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Yeah, I think Saawariya and especially D6 had her in relatively normalized looks…she looks much more “made up” here. In either avatar I’ve found her winning.
looks young nd fresh..!! nd i agree..sonam looks terrific here!! infact i might be in a minority here but on sheer looks..i think she even beats katrina kaif!! her neck altho looks a bit strange here..photoshopping may be!!
i hope sonam is around for a long time..but imraan..noooo!! with such dumb expressions..nd movies like KID-NAP nd luck..wat d f%%k..i really hope he is not around 4 too long!! neways..must say sonam is looking amazing even in d second still..nd imran is lookin like an idiot again!!
haawww!! wat do u mean wen u say anil kapoor would be d father of dis young lady??!!! i think he is very handsome nd looks so damn daper at even this age!!! yeh to anil kapoor ke saath bahut naainsaafi hai!!
fleece..ha ha..!! okk..so now its clear..his fleece is d reason y u thought dat an elegant nd beautiful lady like sonam could not be her daughter..hhmmm.. interesting..!!
on d other hand..i find him very handsome,daper,candid ,forthright,with a good sense of humor!!
p.s.chaliye..koi baat nahi..maaf kiya..!! aap sonam ko nihariye..!!
Right now she is the only one good looking traditional young Indian face (body too!) in Hindi film industry. All the Khans (except Imran) will require to add at least couple of inches to their height to pair with her and until then be just the voice in the background! Though I am skeptical about her acting skill along with Imran’s too. There is real competition betn them here..
somehow, imran khan has always failed to enthuse me (in ANY way…)
unfortunately, he seems to be realising the “minus-aamir reality” now like for eg–john matthew mathan….
i didnt think much of sonam kapoor but after watching delhi 6- found her expressive, emotive and a bit of a natural (better than expected)
Sonam is gorgeous. And I do hope she has some longevity in her career, I think she has that star quality that I find lacking in some of the current actresses, Katrina Kaif included. Imran has a lot to prove in the coming year, he’s squandered a lot of the goodwill he received with JTYJN by choosing his next films badly.
The pairing is fresh and young and is clearly the USP of the film. No doubt they look (aesthetically) good together but I can’t help but feel a certain spark missing. A spark I felt instantly with the Ranbir/Sonam pairing in Sawaariya, despite how that film turned out. But let’s see how this one fares.
waah waah..aap khao ladoo aur mujhko karela??!! dats an unfair bet..!! i will try nd fix d date with sonam nd you try nd fix me a date with..okk.. 3 options..
abhishek bachchan
robert downey jr.
robert pattinson
ab bolo shart manzoor?!
well idea..u start finding out holmes nd vampire’s numbers..coz d outcome of d bet is pretty much obvious u know..!!
nd wat i meant by saying d karela thingy was..dat d bet was unfair coz u will go on a date with d young nd pretty sonam nd i will have to go with a guy who is d age of my daddy..?! waah waah..yeh kahan ka insaaf hai my lord…
All this excitement over looking pretty in some pictures. Though Imran makes me laugh in that open shirt pick. Much like Ranbir does. Even the teaser didn’t do much for me. It’s Kjo. I guess if that’s your thing.
“i hope sonam is around for a long time..but imraan..noooo!! with such dumb expressions..nd movies like KID-NAP nd luck..wat d f%%k..”
i share your sentiments here, mansi (again!)
about imran- he has tried to emulate aamir a bit too soon.
i saw somehere he was sermonsing why actors should never endorse products they dont genuinely like and so on…
he also had plenty of gyaan to distribute on film-selection & method-acting.
obviously, this was post JTJN but pre KID-NAP (Mansi-like your hyphen between kid and nap…lol).
he does have promise but he has miles to go b4 even thinking on aamir ines…
as for sonam, she i good-lloking and appears a fresh, natural face… but seeing her interview, she appears too naive and unpolished. maybe she will improve but she does not impress me as much as she has impressed some males here–the bias however is understandable.
for eg i have long been oblivious to aishwarya’s “plastic smile” and “lack of acting skills”-these oversights do happen…
on shahid..i must say one thing..i saw him on indian idol yesterday..nd boy..has he opened up as a person..he talks well now nd has developed a gr8 sense of humor too..!! must say d break-up with kareena has had a real positive effect on him!!!!
“must say d break-up with kareena has had a real positive effect on him!!!!”
Mansi– i feel ANY sane person who has a “break-up” from the likes of kareena will enjoy a positive effect…
Kareena is a v good actress and performer but dont have much regards for the types of the kapoor sisters on the personal front.
agree that shahid comes across more focussed and poised now. shahid & his father in their upcoming film seem to be attempting a hritik-rakesh sort of coup. all the best to them.
however, the sore point with shahid ( and with ranbir and imran types) is the very obvious lack of screen presence and persona. maybe the gravitas will come with age but as of now–not to enthused with either of those….
I would agree that she has never looked better in WESTERN clothes than here (her look on that front was poor in Delhi-6). But she looked very good in a shalwar qameez in Delhi-6…
In D6 her look was predominantly of an Indian shalwar qameez girl and she was fine in that. That western look in D6 was just intentionally loud and can’t be a yard stick to judge her. This is 1st time she appears in western and looks stunning. Let’s give credit where it is due without any ambiguity!
Not sure about super talented. But look out for this girl called Anoushka (who acted in crap films – but there is some potential (more than Trisha or Sonam kapoor for sure) – I will let you know the progress after upcoming telugu film “Vedam” where she plays a “whore”. oh she’s good looking too:
As for not so great looking (if one has in mind the level of semi-porn figures like Shreya) – actress like Priya mani might be one to look out for. She got Raavan with Mani and RC with RGV (she already acted under Bharathi raja, Ameer, etc – not that I rate all these directors) Maybe minor roles, but still she must be doing something right if she got casted in both these films. Especially she has no Reliance tie-up or looks to die for, like overrated Aishwarya rai. Not that she is in Tabu, Konkana Sen level. But Priya Mani could be better than Priyanka chopra or Kareena Kapoor in acting skills if given similar chances IMO
Then there is Anjali who acted in Angaadi Theru recently. Better than most upcoming “talents” in hindi cinema. Again not one of the “sexy” looking babes by any stretch.
The problem with this country is they are all closet racists who look at skin color, the worst in the world.
Unless Karan Johar surprises me with another Wake Up Sid kind of a deal (I hated the promo, and movie stills but loved the movie), I’m not giving this a chance on big screen. Looks stale..same ol’ Bollywood spoof-movie.
Imran Khan remembers being a scrawny 11-year-old when he went to a hardware store, bought a lock and took it all apart, bit by bit, hunched over it in his bedroom. “I examined the interiors, the levers and the cogs,” he says. Today Imran Khan, like Rizwan in My Name Is Khan, can “repair almost anything”. Friends bring in their jammed phones, cameras that have gone on the blink, new laptops that need decoding, or software that appears like an alien language. Imran has always been a geek boy.
The actor says he must have got it from his father. Imran’s parents divorced when he was a toddler, but his dad Anil Pal is an IITian who worked in Silicon Valley, first with Yahoo and is now with DVD giant Netflix. “I think I’ve always been in that space biologically,” says Imran, referring to his ‘geekness’. But since his mother Nuzhat Khan belongs to one of Bollywood’s old film families, Imran inherited those genes too, investing them in a movie career. You glimpse a weird mix of the two when Imran doles out Apple product advice on Twitter to yesteryear star and techie Shammi Kapoor, who did a string of movies like Teesri Manzil with Imran’s late grandfather, producer-director Nasir Husain.
Imran himself made his debut with the blockbuster romance Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na in 2008. He followed it up with the duds Kidnap and Luck. The actor is back in the romantic saddle with the Karan Johar production I Hate Luv Storys (releasing 2 July), where he teams up with Sonam Kapoor. Afterward, there is Break Ke Baad with Deepika Padukone. Meanwhile his “edgy heist” film Delhi Belly, produced by his superstar uncle Aamir Khan, is ready but needs the green light from his meticulous Aamir “mamu”.
“I still feel very much like the outsider. The conversation topics among film industry people range from box office figures to gossip—who is doing what, who did how much, and who is doing whom,” says Imran. The actor, on the other hand, is obsessed with trivia. He will shovel facts and pop culture details at you with every encounter. Imran admits he would go bananas if he didn’t have the answer to a question, any question.
This interview happens over the phone because Imran is stuck in Mauritius, shooting Break Ke Baad. He admits the island is paradise-like, but his tone sounds heartily sick. There’s nothing to do after 7 pm as everything shuts down, the hotel cuisine is drab, he’s been battling phone and internet issues, and he’s missing family and friends. What’s more, there are no cattle in Mauritius, so the only milk you get is a powdered, pre-constituted substance that “tastes terrible”. “There are rows and rows of sugarcane fields, but the people here will give you a strange look if you ask for a glass of ganne (sugarcane) ka juice,” he says.
Imran then is happily diverted into talking about things he loves—the old TV show Kung Fu with Kill Bill star David Carradine, and a complicated, technical explanation on what allows Formula 1 cars to climb and drive along the walls of tunnels. He’s just finished googling a dwindling tribe in the North Sentinel Island of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that resists contact with other people and remains untouched by civilisation. “I read about them in an article that listed how real life resembles the TV series Lost,” says Imran, “The island falls under the Indian Government, yet we don’t know their language, and they attack helicopters that try landing with bows and arrows. The island is home to the last untouched tribe in the world.”
When our conversation turns to his age, Imran refers to the ‘27 club’, the group of musicians like Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones and Kurt Cobain, who died at 27. It’s morbid, but Imran is matter-of-fact.
The actor’s curious mind probably stems from his unusual schooling. Imran changed nearly seven schools, including a boarding school in Ooty, and later, high school in America. He was always a geek and insists that if trivia were a subject back then, he would have aced it. “In fact, I possess more knowledge than a lot of my contemporaries. There are people older than me and who did pretty well in school, yet I understand quite a bit of Biology, Physics, Chemistry. How this works, why is this there, the year that different Hindi movies were made, who shot a particular Hollywood movie, what are the secret meanings to the lyrics of American Pie, what are the historical references in Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire… I look up everything. I want to imbibe what I can,” he says.
The actor’s sprawling family bungalow in Mumbai’s Pali Hill reflects his eclectic taste. He has a black and white poster of James Dean in the living room, an actor the star is fascinated with, again because he died young. “It’s about the potential he had, something about the promise of an unfulfilled life. If you see East Of Eden, you’ll see all the other actors are doing the classic style of acting, but James Dean is just all torn up in angst,” he says.
Imran’s bedroom is filled with superhero memorabilia, ties and the Converse keds he loves collecting. A prized possession is an original Batman comic issue 1 that he has sealed in plastic and mounted. “I found it for Rs 25 off Linking Road,” he says. He has never checked the comic’s real worth because he never wants to sell it, but an internet search shows that it could fetch close to $100,000 today.
The actor is the unconventional sort, but mixed up in conventional love stories. He’s had an eight-year relationship with girlfriend Avantika Malik, and recently got engaged, admitting that it’s tricky to pinpoint what keeps a relationship going. “You figure these things out yourself. There will be stuff about your partner that will infuriate you. Yet, in the larger picture, it doesn’t matter. I read recently about how the concept of true love, the perfect person, has been created by classic Hollywood rom coms. They build such unrealistic expectations that you’re in shock when you discover your boyfriend isn’t George Clooney. I like the love story in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Real love can be a pain in the ass, but that’s okay,” says Imran.
His fiancé Avantika argues with Imran over how his obsession with trivia makes him forget real people, even some who have come home for dinner. “I find it difficult to recognise people. On the flip side, though, I will know the back story of every Star Wars character created. I’m a Star Wars purist who rejects Episode 1, 2, 3, the prequels. They were just tragic,” says Imran. Ah, Star Wars… unquestionably geekish.
May 9, 2010 at 11:02 PM
May 10, 2010 at 9:00 AM
Obviously very stagey shot, but Sonam looks terrific here.
May 10, 2010 at 9:02 AM
Couldn’t recognize Sonam at all! I was wondering who it was! I did like whoever it was!
May 10, 2010 at 9:04 AM
Yeah, I think Saawariya and especially D6 had her in relatively normalized looks…she looks much more “made up” here. In either avatar I’ve found her winning.
May 10, 2010 at 10:11 AM
looks young nd fresh..!! nd i agree..sonam looks terrific here!! infact i might be in a minority here but on sheer looks..i think she even beats katrina kaif!! her neck altho looks a bit strange here..photoshopping may be!!
May 10, 2010 at 10:31 AM
Sonam’s got the best sense of style in Bollywood. Always presentable.
May 12, 2010 at 1:25 AM
I agree with mansi….She looks best by a mile…
May 12, 2010 at 9:12 AM
I think both Imraan and Sonam will be around a long time, even if they dont give bloackbusters.
May 12, 2010 at 10:42 AM
i hope sonam is around for a long time..but imraan..noooo!! with such dumb expressions..nd movies like KID-NAP nd luck..wat d f%%k..i really hope he is not around 4 too long!! neways..must say sonam is looking amazing even in d second still..nd imran is lookin like an idiot again!!
May 12, 2010 at 4:06 PM
one of the stills is straight a spoof on yash chopra and mohabattein, another one is where bhanja is doing mamu’s ghajini.
May 12, 2010 at 4:56 PM
i’m really looking forward to this!!
May 12, 2010 at 4:58 PM
Sonam looks gorgeous in the sari. who would’ve thought anil kapoor could be father to such an elegant and striking young woman?
May 12, 2010 at 5:03 PM
haawww!! wat do u mean wen u say anil kapoor would be d father of dis young lady??!!! i think he is very handsome nd looks so damn daper at even this age!!! yeh to anil kapoor ke saath bahut naainsaafi hai!!
May 12, 2010 at 5:05 PM
I guess both father and daughter will be happy: mard Sonam ki tareef kar rahe hain; aur ladkiyan Anil ki tareef kar rahee hain…
May 12, 2010 at 5:05 PM
PS — just for the “haaaaw” I was able to elicit from you Mansiji, mera comment saphal raha
May 12, 2010 at 5:15 PM
but you still didn’t explain dat anil kapoor ke baare mein aise shabd kyun?? u made him sound in a very bad light actually!!
May 12, 2010 at 5:16 PM
I actually consider him, not unattractive, but very inelegant. He seems a bit crude.
Now don’t shoot me!
May 13, 2010 at 10:33 AM
“but you still didn’t explain dat anil kapoor ke baare mein aise shabd kyun?? u made him sound in a very bad light actually!!”
that is because when he says Anil Kapoor – he is visualizing him bare-chested
and that “hairy” vision can make anyone think like that 
May 13, 2010 at 10:35 AM
I think ideaunique has read my mind. As a nine year-old I was traumatized by the Anil/Dimple scene in the stable in Jaanbaaz
May 13, 2010 at 10:43 AM
EEWW..!! ND WAT WERE YOU DOING CONCENTRATING ON ANIL..??!! ALL UR ENERGIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHANNELISED TOWARDS DIMPLE..
May 13, 2010 at 10:46 AM
Dimple was barely visible under the, um, fleece.
May 13, 2010 at 11:11 AM
LOL!!!
May 13, 2010 at 11:21 AM
ROFL
May 13, 2010 at 11:25 AM
fleece..ha ha..!! okk..so now its clear..his fleece is d reason y u thought dat an elegant nd beautiful lady like sonam could not be her daughter..hhmmm.. interesting..!!
May 12, 2010 at 5:23 PM
on d other hand..i find him very handsome,daper,candid ,forthright,with a good sense of humor!!
p.s.chaliye..koi baat nahi..maaf kiya..!! aap sonam ko nihariye..!!
May 12, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Right now she is the only one good looking traditional young Indian face (body too!) in Hindi film industry. All the Khans (except Imran) will require to add at least couple of inches to their height to pair with her and until then be just the voice in the background! Though I am skeptical about her acting skill along with Imran’s too. There is real competition betn them here..
May 13, 2010 at 5:04 PM
What happens deepika – she looks very indian – her face.
May 12, 2010 at 7:20 PM
somehow, imran khan has always failed to enthuse me (in ANY way…)
unfortunately, he seems to be realising the “minus-aamir reality” now like for eg–john matthew mathan….
i didnt think much of sonam kapoor but after watching delhi 6- found her expressive, emotive and a bit of a natural (better than expected)
May 13, 2010 at 8:30 AM
Sonam is gorgeous. And I do hope she has some longevity in her career, I think she has that star quality that I find lacking in some of the current actresses, Katrina Kaif included. Imran has a lot to prove in the coming year, he’s squandered a lot of the goodwill he received with JTYJN by choosing his next films badly.
The pairing is fresh and young and is clearly the USP of the film. No doubt they look (aesthetically) good together but I can’t help but feel a certain spark missing. A spark I felt instantly with the Ranbir/Sonam pairing in Sawaariya, despite how that film turned out. But let’s see how this one fares.
May 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM
i think this film will be QSQT, KKHH, KNPH kind of deal for Imraan/Sonam…..
May 13, 2010 at 10:53 AM
ha ha ha..good joke idea!!!
May 13, 2010 at 11:22 AM
but that’s how all my predictions have been received so far – Ghajini, 3i…..so….;-)
May 13, 2010 at 12:58 PM
with aamir..its okk..to make predictions like dat..!! with imraan..its so not OK!!!
May 13, 2010 at 1:03 PM
let us c – if i win, u will fix a date with Sonam for me and if u win – we can try to fix your date with – anil kapoor?
May 13, 2010 at 1:21 PM
waah waah..aap khao ladoo aur mujhko karela??!! dats an unfair bet..!! i will try nd fix d date with sonam nd you try nd fix me a date with..okk.. 3 options..
abhishek bachchan
robert downey jr.
robert pattinson
ab bolo shart manzoor?!
May 13, 2010 at 11:52 PM
alright – we can make u date with holms and the vampire
May 14, 2010 at 12:41 AM
Mansiji: mein ne bhi anil kapoor ko karela nahin kaha, aap to mujh se bhi do haath aage nikleen…
May 14, 2010 at 1:52 AM
LOL Q
Mansi, if Anil = Karela
Sonam = Laddu
I wonder what is Anil’s wife Sunita = ?
May 14, 2010 at 3:53 AM
well idea..u start finding out holmes nd vampire’s numbers..coz d outcome of d bet is pretty much obvious u know..!!
nd wat i meant by saying d karela thingy was..dat d bet was unfair coz u will go on a date with d young nd pretty sonam nd i will have to go with a guy who is d age of my daddy..?! waah waah..yeh kahan ka insaaf hai my lord…
May 13, 2010 at 10:43 AM
All this excitement over looking pretty in some pictures. Though Imran makes me laugh in that open shirt pick. Much like Ranbir does. Even the teaser didn’t do much for me. It’s Kjo. I guess if that’s your thing.
May 13, 2010 at 3:07 PM
“i hope sonam is around for a long time..but imraan..noooo!! with such dumb expressions..nd movies like KID-NAP nd luck..wat d f%%k..”
i share your sentiments here, mansi (again!)
about imran- he has tried to emulate aamir a bit too soon.
i saw somehere he was sermonsing why actors should never endorse products they dont genuinely like and so on…
he also had plenty of gyaan to distribute on film-selection & method-acting.
obviously, this was post JTJN but pre KID-NAP (Mansi-like your hyphen between kid and nap…lol).
he does have promise but he has miles to go b4 even thinking on aamir ines…
as for sonam, she i good-lloking and appears a fresh, natural face… but seeing her interview, she appears too naive and unpolished. maybe she will improve but she does not impress me as much as she has impressed some males here–the bias however is understandable.
for eg i have long been oblivious to aishwarya’s “plastic smile” and “lack of acting skills”-these oversights do happen…
May 14, 2010 at 2:24 AM
Of all the competition, Ranbir would be most worried about Imran in a pure rom com movies.
- Abhay is totally on a different path.
- Shahid has been struggling for so long and not even broken the 50 cr nett mark.
- Neil Mukesh is unconventional, and does not quite have the female following of a Ranbir or even Imran.
Plus Imran has the backing of one of the most powerful person in bollywood atm, his Mammu.
The rest, less said the better.
May 14, 2010 at 3:55 AM
on shahid..i must say one thing..i saw him on indian idol yesterday..nd boy..has he opened up as a person..he talks well now nd has developed a gr8 sense of humor too..!! must say d break-up with kareena has had a real positive effect on him!!!!
May 17, 2010 at 2:00 AM
Ranbir is far ahead of imran jeevcy.
May 15, 2010 at 8:38 AM
“must say d break-up with kareena has had a real positive effect on him!!!!”
Mansi– i feel ANY sane person who has a “break-up” from the likes of kareena will enjoy a positive effect…
Kareena is a v good actress and performer but dont have much regards for the types of the kapoor sisters on the personal front.
agree that shahid comes across more focussed and poised now. shahid & his father in their upcoming film seem to be attempting a hritik-rakesh sort of coup. all the best to them.
however, the sore point with shahid ( and with ranbir and imran types) is the very obvious lack of screen presence and persona. maybe the gravitas will come with age but as of now–not to enthused with either of those….
May 16, 2010 at 9:38 PM
Sonam looks quite striking here..
May 16, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Yep. I’m falling a bit!
May 16, 2010 at 10:01 PM
She has a good smile, but otherwise looks fairly pedestrian
May 17, 2010 at 6:10 PM
“Yep. I’m falling a bit!”GF—control, yaar!
May 19, 2010 at 11:28 AM
Don’t think Sonam has ever looked better than here..
May 19, 2010 at 11:36 AM
I would agree that she has never looked better in WESTERN clothes than here (her look on that front was poor in Delhi-6). But she looked very good in a shalwar qameez in Delhi-6…
May 21, 2010 at 7:42 AM
In D6 her look was predominantly of an Indian shalwar qameez girl and she was fine in that. That western look in D6 was just intentionally loud and can’t be a yard stick to judge her. This is 1st time she appears in western and looks stunning. Let’s give credit where it is due without any ambiguity!
May 21, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Ok boss, you convinced me.
May 21, 2010 at 9:33 AM
I must admit that so far the movie stills just looks like a fashion parade and instead of actors they all look like models.
May 21, 2010 at 12:28 PM
If Imran khan and Sonam Kapoor are your upcoming “talents”, you know the situation is really really bad.
May 21, 2010 at 1:41 PM
ha ha..good one.!!.seriously man..when will we see ppl who r actually good looking(dats subjective) as well as super talented??!!
May 21, 2010 at 2:13 PM
Not sure about super talented. But look out for this girl called Anoushka (who acted in crap films – but there is some potential (more than Trisha or Sonam kapoor for sure) – I will let you know the progress after upcoming telugu film “Vedam” where she plays a “whore”. oh she’s good looking too:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_wY5WzHqjpLM/S_UmZgd8iFI/AAAAAAAAATk/Nw6ltw8Ocu4/Anushka2.jpg
As for not so great looking (if one has in mind the level of semi-porn figures like Shreya) – actress like Priya mani might be one to look out for. She got Raavan with Mani and RC with RGV (she already acted under Bharathi raja, Ameer, etc – not that I rate all these directors) Maybe minor roles, but still she must be doing something right if she got casted in both these films. Especially she has no Reliance tie-up or looks to die for, like overrated Aishwarya rai. Not that she is in Tabu, Konkana Sen level. But Priya Mani could be better than Priyanka chopra or Kareena Kapoor in acting skills if given similar chances IMO
Then there is Anjali who acted in Angaadi Theru recently. Better than most upcoming “talents” in hindi cinema. Again not one of the “sexy” looking babes by any stretch.
The problem with this country is they are all closet racists who look at skin color, the worst in the world.
May 21, 2010 at 2:19 PM
Dude, you need to live up to your screen name
May 21, 2010 at 2:19 PM
LOL!
May 21, 2010 at 2:25 PM
I hate people who use “Dude” unless it’s coming from a wink-wink Big Lebowski fan..
May 21, 2010 at 2:29 PM
Do you also hate Luv Storys?
May 21, 2010 at 2:32 PM
Are you trying to be clever, “Dude”
May 21, 2010 at 2:19 PM
“if one has in mind the level of semi-porn figures like Shreya”
aren’t you getting a little carried away?! But I like Shreya so my secret is out.
Anushka is in Singam. She’s done a number of other films in multiple Southern languages. And she was of course in Arundhati.
May 21, 2010 at 2:29 PM
Then I think I will watch “Singam”
in Sun TV..
May 22, 2010 at 12:09 PM
this looks cool from the one trailer that i watched.
Kjo need to direct such light hearted films rather than going for something which he’s not capable of
May 23, 2010 at 3:57 PM
What is so great looking about this movie?
Unless Karan Johar surprises me with another Wake Up Sid kind of a deal (I hated the promo, and movie stills but loved the movie), I’m not giving this a chance on big screen. Looks stale..same ol’ Bollywood spoof-movie.
May 24, 2010 at 2:57 AM
where was sonam uptill now ??? love the pics.. satyam u make a very good morning
June 29, 2010 at 10:54 AM
Imran the Geek: Open Magazine Intv
Imran Khan remembers being a scrawny 11-year-old when he went to a hardware store, bought a lock and took it all apart, bit by bit, hunched over it in his bedroom. “I examined the interiors, the levers and the cogs,” he says. Today Imran Khan, like Rizwan in My Name Is Khan, can “repair almost anything”. Friends bring in their jammed phones, cameras that have gone on the blink, new laptops that need decoding, or software that appears like an alien language. Imran has always been a geek boy.
The actor says he must have got it from his father. Imran’s parents divorced when he was a toddler, but his dad Anil Pal is an IITian who worked in Silicon Valley, first with Yahoo and is now with DVD giant Netflix. “I think I’ve always been in that space biologically,” says Imran, referring to his ‘geekness’. But since his mother Nuzhat Khan belongs to one of Bollywood’s old film families, Imran inherited those genes too, investing them in a movie career. You glimpse a weird mix of the two when Imran doles out Apple product advice on Twitter to yesteryear star and techie Shammi Kapoor, who did a string of movies like Teesri Manzil with Imran’s late grandfather, producer-director Nasir Husain.
Imran himself made his debut with the blockbuster romance Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na in 2008. He followed it up with the duds Kidnap and Luck. The actor is back in the romantic saddle with the Karan Johar production I Hate Luv Storys (releasing 2 July), where he teams up with Sonam Kapoor. Afterward, there is Break Ke Baad with Deepika Padukone. Meanwhile his “edgy heist” film Delhi Belly, produced by his superstar uncle Aamir Khan, is ready but needs the green light from his meticulous Aamir “mamu”.
“I still feel very much like the outsider. The conversation topics among film industry people range from box office figures to gossip—who is doing what, who did how much, and who is doing whom,” says Imran. The actor, on the other hand, is obsessed with trivia. He will shovel facts and pop culture details at you with every encounter. Imran admits he would go bananas if he didn’t have the answer to a question, any question.
This interview happens over the phone because Imran is stuck in Mauritius, shooting Break Ke Baad. He admits the island is paradise-like, but his tone sounds heartily sick. There’s nothing to do after 7 pm as everything shuts down, the hotel cuisine is drab, he’s been battling phone and internet issues, and he’s missing family and friends. What’s more, there are no cattle in Mauritius, so the only milk you get is a powdered, pre-constituted substance that “tastes terrible”. “There are rows and rows of sugarcane fields, but the people here will give you a strange look if you ask for a glass of ganne (sugarcane) ka juice,” he says.
Imran then is happily diverted into talking about things he loves—the old TV show Kung Fu with Kill Bill star David Carradine, and a complicated, technical explanation on what allows Formula 1 cars to climb and drive along the walls of tunnels. He’s just finished googling a dwindling tribe in the North Sentinel Island of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that resists contact with other people and remains untouched by civilisation. “I read about them in an article that listed how real life resembles the TV series Lost,” says Imran, “The island falls under the Indian Government, yet we don’t know their language, and they attack helicopters that try landing with bows and arrows. The island is home to the last untouched tribe in the world.”
When our conversation turns to his age, Imran refers to the ‘27 club’, the group of musicians like Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones and Kurt Cobain, who died at 27. It’s morbid, but Imran is matter-of-fact.
The actor’s curious mind probably stems from his unusual schooling. Imran changed nearly seven schools, including a boarding school in Ooty, and later, high school in America. He was always a geek and insists that if trivia were a subject back then, he would have aced it. “In fact, I possess more knowledge than a lot of my contemporaries. There are people older than me and who did pretty well in school, yet I understand quite a bit of Biology, Physics, Chemistry. How this works, why is this there, the year that different Hindi movies were made, who shot a particular Hollywood movie, what are the secret meanings to the lyrics of American Pie, what are the historical references in Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire… I look up everything. I want to imbibe what I can,” he says.
The actor’s sprawling family bungalow in Mumbai’s Pali Hill reflects his eclectic taste. He has a black and white poster of James Dean in the living room, an actor the star is fascinated with, again because he died young. “It’s about the potential he had, something about the promise of an unfulfilled life. If you see East Of Eden, you’ll see all the other actors are doing the classic style of acting, but James Dean is just all torn up in angst,” he says.
Imran’s bedroom is filled with superhero memorabilia, ties and the Converse keds he loves collecting. A prized possession is an original Batman comic issue 1 that he has sealed in plastic and mounted. “I found it for Rs 25 off Linking Road,” he says. He has never checked the comic’s real worth because he never wants to sell it, but an internet search shows that it could fetch close to $100,000 today.
The actor is the unconventional sort, but mixed up in conventional love stories. He’s had an eight-year relationship with girlfriend Avantika Malik, and recently got engaged, admitting that it’s tricky to pinpoint what keeps a relationship going. “You figure these things out yourself. There will be stuff about your partner that will infuriate you. Yet, in the larger picture, it doesn’t matter. I read recently about how the concept of true love, the perfect person, has been created by classic Hollywood rom coms. They build such unrealistic expectations that you’re in shock when you discover your boyfriend isn’t George Clooney. I like the love story in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Real love can be a pain in the ass, but that’s okay,” says Imran.
His fiancé Avantika argues with Imran over how his obsession with trivia makes him forget real people, even some who have come home for dinner. “I find it difficult to recognise people. On the flip side, though, I will know the back story of every Star Wars character created. I’m a Star Wars purist who rejects Episode 1, 2, 3, the prequels. They were just tragic,” says Imran. Ah, Star Wars… unquestionably geekish.
http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/art-culture/imran-the-geek
July 1, 2010 at 8:20 AM
Taran’s review:
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/review/14168/index.html
July 1, 2010 at 9:14 AM
3.5 stars!! hmmm.. why m i not surprised??!!
July 1, 2010 at 9:40 AM
This will be a hit because of low budjet, multiplex friendly and KJo’s acts
July 1, 2010 at 9:42 AM
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/trade/releasedates/index_in.html
Guzaarish and Action replay gets released Nov5, Nov19.
not good idea.
Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey Dec3
July 1, 2010 at 10:38 AM
not just this Patiala House and Harry Potter release the same day as Guzarish. This is a crazy release schedule. Then they wonder why there are flops!
July 1, 2010 at 9:13 PM
Saw IHLS, Below Average timepass, will be surprised if this one trends well.