SRK, Smoking and NRIs

Watching SRK perform along with the Indian Cricket Team in some function makes me wonder- is he a man or a machine..I mean he is present in almost every event related to media industry and not related to media industry. Does he ever get some sleep or what ..does he eat?I know he smokes..Smoking Kills..but by the looks of it I'm not sure anymore.I mean look at him, he has so much energy..He is like what 43-44; Young guys like Dhoni who are almost half his age were finding it difficult to do the jumps and rolls he was doing.
Anyway coming to the point this SRK is here-there-everywhere..Mr.Omnipresent I must say. You may hate him or love him but you simply cant avoid him!
Who is this phenomenon? From acting in Traffic rules videos for Doordarshan to TV seriels To telefilms to Movies..it has been a meteoric rise for this guy. Most people I meet are critical of him..he hamms too much, he cant act at all...well I can only say you may fool all people sometime but cannot fool all the people all the time. He has been able to do that ..so i guess if he cannot act he can definitely entertain. I dont know how many fans he has in India.but I can tell you for sure every Indian living abroad will definitely watch his movie. NRIs are like crazy for a dose of SRK entertainment. Even Emiratis are crazy about him.
I still remember the day I went to watch Main Hoon Na at Cinestar in Citycentre( my fav hangout place in the whole of Dubai)..the hall was packed--shared by Local Arabs and Indians ofcourse. It was my first SRK movie viewing in Arabland and i was surprised at the fan following SRK had in Emirates. They were singing songs!I was like OK i get it now..SRK you are really a Huge star with NRIs.
When you are away from homeland for a long time, you want to remember all the beautiful things related to it...the sweetness of it and SRK films have huge doses of them.
I guess NRIs like the bold-beautiful colours, song n dance for every ocassion, glitzy clothes present in almost all SRK films. And ofcourse the main ingredient is the Love factor. You can hardly go wrong with a love story movie if well told. Like,for instance Titanic (James Cameroon one) was a huge hit practically everywhere it was screened. Because the main story was a love story and that too a doomed love story! SRK is the king of romance and i guess so he is the King of Hindi film industry. Let me tell you an incident how known SRK is in Dubai. One day I caught a screening of Swades in Cinestar, did some shopping in Carrefour and hoped into the first taxi I got. After sometime, the taxi driver(a arab local) asked me"madam, you not going to the Shahrukh khan show tonight?" Actually SRK was in town with his team to perform for a show called Temptations or something like that... I thought why is he asking me ..then i realised i was wearing a Salwar kameez. I smiled and said "No, i just watched him in a film today" He is like" Madam, this is Shahrukh Khan...not movie, LIVE!....everbody going there" His emphasis was so much on the word live and he couldnot believe that I an Indian wouldnot like to watch SRK perform live!
Oh SRK you are really big time favourites with NRIs and Arabs..you maynot be the greatest actor but you are definitely a great entertainer!

Movies I enjoyed in 2007

As many of us reflect on a year that has passed by...what we have done, what we should have done, what did happen and what should have happened. I thought why dont I list the movies that I enjoyed watching in the year 2007..because movie-watching is something that is integral to my lifestyle. The list contains some names which i have seen for the first time, others that I have seen before but again watched them in 2007. I have also put down the points that interested me in the movie.

In the order of time frame (My viewing)

1) APOCALYPTO- Concept, Spirit, Gore, Execution, practically everyting about the movie is amazing!

2) SERIEL MOM- Concept, Concept and Concept. (more about it in another blog)

3) MONALISA SMILE- Story, Acting, Interesting Characters

4) THE HILLS HAVE EYES- GORE, GORE- I just loooooooooooooooooved it.

5) NAGORDOLA- Story, Acting

6) EIGHT BELOW- Emotions, Dogs

7) DEAD MEN's LAND- Zombies

8) FROM DUSK TILL DAWN- Gore+Vampires+Tarantino+Rodriqez= CRAZINESS!!!

9) PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN- Capt. Jack Sparrow and everything else about the movie (i'm Lovin' It!)

10) WATER- Boldness of the story

11) VOLVER- Nonviolent french movies (cause all the French movies I watched in Dubai were hardcore action movies and I loved them too), acting.

12) THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS- Story, acting ( I have watched it a few times before and I can watch it again..lovely movie)

13) LITTLE MANHATTAN- Cute story and acting

14) SWEPT AWAY- Funny, Weird Story

15) 300- Action, Execution, Look

16) THE BIRDS- Hitchcock, Story, Acting, Sceneray

17) SEE NO EVIL- Execution, Acting ( Great Camera angles, considering it was made in 1971)

18) THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA- Acting, Clothes, Shoes

19) JAB WE MET- Dialogues, Acting

20) OM SHANTI OM- SRK, Execution, Songs

21)CHAKDE INDIA- New genre in Hind Movies

22) CHEENI KUM- Concept, Acting