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with that look, i am surprised any parent would allow their kids to be with hrithik leave aside train months for iit entrance. he looks more like a terrorist or a paedophile …
No point in editing some bitter facts of life. Guyz at your age should should be editing/reviewing ‘content’, not ‘language’ – Satyam/Munna.
Your excuse of ‘liberalism’ is sadly no more than plain laziness when it comes to moderation/review of content. And no amount of essays or links you provide can change that.
Also the tagline that you kindly edited was mentioned as specific to the lead actor here. I was not generalizing genetics as such that anyone take offense! You really have any regards for these baap-beta fraudsters? If u edit my taunts to naveen, thats ok. But this is not acceptable.
HR is definitely much better than lot of actors of his generation – can still pull-off a solo-hero BO hit any day. He has 3 hundred crores BO projects in hand now – Super30, Krish4 and YRF’s next with Tiger – good and sensible choices.
His BO draw has never been in question, but he has one of the worst instances of the sort of self-loathing that characterizes so many (in the culture at large, but especially in B’wood): obsessed with H’woody genres, to the point where he and his dad seemed to think that even a super-hero film must be spoken about as if it were some kind of masterpiece; and completely unable to think outside of that sort of derivative mindset (Kites?! Really?!). He’s made such terrible choices that he has become irrelevant to any kind of box-office race, but neither has he left any memorable body of work. Part of the issue is that he emerged as a “perfect product”, and had nowhere to go/grow from there: i.e. everything that was excellent in Kaho Na Pyar Hai has never been bettered by him in nearly two decades (I remember predicting then that he would never be better than in that film; time has borne that one out), and if anything, when he tries “different” roles he seems weirder and weirder. I really can’t think of a greater squandering of box office strength in recent decades — he’s probably single-handedly responsible for extending the careers of the generation of stars who preceded him, each of whom should be buying him birthday drinks every year.
He is a pathetic actor and plain delusional about himself – I think he has worst self-assessment skills among celebrities. Anand Kumar will be puking all over his place looking at this first look poster.
Delusion is one of the national pastimes. One sees it in many walks of life — but even by those standards the Roshans were in a class by themselves (I remember Rakesh Roshan saying before Krrish’s release that the SFX was on par with Hollywood — this in an era when even a Bhojpuri audience had seen H’wood superhero flicks like Spider-Man!); I mean even cretinous imbecility has to have some limit. And then I remember some of the POST-release film reviews, that not only said pretty much the same thing, but also praised the acting to the skies etc. Hearkens back to Satyam’s comment the other day about the absence of a cinematic culture — I like superhero films as much as the next person (although H’wood’s lazy overdose of this genre is sickening, and is pretty much destroying popular American cinema), but only our reviewers seem to think that “Days of Heaven” and “Dr. Strange” merit the same critical apparatus…
Its not just Krrish, Roshans said the same thing during KMG release too regarding Spielberg-ish vfx and superlative acting! Its a pattern they keep repeating. On top of that, all the fraud numbers they keep reporting for every release. Its sickening and disgusting – not only for the audience but also within the industry itself.
Anyways, I will anyday take Tiger over anything hritik or his dad has ever done in their sad lives.
One note of disagreement: I actually liked Rakesh Roshan in those “smallish” films of the 70s, he was quite a likeable presence. But yeah at their respective bests I will take the music composing members of this family over the others!!!
Remaking is not a problem per se (be it hollywood blockbusters or auteur films from other mature film industries that our so-called ‘indian auteurs’ frequently copy from), provided you have acquired the rights legally. Problem is making silly copies without understanding context and then claiming it is some sort of great work. That is delusional.
I think he was quite good in the first half of ZNMD. The smugness, the arrogance that was part of his character worked as a great contrast to his otherwise (off-screen & on-screen) clean image. It reminded me of Tom Cruise in Magnolia.
Of course, since it was a Hindi film, the character had to undergo a change of heart. And ruin everything that was interesting about the character.
But for that brief period, he displayed some nice acting chops.
For Q – why so harsh on HR? it is his dad who has been blowing all the trumpets….what he cud not do as an actor, he is imagining that HR has and will do it – to be fair to HR, he still has tremendous fan-base and has done reasonably well compared to Abhi, Vivek and all….and yeah! he is not a great actor – so what? ppl love him – Jeetendra, Shashi Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar did some amazing films but masses rejected them in those and then they switched to masala films – does any one remember many of thos craps – still they did hundreds of those films and gave BO hits – so look at HR with those glasses and despite his ill-health, stuttering problems, broken marriage and all those obstacles – man has come out strong and delivered good films – Guzaarish may not have worked at the BO but HR did his job very well and so did Aish! I personally like him and abhi at par and wanted abhi to take his acting career more seriously – but then….well happy for HR and not really happy for abhi for throwing away those opportunities which could have made him a bigger star than HR. But we must accept the fact that as of today – HR can still deliver solo-hero-hits.
I never denied that last bit— indeed that theme, namely that HR has squandered BO success, runs throughout my comment — given where he was a few years after Kaho Na Pyaar Hai, he has wasted a position of strength.
that is also true – but what is largely unknown to the world is his various illnesses and the surgeries etc. he has been going thru – life has not exactly been a bed of roses for that man – but one generally overlooks these things…..I find him an honest actor despite all his flaws and limitations and very hard working too – he had maintained that physique which makes him a commercially acceptable solo hero. He has managed to step out of his dad’s shadow no. of times as well. There lies his strength.
You forgot to mention his greatest strength stripping at the slightest hint of the director … If health and surgery were really big deals, he would have kept himself away from dancing, body building and the steroids.
i am in for this film – will watch it in theater – not expecting a masterpiece here. But can vouch for this that this will be a sleeper hit for HR – 150 is on board. Let us c how he has worked on acting part becoz this is i guess very few film (the only one after Guzaarish i guess) where he has stepped out of his “hero with chisseled physique” kind of image. That means the focus will be more on his acting skills….tough test!
I have a problem with the tone – Ab Raja ka beta Raja nahin banega.
This is not what Super 30 and Anand Kumar aims for. The current tagline is negative and provoking.
The tone / tag line should be – Ab Gareeb ka beta bhi Raja banega. This is what Super 30 stands for. Anand Kumar’s main job in Super 30 batch is to trigger confidence among the kids from weaker and poor section that they are as good as kids from affluent/upper class society. Once the confidence is evoked, his job becomes easier as the kids are hard working. This is a positive vibe. Looks like the movie lacks this soul.
Re: “The tone / tag line should be – Ab Gareeb ka beta bhi Raja banega.”
Great point — I too was struck by that tag-line — it seemed a bit “off” — but you’ve put your finger on how they could have changed it. And to be clear i love the second part of it — “ab raja wahi banega jo haqdaar hoga” — but the first one seemed off. But perhaps it will fit with the tone of the movie, too early to say — i.e. I had assumed this would be a feel-good H’woody kinda film, but perhaps it is an angrier, more raw affair…
And he will probably have moves as a mathematician too!
Even SLB didn’t compromise on HR dancing in Guzaarish even when he spent all his time on a wheelchair or lying about. The only flashback sequence he had was on stage showing his flexibility and making out skills..
I’m with Qalander on Hrithik. He’s never been as good as a star as he was in his debut KNPH. He’s probably had better acting performances but if someone asked me what’s all the fuss about on Hrithik, KNPH is where I’d point them too – it gives you the optimal aspects of his stardom. Everything afterwards in the main has been anticlimactic, except 2006 when he could have peaked again but blew it in subsequent years by trying to ‘Aamirsize’ himself. Can’t blame him for being picky but with choices like Kites, Bang Bang – the Hollywood strategy was pointless. He could have done films like ETT, Bodyguard instead of Salman, a better option potentially. Or instead of Bhansali’s Guzarrish he could have played some of the roles Ranveer landed. Just poor choices. Can’t fault too much the bad early career choices – that can happen to anyone but when you get your head straight with D2 and Krrish you have to be put to the sword with many choices and gaps that followed.
Health is an excuse as Marcus pointed out he has done roles that are physically demanding & he still dances. His personal life – well he’s probably partly to blame.
I agree completely with you and qalandar on this. But Saket is also right with the Tom Cruise reference. A certain kind of star can never just become the ‘actor’, irrespective of talents (and Hrithik isn’t Tom Cruise for me, even as an actor!), he needs to keep playing the star. Even the different film must then somehow harness the signature in some sense. ZNMD perhaps does well on this score. With some of these other choices you’ve mentioned (guzaarish etc) Hrithik tries to play just the actor. And that’s a problem! Now of course (and to repeat a point) even the greatest start-actors still have to be stars on screen, before they act or not. But at least with this group you can fashion parts that require fine performances. Since Hrithik isn’t capable of this such an effort completely fails with him. He cannot even do what Cruise did in Born on the 4th of July (and Cruise is hardly the highest bar in terms of pure performance). Ultimately hrithik’s real issue might be that he just didn’t seem vulnerable enough after KNPH. He got instant stardom and in a huge way and the sincere, somewhat earnest persona (the first guy in KNPH) was lost quickly.
To repeat myself, he is plain delusional. He got instant stardom and started hallucinating after KMG that he is a great actor. And his definition of great acting is his father’s acting in seventies films. And his papa’s definition of acting is hrithik in kmg or krrish. This baap-beta jodi are made for each other with all their silliness.
A star who is a competent actor can explore non-commercial terrain now and then, without making a fool of himself. Not so with a poor actor like hritik. Cruise is quite competent, hritik is far from it. No comparison there.
And yet the man has reasonable no. of clean BO hits to his name which the likes of Abhi, Vivek etc. dont….
1. KNPH
2. Mission Kashmir
3. Lakshya
4. Koi Mil Gaya
5. Krish
6. Dhoom2
7. JA
8. ZNMD
9. Agneepath
10. Krish3
11. KKKG (it was a bo hit and HR was part of the cast)
12. Agneepath
13. Bang Bang (was a BO hit)
he has equal no. of flops also but what is imp. is that when his films work at the BO, they are clean hits. So paying public has not yet completely rejected him like they have done with Abhi, Vivek and other stars of his generation. Fiza, Guzaarish remain good performance based films.
and again, with 3 safe projects in hand, HR is here to stay for another 10 years atleast.
Lol this is like naveen claiming every akshay release is a hit. Mk or lakshya, ja, bb hardly recovered their investment. Agneepath trended much like gold. Znmd was at best a semi hit like talaash. Abhi has many more of such average bo films. Hritik has some 4-5 blockbusters to his name, and that is all. But so does sunny deol.
Whether i cube is -1 or not (perhaps in in the context of i being -1) is a deabte worthy at kindergarden level! Is this what our genius mathematician anand kumar do??? 🙄
I think most of the movie goers will watch it for Hrithik and not for the nitty gritties of maths elementary or otherwise.
I think they are concentrating more on drama more than anything else. I am waiting how this film turns out.
Really dont care abt who shows up for another guzaarish and why. But from film-making POV the makers should try to be authentic to the subject, specially in a biopic.
Slumdog millionaire joins IIT story? Doesn’t look like a good movie. Instead of making it Anand Kumar biopic, they could have fictionalized it and made HR a dance teacher or a kickboxing trainer
no Sanju, Manoj’s all outings as solo hero in last 3-4 years have been BO disasters. Aamir will take long to like any script – so this story needed a saleable star for all the commercial and non-commercial purposes. HR fits the bill here. Also I think they are covering 2 decades of his life – so it has a good scope as an actor here. Madhavan also hasn’t delivered any solo hits (all his hindi outings were major disasters – only he has worked with multi-hero films like 3i, RDB). Akki is over-doing all such things so audience need a diff. star – I back this choice. For a change, they could have considered Abhi also but then again BO wise it wud be a rather unsafe bet.
HR looks angry and the color combination makes it look like he is in Agneepath 2. And whether they have played Holi and gulal in the second poster? Why the student faces look like that?
The movie does have potential. There is great story to tell. All depends on how Vikas Bahl and HR have pulled the movie.
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September 4, 2018 at 10:59 AM
with that look, i am surprised any parent would allow their kids to be with hrithik leave aside train months for iit entrance. he looks more like a terrorist or a paedophile …
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September 4, 2018 at 12:29 PM
Jeeves – you can be good when you want..why don’t you want?
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September 4, 2018 at 7:16 PM
Incoherent nonsensial tagline. [edited]
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September 4, 2018 at 7:42 PM
No point in editing some bitter facts of life. Guyz at your age should should be editing/reviewing ‘content’, not ‘language’ – Satyam/Munna.
Your excuse of ‘liberalism’ is sadly no more than plain laziness when it comes to moderation/review of content. And no amount of essays or links you provide can change that.
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September 4, 2018 at 8:59 PM
Glad to still have you with us !
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September 4, 2018 at 10:51 PM
Also the tagline that you kindly edited was mentioned as specific to the lead actor here. I was not generalizing genetics as such that anyone take offense! You really have any regards for these baap-beta fraudsters? If u edit my taunts to naveen, thats ok. But this is not acceptable.
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September 5, 2018 at 12:32 PM
You probably can be acerbic without being coarse in language. The thing is that ante is upped with each comment and blog atmosphere is vitiated.
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September 4, 2018 at 11:59 AM
choti muh badi baat.. is he actually looking like vikram here 🙂
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September 4, 2018 at 12:24 PM
this looks good – HR has a 150 cr + product here – happy for him
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September 4, 2018 at 12:28 PM
Is this a still from Guzaarish?
#ManikarnikaWillBeHIT
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September 4, 2018 at 2:52 PM
the poster is up now.
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September 4, 2018 at 3:34 PM
I don’t get the posters of this film.
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September 4, 2018 at 3:37 PM
I mean he’s so angry. And he’s a teacher no?
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September 4, 2018 at 3:39 PM
maybe he thinks he deserves a Nobel?
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September 4, 2018 at 3:44 PM
Because he’s the inventor of the greatest calculator ever! 😀
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September 4, 2018 at 3:55 PM
Ha!
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September 4, 2018 at 4:36 PM
not him, but his father missed out on the nobel for inventing the greatest calculator in Bollywood history
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September 5, 2018 at 2:24 AM
maybe he was not allowed to dance..
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September 4, 2018 at 7:35 PM
HR is definitely much better than lot of actors of his generation – can still pull-off a solo-hero BO hit any day. He has 3 hundred crores BO projects in hand now – Super30, Krish4 and YRF’s next with Tiger – good and sensible choices.
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September 4, 2018 at 7:44 PM
His BO draw has never been in question, but he has one of the worst instances of the sort of self-loathing that characterizes so many (in the culture at large, but especially in B’wood): obsessed with H’woody genres, to the point where he and his dad seemed to think that even a super-hero film must be spoken about as if it were some kind of masterpiece; and completely unable to think outside of that sort of derivative mindset (Kites?! Really?!). He’s made such terrible choices that he has become irrelevant to any kind of box-office race, but neither has he left any memorable body of work. Part of the issue is that he emerged as a “perfect product”, and had nowhere to go/grow from there: i.e. everything that was excellent in Kaho Na Pyar Hai has never been bettered by him in nearly two decades (I remember predicting then that he would never be better than in that film; time has borne that one out), and if anything, when he tries “different” roles he seems weirder and weirder. I really can’t think of a greater squandering of box office strength in recent decades — he’s probably single-handedly responsible for extending the careers of the generation of stars who preceded him, each of whom should be buying him birthday drinks every year.
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September 4, 2018 at 8:09 PM
He is a pathetic actor and plain delusional about himself – I think he has worst self-assessment skills among celebrities. Anand Kumar will be puking all over his place looking at this first look poster.
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September 4, 2018 at 8:19 PM
Delusion is one of the national pastimes. One sees it in many walks of life — but even by those standards the Roshans were in a class by themselves (I remember Rakesh Roshan saying before Krrish’s release that the SFX was on par with Hollywood — this in an era when even a Bhojpuri audience had seen H’wood superhero flicks like Spider-Man!); I mean even cretinous imbecility has to have some limit. And then I remember some of the POST-release film reviews, that not only said pretty much the same thing, but also praised the acting to the skies etc. Hearkens back to Satyam’s comment the other day about the absence of a cinematic culture — I like superhero films as much as the next person (although H’wood’s lazy overdose of this genre is sickening, and is pretty much destroying popular American cinema), but only our reviewers seem to think that “Days of Heaven” and “Dr. Strange” merit the same critical apparatus…
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September 4, 2018 at 8:28 PM
Its not just Krrish, Roshans said the same thing during KMG release too regarding Spielberg-ish vfx and superlative acting! Its a pattern they keep repeating. On top of that, all the fraud numbers they keep reporting for every release. Its sickening and disgusting – not only for the audience but also within the industry itself.
Anyways, I will anyday take Tiger over anything hritik or his dad has ever done in their sad lives.
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September 4, 2018 at 8:58 PM
One note of disagreement: I actually liked Rakesh Roshan in those “smallish” films of the 70s, he was quite a likeable presence. But yeah at their respective bests I will take the music composing members of this family over the others!!!
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September 4, 2018 at 9:02 PM
If Tiger were human one could prefer him to hrithik..
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September 4, 2018 at 9:46 PM
From 2.0 poster – The world is not only for humans!
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September 4, 2018 at 8:12 PM
Remaking is not a problem per se (be it hollywood blockbusters or auteur films from other mature film industries that our so-called ‘indian auteurs’ frequently copy from), provided you have acquired the rights legally. Problem is making silly copies without understanding context and then claiming it is some sort of great work. That is delusional.
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September 4, 2018 at 8:13 PM
BUT I have also read comments here that HP films are ‘quality cinema for adults’. So, everything goes I guess …
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September 4, 2018 at 9:01 PM
This is a strong comment . Hard to disagree anywhere.
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September 5, 2018 at 4:48 PM
I think he was quite good in the first half of ZNMD. The smugness, the arrogance that was part of his character worked as a great contrast to his otherwise (off-screen & on-screen) clean image. It reminded me of Tom Cruise in Magnolia.
Of course, since it was a Hindi film, the character had to undergo a change of heart. And ruin everything that was interesting about the character.
But for that brief period, he displayed some nice acting chops.
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September 5, 2018 at 12:53 AM
For Q – why so harsh on HR? it is his dad who has been blowing all the trumpets….what he cud not do as an actor, he is imagining that HR has and will do it – to be fair to HR, he still has tremendous fan-base and has done reasonably well compared to Abhi, Vivek and all….and yeah! he is not a great actor – so what? ppl love him – Jeetendra, Shashi Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar did some amazing films but masses rejected them in those and then they switched to masala films – does any one remember many of thos craps – still they did hundreds of those films and gave BO hits – so look at HR with those glasses and despite his ill-health, stuttering problems, broken marriage and all those obstacles – man has come out strong and delivered good films – Guzaarish may not have worked at the BO but HR did his job very well and so did Aish! I personally like him and abhi at par and wanted abhi to take his acting career more seriously – but then….well happy for HR and not really happy for abhi for throwing away those opportunities which could have made him a bigger star than HR. But we must accept the fact that as of today – HR can still deliver solo-hero-hits.
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September 5, 2018 at 12:55 AM
I never denied that last bit— indeed that theme, namely that HR has squandered BO success, runs throughout my comment — given where he was a few years after Kaho Na Pyaar Hai, he has wasted a position of strength.
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September 5, 2018 at 1:04 AM
that is also true – but what is largely unknown to the world is his various illnesses and the surgeries etc. he has been going thru – life has not exactly been a bed of roses for that man – but one generally overlooks these things…..I find him an honest actor despite all his flaws and limitations and very hard working too – he had maintained that physique which makes him a commercially acceptable solo hero. He has managed to step out of his dad’s shadow no. of times as well. There lies his strength.
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September 5, 2018 at 1:08 AM
You forgot to mention his greatest strength stripping at the slightest hint of the director … If health and surgery were really big deals, he would have kept himself away from dancing, body building and the steroids.
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September 5, 2018 at 12:58 AM
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September 5, 2018 at 1:07 AM
i am in for this film – will watch it in theater – not expecting a masterpiece here. But can vouch for this that this will be a sleeper hit for HR – 150 is on board. Let us c how he has worked on acting part becoz this is i guess very few film (the only one after Guzaarish i guess) where he has stepped out of his “hero with chisseled physique” kind of image. That means the focus will be more on his acting skills….tough test!
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September 5, 2018 at 1:37 AM
Good luck with ur high hopes from a hopeless gone case. Manmarziyan does not look anything special, but these 3 posters are plain bad.
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September 5, 2018 at 1:11 AM
I liked Hrithik in that music video Dheere Dheere.
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September 5, 2018 at 1:14 AM
yeah at a staggering 298 million views – it was well made!
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September 5, 2018 at 1:13 AM
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September 5, 2018 at 1:51 AM
he looks like a gareeb Guzaarish ka quadriplegic hero
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September 5, 2018 at 3:07 AM
I doubt this movie does anything for Hrithik. More likely the dance off with Tiger will work wonders.
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September 5, 2018 at 3:15 AM
Its titled Bizzarro vs Inhuman – bollywood’s subversion of hollywood’s alien disaster blockbusters!
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September 5, 2018 at 12:40 PM
I have a problem with the tone – Ab Raja ka beta Raja nahin banega.
This is not what Super 30 and Anand Kumar aims for. The current tagline is negative and provoking.
The tone / tag line should be – Ab Gareeb ka beta bhi Raja banega. This is what Super 30 stands for. Anand Kumar’s main job in Super 30 batch is to trigger confidence among the kids from weaker and poor section that they are as good as kids from affluent/upper class society. Once the confidence is evoked, his job becomes easier as the kids are hard working. This is a positive vibe. Looks like the movie lacks this soul.
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September 5, 2018 at 12:49 PM
Re: “The tone / tag line should be – Ab Gareeb ka beta bhi Raja banega.”
Great point — I too was struck by that tag-line — it seemed a bit “off” — but you’ve put your finger on how they could have changed it. And to be clear i love the second part of it — “ab raja wahi banega jo haqdaar hoga” — but the first one seemed off. But perhaps it will fit with the tone of the movie, too early to say — i.e. I had assumed this would be a feel-good H’woody kinda film, but perhaps it is an angrier, more raw affair…
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September 5, 2018 at 12:56 PM
How do you make an angry film on a teacher? It’s more like an Agneepath look.
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September 5, 2018 at 2:18 PM
And he will probably have moves as a mathematician too!
Even SLB didn’t compromise on HR dancing in Guzaarish even when he spent all his time on a wheelchair or lying about. The only flashback sequence he had was on stage showing his flexibility and making out skills..
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September 5, 2018 at 5:14 PM
I’m with Qalander on Hrithik. He’s never been as good as a star as he was in his debut KNPH. He’s probably had better acting performances but if someone asked me what’s all the fuss about on Hrithik, KNPH is where I’d point them too – it gives you the optimal aspects of his stardom. Everything afterwards in the main has been anticlimactic, except 2006 when he could have peaked again but blew it in subsequent years by trying to ‘Aamirsize’ himself. Can’t blame him for being picky but with choices like Kites, Bang Bang – the Hollywood strategy was pointless. He could have done films like ETT, Bodyguard instead of Salman, a better option potentially. Or instead of Bhansali’s Guzarrish he could have played some of the roles Ranveer landed. Just poor choices. Can’t fault too much the bad early career choices – that can happen to anyone but when you get your head straight with D2 and Krrish you have to be put to the sword with many choices and gaps that followed.
Health is an excuse as Marcus pointed out he has done roles that are physically demanding & he still dances. His personal life – well he’s probably partly to blame.
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September 5, 2018 at 5:25 PM
I agree completely with you and qalandar on this. But Saket is also right with the Tom Cruise reference. A certain kind of star can never just become the ‘actor’, irrespective of talents (and Hrithik isn’t Tom Cruise for me, even as an actor!), he needs to keep playing the star. Even the different film must then somehow harness the signature in some sense. ZNMD perhaps does well on this score. With some of these other choices you’ve mentioned (guzaarish etc) Hrithik tries to play just the actor. And that’s a problem! Now of course (and to repeat a point) even the greatest start-actors still have to be stars on screen, before they act or not. But at least with this group you can fashion parts that require fine performances. Since Hrithik isn’t capable of this such an effort completely fails with him. He cannot even do what Cruise did in Born on the 4th of July (and Cruise is hardly the highest bar in terms of pure performance). Ultimately hrithik’s real issue might be that he just didn’t seem vulnerable enough after KNPH. He got instant stardom and in a huge way and the sincere, somewhat earnest persona (the first guy in KNPH) was lost quickly.
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September 5, 2018 at 9:01 PM
To repeat myself, he is plain delusional. He got instant stardom and started hallucinating after KMG that he is a great actor. And his definition of great acting is his father’s acting in seventies films. And his papa’s definition of acting is hrithik in kmg or krrish. This baap-beta jodi are made for each other with all their silliness.
A star who is a competent actor can explore non-commercial terrain now and then, without making a fool of himself. Not so with a poor actor like hritik. Cruise is quite competent, hritik is far from it. No comparison there.
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September 5, 2018 at 10:12 PM
Marcus ne nahi maine bola tha.. credit to theek se diya karo yaar ! 😞
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September 6, 2018 at 12:18 AM
Take as much credit as you want yaar.
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September 6, 2018 at 1:22 AM
I was referencing Marcus’s comments at 1.08am above – I note you said something similar 😀👍
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September 5, 2018 at 9:31 PM
And yet the man has reasonable no. of clean BO hits to his name which the likes of Abhi, Vivek etc. dont….
1. KNPH
2. Mission Kashmir
3. Lakshya
4. Koi Mil Gaya
5. Krish
6. Dhoom2
7. JA
8. ZNMD
9. Agneepath
10. Krish3
11. KKKG (it was a bo hit and HR was part of the cast)
12. Agneepath
13. Bang Bang (was a BO hit)
he has equal no. of flops also but what is imp. is that when his films work at the BO, they are clean hits. So paying public has not yet completely rejected him like they have done with Abhi, Vivek and other stars of his generation. Fiza, Guzaarish remain good performance based films.
and again, with 3 safe projects in hand, HR is here to stay for another 10 years atleast.
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September 5, 2018 at 9:48 PM
Lol this is like naveen claiming every akshay release is a hit. Mk or lakshya, ja, bb hardly recovered their investment. Agneepath trended much like gold. Znmd was at best a semi hit like talaash. Abhi has many more of such average bo films. Hritik has some 4-5 blockbusters to his name, and that is all. But so does sunny deol.
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September 5, 2018 at 10:51 PM
Anyways now waiting for fan rants that mela and mann were bo hits …
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September 5, 2018 at 11:02 PM
MK and Lakshya were not hits by any standard
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September 5, 2018 at 11:21 PM
Guru
Bunty Aur Bubli
Dhoom
Dhoom 2
Dhoom 3
Dostana
Bol Bachchan
Paa
Yuva
Sarkar
not including KANK, HNY, HF3 as SRK/Akshay fans will claim those as hits but they were not. Will take Abhisheks movies over HR any day.
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September 6, 2018 at 1:59 AM
Agreed!
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September 6, 2018 at 12:28 AM
Look who is talking. Jokers like to keep each other’s company.
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September 5, 2018 at 10:37 PM
https://www.timesnownews.com/entertainment/news/bollywood-news/article/did-you-notice-this-mistake-in-hrithik-roshans-super-30-poster-photo-inside-bollywood-news/280530
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September 5, 2018 at 10:49 PM
Whether i cube is -1 or not (perhaps in in the context of i being -1) is a deabte worthy at kindergarden level! Is this what our genius mathematician anand kumar do??? 🙄
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September 5, 2018 at 11:02 PM
I think most of the movie goers will watch it for Hrithik and not for the nitty gritties of maths elementary or otherwise.
I think they are concentrating more on drama more than anything else. I am waiting how this film turns out.
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September 6, 2018 at 12:16 AM
Really dont care abt who shows up for another guzaarish and why. But from film-making POV the makers should try to be authentic to the subject, specially in a biopic.
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September 5, 2018 at 11:10 PM
Slumdog millionaire joins IIT story? Doesn’t look like a good movie. Instead of making it Anand Kumar biopic, they could have fictionalized it and made HR a dance teacher or a kickboxing trainer
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September 6, 2018 at 12:20 AM
This biopic needed someone like Manoj Bajpayee or Aamir Khan. Or Madhavan.
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September 6, 2018 at 12:27 AM
Even Pankaj Tripathy would have been a better choice.
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September 6, 2018 at 12:28 AM
agree.
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September 6, 2018 at 12:28 AM
no Sanju, Manoj’s all outings as solo hero in last 3-4 years have been BO disasters. Aamir will take long to like any script – so this story needed a saleable star for all the commercial and non-commercial purposes. HR fits the bill here. Also I think they are covering 2 decades of his life – so it has a good scope as an actor here. Madhavan also hasn’t delivered any solo hits (all his hindi outings were major disasters – only he has worked with multi-hero films like 3i, RDB). Akki is over-doing all such things so audience need a diff. star – I back this choice. For a change, they could have considered Abhi also but then again BO wise it wud be a rather unsafe bet.
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September 6, 2018 at 2:15 AM
HR looks angry and the color combination makes it look like he is in Agneepath 2. And whether they have played Holi and gulal in the second poster? Why the student faces look like that?
The movie does have potential. There is great story to tell. All depends on how Vikas Bahl and HR have pulled the movie.
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September 6, 2018 at 2:59 AM
A greater story in the same context is how by large the quota system has pulled down the IITs’s standards in general.
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September 6, 2018 at 3:05 AM
Let mr anand kumar train his super 30 to crack iit in general quota, and then be hailed as a great idol.
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September 6, 2018 at 3:07 AM
Kota and Quota.
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June 3, 2019 at 12:15 PM
on topic, has anyone watched TVFs Kota Factory on IIT preparation training?
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September 6, 2018 at 3:08 AM
why do the students look like preparing for a physical activty like race, wrestling, dancing, fighting like boxing?
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September 6, 2018 at 11:18 PM
Good looking actors ko gareeb dikha kar wah wahi lootne walo
Junta maaf nahi karegi
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September 10, 2018 at 5:04 AM
Best poster for Super 30 theme …
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June 2, 2019 at 11:18 AM
Is HR taking the kids to the Math class or Gold’s gym? Just curious…
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June 3, 2019 at 2:55 AM
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June 3, 2019 at 3:06 AM
IIT preparation karne wali Ko khud ke liye time nahi milta baarish mei bheegna to door ki baat hai.
And they are never this happy
Saale utopians
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June 4, 2019 at 4:06 AM
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June 25, 2019 at 3:08 PM
Masand comes accross as an A. hole and Anand Kumar comes across as Lalu Yadav. LOL
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June 26, 2019 at 10:47 AM
Lalu Yadav boley toh- Endearing/ Earthy/ Zameen sey juda hua but a crook ….
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