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Click and Toh Baat Pakki releasing this week
MUMBAI: Two small-budget movies, Toh Baat Pakki and Click, will have to wrestle against Shah Rukh Khan‘s blockbuster My Name Is Khan as they hit the theatres tomorrow.
Produced by Tips, Toh Baat Pakki marks the Hindi directorial debut of Marathi filmmaker Kedar Shinde. The film is about a middle-class woman Rajeshwari (Tabu), who is obsessed with getting her younger sister Nisha married to a well-settled boy. How the choice of groom oscillates from Sharman to Vatsal and vice versa forms the crux of the film.
On the other hand, Sangeet Sivan‘s Click is a horror film produced by Pritish Nandi Communications and stars Shreyas Talpade, Sneha Ullal, Sada and Chunkey Pandey.
The film is the story of a young photographer and his girlfriend. He takes beautiful pictures but when they are printed, they hide a secret. A secret that is so dark, terrifying and menancing that he hides it from his better half in the fear that his past if revealed may ruin not only his life but that of his family as well.
Among the English films releasing tomorrow are Up In The Air that bagged 6 Academy Award nominations, Lightning Thief directed by Chris Columbus who earlier directed the first two instalments of Harry Potter, and an SPE Films India release Year One.
Meanwhile, My Name Is Khan is doing strong business. Says trade analyst Taran Adarsh, ” Monday onwards, the Shah Rukh Khan starrer has held well at plexes of big centres, especially Delhi-U.P, Punjab, Bengal and South circuits but has witnessed a marginal decline in C.P., C.I. and Rajasthan circuits. Results from the Mumbai circuit have been extremely mixed. At places, it‘s holding well, while it isn‘t at some.”
Hindi
Jio Studios, Sanjay Dutt team up to revive Khal Nayak
Rights acquired for new version, format under wraps as remake plans take shape.
MUMBAI: The villain is back and this time, he’s rewriting his own script. Jio Studios has partnered with Three Dimension Motion Pictures and Aspect Entertainment to revive the 1993 cult classic Khal Nayak, marking a fresh chapter for one of Bollywood’s most iconic anti-hero stories. The original film, directed by Subhash Ghai under Mukta Arts, was a commercial and cultural milestone, with Sanjay Dutt’s portrayal of Ballu becoming one of Hindi cinema’s most memorable performances.
Dutt, along with Aksha Kamboj, has now acquired the rights from the original creators, bringing on board Jio Studios and its President Jyoti Deshpande to steer the project creatively.
While the exact format whether remake, sequel, prequel, or a completely new narrative remains undisclosed, the collaboration aims to reinterpret the story for contemporary audiences while retaining the essence that made the original a defining film of the 1990s.
The move taps into a broader industry trend of reviving legacy intellectual property, particularly characters with strong recall value. “Khal Nayak” was notable for pushing mainstream Hindi cinema into morally grey territory at a time when heroes were largely one-dimensional, making Ballu’s character a standout.
The project also marks the film production debut of Aspect Entertainment, signalling a push towards more technology-led storytelling frameworks. Meanwhile, Jio Studios continues to expand its slate, having built a library of over 200 films and series, with more than 60 titles collectively winning 500-plus awards.
For Dutt, the revival is as much personal as it is strategic, a return to a role that reshaped his career. For the industry, it is another sign that nostalgia, when paired with scale, remains a powerful box-office proposition.
Because in Bollywood, some villains never fade, they just wait for the perfect comeback.
