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Kishore Kumar would have been 78 Saturday, but chances are that the irrepressible, versatile playback singer-actor would still have been yodelling away like he did so many decades ago in the title track of "Jhumroo" had he been alive. His was the voice that gave us unforgettable moments in the joyous "Paanch Rupaiya Baara Aana", the soulful "Zindagi Ka Safar", the romantic "Pal, Pal Dil Ke Pas" and the foot tapping "Eena Meena Deeka" that has people doing the twist even 50 years later.

Film: "Cash"; Cast: Ajay Devgan, Suniel Shetty, Diya Mirza, Esha Deol, Shamita Shetty, Zayed Khan, Riteish Deshmukh; Director: Anubhav Sinha; Rating: ** "Cash" is no trash. It's as nonsensically nifty as any of those cool capers from Hollywood like "Ocean's Eleven".

Film: Naya Daur (Coloured version); Cast: Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Ajit and Jeevan; Director: B.R. Chopra; Ratings: *** If I had to choose one out of the vast vibrant and progressive repertoire of B.R. Chopra's films for colour, it would be "Sadhana", a film about a prostitute's rehabilitation that asked so many questions from our essentially unequal social system.

Film: "Meera Madhava Raghava"; Cast: Tilak, Ramya, Diganth; Director: T.N. Seetharam; Producers: Bhoomika Chitra; Music: Hamsalekha. This is TV serial director T.N. Seetharam's second film. Top Kannada heroine Ramya plays a troubled housewife and Tilak is cast as a toughie who used to stalk her before marriage. The film tells an unusual tale.

Nemesis came calling on Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt Tuesday when a special court ended one of the longest terror trials in the world by sentencing him to six years rigorous imprisonment for being in possession of "dangerous weapons" in the 1993 Mumbai bombings case.

Sanjay Dutt's sentencing to six years in jail has sent shock waves through the Hindi film industry, with producers of at least three films involving the actor wondering about the fate of their incomplete projects, pegged at around Rs.1 billion (Rs.100 crores).

Bollywood's star actor Sanjay Dutt, on whose shoulders rides about a billion rupees in investment of the Indian film industry, was sentenced to six years in prison for illegally possessing "dangerous" weapons in the 1993 Mumbai bombings as one of the longest criminal trials in India ended Tuesday.

Whether they are seasoned stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Shabana Azmi and Hema Malini or new talents like Bipasha Basu, Riteish Deshmukh, all actors have at some point in their career learnt new skills to make their roles convincing. If Amitabh learnt sign language for "Black" and Shabana trained herself in Carnatic music for "Morning Raga", Ritiesh picked up the tricks of street luge for his role in "Cash".

Film: "Marigold"; Music Director: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy; Singers: Shaan, Vikas Bhalla, Alka Yagnik, Truth Hurts, Ali Larter, Nihira Joshi, Sneha Pant, Nikita Nigam; Ratings: *1/2 The music of the Salman Khan-starring Hollywood flick "Marigold" is quite a disappointment, especially when you know it has been composed by none other than Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, the ruling kings of Bollywood music.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a passionate opponent of cinema but what he termed "sinful" is growing increasingly fascinated with the man who wore only wire-rimmed glasses and a loincloth. Bollywood may have repackaged Gandhianism and made his teachings relevant to today's generation through "Lage Raho Munnabhai", but Mahatma Gandhi himself equated cinema with 'evils' like gambling and horse racing.

Film: "Bow Barracks Forever"; Cast: Victor Bannerjee, Lilette Dubey, Moon Moon Sen, Sabyasachi Chakbraborty, Neha Dubey, Clayton Rodgers; Director: Anjan Dutt. Rating: *** Writer-director Anjan Dutt's second release in two weeks, after "Bong Connection", is not as powerful and poignant a portrait of the rapidly disintegrating Anglo-Indian community in Kolkata as Aparna Sen's "36 Chowringee Lane".