Katrina Kaif: Black ink splashes on her body

Salman ‘Dabangg’ Khan’s ex flame Katrina Kaif is surely the sexiest vixen in the whole pack of Bollywood belles. If ‘Tees Maar Khan’ has her showing her navel and trimmed waist, her next Yash Raj film shall showcase her in her new, inky avatar.

Katty is getting inked i.e. tattooed for her Yashraj flick opposite Imran Khan. For her character, Katrina required to flaunt some funky tattoos and hence her director Ali Abbas Zafar has been shortlisting some 20-25 designs. The tattoos, reportedly, will vary from animal prints to human sketches. Katty portrays a rebellious girl in the film and, thereby, the tattoos go well with her character.

Mumbai mirror reports, “Katrina plays a rebel in the film sporting a grungy punk look. She will be getting interesting abstract tattoos, which will, of course, be temporary in nature. Ali Abbas had shortlisted 20-25 designs, and Katrina chose abstract designs over animals or human sketches which would go with her rebellious character.”

However, Katrina is petrified of the needles and it’s unlikely that she would be sporting a permanent tattoo anytime in her life (be it real or reel). So, the next time you see a multi-coloured Kat prowling the silver screen, don’t raise your eyebrows. It’s just our beloved Kat flaunting her inky body.

Dabangg: More than brawn, biceps

Debutant director Abhinav Kashyap would have committed a crime if he would not have taken Sallu bhai of Bollywood for his directorial debut Dabangg. No one else from the fraternity could have essayed the role of Chulbul Robinhood Pandey than Salman Khan. By featuring Salman Khan in Dabangg, Kashyap, who was assistant director of Yuva, scores brownie points.

Sigh…finally Sallu is better than just flaunting his brawn and biceps in Dabangg. Seriously, after Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Tere Naam, Salman Khan had been typecast as such. Dabangg is such a relief, only if you are to concentrate on Chulbul Pandey (Salman Khan) who likes to call himself Robinhood Pandey of Uttar Pradesh. No matter how hackneyed and threadbare the screenplay, Chulbul Pandey has all the ingredients of a Bollywood masala movie.

Chulbul Pandey lives with his mother Naini (Dimple Kapadia), step father Prajapati Pandey (Vinod Khanna) and Makhi (half-brother). Chulbul hates his step dad since because Prajapati always poured all his attention on Makhi (Arbaaz Khan). Though Chulbul loves his half brother, he does not feel quite as ease in showing his emotions. His mom is the only person he is close with.

The film divides itself into three plots – the ongoing conflict between Chulbul Pandey and his step father, his romantic life with Rajjo (Sonakshi Sinha) and the action scenes between Chulbul Pandey and a goon-cum-politician Cheddi Singh (Sonu Sood).

While the scriptwriters Deelip Sukhla and the director try to balance the movie between action and comedy, they succeed in making the action scenes outstand but fail flat when it comes to making the audience seriously laugh. Because the execution is poorly taken care of, many sequences don’t go hand in hand. Director Abhinav Kashyap must have gone overly ambitious as he was roping in too many big names together in the film. Characters played by Dimple Kapadia, Om Puri, Tinu Anand, Anupam Kher and Mahie Gill are simply forgettable. Even Sonakshi Sinha, the lead actress, is simply an eye candy.