Wafaa: A Deadly Love Story is a 2008 Indian Hindi-language film starring Rajesh Khanna, Laila Khan and Sahib Chopra. This movie was written by Salim Raza and directed by Rakesh Sawant. It was released on 19 December 2008 worldwide by Dimension Pictures.
Wafaa was promoted as a comeback film for Rajesh Khanna in lead role. The movie was not directed well, nor the story well portrayed on screen which made it a box office failure and received mostly negative reviews for the performance of the heroine and supporting casts. Though critics observed that Khanna's dialogue delivery and body language remained similar to the various classics he has starred in over the years from 1966 to 1996.
Anand Singh from Hindustan Times wrote "If memory serves right, in his 'superstar' heyday, Rajesh Khanna did not take his shirt off, like today's studs routinely do".[1] A reviewer from The Times of India wrote "It's left to a tired cop (Sudesh Berry) to unravel whatever mystery might remain in this completely predictable plot of a wafaadar (faithful) husband and a bewafaa wife".[2]
The film really kicks off during the first intimate scene Amrit shares with his wife when he starts exhibiting some rather strange behaviour. Initially, you assume that he suffers from a medical condition that the Indian railways and airways are immune from : early arrivals. But then you discover that it is a case of acute asthama. His repeated mention to his doctor that things were going great till recently, but have slowed down now is a hint at the world economy, not some cheap physical act.
This is one of those films in which climbing acts as nothing more than the backdrop to something far more important: life in general. And also the freedom to live your life exactly as you want to, regardless of all the difficulties and struggles that lie in store. Born in Egypt, Wafaa Amer has been living in Italy ever since she was 9 and it is thanks to climbing that she realised, and then found the courage, to embrace her passions in order to find her true self.
Amer's engaging life story is documented in this beautiful short film delicately directed by Matteo Pavana and Pietro Porro. Hura means "free woman" in Arabic, and it is no coincidence that this is the name of the film. That everyone should see.
Ilham El Alami is a young Moroccan director 26 years old. she graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema ISCA. she worked as a first assistant director for more than 6 years, alongside several renowned directors in Morocco. citing among them, Yassine Fennane Hicham El Jebbari, Rachid El Ouali, Abderhamane Tazi and others. she acquired a lot of experience as an assistant in 2015 and decided to make his first short film Wafaa
Egyptian actress Wafaa Amer has categorically refused to gain weight for her role as the famous Egyptian belly dancer Taheyya Kareokka. And she doesn't look ready to budge an inch on her decision to remain trim for her film.
Despite the many years that have passed since his death, Hafez was and remains the most important and successful of Egyptian and Arab musicians. He is the only Egyptian singer that has a growing fan base even after his death and most of it is from an audience who was born years after his death. Despite having no direct relation nor any form of contact with the new generation, Hafez managed to build a psychological and human relationship with the new generations through his films and songs.
Actress whose career began with her role on the Egyptian television drama Al-Zawg Awal Man Ya'raf. She has gone on to star in such films as Elemnee El Hob (2005), Kaf Alqamar (2011) and El-Lailah El-Kabirah (2015).
Just an ordinary guy trying to do extraordinary things. From a banker to model, to actor, to writer to director and still walking. A work in progress. He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles and became a successful banker at Wall Street but his Calling was Mumbai. He made his Television debut with Samander based on Navy officers and went on to do hit shows like Jassi jaisi koi nahin, Kumkum, Saakshi, Parichay etc for which he won awards like the Indian Telly Award for Best Actor, ITA Award for Best Actor - Drama (Popular) in 2012 and many more. He was the most loved contestant in BiggBoss season 4. His film debut was in China Gate and did movies like Lajja, Baghban, Vivah Fashion, I hate Love Story, Student Of the year 2. His web series Balaji's Bewafaa sii Wafaa and Puncchbeat is a big hit. In 2018 he debuted as a writer/director with a psychological thriller called My Birthday Song. Mellow yet sharp, intensely passionate yet comfortably numb....all rolled into one. That's Samir Soni.
The event was visited by many celebrities, respected ministers, and members of the film, television, and theater industries - from producers, actors, and directors, all who gathered to commemorate this grandiose affair.
The festival will continue until March 15th, at Grand Cinemas in ABC Dbayeh with a multitude of international and national films, a special screening of "Girls for Change" and panel discussions session on the daily challenges that exist for women in cinema.
Once the notion of digital media is revealed to be no moreconfused or mysterious than the familiar notion of literary media, itsirreducible role in appreciation becomes apparent. To take just oneexample, proper appreciation of movies in the digital age depends onrecognizing that digital movie-making tools do not just maketraditional movie-making easier; they also present new creativepossibilities and challenges. Given the maturity and mass-art statusof the cinematic art form, it is easy to take for granted the mediumof moving imagery; we may think we know precisely its limits, and wemay even think we have seen everything that can be done with it. Thedigital medium is different, however, and digital cinema is in boththe medium of moving imagery and the digital medium.
When is a movie no longer just a movie? It's when it becomes an event, or even a cultural phenomenon. What happens when two of those movies drop at the same time? You have the collision that was "Barbenheimer."
This past week saw the opening of two films that are polar opposites: Greta Gerwig's playful comedy "Barbie" that brings the doll to life and Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheiemer," the biographical drama depicting the development of the atomic bomb under J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Co-hosts Bruce Miller and Terry Lipshetz discuss seeing both films, including Terry's experience seeing "Oppenheimer" in an IMAX theater. Plus, learn why both films will surely be in the running for multiple Academy Awards when Oscar season approaches.
Streamed & Screened is a podcast about movies and TV hosted by Bruce Miller, a longtime entertainment reporter who is now the editor of the Sioux City Journal in Iowa and Terry Lipshetz, a senior producer for Lee Enterprises based in Madison, Wisconsin.
That's right. I can hardly wait there with the patriarchy is coming to Barbie land. That'll be so cool. Actually, this was like, I swear, this will have been the best week of movies of the year. It's incredible to really big ones. And I saw a lot of people who were trying to do both of them in the same day when I went.
Yeah. I think that if parents were thinking they're going to send their kids to see Barbie, it might be a bad idea because I don't think that there's anything in there that's subversive or anything that they shouldn't see, but I don't think they would think it was like past Barbie films where it was, you know, just kind of magic unicorns and cars and God knows what Barbie did back in the past.
Right? I really loved it. I didn't know what to expect because I. I tried to stay away from so many reviews and everything. I wanted to go in with it with a very fresh mind. I obviously read enough of it to know, you know, obviously this is a little bit of a spoof of Barbie. This isn't like some of the Barbie movies that the cartoon is.
You're the very Barbie Barbie type of movies that have been there. This is obviously poking fun at Barbie to a degree. I mean, even in the trailers says if you love Barbie, you're going to love this movie. If you hate Barbie, hate Barbie, love this movie. And I you know, I'm not a a Barbie person, but I went into it thinking like, okay, I want to check this out.
It has the pedigree of people in it that, you know, I should like it. I mean, Will Ferrell is as the head of Mattel and I thought he was brilliant in that part is normal. Will Ferrell Nice. I don't always love him in movies, but I thought he played this role very well. And then I thought, you know, Rhea Perlman in that role, as you know, the creator of Barbie, did did a wonderful job.
Yeah, I was just overall surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I thought I would like it. You know, Greta Gerwig is attached to it. She's becoming a very brilliant filmmaker. And I just thought that, okay, we have enough components here where I'm probably going to like it and it's fine. I can be a dad and go into this movie.
So they did like by like a mile, I mean 162 million in 4200 plus theaters. That is insane. And it was I don't know if you picked up on this, but it actually shattered a record for a film directed by a woman, 162 million. The next best was Captain Marvel, which was co-directed by Anna Boden, and that did 153 million in 2019.
And then the Wonder Woman film by Patty Jenkins in 2017 that just did just a little over 103 million. So this this was a just a huge movie on so many different levels. The number of screens it was showing on just at my little AMC Theater in town, it was it was like 10 a.m. 1030, 12, 12 3130.
You know, you brought up Ryan Gosling in this for a possible award season thing. You don't normally see comedies enter into that level of discussion. Could you see this film, though, because of the messaging and the way they approached it, the direction, the screenwriting? Could you see this maybe getting in being their 10th film to get a best Picture nominee to get, you know, best director nominee for Greta Gerwig, Best Original Screenplay, maybe.
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