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a guy wearing pink is showing how mentally strong he is!

So...chak de phatte

Next: Srk doing special appearance in Heyy Babyy

chak de phatee,
next shahrukh in kaal title song

heyy guys howr u all srkian . i wount be very active from today but the good news is that library us near to my work so i can came onilne for half and hour in if durng my break. i am so happy. 😆 lucky mee 😆 😳

here's the video of srk in heyy baby enjoy

http://www.indiafm.com/broadband/video/Movie-Promos/g8whPd99 /2/Mast-Kalandar-Heyy-Babyy.html

^It' Says the link isn't working! 😕

then i guess guyz go directly to india fm and u can see it there must say he's looking hot in black with akki

Will try to check it out!!

Thanks!! 😳

Chak de Phatte

Next: Srk in Heyy Babyy

What has gone into Yashraj?

By Subhash K Jha

With Chak De India, Yashraj Films has decided to do what the banner has been seriously contemplating for a long while.

The most illustrious and productive production house in the country has finally gone experimental with their commercial entertainment.

No no. Don't get them wrong. They aren't going into the offbeat mode. If they wanted to, they would've done so with Feroz Abbas Khan's Gandhi My Father which Yashraj took on, and then decided against it after burning their fingers distributing the other Gandhian film Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara.

What Chak De India signals is a bolder braver and more audacious phase in Yashraj's distinguished existence.

It's simple, really. With Shah Rukh Khan in his only Yashraj outing so far not directed by either father or son Chopra but by the US-returned one-experimental-film old Shimit Amin, the banner could have played up SRK's Rohit-Rahul-Raj image.

Instead they have cast SRK in his most unorthodox image-defying role ever. As the red-eyed burnt-out coach of an all-girls' team in Chak De India SRK has neither songs nor a leading lady to reckon with.

Whenever the superstar has tried something unexpected, for example Ashutosh Gowariker's Swades he has been greeted by a far-from-overhwhelming audience response.

But is the banner daunted by the possibility of the masses staying away from a film about an out-of-favour game (albeit featured a furiously favoured lead star)?

Not the least. Chak De India is being released with the same fanfare that we associate traditionally with the banner.

And that isn't all. Their two other big releases this year would again push the envelope…but oh so glamorously.

Pradeep Sarkar's Laga Chunri Mein Daag moves ahead of the expected ambit by showing the eldest daughter of a respectable Brahmin family bending the rules of morality for the family's sake.

The last film that showed the daughter of the house taking to an unconventional profession to keep the kitchen fires burning was K Balachander's Aaina in 1974.

The film despite its powerful plot and treatment, bombed.

Says a source close to Yashraj, "The banner is hoping that audiences today have matured beyond watching Shah Rukh as a lover-boy, or cringing if Rani does something unthinkable."

Keeping this in mind the banner has also got Aaja Nachle on release. The film casts 40-year old Madhuri Dixit in the lead and has the theatre at its background.

Again,an offbeat gambit….and one that shows the way Bollywood's most illustrious banner is heading.

And contrary to rumours not one frame is being re-shot in any of the above films.

In fact the seeds of change are to be seen in Yashraj's earlier releases this year, Tara Rum Pum Pum dragged the Indian middleclass' poverty line to the US and Jhoom Baraabar Jhoom was so wacky it was indecipherable to the average viewer.

Hopefully with Chak De India Yashraj will find a more meaningful mtier in its 30 year existence.

http://www.santabanta.com/cinema.asp?pid=16316

'Chak De' makes me look different

Shah Rukh Khan's first out-and-out sporty endeavour 'Chak De! India' releases this week (August 10). TIMES NOW correspondent Pratiksha Menon got him talking about his scruffy look in the film and why he supports feminism.

Interview excerpts

Pratiksha: Is this film an experiment, and do you believe in its feminist theme?

Shahrukh: This is a message about how sports should be nurtured in our country and women should be nurtured in our country. I'd like to do a film about women every year, but I don't like the bra-burning type of movies where they say 'Zakhmi Aurat' etc. But if you make films like this (Chak De), and perhaps like me also talk about it like (in the film), women will get confident and say why not you're right - women are educated, pretty, they do as well as guys. Especially in my line of work - from the actresses to working in the technical aspect - the other day a woman cameraperson was shooting me, she does fantastic work. Even a 'liberated' person like me thought, my God isn't a camera too big for a girl? So even I sometimes think stupidly, like a man.

The film is different, it doesn't have a heroine, it doesn't have a love story. It's got 16 new girls, it does not have a song, it does not have a villain, it does not have Shahrukh Khan in Switzerland. I just did it because I wanted to play hockey once again.

Pratiksha: How rigorous was working on Chak De for you... was it physically taxing?

Shahrukh: I am sportsman by nature, and physically also, I like to play games so I continue playing games whenever I get a chance. Hockey was something I had not played for a long time and so I had to go back to it and play for a couple of days. I used to play after pack-up or while training with them (team) - there was the stick and a ball and the girls were there and so you just start playing. I did play for about a month, and yes, it was difficult. I tore my hamstring, though I was not even playing full out. I wasnot bedridden but I couldn't walk around for a month. And the by the time we came to shoot in Delhi I was still strapped.

But no, it wasn't rigorous for me. I have had two knee surgeries and on my ankles, they hurt when the cold sets in, the bones pain. I need to take injections - yeah that happens! But it happens even if I am doing a dance. So that's not a big issue.

Pratiksha: Your scruffy look is going down very well with the ladies. Was it intentional?

Shahrukh: You know there's an 'eight years ago' period, and I come back in the film eight years later. I think I was unshaven, I wasn't working that time, I had just finished 'Don'. I was on time off and I was not well and I think Adi (Aditya Chopra) and everyone came and said, Hey will you keep the beard? So I kept it since its for just one film I was doing, because I have never grown a beard...Yeah, it looks nice. I saw the film three days ago. You know, on television sometimes or personally, when I look at it it looks scruffy and not very clean. But when I saw it on screen, it looked very nice - at least for the character. It makes me look different. It's a nice crutch to an actor. I look very different and it seems I am acting different.

The character's name is Kabir Khan - he doesn't have a beard because he is Muslim, but it just feels nice in the scheme of things. He is supposed to be a bit of an older person, for the girls so it gives a kind of maturity.

(Interview by Pratiksha Menon)

http://www.timesnow.tv/Newsdtls.aspx?NewsID=1860