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March 16, 2010 (Washington Bangla Radio) Disney's Indian Hindi Super-hero fantasy movie ZOKKOMON (2010) is scheduled for a release date of May 7, 2010. Zokkomon stars Darsheel Safary of Aamir Khan's Taare Zameen Par (Blu-Ray DVD) fame, along with Bollywood veteran Anupam Kher and Manjari Phadnis. Lyrics of Hindi film songs of Zokkomon are penned by Javed Akhtar and set to music by by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy.

Watch free promo-preview trailer of Zokkomon online.

Anurag Kashyap presented the Indian cinema lover with a greatly polarizing film in No Smoking. It was loved by some, hated by some, both with passion, and ignored by none.

Kashyap, in his blog, says this movie of his is very personal, and arrogant - the film is all about an arrogant man living life his own way meeting an even more arrogant man.

The film has fantastic music and songs, great camera work, wonderful locations and top-grade acting performances. Boldly departing from mainstream Bollywood, the film displays remarkable intelligence and demands thoughtfulness and analysis by the viewer.

Read all about Life Goes on and watch the theatrical trailer.

The drama explores the relations between a grief stricken father and his three daughters. Set in London, the time is now, the family of Indian origin- part of the UK diaspora. With his wife’s sudden death, Sanjay is suddenly thrown into close proximity with his three daughters. The drama unfolds over five days from the day when Manju dies to day of the funeral. Haunted by memories, grappling with this devastating loss, missing the mediating influence of his wife, Sanjay finds himself assessing and carving out new relations with his three daughters. He is faced with a further crisis when he discovers his youngest and most loved daughter Dia, has a Muslim boyfriend -Imtiaz. Confused and angry, Sanjay leaves home and wanders the streets of London one night. With an unexpected series of events, Sanjay is forced to face his past demons, his trauma over the partition of India when as a child, he was forced to leave his home with his parents. Finally to come to terms with his old and unspoken prejudice about Muslims, in the larger context of the country in the grips of Islamaphobia as the events of 7/7 and the consequences of the Iraq war reverberate. As he sits drenched and tired on a bench on Hampstead Heath and watches the sun rise – Sanjay puts his demons to rest. At the funeral he has come to terms with himself, he allows the Muslim boy to join the family rituals and sees his daughters for what they are and not what he expected them to be. The shadow of Shakespeare’s King Lear bears on this contemporary and free adaptation. It works functionally as a sub- text in the film as we see Sanjay and Dia within the contours of the mythical Lear and Cordelia.

A fresh promno-preview trailer video is now available for Kedarh Shinde's Toh Baat Pakki Hindi Bollywood movie starring Tabu, Sharman Joshi, Vatsal Seth, Yuvika Choudhary, Ayub Khan and others. Music is by Pritam Chakraborty, set to lyrics by Sayeed Quadri, Mayur Puri and Shabbir Ahmed. The film is produced by Ramesh. S. Taurani.

Toh Baat Pakki is scheduled for a 19th Feb 2010 release.

Download the original soundtrack (OST) and watch the free promo-preview teaser video.

In 1949, two years after Pakistan was created, Indian movie director M L Anand presented the romance-drama Lahore (1949) [Buy DVD] starring Nargis, Karan Dewan, Om Prakash, Pratima Devi, Randhir and others with music by Shyam Sunder.

The 2010 Indian Hindi Movie LAHORE is a completely different story. Designed to stir up nationalistic passions in Indians and Pakistanis who have been brainwashed over generations to be arch enemies, Lahore (2010) puts an Indian kick-boxing team competing with Pakistan in the Pakistani metropolis of Lahore. Sports has taken on a nationalist role in South-Asian cinema recently - Dil Bole Hadippa (2009) [Blu-Ray DVD ] pitted a Pakistani cricket team against an Indian one, and the Pakistanis were shown to accept defeat gracefully from an Indian team that contained a woman masquerading a man. Also, a Bangladeshi soccer team is seen outplaying an Indian team in the recent Bangladeshi movie Jaago (2009).

Lahore (2010) is  Directed by Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan with music by M M Kreem. The starcast includes Farooq Sheikh, Nafisa Ali, Shraddha Nigam, Ashish Vidhyarthi, Nirmal Pandey, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Sourav Shukla, Kelly Dorji, Anahad, Sushant  Singh, Pramod Moutho and more.

The multiple award-winning Lahore debuted at the 2009 Salento International Film Festival in Italy, and the theatrical release date is March 19, 2010.

Watch the full theatrical promo-preview trailer of Lahore online.