Three distinct films release tomorrow – ‘Lamhaa’, ‘Tere Bin Laden’ and ‘Udaan’. Incidentally, none of the three films are true blue conventional Bollywood outings. They are not romantic affairs, they don’t boast the kind of comedy that Bollywood is known for and also they don’t quite fit into the category of family films. However, at least a couple of them do look interesting here – ‘Lamhaa’ and ‘Tere Bin Laden’. ‘Lamhaa’ boasts of the star power of Sanjay Dutt and Bipasha Basu and the hard hitting promos that promise a quality outing seems to have done the trick.

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There have been numerous films in the past which has tackled this ‘sensitive’ issue, but only a few filmmakers have handled it ‘maturely’ but still … there is no ‘solution. Will this week’s release Lamhaa take a step further and also simultaneously appeal to the audiences? Our in-house expert and renowned astro numerologist Bhavikk Sangghvi predicts for us, as usual.

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Rahul Dholakia tells Jyothi Venkatesh that he decided to cast Sanjay because he needed a mature actor, not a Ranbir Kapoor type, to play the role of a middle-aged Military Intelligence Officer. What triggered the idea of making a film like Lamhaa?

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With ‘Lamhaa’, Sanjay Dutt would finally be seeing a release nine months after ‘All The Best’ and ‘Aladin’. Hopefully, this will also break the ice as far as films starring Sanjay Dutt is concerned and pave the way for ‘Knock Out, ‘No Problem’ and ‘Chatur Singh Two Star’.

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Indian government has shown a good gesture by creating no trouble for the release Rahul Dholakia’s latest film Lamhaa, which is based on the much troubled state of the country, Kashmir. Dholakia, had earlier made the controversial film Parzania, which is yet to be released in Gujarat.

Considering the theme of the movie, people might have expected it to run into trouble with the government. However, the Union Home Secretary G K Pillai has given green signal to Lamhaa saying that they don’t want to stall the release of the movie.

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Rahul Dholakia’s film has been facing trouble since the beginning. To start with, Karishma Kapoor backed out from the project after showing a lot of interest in it. Then, Bipasha Basu was taken in to play the role of a Kashmiri girl. Later, the sexy Basu also walked out of the set in Kashmir, saying that she was feeling very uncomfortable mobbed by the fans. Then, the rumors of Vidya Balan replacing Basu started to do the rounds. All these issues were resolved later and Bips continued to be the leading lady in the film.

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On 11th June evening, the music of the upcoming film ‘Lamhaa’ was released at the famous Oberoi mall, Goregaon. The event started with an opening act by the music composer of the film, Mithoon, on a piano. He started with songs from his past film Anwar and slowly moved on to singing the track ‘Main kaun hoon’ from the film.

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Lady luck seems to be shining on Sanjay Dutt. Sanjay who debuted in the 1980’s, has been one of the most prominent actors in Bollywood in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Sanjay’s career has seen a downhill curve in this decade, however.

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Love and ideology make strange bedfellows. While other star couples from Bollywood were off to Colombo for four days of fun, frolic and, er.. films at IIFA, John and Bipasha decided to go their separate ways on the issue of Tamilian protests against Bollywood’s presence in Colombo.

Says a source close to John and Bipasha, “Bipasha proceeded to Colombo at the last minute without John. This was the first time she attended this annual jamboree without John and no, she wasn’t sulking over the matter. Bipasha had no choice but to attend because she had to represent her film Lamhaa in Colombo.”

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