tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14476094.post114942609453717340..comments2023-10-05T05:39:28.999+05:30Comments on A-Gyan: Fanaa*Agyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14503056769448425400noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14476094.post-1153565722751970902006-07-22T16:25:00.000+05:302006-07-22T16:25:00.000+05:30Your are Excellent. And so is your site! Keep up t...Your are Excellent. And so is your site! Keep up the good work. Bookmarked.<BR/><A HREF="http://auto_insurance.gqaz987.be/tri_state_auto_insurance.html" REL="nofollow">»</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14476094.post-1149927367808681762006-06-10T13:46:00.000+05:302006-06-10T13:46:00.000+05:30No anonymous comments on my own blogsite for me.. ...No anonymous comments on my own blogsite for me.. Dear Anon, would love it if you reveal yourself, maybe I can learn as a beginner from you (though it is hard for me to imagine or brand myself as an expert on whatever all I hold court on).<BR/><BR/>I think the expectation was not from yashraj banner, but from Aamir and the RDB-effect as I have mentioned....I will definitely write on DDLJ once..nothing regressive about it..in fact a very intestring take would have been a Kundan Shah sort of ending, where Amrish Puri doesn't let Kajol go...I agree but abt the stupidity of all Yashraj films subsequent to that, including regressive Mohabattein and Veer-Zaara...<BR/><BR/>I somehow identified with Aamir's character in Raja Hindustani more...the sheer emotional vulnerability of the man there to be taken for a ride by all....here it lays dormant because of the direction, not necessarily for the script (though would the script-writer have imagined this angle???)<BR/><BR/>the most intense romance i have seen recently is Shiney Ahuja's in Hazaar Khwaishein....and that movie still remains my favourite for the new century so far...<BR/><BR/>anyways, i loved Dil Se for its sheer music, not AR Rahman's but the way Mani Ratnam had conceptualised it..all the other angles, the romanticism, the visual effects, the performances and the actual music score flowed out of that possible...terrorism was just a political backdrop for two people's junoon for each other (more SRK's)...the similarity with Fanaa is the terrorist's fluctuation between personal love and his ideology...in Dil Se, Maneesha's ideology looks wrong because of the pan-Indian nature of terrorism (north-east, ladakh, all jumbled up)..in Fanna that bit was clear, but the entire ideology of Aamir was in a vaccuum..<BR/><BR/>anyways Dil Se flopped, and I think Fanaa is on its way to being a box-office success..the only positive out of this fact, now even married actresses with kids can pull in the crowds..maybe that's revolutionary enough.Agyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14503056769448425400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14476094.post-1149867569889662862006-06-09T21:09:00.000+05:302006-06-09T21:09:00.000+05:30I would first begin by disagreeing with the propos...I would first begin by disagreeing <BR/>with the proposition you make <BR/>about how, "expectation is the <BR/>root cause of all disappointments". This is not the <BR/>real reason for your dissapointment with Fanaa. <BR/>Remember, how you have enjoyed <BR/>some of the most awful films in <BR/>better spirit. I propose to to <BR/>suggest that your dissapointment <BR/>was a result of the really <BR/>unimaginative (or incredulous if <BR/>you choose) scripting that a Yash <BR/>Raj-Aamir Khan-Kajol film could <BR/>degenerate to. The problem is <BR/>basically to do with this whole <BR/>'beautification of love or the <BR/>myth of love', that the Yash Raj <BR/>banner has assiduously built over <BR/>the years. Yash Raj Films is now <BR/>joined by of course Dharma <BR/>Productions (of Karan Johar fame), <BR/>but to make my point, the early <BR/>Yash Raj romances too did not <BR/>fling morsels of beautiful,perfect <BR/>or everlasting love at us hapless <BR/>children then. The films I have in <BR/>mind are Kabhi Kabhi, Silsilla and <BR/>the works. I agree pristine, pure <BR/>love has been a Hindi film <BR/>trademark irrespective of banners <BR/>or directors, so I take that <BR/>alllegation against the Yash Raj <BR/>banner back. <BR/><BR/>This love bug (in the newest <BR/>incarnation) started with Yash <BR/>Chopra's,Lamhe, which we all <BR/>unreservedly admired for its <BR/>boldness. After that came the <BR/>fateful Chandni or did it come <BR/>before. Yash Chopra's early <BR/>tendency was to follow his big <BR/>unsuccessful(at the box office) <BR/>love stories with feuding families <BR/>and multi-starrers. The success of <BR/>Aditya Chopra's,"Dilwale Dulhaniya <BR/>Le Jayenge" sealed that deviant <BR/>tendency of the senior Chopra. <BR/><BR/>Love was the commodity he was <BR/>going to market and diligently <BR/>over the years. Darr in this context was a anamoly. It doesnt fit in with the pattern I outline above. So with this important piece of information, it would be <BR/>definately better to situate the <BR/>turn about with Aditya Chopra's <BR/>regressive (Western modernity <BR/>seeped in Indian tradition:value <BR/>arrogance/better than the west) <BR/>DDLJ. Yash Raj films produced <BR/>films over the years centered on <BR/>various permutations and <BR/>combinations of pristine love gone <BR/>awry with supernatural,personal,situational <BR/>and even national (Veer Zara) <BR/>temporal and spatial contexts.<BR/><BR/>Given such an imaginative preamble <BR/>that the banner imbibed post-DDLJ, <BR/>the results were soft or hard <BR/>plagiarism (Hum Tum) and trite and <BR/>retreating (Mohabbatain). The <BR/>signals emanating from the banner <BR/>were never exicting or path <BR/>breaking. To draw my huge point to <BR/>a close, what else can we expect <BR/>when love remains a dominant <BR/>variable dependent on turns in the <BR/>market and the creativity of the <BR/>respective scriptwriters with the <BR/>agenda to merely churn another and <BR/>varied love story out of their <BR/>brushes or keyboard keys! <BR/><BR/>The second point which I found <BR/>very exicting in your review was <BR/>categorising Aamir Khan's <BR/>character as 'emotional' which you <BR/>use to explain his dog like <BR/>obedience of his Nana-Jaan's <BR/>orders as his slavish reactions to <BR/>the love of his live. That explains for me both the <BR/>'terrorism' angle and the bad <BR/>decisions he keeps making. The <BR/>writers obviously were not <BR/>emphatic enough or the footage was <BR/>lost in some edit laboratory.<BR/><BR/>Kajol, I never did like her or <BR/>dislike her either. Dil Se is a <BR/>sensitive issue with me and the <BR/>intensity that Shah Rukh possessed <BR/>and exhibited in that film is <BR/>something I throughly identified <BR/>with. I would disagree with Kajol <BR/>being the girl in Dil Se, maybe <BR/>because I had this awe some crush <BR/>on Manisha Koirala, owing largely <BR/>to her origins and romanticisation <BR/>in Mani Ratnam films and not to <BR/>mention physical attributes and <BR/>her ability to speak her mind in a <BR/>industry packed with double <BR/>speaking, networked women who are <BR/>largely successful due to their <BR/>manipulations. <BR/><BR/>The comparison of Fanna and Dil Se <BR/>should start and end her in their <BR/>'terrorism' angle. Dil Se was <BR/>breathtakingly the visually most <BR/>opulent film, I have seen to date, <BR/>its images etched in my mind for <BR/>post card memories of a love as <BR/>intense and as fated. The music of <BR/>Dil Se, the flippant nature of <BR/>Shah Rukh's intense feelings, the <BR/>most beautiful way in Delhi was <BR/>captured on screen, the haunting <BR/>strains of, "Ae Ajnabi...."!<BR/><BR/>I would also love to write the <BR/>obituary of Aditya Chopra's <BR/>directorial talents!<BR/><BR/>Post Script: I hope you are not writing anonymous comments on your own blog.itineranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00764520998085530843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14476094.post-1149813255703757122006-06-09T06:04:00.000+05:302006-06-09T06:04:00.000+05:30Your website has a useful information for beginner...Your website has a useful information for beginners like me.<BR/><A HREF="http://4342.topay.info/" REL="nofollow">»</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14476094.post-1149481377903354802006-06-05T09:52:00.000+05:302006-06-05T09:52:00.000+05:30looking forward to X-men 3.. absolutely loved the ...looking forward to X-men 3.. absolutely loved the film... just so cool for comic book buffs like me! plus the woman in me gets satisfied with hugh jackman as wolverine... double yippee!!<BR/><BR/>what i think of Fanaa... well get that off Satya's review comments... cos it's ditto here......https://www.blogger.com/profile/14666991676879452204noreply@blogger.com