Lets settle this once and for all - Page 5

Originally posted by: -SalShah4eva-

hmm

Originally posted by: WhipCreamPantie

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You make it sound like this is some kind of a war that needs to be settled😆

Originally posted by: PigBenis

You make it sound like this is some kind of a war that needs to be settled😆

Talent- Aamir

Acting- Aamir n SRK

Resume- SRK

Future- Unpredictable.

So both are even IMO.

KRK rocks!👏

The day SRK-Aamir-Sallu do a Deshdrohi and do a better job, I shall revise my opinion!🤔

Originally posted by: blue-ice

Very nice analysis Skepblun...i m impressed...loved the highlighted part...especially the one in blue...[/DIV]

OK so this question has been on my mind ever since the Forbes article came out and u r the best person to answer it here...Do u think that in the last five years the movie choices that shahrukh has made has anything to do with his business and other ventures...I mean the way he is expanding his business...i doubt if he is even paying attention to his BW career...what do u think?

Thanks. I think I'd said the same in Forbes thread itself. SRK's choices did suffer in movies. He started getting into business from late 90s. And his quality of work also began to deteriorate from previous standards.

I feel his films now are there mainly to make money and further his business interests. He stuck to Chopras and Johar, and these films do get success (if not record breaking, they aren't flops either). I think he's obsessed with being big. He's more at home in a film like MHN than a Swades. He'll promote films like MHN, VZ, OSO but will underplay attempts like Swades. Swades had no promotion at all, CDI was less promoted compared to a typical SRK film (he and YRF promoted it on basis of the song, whereas if an Aamir had done such a film, he'd have gone all out doing promotional matches or even speaking on TV debates on gender, sports and dire straits of sport in India and in process he'd have gained far more from the film than a mere Best actor award).

SRK's more about business now. Seriously the badshah title would have ceased to exist for him long time back if not for his success in other areas.

He's also obsessed about global popularity and overseas fans. Sadly another excuse for him to stick more to YRF/Johar and to his romantic/entertainer image. More often than not, he's trying to please that fanbase and hence losing out on different projects, like, say, a Robot or Munnabhai MBBS. For that fanbase only he puts love/romance even in a film like MNIK. Trends in India, tastes of viewers in India don't seem to matter to him now. Result is for all to see. He's getting those global awards every year and films are top grossers abroad but in India his films only play catch-up with records of rivals' films.

Nowadays it seems as if he is not bothered about quality or reception of the film as long as it is making profits.

He looks way more aged than his contemporaries also because he's overworked with all he's involved in.

I personally prefer him in 90s films. Not the ones now, where he seems as he's just doing his job, going through the routine. In attempts to expand business, he's lost touch with changing trends in audience tastes in India. He may have redefined business in entertainment industry, but has ceased to reinvent himself whereas his rivals have succeeded precisely because they reinvented themselves and came to know pulse of their audience in India.

These two are hard to compare since they're so different from each other. They're almost polar opposites😆 One loves the limelight and being a star, the other seems to be uninterested in some ways. Aamir seems more into politics IMHO. What they share is a HUGE ego. But anyways:

...Call me crazy and super biased, whatever else you want ( I'm probably all of them 😆) but I think SRK can act the pants off of Aamir given a good script + good director.

Resume wise, they're totally different again. Aamir has more "complete" films in terms of everything coming together, and his BO has strengthened over the last 5-6 years tremendously. SRK has been far more consistent over the last 20 years. So equal-ish I guess?

Future, kal kisne dekha hai? 😆
Though: I see Aamir moving into politics more actively...whereas SRK is anyways very much obsessed with his business empire and making it BIG.

@Skepblun

You're right. SRK is obsessed with being BIG, leaving a mark everywhere. He hasn't changed in that way at all...from claiming he'd own Mumbai one day, to saying things like that he wants his films to be so damn big that his parents can watch them from heaven which is essentially just an extension of "I want to be so damn big, so well known that my parents can see my success from heaven", to everything he said in that Forbes interview about expanding and all...no change. And yes, somewhere in that obsession, he has let his film career take a backseat, he has lost the pulse on the audience...on the common man who isn't running as fast as he is.

@Chocolover89

But good scripts or stories are not what SRK looks at. I doubt if he even has judgement of good stories. He seems to judge names of people associated with a project. Not the subject matter.

As an actor he was far better till the brand/King Khan thing went into his head.

Aamir in politics? Maybe. He seems to be flaunting his religious identity, family man image, illustrious lineage, activism a lot more since last 3 years. Even if not a politician, I think he will emerge as a public intellectual/activist in mould of Javed and Shabana.

Aamir has always puzzled me. At times he goes all out, hogging limelight and doing commercial films like he did in 2008. At times he goes reclusive, takes total arthouse films or leaves films completely to do some activism or something. I see him as a moody, whimsical man who's unpredictable and can't be slotted under labels. He's mostly in a state of flux. He does what he wants to do at that moment and will become obsessed with making it a success. You can't even be sure about his future projects till the time they actually release, considering how many of his prestigious projects were announced but never happened (Lajjo, some Vishal Bharadwaj film etc.). His interviews or work he does - anything we see outside, are not enough to understand what he actually is and where he'll actually end up.

You never know if he someday decides to chuck everything and start a farm like Mansoor! He's talked often about starting a farm like him (in interviews since 1994). I find him to be a mann-mauji type. He'll always be counted among "one of the" biggest stars/filmmakers in Indian cinema - that's about it. But I don't see him getting superlatives which an Amitabh or a Dilip Kumar or Kamal Haasan get.

Choco & Skepblun