Page 3

Director...Madhur Bhandarkar
Producer…Bobby Pushkarna
Music…Shamir Tandon
Cast:
Konkona Sen Sharma as Madhvi
Boman Irani
Bikram Saluja as Rohit
Tara Sharma as Gayatri
Shandhya Mridul as Pearl
Atul Kulkarni as Vinayak

Summary: Page 3 is, at its core, a movie about India’s most wealthy and famous socialites. The heroine of the film is Madhvi, played by Konkona Sen Sharma. Madhvi is a journalist at the Nation Today Newspaper. Her job is to report on the lives of India’s biggest socialites on “Page 3” – covering their parties and daily activities. Her life becomes complicated when Gayatri – an actress, played by Tara Sharma – moves in with her. They become close friends. Eventually, Madhvi gets tired of the kind of reporting she is doing. She starts focusing on more serious issues going on India, besides the shallow lives of the stars. She uncovers some dark secrets of the rich and famous and ultimately gets fired because of her reporting. Page 3 shows that people often have public and private faces, live dual lives, and destroy relationships in the process. The movie is like Dil Se and Pyaasa in that it tries to show the relevant issues in India today. Though it did not do well in the box office, it is an enjoyable film to watch. -Kate Curley

Rang De Basanti

Starring:
Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Madhavan, Kunal Kapoor, Siddharth Narayan,
Sharman Joshi, Atul Kulkarni, Alice Patten
Waheeda Rehman, Om Puri, Kirron Kher and Anupam Kher

In this drama, when the granddaughter of a British army officer comes to India to make a documentary about Indian freedom fighters based on her grandfather’s diary, she meets a politically apathetic, diverse group of young Indians. They agree to star in her film, and slowly begin to lose their apathy and identify with their characters. India’s problems in the past and India’s problems today become real for them, especially when one of their own dies in a plane crash as a result of government corruption. Quickly their identification with their characters takes on a life of its own as they use their inspiration and revolutionary tactics to fight back. -Sheila Kelly

Chandni Bar

The film “Chandni Bar” is the story of a young girl called Mumtaz. After a fire burned down her Bombay with her uncle. After her uncle’s promise to find a job as soon as possible, Mumtaz agreed to work temporarily in a beer bar, “Chandni Bar”, until they would settle in. Things though did not turn out as Muntaz expected and she ended up living her whole life connected to Chandni Bar. Tabu, a famous Bollywood actress, plays the role of Mumtaz, Atul Kulkarni has the role of Potiya Sawant, Mumtaz’s father of her children. Deepa, Mumatz closest friend and fellow dancer, is a character played by Ananya Khare and finally, Mumtaz’s Uncle is acted out by Suhas Palshikar.
The film is considered to be a genre, but it does not share all characteristics of the genre conventions. It is a more realistic depiction of society and as Madhur Bhandarkar (director of Chandni Bar) said "Ten years ago, it wouldn't have been possible to make the films that I did. Today, the audience wants to watch different genres of filmmaking and thus it's a good time to explore new themes" (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Life/Bollywood_comes_of_age/articleshow/3775152.cms). -Monica Modiano