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Mujhse Shaadi Karogi? Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan ask Priyanka Chopra in tandem in the eponymous film. Quite a ‘marry’-go-round. In Abbas-Mustan’s Aetraaz, Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor play a happily married couple under stress when Akshay’s boss at his place of work, Priyanka Chopra accuses him of rape after he turns down her sexual advances. Elements of the Demi
Moore-Michael Douglas erotic thriller Disclosure? You bet!
Bollywood is turning increasingly chic and urban. And what better excuse
for a bit of urban thrills than a triangular tale of love? While
triangles have been largely missing in the biggies which have gone by
this year (from Munnabhai M.B.B.S. to Main Hoon Na to Lakshya
and Yuva) many of the prominent forthcoming films are formatted
as three-cornered urban ‘contests’. In Prawaal Raman’s Ghayab, which opened last fortnight, Ramman Trikha fights the ‘invisible’ rival Tusshar Kapoor for Antara Mali’s hand. And in Puri Jagannath’s long-delayed love triangle Shart, Tusshar woos both Amrita Arora and Gracy Singh. In Anees Bazmi’s Hum Do Hamare Ek, Govinda courts Raveena Tandon and Mahima Chowdhary. In Ken Ghosh’s Fida, which opens in August, Kareena Kapoor has Shahid Kapoor and Fardeen Khan to choose from. Interestingly, while the first half of 2004 hardly had any triangular films except Murder where Mallika Sherawat sneaked away from husband Ashmit Patel to meet lover Emran Hashmi, the second half of the year seem to have gone back to the old tried-and-tested tangle within the triangle. Will any of these three-pronged tussles have the box office clout of the best-loved triangular dramas of the past like Mehboob Khan’s Andaz in the 1950s, Raj Kapoor’s Sangam in the 1960s, Yash Chopra’s Daag in the 1970s, Mahesh Bhatt’s Arth in the 1980s and Yash Chopra’s Dil To Pagal Hai in the 1990s? It is to be seen if any of the forthcoming films match up to the power of these earlier dramas. — IANS |
