Musings of the Obsessive Kind

Guess which movie I am watching this week? It's Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori's Kites.

Trailer:



OH YES. It looks like they took all the good parts of Dhoom 2 (i.e. Hrithik as morally ambiguous gorgeous guy madly in love) and left out the rest. Thank you already, TPTB!

myran_nora says it's good.

Spoil me and DIE (yes, it's a rare event where I want to be unspoiled).

Bwahahaha. A scene from the upcoming Kites with Hrithik and Barbara Mori. It's like a cheesy romance novel come to life. I am going to LOVE it!!!

(Also, is it just me or does his sixpack have a sixpack?)

I repeat - bwaaaaaaaa.

ETA: Found a trailer. It's even better!



Seriously Hrithik, never change pls!

Bwahahaha. A scene from the upcoming Kites with Hrithik and Barbara Mori. It's like a cheesy romance novel come to life. I am going to LOVE it!!!

(Also, is it just me or does his sixpack have a sixpack?)

I repeat - bwaaaaaaaa.

ETA: Found a trailer. It's even better!



Seriously Hrithik, never change pls!

A-hem.



No married father of two should look this hot.

Is anyone else really excited for the upcoming Hrithik Roshan/Barbara Mori flick Kites?

I have always wanted to see Hrithik in an intense love story (nope, he's never done one). Plus, he plays a dance instructor so how could you lose?



Also, I have extra curiousity because of all those Hrithik/Barbara tabloid rumors. Not like I'd be able to tell anything from their on-screen chemistry, but whatever...

Also, Sanjay Leela Bhansali is still going full steam with his plan for Hrithik/Aishwarya Rai movie. It has a title and filming date and everything. And is supposed to be an intense romance. Mmmm. YES.

I defy you to watch Dhoom 2 and not to emerge in a complete hormonal frenzy.



Ostensibly, the plot follows the adventures of a tough cop (Abhishek Bachchan) and his goofy sidekick (Uday Chopra) who are trying to catch a super-thief (Hrithik Roshan). Or at least that is the way it was supposed to go at the planning stage, I think. But somehow between planning and filming things turned inside out, if for no other reason that they signed up Hrithik Roshan to play the super-thief. Any present-day (i.e. post Koi Mil Gaya) director who has Hrithik in a movie and doesn't center it around him is possibly insane and probably perversely against earning money. Not to mention that Hrithik is the only "younger" Bollywood actor I can see who has that ineffable something associated with star power: when he is on screen you just want to look at him and no one else. Sorry, Abhishek Bachchan, I love you and all, but when it comes to star wattage, you lose!



Anyway, instead of what was probably the original outline, D2 became about the awesome yet woobieish super-thief Aryan (Hrithik has never looked hotter in his life. When I first saw him on the screen in D2 I literally gasped), his quest to evade the rather dour and irritating cop, his clever plans to steal various artworks, and (best of all, for me) his love affair with a starting-out fellow thief, the brash Sunehri (Aishwarya Rai). In fact, the movie-makers nailed the coffin for anyone becoming interested in the good guys by casting the Hrithik/Aish combo. Arguably the most beautiful woman in Bollywood, Aishwarya is also one of the very few women in BW who can keep up with Hrithik on the dance floor. Even more amazingly, Aishwarya who has never had much chemistry with her co-stars simply sizzled with Hrithik. Just check out all the dozens of Hrithik/Aishwarya vids on youtube! Personally I find RPFing them icky because both are married to other people (Aishwarya is married to Abhishek Bachchan, amusingly enough) and Hrithik is a father of two, as well, but...I guess it means the chemistry worked.



Anyway, I bring you some awesome D2 caps. The plot is typical silliness but I swear, you won't care...not with the hotness and the chemistry and bit a dysfunctional OTP. Cap quality not as good as I wish because quality of source isn't as good as my DVD. Hotness still shows.

( Their love is so spiritual. If by spiritual you mean full of sex. Not spoilery )

Hrithik/Aishwarya became one of my top Bollywood on-screen couples after D2, and Jodhaa-Akbar proved their chemistry wasn't a fluke. Now they are going to co-star in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's next, and seeing that SLB (Devdas, Saawariya) is my favorite Bollywood director, and nobody can portray love the way he does? Oh...it's my dream come true!

This is a cool Hrithik/Aish D2 vid:

I defy you to watch Dhoom 2 and not to emerge in a complete hormonal frenzy.



Ostensibly, the plot follows the adventures of a tough cop (Abhishek Bachchan) and his goofy sidekick (Uday Chopra) who are trying to catch a super-thief (Hrithik Roshan). Or at least that is the way it was supposed to go at the planning stage, I think. But somehow between planning and filming things turned inside out, if for no other reason that they signed up Hrithik Roshan to play the super-thief. Any present-day (i.e. post Koi Mil Gaya) director who has Hrithik in a movie and doesn't center it around him is possibly insane and probably perversely against earning money. Not to mention that Hrithik is the only "younger" Bollywood actor I can see who has that ineffable something associated with star power: when he is on screen you just want to look at him and no one else. Sorry, Abhishek Bachchan, I love you and all, but when it comes to star wattage, you lose!



Anyway, instead of what was probably the original outline, D2 became about the awesome yet woobieish super-thief Aryan (Hrithik has never looked hotter in his life. When I first saw him on the screen in D2 I literally gasped), his quest to evade the rather dour and irritating cop, his clever plans to steal various artworks, and (best of all, for me) his love affair with a starting-out fellow thief, the brash Sunehri (Aishwarya Rai). In fact, the movie-makers nailed the coffin for anyone becoming interested in the good guys by casting the Hrithik/Aish combo. Arguably the most beautiful woman in Bollywood, Aishwarya is also one of the very few women in BW who can keep up with Hrithik on the dance floor. Even more amazingly, Aishwarya who has never had much chemistry with her co-stars simply sizzled with Hrithik. Just check out all the dozens of Hrithik/Aishwarya vids on youtube! Personally I find RPFing them icky because both are married to other people (Aishwarya is married to Abhishek Bachchan, amusingly enough) and Hrithik is a father of two, as well, but...I guess it means the chemistry worked.



Anyway, I bring you some awesome D2 caps. The plot is typical silliness but I swear, you won't care...not with the hotness and the chemistry and bit a dysfunctional OTP. Cap quality not as good as I wish because quality of source isn't as good as my DVD. Hotness still shows.

( Their love is so spiritual. If by spiritual you mean full of sex. Not spoilery )

Hrithik/Aishwarya became one of my top Bollywood on-screen couples after D2, and Jodhaa-Akbar proved their chemistry wasn't a fluke. Now they are going to co-star in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's next, and seeing that SLB (Devdas, Saawariya) is my favorite Bollywood director, and nobody can portray love the way he does? Oh...it's my dream come true!

This is a cool Hrithik/Aish D2 vid:

One of these days, there should be a movie which is nothing but three hours of Hrithik dancing.

Here he is in a promo for Krrazy 4 (he is not a movie, it's a gimmick thing):



Man, he has no bones in his body.

Check him out in 'dhoom again' song in Dhoom 2:

Suppose you are a Princess, married off by your family to a man of different culture, religion and Kingdom. Man you've never met before the betrothal. Sad? Perhaps. Or maybe not, seeing that the man you marry is Emperor Akbar, as portrayed by one of the hottest actors ever, Hrithik Roshan.

Here is my (shamelessly) favorite scene from the movie. Jodhaa (Aishwarya Rai), newly married, and still rather a stranger to her husband, whom she's seen only a handful of times, and whose marriage is still unconsummated, spies on her husband training with a sword but sans a shirt. I could go on all post-modern and feministy and talk about how I like the reversal of the male gaze image, especially in such a male-dominated society as the Mughals, but who am I kidding? Aishwarya is beautiful, the chemistry is crazy, the sword is shiny, and Hrithik is beyond hot.



( Jodhaa and Akbar swordfight and making out scenes )

Suppose you are a Princess, married off by your family to a man of different culture, religion and Kingdom. Man you've never met before the betrothal. Sad? Perhaps. Or maybe not, seeing that the man you marry is Emperor Akbar, as portrayed by one of the hottest actors ever, Hrithik Roshan.

Here is my (shamelessly) favorite scene from the movie. Jodhaa (Aishwarya Rai), newly married, and still rather a stranger to her husband, whom she's seen only a handful of times, and whose marriage is still unconsummated, spies on her husband training with a sword but sans a shirt. I could go on all post-modern and feministy and talk about how I like the reversal of the male gaze image, especially in such a male-dominated society as the Mughals, but who am I kidding? Aishwarya is beautiful, the chemistry is crazy, the sword is shiny, and Hrithik is beyond hot.



( Jodhaa and Akbar swordfight and making out scenes )

We've just gotten back from Jodhaa Akbar, the three-and-a-half hour epic Cecil B. DeMille only dreamed he could make.

Teaser:



We got battle elephants, giant crowds of extras, some smouldering chemistry, and the sexiest swordfight ever.

( Spoilery thoughts )