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.