Salman Khan leaves Saturday for the US for treatment of a medical condition that causes him unbearable pain in the head, jaws and cheeks.

Amdist pain Salman wrapped up his commitments to promote his forthcoming film "Bodyguard".

"Though he is suffering from severe pain, he finished off his interviews scheduled till last night. He is leaving for the US Aug 27 for the treatment," a source from the unit of "Bodyguard" told.

He would miss Ganesh Chaturthi, Eid and the release of his film "Bodyguard", which is hitting screens Aug 31.

Salman disclosed to media that the he had the first attack of pain in the left side of his face during the making of his film "Partner" (2007) and the pain came back while he was shooting for "Veer" (2010). He is suffering from this pain continuously since last year.

In medical parlance, Salman is suffering from trigeminal neuralgia and aneurysm.

Have the Bhatts again borrowed from a foreign film for 'Murder 2' plot

It seems Korean films are the newest source of inspiration for the Bhatts. While they claim that their earlier film Sadak inspires their latest outing Murder 2, the buzz is that it has been lifted from a 2008 Korean thriller titled The Chaser.

The storyline of this South Korean flick revolves around a human-trafficker and his attempts to capture an elusive serial killer who has been preying on his girls. Apparently, Murder 2's story is quite similar.

Reportedly, even the poster of this sequel is a direct rip-off of another Korean film called Bad Guy.

This is not the first time the Bhatts have taken inspiration from an international movie. Even the prequel, Murder was said to be lifted from the Hollywood film Unfaithful.

Real-life story

However, producer Mukesh Bhatt vehemently denies these allegations, saying, "I have not seen The Chaser. We have always said that our film is inspired from Nithari killings. It is a real life inspiration. Kalyug was inspired from a real life story, too. Nithari is topical and it is a story of a psychopath."

A Vishesh Film insider informs that Bhatts sold the film rights to Ponty Chadha for R 15 crore, but when they saw the final print they realised their mistake. "They felt that the film has shaped up well and has potential to earn much more. They immediately asked Ponty to let them have the rights for Bombay territory.

Ponty demanded to see the final print and decided that he doesn't want to part with the rights. So finally, both parties have become fifty percent partners in Bombay territory, " the source informs

THE POSTER OF MURDER 2 ANN MUNNA BHAI R PUBLISHED

By Subhash Jha

Director: Nikhil Advani

Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Dimple Kapadia, Anushka Sharma, Hard Kaur, Prem Chopra

Rating: ****

It takes us just five minutes to get the hang of this film's narrative structure. It is as nimbly-paced as a fast-bowler playing cricket in a wide-open field trying to avoid all the roar and din of the cheering crowds in the stands.

For a film that has a surprisingly large number of characters (after the 23rd Sikh-Briton running up and down the wooden staircase I stopped counting) the noise decibel is surprising low. The clamour of a crowded Sikh household in London never overpowers the emotional kernel of this film.

The delicate supple bonds that grow among people, who are not just mal-adjusted in a foreign land but are also spiritual and emotional misfits in their own household, are brought out in vignettes that show the hand of a confident storyteller.

Nikhil Advani's admirable episodic structure of "Salaam-e-Ishq" failed because of its inordinate length. This time Advani takes no chances with the length. Economy of expression is paramount to the effectual storytelling in "Patiala House". Not that Advani shies away from taking risks. The self-assured manner in which he aggregates the characters in a house run by a patriarchal Sikh in Britain (Rishi Kapoor, firmly in command) without crowding and asphyxiating the canvas shows Advani's deep empathy with the characters who drift into his range of vision.

At heart, "Patiala House" is a father-son story. Akshay has done them before. One immediately recalls Suneel Darshan's "Ek Rishta" where Amitabh Bachchan was the father who drove son Akshay to a state of smothered silences. In "Patiala House" Akshay's silences scream in wounded protest every time papa Rishi Kapoor's iron hand falls on the boy's dreams.

In many ways the screenplay (Advani, Anvita Dutt Guptan) is a compendium of cliches -- despotic dad, timid mother (Dimple Kapadia), unfulfilled son, encouraging girlfriend, her precocious surrogate-son (he reminded me of Kajol's boy in My Name Is Khan). Advani converts familiar characters into real believable warm endearing characters whose lives begin to matter us as we watch them in their Southall setting.