A year ago, I didn’t even know who this actress was. And now I can easily come up with a dozen reasons to love her!
1.1. I love you because you are ta child of nice middle-class parents (chemistry teacher and electrical engineer), from Delhi, who somehow landed in the Telugu film industry.
2. I love you because you are a trained dancer, at least more trained than most actresses.
3. I love you because your first big hit was when you were twenty opposite 43 year old Nagarjuna, and yet you worked as a couple.
4. I love you because that big hit film was Santosham and you were both super cute in it.
5. I love you because you were also great opposite Nagarjuna in Nenunnanu
6. Although your biggest hit was NOT opposite Nagarjuna, but opposite Rajnikanth.
7. I love you because you are a remarkably flexible actress, appearing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, AND English films!
8. I love you because you were in The Other End of the Line, which I have heard is surprisingly cute.
9. I love you because you survived the unbelievably nightmarishly gosh awful Midnight’s Children film.
10. I love you because you also did Malayalam! Although apparently you didn’t have much to do. But hey, Prithviraj and Mammootty!
11. I love you because you aren’t above doing a straight up item song.
12. And finally, I love you because you gave us the best romance out of all the romances in Manam!
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I DO NOT like Shriya Saran! At all!!! But somehow she seems to have been a part of some of my personal favs including Awarapan which was the first film that made me realise Emraan Hashmi could act.
I did not understand the reason for this irrational hatred till i saw this:
UGH!!! also, EWWW… See the look on her face. So plastic she could make Aishwarya Rai look human!
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Watch Manam! And the other two Nagarjuna films I recommended. She is soooooooooooooo good with him. It’s possible I only love her because my Nagarjuna love is so strong that it spills over in her direction. Well, and also she survived making Midnight’s Children and I survived watching it, which builds a lifelong bond.
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I think she’s a good actress. Just hate her as a person. Well, what I know of her from her off-reel avatar.
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Hi. I have just found ur blog via SRK universe. I’m not a tech wiz so haven’t a clue about blogging. As in, can I contact you in any way. I see there is no tag for fb. I guess I’m asking because your story about meeting Shahrukh resonated so much with me. But I can’t convince anyone to flip their wigs over him at all. Conned my daughter into a few movies, but that’s about it. Its a lonely world when you’ve got no one to share your SRK excitement with. I live in Australia. I think it’s fab your doing a blog , what a great way to get emotions out. Anyhow just wondering if there would be a way to connect sometimes? I do see a twitter handle. Maybe I ll try you there. Shahrukh fans unite !!!!!!!
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You’ve come to the right place! Welcome!
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Hi! You can always always connect with me through the comments here. We have a large and vibrant SRK fan community in the comments (including at least one other person from Australia!) and I will respond to every comment. And please browse around the blog, if you click on “everything else” in the menu bar, you will see there is a tag for “Shahrukh Khan”, with hundreds of posts under it.
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Welcome to the blog 🙂
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Shriya was the actress in one my favorite movies as a kid, Nuvve Nuvve. It’s actually a pretty good movie that I would recommend to you. It’s the directorial debut of Trivikram Srinivas; I think you’ve seen his Athadu and Attarintiki Daaredi. Here’s my favorite song that I used to sing along to all the time:
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Ooo ooo! Another Nagarjuna!
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Dude, that is definitely not Nagarjuna 🙂
This is Tharun who was an upcoming actor who had a few hits back in the early 2000s. Then he slowly ended up fading out. You’ve probably seen him before when he played Anjali’s older brother in Anjali (Mani Ratnam’s movie).
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Loved Anjali!
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I really liked it but it never made me cry the way Kannathil Muthamittal did.
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I only recently got Shriya Saran’s sex appeal when I watched an old movie of her and Prabhas. I was like she’s fucking HOT!
Priyanka Chopra I have hated since day 1 of her singing pyar aaya with sanju baba. no even before that in her vijay movie. yuck.
Aishu has me conflicted. I love her. but also she’s so messed up. And I think she does great in dramatic roles which require classical drama.
Also there’s nothing wrong with a siren. just like there’s nothing wrong with a womanizer. as long as everyone is grown up.
(just my two annas thrown into this.)
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A siren who owns it vs. a siren who doesn’t. That’s the dilemma.
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She owns it to the level that Indian society will let her. She had a court case on her for the way she dressed right after Shivaji if I remember right. Yep. I was In Junior college at the time and everyone was all like how can she defame our culture. Blabla bullshit. I was like didn’t all of you dolts drool all over her in waji waji Shivaji just few weeks ago in the theatre and now suddenly she’s offensive?
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Indian society is plenty accepting. Nobody filed a case against her for pulling her sari down to show more cleavage at that awards thing!
Cases against films are politically motivated. They get thrown out by judges. That wasn’t society talking. Just a politically backed association who wants 15 minutes of fame.
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I see nothing wrong in her pulling her sari down. Her cleavage deserves its spot in the sun. Also those stiff mami saris keep climbing up and I’ve had my experiences with them 😂
Whatever the end result case was filed many people supported it and if you really think Indian society is “accepting” let’s agree to disagree. 🙃
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Sure thing 👍
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