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Move over Sagarika Ghatke, Bipasha Basu is here to kick up some sweat!

That’s right, Reebok India has signed on the fittest Bollywood star as it’s new face.

Bipasha Basu is unarguably one of the sexiest and fittest actresses in the Indian Film Industry today. She leaves no stones unturned to make sure that she stays fit and follows a strict regiment for that. No wonder Reebok has signed Bipasha to be it’s new brand ambassador. Bips seems to be very exited about this opportunity. She says, "I love the energy, the exhilaration and the passion of the brand. I believe in the brand attitude of ’I am what I am’. In many ways it’s me! And that’s what I have been drawn by and relate to so deeply and well, for that matter there couldn’t have been a better brand connect."

Reebok too seems to be excited about having Bipasha represent their brand. Managing Director, Reebok India, Subhinder Singh said, "Bipasha embodies the pulse points of our brand - individuality, authenticity and a life lived to the fullest in perpetual motion. She is an actor par excellence, a celebrated youth icon with an immense passion for fitness. These characteristics make her a perfect fit for our brand and we will drive this spirit through our future initiatives to motivate the Indian woman to take up fitness."

Here’s wishing Bipasha the best for her upcoming film, Race, which also stars Saif Ali Khan, Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Katrina Kaif and Sameera Reddy.

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It’s becoming a trend for the films coming from the house of Subhash Ghai.

Earlier it happened in case of BOMBAY TO BANGKOK when the film’s release got delayed only to eventually hit the screens on January 18th. Now BLACK and WHITE, a film which is directed by the showman himself, has been pushed forward by a good three weeks. Earlier all set for release on 7th March, BLACK and WHITE would now be coming on 28th March.

In the hindsight this appears to be a good move as 7th March release was nothing less than suicidal. Beginning of March marks the kick start of school/college exams when students shy away from theaters. An offbeat film, BLACK and WHITE relies heavily on youth to help it make a mark at the box office.

However, 28th March is also not a date which really gets the film in a comfort zone. That’s because it follows RACE (21st March) and faces JANNAT (4th April) in weekends around it. All eyes are now set on the D-day to get the picture clearly in ’black’ or ’white’!

Race-Saif Bipasha

RACE has already been voted as the No 1. Hottest film to look forward to in cyberspace.

In a recent poll on which movie’s popularity is decided based on the surfing patterns of millions of users, RACE was voted as No 1. film as it eclipsed other high profile forthcoming films. The ranking determines the popularity of movies, indicating a high level of public awareness and interest in that film.

Race

RACE, produced by Ramesh Taurani (TIPS films) and directed by master of the thriller genre Abbas-Mustan, is touted as one of the slickest thrillers in Bollywood. The promos, which have an international feel, have already created quite a buzz in the industry.

Race

Boasting of the star cast comprising of Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif and Sameera Reddy, RACE is slated to release in March 2008.

Race

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Race- Katrina Anil Saif Akshay Bipasha Sameera.

A new action thriller by Producer Kumar Taurani & Ramesh Taurani of Abbas-Mastan in January, 2008. The king of thriller movies Abbas-Mastan’s new adventure is ‘Race’ which is shoot out in the location of Cape Town, Durban (South Africa) and Mumbai.

It has stars like Anil Kapoor, Akshay Khanna, Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha Basu, Sameera Reddy and Katrina Kaif.

Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif worked together in the film Humko Deewana Kar Gaye. Actress Sameera Reddy is opposite heroine for Anil Kapoor and before her Mallika Sherawat in it but she dropped the film and Sameera signed for it.

Actor Saif Ali Khan and Akshay Khanna did work together in ‘Dil Chahta Hai ’before that. In the film Akshay Khanna and Saif Ali have in the role of half brother and Katrina Kaif is a personal secretary of Akshay Khanna who loves him. But both love an approaching model Bipasha Basu in Cape Town. Anil kapoor is in the role of detective. Finally a murder mystery grown up and strange incidents take a place in the film like Abbas-Mastan other movies. Now have to see what will different in the film from other movies. About Race actress Bipasha Basu says that it is her first comedy movie even it’s an action thriller movie and she waited for its release. Pritam is the music director or the film.

Race - Saif Bipasha

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The most interesting part of this splintered comedy is Mallika Sherawat’s con woman character, whose agreeable coquettishness is applied to the love lives of two goofy gangsters played by Nana Patekar and Anil Kapoor, both on the look-out for a suitably noble bridegroom for their pretty sister Katrina Kaif.

Between the two leading ladies, Mallika definitely has the spicier, livelier and more animated role. Mock-romancing Kapoor and Patekar, Sherawat doesn’t quite bring the house down.

However, she’s funnier than some of the brainwaves that pass off as comedy in this brain-strain of a film, like the climax that has all the characters cramped in a wooden shack perched in the middle of a yawning precipice.

Honestly, it isn’t just the precipice that’s yawning by the time the climax screeches into sight.

Feroz Khan, the most senior don of the loud loutish lot of mobsters, is led to believe that his son is dead.

A good 20 minutes of the script goes into Anil, Nana, Paresh Rawal and Akshay Kumar running helter-skelter pretending Feroz’s son is dead when in fact he is running around the cremation ground trying to attract his intellectually-challenged dad’s attention.

Laughing in the face of death is a wonderful thing. We saw the death-defying drollery occur earlier this year in Rahul Rawail’s comedy ’Buddha Mar Gaya’.

Writer-director Anees Bazmi does the festive farce with more finesse. The narrative avoids crudity most of the way even as the goofball antics of the characters gets progressively outlandish. Cars break into two halves, guns go off in the wrong direction and the actors look more crazed than people in a mental asylum.

Yawn. Another comedy. Another day in the long history of films from Bollywood struggling to make the audience laugh.

But how do we bear with this one beyond a point? Sure we giggle a bit at the outset. But we don’t really get to see the comic aptitudes of Bazmi develop beyond a cluster of gags and skits beaded together in broad strokes of crude satire.

Akshay Kumar manfully allows Katrina to rescue him from a fire but who can rescue us from the raging flames of ennui that envelope us as we watch talented actors make fools of themselves?

Cast: Feroz Khan, Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Paresh Rawal
Writer and Director: Anees Bazmi