Avatar is much awaited movie written and directed by  James Cameron. It seems,  it will redefine the 3D movie genre. Fun Cinema @ K-Star  has already gone through  some metamorphosis in anticipation of the release of this mega movie …

Plot :
The storys protagonist, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is a former Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. Jake is selected to participate in the Avatar program, which will enable him to walk. Jake travels to Pandora, a lush jungle-covered extraterrestrial moon filled with incredible life forms, some beautiful, many terrifying. Pandora is also home to the Navi, a sentient humanoid race that are more physically capable than humans, although considered primitive. Standing three meters tall, with tails and sparkling blue skin, the Navi live in harmony with their unspoiled world. As humans encroach deeper into Pandora’s forests in search of valuable minerals, the Navi unleash their formidable warrior abilities to defend their threatened existence. Jake has unwittingly been recruited to become part of this encroachment. Since humans are unable to breathe the air on Pandora, they have created genetically-bred human-Navi hybrids known as Avatars. The Avatars are living, breathing bodies that are controlled by a human “driver” through a technology that links the driver’s mind to their Avatar body. On Pandora, through his Avatar body, Jake can be whole once again. Sent deep into Pandora’s jungles as a scout for the soldiers that will follow, Jake encounters many of Pandora’s beauties and dangers. There he meets a young Navi female, Neytiri, whose beauty is only matched by her ferocity in battle. Over time, Jake integrates himself into Neytiri’s clan, and begins to fall in love with her. As a result, Jake finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth, and the Navi, forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of an entire world.

Avatar is set during the 22nd century on a small moon called Pandora, which orbits a gas giant, and is inhabited by the tribal Na’vi, ten foot blue humanoids that are peaceful unless attacked. Humans cannot breathe Pandoran air, so they genetically engineer human/Na’vi hybrids known as Avatars that can be controlled via a mental link. A paralyzed Marine named Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) volunteers to exist as an Avatar on Pandora, falling in love with a Na’vi princess and becoming caught up in the conflict between her people and the human military that is consuming their world.

Plot:
On Christmas Eve in Victorian England, Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter and miserly old moneylender, holds everything that embodies the joys and spirit of Christmas in contempt, refusing to visit his cheerful nephew Fred’s Christmas dinner party with his family, and forcing his underpaid employee Bob Cratchit to beg to take the day off for his own family. That night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Marley, who had died seven years prior on Christmas Eve and is now forced to spend his afterlife carrying heavy chains forged from his own greedy ways. Marley warns Scrooge that he will suffer an even worse fate if he doesn’t repent, and foretells that he will be haunted by three spirits that will help guide him.

The first spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Past, shows Scrooge visions of his own past that take place on or around the Christmas season, reminding him of how he ended up the greedy man he is now. He had spent much of his childhood neglected by his father over the holidays at boarding school until he was finally brought home by his loving sister Fan, who died prematurely after giving birth to his nephew Fred. Scrooge later began a successful career in business and moneylending and became engaged to a woman named Belle, though she later called off the engagement when he began to grow obsessed with accumulating his own wealth. Unable to bear having to witness these events again, Scrooge extinguishes the spirit.

The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows Scrooge the happiness of his fellow men on Christmas day. Among them are his nephew Fred, who playfully makes jokes with his family at Scrooge’s expense, and Bob Cratchit and his family, who are just barely able to make do with what little pay Scrooge gives Cratchit. The Cratchits also tend to a sickly young son, Tiny Tim, whose commitment to the spirit of Christmas touches Scrooge, who is dismayed to learn from the spirit that he may not have much longer to live. Before the spirit vanishes, it warns Scrooge about the evils of Ignorance and Want, showing them as terrifying, uncivilized children doomed to grow into savage, despicable individuals.

The third and final spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, shows Scrooge the final consequences of his greed. Tiny Tim has died, leaving the Cratchits to mourn him on Christmas. Scrooge has also died, though there is more comfort than grief in the wake of his funeral. In addition, Fred finds benefit from inheriting his wealth, and Scrooge is even robbed by his former maid. Unwilling to let this grim future come to pass, Scrooge begs to be given a second chance as the spirit forces him into his deep and empty grave leading all the way to Hell.

Scrooge awakens to find himself in his bed on Christmas morning, the three spirits having guided him over the course of one night, and immediately sets out to atone for his sins, making donations to the poor, attending Fred’s dinner party, and giving Cratchit a raise to care for his family, allowing Tiny Tim to live. Scrooge spends the remainder of his life a new man embodying the spirit of Christmas itself, and the film ends.

Plot :
Ninja Assassin follows Raizo (Rain), one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.

In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles), Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders. Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi (Rick Yune), to silence her forever. Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated. Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan.

Plot :
The story revolves around Vivan played by Himesh Reshammiya, a successful RJ on a popular radio station in Mumbai but with an unsuccessful marriage. Vivan and Pooja, played by Sonal Sehgal think that they are not compatible with each other and they take divorce. They don’t want to end this relationship but their fast pace life and busy schedule takes over their emotional states. Pooja goes and here enters Shanaya in Vivan’s messed up life and makes him smile again. Shanaya is played by Shenaz Treasuryvala. Vivan doesn’t realize his feeling about Shanaya and starts discussing her with Pooja. Being a woman Pooja understands his love for Shanaya. She starts making Vivan realize his love for Shanaya. After this behavior and responses start changing towards Shanaya. He starts knowing and getting close to her family. He realizes that his love of life is Shanaya and he want to spend his life with her although he still has soft corner for Pooja. But what exactly happens in Vivan’s life? Will he marry Shanaya? Or will he go back to Pooja?

Genre : Musical
Release Date : Dec 03,2009

Genre : Drama, Social
Release Date : Jun 25,2010

Cast Crew
Banner : Vistaar Religare Film Fund, Big Bang Films Production, Wsg Pictures
Producer : Sheetal Vinod Talwar, Madhu Mantena
Director :Ram Gopal Varma
StarCast : Amitabh Bachchan, Paresh Rawal, Ritesh Deshmukh, Sudeep, Manisha Koirala, Rajat Kapoor, Gul Panag, Raima Sen, Mohnish Behl, Rajpal Yadav, Suchitra Krishnamurthy, Alok Nath, Neena Kulkarni, Simone Singh
Music Director : Amar Mohile, Bapi – Tutul, Sanjeev Kohli, Jayesh Gandhi
Cinematography : Amit Roy
Lyricist : Prashant Pandey, Sarim Momin
Executive Producer : Gautam Vaze
Art : Aparna Sood
Editor : Nipun Gupta
Sound : Debashish Mishra
Costume : Subarna Ray Chadhuri,

Plot :

Two friends, played by Madhavan and Sharman Joshi, who begins a new course of action and that is to find their lost buddy. On this journey, while finding their friend, they happen to remember a long forgotten bet, where they had to crash a wedding and a funeral that goes out of control. During this course of time they both go through bad situations from where their another journey to their lost memories begins where they met their lost friend Rancho, played by Aamir Khan, he is out of control freak guy, a free thinker, who is very different from the world and unique in his way. He helps them to change their lives. It’s a story about their hostel days that follows with Rancho’s love story with strong hearted and bold Pia, played by Kareena Kapoor and his fight with a very harsh and a strict mentor Viru Sahastrabudhe, played by Boman Irani and after that suddenly one day Rancho goes missing. But who was he? Where was he from? Why did he leave? And where did he go? Nobody ever knew. The friend who inspired them to think more creatively and independently and taught them to see the world with a different perspective. That is why this conformist world called them Three Idiots. Now these two friend’s mission is to find the real idiot. Three idiots are all about comedy and funky ideas and to make you laugh. It is funny, wild, entertaining and insightful. A laugh riot that will teach us the most important human act of “Self Actualization.”

Genre : Comedy, Drama
Release Date : Dec 25,2009

Cast Crew
Banner : Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions
Producer : Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Director : Rajkumar Hirani
StarCast : Aamir Khan, Kareena Kapoor, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Boman Irani, Mona Singh, Parikshit Sahni, Javed Jaffrey
Singers : Sonu Nigam, Swanand Kirkire, Shaan, Shreya Ghoshal, Shantanu Moitra, Suraj Jagan, Sharman Joshi
Music Director : Shantanu Moitra
Lyricist : Swanand Kirkire
POR : Imagesmiths
Publicity : Rahul Nanda, Himanshu Nanda
Writer : Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Abhijit Joshi

Release Date : Dec 18,2009

Cast Crew
Producer : Kazaan Ahmad
Director : Tanvir Ahmed
StarCast : Ayesha Jhulka, Rahul Roy, Nauheed Cyrusi, Milind Gunaji, Saurabh Dubey, Ayaan Ahmad
Singers :
A. R. Rahman, Sunidhi Chauhan, Sukhwinder Singh, Jayachandran, Rashid Ali, Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Viviane Chaix, Chitra, Naresh Iyer, Udit Narayan, Parul Mishra

Music Director : A. R. Rahman
Cinematography : Nigam Bomzan
Lyricist : Nusrat Badr, Raqueeb Alam
Action : R P Yadav
Editor : Tamal Chakraborty
Screenplay : Tanvir Ahmed
Sound : Seema Shukla
Dialogue : Tanvir Ahmed
Writer : Tanvir Ahmed

Release Date : Dec 11,2009

Cast Crew
Banner : Yash Raj Films
Producer : Aditya Chopra
Director : Shimit Amin
StarCast : Ranbir Kapoor
Music Director : Salim Merchant, Sulaiman Merchant
Cinematography : Vikas Nowlakha
Executive Producer : Aashish Singh, Sanjay Shivalkar
Sound : Manas Choudhary
Costume : Niharika Khan
Writer : Jaideep Sahni

Plot :
Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi is a story that explains the modern day marriage. The director tries to explain it with three couples in the film. Where one of the husband named Rahul had met a sexy young young lady named Sophia a night before at a party, they both get drunk and they had a night together. Next day he wakes up with a bad hangover but he is not able to recollect what had happened between him and that lady. Have they done anything…..? His wife, Mitali is really in a bad mood this morning and Rahul thinks that she came to know everything about him that had happened last night. Rahul starts finding and to tries to recollect every thing about what had happened. He tries to get help from his friends Saxena and Amit but even they were going through their own marital problems. He gets fed up and realizes that he must go to Sophia and restore his sanity.
Genre : Comedy
Release Date : Dec 11,2009

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Cast Crew
Producer : Rangita Pritish Nandy
Director : Saurabh Shukla

StarCast : Neha Dhupia, Dalip Tahil, Anu Menon, Navneet Nishan, Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Iravati Harshe
Music Director :  Ankur Tewari
Executive Producer : Bobbie Ghosh
Production Designer : Meenal Agarwal
Art : Vilas Panchal
Editor :  Sankalp Meshram
Sound : Resul Pookutty
Publicity : Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd
Writer : Saurabh Shukla , Rajat Kapoor

Excerpt from Mumbai Mirror, reported by  Nirmal Menon on November 25, 2009 : Read Full Article

BMC officials in M/East ward are faced with a rather challenging job: righting the wrong done by one of their own.
A recent Bombay High Court order has asked the civic body to demolish an illegal construction – a two-storey bungalow in Cheetah Camp, Mankhurd that was once a shanty - which is the home of a corporator.

Mohammed Farooq, an independent corporator from ward no 135, had first landed in trouble over the property in 2001 - the first time he attempted to illegally construct parts of it. After a MRTP notice was issued by the Metropolitan Magistrate, Kurla, the structure had been demolished by the BMC.

In 2007, Farooq approached the BMC seeking permission to conduct repairs on the room. Once he got the permission, his “repairs” included joining his room with an adjoining one owned by his mother Hanifabi Abdul Razak, carrying out unauthorised construction of an RCC foundation and beams, and other changes it took to convert the single room into a bungalow.

The BMC issued two stop-work notices. The corporator replied saying he would demolish the illegal structure, but continued with the work. In November 2007, he sprung a surprise on the BMC - he sought permission to repair his illegal RCC roof.

Both parties took their dispute to the city civil court, which observed the corporator had suppressed facts and reconstructed a new house in the name of repairs. On September 1, 2008, the court also refused injunctions sought by Farooq and his mother and asked BMC to demolish the structure.

Farooq appealed to the High Court, but on November 9 this year, the High Court confirmed the order of the city civil court and dismissed the appeal. Though this was two weeks ago, there is no sign of any demolition taking place.

Mohammed Farooq’s (inset) two-storey bungalow at Cheetah Camp, Mankhurd. The corporator illegally constructed the sprawling home out of a single room by joining it with his mother’s adjoining room and building over the two structures