Obsession: Stage Four

[ladymirth]

...trawling through Youtube sites for clips and interviews and until your brain short-circuits and shrivels up from the accompanying comments.

I found this cute little interview with Shahid for my pains, so my near-lobotomy was not in vain.

Is it just me or does he look a bit like Saif Ali Khan here? Whut?!

I find it interesting that the fifth Shahid-Kareena film (and possibly the last, if they're holding out for a script to trump Jab We Met) is yet to be released. I am keeping my fingers crossed for Milenge Milenge, which is reportedly due to come out on Feb 15, as I want both these actors to succeed. Kareena and Shahid are both very talented people with great chemistry and have endured a lot over the media and public speculation over their relationship and subsequent break-up. I admire their maturity and professionalism, and they deserve to be recognized.

But from the clips I've seen so far, it looks like a typical Bollywood movie, so I'm thinking average grosser at best. Still, a lot of audiences will be very open to the Shahid-Kareena chemistry after Jab We Met, so if the script doesn't suck completely, they should be able to capitalize on that. Plus, Shahid looks adorably badass, and the role looks so different from that of Aditya Kashyap's that a lot of females are bound to be intrigued. Films have made blockbusters on much less. Take Dhoom 2, for instance. The only thing that stopped audiences from demanding their money and two and half hours of their life back from the producers of that movie was Hrithik Roshan. He delivered the most iconic performance of his life in a movie that would otherwise been fit only for the people on YouTube to sneer at. He made the movie a superhit and the movie made him into an overnight sex symbol. Go figure.

Shahid has the looks, the talent and the moves. If he's not criminally stupid, he can carry this movie. I have faith in him. Kareena's talent is far superior to Shahid's and it shows whenever she's in the hands of a good director who recognizes this. However, like I said, this is sure to be a typical Bollywood flick, and I doubt her role is going to allow for anything revoloutionary. Everybody seems to blame her for breaking up with Shahid, the guys think she's slutty and would rather watch Bipasha Basu and the girls can't stand her for some reason. But then, this is Bollywood, and it's an eternal game of Misogyny Ahoy! in those parts. Poor Kareena. I like you. You'll show them yet, girl. They said a lot of the same things about your sister before she hit it big too.

Here's to Milenge Milenge! Good luck, kids. Can't wait.

Meanwhile, let's see if I can get a life. You know you've hit rock bottom when you find yourself reading YouTube comments until midnight.

Comments

[cyad.livejournal.com]

wait...wait! did I get it right? they did a Dhoom 2? really? gotta wait that one impatiently!

And, sure you probably watched those already but, I hope JWM will come over in Paris 'cause am now dying to see it (did I say "hunk"?! ;)





OK, no< I have Yeh Ishq Hai and Mauja hi MAuja stuck in the head and making me wanna dance like mad! It's funny how some indian dance moves mirror oriental one. And, are those square red hats typic of India? 'cause I would have tagged them as Chinese...? / me is curious. ;p

[ladymirth.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Mauja hi Mauja and Tum Se Hi. Yeh Ishq Hai is great, but apparently it's rip-off of some other song, so it kind of put me off a bit. I mean, it's one thing for Bollywood to rip off scripts, but ripping off songs is just cheap. With people like A.R Rahuman and Shakar Ehsaan Loy in the industry, it's not like they need to rip off anybody else's music!

Dhoom 2 came out in 2006, and it was a horrible, horrible movie in which Aish looked anorexic, Abhishek Bacchan was neatly side-lined, Uday Chopra was even more annoying than usual and Bipasha Basu continued to set back woman's movements in India by several hundred decades. That woman is all sex and no talent. Plus, the movie had NO script. They were clearly making it up as they went along. Only two things saved the movie (and made it a hit):

1. Hrithik Roshan. This was HIS movie, and he. is. just. phenomenal. People who hated his guts before fell utterly in love with him with this movie. Best male dancer in the world!

2. Despite Aish delivering her career-worst performance, the chemistry between her and Hrithik was quite amazing and their controversial kissing scene was very sexy.

I am a bit ashamed to say that I went out and bought this movie, bust so I could ogle Hrithik forever and a day. I never liked him that much before.

No, those red hats are more Tibetan than Indian. The song appears on their way to the mountains of Manali, which are nearer to the Tibetan borders. Breathtaking locations, I tells ya!

In conclusion, Shahid should always wear his hair like that. And I already want a sequel to Jab We Met. But then, considering what Bollywood did to the sequel to Koi Mil Gaya and Dhoom, maybe I don't.

[cyad.livejournal.com]

Awww..didnt know about the song ripping. that sucks! Still, Mauja Mauja as a ùorning sunday wake up call does it pretty much for me! *g* *beams*

And your comment on Dhoom 2's alays half surprising for, I'mve noticed that n°2 opuses, even in occidental movie industry, are often deceiving. And Aish played in Dhoom 2? don't even remember her as part of he cast in the original Dhoom. How is that?
But yay on kissing scene? That's a first in Bollywood, at least for me, especially since here, they affectuously nicknamed her the "one that every man falls in love for but who never ever kissed her movie partner".

Tibetan. And yup! from the few bits I could catch, lanscapes and locations do really take your breath away.

see ya!