I must have ranted about this somewhere in the blog, but I want to rant about it again.. ha!
I do get irritated whenever I read people comment on how he 'chose to be a star over being an actor', how he overacts, how he's not a good actor, and how his films are too sugarcoated.
See, movies are a funny thing. Sometimes if they're good enough, they acquire a life of their own regardless of how crappy the plots are (that's why we have B-rated cult movies). But there are instances where in the hands of an actor, an intelligent movie can turn into the most banal thing you ever saw in your life.. and vice versa.
Personally, I don't understand what you're doing torturing yourself reading my blog if you're not an SRK fan, but let's say hypothetically that you're not. Picture Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Baazigar, Darr, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dil To Pagal Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Chalte Chalte, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, and Chak De in the hands of your favourite hero.. someone other than Shah Rukh. The result is for you to digest yourselves, not me. Coz I can't picture them with anyone else playing the lead other than SRK.
I don't think people give enough appreciation to the roles he has played. All they ever concentrate on are individual scenes or the movie itself. Isn't it odd that out of the movies of his generation, the movie characters that stand out the most are the ones Shah Rukh played. I remember exact mannerisms of his heroes/anti-heroes after just the first watch. Not to mention his impeccable timing with his co-stars despite the many movements he tends to slot in for even the smallest and tiniest of scenes.
Granted, he looks the same in every movie.. but seriously, how different can a human be after the first 20 films? Esp. to the fans who have followed him almost obsessively since he was in Fauji... they're sure to spot every nervous gesture, every quirk of an eyebrow, every dimpled smile, every downcast face, every cynical smirk, and every teary expression that he displays for the camera. Do you want him to undergo a plastic surgery for facial alteration so he'd look drastically different in every movie??
So now I forget about trying to see whether Shah Rukh Khan acts differently this time. Instead, I try to see the guy he's portraying, I try to see the story he's trying to tell, I try to empathise with the plight of the hero, or.. if he's playing an anti-hero like Don.. the absolute relish he's projecting while inflicting all manners of devilish tortures on the poor victims around him. This way, it makes me feel less guilty for not liking some scenes or some movies he's done coz.. see, I just can't connect with the characters or the stories. It's how I deal with (my other movie/drama idols) Johnny Depp, Nicholas Tse and Lee Jun Ki. And this is also why I don't get it when people say, "I tried hard to like him, but I can't.." or "I tried hard to like this movie becoz he's in it, but I can't.."
Arre yaar.. why do you have to force yourselves? If you don't like him or any of his movies, turn the DVD off or walk out of the movie theater and go watch/do something else. Really, I do feel like bonking some heads whenever I read that kind of comment. Are you a bunch of 8-year olds? Even 8-yr olds know how to turn off the TV when a Naruto episode gets kinda sucky (or maybe that's just me and my 8-yr old mentality). Stop doing what you think you should do, and just do what you know you should do. Throw off the automatically installed societal-switch and just be. You can do that and still be a polite human being who doesn't bitch and curse in the comment sections of other people's blogs and websites, you know.
Another one is... earlier, it was quite amusing to read SRK movie reviews that talk "intelligent"ly about why he's the suckiest ever choice for this or that role he's played in it. Now, it's just plain irritating. Guys/gals.. if you could predict him as well as you say you could, why bother watching his films? I hate it when people who clearly don't enjoy something participate along with me in it anyway, and then proceed to thrash it (which happens to be something I love) with relish for paragraphs and paragraphs in their blogs to the whole world.
What a truly dull hobby they have. See, I'm not a Salman Khan fan, or an Aamir Khan fan. I do love a bit of Hrithik and Abishek though, but not enough to follow their 3.5 hour movies from start to finish. So I never bother to review their movies. How bothersome is it to blab about a movie you're not passionate about when you don't even get paid for it? Or maybe it's true what I said before in the blog.. those people are really masochists. They like to torture themselves with Shah Rukh's presence. Maybe it's because "...SRK has such beautiful eyes, it can make anyone go crazy!!!8@93%7&&5!!??!111!" (lol).
And with that, I take my leave for the rest of this week. Have a good weekend!
Friday, October 30, 2009
Fanvideo: S-R-K is Hindi for H-O-T
This video has really nice timing and editing work. Someone should consider the guy/gal who made this for a job as a music video editor. It's much better than some of the professional MVs I've had the misfortune to sit through.
What do I love about Shah Rukh Khan? Let me count the ways...
#1
PS: The number does not in any way indicate an order of preference. It's just some number randomly stuck in my equally random post (that has a potential of being expanded to more than one posts in the same label/tag).
Shah Rukh changes people and consequently.. how they live their lives.. just by being so open about himself. Which is why I don't understand when anyone calls him insecure.
I think to be able to talk about anything that embarrasses you, brings you joy, makes you laugh or cry.. or simply sharing the love that's in your heart, showing how vulnerable you are, telling someone how they can hurt you just because you love them too much.. these all take a lot of courage and an ability to be so secure about yourself to know that you'd be okay regardless of the comments from family/friends/strangers that you guess you'll get after such an exposure.
I think more than anything.. more than talents & good looks (of which he has aplenty, in my humble opinion), more than good scripts & directors, more than being at the right place & the right time.. Shah Rukh endears himself to us by constantly reminding us that he's one of us. Like.. "Hey, listen. I'm just like you guys. You know, you can get this success you always equate me with if you work as hard and diligently as I do. You can have a lovely family and still be excellent at your job if you work hard enough all the time to get them both going. Never give up and you'll get there".
He's such an inspiration. But of course there're always those of us who get so inspired by him and then sit on our asses doing nothing but surfing the net all day despite having numerous deadlines hovering over our heads like the sword of Damocles (errrr.. me?).
He's so candid about his personal life (despite still keeping it a very private affair.. how he manages that, I have no idea) that even I, a person who comes from a conventional muslim society that opposes mix marriages between non-muslims and muslims, can only think of Gauri Khan and his children with affection. In the end, I made a promise to myself to stay quiet on this front. But that doesn't mean I'm not aware of what Shah Rukh has sweetly achieved in getting the lot of us to accept his family despite shoving them into the limelight with his endless "...my wife said..." quotes and various mentions of shared religious celebrations.
Even taking the religious quotient out of the equation, I've yet to find a murderous female fan in the cyber landscape who bitches about SRK's married status over an extreme & irrational jealousy against Gauri (except for Vidya Balan, that is.. LOL). This harmony is almost unheard of in female-dominated fandoms, and I've been in several others before (japanese, korean, and english artists').
And now, it's become acceptable for movie heroes to flaunt their wives/gfs as if they're the most precious treasure (which they should be!) the way.. O God.. everyone is doing now. I mean, guys.. it's okay with wives, but do you have to go gaga over every gf you're into at the time you're into her? Like Shah Rukh (see Koffee w Karan episode with Farah Khan), I also get very confused over the 'musical chair'-like pairings in the B-industry. Not that I dwell too much on it tho, but I do wish they'd get married soon and live happily ever afterward.
Maybe you weren't into Bollywood pre-SRK but lemme tell ya.. this was an unheard of phenomenon until he came along. Bollywood stars of yesteryear usually deal with the media invasion of privacy by shoving the beloved members of their families deeper into their homes as if they were a part of some shameful secrets that can't be leaked to the public. Somehow, Shah Rukh managed to make his wife the only woman (promotional stills with his heroines don't count) he got paired with in photo shoots. She was even in some TV advertisements with him. When I stumbled upon those ads on youtube, I thought that was some awesome work. How did he convince those sponsors to agree to that concept??
What brought this babbling on? Just a mention of him in these posts (one, two) I stumbled on today. You know, just by him admitting on national TV (bantering with his mother-in-law and his bro-in-law no less! And 'Jeena Isi ka Naam hai' had his father-in-law brought onto the show.. so I think Farah's program has completed the set.. unless Gauri has other siblings we don't know about) that he's proud to be a henpecked husband made a lot of couples come out with interesting bits about their regularly imbalanced lives.
He made it cool for men to be a JKG and for women to fess up about being the dominating force in the family. And that's reason numero uno of why I love him.
PS: The number does not in any way indicate an order of preference. It's just some number randomly stuck in my equally random post (that has a potential of being expanded to more than one posts in the same label/tag).
Shah Rukh changes people and consequently.. how they live their lives.. just by being so open about himself. Which is why I don't understand when anyone calls him insecure.
I think to be able to talk about anything that embarrasses you, brings you joy, makes you laugh or cry.. or simply sharing the love that's in your heart, showing how vulnerable you are, telling someone how they can hurt you just because you love them too much.. these all take a lot of courage and an ability to be so secure about yourself to know that you'd be okay regardless of the comments from family/friends/strangers that you guess you'll get after such an exposure.
I think more than anything.. more than talents & good looks (of which he has aplenty, in my humble opinion), more than good scripts & directors, more than being at the right place & the right time.. Shah Rukh endears himself to us by constantly reminding us that he's one of us. Like.. "Hey, listen. I'm just like you guys. You know, you can get this success you always equate me with if you work as hard and diligently as I do. You can have a lovely family and still be excellent at your job if you work hard enough all the time to get them both going. Never give up and you'll get there".
He's such an inspiration. But of course there're always those of us who get so inspired by him and then sit on our asses doing nothing but surfing the net all day despite having numerous deadlines hovering over our heads like the sword of Damocles (errrr.. me?).
He's so candid about his personal life (despite still keeping it a very private affair.. how he manages that, I have no idea) that even I, a person who comes from a conventional muslim society that opposes mix marriages between non-muslims and muslims, can only think of Gauri Khan and his children with affection. In the end, I made a promise to myself to stay quiet on this front. But that doesn't mean I'm not aware of what Shah Rukh has sweetly achieved in getting the lot of us to accept his family despite shoving them into the limelight with his endless "...my wife said..." quotes and various mentions of shared religious celebrations.
Even taking the religious quotient out of the equation, I've yet to find a murderous female fan in the cyber landscape who bitches about SRK's married status over an extreme & irrational jealousy against Gauri (except for Vidya Balan, that is.. LOL). This harmony is almost unheard of in female-dominated fandoms, and I've been in several others before (japanese, korean, and english artists').
And now, it's become acceptable for movie heroes to flaunt their wives/gfs as if they're the most precious treasure (which they should be!) the way.. O God.. everyone is doing now. I mean, guys.. it's okay with wives, but do you have to go gaga over every gf you're into at the time you're into her? Like Shah Rukh (see Koffee w Karan episode with Farah Khan), I also get very confused over the 'musical chair'-like pairings in the B-industry. Not that I dwell too much on it tho, but I do wish they'd get married soon and live happily ever afterward.
Maybe you weren't into Bollywood pre-SRK but lemme tell ya.. this was an unheard of phenomenon until he came along. Bollywood stars of yesteryear usually deal with the media invasion of privacy by shoving the beloved members of their families deeper into their homes as if they were a part of some shameful secrets that can't be leaked to the public. Somehow, Shah Rukh managed to make his wife the only woman (promotional stills with his heroines don't count) he got paired with in photo shoots. She was even in some TV advertisements with him. When I stumbled upon those ads on youtube, I thought that was some awesome work. How did he convince those sponsors to agree to that concept??
What brought this babbling on? Just a mention of him in these posts (one, two) I stumbled on today. You know, just by him admitting on national TV (bantering with his mother-in-law and his bro-in-law no less! And 'Jeena Isi ka Naam hai' had his father-in-law brought onto the show.. so I think Farah's program has completed the set.. unless Gauri has other siblings we don't know about) that he's proud to be a henpecked husband made a lot of couples come out with interesting bits about their regularly imbalanced lives.
He made it cool for men to be a JKG and for women to fess up about being the dominating force in the family. And that's reason numero uno of why I love him.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Depressed...
You know.. whenever I stumbled upon comment sections like in this one, I get depressed. Not becoz there are people with an intense dislike for Shah Rukh, but becoz there're too many people in this world who apparently have too much time in their hands to argue about silly things like whether SRK is or is not an icon.
What is it to you if he is an icon or isn't?? Do you get a commission for dissing or defending him online in arguments with moronic people? If you want to get into a heated argument on SRK, why not be more cerebral about it? But I have to say.. cerebral arguments involving SRK (and other actors) alwiz end up sounding pretentious and pompous. They make for an amusing read, though.
I wonder if you guys/gals realise that while you're busy 'fighting' among yourselves in forums and websites over inconsequential things relating to Shah Rukh (and the rest of the B-brigades), he's out there working his cute butt off and earning more money, recognition, and personal satisfaction by the second. So, I suggest you guys/gals leave that useless online-bickering activity behind and do the same. You're needlessly bleeding copious dollops of precious time on this earth. What a waste.
But of course this good advice will be ignored by everyone.. as is usually the case with all good advices. I'll just log off and continue with my boring work then, hmmm?
What is it to you if he is an icon or isn't?? Do you get a commission for dissing or defending him online in arguments with moronic people? If you want to get into a heated argument on SRK, why not be more cerebral about it? But I have to say.. cerebral arguments involving SRK (and other actors) alwiz end up sounding pretentious and pompous. They make for an amusing read, though.
I wonder if you guys/gals realise that while you're busy 'fighting' among yourselves in forums and websites over inconsequential things relating to Shah Rukh (and the rest of the B-brigades), he's out there working his cute butt off and earning more money, recognition, and personal satisfaction by the second. So, I suggest you guys/gals leave that useless online-bickering activity behind and do the same. You're needlessly bleeding copious dollops of precious time on this earth. What a waste.
But of course this good advice will be ignored by everyone.. as is usually the case with all good advices. I'll just log off and continue with my boring work then, hmmm?
Friday, October 23, 2009
Quote of the day (o my, I've not done this post for ever so long..)
Link
" After 20 years in the film industry, I think I’ve earned the right to clarify myself before being written about."
My comment:
mmm.. no you don't, Shah Rukh. It doesn't matter if you've been in the industry for 5892 years, you still have not earned it. I don't think it's humanly possible to earn it nor do I think you should. Even if you're psychic enough to actually be able to do it, it'll be boring to hear/watch/read about you clarifying one stupid issue after another before it's even written. I'd much rather hear/watch/read what you have to say regarding your super duper philosophy of movie making like the one you spouted in that Koffee with Karan episode (the one with Kajol). I miss your super duper philosophy on anything, really. You rarely talk about them nowadays coz they alwiz get misprinted or misinterpreted. These idiotic paparazzos have robbed me of my interesting SRK-quotemeter.. grrrr.
" After 20 years in the film industry, I think I’ve earned the right to clarify myself before being written about."
My comment:
mmm.. no you don't, Shah Rukh. It doesn't matter if you've been in the industry for 5892 years, you still have not earned it. I don't think it's humanly possible to earn it nor do I think you should. Even if you're psychic enough to actually be able to do it, it'll be boring to hear/watch/read about you clarifying one stupid issue after another before it's even written. I'd much rather hear/watch/read what you have to say regarding your super duper philosophy of movie making like the one you spouted in that Koffee with Karan episode (the one with Kajol). I miss your super duper philosophy on anything, really. You rarely talk about them nowadays coz they alwiz get misprinted or misinterpreted. These idiotic paparazzos have robbed me of my interesting SRK-quotemeter.. grrrr.
Just mumbling...
I stumbled upon this blog post today... it's not that I'm ranting against it in a big way or anything, but I've found similar posts/forum comments like this scattered all over the net and just feel like mumbling about it in cyber space:
You know guys/gals, people do change. And as we change due to whatever.. age, some big/small life experiences, meeting new people or just coz we feel like it.. the things/people/stuff we love sometimes (or most times, as usually is the case with me) change too. Nobody should point fingers at you and say, "How dare you don't love Shah Rukh anymore!" nor should the change of heart make you feel guilty.
In fact, if anyone were to tell you that you don't deserve to call yourselves SRK fans before coz now you don't love him in the same way you used to, you should tell 'em to bugger the fug off. It's your heart, it's your time, it's your life, hell.. it's your money. You loved him once, and as some romantics say.. it's better to love once than never to love at all.. right? :P
Shah Rukh makes something happen to my heart (kuch kuch hota hai, hmmm?) and as long as he continues to make me feel that special feeling that only a few people can evoke, I'll be around. I wish I could be closer to him, but I also know that it's not really what I want in life. I just want to be the little old me who goes about puttering in her crampy lab doing experiments that may or may not result in something interesting, watching his new/old clips on youtube everyday while wearing down her treadmill (ha! I wish! I run like an old woman..), dancing to songs from his movies a few times a week, buying his DVD whenever she can spare some cash, and writing crappy posts in this SRK blog whenever she feels like babbling about anything SRK-related. I don't want to go to his concert, I don't want to que for his autograph, I don't want to do a darshan in front of his Mannat, I don't want to line up the side of a road to catch a glimpse of him and scream his name when I spot him walking/driving/rushing by, I don't even have India anywhere near the 5 countries I want to visit the most. I'm probably the most useless fan Shah Rukh has ever had!! (lol)
I'm very selfish when it comes to Shah Rukh. I love him as long as he keeps me entertained. I don't know him personally, nor do I want to (coz I think a meeting with him can change my life, and I love my life the way it currently is too much to have an epiphany now) so I don't feel guilty about this. However, let me say something here.. I do pray for him. He is the only muslim celebrity I have ever prayed for. I take my prayers very seriously.. I don't even pray for the goodness of a relative if I don't think he deserves my prayer (there's a relative of mine who I think can pray for himself for all I care). But I do pray for Shah Rukh. I love him lots. He's changed some of the ways I think, and consequentially some of the ways I do stuff, simply by being his schizophrenic self in interviews and by just leading his simple yet complicated life the way he wants to. It's been a fun ride following him from afar so far.
So you know, if following Shah Rukh Khan is no longer a fun ride for you.. you should get off at the next station. You should be happy with the people you spend your time with, even if they're not physically there with you. I have a few others that make me happy, and if anyone tries to make me feel guilty for not focusing exclusively on SRK, I'll kick their arses and tell 'em to bugger off 'n get a life. That's what I think about this 'skrimishies' (this is my own word, don't go finding the definition on google) issue.. I wish me writing about it will make it go away, but unfortunately humans love to torture themselves over skrimishies issues over and over again. It's been happening for millenniums and I doubt that it will disappear simply coz a puny critter like me wish it to. Probably coz it saves us from having to think about heavyweight issues that will require us to take action and do something positive with our lives.. ha!
Whatever. I'm done here.
You know guys/gals, people do change. And as we change due to whatever.. age, some big/small life experiences, meeting new people or just coz we feel like it.. the things/people/stuff we love sometimes (or most times, as usually is the case with me) change too. Nobody should point fingers at you and say, "How dare you don't love Shah Rukh anymore!" nor should the change of heart make you feel guilty.
In fact, if anyone were to tell you that you don't deserve to call yourselves SRK fans before coz now you don't love him in the same way you used to, you should tell 'em to bugger the fug off. It's your heart, it's your time, it's your life, hell.. it's your money. You loved him once, and as some romantics say.. it's better to love once than never to love at all.. right? :P
Shah Rukh makes something happen to my heart (kuch kuch hota hai, hmmm?) and as long as he continues to make me feel that special feeling that only a few people can evoke, I'll be around. I wish I could be closer to him, but I also know that it's not really what I want in life. I just want to be the little old me who goes about puttering in her crampy lab doing experiments that may or may not result in something interesting, watching his new/old clips on youtube everyday while wearing down her treadmill (ha! I wish! I run like an old woman..), dancing to songs from his movies a few times a week, buying his DVD whenever she can spare some cash, and writing crappy posts in this SRK blog whenever she feels like babbling about anything SRK-related. I don't want to go to his concert, I don't want to que for his autograph, I don't want to do a darshan in front of his Mannat, I don't want to line up the side of a road to catch a glimpse of him and scream his name when I spot him walking/driving/rushing by, I don't even have India anywhere near the 5 countries I want to visit the most. I'm probably the most useless fan Shah Rukh has ever had!! (lol)
I'm very selfish when it comes to Shah Rukh. I love him as long as he keeps me entertained. I don't know him personally, nor do I want to (coz I think a meeting with him can change my life, and I love my life the way it currently is too much to have an epiphany now) so I don't feel guilty about this. However, let me say something here.. I do pray for him. He is the only muslim celebrity I have ever prayed for. I take my prayers very seriously.. I don't even pray for the goodness of a relative if I don't think he deserves my prayer (there's a relative of mine who I think can pray for himself for all I care). But I do pray for Shah Rukh. I love him lots. He's changed some of the ways I think, and consequentially some of the ways I do stuff, simply by being his schizophrenic self in interviews and by just leading his simple yet complicated life the way he wants to. It's been a fun ride following him from afar so far.
So you know, if following Shah Rukh Khan is no longer a fun ride for you.. you should get off at the next station. You should be happy with the people you spend your time with, even if they're not physically there with you. I have a few others that make me happy, and if anyone tries to make me feel guilty for not focusing exclusively on SRK, I'll kick their arses and tell 'em to bugger off 'n get a life. That's what I think about this 'skrimishies' (this is my own word, don't go finding the definition on google) issue.. I wish me writing about it will make it go away, but unfortunately humans love to torture themselves over skrimishies issues over and over again. It's been happening for millenniums and I doubt that it will disappear simply coz a puny critter like me wish it to. Probably coz it saves us from having to think about heavyweight issues that will require us to take action and do something positive with our lives.. ha!
Whatever. I'm done here.
Monday, October 19, 2009
One of my most favourite hindi actresses... Sridevi
I can't believe she's a 46-yr old mom..she looks so young and gorgeous!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Finds of today
Shah Rukh Khan Tag Heuer Shooting Ad - One, Two
CNN IBN - Time Out With SRK (SRK Photoshoot for TAG HEUER)
Korean government gives Shah Rukh Khan honorary award 2009
Nightout Oct15 - engli. subs
shah rukh khan (Korean Connection)
Shah Rukh khan & Gauri Khan at Kouture Week Finale - One, Two
SRK, Gauri walk the ramp for KJo
Karan Johar's Fashion Show At 'India Couture Week 09'
Shah Rukh Khan in San Jose - One, Two, Three, Four, Five
Shah Rukh Khan Hosts Finals Of International Business and Marketing Quiz Dare 2009 - One, Two
Shahrukh khan on bindaas india concert - One, Two, Three, Four, Five
CNN IBN - Time Out With SRK (SRK Photoshoot for TAG HEUER)
Korean government gives Shah Rukh Khan honorary award 2009
Nightout Oct15 - engli. subs
shah rukh khan (Korean Connection)
Shah Rukh khan & Gauri Khan at Kouture Week Finale - One, Two
SRK, Gauri walk the ramp for KJo
Karan Johar's Fashion Show At 'India Couture Week 09'
Shah Rukh Khan in San Jose - One, Two, Three, Four, Five
Shah Rukh Khan Hosts Finals Of International Business and Marketing Quiz Dare 2009 - One, Two
Shahrukh khan on bindaas india concert - One, Two, Three, Four, Five
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Some guys should take a leaf out of this woman's book and just grow up..
.. and seeing that one of them is 7 years short of going into middle age, the situation for him seems rather pathetic, I think. She's happily married now and probably is working towards getting a baby soon. It's really tasteless and crass of her ex-boyfriends to yap about their past incidents together as if kissing (or hitting?) and telling would open opportunities ( for a comeback for one of them?) or make people understand them better.
And it's so typical for the guys to blame the girl, as if they hadn't a thing to blame and as if they had not been bringing the whole schbang unto themselves. Next time you want to impress your girlfriend by holding a press conference to broadcast your enmity towards her 1st ex-boyfriend who has been known to publicly hound and pester her to the point of violence, ask her opinion first whether you should go ahead with it.. comprende? Watching this clip, I sorta understand how Ash could go through all that muck with these two schmucks and still move forward as a winner in her personal and work life. She's a really cool customer.. strong-willed and clear-headed. Gorgeous too, yumm.
I was really surprised to know that Veer-Zaara was written for her though. What happened?? And when she talked about the domino effect, it makes me wonder at the intricacies involved in the dealings going on in a movie industry. No wonder Shah Rukh said that it's a very tough job, that the glamour exists only on screen after they've put on the make-up and lighting. I like thinking about such stuff coz I'm an escapist. I like wondering about things that I know I will never get involved in, that way I can be philosophical about it without getting hurt (hehe).
And it's so typical for the guys to blame the girl, as if they hadn't a thing to blame and as if they had not been bringing the whole schbang unto themselves. Next time you want to impress your girlfriend by holding a press conference to broadcast your enmity towards her 1st ex-boyfriend who has been known to publicly hound and pester her to the point of violence, ask her opinion first whether you should go ahead with it.. comprende? Watching this clip, I sorta understand how Ash could go through all that muck with these two schmucks and still move forward as a winner in her personal and work life. She's a really cool customer.. strong-willed and clear-headed. Gorgeous too, yumm.
I was really surprised to know that Veer-Zaara was written for her though. What happened?? And when she talked about the domino effect, it makes me wonder at the intricacies involved in the dealings going on in a movie industry. No wonder Shah Rukh said that it's a very tough job, that the glamour exists only on screen after they've put on the make-up and lighting. I like thinking about such stuff coz I'm an escapist. I like wondering about things that I know I will never get involved in, that way I can be philosophical about it without getting hurt (hehe).
Friday, October 2, 2009
Huh..
Know what? I'm beginning to get really really pissed off with this guy. I know it's such a waste of time since he's thousands of miles away from me and a movie star and I don't know him personally so he shouldn't affect me in any negative or positive way. Plus, I'm so not a fan even though I did like his acting in a couple of his movies so why should I care, right? And I've promised myself not to rant about anyone else in my SRK blog, but seriously.. I have to get this ugly feeling off my chest.
Who am I talking about? It's that actor famous for his short term amnesia in media when it comes to Shah Rukh, of course.. who else but Salman Khan. I wish he'd stay away from Shah Rukh, in real and reel life. I mean... what is this??? It's like a love-hate, obsessive relationship he's having with SRK.
He was the only A-list actor who repeatedly agreed to act in two-hero films with Shah Rukh. He pursued the leading lady of Devdas where SRK is the lead and SRK's own production film, Chalte Chalte, until it effectively got her kicked out of the movie (not that I'm complaining about this since I like Rani as an actress much better) and soured SRK's relationship with her for years becoz SRK turned his back on her in support of him. I mean.. she acted in other movies too, with other leading men.. why made such a public fuss ONLY while she was in SRK's movies?
At least Aamir Khan, when he makes tasteless jokes about SRK, they sometimes amuse me as they're clearly designed to garner publicity for his upcoming films (there're also all those reports of them being amiable to each other off the set).. but when Salman makes bad jokes about Shah Rukh, he actually means them to the point of trying to get into fisticuffs over them while in a drunken state at a party in front of family members, his and SRK's.
Salman has this very very annoying ability to completely believe in everything he says ..at the time, anyway. He's been giving so many negative quotes on SRK after that near-fight that it made me want to print out an A0-size poster of him with a big red cross slapped on his mouth and a sign.. 'WANTED - silenced forever' ..on it. Then he made an abrupt turn and started praising SRK.. even saying SRK has beautiful eyes.. what?? Being a bad-tempered person, I naturally want WANTED to flop at the BO after all this ruckus! But unlike many of Salman's juvenile fans whose brainless comments I found littering Shah Rukh's clips on youtube and articles in entertainment news, I can't be bothered to worry about the fate of a movie by someone who I don't fan. Meh.. he's had, what?.. 12 flops back-to-back already. Maybe he's due for a break.
Anyway, back to Shah Rukh's beautiful eyes. The exact quote is: "SRK has such beautiful eyes, it can make anyone go crazy," and I went.. oh? Including you, Salman? And before this.. I remember an interview where he said SRK is a matlabi person coz why? He didn't keep in touch! Awwww.. poor Salman, ignored by Shah Rukh. Seriously, if you don't like a guy, why do you want him to keep in touch with you? This is purely from a girl's POV though.. I'm not sure how male relationship works. Do guys like to have other guys they dislike to keep in constant touch with them? This is a mystery to me..
And now, he's gonna buy an IPL team.. LOL. Doggedly pursuing SRK from films to TV stints to the pitch, I see. Salman, even though people say Shah Rukh is gay coz he's surrounded by allegedly gay friends (this rumour still circulates despite him being happily married for nearly 20 yrs to a strong-minded, gorgeous lady and having two of the cutest kids in India), I doubt he's so gay that he's enjoying you hounding him wherever he goes (although, Shah Rukh being a masochist.. he probably does enjoy the 'attention' this guy has been giving him, if not so much.. at least a bit).
I'd like to say this.. Salman, you're a nuisance to us in the SRK fandom. What a drama queen. You should read our collective comments on you in the SRK forums, but the archive is massive and reading is probably not your strong suit. Lay off the chase, man.. it makes you look pathetic. I'd like to wish people who make tremendous effort to pursue the luff of their lives to gain them in the end, you know.. happiesss endingsss. But this is one couple I want to keep separated. Anyone who is even thinking of attempting to put them together in the same screen (again??), be it Farah Khan or whoever, is gonna get a virtual whack from me.. although I doubt that'll be stopping any of them from trying.. bleh.
Hmm, I started out being pissed off at Salman and ended up feeling amused at this whole Salman vs. SRK thing. It's probably just a spurned lover's attempt to get attention after all.. ha! Really, someone should try to write a fanfic about these two, with Salman as the uke of course. It works out more brilliantly that way, trust me. They give us plenty enough materials for several book volumes.
Who am I talking about? It's that actor famous for his short term amnesia in media when it comes to Shah Rukh, of course.. who else but Salman Khan. I wish he'd stay away from Shah Rukh, in real and reel life. I mean... what is this??? It's like a love-hate, obsessive relationship he's having with SRK.
He was the only A-list actor who repeatedly agreed to act in two-hero films with Shah Rukh. He pursued the leading lady of Devdas where SRK is the lead and SRK's own production film, Chalte Chalte, until it effectively got her kicked out of the movie (not that I'm complaining about this since I like Rani as an actress much better) and soured SRK's relationship with her for years becoz SRK turned his back on her in support of him. I mean.. she acted in other movies too, with other leading men.. why made such a public fuss ONLY while she was in SRK's movies?
At least Aamir Khan, when he makes tasteless jokes about SRK, they sometimes amuse me as they're clearly designed to garner publicity for his upcoming films (there're also all those reports of them being amiable to each other off the set).. but when Salman makes bad jokes about Shah Rukh, he actually means them to the point of trying to get into fisticuffs over them while in a drunken state at a party in front of family members, his and SRK's.
Salman has this very very annoying ability to completely believe in everything he says ..at the time, anyway. He's been giving so many negative quotes on SRK after that near-fight that it made me want to print out an A0-size poster of him with a big red cross slapped on his mouth and a sign.. 'WANTED - silenced forever' ..on it. Then he made an abrupt turn and started praising SRK.. even saying SRK has beautiful eyes.. what?? Being a bad-tempered person, I naturally want WANTED to flop at the BO after all this ruckus! But unlike many of Salman's juvenile fans whose brainless comments I found littering Shah Rukh's clips on youtube and articles in entertainment news, I can't be bothered to worry about the fate of a movie by someone who I don't fan. Meh.. he's had, what?.. 12 flops back-to-back already. Maybe he's due for a break.
Anyway, back to Shah Rukh's beautiful eyes. The exact quote is: "SRK has such beautiful eyes, it can make anyone go crazy," and I went.. oh? Including you, Salman? And before this.. I remember an interview where he said SRK is a matlabi person coz why? He didn't keep in touch! Awwww.. poor Salman, ignored by Shah Rukh. Seriously, if you don't like a guy, why do you want him to keep in touch with you? This is purely from a girl's POV though.. I'm not sure how male relationship works. Do guys like to have other guys they dislike to keep in constant touch with them? This is a mystery to me..
And now, he's gonna buy an IPL team.. LOL. Doggedly pursuing SRK from films to TV stints to the pitch, I see. Salman, even though people say Shah Rukh is gay coz he's surrounded by allegedly gay friends (this rumour still circulates despite him being happily married for nearly 20 yrs to a strong-minded, gorgeous lady and having two of the cutest kids in India), I doubt he's so gay that he's enjoying you hounding him wherever he goes (although, Shah Rukh being a masochist.. he probably does enjoy the 'attention' this guy has been giving him, if not so much.. at least a bit).
I'd like to say this.. Salman, you're a nuisance to us in the SRK fandom. What a drama queen. You should read our collective comments on you in the SRK forums, but the archive is massive and reading is probably not your strong suit. Lay off the chase, man.. it makes you look pathetic. I'd like to wish people who make tremendous effort to pursue the luff of their lives to gain them in the end, you know.. happiesss endingsss. But this is one couple I want to keep separated. Anyone who is even thinking of attempting to put them together in the same screen (again??), be it Farah Khan or whoever, is gonna get a virtual whack from me.. although I doubt that'll be stopping any of them from trying.. bleh.
Hmm, I started out being pissed off at Salman and ended up feeling amused at this whole Salman vs. SRK thing. It's probably just a spurned lover's attempt to get attention after all.. ha! Really, someone should try to write a fanfic about these two, with Salman as the uke of course. It works out more brilliantly that way, trust me. They give us plenty enough materials for several book volumes.
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