey, Dia Mirza, Arjun Rampal, Suzanne Bernert, Naseruddin Shahhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Provoked.PNG
More than five films were slated for release on 23rd February, but the list has narrowed down to HONEYMOON TRAVELS PVT. LTD. and PROVOKED now. RED – THE DARK SIDE has been shifted to 2nd March since the post-production work is pending.
Nishabd, Amitabh Bachchan, Jiah Khan, Revathi, Shraddha Arya, Aftab Shivdasani, RukhsarJimmy and Johny, Sanjay Dutt, Saif Khan, Bipasha Basu, Kim Sharma, Mukesh Rishi, Shakti Kapoor, Rajpal Yadav, Anil Nagrath, Aasif SheikhRed, Aftab Shivdasani, Amrita Arora, Sushant Singh, Celina JaitleyJust Married, Fardeen Khan, Esha Deol, Bikram Saluja, Perizaad Zorabian, Yashpal Sharma, Sadia Siddiqui, Satish Shah, Kirron Kher, Raj Zutshi, Tarina Patel, Moushmi Chatterjee, Mukul Dev, Natassha
2nd March is crowded with NISHABD, NEHLLE PE DEHLLA and RED – THE DARK SIDE. While Adlabs is releasing NISHABD globally, they hold the Overseas distribution rights of RED. Meanwhile, P.N.C. informs that JUST MARRIED might make it on either 2nd/9th March.
Namastey London, Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Upen Patel, Rishi Kapoor, Javed Sheikh (Pakistan), Ritesh Deshmukh[ NAMESAKE POSTER ]Water
NAMASTEY LONDON, which was confirmed for 9th March, has been shifted to 23rd March. Reason: “Examinations,” Vipul Shah states. Also slated for release on this Friday [23rd March] are Mira Nair’s THE NAMESAKE and Deepa Mehta’s WATER.
Shoot Out at Lokhandwala, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan, Arjun Rampal, Vivek Oberoi, Tusshar Kapoor, Arbaaz Khan, Sameer Dattani, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Aftab Ahmad Khan, Neha Dhupia, Rohit Roy, Dia Mirza, Ravi Gosai, Aarti ChhabriaWoodstock Villa, Sikander Kher, Neha Oberoi, Saif Ali Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Sachin Khedekar, Boman Irani, Anupama VarmaDus Kahaniyaan, Soha Khan, Nana Patekar, Sameer Dattani, Arbaaz Khan, Mandira Bedi, Sudhanshu Pandey, Vivek Oberoi, Tanushree Datta, Jimmy Shergill, Neha Dhupia, Bipasha Basu, Aftab Shivdasani, Esha Deol, Anupam Kher, Tusshar Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Sanjay Dutt, Dino Morea, Tarina Patel, Dia Mirza, Manoj Bajpai
Sanjay Gupta will have three releases in three consecutive months -- SHOOTOUT AT LOKHANDWALA [May], WOODSTOCK VILLA [June] and DUS KAHANIYAAN [July].
Fool & Final, Sunny Deol, Shahid Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Jackie Shroff, Javed Jaffrey, Paresh Rawal, Om Puri, Rajpal Yadav, Vijay Raaz, Razzak Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Bipasha Basu, Arbaaz Khan, Ayesha Takia, Sameera ReddyKaafila, Sunny Deol, Sana Nawaz, Sudesh Berry, Ammtoje Mann, Monalisa, Polina Stoynova
Firoz A. Nadiadwala will also have two major releases this year -- FOOL AND FINAL [April; date isn’t confirmed yet] and WELCOME [July]. “I want to give a two-month gap between the two films,” Firozbhai informs. While on FOOL AND FINAL, 2007 seems to be a crucial year for Sunny Deol, with three releases back to back: FOOL AND FINAL [April], APNE [May] and KAAFILA [4th May].

UTV has decided to postpone the release of METRO to May. Initially slated for 6th April release, the film will arrive in May now. “Since Shilpa Shetty is really big in U.K. now, we plan to give it an extensive international release. Plus, we are targeting the holiday period in Overseas,” Siddharth Roy Kapur of UTV divulges.

Adlabs has confirmed the release date of their multi-starrer CASH: It’s 11th May.

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