Thursday, December 31, 2009

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


NEXT

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)

Monday, December 21, 2009

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)

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

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?



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..




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?)



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.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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.



Source
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.

Monday, December 14, 2009

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^)/

Sunday, December 13, 2009

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?







Thursday, December 10, 2009

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)

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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!