...there's so much more to Shah Rukh than any of his current crop of directors have envisioned for him. Maybe becoz the first movie of his I've watched is 'Maya Memsaab', which is more of an art house movie than a mainstream one, that makes me believe it of him. And becoz I watched it in 1995 without knowing who he is and yet I retain the memory of his scenes, even though I'm such a forgetful person, for years afterwards. I watched it in the UK on one of the TV channels (I don't remember which).. I think it's aired becoz of Diwali. And yes, the bedroom scene was there, uncut in all its 'rear' glory XD. Trust me when I say, that's not my favourite scene. The one I like is the train scene. The look on his face while he talks to her over the window and when he approaches her in the coach as he closes the shutters, man.. I don't think I can ever get that one out of my system.
I think people are so used to him in romance films that they have forgotten this is the same guy who made a jaded audience in the early 90s embrace a homicidal psycho and a murdering amoral avenger, made both films in the same schedule, and won Best Villain and Best Actor respectively for the roles. I wish someone would dare give him such rule-breaking roles again and he would dare to take on that challenge without worrying about our reaction, as he had at a time when he said he had nothing to lose.
I have to say this, I love the roles he played in his average hit and flop movies more than the ones in his super-hits or blockbusters: Anjaam, Ram Jaane, Chaahat, Koyla, Pardes, Duplicate, Dil Se, One 2 Ka 4, Asoka. He gave a lackluster script such shine that even though the film flopped, people who watched it tend to remember his character in it well afterwards. I think a lot of cinema goers know the storyline of his flop movies more than of hit movies by other actors. Or maybe it's becoz the movies are 'quite senseless' (his words, not mine XD) with easy-to-remember/overused plots. But what I think is rather cool of him is that he's always managed to make movies with such familiar themes a hit with the audience over and over again. That's no mean feat.
I've watched Chak De! India and Swades, the films where so many people said that SRK has shown such a wonderful never-before-seen range of acting abilities, and I don't get what they're blabbering about. He's always shown such range in his roles.. so why did they have to make it sound like it's a new discovery? I've always equated watching Shah Rukh assay his part on screen akin to drinking an elixir I want to savour with every taste. In every frame, I can't miss out even one second of his screen time. If I concentrate on the other actors/background/scenery/subtitles, I always rewind that scene to watch him again. Maybe that's why I like watching the DVDs of his movie more than going to the cinema.
You know, it'll be cool if we have a gadget.. like the 3D or 4D goggle.. that allows the cinema goers to view a film individually on the same big screen so that each person in the audience has the ability to control the speed/FF/RWD of his viewing experience. We'll need noise-filtering headphones too, though. When that thing is created, I'll buy a cinema ticket.
Talking about DVDs.. I went to the mall yesterday to buy KANK (having finished it, this is one of those times that I feel like killing members of the censorship board), which I've watched online, and a long-due copy of KKHH, which I've watched a gajillion times on a rented VHS, and I found that Ghajini has already hit our stores. Where's RNBDJ, Adityaji?? Is it so successful that the DVD version has not been out yet? I couldn't find a single RNBDJ full movie upload in youtube (as opposed to Billu, which was upped in a flash a coupla days after its release). Not even a full video of Dance Pe Chance or any of the other songs. It's like.. they released the movie and then forget everything about its other distribution vehicle after that.
I don't understand film distribution. The more I try to keep up with the BO collection of RNBDJ and Billu, the more I realised that it's idiotic of me to worry about whether someone else's movies are doing good business or not. The ones who should be worried about the figures are the production houses. I'm just a person in the audience, not their accountant. I'm content to watch the movies.. if I like them, I'll watch them a bajillion times later. If I don't like them, I'll give my DVD copies to my sisters XD.
YRF, pls release RNBDJ on DVD immediately. Thank you.
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