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Love is blind. And so are the people who cast stars in Bollywood these days. Why is Laila seducing Romeo, and what is Majnu doing with Juliet? Something is definitely wrong.
I just don’t understand this theory. Cast two individually terrific-looking people, put them together on screen to make a ghastly pair and make complete fools of the audiences! Is this the new success formula mooted by some B-town punditji?
Last week, I was trying to make up my mind whether or not to watch Rani and Shahid together in Dil Bole Hadippa, and now Wake up Sid has come along with an unlikely pairing of Konkona Sen and Ranbir Kapoor. At least Shahid and Rani’s onscreen chemistry was not as pathetic as was his with Vidya Balan in Kismet Connection. But then again, Rani did have to shed a lot (literally!) of weight to make this happen. As for Konkana and Ranbir - Karan ji, isn’t the mismatch a little too much for us? Well, both of them are good-looking in their own right, but, when put together, I’m skeptical about whether or not the chemistry will exist between them. I want to know how Karan Johar could see something which I am not able to see. I’m keeping my fingers crossed, however!
And oh! Not to forget Wanted, with the terribly-unlikely Salman Khan and Ayesha Takia running around the bush - or should I say bullets? However, in this case, something seems to have worked, since the film is being labeled a hit. But, let’s face it - the lead actors were very bad together. In future, we have many more such experiments coming our way - Asin with Salman Khan and Ajay Devgan in London Dreams, Priyanka Chopra and Uday Chopra in Pyaar Impossible (the chemistry seems almost impossible), and Himesh Reshammiya and Shenaz in Radio (who went mad first?)
Oh wait! The list is starting to form a permanent frown on my face.
I agree that we, the movie buffs, have certain mind-blocks with regard to the pairing-up of certain actors. But I guess we are grown-up enough to accept reasonable changes, provided they are refreshing!
On a different note, I think we should divert a few of our match-making aunties into B-town. It will work well for us in two ways: We will get rid of them and Bollywood will get rid of its bad casting habits! So it will work out well for all concerned.
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It's not that we are overlooking the fact that she has a release due for October 2nd, 2009 - DO KNOT DISTURB by David Dhawan, paired against Govinda.It is just that curiously enough, in keeping with the season of 'second comings,' Do Knot Disturb gains a special place in Sushmita Sen's career graph that started with Dastak in 1996.
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According to the dictionary , 'plod' means to walk heavily or move laboriously, to proceed in a tediously slow manner or to work with constant and monotonous perseverance.
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Either Yash Chopra Productions has that incurable, potentially rare medical condition called the tractors-mustard-fields- flowers-and-terraced-houses syndrome or someone way up in the Production hierarchy has some lug nuts running loose and rolling around in the attic. Because, try as I might, one just cannot make any sense of Rani Mukerjee's new avatar and seemingly comeback vehicle "Dil Bole Hadipaa". In a time where the inane shares more than equal time with the worthy ones, was this more of the 'If you can't beat them, join them' modus operandi which most of the times spell total celluloid devastation? It has been proved once again, hope Rani Mukerjee sits up and takes notice.
There is no need to even point out a simple fact like this to a 40-odd films old veteran of Indian movies, but just for the sake of repetition, here goes Ms.Mukerjee - The Script is Always the King.
No amount of cross-dressing or impersonation can save you, if you don't have a strong script. At least, a method in the madness is absolutely necessary.Without that, its as good as zilch. Hope you know it by now.
Speaking of repetition, yours truly was under the impression that the wide angled stock -shots of mustard fields swathed in yellow, to brightly painted block-terraced houses and impromptu bhangra hoe-downs was cremated along with Veer-Zara, but its good to know that deep inside the walls of India's greatest Love Productions factory, there are people caught in the mushy time-warp.
Regardless of the fact that Wanted was bullets, lead, six-packs, headbands and a little bit of Salman co-ordinating all these - its first week netted close to Rs 36 Crore and is slated to be the biggest hit for 2009. Yours truly honestly believe there was a fair percentage of its viewers opted for the latter after tuning in to their trusted feedback sources.
Veera Kaur/veer Pratap Singh is a great idea. No doubt about it. The only problem was that cross-dressing never made a believable character. If its spell - binding transitions that you were looking around to mold that character, wish you had rented Girl, Interrupted from your local DVD store and watched it, at least,say once.
There is still Kuchee Kuchee Hota Hai to look forward to in 2010, the animated version of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, marking its 10th Anniversary Release.( Seriously, do these ever work? I also wonder what happened to PNC's animated version of SHOLAY).
There is no doubt that Rani Mukerjee put in a lot of hard work, fortitude,energy and enterprise in essaying the role.But, how long can you put up with cheesiness, broken - banter and dazzling costume changes masquerading as a movie script?
Here's wishing sanity prevails, Ms.Mukerjee,and we get to see more on the likes of Black, Bunty and Bubli and KANK as time goes by.
Remember how her acolytes went about town about Mallika Sherawat slated to play a 'celibate Yogini' in a "Hollywood"(ahem) production tentatively titled The Aquarian Gospel, directed by Drew Heriot, way back in February 2008? I haven't laughed as hard back then, as I did now, and I did this with a cold premonition way back in my heart.