Welcome - hilarious but leave your brains behind and enjoy the movie…

Welcome movie starring Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Paresh Rawal, Feroz Khan and Mallika Sherawat is going on at cineplex’s. It also has a special dance number by Malika Arora Khan. Though the film is based on Hollywood’s ‘Mickey Blue Eyes’, but is still interesting with Anil – Nana and Mallika doing a great one to pull the comedy in the film. Never to forget Akshay is subtle but nice, and is paired with Katrina (Namaste London pair) in the film. For me - watch the film, leave your brains behind and enjoy. Probably that is one of the reason you spend the money !!!. Welcome is directed by Anees Bazmee, produced by Feroz Nadiadwala and written by Rajiv Kaul and Praful Parekh duo.

In the film story flows that Akshay and Katrina fall in love. Akshay is Rajiv in the film, nephew of Dr Ghungroo (Paresh Rawal) while Katrina is Sanjana, sister of mobsters Uday Shetty (Nana Patekar) and Majnu (Anil Kapoor). Family members of both of them i.e. Dr Ghungroo and Uday and Majnu want nice spouses, who have good name in the society. But the twist is here as the respectable doctor when Dr Ghungroo goes whacky as he comes to know that his ‘to be bahu’ is sister of these mobsters. It is here where begins the mayhem as Rajiv and Sanjana realize that they must bring the criminals to the straight path before they get married…...never to forget RDX played by Feroz Khan who is International partner of the mobsters and jumps in the fray.
Welcome, is being distributed worldwide by The Indian Film Company (IFC), and as per web site information it had grossed Rs 571.8 million in its opening week.

Enjoy the fun !!!

Film enjoyment is contagious, says study

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If you are you a movie buff then this research is sure to bring a smile on your face --- the presence of other people may enhance our movie-watching experiences. Researchers from University of Chicago carried out a study and explained that ''the more in sync we are with the people around us, more we like the movie,'' the Science Daily reported. They suggested that over the course of the film, movie-watchers influence one another and gradually synchronise their emotional responses.

''By mimicking expressions, people catch each other's moods leading to a shared emotional experience. That feels good to people and they attribute that good feeling to the quality of the movie,'' explain researchers Suresh Ramanathan and Ann L McGill.

In a series of experiments, the researchers had participants watch a video clip. Some of the participants watched alone, some with other people whose expressions could not be seen due to the presence of a partition, and some with other people whose expressions could be seen.

The participants used to indicate their feelings at each moment with the help of a joystick.

The researchers found that people watching a film together appeared to evaluate the film within the same broad mood, generally tracking up or generally tracking down. In another study, the researchers videotaped participants and found that synchrony of evaluations can be traced to glances at the other person during the film and adoption of the observed expressions.

The researchers explained: ''Participants who looked at each other at the same time appeared to note whether the other person's face expressed the same or different emotion than their own.

Perceived congruity of expressions caused participants to stick with their current emotional expression . . . Perceived incongruity, on the other hand, led to a dampening of subsequent expressions.'' ''Social effects described above were bi-directional suggesting that such influences were mutual rather than the result of a leader-follower pattern,'' they concluded.

The researchers are the first to examine how a shared experience affects not just our immediate feelings, but also our overall impressions of the experience as a whole.

Madhuri's 'Aaja Nachle' back in theatres of Punjab and UP

Madhuri Dixit's film "Aaja Nachle" was back in theatres of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh with the state authorities deciding to give it a green signal after some controversial lines were removed from the title song.

A decision to allow screening of the film in Punjab was taken by the state government late last night, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister D S Guru said here on Sunday. A notification in this regard was also issued on Sunday.

The Punjab government had last night asked district magistrates to decide on whether to screen the movie after its objectionable content in the title song had been removed. The Badal government had on Saturday banned the movie in order to maintain law and order in the state.

In Uttar Pradesh, screening of the film started in various cinema halls with theatre owners giving an affidavit on removing the controversial portions in the film and respective district authorities verifying the amendment.

Reports from Lucknow said cinema hall owners had furnished affidavits as desired by the government on deletion of the objectionable portions and the district authorities too verified that they had the amended reels for screening before they were allowed to go ahead with showing of the film.