Hindi Movie - Thank you Part 1
Thank You (Hindi: थैंक यू) is a 2011 Bollywood romantic comedy film directed by Anees Bazmee and produced by UTV Motion Pictures. It features Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol, Sonam Kapoor, Suniel Shetty, Irrfan Khan, Celina Jaitley and Rimi Sen. The film was released on April 8, 2011. Thank You is about three married men trying to have some fun outside their marriage. Akshay Kumar plays a detective who specializes in extra-marital relationships. Most of the scenes in this film were shot in Vancouver and Toronto, Canada and Bangkok. Other Bollywood films which have focused around a similar concept are Masti, No Entry, Shaadi No. 1 and to a certain extent, Do Knot Disturb.
With Universal, Comcast hopes to make a big splash in movies
NEW YORK - As big banner ads in Times Square last week hyped Universal's hoped-for blockbuster Cowboys & Aliens, the movie studio's parent company, NBCUniversal, held a screening of the western sci-fi thriller at its private theater near Rockefeller Center.There were wine and soda and hors d'oeuvres trays, and company officials billed the event as a thank-you for about two dozen reporters who cover
Hindi Movie - Thank you Part 1
NBCU. There was another message for the gathered media - that the famed Universal Pictures movie studio that had fallen on hard times in recent years is on a hot streak under its new owner, Comcast Corp.
With a surprising run of hits since April, Universal has moved to third in U.S. market share of box-office receipts this year after, as one insider called it, "a really bad run" in 2009 and ranking sixth of the eight largest U.S. studios for 2010.
A committed management team is responsible for these recent hit movies and several projects in the Universal pipeline that are being closely watched by Hollywood insiders as potential heavy hitters - among them, an animated version of the Dr. Seuss story The Lorax and Battleship, based on the Hasbro game, both set for release in 2012.
"They have reestablished their prominence as a movie house that can produce broad, crowd-pleasing entertainment," said Craig Detweiler, director of the Center for Entertainment, Media and Culture at Pepperdine University.
"It's a hit-driven business, so it is always impossible to predict. It's always a gamble. And you have to have patience for your bets to pay off."
Comcast, the Philadelphia cable company, acquired the Hollywood movie studio through its megadeal for NBCUniversal, the owner of cable channels and the NBC TV network. When the deal closed in January, many observers assumed that Comcast would not be interested in a sixth-ranked movie studio.
But Comcast said it was devoted to the film business and wooed Hollywood. In early May, Comcast chief executive officer Brian Roberts publicly courted film great Steven Spielberg with a fund-raising dinner in Philadelphia for Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, which records the memories of Holocaust survivors. Roberts has said he hopes he can persuade Spielberg to return to Universal.
A month later, Comcast agreed to pay $1 billion for a 50 percent stake in the Universal theme park in Florida - a business closely tied to films and Spielberg - that it did not already own.
The swift turnaround at Universal, though, cannot be attributed solely to the cable company.
Facing deepening financial losses under General Electric Co. in 2009, a new leadership team of Adam Fogelson, Donna Langley, and Rick Finkelstein was appointed to head Universal's moviemaking operation. This year's crop of movies, which includes one clunker, The Dilemma, is the first of their projects.
The movie operation reports to Ron Meyer, the president and chief operating officer of Universal Studios, which includes the movie business and the theme parks. Meyer's employment contract at Universal, set to expire in 2012, was recently extended to late 2015.
Some analysts say Universal's problems stemmed in part from GE's insistence on profit growth, forcing Universal to take big risks on movie projects with the hopes of earning big profits to replace revenue lost through lower DVD sales.
The new management team has tightened decision-making around movie projects. A movie has to satisfy three criteria before it receives an OK: Can it be great? Does it have an identifiable audience? Is there a rational business plan attached to the project? Meaning: Do potential profits exceed potential losses based on the past experiences with films of a similar genre?
Perhaps the most surprising of Universal's hit films this year has been Bridesmaids, an R-rated woman-centric comedy that has tallied $240 million in global sales since mid-May, easily covering production costs of $32.5 million.
Also profitable has been the fifth installment of the Fast and Furious movies. It has generated $603 million worldwide since late April - after costing about $125 million to produce. Realizing there was more horsepower in the franchise, Universal was quick to slate a sixth Fast and Furious. It is scheduled for release in 2013.
Then there's Cowboys & Aliens, starring Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig. It cost $163 million to produce. Universal has only a 25 percent financial stake, which will limit its exposure to either a flop or a blockbuster.
Connected with two of the biggest names in Hollywood, Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard, the two-hour movie opened Friday to mixed reviews. Universal's partners are DreamWorks and Paramount.
The movie's story line is one of evil aliens mining for gold out West and a cowboy determined to avenge the death of his wife - at the hands of those aliens. There are gunplay, humor, Indians, special effects, and a Hollywood-style happy ending. The studio hopes for an opening weekend with receipts around $40 million.
New corporate owners have regularly fallen in love with Hollywood studios, only to be disenchanted when profits did not materialize or they found movie audiences too fickle for their liking.
So far Hollywood has been pleasantly surprised with Comcast, but time will tell how committed the cable company is to the movie business, Detweiler said.
"Comcast has given a clear signal to the talent in Hollywood that Universal is an attractive place to bring your project," he said. "And in a town like Hollywood, built on relationships, that is an important message to communicate."
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Story: Bobby Deol, Suniel Shetty and Irrfan Khan are a trio of philandering husbands who don't think twice before being unfaithful to their wives, Sonam Kapoor, Celina Jaitley and Rimmi Sen. Enter marriage therapist, Akshay Kumar, who is determined to teach them a lesson and bring them back to the happy family fold.
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Movie Review : Anees Bazmee seems to be re-visiting familiar terrain with his new film. Thank You is heavily inspired by his earlier comic caper, No Entry, where Salman Khan had the onerous task of curing a motley group of errant husbands from their chronic infidelity. This time, it is Akshay Kumar who wields the baton -- or is it the flute -- to underscore the sanctity of the institution of marriage. Is this a case of playing safe for the director who has recently burned his hands at the box office or is it a drought of story ideas that seems to be Bollywood's biggest scourge?
Repetition notwithstanding, Thank You ends up as timepass fare, although it isn't as rollicking as No Entry. The first half of the film seems to be an exercise in nothingness and has you fidgeting in your seat as you try to look for the rare laughs in a script that is supposed to be funny. The bit-on-the-side sequences of the three husbands are hardly hilarious nor does the fuming wives club set the screen ablaze with hysteria. It is only in the second half that the film acquires form and substance and has you grinning at certain goof-ups. Akshay Kumar's elaborate plans to set the three marriages straight provides scope for actors like Irrfan Khan and Suneil Shetty to kick up a bit of fun, although Bobby Deol has hardly any humour tailored into his role. By and large, he remains dour and angry as he begins to suspect his sweet wife Sonam of adultery. The girls, on their part, mostly remain cosmetic with Sonam looking terribly out of sync, Rimmi not being allowed to play her feisty self and Celina being forced to do the disappearing act for a large part of the film.
So what's funny about Thank You? It's the guys who reiterate the worn-out cliche that fidelity isn't an intrinsic part of male physiology. Add to this the high production values -- glitzy locales, jazzy styling -- and Pritam's pop numbers and you have a film that can be an average weekend getaway. Nothing more, not even Mallika Sherawat's item number.
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