Wow! It's already out! Thanks to the subber/uploader!

The part with Shah Rukh only (subbed):


A bit of hosting:


Full show (unsubbed..the rest of the parts can be followed on youtube):

Part 1


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SRK interviewed (Lift Kara De)

MNIK - new song promo (SAJDA)

Thanks to the subber/uploader!

SRK Unplugged (conducted in English by Rajeev Masand)

Better late than never..

Yeay.. subbed!













"I will bite with goodness~"

Chamma Chamma - China Gate

I was obsessed for awhile with Urmila after watching this item song, until I found that she kept appearing in one crappy movie after another. But I guess the 90s was full of crappy hindi movies. Some of her recent movies are good.. the one where she was possessed, and the one where she avenged herself against her evil bf (played by Saif Ali).

The meaning of this song is quite hilarious. You can find the subbed clip somewhere in youtube. I didn't take that one coz it's cut at the beginning.

Mujhe Rang De - Thakshak

I have goosebumps every time I watch Tabu dances in this clip. It's also from this picturization that I realised how tall she is. Tabu and Ajay make a good pair.. IMO.

Several uploads to look out for..

The subbed version:

Suteki! (japanese for 'beautiful')

Frankly, I don't understand how anyone can follow Amitabh's career and not fall head over heels in love with the guy. He's 60++ now but still looks as o wow good looking as ever~ ..and he's still so hardworking and talented. I mean, he's still being nominated in the Best Actor category even now! I doubt anyone can challenge him in the Bollywood movie industry no matter how many younger stars have been pitted against him. I consider any comparison made between any other actor and Amitabh Bacchan something akin to a blasphemy, if there's such a thing in the film terminology. He's the best!

Does launching mean an endorsement deal?

I'm quite energized just watching the hot babes walking the ramp. Shall I get them too if I buy the drink? (for extra boost)

Random interviews I haven't watched yet.. I think

Two of my favourite people sharing the same screen...

Mark once reviewed Angie as the "classic straight to video actress who happens to be earning millions and millions of dollars.." (link, time = 3:53) so it's rather interesting to watch them face to face with each other.

MNIK clip collection

With japanese subtitle (activate language option in your comp)

I don't understand why no one is uploading the Dadagiri full episode. I want to watch it!!

So, for now I have to contend with this smallish clip.. dang. I'd love to watch the whole show. Please someone.. upload it for us?



..okay, enough spammage to ensure the absence of further posts until next week won't be felt? LOL. Have fun reading up on/watching Shah Rukh!

I found the making of the Dish TV ads!

I'm sure you've all seen the new Dish TV ads (which prompted me to seek out other Dish TV commercials he's done. I love the one with the cricket! Oh.. long hair, shirt hanging loose, while swinging a bat around. o yumm~).. so I was waiting for the making of to come out. And here it is!!



I feel disconcerted, or dislocated rather.. when I watched Shah Rukh gave the interview in the old man disguise. Was like, "eeeek.. take it off first b4 talking to anyone!" But that's Shah Rukh for you. Never one to fear the loss of an image in whatever roles he plays, I love that about him. Then the interview fades back to the currently very young looking with tight shirt half-unbuttoned sexy Shah Rukh, and I get dislocated again LOL. This is very confusing, yaar!

Oh, one more thing.. one question you should never ask him: "What's common between Dish TV and Shah Rukh Khan?" If I were sitting on a chair, I would have fallen off it already..gyabo *was laughing too much* ..yeah, I'm an easily amused person, so sue me :P

The triumvirate unveils the first look of My Name is Khan

Shah Rukh is soooo unpredictable, yaar. Why suddenly did he turn to Kajal and told her in the middle of talking about autism, "Because you helped me with my acting..I like you..we're wearing the same red thing..." Whaaaa?? *was LOL-ing so much* ..well, life is never dull with Shah Rukh around.

Another version of the press conference. I was laughing when the reporter described how Shah Rukh and Kajal quietly took their spectacles out and wore them to watch the promo. Hey, I think that's the red thing Shah Rukh was babbling about in the first clip LOL. Aww.. so cute~

Ra-1 in the making?

From a 2004 interview:

I'll make a James Bond film. Bond films are the simplest and therefore the most successful. It's about Good making Evil look stupid. There's Ravana within all of us. We need to use the Rama within us to eradicate the evil.

Well, I think MNIK is the answer to these annoying questions..

Source: Shahrukh On doing Foreign Films (old interview)

Why have you been rejecting international offers, including a project it seems pitting you against Tom Cruise?

Who told you that? But yes, you're on the right track. Frankly, I don't want to go global. Believe me, it's better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven. Indian cinema is my home, it's more valuable to me than Hollywood, Hong Kong, Paris, wherever. I want to be the best here. If I ever go abroad, I must get respect, at least as much respect as Nick Nolte gets in Los Angeles. I don't want to be treated like a brown Third World urchin. I can do without that we're-doing-you-a-favour look from the Hollywood honchos.

What kind of offers did you get?

I was approached for a remake of Hitchock's Dial M for Murder and for what I think is a British TV series based on Vikram Seth's novel, A Suitable Boy. Then there was a fax, asking me to do an important role alongside Anthony Hopkins in the new Bond movie. Of course, Pierce Brosnan would be Bond, while I would...well...be around somewhere in the scenery.

Why did you say no without even hearing the role out?

Because they wanted to see my photographs. They wouldn't ask Nick Nolte for his photos, would they? This kind of vanity may be silly and stupid, but if I'm approached, shouldn't they know what I look like at least? Shouldn't they see some of my films? I don't mean to be disrespectful, but I don't want to be treated like a rank newcomer. I don't want to be questioned on my credentials. I'd rather be a frog in the well, and for a frog I haven't done too badly. I've moved from Delhi to Bombay and now I'm working with Mani Ratnam from the south. So Hollywood can wait.

In which SRK talks a lot about others and little of himself (what, you think he's not capable of it?)

Source: Shah Rukh on Hindi Cinema (old interview)

I am living off Indian cinema. I have followed actors like Dilip Kumar, Amitabh and Naseer and I would like to be remembered like Satyajit Ray, Shekhar Kapoor, Mani Ratnam and Lata Mangeshkar. She started when she was 13 years old. It's been 50 years since, and even this year one of the most popular songs "Tujhe Dekha To...." Has been sung by her. It is the same with Asha Bhosle. She's sung "Tanha Tanha" and mind you it isn't a flash in the pan. Compared to their consistence and dedication, what I've done is zilch.

I'd like to pay a tribute to some of these personages because I feel whatever we are, we are the result, the peak of all their efforts and the foundation from which the future will arise.

Sheikh Mukhtar was the original action hero in the pre-Dara Singh era. He had films like Ustaad compared to him we heroes today look like dolls. He was 100 percent macho.

Dev Anand to me signifies the conviction of style. The way he say drop your guns only a Dev Anand could but people believed him and so did the villains. However hard method actors work, style is the definite winner in an actor's repertoire.

Shammi Kapoor brought in the hero who could tease women and get away with it. And what's more, women loved him.

Amitabh Bachchan's contribution is that he brought realism to commercial cinema. One of his contributions is that because of him someone like me had dared to get into mainstream commercial cinema as a hero. Had there been only clean-cut good looking guys like Rajesh Khanna in films I'd have never dared to make it.

Dilip Kumar's language was so impressive, I used to be in awe. But then came Amitabh who used the colloquial 'apun...' and he was accepted. Perhaps thanks to him, today I think anti-heroes are here to stay and so are inconventional looking men like Prabhu Deva, Ajay and me.

In the most far fetched scenes the pot-bellied Haribhai (Sanjive Kumar), never ever looked as if he was acting. And he's done all kinds of films - romance, comedy and even action. He gave you the feeling that acting isn't about getting into the skin of the character - it's about being in front of the camera and delivering the goods. I've heard that for midshots and montages if he was required to wear a tuxedo he'd wear the jacket above and beneath he'd be dressed in his striped shorts.

Identification is the key word. Smita Patil, who graduated from reading news to acting, is my all time favourite. Alongwith Shabana Aazmi, she added stature to the image of the Hindi film heroine. Both made you realise that women are in films as in any other walks of life. They even convinced other commercially successful actresses to work in more meaningful cinema. Take Rekha, for instance. And I think the mystery, the aura, the enigma that is Rekha is her contribution to Hindi films. To me, she is this beautiful, sensuous, Garboesque woman who leaves no tracks behind - the black widow. Rekha is no longer a human being, she is a type of person- the epitome of unrequired love. When she did an Umrao Jaan, she added to the mystique of Umrao.

Dimple was encouraged somewhere along the way I think by Shabana, Smita and Rekha. I have heard of people losing years in the second world war, but Dimple lost her years in marriage. I wish she had acted then. I have never seen not only a newcomer but any person at that age perform as well as she did in Bobby. The fact that she was able to recapture her past glory in Rudaali and Lekin is an encouraging sign for a lot of women that it's never too late.

And there is Hemaji- the epitome of responsibility. I think the real No.1 was Hema Malini. Whoever we've had after was only because we were trying to find a replacement for Hema Malini.

I would not forget to include Helen, the greatest. She was a cabaret artiste who did not look cheap. Just like Cuckoo. My father was a great fan of hers. I am not taking away anything from Nana, Manisha or Salman but I want to go and see the on-the-floors Khamoshi for Helen and I know a lot of people like me who feel the same way. I really wish she does a dance in the film.

Then there were these bad guys like K.N. Singh, Pran even Prem Chopra and somewhere along the line you realise that though villains they never scared you. They were childhood fantasy villains. In fact I think I was scarier in Baazigar or Darr - they were always so sweet, like caricatures. Amjad Khan is the one who brought the deadly villain to cinema-the bad guy. When he said 'Kitne Aadmi the' he meant business-Gabbar Singh you did not laugh at. The success of Sholay was to a great extent due to the fact that you imagined you'd be scared if you met Gabbar Singh on a lonely road. Ramesh Sippy couldn't recreate the same scary impact ever again, not even with Shaakal with Shaan. Before Mehmood and after Mehmood there has never been a hero-comedian who could carry an entire film on his shoulders. He s the clown who made others lose their inhibitions. I'm sure Amitabh Bachchan learnt from him.

There are a few films which have appealed to me. Films that never tire me, films that spur me on to take up a new venture, after one has gone wrong. Like Padosan, Jyoti Swaroop, the director has made a tremendous contribution in this film because it entertains every generation. It is an ageless film.

I loved Sholay and I sincerely believe we haven't been able to make a greater film than that. This is a personal belief. You can question it and speak of Mother India or Mughal-e-Azam isn't as great as Sholay, I can't identify with it. Sholay is a modern, slick film, and what's more Sholay didn't even have a mother figure to bog you down.

Karz is another film I liked. It scared me. Karan Arjun didn't make me believe in re-incarnation but Simi Garewal's icy smile, Raj Kiran's blood-stained face and that haunting tume made me believe that Rishi Kapoor was Raj Kiran re-incarnated.

Deewar again is a very modern film. And for me just one dialogue of Amitabh's is the whole film. "Main Gire Huye Paise Aaj Bhi Nahi Uthata". I would give my life for a film with a dialogue like this. I preferred this even to that legendary line, "Tumhare Paas Kya Hai? Mere Paas Maa Hain."

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron was also a trendsetter. With a budget of 17 lakhs it proved that you can make a film without stars, you just need good actors.

I cried just watching the trailer...

Ish speechless. May have more words to say after I watch the movie. And since I don't like watching movies in a cinema hall, there'll be a gap of about 6-7 months after the movie is released before I can get to buy the DVD. But I'll wait.



...Shah Rukh talked about the movie and Karan tweeted about its official website.

The first look of the movie comes out today! TODAY!!

Here I am all excited, and I don't have cable.. shucks. But I love love love the little I saw of Rizwan Khan in this clip. It reminds me of the time I watched Suri disembark from the train in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. I was going, "That can't be Shah Rukh..." I think this is going to be my most favourite character to replace Suri. Shah Rukh is right, his best role IS his next role. Even when a movie of his is not going the way I want it to (Dil Se, KANK, Paheli, Chaahat, etc.), I still love the role(s) he played in it.



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My Name is Khan will premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on February 12. It is expected to be screened at one of Berlin's most important locations, Potsdamer Platz. Incidentally, it is the first Indian film to be premiered in Berlin.

I quote a bit of Karan Johar's interview in the Mumbai Mirror post:

• How long do you plan to work only with Shah Rukh Khan considering that actors have a limited shelf life, unlike directors?

I have never worked without him and I have no clue what the experience will be like. I do my best work when Shah Rukh is on the sets as there is this tremendous sense of comfort when he is around and I feel that everything will be fine and fun on the sets. I think I will be working with him for the rest of my life as we have this special connection not only personally but also professionally. We understand each other very well, he is a member of my family and vice versa.

Ha! Now they're asking that. If Karan were to go and work with another hero, they'd be going all over the place saying Karan has exited Shah Rukh's camp, the way it's been happening with poor Farah. What a low strategy this media type employs, all for the sake of a story.

Nowadays I just boycott from reading stupid dushman-dostana posts like that.. be it with Salman, Aamir, Farah, Shirish, Amitabhji, etc. Boring stuff! I want real meat. No.. I demand real meat that I can bite into and chew in satisfaction. Stop being lazy, you journalists! You're not from some cheap tabloid papers! Go out there and find some really interesting news! I know you can do it~~

I just feel like pasting these news report clips here...

If you've never been a minority and have never walked around in a foreign country fearing that someone might slap your head (happened to me) or hit your head with probably a thick wrapping paper (happened to me) or have a condom filled with beer thrown at you (happened to a student in another university when I was studying in the UK) just because you wear a headscarf that blatantly announces to the world that you're a muslim, then stop with the smirking and the cynical comments.

Okay, maybe those incidents seem puny to you, what with all the rapes and the tortures and the lynching going on across the world. But puny as they are, I experienced them while I was walking alone in the middle of a market square full of people or with just another female friend in a deserted alleyway. The feeling of bewilderment and fear.. the feeling of being unwanted, hated.. the feeling that I repulsed these people somehow when all I wanted to do was to go somewhere... that feeling, I wanted to return it ten thousand folds to them when they visit my country. But I'm still sane, so I refrain from doing bodily damage to tourists :P (plus, I don't want to go to jail). That doesn't stop me from eying them with wariness every time I see them walking around, laughing.. looking every bit as if they owned the place.

Shut up for a bit and look around you. The world has changed irrevocably since the day the muslims were accused of the 9/11 massacre despite various efforts from conspiracy theorists to prove that this is not so (look up their websites if you care). Countries have been invaded and civilians have been killed en mass, all to support a suspicion that lacks any concrete evidence. I am just one person, but so are you. And even if we can't stop our politicians from turning us into puppets and our countries into giant toys they can play around with, we can stop ourselves from turning into judges and juries who try strangers and punish (or bully) them just because they're different from us.. whether due to they're having different religions or having disorders like Asperger.

Movies can't change the world for the better. But we can.

ATTENTION! ATTENTION!

The trailer for My Name Is Khan will be released on 16 December 2009 at 10pm across all Star TV channels. It will then be broadcast throughout other news and media outlets. The theatrical debut of the trailer will appear with James Cameron's Avatar. The film is slated for global release to theaters on 12 February 2010. (wiki)

...that's tomorrow folks!! At last, at last, at last. I'm nervous. Will I like this film? I have never liked any of the films produced by Hollywood or Bollywood with muslims as main characters before (yeah, CDI is okay but not a favourite of mine though I own the DVD. Surprised?). I wonder if MNIK will be an exception for me. Whatever's my reaction to it, I've waited for more than a year to see Shah Rukh acting in a movie again that I think I'm willing to put aside any discomfort I may experience during the viewing and just enjoy the show.

Can't wait for the movie to come out! \(^o^)/

I miss this movie.. I want to buy the CD!

I can't get over how sexy he is in this movie like in almost every frame! (shyaddap all you who don't think so..LOL), despite not acting in a romantic role. What I like the most about Maxie's image? The earring! I also love it that he is constantly clothed in an undershirt.. o yumm. I love the cut-off gloves too, and the bicycle chain he's always swinging around.

I know some fans hate Ash due to some of her remarks regarding the issues they had after Chalte Chalte, but what can I say.. I have a preference for big-eyed, cutesy females. Anyway, I think Ash and Shah Rukh make a nice on-screen couple and I'm one of those few fans in the SRK fandom who want them to get together in a movie again..dem her ex-bf for ruining their work and personal relationships.

They look good as brother and sister here, but then.. Shah Rukh has never not been able to carry out any relationship equation with his co-stars. When he's a college student, even after we've seen him in suits and an 8-year old daughter just a few frames before, he'll be believable as a college student. When he's an older brother, even with an intensely attractive and over-gorgeous taller younger brother, he manages to grab the screen whenever they're together in a scene (according to the unbiased me). When he's playing this (psychotic? delusional?) teacher in love with a dead girl, even when he's standing right next to the imposing and charismatic school principal, he manages to appear to be not just the saner one.. but the more righteous person of the two.

There's an art form to Shah Rukh's method of acting. I can't figure it out or why I'm so drawn to him despite whatever the official/unofficial critics say about his acting ability. I love the way he approaches a scene, his character, the surrounding characters.. everything. There's an empathy between him and what's unfolding in the story that makes me want to absorb every single gesture, expression, action, etc. of his. I don't feel this way about any other actor, no matter how greater an actor he is as compared to Shah Rukh (according to everybody else). I don't understand why there's a need to explain this biased reaction of mine towards Shah Rukh to anyone, really. I like him the best.. better than the rest.. toh kiya?

How did you know that, Shah Rukh??

Hoshiz...I didn't know that. Is anyone else as clueless as I am or am I the only ignorant person in the crowd?

Yeah, that was me mumbling to myself while staring incredulously at this statement: "I have always been a huge fan of Sylvester Stallone who was a porn star before becoming a Hollywood superstar." (link)

So what did I do? Went on Google to find the truth, of course. And this is what I found. Apparently the movie is released as The Italian Stallion (link). What a name! No wonder Shah Rukh was going on about the 'positivity and clarity' stuff...

Ok, for those of you.. my silent readers.. who are staring at this blog post and thinking.. she's completely lost it.. I was actually LOL-ing around while watching the youtube clip below. Look at that poker face while spouting "I've always wanted to be a porn star.."

Shah Rukh, you're killing me! *kisses*



..and I fully agree with what Farah said. First they asked why is she only working with Shah Rukh. Now they're asking whether the reason why she's not working with him is becoz they're having a fight. Whaaaa..?? Make up your mind, morons!

Anyway, I like that Farah Khan is working with a hero other than Shah Rukh.. and that too, Akshay. He's cool in action movies and if it's Farah, it usually will be packed with action. I mean.. look at Main Hoon Na, and OSO is jam-packed with all sorts of activities.

Of course if you were to ask me, I'd say I'd rather have Happy New Year in 2010 rather than another 2 years in the future but hey..we can't always get everything we wish for, right? I'll be content with getting my anxiously awaited Don 2 for now.

And oh look! Look! Somebody wrote that Shah Rukh is an intelligent actor (link). Awww.. scho cuteeee.. *whack* ..that's for being so late in getting clued in. Baka~ (it's japanese for 'stupid'. Ish my favourite word)

The idiot has gone and done it again...

Far be it that I'm here in my own SRK blog promoting someone else's film, but since this guy's recent public remarks (he's dredged up a long-forgotten stale issue..for the umpteenth time now!!) has managed to provoke a very funny response from Shah Rukh, I have to do this post so that I can paste it here. No, no..not the media-edited one. It's this:

"Do you..have a relationship with the editor, or the cameraman? Or are you the greatest friends with the gentleman who's writing this script for you? Are you sir, sleeping with a cameraman of yours because he's shooting the shot for you? No. So, you know..we just work with each other and have a good time."


And the saala reporters even laughed at several places, even though the jokes were on them. There's no accounting for some people's stupidity, really. They just go on and on. I think it's become so ingrained in their work ethics now, they dunno how to do it differently anymore. See, I have absolutely no problem if this kinda moronic reporting comes from tabloid papparazi, but these guys/gals call themselves journalists and claim that they work for serious papers/news channels. Errr.. okkkaay~

I find it really amusing that he imitated the "Kkkkkiran" dialogue in one of his public appearances. After all, it was a role that he turned down (coz it would hurt his hero image..hmm) before it went to Shah Rukh. Btw, I read somewhere that the stutter was Shah Rukh's input. The logic behind it is.. coz Rahul is so in love with the girl, he can't help but stumble over her name with reverence whenever he calls her.

And no matter how cynics might laugh at Shah Rukh and keep on making snide remarks about how he 'is still stuttering', the fact that most people remember about the stutter after 16 years have passed is truly an amazing thing, huh? Some of Shah Rukh's movies may be out for toss (i.e. I would have never ever touched them with a 10-foot pole if it weren't for him acting in them) according to me, but DARR would not have been the wonderful movie we know and love if it hadn't been for the way Shah Rukh played Rahul. My favourite scenes are the ones where he kills people, esp. the balcony scene. It's like... "hahaha, I'm sorry" *BAM!* ...the girl hits the pavement. Ooops.. that's in Baazigar.. :P ..anyway, nobody plays a psycho the way he does.. ish simply awesome.

Anyway, it's cool that Shah Rukh is finally going public with his environmental work (even though he still looks a bit shy about it). I probably should start doing the same, at least around my house and neighbourhood *cough* ..being a lazyass doesn't help in making my feelings about the environment felt by the people around me LOL. But o hey, I do try to conserve water in my daily usage! ..emmm, I think.

PS: To anyone who passes through this blog and is currently fuming with fingers poised above his/her keyboards to write some angry comments to me coz I call him an idiot, here's the idiot himself clarifying why he indeed deserves to be called that in not just one interview, but several (I only bothered to find three, so you obsessives out there can go find the rest yerselves~) ..here, here, and here!

Well, I definitely don't remember these two in the movies I watched! Are they deleted scenes? Hmm..

Embedding is disabled for both, so here are the links:

Shahrukh mesmerized by Madhuris beauty - Devdas
Yeh Maya Hai - Maya Memsaab | English Subtitles

I wonder what is it about Shah Rukh that gets me easily turned on every time he turns that gaze on a girl in his films. Is there such a thing as 'on-screen pheromone'?? If I can go all hot-cold-hot-cold about his romantic scenes while just being another face in the audience, what about the actresses he's romancing? Either he's not their type, or they have some kinda invincible armour against his charm and sex appeal :P

Avatar-joint promo?? Far out!

LINK

Nov 24 2009 : In perhaps the first of its kind of an event, where Hollywood meets Bollywood, the promo of Karan Johar’s ‘My Name Is Khan’ will be unveiled with James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’, globally on December 18.

Avatar is the only non-anime that has managed to grab my attention, so naturally I'm psyched about the movie..altho I know they'll probably botch up the storyline the way they did with Dragonball Evolution (2009) and oh, pretty much the majority of manga/anime adaptations out there (Death Note doesn't count coz it's made in Japanese, the original language in which the story was told, and also my most favourite incomprehensible language ever).

So how cool is it that the promo will be out simultaneously with My Name is Khan? Very cool, according to me. Altho the way they arranged the promotional pictures together was kind of iffy.. but I had fun interpreting the non-existent secret messages that the picture presentation is trying so hard to give out LOL.

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Speech in INDIA GATE

Am I the only one who have goosebumps watching this?

If I had not known who SRK and the Prime Minister of India are and someone were to point out this guy while he's delivering this speech to me and tell me that here's the newly appointed Prime Minister of India who replaced Manmohan Singh in the 2009 election, I would have believed it.

You know how we say 'the whole is greater than the sum of the individual parts'? With Shah Rukh, even his individual parts are great. I read many articles where people ask "Who's the real Shah Rukh Khan?". My attitude towards him is thus: Shah Rukh is whoever he is at the moment he is whoever he is. I accept whatever he wants to throw at me, coz each piece of him is blindingly brilliant.

I have no idea what he's saying in the hindi part of this clip, and I have a feeling that I won't agree with a lot of things that he's saying about Islam.. but that doesn't take away the fact that he's so convinced with his truth, it makes my conviction in my truth pales in comparison. Were I to have 1/1000 of his belief in the rightness in which he lives his life in the rightness of how I live mine, I'd be a better person than I am now.. I think.

I've always found it weird how people try to make him into an ambassador of Islam. You don't search for ambassadors of your religion in the cinema halls, dudes. But then this is also a country in which temples are erected in worship of Shah Rukh and pooja are carried out to pray for his health and well being..so out of respect for an unknown world and culture, I hold my silence on this issue. Shah Rukh is who he is because of everything he has gone through, so who am I to complain about things I understand nothing about?

Love you Shah Rukh, and take care!



Another version:


PS: On another note, OMG..someone actually went and typed the speech he delivered in the India Today Conclave, how dedicated is that? (LINK)

Subtitled!

Shah Rukh in hyper mode LOL.

Yummy picture alert!!!

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SRK is 12 people in this ad!

It's one of those public service ads he does sometimes.

So before Priyanka did a 12-character role in a film, Shah Rukh has already done a 12-character role in an ad. Or technically speaking, 3 ads. Still.. seeing them one after another is a bit disconcerting. I think ads is where he can act any way he pleases, while for films.. there're a lot of things for him to consider before he takes a role. However, I do agree with a commenter in a youtube post that Shah Rukh acts in films where if it hadn't been him acting in them, they would have flopped.

Take Dil To Pagal Hai, for example. What is the story about? It doesn't have a strong plot. And the way the story unfolds, there's no up or down moments and the climax.. does it even have a climax? So why do we love it so much? It's coz Shah Rukh's in it..ha! No surprise there. Is he trying to prove something to himself or is it becoz he doesn't have a nose for good scripts?? Sometimes I worry about his method of choosing movies ^^;; ..but hey, it's worked out for him so far!

Enjoy the ad~~

Is it a wonder that I like Rakhi Sawant?

I like the way she talks altho I understand nothing.. coz she always has this filmi OTT way of saying things. She's a dream when she dances coz she's like one heck of a no holds barred sexy hot chick. Whenever people talk about how plasticky she looks, I alwiz have this urge to ask.. "Toh kiya??". Haven't watched her TV shows though, but I've never been much of a soap opera/reality TV person anyway. What can I say.. I love her item songs.

The picture that made my heart nearly skip a beat...

...and it's not even 12noon yet.


Mmm, yummy neck. O well.. yummy everything, really.

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Anna Magdalena (1998)

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Whaaa..? Takeshi was in a Petronas commercial? How come I dunno about this??

Turn Left, Turn Right (2003)

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Confession of Pain (2006)

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Downtown Torpedoes (1997)

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Mermaid Got Married

Mermaid Got Married 1 @ Yahoo! Video

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Chungking Express

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House of Flying Daggers

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I keep bleeding love for you

Whenever I want to say, "Hmm, nobody's perfect.." along comes someone like Takeshi Kaneshiro to prove that actually perfection does exist in this world.

(O God, I sound so mushy..LOL)

Takeshi Kaneshiro...

I must have loved him from my previous lives.. if there's such a thing. Or at least, I feel like I've loved him since forever.. mmm, since Lavender (2000) to be exact. Before that I was just salivating over his pretty face. After that movie, I fell in love (or was it lust?) hard. Mostly over that massaging scene.. o yumm.



Then Returner (2002) just made me go on top of the moon mad over him. He's so beautiful, yet he plays all sorts of roles that don't give a dem about his pretty face. In fact, I often find myself getting confused between ogling his prettiness and feeling worried over his characters' luck in life. A lot of his early movies, esp the Hong Kong ones, are really really wacky LOL.



I love him in Lost and Found (1996).. he was such a puppy in that movie.. so cute!



Found his interviews lying around on youtube.. oh, did I forget to tell ya gals/guys that he can speak all those languages fluently?? Needless to say, I went berserk. Takeshi, I love you!!! I'm thinking that I want to dedicate some time to explore the treasure trove I just found on him in youtube. Must find all his nice movies and buy them.. hmmm.

In Japanese:


Returner: Part 1, Part 2

In Chinese:


In English:


Part 2, Part 3

In Cantonese:


Part 2

Man at Work!

I envy this cameraman/woman...

Do these clips make him seem more real? More human? More physical? I dunno.. to me, it just makes Shah Rukh Khan seem more adorable.

The one with the basketball made me go, "Girls cannot play basketball!" ..well, in this one it's Shah Rukh who couldn't LOL. Poor basketball, suffering from much gentle abuse.. :P

They're strictly a NO-NO for those who are allergic to Shah Rukh and can't find any satisfaction in whatever he does. To those of you who fall into that category, please.. don't watch these clips, I beg you!! I'm tired of reading comments from masochists who flagellate themselves with endless SRK-bashing on youtube.

Anyway, enjoy the clips!

What others say about Shah Rukh Khan: Madhuri Dixit & Mushtaq Shiekh

Madhuri Dixit (October 28, 2008):

"They're different in many ways," she muses, "Aamir is more studied. He just does one film and he will put his all into that film. I remember I was sitting with Shah Rukh once and he said, 'Madhuri, you know kids who have producers as fathers are very lucky because in a way they are financially secure, they can pick and choose. We don't have any kind of anchor like that so we have to make a place for ourselves and work really hard. Not that they don't work hard, but there's that comfort… But I want to be a producer one day and produce good cinema."

"The way Aamir wants to do things is different from the way Shah Rukh does them. Shah Rukh is very lively, like a livewire. I don't think he ever sleeps! He is someone you can talk to on any topic in the world as he has a lot to say and he knows about a lot of stuff. His is a totally different personality from Aamir's but they both have a common thread which is a passion for their work. Shah Rukh was brilliant in Chak De; it's one of his finest performances." About Salman, she says one couldn't make out whether he was taking in the director's instructions or not while the briefing was on, but in front of the camera, he'd be brilliant and floor everyone.

Well, he did go on and become a producer.. the rest is Bollywood history. Think it's easy to create history? Watch Mushtaq Shiekh as he tells us what happened when Shah Rukh first started out with Dreamz Unlimited.

Ram Jaane (1995)

One of my most beloved SRK movies. I cried in so many scenes.. and it's really odd coz the movie is not about a sad, weepy story. In fact, Shah Rukh plays a tapori character who ends up being hanged for the murder of a corrupt police officer (is that a spoiler?)..yet another movie where Shah Rukh dies at the end. But I really love the way he plays the character of Ram Jaane. I keep thinking about how differently life would turn out for me had I been born in different circumstances and in a different environment. Makes me appreciate my life more than ever.

The on-screen Shah Rukh has the power to make the audience looks at him/herself and sees how he/she would be if he/she were his character. I could watch Devdas and somewhat feel what Devdas feels for Paro. Same here with Ram Jaane. By 'THE END' I find myself weeping for the guy. And the songs are lovely. I even like Bum Chiki Chiki Bum even though there's no Shah Rukh in it, it's so cheerful! Pump Up the Bhangra was really cute.. and savour the excellent timing and the many difficult movements he put into every take. No wonder one of the critics' complaints at the time was that watching Shah Rukh Khan is tiring LOL. Such old men! The energetic, exuberant, and inexhaustible young Shah Rukh is a delight to watch here. I don't remember Phenk Hawa Mein at all, prolly coz I have a thing against all this dancing-between-trees songs that were rampant in 90s hindi movies so I wiped it off my memory altogether. However, Ala La La Long depresses me.. maybe coz I know he'll never get the girl no matter how hard he tries T__T

Out of all the songs, I love Ram Jaane (yes, I cried during this too :P) and Chori Chori O Gori the most. If you watch the 'Ram Jaane' song, about the end of it.. he did this jump and landed on his knees. Well, he did that again in the 1996 Koyla (in the 'Ghoontay Mein' song) and he finally broke them. He had to undergo surgery afterwards ^^;;

Oh, I forgot to say that all the crying & weeping was done while I was watching the unsubtitled CD.. and I don't understand hindi. I think that's one magic of Shah Rukh Khan's that his die-hard fans who understand hindi can never fathom, so we're special! Lucky us.. :P

This blog goes on twitter!

Yes, I've succumbed to technology.. again. Twitter updates are on the RHS of this blog... it's still clunky though, so pls bear with it for awhile.

At the moment I'm just posting links to past posts that I feel like dredging up from the murky water of oblivion, no real updates yet. Plus, Shah Rukh has gone covert after resurfacing during his birthday celebration just long enough to give us a fill of his magnificient-ness, then he's gone.. *poof* ..just like that. Such a tease.

I'm doing twitter coz it's more convenient for short posts with links, rather than going down here and opening up all sorts of schbang just to record them. Meh.. I'm too lazy. Here's to fun times ahead!

What others say about Shah Rukh Khan

This one talks more on Salman Khan & Aamir Khan (interesting stuff too, since the writer claims to live near their neighbourhood), but I only paste what he writes about Shah Rukh coz I think it's a rather cute quote.. :P

From: What a real hero should look like

Shah Rukh Khan is popular with India's middle class and Indians abroad because he looks like a young banker or corporate executive. He's modern and yet traditional, and we love that.

Nice read..

Box Office Analysis of Shahrukh Khan
The Power of Bollywood

Loving them, simply becoz I don't have 1% of the determination these writers have to compile Shah Rukh's works in this way. Long live unbiased studies! (it looks unbiased to me, anyway). The first link has several more related links at the bottom.. they look interesting. I'll look them up later.

LOL!

The moment I watched how uncomfortable he was when Subhash Ghai started praising him, I knew some funny quips were coming up XDD

Korbo Lorbo Jeetbo!

..and of course the interview zooms in to the most important question (at least to Kolkata fans, I guess) with the new coach. Reading the interview, I kinda get an idea about the kind of criteria the management are searching for in Mr. B's successor. And it's the right attitude too: "Team First!" (something Mr. B didn't seem to be clued in until the end. I mean, who cares about YOUR long-term plans if the team you're coaching was shot to hell on the field 2 years in a row.. geh).

Neeways, I can already smell the IPL excitement in the air.. and although I can't follow it avidly this time (by surfing hours and hours for news on the net since I don't own cable and my net is too slowass to stream the games) due to my deadlines catching up on me, I pray for a series of victory in 2010 for the team I support.. KKR, of course! :P

Long Live the King's Men!!!

I guarantee harmony: Dav

Captain Sourav Ganguly’s record, so to say, with Australian coaches hasn’t been good... Greg Chappell, John Buchanan... Is that at the back of your mind?

Look, an easy answer would be that it’s a thing of the past... I know about it, but I’m looking forward to a strong relationship with him... Sourav, I know, feels the same way.

But would there be enough space in the KKR dressing room for two rather strong-minded individuals?

Strong-minded... You’re saying that...I guarantee that there will be harmony within the group. Unless there’s harmony, no team can be successful.

Your impressions of Sourav as captain?

He’s India’s most successful (in Tests) and figures don’t lie... He’s definitely shrewd and has a lot to offer... Sourav’s got the experience and that, coupled with his desire that the franchise do well, is a potent combination... Indeed, he’s central to the scheme of things.

But of course it's as a lover boy that I love him the best.. hehe (what?? I'm just your average hot-blooded girl after all...)

..errr, just can't resist to paste this one. Awww, come on. I know you wanna.. *RESISTANCE IS FUTILE*

So you think he only knows how to play lover boys? Think again...

What do I love about Shah Rukh Khan? Let me count the ways...

#2

The fact that he can see past all the craziness and get right to the heart of the matter.. that the media remains his steady 'friend' from back when he started in the industry until now. Doesn't make a jot of difference how many new faces it continually presents to him, theirs is a symbiotic relationship. He was so popular with the press, I read that he even got a 5-page interview article written on him even back when he was in Fauji (I want to read that interview! Somebody upload it, pls!).

And even though he was the epitome of the 'angry young man' in his youth (managing to nearly get himself jailed for harassing a journo who wrote all sorts of crap about his Maya Memsaab co-star) ..he's pretty collected, more down-to-earth, a picture of humility and patience-personified nowadays. I find his current way of dealing with the media (as opposed to "get out of my face, you annoying upstart of a journo! I want my privacy!" approach most celebrities take) very refreshing, more humane, sharply intelligent, and awesomely cool.















This one becomes invisible, dunno why. So here's the link..

O hey! Check this out ZOMG! I want to watch too!! T___T

Link

Shahrukh Khan for you all this November only on ZoOm

November 2, 2009- ZoOm India’s hottest destination for Bollywood content celebrates the special day of the ‘King of Bollywood’ Shahrukh Khan, by showcasing a line-up of exclusive Bollywood entertainment all of November. Starting Sunday, November 01, your weekends will never be the same again as ZoOm has dedicated its special afternoon slot on Sunday’s – 12pm to 2pm with select SRK film songs, series on SRK, news segment about the super star and loads more.

Watch some of his hit films starting with ‘Swades’, on Monday, November 02, 9.30pm on ZoOm Silver screen. Find out who topped the list as SRK’s leading actress, which is SRK’s best film, SRK’s Top 10 movies personally selected and reviewed by the star himself onZoOm Red Hot Countdown show all through November.

Shahrukh Khan speaks his heart out about his life; films; Bollywood; being on the limelight; equation with other co-stars in his many film assignments and many more with Omar Qureshi on Encounter-special with Omar. Get to know about the king and his branding on ‘SRK as the Super Brand' and how he has reinvented the era of the high-flying and high priced model. Does this help him as the brand? on Business ofBollywood. Be a part of the cake-cutting, witness the events, parties, special bytes from near and dear ones of the star on Planet Bollywood. Checking about his life, Bollywood Biographies features all about Shahrukh Khan. Right from his humble beginning as an actor, his love life, his family and lots more…

‘Stars Ke Sitare’ with its latest episode that includes next year's predictions is on the anvil too. Further, a five part special series on Shahrukh Khan is set to feature on Superstars Superlives. ZoOm Page 3 showcases special on King Khan as a trendsetter, a fashion icon. Be the first to know as the star’s celebrity friends, co-stars, personalities from the industry send their best wishes to the King ofBollywood . On SRK Deewana, get to see college goers, movie lovers, upcoming actors enact scenes, dialogues from his films, and finally their dream and desire to meet the star in person.

The excitement continues as ZoOm audiences and fans get a chance to send personal greetings to the star through online/SMS and contests. Besides, you can send gifts, flowers to SRK using on-airZoOm shopping guide. Also, ZoOm invites fans request on what they like best about SRK – the five lucky audience gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet Shahrukh Khan and be a part of the star’s cake cutting ceremony at ZoOm.

So tune in…join the fun and excitement…all this November as the King of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan celebrates his birthday only on ZoOm.

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Devdas Series: Forgetting Paro I

I drown myself in the bliss of ignorance
Generously poured into a glass
Overflowing as the love in my heart for her
Those eyes its amber surface
Tempting me to remember what I seek to forget

My days are spent worshipping my memories of her
A mere image of those lips
While the nights are passed in unrepressed need
For her touch on my skin
So obliterate me that I may no longer feel

Lift this oppressing silence so I will forget
The jewel I lost to another
Warm my feverish heart with your cool ardor
I will laugh until I cry again
And speed this union of our souls in eternity

O liquid of fire, I beg you to consume me
This humble husk of a man
Engulf me in your flame so that I'll cease to be
A shadow of my former self
This world will not mourn the passing of a lover

Happy Birthday, Datuk!

The more I read of him, the more I love the guy.. LOL. He's super cute! Well, you have to be in tune to that kind of sense of humour to get kicked about it. All you serious, tedious people.. keep out! :P

Ness commented to my rant post, and I have this burning desire to write an essay in reply to her short question. Well, when it comes to Shah Rukh.. everything in this blog inadvertently gets turned into an essay (lol). In the end, I think I should stop myself from going overboard and just come up with a short list of why (I think) SRK got all the criticisms he did over the years, i.e. hamming, familiar mannerisms, OTT (over the top), et cetera et cetera ad nauseam:

1. First of all, I'd like to clarify to the SRK fandom that it's not only SRK who gets all types of flak from media, anti-fan, etc. Every movie star gets it.. be it from Bollywood, Hollywood, Kollywood, Mollywood, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, even our (relatively) small Malaysian movie industry with actors who earn not even 1% of what Shah Rukh earns per movie. They all get it. So stop getting depressed about this issue, yaar.
   
2. With the advent of internet, everyone who has an opinion can broadcast it to the world (like tiny, puny, little old unknown boring me in this blog). Before, you have to get your articles checked by your editor to get them published. Nowadays, even articles riddled with misspellings and grammatically wrong sentences are deemed as rocking and cool. They get read, re-published, and now.. re-tweeted. We're all essentially reading recycled rubbish for hours at a time whenever we open the entertainment section, which is where most of SRK-related 'articles' reside. The compound effect of all the trashy materials depresses our soul. My advice.. if you can't take it, leave it!
   
3. As to SRK's acting as per my opinion.. I mean, you all can have a different opinion about this.. but mmm, see if I care. Shah Rukh has been asked in an interview long ago about why he acts the way he does, i.e. hamming it to the hilt and very stylized.. according to the interviewer (I think I read the interview at Planet SRK forum, my source to most of SRK's old uploaded stuff). He answered something like, "...is there any other way to do it?". So there you have it, folks. I'm asking you guys/gals.. looking back at all his previous films, would you have wanted them done differently? I don't. And people who do.. they can go watch other movies starring other stars, if they know what's good for them.
4. Contrary to popular belief that critics review movies as honestly as they can, errrr.. they don't. They're there to criticize. It will be weird for a critic to go on and on about a movie they like and stop the article without highlighting something absurd or bad about the movie. IT'S THEIR JOB TO HIGHLIGHT THE BAD STUFF, GET IT? That means, no matter how crazy they are about a movie with paragraphs that start with something like, "...Shah Rukh Khan is simply superb as first the shy Suri and then the flamboyant, full of energy, Raj..", they'll still snuck in a "...But as SRK’s character’s transformation comes in the grip slowly loosens and you start feeling restless with the pace slumping down considerably" (link). See what I mean? Either you stop reading reviews on his movies, or get over it already.
5. Having said that, I'm in complete agreement with Ness that he gets unfairly slammed on all fronts, esp. during Billu release. O God.. that was such a circus! So much so that I'm now completely numbed and even managed to laugh uproariously at some truly beleaguering posts. Want to know how I get from being pissed crazy enough to shout at my computer screen on some issues to laughing it off and going 'oh, gimme a break here'? I read so much of it and commented so much to it too. Seriously, if you read and commented to the kinda crap people write about SRK over and over and over and over and over x100000000000.. one fine day you just wake up to it and go ...hahaha, that's funny!
6. I think it's human nature to put everyone and everything under neat labels hence.. Aamir Khan is an 'intelligent' actor, Salman Khan is the 'bad boy' of Bollywood, Shah Rukh is always 'hamming' it.. etc. etc. They said Abishek is 'wooden' ..and here I thought he's the most natural actor I've seen of the younger generation. Hrithik always 'plays larger-than-life characters'. And now they've poised Ranbir as 'the young gun who is giving Bollywood biggies a run for their money'.. even though the kid is humbleness itself (I like his sarcastic reply ..hehe). I personally think that no one from the succeeding generations has managed to surpass Amitabh Bacchan.. and the 67-yr old actor is still working hard like there's no tomorrow with one after another of his old movies being remade by the current crop of filmmakers.. so the thought of younger stars surpassing the Khan Triumvirate is quite ridiculous.. really. They've already got 2 decades worth of work under their belt. By the time Ranbir, Imran, and Abhay get there.. the Khans have already reached the next stages of their careers. Go and catch 'em if you can!
7. I watched Maya Memsaab (the uncut version) in 1995, DDLJ in 1997 and KKHH in 1999. From being intrigued about Lalit to being confused about Raj to being blown away by Rahul, Shah Rukh has done something none of the actors I've loved has managed to do.. he gets under my skin. He makes me feel what his character feels, so much so that when I watched Devdas.. I empathized with the story from Devdas' POV, not from the POV of any of the women in the story. I was so affected by the character he played that I wrote several poems from Devdas to Paro and to date they remain my favourites among the ones I penned (here's a sample, but I'm warning you.. it's quite blegh so read at your own risk. I've never tasted alcohol so I just kinda imagined this is what Devdas feels about Bacardi.. lol). Okay, to be honest.. my poems are all crappy but I love the Devdas ones the most. Which is why I don't mind what other people think about his style of acting. I love the way he does it on screen, so why should I suddenly be affected by what other people think about it? Shah Rukh has magic!
   

That folks.. is my *cough* short list. I hope you had fun reading it!

Finally, I just want to say.. I love everything written about Shah Rukh: the good, the bad, and the weird (high on my list right now must be this one.. I am totally amused!). It's really much much worse if I have nothing at all to read about.. that would definitely freak me out. So yeah.. bring it on, babeh! <(^o^)/