Get Ready For The Movies This Festive Season

So this festive season it promises to be a fantastic affair for Bollywood movie buffs. The season has already started off with a bang with Barfi that has already won itself enough accolades to be selected as India's official entry for the 2013 Oscars. Dont miss that one!

If you haven't already warmed up the touching story in Barfi then you will be when you look at what lies ahead....

First (for all those Lamhe fans) Sri Devi is back in the much awaited English Vinglish that tells the story of a housewife who learns English to adjust and live in New York.


Returning to entertain us again is the king of family drama, Karan Johar; thankfully this time as a director with Student of The Year releasing on October 19.

The film has newcomers in the lead roles. Interestingly Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy are not doing the music for this one. Instead its Vishal-Shekhar.
Probably because of SRK's influence (since Red Chilles is co-producing the film along with KJo's Dharma Productions).
The music (Ishq wala Love) is already topping the charts as easily the romantic number of the year.

We spoke about SRK?

Well SRK is back too..and this time as an army man in Yash Chopra's "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" romancing Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma. With a unparalleled repertoire in Bollywood and a penchant for romantic classics, Yash Chopra is back as a director after 8 years. And  has teamed up for the first time with A R Rahman. If the promos are anything to go by, and with the music release yet to come, this one could well be one of the all-time romantic dramas in Bollywood. The film is all set for a Diwali blockbuster release on November 13.

Guess what. There is also the other Khan.

Aamir Khan is back with this "Talaash" releasing on November 30, quite surely adding more fireworks to Diwali. Now we all know Aamir is a perfectionist. He had the movie moved to the November release in view of his busy schedule with Satyamev Jayate earlier in the year. The movie is produced by Farhan Akhtar, and is co-written by Akhtar's sister Zoya. Kareena Kapoor and Rani Mukherjee play the leading ladies. The music is by Ram Sampath who is fast becoming the go-to music-maker for all of Aamir's endeavours.

And hold your breath.....u guessed it?
Yeah..we also have Salman Khan in the mix.

After tasting unimaginable success in Dabanng, Chulbul Pandey is back in Dabanng 2. So is the beautiful Sonakshi Sinha. There are high expectations on this one, but knowing Salman's movies, this one will surely laugh all the way to the box-office. Wary of the other 2 Khans releasing during Diwali, the producers have ofcourse pushed the movie to a Christmas release on Dec 21.

So you have KJo and all the 3 Khans!
The last time we had all the 3 Khans was in 2010 when SRK's "My Name is Khan", Aamir's "3 Idiots" and Salman's forgettable 'Veer".

As if this was not enough, we also have Rajnikanth's Kochadaiyaan releasing on Dec 12. More of AR Rahman! Kamal Hassan's Vishwaroopam also releases on the same date, so fans in Chennai are going to be treated to a bonanza! Oh and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy are back as well, this as music directors in Vishwaroopam.

Other notable movies to look forward to this year: are Rani Mukherjee's Aiyya and the Mani-Ratnam/AR Rahman combo giving us Kadal (releasing in early 2013), which by the way has a beautiful pretty girl on the poster.

Here is hoping this festive season is going to be one fantastic experience at the movies!

Cheers!