Category Archives: Shahrukh

DDLJ Part 18: The Active Male Searches for the Passive Female

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Welcome back to DDLJ watch!  If this post gets decent views, I might try to do at least one of these posts a week, add it to the rotation on Wednesdays and/or Saturdays when I don’t have anything else.  And if I ever finish DDLJ, I will move on to HAHK or Sholay or another one of the classics.  But only if I get the views!  So COMMENT!!!  It lets me know you are reading, and gets more people to read them.  The lack of comments/readers is why I kind of let this die last summer.  (last post here, you can go back in time from there).

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Silly Sunday Speculative Post: World Book Day! Let’s Remake Jane Eyre as a Hindi Film

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Did you know today is World Book Day?  I didn’t!  Amitabh had to tell me.  Amitabh’s twitter tells me about every holiday, along with every birth, death, and wedding in the film industry.  Anyway, now that Amitabh has alerted me, this changes my plans for the Sunday post!  Clearly, it now has to be book themed.

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Two News Items Too Big To Ignore: National Film Awards and New Shahrukh Stills!

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Long time readers may have noticed that my news round-up posts have been less common lately.  I am sooooooooo busy writing up Hindi Film 101 and answering Monday questions and all my other new-ish features that I haven’t had as much time for news.  But today there were two big things that I just can’t ignore!  Both of which I learned about through twitter (I do still follow @iamsrk and @karanjohar and all the other big newsmakers of the industry)

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Chalte Chalte: It’s Rani’s Birthday This Week! And This is the Best SRK-Rani Movie!

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Is that a controversial statement?  Not the birthday part (can’t really deny that), but the best SRK-Rani part?  I don’t think so, they’ve worked together a lot, but they haven’t actually been the main “jodi” in most of their films.  It’s really just this one and Paheli and Kabhi Alveda Na Kehna.  So, okay, you can fight with me over whether this is a better movie or Paheli or Kabhi Alveda Na Kehna.

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AIB and SRK: Podcast Report! 5 Interesting Things!

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Thanks to the nice commentators here, I was alerted that Shahrukh had just done a podcast with AIB, and it was a hoot!  I watched the whole thing, in two parts, and it was very enjoyable.  But most of it was in the kind of “it’s the way he said it” way, so I can’t exactly recreate it.  But there were 5 interesting things that came up that I want to discuss.

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Raees Part 5: All the Way Through to the Moment When Shahrukh Defeats the Yatra

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Part 5!  I always forget how much faster it moves once I get into the second half.  Because I’ve already done all my discussion of the underlying motivations and blah blah, and I can skip all that.  I have great hopes of finishing entirely in one more part! (part 1 here and part 2 here and part 3 here and part 4 here)

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Raees Part 3: Shahrukh Meets His Match and I Don’t Mean Mahira

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I took a couple days off, because I had to go see Raees again which killed 5 hours (travel to the theater and back plus trailers), which was also my 5 hours when I could have been writing recaps.  But now I am back!  And hoping to get well into Shahrukh and Nawazuddin’s first mental duel. (part 1 here and part 2 here)

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Raees Full Summary Part 2, through the first song and Introducing Mahira Khan!

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That statement is less impressive than it sounds, because I am counting a song and a “song” that comes right next to it.  But I’m going to try to move even further past that as well, we’ll see how I do. (part 1 here)

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Raees SPOILER Review: Is This How it Was Supposed to End?

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So, I saw Raees for the second time last night!  Some things were better on this watch, and some things were worse.  But, knowing how it ends, I was able to pay more attention to various hints and clues that were dropped along the way, and I think I have a better sense of how the whole thing was built piece by piece.  So I can do my “real” spoiler review, instead of just a mini one.

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Raees Mini-SPOILER Review: A Place For Us All to Debate Guyliner

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I’m tired, it’s late, but I also really want to start talking about Raees with you guys!  And I want to do it in a place where we won’t spoil it for those poor people who haven’t been able to see it yet.  And thus, a mini-review!  I still get to write and put up a better review sometime tomorrow, but this is just something to hold you over until then.

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Happy Raees Week! Deewar, the Ultimate Smuggler and Criminal and Anti-Hero and Let’s Just Say Film-Film

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I’m just going to say it, Deewar is the best written film in the history of Hindi cinema.  It deserves an epic detailed perfect discussion.  That is not this post.  This post is a very superficial and not detailed discussion as it relates to the upcoming release of Raees.

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Last Raees Song! Mika Singh Appears

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The final (probably) Raees song has just been released.  And it is the Mika Singh song that is apparently required in every hit film now (Mika or Yo Yo or Badshah).  Tough and a little Bhangra mixed with hip-hop sounding.  Less hip-hop in this case, more 80s style.

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Deleted Scenes Report!!! ADHM and Dear Zindagi! UPDATED WITH BETTER TRANSLATIONS!!!!

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DVDs are out, yaaaaay!  And I was able to watch the deleted scenes!  And now I can report back on them, so you don’t have to go out and buy your own DVD.

UPDATE: And I forced my friend who understands Hindi to watch and give me better translations too!!!!

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