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Bollywood movies usually depict real life situations. The cinema is like a mirror to the society, usually giving relevant messages. But there are some movies which are over the top, dreamy and spectacular on 70mm. While the arrival of OTT platforms is becoming popular medium but silver screen still holds a special place in our hearts and will continue to do so.

In recent times, some filmmakers with brilliant content have hardly left us disappointed. Their movies are so good, it wins your heart. And listening to fans, the makers decided to spun a sequel on Dostana and Aankhen.

Taking to Instagram, Kartik Aaryan, who is the lead actor in Dostana 2 alongside Janhvi Kapoor, posted a picture with Dharma head honcho Karan Johar.

1.Hum Tum

A 2004 movie about 2 people meet, fall in love, break up and then come together again. Lead roles played by Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji, the film was heartwarming, romantic and had portions of comedy.

The movie especially the songs was so relatable to the young generation that it ended up garnering five Filmfare awards. The duo came together in Thoda Pyaar, Thoda Magic, Tara Rum Pum and this. They have not come together in so long and everyone wants to know what transpired after their wedding. So a sequel definitely will work.

2.Andhadhun

A story of a blind piano player who unwittingly becomes embroiled in a murder. The movie features Ayushmann Khuranna and we know what’s that looking like in 2019. He is one of the finest actors of this era. And audience is seeking a sequel for this one as the ending of the movie was left open ended. Andhadhun leaves you to imagine what could have possibly happened. Fun fact: It was made on a budget of Rs 32 crore and ended up raking in Rs 456 crore.

3.No Entry

OMG! This is one movie we’re dying to have a sequel for. The movie is a hilarious roll coaster ride about three married friends – Sunny, Kishan and Prem who get stuck with Bobby (Bipasha Basu). Their wives constantly doubt their better halves and they get into trouble without really having done anything.

There were rumors during the making that the movie could be similar to Masti. However, the producer of the film Boney Kapoor stressed that he would never endorse innuendo-based films such as Masti. While Masti has had many versions so far, No Entry is yet to get a sequel. It’ll be interesting to see who will play Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor and Fardeen Khan’s roles although we would like the original trio.

4.Queen

This 2014 movie was one which liberated many women. It shows Kangana Ranaut as an under confident Punjabi girl in a comic-drama when her wedding is called off. She then decides to embark on her honeymoon all by herself and shows the situations she gets into. Queen is a journey about a timid girl who in the end becomes happy, free and liberated and OWNS it. And people still want to know what really happened to Queen aka Kangana and does she end up getting married to someone at all.

A sequel will definitely help us get a closure.

5.Andaz Apna Apna

This Salman Khan-Aamir Khan starrer has become a cult status over the years. Infact, the language used in the film has become a part of our everyday conversations. “Do dost ek pyaale se chai piyenge, ussey pyaar badhta hai” is just one of our favourite dialogues from the film. It’s a dream we all secretly think of – to marry someone rich and nice, right? Andaz Apna Apna revolves around two day dreamers who ‘smartly’ fall in love with two rich girls from a business family. However, the twists and turns that come along with it are hilarious and unmissable. A lot of people want Salman-Aamir to come together to show lives after they get married to Raveena and Karisma Kapoor. Now, now, wouldn’t that be interesting?

6.Rockstar

This movie is a tribute to Jim Morrison. Ranbir Kapoor aka Jordan embarks on a musical journey as he aspires to be a rock star. He attains all the fandom he dreamt of but becomes anguished and distant after losing Heer aka Nargis Fakhri who he passionately loves.

The 2011 movie received a cult classic in India where AR Rahman was awarded for excellent music throughout the film and Kapoor for his impeccable acting. In the sequel, it’ll be interesting to see Jordan’s life post Heer and how he handles the stardom.

7.Ae Dil Hai Mushkil

It’s musical. It’s romantic. It’s dramatic. Helmed by Karan Johar, the movie is based on the concept of unrequited love. Apart from having a stellar starcast, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil had some picturesque locations as well.

The movie which revolved around how a man who gets friend zoned by the one he loves goes to a woman older than him seeking for the same affection. Failing to achieve that, Ranbir who pays the lead role tries getting back to his old love. However, he still gets the same response despite her ailing health.

The movie features Fawad Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Aishwarya Rai and a special appearance by Lisa Haydon and Alia Bhatt. Karan Johar is known for making larger than life cinema and this particular movie apparently depicts a portion of his real life.

The movie was the highest grossing film of 2016 and it would be interesting to see if Ranbir eventually does fall in love with someone, at all.

Many view India’s ballooning population –set to overtake China’s by the next decade– as a ticking time-bomb, but a solution is now at hand that, nevertheless, has taken four long decades to see the light of day.

India had only 54 million on its population chart in 1979 when a slight professor in his 40s, Dr Sujoy Kumar Guha, published his first scientific paper on Risug, a molecular drug he had developed as a reversible contraceptive for men.

He pleaded for clinical trials. But the ‘Doctor’ in front of his name was not from a medical degree; it was courtesy of his PhD studies at an American university. No go, said India’s supreme medical body, the ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research).

Guha chose to circumvent this closed door by opting to sit his medical entrance test and by becoming a qualified medical doctor. The ICMR relented and the clinical trials began, but more than a decade had passed and Guha was now in his 50s, an age when most men tend to get somewhat flaccid of mind.

Phase One of the clinical trials progressed from rats to rabbits to monkeys and then to humans, and proved spectacularly successful in 1993. But then the ICMR brought them to a halt, after someone complained that certain components of Risug are known to cause cancer.

Guha argued that these individual substances become harmless as compounds, just as chlorine, which could melt human flesh, becomes basic everyday salt when mixed with sodium. The ICMR wasn’t convinced.

Dr Guha then knocked on the doors of the Supreme Court; Phase Two was set in motion after a few years and, by 2002, Dr Guha’s dreams were close to being realized, before another spanner was thrown in the works.

This time, it was changes to the international norms for clinical trials. It took the Indian medical authorities another five years to put these required norms in place.

The envy that took its toll

Unsurprisingly, Guha’s work evoked interest and envy in equal measure around the world. Peers began sniffing around his wonder drug, and not always with a sense of appreciation. The National Institutes of Health in the US raised questions, causing more delays.

Dr Guha believes to this day that this was meant to promote a pill-in-the-making which, unlike his one-time injectable hormone-based drug, promised a continual demand and endless profits.

Now, after another dozen years and nearly four decades all told, Dr Guha’s dream is close to becoming a reality. Extended tests on Risug have shown no side-effects. The Indian medical authorities are hopeful of introducing his reversible contraceptive to the market in the next six to seven months. It would be the first injectable male contraceptive in the world. Its competitor, the pill, is nowhere in sight.

Indian men prefer to use condoms rather than invasive vasectomy surgery to sterilize their reproductive systems. But Dr Guha’s invention is external, non-invasive and cheap, and could prompt millions to opt for it, given it’s reversible with just two counter injections. There are no barriers to physical intimacy, as with condoms.

Youth and the shackles of population

There’s a great imbalance in India’s population trajectory, with southern states meeting the global trends of less than two children per household. In contrast, families in the northern states, home to 40 per cent of India’s population, tend to have nearly four children per household.

Education, the economic dependence of women and a rural-urban divide all play roles in India’s population, which is bursting at the seams and poses a great strain on the country’s diminishing resources, such as water and energy. India has more than 600 million young people and needs 12 million jobs for them each year. Population is an issue which can no longer be put off till tomorrow.

In times gone by, around the time when Dr Guha had worked out his invention, Sanjay Gandhi, son of India’s then-reigning prime minister Indira Gandhi, opted for a compulsory sterilization programme to halt the population boom in 1976. Over six million men were sterilized in just a year. Nearly 2,000 men died because of botched operations.

In the ensuing elections, India voted the Gandhis out of power. Nobody in authority has dared to do anything as dramatic as this since those dark days.

Dr Guha, nearing 80 and still sprightly, could finally give India a solution to a problem which has seriously shackled the nation’s future. He won’t meet the tragic fate of Dr Subhas Mukherjee, who was the real architect of ‘test-tube baby’ procedure but lost the rights of invention to Louise Brown only because his work hadn’t appeared in any international journal. In 1981, Dr Mukherjee was found hanged in his Kolkata apartment.