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lobelia321I finished watching Baazigar [The Winner] last night. The film is totally cheesy yet enormous fun. Until about half-way through when it switches mood (as is not infrequently the wont of Hindi films) and the hero turns EVIL and morphs into a scary stalking murderer. Then, nearer the end, the film switches into totally absurd mode with Shahrukh Khan, evil but not-evil (because in Hindi films a boy who loves his mother will always be vindicated, even if he's murdered a whole string of innocents along the way -- but he was only doing it to Avenge the Mother!), drooling blood from his mouth and impaling himself upon a metal stake that he had previously impaled his arch enemy with.
Yes. I didn't make that last bit up. He then proceeds to pull the stake from his stomach and stagger down a hill and along a road to die gloriously and bloodbesmearedly in his mother's arms.
The music in this film from the early 90s is major fun. And it is special because it is the first time that Shahrukh Khan and Kajol starred together. Kajol was so young! She looks about twelve! And SRK has a chubby baby face and a silly floppy haircut and his skin is brown.
Now here is a mystery. Why was SRK brown in the 90s and is now a yeasty beige? Has he gone the Michael Jackson route, or have cinematographers changed the lenses on their cameras in order to render their stars whiter??
Also, SRK is delightfully normal in the torso department as well, as is evident during delicious whipping-his-top-off musical interludes. Now he's gone all six-pack, of course; must be that mid-life crisis. And Farah Khan egging him on to be Brad Pitt for Om Shanti Om.
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filmi_girl's filmi music podcasts. Thank you, Filmigirl!
Plus, today I had my first Hindi lesson. The teacher is making me learn the letters of the alphabet! He gave me a list of 32 and said, "We'll do the rest next week." [!!!]
Kajol / SRK chemistry. Note Shahrukh's chubby cheeks!! And the inimitable Nackenspoiler-footballer-mullet haircut!
God, she was gorgeous even then. Note the brown hands. And Kajol's eyebrows that were then still meeting above the nose (eyebrows to die for).
Yes, it is all that. Baazigar's take on the wet-sari-dance. And the, um, blowjob.
It is important to appreciate the two-toned trousers. This song, though, is a delight! Kajol shines!
Impaled. Drooling blood. And laughing maniacally.
To die in one's mother's arms: the ultimate hero's sacrifice and desire.
Shahrukh Khan then: Chubby chops of 1993.
And now: Lean, pale and well fit (in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi of 2008).
Object of Farah Khan's female gaze: groomed and sculpted in Om Shanti Om of 2007. (Did she smear his nipples with ice cubes??!) F. Khan directed that film.
And some kind soul has made this wallpaper of views of SRK's pre-sculpted torso. Yum, I say. Yum yum.
Yes. I didn't make that last bit up. He then proceeds to pull the stake from his stomach and stagger down a hill and along a road to die gloriously and bloodbesmearedly in his mother's arms.
The music in this film from the early 90s is major fun. And it is special because it is the first time that Shahrukh Khan and Kajol starred together. Kajol was so young! She looks about twelve! And SRK has a chubby baby face and a silly floppy haircut and his skin is brown.
Now here is a mystery. Why was SRK brown in the 90s and is now a yeasty beige? Has he gone the Michael Jackson route, or have cinematographers changed the lenses on their cameras in order to render their stars whiter??
Also, SRK is delightfully normal in the torso department as well, as is evident during delicious whipping-his-top-off musical interludes. Now he's gone all six-pack, of course; must be that mid-life crisis. And Farah Khan egging him on to be Brad Pitt for Om Shanti Om.
I also continue to enjoy
filmi_girl's filmi music podcasts. Thank you, Filmigirl!Plus, today I had my first Hindi lesson. The teacher is making me learn the letters of the alphabet! He gave me a list of 32 and said, "We'll do the rest next week." [!!!]
Kajol / SRK chemistry. Note Shahrukh's chubby cheeks!! And the inimitable Nackenspoiler-footballer-mullet haircut!
God, she was gorgeous even then. Note the brown hands. And Kajol's eyebrows that were then still meeting above the nose (eyebrows to die for).
Yes, it is all that. Baazigar's take on the wet-sari-dance. And the, um, blowjob.
It is important to appreciate the two-toned trousers. This song, though, is a delight! Kajol shines!
Impaled. Drooling blood. And laughing maniacally.
To die in one's mother's arms: the ultimate hero's sacrifice and desire.
Shahrukh Khan then: Chubby chops of 1993.
And now: Lean, pale and well fit (in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi of 2008).
Object of Farah Khan's female gaze: groomed and sculpted in Om Shanti Om of 2007. (Did she smear his nipples with ice cubes??!) F. Khan directed that film.
And some kind soul has made this wallpaper of views of SRK's pre-sculpted torso. Yum, I say. Yum yum.