Just saying
In HT Style today, the news that Atul Agnihotri is going to make a film out of Chetan Bhagat’s second novel One Night@A Call Center. Here’s Agnihotri on what he sees in the book:
“The right combination of contemporary situations and mysticism… A beautiful story which got me fired and inspired… combined mystique with modern values related with religion and spirituality.�And:
“I see this book as having a global appeal because it’s so Indian and so from the soil.�
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“There will be a KANK show starting every half an hour.�
– Sonali Shroff of the Fame Group of theatres. Fame Andheri will have 15 and Fame Malad will have 17 shows daily.
I can just imagine it. Armies of families marching in every half an hour to see K-Jo’s Different Take on Relationships.
One has also been assured that the film will have a Roses-moment (shudder), a Good Advice moment (double shudder), and several ‘tense-filled moments’ (km, this is for you). It will have many ’spats’, and it will have Shahrukh Khan. It will also have such immortal lines as “I wear the pants in this house!” and “You can’t even bear a child!”
I have a vexed relationship with K-Jo’s movies. I generally like reading his interviews, and I enjoyed Koffee with Karan. I like his relaxed responses to Ram Gopal Varma’s juvenile digs. I like the song and dance routines in his films. Whenever K-Jo makes a new movie, I look forward to the great event with anticipation, buy tickets well in advance - and once the experience is over I look back at it with amusement and fondness. It’s only during the three hours and more of the film itself - not only the serious weepiness, but also the visual cliches - Rani’s fluttering eyelashes, SRK’s quivering cheeks - that I begin to choke and imagine that I’m dying.
I remember we were watching K3G in Cal one winter night in Menaka Cinema. There’s that moment when Hrithik meets Kareena, and she says, I’m Poo. So this guy in the audience jumps up and shouts, “I am Jotayu!”
I loved that.
Please swalpa educate maadi. Who’s or what’s Jotayu?
Comment by Sujatha — August 9, 2006 @ 3:33 pm
“I am Jotayu!�
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.
That is a priceless line and it sure does diffuse those tense-filled KJ moments.
Comment by km — August 9, 2006 @ 4:16 pm
as you seem to insist on continuing this srk-karan johar spree..and i wouldn’t say i don’t enjoy, thoroughly, your digs at them ..here’s my two k’s worth.
to me a filmwallah is measured by the way he treats his junior artists - karan johar and shahrukh khan, to use a filmi cliche, have hit upon the pet of countless daily-wage earning ‘extras’ in the industry..by first eliminating them from the songs..and then from every ‘crowd’ scene..then they eliminated all other indians, and then they totally eliminated even the indian locales from the movies. right now, the only thing that ties them to india, very tenuously, is their skin.
like any other global product manufacturer/s, looking to making more profits, they outsource some of the work to some indians..but essentially, neither the product nor the market is indian.
Comment by kuffir — August 9, 2006 @ 4:58 pm
heh, I like the bit about many spats - like I spat in disgust when I heard about KJo making a “ddddifferent” film with Shshshshahrukh. and then again after watching the movie, and so on…
and what is it about the pants and bearing child anyway?
Comment by Charu — August 10, 2006 @ 4:37 am
I go to K-Jo movies to see all the lovely clothes and fashion!!Otherwise my mind gags ( or goes blank at the sheer stupidity of what it is having to process) at some of the dialogues + cliches in all his films :)!
Comment by Sunrayz — August 10, 2006 @ 1:10 pm
My ignorance shall seek pardon, please but I have the same question as Sujatha.. :)
Who’s or what’s Jotayu?
Comment by Kishore — August 10, 2006 @ 1:13 pm
Sorry for this delayed reply… for Jotayu see here and here.
Comment by Uma — August 13, 2006 @ 5:08 am
But I love RGV’s juvenile digs. Esp when this whole “one big family” and “Amit uncle” and “Jaya aunty” is starting to wear thin.
Comment by Impedimenta — August 20, 2006 @ 2:13 am