Mausam is an upcoming Hindi language film directed and written by Pankaj Kapoor under the Vistaar Religare Film Fund banner. The film stars Shahid Kapoor opposite Sonam Kapoor along with Pankaj Kapoor. The film will mark the first time that Shahid Kapoor has been in a film opposite his fatherPankaj Kapoor. It is also Pankaj Kapoor's directorial debut film. The film is slated for release on September 16, 2011.
The film was shot in Nepal, Edinburgh, Switzerland and India. Some of the night scenes were shot at ND Studios, where the streets of Scotland were re-created, after which they shot for a day at Film City. During shooting, Shahid Kapoor fell from a giant wheel, though not from a great height. He was taken to the doctor immediately and was advised two days of rest.
Shooting resumed on May 20, 2011 and went on until May 25, 2011. The cast and crew left for Switzerland around 24 April 2011 for their last schedule. The film features Shahid Kapoor in four different looks for the four different seasons of a year. The trailer was launched on July 11, 2011.
Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (Hindi: मेरे ब्रदर की दुल्हन; English: My Brother's Bride), also known by the abbreviated form MBKD, is an upcoming Bollywoodromance film that marks the writing and directing debut of Ali Abbas Zafar and stars Imran Khan, Katrina Kaif and Ali Zafar in the lead roles, while John Abraham appears in a cameo role. Produced and distributed by Yash Raj Films, the film is a romantic comedy set around a love triangle. The official theatrical trailer was released on 13 July 2011. The film is set to release on 9 September 2011.
Mere Brother Ki Dulhan is quirky romantic comedy set in the world of the upper middle class in northern India. Kush Agnihotri (Imran Khan) is looking for the ideal Indian bride for his brother Luv Agnihotri (Ali Zafar) who stays in London. In his quest, Kush goes through an apray of wacky encounters with several families until he finds the perfect girl in Dimple Dixit (Katrina Kaif), the craziest / wackiest girl he has ever known. Both the families meet. Formalities completed. Preparations begin in full swing. And just then, our hero Kush falls in love with Dimple... His Brother's Dulhan. What follows is a comical and umpredictable series of events in this unusual topsy-turvy tale of love.
Ready (Hindi: Ready, is a 2011 Indian comedy film directed by Anees Bazmee, starring Salman Khan and Asin in the lead roles. It also features Paresh Rawal, Arya Babbar and Mahesh Manjrekar in supporting roles, while Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Kangana Ranaut, Zarine Khan andArbaaz Khan make cameo appearances. The film is a remake of the 2008 Telugu film, Ready directed by Sreenu Vaitla starring Ram and Genelia. The music is given by Pritam. The first look of the film was unveiled on 5 April 2011, while the theatrical trailer was released on 15 April 2011. The film was released on 3 June 2011. Upon release, Ready became the second highest opening day grosser, as well as the second highest weekend grossingBollywood film, after Dabangg, another Salman Khan-starrer. It is currently the highest grossing Bollywood film of 2011, the third highest grossing Bollywood film ever domestically, and the fifth highest grossing Bollywood film ever worldwide.
The film starts with Prem (Salman Khan), who just helped his neighbour's daughter Khushi (Zarine Khan) to elope with someone else. This angers their neighbour, Mr. Phatak (Mithilesh Chaturvedi) and Prem's family: The Kapoors. But then, Prem's family decide to search for a bride for Prem. But Prem arrives with his uncle at the airport in the wrong terminal, to make an excuse that Pooja, his to-be-wife, did not show up. However, a girl named Sanjana (Asin), who just ran from her own wedding, overhears Prem's plan to escape from Pooja, when she was hiding at the airport. Since nobody from Prem's family knew Pooja, Sanjana pretends to be Pooja herself, and wins the hearts of the entire Kapoor family, except Prem, who gets frustrated with her.
Meanwhile, Sanjana's uncles, Amar Choudhary (Akhilendra Mishra), and Suraj Choudhary (Sharat Saxena), who are rivals, and trying to get her married with their own brother-in-laws, and are trying to search for her and with whom she has ran away. Suraj Choudhary takes help of Mr. Lehri (Sudesh Lehri), to get to know who ran away with Sanjana, when he had given her and Prem a lift in his car in the jungle, where Prem, while driving the car, put Suraj Choudhary's son, Aryan into comma.
Mahesh Bhatt (born on 20 September 1948), is a prominent Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Bhatt's early directional career consisted of acclaimed films, such as Arth, Saaransh, Janam, Naam and Zakhm. He was later the writer of numerous commercial films in a range of film genres, from dramas like Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke and comedies like Duplicate, though he was mostly recognised for thrillers like Inteha, Jism, Murder and Woh Lamhe.
Bhatt began his career as an assistant to Hindi director Raj Khosla. At age 21 he made his debut as a director, with the film Sakat (1970), this was followed by Manzilein Aur Bhi Hain in 1974. His 1979 film,Lahu Ke Do Rang, starring Shabana Azmi and Vinod Khanna, bagged two Filmfare Awards in 1980.
Though his first major hit came with Arth (1982), when he turned to his personal life for inspiration.
Later, he made many more films taking insights from his personal life, where he highlighted personal narratives, ranging from illegitimate birth to extramarital affair and created critically acclaimed films such asJanam (1985) and Naam (1986).
The Khap(Hindi:खाप, IAST: khāpa) and Sarv Khap (सर्व खाप) was a system of social administration and organization in the republics of Northwestern Indian states such as Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh since ancient times. Khap is a term for a social - political grouping and used in a geographical sense. Other parallel terms are Pal, Ganasangha, Janapada or republic.
For some reasons the political unit of Khap was defined as a group of 84 villages. This unit of measure is found as far back as the Saka migrations/invasions circa 70 BCE into the Indian subcontinent. The concept of Khap is ancient; written references are found as far back as Rig Vedic times ca. 2500 BCE.
