Bollywood Rant
Aug. 24th, 2005 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieWarning: this started out normal but turned into a rant :)
I have finally gotten my hands on Black, months and months after everyone's raves. I will be watching it this week...yum. I wish I saw it in the theater though.
Also, when are Parineeta, Maine Pyar Kyun Kya? and Virrudh coming out on DVD? It's been ages since Parineeta opened. I am glad it's such a hit but I must own the DVD right now. I need my angsty Shekhar/Lolita fix. I want to rewatch the consummation of marriage scene, and the train song, and Lolita baking a cake in the dark, and Shekhar having a nervous breakdown over and over and over again. I want to watch him realize the truth at the end and stand up to his father. And I want to watch Lolita try to wobble on her high heels, or Rekha's cabaret number. Or Koel do just anything, because I loved Raima Sen. Where is my precioussssssss? I need it. Dammit. I guess I can rewatch Saif's angsty scenes in Hum Tum but there aren't many and it's not the same. Argh.
I also need a silly Salman fix and MPKK would do just nicely. As to Virrudh, I shouldn't complain because I already have a meaty Amitabh movie in my hands (i.e. Black) but I really want to watch it and see John, and my other option for an unseen John is Lakeer and that movie has the square-headed Sunny Deol and hideous Sohail Khan, both of whom annoy the heck out of me.
Also, I want to see Dus, which is already out, because cool action and Abhi and Zayed in leather pants, and Shilpa, and Sunil getting to romance someone, but I don't want to buy it all by itself so I have to wait for the other ones. Damn.
And there are no Bolly movies I want to see until Salaam Namaste, and that's not till the second week of September. Also, I want to know when Yagna is hitting the theaters, because I need to see another Saif/Vidya movie after Parineeta pretty much right away, because they are so a new favorite movie pairing.
Also, Kajol and Aamir aren't starting Fanaa until November. Before that, Aamir will appear in Rang De Basanti which sounds patriotic and really dull. Good for you, like spinach.
There won't be any more Shahrukh movies this year, and the way his schedule goes, with Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna seemingly to be the first before he can start on the others, there probably won't be any in the first half of 2006 either. Which annoys me. Not that Don which is an actiony remake or Happy New Year will necessarily rock my world either, since I like him better as intense.
Salman's and Shilpa's flick about marriage with a really long name keeps getting delayed. I have my doubts about it ever being released. And I really hope that this time the November date for Humko Tumse Pyar Hai is set (thank you, SRK!), but I am still cranky about it as the flick should have released a year ago.
Water, a movie I've been dying to see might get held up and not premiere at the Toronto festival because of some stupid, useless lawsuit in India. That merits another primal scream.
Bhansali is being quiet about his next film, if anything, but it's going to be a cold day in hell before it will be Bajirao Mastani which he announced years ago, which I was dying for, and which then fell apart. Come on, star-crossed lovers one of whom is a warrior ruler, and who are historical? Salman swinging a sword? Would have been good.
Also, why does Esha Deol keep getting roles? I have to look at her annoying face and lack of talent regularly now. She is starring with people like Abhi now, so I am forced to watch her. Same goes for Uday. Next they will be trying to sell Tusshar, Shahid and Aftab as the "it" boys I'll have to watch.
Ram Gopal Varma lost the little bit of his brain he had left and is remaking Sholay, the ultimate Bollywood classic. Why not, earlier he bastardized Godfather. Why does he have a reputation for artistry and unusualness? Making gangster-flavored remakes has less originality than dancing in Switzerland. I have yet to see one of his movies since Rangeela which came out in 1995, which appealed to me in the least, despite his "I am the cinema savior" attitude.
Hrithik is annoying me too, lately. His two next movies are Dhoom 2 where he plays the villain, and where I'd be forced to look at Uday Chopra's blank stare and ugly face in order to enjoy Hrithik and an action sequel to Koi Mil Gaya by his daddy, entitled Krrish. Which just sounds dull and annoying and he should really make more movies. Jodha-Akbar which is the first of his movies that interests me is unlikely to be out before 2007. And even there, the idiot boy will have a mustache. Are they trying to uglify him? 'Cause it's working.
Also, what is Abhi up to? The only upcoming of his I know of is Dhoom 2 (blech, yuck!) and Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna which is unlikely to come out before the end of next year.
whine, whine, whine... I am Bolly-cranky now.
I have finally gotten my hands on Black, months and months after everyone's raves. I will be watching it this week...yum. I wish I saw it in the theater though.
Also, when are Parineeta, Maine Pyar Kyun Kya? and Virrudh coming out on DVD? It's been ages since Parineeta opened. I am glad it's such a hit but I must own the DVD right now. I need my angsty Shekhar/Lolita fix. I want to rewatch the consummation of marriage scene, and the train song, and Lolita baking a cake in the dark, and Shekhar having a nervous breakdown over and over and over again. I want to watch him realize the truth at the end and stand up to his father. And I want to watch Lolita try to wobble on her high heels, or Rekha's cabaret number. Or Koel do just anything, because I loved Raima Sen. Where is my precioussssssss? I need it. Dammit. I guess I can rewatch Saif's angsty scenes in Hum Tum but there aren't many and it's not the same. Argh.
I also need a silly Salman fix and MPKK would do just nicely. As to Virrudh, I shouldn't complain because I already have a meaty Amitabh movie in my hands (i.e. Black) but I really want to watch it and see John, and my other option for an unseen John is Lakeer and that movie has the square-headed Sunny Deol and hideous Sohail Khan, both of whom annoy the heck out of me.
Also, I want to see Dus, which is already out, because cool action and Abhi and Zayed in leather pants, and Shilpa, and Sunil getting to romance someone, but I don't want to buy it all by itself so I have to wait for the other ones. Damn.
And there are no Bolly movies I want to see until Salaam Namaste, and that's not till the second week of September. Also, I want to know when Yagna is hitting the theaters, because I need to see another Saif/Vidya movie after Parineeta pretty much right away, because they are so a new favorite movie pairing.
Also, Kajol and Aamir aren't starting Fanaa until November. Before that, Aamir will appear in Rang De Basanti which sounds patriotic and really dull. Good for you, like spinach.
There won't be any more Shahrukh movies this year, and the way his schedule goes, with Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna seemingly to be the first before he can start on the others, there probably won't be any in the first half of 2006 either. Which annoys me. Not that Don which is an actiony remake or Happy New Year will necessarily rock my world either, since I like him better as intense.
Salman's and Shilpa's flick about marriage with a really long name keeps getting delayed. I have my doubts about it ever being released. And I really hope that this time the November date for Humko Tumse Pyar Hai is set (thank you, SRK!), but I am still cranky about it as the flick should have released a year ago.
Water, a movie I've been dying to see might get held up and not premiere at the Toronto festival because of some stupid, useless lawsuit in India. That merits another primal scream.
Bhansali is being quiet about his next film, if anything, but it's going to be a cold day in hell before it will be Bajirao Mastani which he announced years ago, which I was dying for, and which then fell apart. Come on, star-crossed lovers one of whom is a warrior ruler, and who are historical? Salman swinging a sword? Would have been good.
Also, why does Esha Deol keep getting roles? I have to look at her annoying face and lack of talent regularly now. She is starring with people like Abhi now, so I am forced to watch her. Same goes for Uday. Next they will be trying to sell Tusshar, Shahid and Aftab as the "it" boys I'll have to watch.
Ram Gopal Varma lost the little bit of his brain he had left and is remaking Sholay, the ultimate Bollywood classic. Why not, earlier he bastardized Godfather. Why does he have a reputation for artistry and unusualness? Making gangster-flavored remakes has less originality than dancing in Switzerland. I have yet to see one of his movies since Rangeela which came out in 1995, which appealed to me in the least, despite his "I am the cinema savior" attitude.
Hrithik is annoying me too, lately. His two next movies are Dhoom 2 where he plays the villain, and where I'd be forced to look at Uday Chopra's blank stare and ugly face in order to enjoy Hrithik and an action sequel to Koi Mil Gaya by his daddy, entitled Krrish. Which just sounds dull and annoying and he should really make more movies. Jodha-Akbar which is the first of his movies that interests me is unlikely to be out before 2007. And even there, the idiot boy will have a mustache. Are they trying to uglify him? 'Cause it's working.
Also, what is Abhi up to? The only upcoming of his I know of is Dhoom 2 (blech, yuck!) and Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna which is unlikely to come out before the end of next year.
whine, whine, whine... I am Bolly-cranky now.
