For the rest of the coming weeks, we’re going to feel fresh fresh sa. Yeah! we took a lot of efforts to clean the entire house today. Including the bathroom. Woah! the homely ‘swarg’ feeling it is. And suddenly every thing’s so new as if we’re starting all over again. This aids to ward off all the negativity.
I’ve been waiting for this week since a long time. Yes, I’m eager to watch ‘My name is Khan’. I’m dying to see SRK and Kajol share the screen. I’m happy that this week has come. I’m really not in for KJo style cinema, but the truth is that his movies develop certain emotional connect with the audience. I’m not talking about the intellectual modern audience who die to see real cinema by RGV, Anurag Basu, Vishal Bharadwaj etc. I’m pointing to that portion of the audience who would want simple love/family movies and can actually relate to it by some sense or the other. KJo is accused of making movies based on upper class families settled in the west. Well, how does that matter?. How many lower class people who watched K3G found it very difficult to comprehend what happened in the movie? It’s simple family value movie which everyone understood and certainly a good entertainer for all. Why not blame Suraj Barjatya then? for making ‘Hum apke hai kaun’? The bungalow in that movie was very costly, wasn’t it?. And DDLJ is very much in the list too. Its not the class that matters, its the theme of the movie which the Indian audience likes. Of course, KANK and many other movies of KJo were blunders. But, thanks to people like Suraj Barjatya and KJo, Indian lower middle class families could really walk in the theaters to enjoy the same old family value movies, instead of getting into the trap of highly real intellectual movies. I have nothing against the real cinema. But I think, ‘super star’ in India works a little differently. A ‘super star’ is someone who can reach to any level of audience with a strong sense of emotional attachment. I’m keeping my Mother in mind while I write. I mean just take away all the movies SRK and Big B has done. What have we left with? Whatever movie names she remembers has SRK or Big B in it. I know most will disagree, but Bollywood dhinchak dhamaka movies cannot be replaced by anything else ever. May be that’s the reason despite of his over acting, SRK manages to crush every other star and the media with an ease. Trying for first day first show.
