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EXPECTATIONS Nope, there aren't any expectations that one carries from the music of Madholal Keep Walking . Belonging to art house cinema, neither is this film a musical by any means nor has music being projected as any of the highlights here. Also, it doesn't even have music as a talking point in the bare minimum promotion which is happening around it. No wonder, one barely manages to play on this album which has music by Nayab Raja with Saani Aslam as the lyricist.

EXPECTATIONS One doesn't quite know what to look forward to in Soch Lo . Looking at an unconventional poster design though (a bare chest man staring at a distance in a desert); you do get an idea that there would be something surreal in the offing. However, to what extent is something that you get to know only after playing on the album which has compositions by Nitish Pires, Charu Moohan and Mehboob.

Comedy is serious business and I genuinely believe that making people laugh is an arduous task. The best of film-makers, with years/decades of experience behind them, have tried attempting laughathons time and again. Sometimes they succeed, sometimes they don't. HELLO DARLING also tries to tickle your funny bone, but in vain.

Jog your memory and recall films highlighting the nuisance called dowry. Images of a number of movies would instantly conjure up in front of your eyes. Now think of groom kidnapping. Have you heard of it or 'Pakrauah Shaadi' [that's how it is referred to in North India]? I had vaguely heard of it once, but was clueless about the reasons that prompt people to kidnap eligible bachelors. ANTARDWAND not only spells out the reasons, but also tackles the issue with rare understanding.

Practically every new-age film-maker wants to attempt a real story on celluloid. Stories which are straight out of life/newspapers/news channels. These stories, generally, strike a chord with the ticket buying audience if narrated convincingly and most importantly, narrated within commercial parameters.

Anisha, an attractive young lady in her early thirties, is astounded to find that someone is sending her a series of diamonds by courier. Her father, Captain Mehta had disappeared some years back and the letter accompanying the diamonds hints at some link between her father and the diamonds... The diamonds lead the intrepid Anisha, a night club singer by profession, to the idiosyncratic private detective, Prashant Saigal and his associate, Dr. Arvind Rao:a criminological expert with an eye for the beautiful tings in life!

Six-year old Shruti knows something no one else does. An alien has come in place of her mother and her real mother has been sent to the Orion Galaxy. While the alien looks just like her mother on the outside, Shruti knows she is completely different from her beloved mother on the inside. Shruti turns to her brother for help but he doesn't believe her. Her father, like always, remains wrapped in work and unavailable to her. Unable to accept the Alien in her home and desperate to be with her mother, the lonely child runs away. What follows is a child's passage to finding her real mother, a man's struggle to save his family and a woman's journey to finding herself.

Life can be tough for a man who teaches at a school for a living, lives in a DDA flat in Delhi and is coping with the double digit inflation rates and single digit increments in his salary. Add to that, a teenage daughter, a fast-track son and a wife who loves the good life. The life of the Duggal's is passing by in simply taking care of the basics. Until one day, they decide to dream. Their ticket to dreaming comes in the form of a wedding invitation. An innocent little wedding invitation. What follows is a journey of chaos, realizations, calculations, confrontations and bonding. This crazy Duggal's will fight it out at home (and the neighborhood) for what they think is a 'good buy' for the family! This family bonds in the most unexpected and hilarious situations. And just when they think they are sorted out, comes one big, lurking temptation. Much like the apple in the Garden of Eden. And then, begins another journ

Dish TV has scaled up its growth forecast for the fiscal as it mops up 1.1 million subscribers since 1 April, gaining from an improved economy and a stronger demand for DTH service in a sports-heavy year. Dish TV has crossed eight million subscribers and hopes to end the financial year closer to the 10-million mark, retaining its market leadership position by some distance. The direct-to-home (DTH) operator is targeting three million subscribers during the full-fiscal period, up from its original forecast of acquiring 2.5 million customers. “We have scaled up our customer acquisition target from 2.5 million to three million in FY’11. We have had a very good start, adding 1.1 million subscribers, due to our better distribution in the market. Customers have also liked our content packages and pricing,” says Dish TV COO Salil Kapoor. The DTH sector has gathered 2.5 million subscribers during the first three months of the fiscal, much in line with the forecast of adding 11 million

Priyanka Chopra has promised that the new season of the reality show Khatron Ke Khiladi would be three times more dangerous than the danger level itself. The shoots of this show are taking place in Brazil. Quite amazingly even the promos are more dangerous than the earlier promos. Priyanka playing with snakes and bulls can generate unrelenting rivalry between the hunks who will participate in the show. Although, the actress never got opportunity to show her physical stamina and strength on big screen but the small screen is providing her ample opportunity for that.