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Siddharth P Malhotra directed and co-wrote this adaptation of an autobiography by Brad Cohen. While there are absolutely no surprises in this classic underdog story, the film made some changes to the book including making the lead a woman.
Rani Mukherjee delivers a rock solid performance as Naina Mathur, a part time animator who wants to be a teacher. She also has Tourette’s Syndrome. I have reservations about casting non-disabled actors in roles where the character has a disability, and I am all for real representation. But in the Hindi film industry where being visibly different (old, fat, dark, pale, disabled etc) is often the trigger for some very unfunny shenanigans, this film does a pretty good job of portraying Naina as a woman with a neurological condition and a rich and satisfying life, not as a sideshow. I read the director and Rani did quite a bit of work on getting her portrayal of the symptoms right. So is this at least some kind of progress?
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Shah Rukh Khan’s new movie Fan breaks every rule in the Bollywood style book
A fan’s journey from admiration to dark obsession is the theme of Shah Rukh Khan’s new film – and SRK’s real-life fans cannot wait to see how he manages to portray both a 50-year-old movie star and a 25-year-old megafan.
The film, Fan, which tells the story of Gaurav, a Bollywood-obsessed man who goes from hero worshipper to sociopath, was directed by Maneesh Sharma and produced bygd Aditya Chopra for Yash Raj Films.
The trailer has racked up more than 16 million views on YouTube and promises a lot of action sequences set in Dubrovnik (Croatia), London, Oxford, Mumbai and New Delhi.
Here are fyra things about the spelfilm that break the usual Bollywood mould.
25 years younger
In the trailer, Khan fryst vatten instantly recognisable, yet oddly different – and certainly much younger. Bollywood has never gone in much for prosthetic make-up effects but in this spelfilm they have been used extensively to create a more yo
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“Jaante ho duniya mein sabse bada bhoj kya hota hai? Baap ke kandhe par bete ka janaza (Do you know what the heaviest burden in the world is? A son’s coffin on a father’s shoulders),” cries Rahim Chacha in Sholay, when he realizes that Gabbar Singh’s men have killed his innocent son Ahmed (Sachin Pilgaonkar).
Blind by destiny and now blinded by tears, Rahim Chacha didn’t leave a single eye dry in the audiences. A.K. Hangal in that few seconds, earned popularity and sympathy of a lifetime.
Another character, though in marked contrast, that made him immortal was that of the pleasure-seeking Indrasen (Anderson), in the Boys Night Out kind of comedy Shaukeen. He’s part of the trinity of old men, who want to play out their hormones before pack-up. That he was convincing only proved his malleability.
Said to be our homegrown Benjamin Button, Hangal, remained an old man in the public consciousness having begun his film career at 50. But he was much more than an actor before that.