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Hrithik Roshan
IIFA Awards? More Like Lafda Awards!
Filed under : A. R Rehman, Hrithik Roshan, Lara Dutta, Rajnikanth, Riteish Deshmukh, Salman Khan, Sweetest, Vivek Oberoi
Bollywood’s been facing a lot of flak on its decision to arrange the IIFA awards in Sri Lanka this year. The human right issue apart, Bollywood does not even seem to be bothered about how the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce (SIFCC) has reacted to it. Well, this is certainly cold, even by our standards.
Though the Southern film industry makes up for only a small part in Bollywood, there are eminent people like A.R Rehman, Rajanikanth, Shankar and many others who are upset with this clear apathy of Bollywood, and with good reasons too. Perhaps, Bollywood only gets involved with politics when there is some mileage to be made. Layers after layers of agendas perhaps. Who benefits from relocating the IIFA? Well not many.
The SIFCC has gone as far as to declare that those who perform at the IIFA will be boycotted by the Southern film industry. Ouch! That’s gotta hurt. So most likely, we will not find the has beens of Bollywood get a chance to dazzle the Southern audiences anymore. At least not for the next couple of years, till the resentment on this issue continues to brew. Among those to be boycotted names like Lara Dutta, Riteish Deshmukh, Salman Khan and Hritik Roshan are the most prominent. Funnily enough, Vivek Oberai, who is in the midst of Tamil production, is all set for the IIFA awards. Way to nosedive a career that already never took off.
Well, we just hope that things are good once again between the two factions because in the end, it is we who will suffer the most.
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Well there’s little wonder that 2010’s most talked about and anticipated movie, Kites has seriously crashed and burned at the box office. Even before it could first soar into the clear skies of the Indian summers, it seems that the string was abruptly snagged and this ‘Kite’ has certainly landed in oblivion.
Indian audiences are known to be unforgiving to movies that are even the slightest out of the comfort zone. Tweaking the plot and making the promos look like a cross between ‘Love Sex aur Dhoka‘ and ‘Prince‘, didn’t make it work. Neither did the bare backs of the handsome hunk Hrithik and the beautiful siren Barbara. When the Indian audience has decided that it doesn’t like the movie… it simply doesn’t like the movie.
Let’s face it. If you remember the older days of Hrithik in some of the must-forget movies like ‘Main Prem ki Diwani Hoon‘ and ‘Aap Mujhe Acche Lagne Lage‘, you would also know that he doesn’t act. He has nothing to offer besides that deliciously chiseled body of his. After a while, even the weird dance moves start to seem repetitive. This year he did try to put in something new though – an alleged affair with co-star Barbara Mori. Well to be very frank, these Bollywood tactics have become so ghisa pita, that no one even gives a passing thought to such news anymore.
When it comes down to it, there are only two possible ways to sell Indian movies anymore. Either your surname should be Khan or it should be Chopra.
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For our neo filmmakers (or shall we say blatant plagiarizers), the new mantra for success is: What works in Hollywood can easily be re-hashed, butchered, or simply shamelessly ripped off and served on a shiny new platter to our unsuspecting masses.
For the uninitiated, we’re talking about the so-called “breakthroughs” in modern Indian cinema, like Black, Partner and the recent blue-eyed Bollywood baby called Blue. It comes as little surprise then that a brilliantly-directed, sensitive and heartwarming movie like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button got our desi filmmakers gray cells working overtime, figuring out how best they could replicate the mega-success without having to waste too much time and money over trivial non-essentials like a script.
Enter the never-say-die angry young man of Indian Cinema, the Big B himself who decides to do a Brad Pitt cameo by playing son to his own son in an upcoming movie Paa. Not to be outdone, the long banished King Khan decides to pull a fast one by playing an Asperger’s Syndrome victim in his next flick, imaginatively named My Name is Khan.
And just before the train pulls out of Cheap Rip-off Town, Hritik Roshan decides to jump right on with Guzarrish, where he plays a paraplegic patient. Not one to shy away from undeserved publicity, Mr. Roshan also gave lengthy interviews about how he was ‘not allowed to workout or shave’ in order to deliver an authentic performance.
Ummm… sorry to be the one who breaks this to you Hritik, but in order to deliver a convincing performance, you have to act well – not just grow a beard and be lazy. As we all know, your last efforts at playing a mentally-challenged child rustled up quite a storm about how poor your knowledge of autism was. And no, we’re not buying in to the ‘eight year old child trapped in an adult man’s body’ bogus you’ve been feeding us all along. If you’re trying to be credible, please do your homework and stop harping about your scruffy beard.
But, I digress…
So, is mental disability the next ‘new thing’ for Bollywood, after our spate of pathetic superhero films, amnesia-inducing science fiction and laughable fantasy?
Dudes look, I have a great idea for you. How about a movie with a group of conniving, pretentious film makers who habitually steal ideas from foreigners and rehash them as their own? Maybe you can title it The Mimic Men? But wait, somebody already did that title….umm….that means it should be ideal for you!
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Vivek Oberoi’s career headed south a long time ago, and now he is heading in the same direction too. He will appear next in a Kannada movie Sihi Muthu (meaning ‘Sweet Kiss’) directed by Ashok Kashyap. And guess what? Vivek’s Kannada debut will be as an item boy with a (hopefully) sizzling number that will cost Mr Kashyap a cool Rs 40 lakh.
We wish Mr Kashyap well, especially, after we learned that Vivek was not his first choice, either. He tried to rope in Bollywood majors such as Hrithik Roshan, Abhishek Bachchan, etc., but as that didn’t work, he had to settle for the only-too-eager Vivek.
Vivek better take this seriously and not disappoint Sandalwood. Who knows, he might soon be a much-sought after hottie down South, cashing in on the glamour trickle-down effect. There’s little left for him in Bollywood anyway. Seems as if his best days are behind him now.
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Genelia can… Zayed Khan’t
Filed under : Fardeen Khan, Genelia D'Souza, Hrithik Roshan, Imraan Khan, John Abraham, Sanjay Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Zayed Khan
Sanjay Khan wants to do a mega budget movie to launch beta Zayed into the premier league of Bollywood.
Ho-hum.
Zayed… baby, you had everything going for you. A ‘Khan’ last name and a family full of connections: papa Sanjay Khan, bro-in-law Hrithik Roshan, cousin Fardeen Khan, even a movie with SRK, the biggest Khan of ‘em all.
If all this padding up didn’t work for you, maybe God is trying to say something? If you have hearing problems, we can help. The message is: Bollywood’s no place for bacchas. Grow up, kid, or go away.
Just after this kindergarten update, I stumbled on some news, which I think Zayed, and many starlets like him could do well considering.
Genelia D’Souza was as much a reason for Jaane Tu… Yaa Jaane Na’s success as was Imraan Khan. But, he gained more mileage than her from the movie, because that’s how the world works.
Yet, Geenu is fighting back, with Life Partner releasing this Friday and two more lined up: one with Shahid Kapoor and the other with John Abraham. Great going girl!!
Something tells me this one will be difficult to shake off. She’s got ‘IT’, and she knows that.
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