ABHAY DEOL - "The new face of Indian Cinema"

Indian cinema is changing, and along with it evolving many personalities which represent the face of new Indian cinema. Among them is Abhay Deol, the most unconventional actor of hindi Cinema today who is not afraid of taking risks in roles he opts for. Even after being from the one of the most impactful DEOL family of commercial cinema, Abhay have developed a niche for himself which differentiates him from other actors.

He is the actor of today’s multiplex cinema; his roles cater to the youth of society with the heavy touch of reality and unconventional non filmy style of acting. Consider any of his roles and you will find it very near to reality. Be it Ankush of “Aahista Aahista”, the super thief from “Oye lucky lucky Oye”, or dev from “Dev D”, he has offered a variety always.

Abhay is a thinking actor and has done majority of work with debutant directors; rather unusual and daring in the context of “Star driven” hindi film industry. One can understand Abhay’s philosophy about his progress from the fact that he took more than 8 years to enter film industry just because he wanted to complete his studies first. After graduating from Mumbai University, Abhay headed to Los Angeles and studied Fine Arts. After completing a two year acting course, Abhay answered to his Bollywood calling making his debut with Imtiaz Ali directed “Socha naa tha” in 2005. His second film was “Ek Chalis ki last local” followed by “Manorama 6 feet under” which won the Best Film at the Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival in New York City. Dev.D, directed by Anurag Kashyap, in 2009 and was critically acclaimed and was a big box office success.

Barely 10 films old Deol has been the cover of Man's World and Time Out Mumbai, with titles such as "the new face of Indian cinema". He placed seventh on Zoom's "50 Most Desirable Hotties" poll for 2009. He has often been described in the media as the thinking women's sex symbol.

After framing the story for Dev D , Abhay is all set to debut as producer with much awaited ”BASRA”. Hope to see some unconventional entertaining stuff from producer Abhay.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAI

ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAAI (OUATIM) is a about the emergence of mafia in Mumbai. The movie depicts the crime scenario in Mumbai during the 70s and later period. The movie is all about power and style of ruling underworld by two individual of different age-groups and ideologies. Unlike the other underworld movie where high focus is on the violent part of mafia OUATIM throws light on how an ordinary man rose to his powerful status in the underworld, generation following his footsteps to fame and the rise and fall in the underworld along with the Mafia style romance.
Sultan Mirza (Ajay Devgan), an orphan comes to Mumbai in his early childhood and makes his way out by doing “what government doesn’t permits” in his own right way and emerges as the powerful king of Underworld. Following his footsteps the next generation over ambitious Shoeb (Eemran Hashmi) comes to Sultan and impresses with his style and courage. In between there is hide & seek and war of brains between Shoeb and Agnel (Randeep Huda), ACP of Crime Branch. Then there arises the clash of ideologies between the two powers and in comes the changed face of underworld.
OUATIM is quite enjoyable and convincing because of powerful dialogues, strong background score and power pack performances by lead actors. Director Milind luthra has successfully combined the life of underworld’s most powerful personalities (Haji Mastan & Dawood). Director has convincingly recreated fascinating drama and the retro from the ‘70s.
Ajay Devgan is superb as Sultan, even though he has played similar role in COMPANY but still he differentiates Sultan with his intense acting Eemran is fantastic as wicked Shoeb and proves that he is one of the best in portraying bad boy. Kangana has done good job, where as Prachi doesn’t impress at all. Randep huda has again proved his potential and it seems he is specialist in roles related to Police and Mafia. Story is good but fails to bind parts sometimes, but it compensates with well written start and climax. Dialogues are very powerful and music is good.
Go for it as it offers you a different underworld story with slight touch of romance.

Ratings: 3/5
AMIT

Last week I watched movie"3 Idiots" & still its all over my mind. Since our childhood our race of competing begins & keeps on going till we die in one or other form.
We always study, not to learn but only to earn. We do jobs because it pays more not because we love doing it.This race, this competition & this adjustment is unknown hidden fact behind most of our problems & dissatisfaction.

We always compete with others, in this process sometime we miss the actual learning.I strongly believe that we should compete with ourselves, rather than competing with others.
We always crib about problems in society & country, but actually we are the reason behind it.
We break traffic rules & then bribe, wearing seat-belt & helmet is a big problem for most of us.
We waste water, electricity because we are paying for it and we forget that many people in country still struggling for it. We bribe to get seats thus eliminating a deserving candidates
But Have you ever thought what have you done for country?, what efforts we make to eliminate these problems. How much you have contributed to uplift the society.
If You have not thought till now START THINKING & ACT