Former SLO: Nisha Kothari

Last night, I watched Madhyanam Hatya(later remade in Hindi as My Wife's Murder) and sort of fell in love with her again. I used to be somewhat obsessed with her; not in a stalkerish way, but in a "I wish I were a cute, young plaything 'muse' of a 'maverick' film director obsessed with my legs and butt, too!" way. And she was a Sridevi fan, which automatically added 25 bonus points to her kitty. I've since moved on but I still think she's cute, and maybe someday I'll watch RGV Ki Aag, just to see if it's really as bad as critics have claimed. Raaj the Showman is another possibility, even though I find Puneet Rajkumar rather unappealing.

I found these caps on the internet a while back. They're from the "Chadti Jawani" remix video she did with Negar Khan and another model whose name I don't know.





Seven more behind the cut:

Jay Jay(2003)

Somewhere along the line, I learned to hate Madhavan. Okay, maybe "hate" is too harsh a word. How about "strongly dislike"? Anyway, there was a time, long ago, when I actually liked him. But now, for reasons unknown, I can't stand him, as evidenced by my inability to make it past the first few minutes of this flick. Every time I try to watch it, I give up by the time this song starts. I can't believe this is the same Madhavan I found attractive in Priyasaki. I can be so fickle with my affections, sometimes. **sigh**

Back in the day, I wanted to see this solely because of Nisha Kothari. It was her Tamil debut, and as I mentioned in this post, I have a "thing" about watching the screen debuts of the actors I like. At that time, however, the Tamil DVD wasn't in stock, so I bought the dubbed Telugu version and never watched it.

Fast forward to about two months ago when the Tamil original was available from bhavani. I ordered it, this time because of my newfound crush on Pooja Umashankar. Too bad I didn't stick around long enough to see her. If I ever decide to give Jay Jay another chance, I'll have to skip ahead to her scenes. Until then, this movie will languish in the "waste of money" pile.

James(2005)

This used to be one of my favorite mindless flicks. But it's been so long since I last watched it, I've forgotten most of it. Let's see: Mohit Ahlawat, man of two facial expressions, comes to Mumbai and lands a job as a club bouncer. Nisha Kothari is a model who's being pursued by some goon who makes nasty calls to her cell phone. Mohit and Nisha meet at the gym. She goes to the club where he works and is harrassed by the aforementioned goon. IIRC, Mohit beats him up and gets fired. As he's walking down the road, Nisha catches up to him in her car and offers him a lift. There are a couple songs that focus mostly on Nisha's legs, butt, and midsection. (Her intro song is filmed in the same manner.) Something else happens. There's a church, there's running, there's Mohit beating up goons in the middle of the street. Something else happens, part two. Nisha throws herself off a cliff. Something else happens, part three. Mohit bashes up the bad guys in the rain. The end.

Granted, I left out a lot of stuff I didn't remember, but I believe that's the gist of it. I may have to dig out this movie from wherever I have it stashed and view it again. I rather enjoyed the "No real plot? No problem!" approach. I tend to favor movies that don't require me to really think about what I'm watching.

ETA: I believe this was remade(?) in Telugu as Shiva(or maybe it was actually in Hindi, but dubbed in Telugu. I don't know. The DVD I have is in Telugu). This time, Mohit is a cop and Nisha is a reporter. I don't remember anything beyond that except I didn't like it as much as James.