Aap Ka Saroor – The Alt View!!!
Ok,
So I finally saw Aap Ka Saroor. Of course I approached it with a “time pass” mentality (that is why it was best seen 50th day, 40th show aka on dvd, unlike KJ movies, first day, first show and ditto for Yash Chopra movies…not Yash Raj…Yash Chopra and Adi Chopra directed films.) Or alt I would watch it in a multiplex in Mumbai, where you can’t “watch” it anyway (i.e. Aap Ka Saroor) what with food being served, SMS’s and their neon lights flashing, people talking away, etc (the food being served has got to be the most moronic phenomenon in Mumbai multiplexes)
But back to HR. He like, Malika and Rakhi, Gulshan and Adi Chopra, Mahesh Bhatt and Emran Hashmi, represents Mumbai chutzpah….they live life showing the index finger to the world…do what you have to…we will live life they way we want to…you can curse us….but when you require funding/roles…you will come running right to us…case in point Malika launching her production company and now being the “featured” guest on Koffee with Karan…all’s well that ends in the moolah..
So categorize HR in the same category and I have to hand it to the guy to be able to laugh at himself….so from that point of view it is “paisa vasool” given that I got the dvd ”free” for spending $10 on groceries. His digs at his nasal voice, his obsession with his cap, his being a “snob” actually that one flew over me…why would a tapori be a “snob” a “snob” is a “snob”, but anyway I like the guy’s spirit and heart. It is very Mumbai, it is very NY and it is very Hollywood…if something works…ask a certain boxing promoter …Don ”Only In America” King…however wierd, stick with it.
I am told it opened to Rs 100 crores in India…cool….include me in that audience, cause I likened watching the movie to eating Sev Batata Puri…I’m not here to analyze and disseminate the impact of sev on my socio – political existence…I am here to eat Sev Puri, pure and simple…I am what I eat…nothing more…nothing less…from that point of view, Himesh’s dead pan expression, lack of acting skills and expressionless “expressions” were actually quite funny. and have to hand it to the guy when in his own movie he says something to the effect of “if you cut my nose where will I sing from.”
The photography is cool, having autos in Germany is not cool. Two women going bonkers over Himesh (especially when one can choose the world) is not cool, HR imitating Mithun is cool, the scriptwriting is not cool, but the songs are so so cool.
Should HR come on to the screen? Why not – it took Abhishek 42 times before he got it right, Jeetendra 30 and Kumar Guarav NEVER got it right, but they still managed to act on more than ONE film…. so let’s give HR a few more, except I wouldn’t invest in my production money in “Bhel Puri.”
Sincerely,
Vivek “like I said there are those who do and those who write about those who do, I’d rather be the former but till then I’ll be the latter” Kumar
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHazoor….tera, tera tera Khajoor…oops it is Saroor..same thing!!!
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Haven’t seen the film.. still fighting the urge.. I know I’m going to hate it… but… still.. .fighting the urge… cuz… what if I LOVE… to hate it… oh damn… car keys in hand, lets go rent it… put the keys down you idiot… put… the damn… keys…
haven’t seen the film yet, I don’t think i should see it, but the opening forces me to rethink, sometimes the most weird things happen in this world… like they say if something is destined for you, no one can stop it.. HR was destined to be a ’star’ and if I am destined to watch the movie even I can’t stop myself.. :d
Perfect timing Suchita. Like Striker on this group, I just wrote you a small role in my screenplay, which I just wrapped the rewrite, 3.5 mts back. All I can say it you end the movie…like a Lara in Ek Ajnabee..more details when I head to mumbai next month
Enjoy
Vivek, you wrote a role for me?????:oI think there is a bit of misunderstanding, I don’t act, I write. worse direct and even worse I am extremely stuck up when its comes to believing in anything..although looking forward to meeting you,
I know you do not act, I was celebrating that someone reacted to HR
, hence I was kidding by saying thank you – I wrote you a role…also celebrating if HR can act, then so can anyone else ).:):)
Other person who reacted was my man Tony from Vancouver, whom I shall share a lassi in Surrey, with!!
Of course you have to be stuck up, you are from Delhi right….:d
ha ha yes vivek, how do you know i am from dilli..i don’t remember mentioning it
what did that mean..”of course you have to be stuck up because you are from delhi!!!” and what time is it there.. where you are.. by the way you are in amreka right?
my job is to “observe” and “imbibe” I am a writer right? a bad one, but one, nevertheless and I don’t read books or see movies to get my writing inspiration, when it is all around me, all the time, everytime,:(
it is lunch hour here, I am the son of a delliwalli, I am seeing a deeliwalli, I was formerly married to a delliwalli, I have only dated a delliwalli, I have only tied rakhi to a delliwalli, the SAAFA co founder is a delliwali, I only make friend with delliwalli….I can “scent” a delliwalli from 5000 miles away…Iam in “sleepy and unhappening” Silicon Valley, where the biggest highlight of a person’s existence is “house warming, child’s first year party, future of wireless, HI and Greencard..” unlike you lucky folks in Mumbai, NY, DC, Vancouver, etc
ha ha.. Vivek that’s a good one.. can smell dilli people from a distance.. although most of them I don’t like
Vivek bhai sirf lassi hi nahin, we’ll go to Surrey’s Desi Junction and have some aloo paratha’s and dahi or the ultimate makki di roti and saag (that’s gotta be homecooked of course
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autowala to deliiwalii…ha ha ha. Himesh….for those who enjoy, great. Dont know if i wud liek to watch it even if i get the dvd for free aand veen if m paid for it. may be in a reallly bad day!!