12 Friday 26th August, 2011

Now at Savoy (2) -(Dts) A grown up bromance

okes about teachers. Fights over make a bromance as beautifully as a little contrived—three girlfriends. Silly word games. Bare woman. adventure sports to test Jchests. Rippling muscles. Streaked The film is gentle, taking time out to your courage—but the story hair. Sigh. Glossy looking and beautiful- look at horses running in the meadows, keeps you engaged. ly written. I must confess by the time I feel the wind the air, swim with the fish A meditative take on finished watching Zindagi Na Milegi underwater. All that male beauty may growing up, becoming a Dobara I was convinced that no one can be a little manipulative and the plot is a man, taking responsibility

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for one’s actions, it has the courage to ly posed performance as a spolit little Coupon No. 141 (Daily Island) go for long periods with no dialogue. A madam. The correct answer is ’25th August’ scene where Hrithik does a My favourite moment of the film? Finding Nemo and another where the Not the showy moment when Hrithik 1. Ms. Kavindya Colombo 3 boys discover the joys of sky diving is discovers the meaning of life with one 2. H. S. Caldera Kadawatha all about just being. Seizing the deep sea dive with . Or 3. Kumara Colombo 15 moment. Living for the day. Yes, yes, when Farhan confronts his pot smoking 4. Lakmali Wathsala Boralesgamuwa cliches all, but shot with such sisterly ageing painter dad-can’t tell you who he 5. Kingsley Perera Nugegoda care that the boys flourish in the female is, but it’s a lovely piece of casting. Or 6. Edward Ranasinghe Dematagoda gaze. even when Abhay decides he has to run 7. Raushan Bee Kalubowila Naturally the trip to Spain is not just with the bulls. 8. Ahesh Hapugoda Batakettara a trip. It is a journey of the soul. It’s when the three boys are sitting 9. H. R. Perera Moronthuduwa There’s Kabir whose family runs a con- together on their last day, drinking, 10. Kaushallaya Perera Boralesgamuwa truction company. There’s Imran, a singing the Doordarshan theme song. copywriter who is a poet in his spare Lovely. A bromance that has more Your complimentary tickets (2) will be time (and fortunately writes Javed style and heat than most rubish rom- delivered by EAP Film & Theatres (Pvt) Akhtar style poems). And there’s coms. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara? It’s a Ltd. shortly. Arjun, a stockbroker who lives in film you will want to watch dobara. London and has trouble with commit- Coupon No. 98 (Sunday Island) ment. So that’s , and . And natu- The correct answer is ’25th August’ Directed by rally the love of a free spirited good woman Katrina Kaif will cure Hrithik 1. Ms. P. Anuradha Colombo 6 of his permanent state of melancholy. Produced by Farhan Akhtar 2. M. W. Kumudu Nayomi Hikkaduwa Lots of manly tears. Even more bare Ritesh Sidhwani 3. T. T. Ariyaratna Kandy chests on the beach. And many more Screenplay by Zoya Akhtar 4. Victor Liyanage Gangodawila scenes of drinking wine and tossing Reema Kagti 5. Manoj Silva Dehiwala back shots (where the women give as Story by Zoya Akhtar 6. R. Loshana Malabe good as the men get). It’s all very glam- Reema Kagti Starring Hrithik Roshan 7. Furrkaan Bannu Colombo 5 orous. And very seductive. Yet the film Farhan Akhtar 8. Bhathika Ama Kadawatha pulls you in, partly because of the Abhay Deol 9. A. D. R. Silva Nugegoda frank, unvarnished performances by its Katrina Kaif 10. Maheshika Perera Wadduwa leads. Hrithik is lovely as Arjun, shorn of the pretence that his recent perform- Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Your complimentary tickets (2) will be deliv- ances have shown. Farhan is sensitive, Cinematography Carlos Catalan ered by EAP Film & Theatres (Pvt) Ltd. soulful and perfectly capable of reading Editing by Anand Subaya shortly. out his father’s poetry. And Abhay for a Distributed by Eros International change is playing Media Ltd. the rich brat who Release date(s) is virtually July 15, 2011 Running time 153 min- pressganged into utes Country India Language marrying his English Spanish Budget 55 crores] family friend Kalki Koechlin, Box office 150 crores giving a perfect-