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Trip of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

Hrithik , Farhan , Abhay, Katrina , Kalki and Zoya together to make a trip as a way to market their films. As promised, the Team of Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara left this morning travel Bombay-spoken way that is covering cities such as Surat, Baroda, Ahmedabad, Udaipur, Jaipur and finally to New Delhi. The journey ends with a concert in the capital July 10. The whole cast comprising Hrithik Roshan , Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol, Kalki and Katrina Kaif were present this morning, with the producer Ritesh Sidhwani and director Zoya Akhtar . Kalki has not been very well maintained, and was only there to mark the trip. Which unfortunately can not travel with the band in New Delhi. Fresh and excited to take the road trip, the actors were there at the time. With the bags that came before and with a car loaded with food, water, books, iPods, everything seemed ready to go to their first destination, Surat . Hrithik Roshan was very excited and said: "I've never ever done a t...

Farhan Akhtar and Hrithik Roshan in "Running With The Bulls"

Farhan Akhtar and Hrithik Roshan's roles in Zoya Akhtar’s Running With The Bulls will offer them something new. Farhan Akhtar’s character Karthik in KCK was that of an introverted loner, while Hrithik plays a solitary paraplegic in Guzaarish. They have prepared intensely for their roles, with Hrithik gaining weight and moving around in a wheelchair and Farhan shutting himself from the world for almost a month. But they don’t have to do anything like that for Zoya Akhtar’s Running With The Bulls. Zoya Akhtar’s film will be shot in Spain and will help the actors live it up. The film is about male bonding, ala Dil Chahta Hai. It’s a fun-filled road film about male bonding. Abhay Deol plays the third best friend. While Hrithik and Farhan are buddies, having worked together on Lakshya, Farhan wants to hang out with Abhay so that the camaraderie in the film is natural. Farhan Akhtar says, ‘I think I am destined to return to male bonding films as an actor and filmmaker. I am looking forwa...

Katrina Kaif & Hrithik Roshan Together?

These days, Katrina Kaif is picking roles that will provide her the chance to prove her mettle as an actress. She is rumoured to be a part of Zoya Akhtar’s movie which stars Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol and Hrithik Roshan. If she is indeed a part of the said film, Katrina Kaif will be the only female lead. It will be an achievement of sorts because audiences will see her cast opposite Hrithik Roshan for the first time. While Katrina has refused to talk about the film point blank, Farhan mentioned that even though it’s early to talk about the film, if Katrina is a part of it, she will be Hrithik’s love interest. Abhay and Farhan have no love interests in the film. He expressed that the film is dependent upon the bonding between the three co-stars. If Katrina does this film, not only will it be her first time working with Hrithik, but she will also be working with a woman director for the first time. The film will go on floors in April.

Movie Review of Bollywood Movie Luck By Chance

Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Konkona Sen Sharma, Isha Sharvani, Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Juhi Chawla, Sanjay Kapoor, Aly Khan, Sheeba Chaddha Director: Zoya Akhtar Is being a good actor enough to make you a star? In Zoya Akhtar's detailed sketch of Bollywood and its colourful, conflicted denizens, the most important ingredient in a wannabe's portfolio seems to be that elusive thing called luck. `Luck By Chance', a wonderful colloquialism which you hear only in Mumbai, opens a wide window on our dream merchants : strange-yet-familiar characters we've met in fanzines, other films-on-film-people, on TV shows. What makes this debut of Zoya Akhtar, daughter of Javed, sister of Farhan, less than what it could have been, though, is in the way `Luck By Chance' unspools—shutting between the generic and specific and back again can sometimes diffuse a film : this one, the latest in the line of Bollywood-looking-at-Bollywood ensembles, needed to have been both newer, and sharper...

Zoya Akhtar Directing Farhan, Hrithik Roshan, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan

We have seen Bollywood New Star Farhan Akhtar weave his magic into cinema. Now, it's the turn of his older sister Zoya Akhtar. Her directorial debut Luck By Chance looks very promising, and stars a host of actors leading with Farhan and Konkona Sen Sharma. Zoya Akhtar tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf more about the film on Bollywood, and how she convinced Hrithik Roshan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan to make appearances in it. What is Luck by Chance about? It is about two characters -- a struggler and a starlet. Their struggle to become respectable, their relationship with each other and how it changes their life forever. The underlying theme of the story is success and failure and how we view ourselves. Why did you choose to dwell on the subject of failure and success? I have grown up in a place where success and failure are so polarized. How people are constantly being told by the people around them, by the media, that they have made it or not made it or they are losers or they are winn...