Title: Billo Barber

Director: Priyadarshan

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Irrfan Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta.

This Diwali, Shah Rukh Khan is coming with, Billo Barber. It is a movie on friendship. The movie is a remake of 2007 hit Malayalam movie, Katha Parayumpol. Sreenivasan, who wrote the story of Katha Parayumpol, took the story of Lord Krishna and Sudama and presented it in a twentieth century style. It tells the story of Ashokraj (Mammootty) and Balan (Sreenivasan). Ashokraj and Balan were childhood friends. Ashokraj became a big movie star and Balan ended up becoming a street barber. After many years, when Ashokraj returned to his village to shoot a movie, every body wanted to see the superstar and suddenly Balan became the center of attention as the villagers came to know that he was Ashokraj's childhood friend. Sreenivasan's movie mainly focuses on Balan and shows what happens between two friends.

In 2008, Kuselan (Tamil) and Kathanayakudu (Telugu) are inspired from Katha Parayumpol. Tamil superstar, Rajinikanth starred in both these movies. However, both the remakes were different from the original as they focused on superstar Rajinikanth.

Problems with Billo Barber and Kuselan:

Shah Rukh Khan's Billo Barber is going to be released in Diwali. However, Hindi version of Rajinikath's Kuselan, was scheduled to be released earlier. This has worried Shah Rukh Khan. He was afraid that Kuselan could affect Billo Barber. For this reason, Shah Rukh Khan requested Rajinikanth to release the Hindi version of Kuselan after the release Billo Barber.

In another news report, Priyadarshan was quoted saying that they could have finished Billo Barber much earlier but Shah Rukh Khan got busy with IPL. Priyadarshan also said that Kuselan and Billo Barber were very much different except the climax.

While talking about the Hindi version release of Kuselan, Priyadarshan said that Sreenivasan gave the Tamil rights of his movie to the producers after talking with Priyadarshan. The movie makers signed a contract under which their movies will be released in their parent language but not in other language.

“But the contract clearly says that Kuselan cannot be dubbed into any other language. Likewise, my Hindi version cannot be dubbed by producer SRK in any other language except the parent lingo, Hindi. We clearly put all this under contract to avoid the kind of overlapping that was attempted . . . . I’ll avoid this kind of a clash of interests at any cost.”

At the end of the day, will Billo Barber be able to show its magic at the box office like Om Shanti Om in 2007? Well, to get answer to that question, you have to wait till Diwali.

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Bollywood movies are famous for its songs but most of the time, we know the singers. How many of us know about the people who write these songs or compose these songs? Lyricist Sameer is one such person. He is one of the top lyricists of Bollywood but not too many people know about him. Both Sameer and his father, Anjaan, were lyricists. Recently, this talented lyricist signed a five movie deal with Orion Pictures, one of the three producers of Akshay Kumar’s upcoming movie, Chandni Chowk to China . A lyricist signing five movie deal is something unheard of in Bollywood. In an interview Sameer talks about his success.

While talking about the five movie deal with Orion Pictures, Sameer said:

I met Nikhil Advani when he was assisting Karan Johar. I did Salaam-e-Ishq for Nikhil and the music did really well. Then he gave me the offer to write for his next film Chandni Chowk to China, but I refused because most of the songs were remixes. He has signed me for five of his forthcoming films. This kind of deal has never happened with any lyricist before. It’s only because of our good rapport that we have signed all these films.

Sameer is also writing song for late Gulshan Kumar's daughter, Tulsi Kumar. He is not taking any money for writing songs for Tulsi Kumar's album because Gulshaan Kumar was like a brother to Sameer and he promised Gulshaan that he would write songs for his daughter.

Born in 1958, to Lalji Pandey (popularly known as Anjaan) and Indira Pandey, Sameer did his M.Com from the Benaras Hindu University. He then started as a bank officer at the Central Bank of India but left the job and came to Mumbai in 1980. He became successful in the 90s. Since then, he has written lyrics for 4000 songs in more than 500 movies and won two Film Fare Awards. In 2006, a book on this talented lyricist titled, "Sameer A Way With Words" was released. Written by Derek Bose, the book was released by Amitabh Bachchan in 2006.

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Rumor spread out that Salman Khan's upcoming movie, God Tussi Great Ho, will not make it to the theatres on time. However, that is not going to happen. In the latest news report, Eros International said that its upcoming movie, God Tussi Great Ho, will be released on August 15^th. Already, the movie has got green light from Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Normally, people has  negative ideas about CBFC that they just chop down all the good things from a movie but that is not the case. A reliable source reported that few member of CBFC saw the movie and one of the members liked the movie so much. This member recommended that the movie should be watched with all the family members. This member liked the clean cut entertainment and comedy of the movie.

So viewers, you got it now. God Tussi Great Ho is going to release on August 15^th and that is fool n final.

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