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Saif teams up with the ‘Gadar’ director
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The actor believes that it would be interesting to work with the ‘Gadar’ director
This seems to be the most unlikely coupling in the history of mainstream cinema. Saif Ali Khan has decided to work with Anil Sharma. Anil has in the past made savage masala products with the Deols—Sunny, Bobby and Dharmendra —throughout the 1980s. “Yes I’ve been approached. I’m looking at the script.
Remember, this is the man who made ‘Gadar’. It would be interesting to do this kind of cinema. If I decide to do it, I’d be fully into it,” said Saif before leaving for a holiday to Maldives with his family.
The news of this unlikely combination has been gathering momentum ever since Saif’s under-production film ‘Tara Rum Pum Pum’ with Rani Mukherjee reached a finishing line. Surely Saif needed to get cracking with his next assignment!
Saif has also signed Abbas-Mustan’s ‘Race’ with Bipasha and Akshaye Khanna. He complete rubbished rumours about him nixing this project as long as Fardeen Khan was his co-star.
“I think this kind of talk started when I had to back out of Feroz Khan saab’s ‘Qurbani’ which he wanted to remake with Fardeen and me. But I genuinely had date problems,” explains Saif.
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akshay shah 31 January 2007
06:01:22 pm
I read this a while back!:)
henry 31 January 2007
08:09:09 pm
This should be something.
Just imagine Saif going all-out masala, fully showing his macho side, uprooting a hand pump or two, and rattling dialogues like “phaad dalunga, cheer dalunga, kameeno”.
henry 31 January 2007
08:41:48 pm
BTW I was watching Omkara the other day. Aside from Saif’s cracking performance, I think Omkara contains some of the greatest dialogues ever written for a Hindi film. Who could have thought that UP-bhaiya bhasha could convey the intricacies of Bard’s poetry so beautifully? But even if one is not aware with the great one, the dialogues are simply sizzling in their own right, and contain several references to our own mythology.
IMO, it’s not at all a stretch to say that Vishal Bhardwaj is the most talented and versatile player in Bollywood today.
Langday Tyagi: chutiye aur bewkoof mein dhage bhar ke pharak hega… aur jo dhaga hainch do, to kaun hai bewkoof, kaun chutiya , karod rupe ka prashan hai bhaiya.
goodfella 31 January 2007
08:51:23 pm
Henry: not a stretch at all in terms of active directors…wait till you see “The Blue Umbrella” – I think it’s even better than “Omkara” and is, in fact, Bharadwaj’s best film.
Qalandar 31 January 2007
09:27:04 pm
Henry: Vishal’s dialogs are better than almost anything else in Omkara. I love Omkara’s line: “Agar in ki bettti apne ko jhuttta bol de, to apnee zabaan kaath ke is se in ki jootiyan saaf karega Omkara”
And:
“Jo apne baap ko thag sakti hai, woh kisi aur ki sagi kya hogi?”
wow.
The only thing to match these dialogs were Gulzar’s sensational lyrics IMO.
[Aside: strictly speaking the lyrics are pretty "bhaiyya", but the dialog isn't; and Vishal B clarified that he had a Western UP/Punjab border linguistic zone in mind, and you definitely get that with some of the pronunciation in the film...]
Qalandar 31 January 2007
09:50:49 pm
back to the subject of this thread: saif and anil sharma?!
Qalandar 31 January 2007
10:01:32 pm
actually that isn’t that interesting a subject, so back to Omkara’s dialogues:
In part I found it so refreshing because here was a film and a filmmaker that/who clearly like the sound of Hindi/Hindustani in its many many forms, and you can see the dialog-writer is having fun with the way the words sound (one thing I felt was that the actors — barring Konkona — didn’t seem like they enjoyed the language as much; i.e. it was one of the ways they got “in character”, but for the most part Saif and Vivek didn’t seem creatures of language the way so many of Shakespeare’s characters are; on this front actually Bipasha Basu was a revelation, luxuriating in the dialogs even as she made grown men cry)…
Qalandar 31 January 2007
10:07:00 pm
That is also what is really different about Madhavan among the current crop of Hindi actors: as Guru demonstrates, this guy really knows how to speak Hindi — that line in Ghanshyam bhai’s factor at Iddar is awesome, when Ghashyam has figured out that Shyam Saxena really isn’t from the Hindustan Times:
“Kooooon ‘ai tu?!!”
Shyam Saxena (with slight bhaiyya drawl): “Main to reporter hoon, par aap to saraasar smuggler hain…6 machine ki permission le kar 12 laga deen, ab aap hi bataaiye main kya likhoon?”
and also in RDB, after the bike ride, at Kirron Kher’s, when Siddharth and Kunal Kapoor are basically saying India is a shit country and no-one believes in the patriotism stuff anymore, Maddy interjects with “Ek minute Karan– main maanta hoon…”
It’s a misreading of the likes of the great DeNiro etc. that so many contemporary actors get the look right but don’t work as hard on their dialog delivery. Kamal, while gimmicky, does not neglect this aspect: heck even a non-Tamil speaker like myself can tell — and fall in love with — that rural Madurai accent in Virumaandi!
akshay shah 31 January 2007
10:41:57 pm
Goodfella: Couldn’t agree more! CLASSIC dialogues in OMKARA..
“Sarath Ghodon Par Lagate Hai..Sheron Par Nahin”! ….
I maybe in the minority but I simply LOVE Devgans deadpan delivery!
A.Shah
abzee 31 January 2007
11:48:13 pm
The best dialogue of Omkara-
“Saachi baat kahe hai tu Rajjo…asal; mein hum dono ki kismat gadhe ke ling se likhi gayi hai!”
satyam 1 February 2007
06:47:36 am
By the way did anyone notice that the title ‘Tashan’ for the new Yashraj film starring Akshay and Saif comes in fact from Omkara?
All the lines above are great ones but my favorite is the one Akshay has quoted — sharat ghodon par lagate hain, sheron par nahin! This is the most truly masala line in the film!
As for Saif doing Anil Sharma’s film, I don’t think there is anything wrong in the idea per se, i.e. doing low market masala, but he should be careful about the director. Anil Sharma hits a lottery every once in a while and that’s about it!
vaatlaggayi 1 February 2007
08:09:09 am
“Jo apne baap ko thag sakti hai, woh kisi aur ki sagi kya hogi?””
sidenote:
not to diminish bharwaj’s work, but that line is a direct lift from othello.
Rocky 1 February 2007
08:24:11 am
Haseen Badi Mehngi Ho rakhi Hai !!!
I will have to watch Omkara again !!!! I am with AKS, I loved Ajay D’s performance in the movie !!!!
goodfella 2 February 2007
05:13:26 pm
Abzee, i agree with that selection! That’s also the best scene in the movie. Saif just rocked so hard here it’ll be tough to seem him follow that (and Eklavya) with TRP and this Sharma nonsense.
Shahid 2 February 2007
07:00:15 pm
[“Jo apne baap ko thag sakti hai, woh kisi aur ki sagi kya hogi?””
sidenote:
not to diminish bharwaj’s work, but that line is a direct lift from othello.]
True, but I thought it was a very effective interpretation of Shakespeare’s line.
Back to the main topic, Saif is blatantly trying to mix the classy arts with low masala. It’s his message to the industry – “hey, I’m not fussy or snobbish about film scripts, I’ll act in anything that is interesting!”. A strategy of prolonging his career. Not that he really needs to do that but this strange career move could be due to some insecurity on his part.
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