Patiala House: Nikhil Advani’s film about a huge Indian family settled in London. The February release will get the Bobby team back together. Yes, besides Akshay Kumar and Anushka Sharma, it stars Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia, too. Rishi Kapoor’s son, Akshay, wants to play cricket for England. But the dad is dead against this.
Murder 2: Mahesh Bhatt’s sequel to his hit Murder, but minus Mallika Sherawat and director Anurag Basu this time. Emraan Hashmi will be paired with Jacqueline Fernandes in the second part to be directed by Mohit Suri.
Aamir Khan’s film with Reema Kagti: If Aamir Khan has agreed to act in Reema Kagti’s film, there must be something in it. Of course, Reema has Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. to her credit. That’s the film with which her honeymoon in Bollywood started. But the expectations from the Aamir starrer would be sky-high even if she were a rank newcomer. After all, Aamir doesn’t become part of a project till he is very sure. Of this, the public is very sure.
Agent Vinod: Saif Ali Khan proved lucky in his first production venture, Love Aaj Kal. He is hoping, box-office history repeats itself in his second outing as producer – this time with girlfriend Kareena Kapoor as his leading lady and with Sriram Raghavan as director.
Players: Abbas-Mastan are officially remaking The Italian Job with Bobby Deol, Abhishek Bachchan, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Bipasha Basu, Sonam Kapoor and Omi Vaidya. And the audience can be sure, the director duo will do a good Indianised job of ‘The Italian Job’.
Bodyguard: Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor team up in this remake of a Malayalam film (of the same name). Even before the Hindi version can start, the film is being remade in Tamil. All the three versions have a common director in Siddiqui. Salman’s bro-in-law, Atul Agnihotri, produces the film which will be Salman’s Eid offering in 2011. And we all know how lucky Eid is for this Khan.
Joker: Shirish Kunder may not have started the principal photography of his second directorial venture, ‘Joker’, but he hopes to wrap up the shooting in five months flat, once he gets started in early 2011. Akshay Kumar plays the male lead in this 3D human drama which will be “on the lines of the Hollywood film, Life Is Beautiful”, as Shirish’s filmmaker-choreographer wife, Farah Khan, puts it. Sonakshi Sinha is the female lead.
Haunted: India’s first 3D horror film, ‘Haunted’, is bound to generate excitement when it hits the screens in April this year. This is Vikram Bhatt’s most expensive project to-date. It will re-launch Mithun Chakraborty’s son, Mimoh, under the new name of Mahakshay Chakraborty. A new face, Tia Bajpai, is being introduced in the flick.
Agneepath: It would be interesting to see Hrithik Roshan do in the remake what Amitabh Bachchan did in the original Agneepath, that too, for the same banner, Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions.
Barfee: Anurag Basu’s film was earlier titled Silence. And Basu will break his silence after Kiteswith this film starring Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra and, probably, South films’ actress Illeena.
Remake of Singham: Suriya’s Tamil film, Singham will be remade in Hindi by Rohit Shetty starring Shetty’s favourite, Ajay Devgan. Ajay has reportedly been paid Rs. 11 crore which is more than double Ajay’s market price. Reliable sources (read, Reliance sources) reveal that the film will be completed in 6 months. Insiders also say that Ajay left Rajkumar Santoshi’s Power because of this film, besides other problems and tensions.
Bol Bachan: After making three Golmaal films for Shree Ashtavinayak, Rohit Shetty is committed to making another comedy for the corporate house. To be co-produced by Ajay Devgan, it will release on Diwali, which seems to have become a lucky festival for Shetty. Ajay Devgan and Abhishek Bachchan will join forces for this one.
Double Dhamaal: It’s the age of sequels and so we have another sequel by producer-director Indra Kumar and producer Ashok Thakeria. This one promises to tickle you twice as much as Dhamaal did. Hence the title.
Vipul Shah’s remake of Ka Kha Ka Kha: John Abraham flexes his muscles in this action flick directed by Nishikant Kamath (Mumbai Meri Jaan) for producer Vipul Shah. Genelia D’Souza is John’s unlikely heroine in the remake of South’s Ka Kha Ka Kha.
Tezz: Priyadarshan directs Anil Kapoor, Ajay Devgan, Mohanlal, Kangana Ranaut, Sameera Reddy, Zayed Khan and Boman Irani in this fast-paced thriller, aptly titled ‘Tezz’. The Venus production venture is rumoured to be inspired by the Hollywood flick, Bullet Train.
Housefull 2: Sajid Khan had said after his Housefullhad clicked, “This was my Titanic, now I have to make my Avatar.” If he was serious about his comment, then his ‘Avatar’ would be Titanic 2 or, rather, ‘Housefull 2’. For, he is busy giving the finishing touches to the sequel to the first success story of 2010. He has finalised Akshay Kumar, John Abraham & Ritesh Deshmukh for the second part, he’s still deciding on the leading ladies.
Happi: Bhavna Talwar, who made the critically-acclaimed Dharm, will be out with her comedy in which Pankaj Kapur plays the title role.
Gangs Of Wasseypur: Anurag Kashyap’s films nowadays are highly discussed. That’s reason enough for this film, being shot in two parts, to become ‘hot’ at the time of its release in September.
