The King's Speech director Tom Hooper's big-screen take on the long-running, universally beloved stage musical 'Les Miserables', is a bold and audacious piece of work, but one that overstays its welcome and leaves you feeling overfed in the end. ...
It's ironic that director Sudhir Mishra's Inkaar hinges on the premise of sexual harassment and desire in the workplace, because this is a film that could leave you deeply frustrated. ...
(1) Listen carefully to the musical tune that follows, and identify the popular song and the Bollywood film in which this tune appears:
Ans: Chhi-chha Ledar, 'Gangs Of Wasseypur II'
(2) Take a look at this picture from a popular Hollywood film. The actors have been removed, but can you name the film?
Ans: 'What Happens in Vegas'
(3) To drive home the point that her fiance is marrying her only to increase his status, in '3 Idiots', Aamir Khan lies to Kareena Kapoor's fiance that she has lost the limited edition watch he recently bought her. How much does her fiance say the watch was worth?
Ans: Rs 4 lakhs
(4) Identify the popular Hollywood film in which all of these characters appear:
Ryan Bingham
Alex Goran
Natalie Keener
Ans: 'Up in the Air'
Winners:
Sanket Khare, Nagpur
Mahua Banerjee, Bangalore
B N Padhee, Bhubaneshwar
Arjun S K, Bangalore
Shiladitya Banerjee, Bangalore
CNN-IBN Entertainment Editor Rajeev Masand speaks to actor Arjun Rampal and Chitrangda Singh about their forthcoming movie 'Inkaar'. The movie is directed by Sudhir Mishra. ...
This week CNN-IBN Entertainment Editor Rajeev Masand reviewed Vishal Bhardwaj's 'Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola' and Ruben Fleischer's 'Gangster Squad'. He also spoke to Arjun Rampal and Chitrangda Singh about their forthcoming movie 'Inkaar'. ...
The very opening scene of Gangster Squad sets the tone for this brutally violent mobster movie - an unsympathetic mafioso rips his enemy in two by chaining him to cars pulling in opposite directions. That barbaric mob-boss is Mickey Cohen, Los Angeles' most feared gangster, played by Sean Penn in this 1949-set thriller inspired by real events and real people. ...
If it's true - what director Vishal Bhardwaj would have us believe in that cheeky anti-smoking disclaimer that precedes Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola - that too much of anything, even water and lemon, is harmful, then the filmmaker evidently doesn't practice what he preaches. This outrageous comedy after all shows little concern for our health as it delivers laugh after side-splitting laugh. ...
(1) Listen carefully to the musical tune that follows, and identify the popular song and the Bollywood film in which this tune appears:
Answer: Raabta, Agent Vinod
(2) Take a look at this picture from a popular Hollywood film. The actors have been removed, but can you name the film?
Answer: The Wedding Singer
(3) In A Wednesday, the police commissioner (Anupam Kher) receives a call from an anonymous person who claims to have planted bombs across the city. At how many spots does he claim to have planted the bombs?
Answer: Five
(4) Identify the popular Hollywood film in which all of these characters appear:
On this episode of Now Showing, CNN-IBN Entertainment Editor Rajeev Masand reviews 'Table No 21' and speaks to Anushka Sharma about her next, 'Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola'. ...
Depending on which way you look at it, The Impossible, starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts, is either a voyeuristic spectacle of human suffering, or a gut-wrenching but ultimately moving tale of courage and survival. The truth is that Spanish director Juan Antonia Bayona shrewdly alternates between both approaches for this real-life account of a family swept away by the deadly 2004 tsunami that hit South East Asia. ...
It's unlikely you'll come out unmoved by the big reveal at the end of Table No 21, whose deeply disturbing finale delivers a hard punch to the gut. But the problem is, while director Aditya Datt and his writers may have cracked a sure-shot climax, they invest very little in the rest of this sloppy thriller. ...
1) In English Vinglish, on her way to America Sridevi and her co-passenger Amitabh Bachchan watch a Hollywood film on the flight. What film is this?
Answer: Source Code
2) In Paan Singh Tomar, when Paan Singh asks to be recruited in the sports division, he is tested by being told he must deliver a block of ice cream to an officer's home before it melts. Under how many minutes does he make the delivery?
Answer: 4 minutes
3) In Vicky Donor, where in Delhi is Dr Baldev Chaddha's infertility clinic located?
Answer: Darya Ganj
4) In Kahaani, to what police station in Kolkata does Vidya Bagchi go, to file a missing person's report when she arrives from London?
Answer: Kalighat
5) In Gangs of Wasseypur, a grown-up Faizal Khan (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) gets his first glimpse of Mohsina (Huma Qureshi) inside a cinema while they are watching what Amitabh Bachchan film?
Answer: Trishul
CNN-IBN Entertainment Editor Rajeev Masand speaks to Anurag Kashyap, Sujoy Ghosh, Shoojit Sircar, Gauri Shinde and Anurag Basu about the kind of cinema they love. ...
The King's Speech director Tom Hooper's big-screen take on the long-running, universally beloved stage musical 'Les Miserables', is a bold and audacious piece of work, but one that overstays its welcome and leaves you feeling overfed in the end. ... 
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It's ironic that director Sudhir Mishra's Inkaar hinges on the premise of sexual harassment and desire in the workplace, because this is a film that could leave you deeply frustrated. ... 
The very opening scene of Gangster Squad sets the tone for this brutally violent mobster movie - an unsympathetic mafioso rips his enemy in two by chaining him to cars pulling in opposite directions. That barbaric mob-boss is Mickey Cohen, Los Angeles' most feared gangster, played by Sean Penn in this 1949-set thriller inspired by real events and real people. ... 
If it's true - what director Vishal Bhardwaj would have us believe in that cheeky anti-smoking disclaimer that precedes Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola - that too much of anything, even water and lemon, is harmful, then the filmmaker evidently doesn't practice what he preaches. This outrageous comedy after all shows little concern for our health as it delivers laugh after side-splitting laugh. ... 
Depending on which way you look at it, The Impossible, starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts, is either a voyeuristic spectacle of human suffering, or a gut-wrenching but ultimately moving tale of courage and survival. The truth is that Spanish director Juan Antonia Bayona shrewdly alternates between both approaches for this real-life account of a family swept away by the deadly 2004 tsunami that hit South East Asia. ... 
It's unlikely you'll come out unmoved by the big reveal at the end of Table No 21, whose deeply disturbing finale delivers a hard punch to the gut. But the problem is, while director Aditya Datt and his writers may have cracked a sure-shot climax, they invest very little in the rest of this sloppy thriller. ... 
