*TOIJ141208/ /02/K/1* SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA, JAIPUR DECEMBER 14, 2008
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CINEMA OF THE WEEK NIKHAT KAZMI
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (romance) ★★1/2 Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Anoushka Sharma, Vinay Pathak Direction: Aditya Chopra
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ast week, Kareena Kapoor almost collapsed while shooting in Philadelphia. She was shooting for Rensil D’Silva’s untitled film, which is being produced by Karan Johar. Recounting the experience she said, “I shot till 2 am when it was snowing. It was the coldest night of my life and I’ve never worked so hard and so long. It was too much for me." But Kareena isn’t complaining. “It was an exhausting but elating experience. You’ve no idea what it was like in that heavy snowfall with a unit of 80 people. But it looked like heaven.” Saif who co-stars with Kareena was already shooting in Philadelphia before Kareena arrived. “It’s minus 3 degrees where Saif and I are shooting in Philadelphia. I’m covered up in jackets, trousers, shawls and boots,” she said. Of late, Kareena has been working relentlessly. “I’ve been working 20 hours a day. I’m exhausted.” But she loves every minute of the grind as she is looking forward to summer 2009 when two of her filmsKambakkht Ishq and Main Aur Mrs Khanna- will release. To spend some quality time together, she and Saif have decided to go for a holiday to France. She says she urgently needs a break. “That’s why I’m taking time off to go to France in December. I desperately need a holiday. I’ve been working round the clock. But sadly it’s only for a week,” she said. It’s a holiday that she is quite excited about. “Just the two of us… and no intrusion. I love the European mountains. It’s my most favourite part of the world. There will be no mobile phones either. I will switch off my mobile phone for a week,” she said. Just when you think that Kareena has said all that she wants to, she suddenly added, “Oh, the lifestyle of the rich and the famous.” That’s Kareena for you.
Kareena Kapoor
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hah Rukh Khan’s Surinder Sahni, the hero of Rab Ne... comes straight after his reality show, Paanchvi Paas....Naturally, he seems to have walked off the small screen onto the big screen, complete with his nondescript attire, his commonplace bearings and his aam aadmi persona. Surinder Sahni, the clerk in the Punjab electricity department who oils his hair, showers under the courtyard tap, dons ill-fitting greys and browns and drives a scooter, expresses himself in half-sentences, is indeed a fitting tribute to the umpteen participants of the reality show hosted by the actor. He’s a character you still haven’t seen in Shah Rukh’s arsenal before. And that’s why he strikes a chord. But that’s about all this much-awaited film can boast about. Quite a let-down, specially since it marked the return of director Aditya Chopra after a long hiatus from the hurly burly of movie-lore. Also, it seems odd that the romance which begins on a promising note, peters off into a long drawn story that limits itself to primarily two scenes — the stark dining room of the newly married Mr and Mrs Sahni (Shah Rukh and Anoushka) and the dance school, where a bored Mrs Sahni falls in love with the husband she doesn’t recognize, only because he doesn’t sport a moustache, wears gaudy tees, flashy glares and gelled hair. Hey, is that really possible? Try putting a moustache on the person you live with and see if you don’t recognize him! But Mrs Sahni fails to realize the man she shares her silent dinners with, after marrying him because dad dies, and the man who she jives with on the dance floor is one and
Saif Ali Khan
‘They asked me to prove I was Shilpa’ The Bollywood hottie considers herself lucky to have escaped the Mumbai attacks, but promises that she won’t leave the city
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f Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan and Karan Johar can do it, why not Shilpa Shetty? Indeed, but the Bollywood hottie who’s the latest to join the net savvy brigade dislikes the word ‘blog’... instead, she’s making changes in her official website and calling it ‘Shilpa’s Channel’. “I wanted a channel to vent my anger against what’s happened to my city,” says the actress. “In fact, I should have started this when the Richard Gere controversy erupted and people burned effigies of me, then I could have also expressed my opinion.” Besides clearing controversies, what prompted Shilpa to revamp her website was the necessity to make herself available to fans and also the world media which was trying to reach her after 26/11. “I was woken up by a call from a London news channel asking me about the attack. That’s when I switched on the TV and watched all the horror unfold,” she explains. She had a providential escape
as well because she was to dine at Wasabi in Taj the night before. “I’m a regular there and have chopsticks engraved with my name. I cancelled because I had a shoot early next morning. I shudder to think what might have happened,” shares Shilpa. Post 26/11, she had a tough time convincing UK businessman boyfriend Raj Kundra that she is safe in Mumbai. “He’s a British-born Indian and for him the situation couldn’t get worse than this. But I love Mumbai and I couldn’t think of leaving it,” she says. Far from running away, she wants to stay and make change. “It’s shameful to say I’ve never voted before, but now I’m ready to cast my vote. The procedure of getting a voter’s card should be changed. Imagine, they asked me to prove that I was Shilpa Shetty!”
the same. So, we see her mild-mannered, hopelessly in love husband repeatedly entering his best buddy’s (Vinay Pathak) saloon, shedding his greasy look, his horn-rimmed glasses and donning the roadside romeo avtar of Rahul, the Jat. Mrs Sahni does point an admonishing finger at him each time he tries to cheaply flirt with her, but soon, she’s hopelessly in love with him after he lights up the city with his love missive. But Mrs Sahni is married, no? And she needs to live happily ever after with Mr Sahni, no? So, she prays to God and God settles her quandary. Another incongruity! It’s these two major absurdities — the moustache-as-disguise and the miraculous divine revelation at the end — that turn this film into a drama that’s completely out-ofsync with contemporary Bollywood. Also, the repetitive scenes just don’t add to the momentum of the love story that expends itself in the first few frames. The only high point of the film is Shah Rukh’s interpretation of the geeky-gawky middle class hero, who would have actually been quite lovable if he didn’t metamorphose into his gaudy, over-the-top alter ego, Rahul. Debutante Anoushka lacks all chutzpah and can barely hold your attention. The tribute-to-Bollywood song-dance sequel too seems such a been-there-done-that experience after the glitzy star parade in Om Shanti Om, as do the endless tributes to YRF hits like Dhoom and DDLJ. Watch it, only for Surinder Sahni-ji, a refreshing new take on the Bollywood hero.
The Day The Earth Stood Still (sci-fi) ★★ Cast: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly Direction: Scott Derrickson
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f mankind doesn’t bother about the Inconvenient Truth (remember, the environmental degradation), then aliens are going to take care. The new eco warriors are going to be a towering iron man and a tuxedo-clad Keanu Reeves who will come all the way from out there in a huge sphere that lands in the middle of Central Park, Manhattan, and begin their Save Earth mission. So what if this entails the annihilation of the entire human race! Earth, the only planet that can support complex life forms, must be saved from ecological apocalypse, any which way. The film is essentially a re-make of a 1951 film and traces the journey of an alien, Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) in New York, as he tries to evade the aggressive US forces, a shrewish secretary of defence (Kathy Bates) and an army of earthlings (scientists, cops, doctors) ready to capture him and put him in the petri dish, for research and experimentation. His only friend in this hostile territory seems to be doctor Connelly who understands Klaatu’s concerns and begs him to help humans save themselves and their planet. Now the premise of the film does hold promise, but the execution is lack-lustre and minus all special effects. Now warranted at all, specially since sci-fi cinema has had a quantum leap since 1951, when the first version of the film was made. Dark, despairing, run-of-the-mill stuff.
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