Dinesh Kamath's cartoons based on Alooramji that were published in Newsband

Dinesh Kamath's news 'Sunny Leone to dance to the tune of Aishwarya's song'

Sunny Leone to dance to the tune of Aishwarya's song

Sunny Leone made the hearts of many a man (and woman) beat aloud when she gyrated to the beats of 'Laila' in the film Shootout at Wadala. And ever since, Sunny Leone has made a place for herself in the dancing world, as far as Bollywood is concerned. This time around, Leone will be seen doing an Aishwarya Rai, in her upcoming film Leela. Sunny Leone will dance to Aishwarya's 'Dholi taro dhol'

Ash's 'Dholi taro dhol' dance in the film Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam was one of her best. Now, Sunny will be seen dancing to the tunes of a remixed version of the song in director Bobby Khan's film. This film, in which Leone plays the role of a princess, is touted to be a musical, and will have some nine songs in it.

That Sunny is a good dancer is no longer in doubt. The question, however, is whether she will be able to match Aishwarya or whether she will outclass Aishwarya with her dance to the tune of 'Dholi taro dhol'. The new version of the song will be sung by Tulsi Kumar, of Aashiqui 2 fame, and will be filmed in Rajasthan. Sunny, who plays a princess in the film, will also gyrate to some peppy masala tracks. The first look of Leela is already out, and has generated quite a buzz about the film.

While Sunny is currently busy shooting for sex comedy Mastizaade. Her action flick, Tina and Lolo, in which she is acting along with Bigg Boss 8 contestant Karishma Tanna, is also currently keeping the Jism 2 actress busy.

'Mastizaade' teaser depicts Sunny Leone while she is seducing. Actress Sunny Leone, is also making her Telugu debut with Current Theega. Sunny Leone is found to be extremely punctual and professional and maintains a professional attitude on the set throughout the course of the shoot. Leone plays a cameo of a school teacher in the film, which is the official remake of Tamil hit Varutha Padatha Valibar Sangam. The film includes a special song featuring the Indo-Canadian actress.

Dinesh Kamath's news 'Alia Bhatt impresses in a short film'

Alia Bhatt impresses in a short film

If the masses loved her in movies like "Highway" and "Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania", Alia Bhatt has again won many a heart by her splendid performance in the short film "Going Home", based on women's safety. This film has gone viral on social networking site. The director of the film is Vikas Bahl. He is the one who created this short film titled 'Going Home', in which he visualised a utopia for women, where, unlike today, mistrust and fear don't dictate actions and decisions. The over five-minute long film shows Alia driving all by herself in the middle of the night and telling her mother over the phone that she will reach home soon.

But her car breaks down. With no soul on the street, she wonders what to do next. Soon, she spots a car with a bunch of guys smoking and staring at her from across the street. Seeing her alone, they drive next to her car. The car approaches cautiously, however, Alia Bhatt without any inhibitions jumps out of the car and explains her situation. The men get out and examine the vehicle. In a strange turn of events, they are obviously enamored by the beautiful young girl in the tight leather skirt. One imagines the obvious - Alia, dressed in a short skirt with a top, getting attacked by the men. But instead they try to help fix her car and when that doesn't work out they become absolutely chivalrous and drop Alia safely to her gate till her house.

The actress is thrilled with the reception to the Vikas Bahl short film.

Dinesh Kamath's news 'Shraddha Kapoor as Basanti'

Shraddha Kapoor as Basanti

Hema Malini had played the tongawali Basanti in Sholay. Now it is the turn of Shraddha Kapoor to play Basanti in her upcoming film ‘Ungli’. Young and bubbly actress Shraddha Kapoor is gearing up for her item song 'Naach Basanti' for Karan Johar's production ‘Ungli’.

This is something Shraddha had never tried doing before and there are all the possibilities of people liking her in that role. Shraddha has not done any appearances in the film. She is just a part of this song and it's a cracking song.

The film stars Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut, Randeep Hooda, Neil Bhoopalam, Angad Bedi and Sanjay Dutt.

Shraddha had earlier impressed her fans with her performance in the film ‘Haider’ and now she will be seen in a special number for the film. Shraddha Kapoor is on high spirits these days, thanks to the kind of appreciation she has received for her film Haider. And now she will perform to the tune of the number ‘Naach Basanti’. The song is a racy item number and Shraddha fits perfectly for this number.

Thus after the success of Aashiqui 2 and Ek Villian and now with Haider Shraddha has completed a hatrick!

Haider is supposed to be Shahid Kapoor’s film, but audiences loved Shraddha’s character Arshia in the film and that left Shraddha surprised. From the time Vishal had offered her the role of Arshia she was in love with the character and really worked hard for it, and she didn’t fail to make people love Arshia.

There is another film ABCD 2 in which she is acting and here not only will she get an image makeover, but she will also have a radical change in her character name! Unlike Aarohi, Aaisha or Arshiya, where all her characters were named with ‘A’, Shraddha’s character in ABCD 2 will start with ‘V’.

Nowadays we find Shraddha beaming with happiness post the Haider super success!

Dinesh Kamath’s column ‘New movies to get released in Navi Mumbai’ (Happy New Year, Pyarwali Love Story, CD Kand and Honeymoon) that was published in Newsband

New movies to get released in Navi Mumbai

By Dinesh Kamath

Happy New Year

Happy New Year is a 2014 Bollywood action comedy-drama film directed by Farah Khan and produced by Gauri Khan under the banner of Red Chillies Entertainment. The film has an ensemble cast which includes, Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah, Sonu Sood and Jackie Shroff.

The film has an interesting plot. A team of six losers fake participating in a dance competition in their attempt to pull off the greatest diamond heist ever.

Happy New Year is the ultimate underdog story where a team of 'losers', win the love of millions in their quest to pull off the biggest diamond heist ever!!

The premise is simple. It's the Christmas-New Year holiday season. The biggest dance event in the world, the World Dance Championships, is being hosted in Dubai. While all eyes are on the different world-class teams that have gathered, there are a few unlikely entrants who have somehow managed to stumble into the competition.

Happy New Year is built around 5 disparate characters who are fighting a most unlikely battle - a battle of international proportions, but it's a battle being fought on a dance floor. Where the rest of the world's competitors are battling for national pride and glory on the world stage, our 5 are dancing for a different cause - revenge, retribution and closure. This is Team India, a group that has no confidence in its own dancing abilities, but is competing for a cause very important to them.

With the city of Dubai as the backdrop, and its global village ambience as its setting, Team India set about their task of staying in the competition. What follows is a manic run to the finish, where our characters face several challenges in their quest for victory as the film reaches its climax, a climax that is full of national pride, diabolical revenge and triumph.

How this bunch of losers transform themselves into a team that performs really well and how they win over the hearts of the people in the city and across the world, forms the rest of the story.

The film has Shahrukh Khan as Chandramohan Sharma/Charlie, Deepika Padukone as Mohini Joshi, Abhishek Bachchan as Nandu Bhide, Sonu Sood as Jagmohan Prakash, Boman Irani as Temhton Irani, Vivaan Shah as Rohan Singh and Jackie Shroff as Charan Grover. The film has special appearances by Dino Morea, Prabhu Deva, Sarah-Jane Dias, Malaika Arora Khan, Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Dadlani, Sajid Khan and Anupam Kher.

The music of Happy New Year is composed by the duo of Vishal-Shekhar while the lyrics are penned by Irshad Kamil. The film has songs like India Waale sung by Vishal Dadlani, K.K., Shankar Mahadevan and Neeti Mohan, Manwa Laage by Arijit Singh and Shreya Ghoshal, Satakli by Sukhwinder Singh, Lovely by Kanika Kapoor, Ravindra Upadhyay, Miraya Varma and Fateh, World Dance Medley by Neeti Mohan, Vishal Dadlani, Sukhwinder Singh, K.K., Shankar Mahadevan and Shah Rukh Khan, Nonsense Ki Night by Mika Singh, Dance Like A Chammiya by Sunidhi Chauhan and Vishal Dadlani, Sharabi by Manj Musik, Nindy Kaur, Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani, Indiawaale (Electronic) by Neeti Mohan, Vishal Dadlani, K.K. and Shankar Mahadevan, The Heist (Instrumental) and Kamlee by Kanika Kapoor, Ravindra Upadhyay, Fateh and Miraya Varma.

Pyarwali Love Story

Pyaar Vali Love Story is a Marathi movie directed and written by Sanjay Jadhav. Starring Swapnil Joshi and Sai Tamhankar in the lead roles, the plot of the film is set in the 1990s.

This movie is passionate love story set against the backdrop of communal war. Set in the 1990s, Pyaar Vali Love Story tells the story of Aliya and Amar, who share a passionate romance. Alas, their love will be tested as something horrible is about to take place. Will they be able to face the dangers that threaten their togetherness?

The film has Swapnil Joshi as Amar, Sai Tamhankar as Aliya, Urmila Kanitkar as Nandini, Upendra Limaye as Kadar, Sameer Dharmadhikari as Pashya, Nagesh Bhosale and Chinmay Mandlekar.

CD Kand

CD Kand is a film directed by Imtiaz Patil and its cast consists of Anuya Bhagvat, Anara Gupta, Jay Kapdia, Dhananjay Singh and Samarth Chaturvedi.

CD Kand is a story of a woman known as Gauri Devi, who was victimized by state politicians sexually and then killed to burry the matter. But there is a saying that woman and elephants never forget their revenge and so is Gauri Devi. She returns as a ghost to take her revenge. Mansi Rana who is a reporter of a local news channel becomes the medium for her. And then the movie depicts the struggle of Mansi Rana to expose killer of Gauri Devi and Gauri Devi’s desire to fulfill her vendetta.

Honeymoon

Honeymoon is a 2014 horror film directed by Leigh Janiak. The movie is about Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway as a newly married couple whose honeymoon ends up being ruined by a series of strange events.

The movie has an interesting plot. Bea (Rose Leslie) and Paul (Harry Treadaway) are newly married and off to have a romantic honeymoon in a rustic cabin set in a secluded forest. During their stay there, they go to a small restaurant whose owner initially acts hostile, asking them to leave, but later calms down, realizing he was Bea's childhood friend. The man's wife then comes in, acting weird and saying they need to get away. After that, everything goes normally until their wedded bliss is cut short when Bea goes missing. Paul finds her naked and disoriented in the woods with no evidence as to how or why she got there. He takes her back to the cabin, with her claiming she was sleepwalking due to the stress, and to make nothing of it. However, as time passes, Bea's behavior becomes increasingly distant and strange. At first, Paul blames Bea's strange behaviour on some encounter with Will, the restaurant owner, but soon he realizes there's more going on. On one night Paul was staying awake and he sees some bright lights through the windows, but when he goes to investigate he finds nothing. One day, during an argument Bea locks herself in the bathroom, and when Paul breaks in, he finds her repeatedly stabbing herself in the crotch. Paul then ties her to her bed and she asks him to "take it out of her". Paul puts his hand into her vagina and takes out a large worm-like creature. Bea later explains that the night she disappeared into the woods, she saw the lights at night and couldn't help walking towards it. She then saw some silhouettes and they apparently impregnated her. Bea then says that she is Bea, but they're taking away what's left of her. She then says she must protect Paul because they are going to "dispose of him". Bea then knocks Paul out, takes him into the middle of the lake on a boat, ties an anchor to his feet and throws him into his death. Bea is then shown to be deteriorating, her skin becoming white and flaky. Bea then meets Will's wife, and they walk away into the lights. The film finishes with Bea saying "Before I was alone, but now I'm not."

Thus the film has Rose Leslie as Bea, Harry Treadaway as Paul, Ben Huber as Will and Hanna Brown as Annie

Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'How long will BJP last and is Congress finished?' that was published in Newsband

How long will BJP last and is Congress finished?

Bharatiya Janata Party won the Haryana Assembly election and emerged as the single largest party by far in Maharashtra. BJP now seems to be in a position to encroach on the national political space occupied by the Congress. Now, after a majority of its own in the Lok Sabha, the party is less risk-averse. The strategy to fight without major allies seems to have paid off very well, though in Maharashtra, where it fell short of a majority, the party might want to revive its ties with the Shiv Sena.

In its desperation to see its pramukh Uddhav Thackeray as chief minister, the Sena preferred to go alone. But what happened is that the BJP has increased its ability to dictate terms with prospective allies, not lower its dependence on alliances. In Maharashtra, it is a good strategy to go it alone. It is high time that frenetic groups are kept out of political power. At best, these two warring groups of Sena are there only to create frenzy laden with fear and to create a perpetual unrest in the Mumbai city and its suburbs. They always have a divisive agenda and thrive on the fear factor.

The Lok Sabha elections had helped BJP establish a strong foothold across the country. The high risk taken by Modi-Shah duo helped BJP score an illustrious victory in Haryana and an almost victory in Maharashtra, both Congress strongholds. It appears as if the Congress is being decimated to a regional party. The Congress is decimated in Haryana and is gasping for breath in Maharashtra, its poor third position in both States. So caste politics did not work here. These polls signal the death of feudalism in our polity. The Congress failed to come out of its obsession to cling to Nehru-Gandhi family as the sole hope and there was no leader of some substance who emerged. This trend of shrinking is going to continue. But looking to its sycophancy nature and it being unable to realize and appreciate the truth, and reconnect with the masses, everyone doubts whether it will ever be able to relocate itself. The lack of a charismatic leader and corruption led the Congress party into a great crisis. Both Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly election are the examples of this crisis. BJP gathered the anger of the people and was able to turn into the votes. Congress had ruled and ruined this country for 60 years. People have now voted BJP and Modi with hope. How long will Modi and BJP rule this country is left to be seen.

The ever tireless Modi has proven his prowess, conducting numerous rallies in 10 days. It is now time for him to start acting and showing results. BJP should be always conscious of the promises of development it made to the country and in all the states in a true spirit of cooperative federalism and focus on quick results to remain as a party with proven capacity to deliver on its promises.

Yes, there is Modi wave going on in the country but we cannot deny the ability of local leaders of the BJP who won in this election. Hope, new government both in Maharashtra and Haryana would provide good governance and fulfill the aspirations of the people.

Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'Why can’t we be like China?' that was published in Newsband

Why can’t we be like China?

India won the gold medal in hockey in the Asian Games in Incheon, Korea, only its third, at the expense of eight-time champion Pakistan.  India now prepares for the Rio Olympics, for which it has automatically qualified as the Asian Games champion.

Hockey apart, there were gold medals for India in athletics, kabaddi, tennis, archery, shooting, squash, boxing and wrestling. But the eventual medals tally of 57 including 11 gold, fell short of expectations. The eighth place on the medals table was not a big deal.

The main features of India’s achievement included the iconic Manipuri boxer M.C. Mary Kom’s maiden title in the Games, and the runaway victory for the women’s relay team.

These achievements showed us that there is no shortage of talent in India, just we need to harness them. Government has to frame a National Sport Policy which will be implemented by Sport Ministry. Sports should be part of the school curriculum and student should participate in at least one sport of their choice. Every state must have an Olympic like infrastructure and sport academy on the basis of NDA.

We have to start Sports institutes for children with good physique and train them in the sports of their choice. The children should be selected at school level and families of those children should be encouraged to send their children to boarding schools, where sports form the main curriculum. Their education should be taken care of. We need investment for a generation or two to see tangible results.

The show at Asiad is just peanuts as compared to our vast population. The major hindrance is lack of infrastructure at grass root level. At prime age talents should be nurtured. We should have a clear-cut vision in promoting sports.

Take the example of China. Now everyone accepts it as just next to US. Same is reflecting in the medal tally either in Olympics or in Asian games. In 1986 they just got 5 gold medals in Seoul Olympics and ranked 11th in the world. But they took the issue very seriously, as these events are watched very closely around the world. Within 20 years they got 51 gold medals in Beijing Olympics and even surpassed US and acquired rank 1. Why we can't?