Title : Chandni Chowk to China (warner bros.)
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Director: Nikhil Advani
Writers: Rajat Arora, Shridhar Raghavan
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Mithun Chakraborty, Chia Hui Liu
Genre: Action | Comedy
Synopsis: Chandni Chowk To China, the first ever Bollywood Kungfu comedy takes you on a madcap Journey from the by-lanes of Chandni Chowk in Delhi, to Shanghai, the Great Wall and rural China, marrying in its wake hilarious gags, breathtaking action, spectacular locations, and heart stirring emotions.
Our protagonist Sidhu (Akshay Kumar) is the lowest on the totem pole, cutting vegetables at a roadside food stall in Chandni Chowk in Delhi. He longs to escape his dreary existence and looks for shortcuts- with astrologers, tarot readers and fake fakirs - believing anything except himself, despite his father figure Dada's (Mithun Chakraborty) best efforts. His redeeming moment arrives when two strangers from China claim him as a reincarnation of a war hero in the past and takes him to China. Sidhu now dreams of wine, women, and a princely existence in foreign lands. Thanks to the devious translator, a conman by the name Chopstick (Ranvir Shorey), little does he know that he is being taken to the Promised Land to rid the Chinese village of the vicious smuggler Hojo (Gordon Liu)!
Therefore, Sidhu blissfully sets forth to China with Chopstick who instigates dreams of a delicious future and forgets to reveal the perils, which await him. Along the way, he meets Sakhi (Deepika Padukone), Ms. Tele Shoppers Media (Ms. TSM) who has embarked on a journey to pay homage to the land of her birth and her dead father and twin. Initially, Sidhu through a series of lucky coincidences manages to sidestep being beaten by Hojo's men but finally Hojo catches up with him and exposes him as the country buffoon that he really is. Sidhu has the fire of revenge in his belly and finds the one man who will make him a Kungfu expert and set the village free. Armed with his Sifu (master), faith in himself and the love of the fair Sakhi, Sidhu sets forth to conquer all!

The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the first 21 titles for this year's Panorama section, including four films from Asia. The Panorama section will ultimately screen around 50 films at the Berlinale, which runs Feb. 5-15.

The German/Taiwan co-production "Ghosted" will have its world premiere at the festival's 30th edition, with "Gururi No Koto" hoisting the Japanese flag.
In the Indonesia entry At Stake, five young directors explore prevailing moral conceptions in the world’s most populous Islamic country: the topics range from female genital mutilation to the conflict that results when unmarried women want to go to the gynaecologist.

The Asian contingent is rounded up with two productions from Indonesia, "Laskar Pelangi" and the anthology documentary "At Stake," in which five directors explore female issues in the world’s most populous Islamic country.

So far the following films have been confirmed for the Main Programme, Panorama Special, and Panorama Dokumente. Eleven of these works are world premieres; five are directorial debuts:

Absolute Evil by Ulli Lommel, USA (world premiere)
With David Carradine, Carolyn Neff, Ulli Lommel, Chris Kiesa

Ander by Roberto Castón, Spain (directorial debut and world premiere)
With Josean Bengoetxea, Cristhian Esquivel, Mamen Rivera, Pilar Rodríguez, Leire Ucha

Der Knochenmann (The Bone Man) by Wolfgang Murnberger, Austria (world premiere)
With Josef Hader, Josef Bierbichler, Birgit Minichmayr, Simon Schwarz, Christoph Luser, Stipe Erceg

Fig Trees by John Greyson, Canada (world premiere)
With Van Abrahams, David Wall, Alexander Chapman

Fucking Different Tel Aviv by Yair Hochner, Avital Barak, Stephanie Abramovic, Elad Zakai, Eran Koblik Kedar, Ricardo Rojstaczer, Nir Ne'Eman, Hila Ben Baruch, Yossi Brauman, Sivan Levy, Eyal Bromberg, Anat Salomon, Sie Gal, November Wanderin, Yasmin Max, Germany/Israel

Ghosted by Monika Treut, Germany/Taiwan (world premiere)
With Inga Busch, Huan-Ru Ke, Ting-Ting Hu, Jack Kao, Marek Harloff

Gururi No Koto (All Around Us) by Hashigushi Ryosuke, Japan
With Kimura Tae, Lily Franky, Baisyo Mitsuko

High Life by Gary Yates, Canada (world premiere)
With Timothy Olyphant, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Joe Anderson, Rossif Sutherland
Human Zoo by Rie Rasmussen, France (directorial debut and world premiere)
With Rie Rasmussen, Nikola Djuricko, Nick Corey, Vojin Cetkovic, Hiam Abbass, Said Amadis

La journee de la jupe (Skirt Day) by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld, France/Belgium
With Isabelle Adjani, Denis Podalydes, Yann Collette

Laskar Pelangi (The Rainbow Troops) by Riri Riza, Indonesia
With Cut Mini, Zulfani, Ferdian, Veris Yamarno, Ikranagara

Pedro by Nick Oceano, USA (directorial debut)
With Alex Loynaz,Justina Machado, Hale Appleman, DaJuan Johnson

Rückenwind (Light Gradient) by Jan Krüger, Germany (world premiere)
With Sebastian Schlecht, Eric Golub, Iris Minich, Denis Alevi

Sólo quiero caminar (Just Walking) by Augustin Diaz Yanes, Spain/Mexico
With Diego Luna, Victoria Abril, Ariadna Gil, Pilar López de Ayala, Elena Anaya

The Countess by Julie Delpy, Germany/France (world premiere)
With Julie Delpy, William Hurt, Daniel Brühl

White Lightnin' by Dominic Murphy, Great Britain/USA (directorial debut)
With Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson

PANORAMA DOKUMENTE
“At Stake” by Iwan Setiawan, Muhammad Ichsan, Lucky Kuswandi, Ucu Agustin, Ani Ema Susanti, Indonesia
“Coyote” by Chema Rodriguez, Spain (world premiere)
“Garapa” by Jose Padilha, Brazil (world premiere)
“When You're Strange” by Tom DiCillo, U.S.