May 14, 2007
Kunal Khemu Biography
Born in 1983 in Srinagar, Kunal moved to Mumbai when he was very young. He had a penchant for acting even when he was a kid. His parents are actors Ravi and Jyoti Khemu.
Kunal debuted on television as a child actor in the critically acclaimed Gul Gulshan Gulfam in 1987.
After that starred in bollywood films like Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke, Raja Hindustani and Zakhm. His roles in all these movies were widely praised. He left a deep mark on everyone as a young Mahesh Bhatt in Zakhm.
After that he disappeared from the horizons of the hindi movie industry only to appear in 2005 as the lead character in Kalyug. Kalyug was a critical and commercial hit. Its music became popular and Kunal Khemu left an indelible impression on his fans with his fresh face and acting prowess.
After Kalyug he was signed up for the movie Traffic Signal directed by one of Bollywood’s biggest directors Madhur Bhandarkar. Traffic Signal is slated for release in Feb 2007. He is also the lead character in director Priyadarshan’s Dhol which is in pre production as of Jan 2007.
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May 31, 2007
Kunal Khemu in U Me Aur Hum and Jai Veeru
Kunal Khemu has replaced Saif Ali Khan in the bollyood film U Me Aur Hum. The film, directed by Ajay Devgan, also stars Kajol. Vishal Bhardwaj is composing the music and the it is expected to revive Ajay Devgan's home production company that had stopped producing films since 2000.
Another film Kunal is appearing in is Jai Veeru produced by Shyam Bajaj.
On a related note, Kunal is also set to star in Rohit Jugraj's yet to be named film alongside Tulip Joshi and Aushima Sawhney.
With Dhol set to release in June 2007, this year seems to be full of promise for Kunal Khemu.
Another film Kunal is appearing in is Jai Veeru produced by Shyam Bajaj.
On a related note, Kunal is also set to star in Rohit Jugraj's yet to be named film alongside Tulip Joshi and Aushima Sawhney.
With Dhol set to release in June 2007, this year seems to be full of promise for Kunal Khemu.
May 30, 2007
Film: Dhol - Kiska Bajega?
Here is a promotional video of Kunal Khemu's soon to be released film Dhol. The tagline says "Kiska Bajega?"
(Please click on the Play Icon in the movie player to play the video)
The video looks great with a rather funny song prelude that goes:
Tushar Kapoor: bheega aasma
Kunal Khemu: Sheh do dil mera
Sharman Joshi: suni rahon pe
Rajpal Yadav: kya dhoonde bhala?
o yaara dhol bajake
o yaara jasn manake
Catch the antics of these 4 guys in June!
(Please click on the Play Icon in the movie player to play the video)
The video looks great with a rather funny song prelude that goes:
Tushar Kapoor: bheega aasma
Kunal Khemu: Sheh do dil mera
Sharman Joshi: suni rahon pe
Rajpal Yadav: kya dhoonde bhala?
o yaara dhol bajake
o yaara jasn manake
Catch the antics of these 4 guys in June!
Kunal's Next Movie: Dhol
Crew:
Produced by : Percept Picture Company
Director: Priyadarshan
Music: Pritam
Release Date: June 2007
Dhol is the first youth comic-thriller by Priyadarshan. The ensemble cast includes Sharman Joshi, Tusshar Kapoor, Kunal Khemu and Tanushree Dutta. Priyadarshan excels at his art of entangling stories of four youngsters after one rich girl, murder mystery, mixed-up identities and some goons. Pritam teams up again with Priyadarshan for the music of this film.
We heard that in Dholthere will be a lot of song and dance. This is not a side that we have seen of you so far. Do you like to dance?
Well yes, I think the first good surprise about Dhol is that it is comedy and that's something that people have always asked me that you have come in very intense, dark films why is it so? Is it personal choice?
I said no I'm experimenting with the different kinds of cinema and different kinds of films. And here is Dhol again the breather from the first two intense films and it has a lot of comedy in it. Yes there is a bit of song and dance. It's not like the hardcore dance but its more of a fun film and that s what we are doing. We are having fun in the songs also.
So yes I had lots of fun working on that film and it was a bit easier also because there is Sharman, Tushar, and Rajpal. So there was a light atmosphere on the sets. And because it's a comedy we keep on trying to improvise and we are laughing almost all the times.
Infact we finished the schedule really fast of the whole film and now I recently made them on a photo shoot and we were just discussing you know it just went by. I was like I don't even remember what I did in the film but it was great fun and I'm looking forward to Dhol
There is no certain character that would say that this is my character in the film. Like in Signal I could say because he is somebody. I was playing a character. In Kalyug this guy has a back story.
But these are the guys who you will see in your life, they are normal college going kids. They are not kids actually. They are the people who have finished there studies and trying to apply for jobs, these guys who stay together and there is a whole suspense, under belly suspense to the film which is revealed through the film. It's a comedy of errors and how these guys in trying to good for people they end up screwing up themselves and the people too.
I think people will understand the film when they see it. I can't put it in one line and say this is what the film is about.
Yes, he is. It's an honor and privilege to be working with Mr. Priyadarshan. I had a great time. It was actually a learning experience because I looked up to him as a teacher. The kind of professionalism he brings to the sets and the way he works is different from the kind of work that I've done before.
He is a very serious and sensible. He speaks very less but in that you come to know what he wants. Then you come to know that he is actually a very humorous person and his sense of humor is unbelievably good. I see it and say okay this is the vision.
So it was great fun working with him. I learnt a lot and I hope he is happy with what I have done in the film.
You are one of those few newcomers who got to do solo lead films in the start. Does it make you feel good?
Good. There is nothing to complaint in that and I am happy that people have trust in me and my audiences have been very generous to me. They have welcomed me back in the industry with open arms and appreciated me so much that there is a confidence in the distributors and the producers and the filmmakers to give those solo hero films.
It also adds to my confidence more and try to give my 100% so that I can do justice and I don't let them down in any way from my side atleast.
Exactly as I said it was a breather for me also. Comedy is not something in which only one actor has to be a good actor. Everybody has to be good around you because it's all about give and take. Action and reaction. Only if I react to something he said in the proper way will that punch come out in a proper way and that will be humourous.
Sharman, Tusshar and Rajpal, all these people had done comedy before so I was the out of towner here. I think the last time I did comedy was in Hum Hai Rahi Pyaar Ke and I had no idea what I was doing.
But yes I never felt out of place, I never felt that was an uncharted territory for me and I am having a tough time. I think it was like a walk in the park and I really enjoyed the work.
Well, there wasn't one such incident that we planned and we did it. As I said this is a comedy film and we would always improvise. So we were always laughing, coming out with some funny line or something that we did.
We all kept on doing weird stuff. We used to play a lot of cricket where we were shooting, if we got a break. I would have the entire kit in back of my car. Rajpal would have one and Rajpal is like a kid at heart. Before me he would be standing with his bat and he would call all the guys and in the lunch breaks we would play. One day Priyan sir also joined us.
We had lot of fun actually. It was like one big picnic.
When Harry Tried to Marry
Our favorite hot boy Kunal Khemu is all set to star in an English Movie When Harry Tried to Marry (English Bollywood movie!). The director of the movie Nayan Pandrai was very keen to cast Kunal so he didn't let the chance go by when Kunal was in New York on vacation where Nayan Pandrai is based. Nayan Pandrai is also the writer and producer for the Movie.
Other cast members for the movie are yet to be finalized. The movie is about a young man who goes to the US for studies and falls in love. The movie depicts his trials and tribulations in a humourous way. Kunal Khemu liked the script so much that he didn't waste any time and signed it immediately.
Let us hope that Kunal's performance in this movie is appreciated like all his past performances. Who knows this might open the doors of Hollywood for Kunal.
Traffic Signal Starring Kunal Khemu
Release Date: February, 2007Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Also Starring: Konkona Sen Sharma, Neetu Chandra, Ranvir Shorey, Raja Pandit, Upyendra Limaye
Traffic Signal is the story of a man who unknowingly puts the lives of those people in danger for whom he cares the most and how he must act fast before it is too late. Traffic Signal also shows the day to day lives of the people of the streets for whom the traffic signal is a means to livelihood.
Mumbai has many traffic signals. Each signal supports various people-beggars, lepers, drug addicts, prostitutes etc. Each signal has a manager who collects a certain amount of money from each of those working at the signal on a daily basis. The hierarchy of this collection system reaches up to the local don and his master.
Silsila (Kunal Khemu) is a manager of one of these signals. For Silsila signal is both his home and workplace as he had virtually grown up in the signal. Silsila is good soul and for him all the people working at the signal are like his big family. Though he is emotional person but when it comes to collecting money he is a true professional. Rani (Neetu Chandra) along with her sister Chutki sell traditional clothes in Silsila’s territory. She is unaware of the tax system which brings her in conflict with Silsila. However things work out for them and both fall in love with each other.
Silsila has a mentor named Jaffar. Jaffar is a manager like him and they both work for the local mafia don, Haji. They are very loyal to him and would even lay down their lives for him. Haji has links with politicians and he asks Silsila to finish off a certain honest engineer who wants to prevent a flyover from being constructed. Silsila does so only to realize that his action has endangered the lives of his own people whom he loves the most. However, Silsila in spite of the odds decides to take a stand against the impending danger to save his people. His effort to save his people mark the climax of the movie thereby defining the title 'Traffic Signal'.
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May 14, 2007
Hot Kunal Khemu
Here are a couple of Kunal's Pictures.
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Kalyug - Kunal Khemu's Debut Movie
Released on December 9th, 2005, Kalyug is Kunal Khemu's debut movie as a leading actor. Kalyug is about a young and vulnerable couple who get trapped in a web of violence, intrigue and sleaze when an MMS is shot of them on their first night together. Trapped in the pornographic mafia, it is the story of Kunal's journey to hell and back.
Director: Mohit Suri
Kunal's Co-star: Smily Suri
Also Starring: Amrita Singh, Deepal Shaw and Emran Hasmi
Producer: Mahesh Bhatt
Originally titled Blue Film, the storywriter felt it was too risqué and changed it to Kalyug. It is "a film about the war against pornography."
Kunal Darr (Kunal Khemu) seems to lead a fairly normal, routine life. One day, fate brings Renuka (Smily Suri), a young orphan girl to his doorstep. The two soon fall in love and get married. But the marital bliss stops abruptly on the wedding night and their world is turned upside-down forever.
Unknown to the happy couple, their most sacred and intimate moments are captured on videotape. Kunal and Renuka are arrested. He is charged with making blue films. Renuka is unable to deal with the humiliation and commits suicide.
In order to prove his innocence, Kunal must uncover the truth behind the blue film racket. As he begins his self-imposed mission, he is lead straight to the dark underbelly of Zurich and the world of Kalyug. Saturated with strip shows, xxx clubs, s and m bars, legalized prostitution and drugs… it is going to take all the strength Kunal has to conquer this war against pornography. Armed with only a picture of a famous Indian porn star – Annie (Deepal Shaw), Kunal gets ready to find and fight a faceless foe.
Unfortunately, what Kunal doesn't realize is that in this "Kalyug" one man's tragedy is another man's entertainment. The rules in this kind of business dictate that as long as there is a demand for blue films, someone will be there to supply them. In a race against time, Kunal has to quickly learn the ropes, if he is going to succeed in exposing the leaders, which include the highest strata of society in Switzerland.
Will Kunal be able to find Annie? Is she the enemy he is really looking for? And will Kunal be able to hold onto his morality in his all consuming desire for revenge?
Emran Hashmi makes a special appearance with his new look (pierced eyebrows and red hair), as Alibhai, the owner of a sex-shop in Amsterdam.
Amrita Singh makes her comeback to the silver screen in a negative role of a woman in control of the pornographic industry.
Director: Mohit Suri
Kunal's Co-star: Smily Suri
Also Starring: Amrita Singh, Deepal Shaw and Emran Hasmi
Producer: Mahesh Bhatt
Originally titled Blue Film, the storywriter felt it was too risqué and changed it to Kalyug. It is "a film about the war against pornography."
Kunal Darr (Kunal Khemu) seems to lead a fairly normal, routine life. One day, fate brings Renuka (Smily Suri), a young orphan girl to his doorstep. The two soon fall in love and get married. But the marital bliss stops abruptly on the wedding night and their world is turned upside-down forever.
Unknown to the happy couple, their most sacred and intimate moments are captured on videotape. Kunal and Renuka are arrested. He is charged with making blue films. Renuka is unable to deal with the humiliation and commits suicide.
In order to prove his innocence, Kunal must uncover the truth behind the blue film racket. As he begins his self-imposed mission, he is lead straight to the dark underbelly of Zurich and the world of Kalyug. Saturated with strip shows, xxx clubs, s and m bars, legalized prostitution and drugs… it is going to take all the strength Kunal has to conquer this war against pornography. Armed with only a picture of a famous Indian porn star – Annie (Deepal Shaw), Kunal gets ready to find and fight a faceless foe.
Unfortunately, what Kunal doesn't realize is that in this "Kalyug" one man's tragedy is another man's entertainment. The rules in this kind of business dictate that as long as there is a demand for blue films, someone will be there to supply them. In a race against time, Kunal has to quickly learn the ropes, if he is going to succeed in exposing the leaders, which include the highest strata of society in Switzerland.
Will Kunal be able to find Annie? Is she the enemy he is really looking for? And will Kunal be able to hold onto his morality in his all consuming desire for revenge?
Emran Hashmi makes a special appearance with his new look (pierced eyebrows and red hair), as Alibhai, the owner of a sex-shop in Amsterdam.
Amrita Singh makes her comeback to the silver screen in a negative role of a woman in control of the pornographic industry.
Labels: Movies
Kunal Khemu Biography
Born in 1983 in Srinagar, Kunal moved to Mumbai when he was very young. He had a penchant for acting even when he was a kid. His parents are actors Ravi and Jyoti Khemu.
Kunal debuted on television as a child actor in the critically acclaimed Gul Gulshan Gulfam in 1987.
After that starred in bollywood films like Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke, Raja Hindustani and Zakhm. His roles in all these movies were widely praised. He left a deep mark on everyone as a young Mahesh Bhatt in Zakhm.
After that he disappeared from the horizons of the hindi movie industry only to appear in 2005 as the lead character in Kalyug. Kalyug was a critical and commercial hit. Its music became popular and Kunal Khemu left an indelible impression on his fans with his fresh face and acting prowess.
After Kalyug he was signed up for the movie Traffic Signal directed by one of Bollywood’s biggest directors Madhur Bhandarkar. Traffic Signal is slated for release in Feb 2007. He is also the lead character in director Priyadarshan’s Dhol which is in pre production as of Jan 2007.
Labels: Biography
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Welcome to the Kunal Khemu News Section. This section will be updated with news about Kunal and his work.
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