Aisha

Starring Sonam Kapoor, Abhay Deol, Amrita Puri, Ira Dubey, Cyrus Shahukar, Arunoday Singh

Directed by Rajshree Ojha

The thing about shallow people from the beau monde is that they shouldn’t be played shallowly when brought to the screen.

Sonam Kapoor in a ‘tailor’- made role (where more moolah seems to have been spent on tailoring her chic outfits than on exploring the locations , sound sights scents and , yes, sense of this embarrassing world of excessive self-preening) gets the Jane Austen character right. Quite a leap for the actress.

When she had played the confused lover-girl in Saawariya Sonam had imposed her own natural-born confusions on the character rendering it shaky and disembodied.

In Aisha Sonam is far more in control of her character’s misguided emotional compulsions. The fact that the young actress knows this label-centric designer world of chic shenanigans so well helps Sonam master and contour her character’s art of self-deception in a way the original author of the character would have approved.

Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif ZNMD has no buyers, Kites effect??

Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif starrer mega- budget upcoming flick ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ is still unsold and producers are finding it hard to sell the movie on their terms due to bombing of Hrithik- Barbara Mori’s last venture ‘Kites’ at the box office. Sources from the trade reveal that the producers had approached two big corporate houses for the film.
But they never reverted with positive answers and believed to have told that they could not commit big sum of amount on Hrithik Roshan now. The buzz is that Ritesh Sidhwani of Excel Entertainment wanted Hrithik Roshan-Katrina Kaif starrer ‘Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara’ to be sold along with Abhishek Bachchan-Kangna Ranaut ‘Game’ for a whopping sum of Rs 100 crores.
But corporate houses were unwilling to bet on these two stars after the debacle of big -budget flicks ‘Kites’ and Mani Ratnam’s ‘Raavan’. They are not willing to pay this amount without going through every detail about the film and then even pruning.
The amount to reasonable level. Hrithik Roshan-Katrina Kaif starrer flick has been directed by Zoya Akhtar and largely shot in Spain. The film has big canvas and even the expertise of a good director like Zoya, but corporates have been refusing to bite the bait.

Aisha opens to a mixed response

The chick-flick Aisha toplining Abhay Deol and Sonam Kapoor, that released last week, opened to a mixed response.
Trade analyst Taran Adarsh said, “The film was received well at multiplexes with 70 to 80 per cent occupancy on Friday.
However, the response at single-screens and small centres was dull, with the opening being in the range of 20 per cent to 25 per cent.”
This was corroborated by Prakhar Joshi, Head of Programming, PVR Cinemas, who said, “The film has taken a good opening.
It has collected about Rs 2.45 crore across the country. Our multiplexes in South Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai have opened with almost 90 per cent occupancy over the weekend. Compared to this, Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai collected Rs 1.2 crore in the same period.”