There’s fantasy (The Last Witch Hunter) and there is reality (Rock The Kasbah) and wedged between the two is the fabulosity of Shaandaar. It’s the Dussehra weekend where you hunt, rock, or sing and dance. Or all of them.
The Last Witch Hunter "Do you know what it’s like to live forever?" Ask Vin Diesel (who, ironically, has a die named after him). There are some very bad things out there, and one of them is not Vin Diesel as he sets out to prove he can act and won't die in The Last Witch Hunter, which will be released on Friday, October 23.
The movie also stars Michael Caine in the never-changing role of a wise man guiding the unfaithful. Get ready to spill some guts, not yours. One critic is calling it "not even the best worst movie of the year," as Vin Diesel announces a sequel. Now that’s pushing for immortality.
Rock The Kasbah "What the hell am I doing here?" Bill Murray’s character Richie Lanz asks himself when he is stranded in Kabul without his passport and money. The has-been rock band manager discovers an Afghan girl with a voice he thinks will get him back on the bus. But it turns out to be a gravy train of misadventures with him croaking, Smoke on the water, fire in the sky. It will take more than Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson and Zooey Deschanel to pull him out of his blues.
Shaandaar Positioned as "India’s first wedding destination film" (whatever that might be), shot in picturesque (not!) locales of Leeds, Shaandaar follows the preparations of one such wedding of a mismatched couple Isha and Robin – where Jagjinder (Shahid Kapoor), a wedding planner, meets Alia (Alia Bhatt).
You can follow the rest through the song and dance routine. Three big studios (Phantom Films, Dharma Productions, Fox Star Studios) are coming together for this venture with the expectation that Shaandaar – directed by Vikas Bahl of Queen fame – will bring fabulous returns from the "great big fat Indian wedding." How rare to have a Hindi film with a shaadi in it!