...a totally random Bollywood film clip on youtube. It's from an old Shahrukh film which I haven't seen called Zamana Deewana (1995). From what I understand the story is about the police trying to stop the violence between two rival gangs. Rather than tackle the gangs directly the police have decided to try and make the children of the two gang leaders fall in love.
The clip is a dance number between the children. If I'm not mistaken, at this point the two of them have been captured by the police and handcuffed to each other. They've realized what the police is trying to do, so they pretend to be in love (while hitting and strangling each other when the officers aren't looking) so as to make the police let them go.
I'm not sure why I'm addicted to it... Mid-90s Bollywood is usually not something I get addicted to easily - especially if it's a dance sequence. But somehow I keep turning this one on again and again...
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Krazzy 4 - the item boys
Hopefully, this post will mark my proper "comeback to the internet" (yes, maybe I'll even start replying to e-mails soon ;-P). When one doesn't have internet for a long time, one kind of almost gets used to not having it and now that I've finally gotten it back I have no idea how I ever found time for it in the first place. I still haven't gotten through all the news in my RSS reader btw, so I have absolutely no idea what's happening in the world right now ;-P
But anyway, I should probably stop moaning about not having had internet for a month in every post - it's not exactly gripping reading, is it? I'm not sure the rest of my blog is either, but hey - even Bollywood's gotta be more interesting than me not having internet, right? ;)
Publicity for Krazzy 4 is in full throb at the moment. From what I understand it's a comedy about four guys who escaped from a mental institution:
It doesn't have any major stars in the lead parts, but Rakesh Roshan (Hrithik Roshan's dad), who is the producer of the film, put a different "strategy" in play. He got the no.1 and no.2 Bollywood stars (not everyone would agree with the "numbering", but that's the "numbering" I usually hear ;-P) to do item numbers to the same song. To translate that into plain English for people who are perhaps less interested in Bollywood than myself - an item number is usually a song & dance number in which a star who isn't in the rest of the film takes central position. Naturally, the main idea is to make the star look sexy and often the number will have nothing to do with the plot. The ingenuity of Rakesh Roshan in this case is that he got what are possibly the two biggest stars in Bollywood - Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan to do an item number to the same song (Shahrukh's starts the film off and Hrithik's plays during the closing credits).
Here's the promo for Shahrukh's:
And here's the one for Hrithik's:
It's curious to see Shahrukh take up this sort of "challenge" cause against Hrithik he has to lose ;) Hrithik is so much more the "item boy" type. But I guess he doesn't lose as badly as I thought he might when I first heard of this ;)
And it's kinda interesting (at least IMO ;-P) to compare how the numbers were put together. Hrithik is out there solo and almost entirely in wide shots, while SRK gets a whole troop of dancers and lots of close-ups instead. Good choices for both of them I think - they get to play to their strengths.
But anyway, I should probably stop moaning about not having had internet for a month in every post - it's not exactly gripping reading, is it? I'm not sure the rest of my blog is either, but hey - even Bollywood's gotta be more interesting than me not having internet, right? ;)
Publicity for Krazzy 4 is in full throb at the moment. From what I understand it's a comedy about four guys who escaped from a mental institution:
It doesn't have any major stars in the lead parts, but Rakesh Roshan (Hrithik Roshan's dad), who is the producer of the film, put a different "strategy" in play. He got the no.1 and no.2 Bollywood stars (not everyone would agree with the "numbering", but that's the "numbering" I usually hear ;-P) to do item numbers to the same song. To translate that into plain English for people who are perhaps less interested in Bollywood than myself - an item number is usually a song & dance number in which a star who isn't in the rest of the film takes central position. Naturally, the main idea is to make the star look sexy and often the number will have nothing to do with the plot. The ingenuity of Rakesh Roshan in this case is that he got what are possibly the two biggest stars in Bollywood - Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan to do an item number to the same song (Shahrukh's starts the film off and Hrithik's plays during the closing credits).
Here's the promo for Shahrukh's:
And here's the one for Hrithik's:
It's curious to see Shahrukh take up this sort of "challenge" cause against Hrithik he has to lose ;) Hrithik is so much more the "item boy" type. But I guess he doesn't lose as badly as I thought he might when I first heard of this ;)
And it's kinda interesting (at least IMO ;-P) to compare how the numbers were put together. Hrithik is out there solo and almost entirely in wide shots, while SRK gets a whole troop of dancers and lots of close-ups instead. Good choices for both of them I think - they get to play to their strengths.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
The Happening
The trailer for Shyamalan's The Happening has been out for a while and it looks like this:
As you may remember "The Happening" is on my list of films to see in 2008 because it's the first time that an Indian production company is co-producing what is essentially a Hollywood film (and I'm weird enough to be excited about that). But I must say the trailer has made me doubt whether I really want to see it ;) It looks dreadful!
As you may remember "The Happening" is on my list of films to see in 2008 because it's the first time that an Indian production company is co-producing what is essentially a Hollywood film (and I'm weird enough to be excited about that). But I must say the trailer has made me doubt whether I really want to see it ;) It looks dreadful!
Film Award season 2008
I finally have internet courtesy of TP S.A. *grin*
So I have to get back to posting... faaaast! There's just too much I want to post ;-P
Anyway, the two biggest film industries in the world had their most commercial award ceremonies last month, on the same day no less (24th February).
You can check out the winners here and here.
I've been following the chances of Katyń at the Academy Awards on this blog, so I guess I should now inform everyone that it lost ;) Polish speaking readers of this blog can check out some speculations about why it lost out on the award (not commercial enough, not universal enough etc. ;-P).
Interestingly, this year the Academy Awards had the lowest TV ratings ever. I think this is a good excuse not to link to any clips from the ceremony ;-P (another good one is that judging by youtube, they're monitoring for clips not to surface ;-P and also the one I did find was boring ;-P)
A clip that I absolutely must link to however is this:
It's Saif and Shahrukh hosting the Filmfare Awards and trust me - you want to see this clip ;) (or at least the beginning of it)
I watched the whole show on youtube and I have to agree that SRK and Saif are the most politically incorrect hosts ever. I think this is their third time hosting, but this year was particularly "bad". Or maybe this is just the first time I followed the Indian tabloids well enough to get most of the subtleties ;) - some of the jabs they were making at films and people were potentially veeeery offensive. If anybody cares they made a few jabs at Hollywood and the Academy Awards too ;) (not that I fully understood them as a lot of them were done in Hindi ;-P)
So I have to get back to posting... faaaast! There's just too much I want to post ;-P
Anyway, the two biggest film industries in the world had their most commercial award ceremonies last month, on the same day no less (24th February).
You can check out the winners here and here.
I've been following the chances of Katyń at the Academy Awards on this blog, so I guess I should now inform everyone that it lost ;) Polish speaking readers of this blog can check out some speculations about why it lost out on the award (not commercial enough, not universal enough etc. ;-P).
Interestingly, this year the Academy Awards had the lowest TV ratings ever. I think this is a good excuse not to link to any clips from the ceremony ;-P (another good one is that judging by youtube, they're monitoring for clips not to surface ;-P and also the one I did find was boring ;-P)
A clip that I absolutely must link to however is this:
It's Saif and Shahrukh hosting the Filmfare Awards and trust me - you want to see this clip ;) (or at least the beginning of it)
I watched the whole show on youtube and I have to agree that SRK and Saif are the most politically incorrect hosts ever. I think this is their third time hosting, but this year was particularly "bad". Or maybe this is just the first time I followed the Indian tabloids well enough to get most of the subtleties ;) - some of the jabs they were making at films and people were potentially veeeery offensive. If anybody cares they made a few jabs at Hollywood and the Academy Awards too ;) (not that I fully understood them as a lot of them were done in Hindi ;-P)
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