Traditionally, the year's biggest Bollywood releases are timed around Diwali. And this year, like 2004 (which saw Mughal-E-Azam, Veer-Zaara, Aitraaz, and Naach), the festival of lights coincides with Eid, the day the holy month of Ramadan ends.
Here's what Bollywood has in store for you in this festive season:

Beefcakes And Bimbettes

Garam Masala, directed by Priyadarshan, is a film with a perfect cast. Leading men John Abraham and Akshay Kumar have never been hotter, and pairing them in this buddy film is a stroke of extremely fortunate timing.

The men play a couple of irrepressible, competing flirts in the film that also stars a trio of brand new babes. With that and the director's lucky charm Paresh Rawal, this looks like timepass at its spiciest.







Why, haven't we seen this before?
More Priyadarshan, and on the same day!

With his other release Kyon Ki too, the director seems confident. The plot is an emotional one, which brings us Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor together for the very first time. The director says the film will have doses of both drama and comedy, but will (mercifully) not be like Hulchul.

Kyon Ki is purportedly a remake of the 1975 Hollywood classic, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

Let's see if the Bebo-Sallu chemistry works.





Shehnaai shenanigans
Bring on the Dhawan.

After raking in the moolah with Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya, Bollywood's bawdiest director is back to what he manages best: a confused ensemble of actors, a couple of them A-list, with a ridiculous script.

David Dhawan's Shaadi No 1 promises to be yet another innuendo-driven escapade, starring Sanjay Dutt, Fardeen Khan, Ayesha Takia, Esha Deol, Soha Ali Khan and Sharman Joshi.

Ria Sen, Sophie Chaudhary, and Arti Chhabria star as three bombshells. And Zayed Khan stars as - hold your breath - Spiderman?

Plot? What plot?




An intriguingly-titled tale
Priyadarshan is not the only one to have two Diwali releases this year.

Ayesha Takia also stars in Home Delivery, a Sujoy Ghosh film that completes the Diwali quartet, making sure the weekend will see audiences having to choose between comedies.

Vivek Oberoi plays hero in a film with the effervescent Boman Irani and Mahima Choudhary.

Details of the film's story are yet to be disclosed, but it's set to be a dark romance, with liberal doses of laughs. It's rumoured to have 21 zany songs (take a bow, Vishal-Shekhar), with one of them sung by Boman himself.

With this film set in a single day, the Jhankaar Beats director might just have the weekend ace up his sleeve.