Honey Irani wrote DDLJ? - Page 4

Originally posted by: prerna4rishav

I dont understand Sunny’s frustration TBH. The story was always from the perspective of the villain. Of course the villain would get more screenspace. Didnt YRF also offer the role to Sunny and Sunny rejected as he didn’t want to play a negative role ?

It was an experimental movie with no such film being made by then projecting the villain as main character. And Sunny was the hero of the movie and Sunny did rescue the heroine from the villain. 🤔 I dont yet see how it is YRF’s fault exactly.

Because Sunny wasn’t told this when he signed the movie. The story about Yash Chopra refusing Aamir’s request for joint narration is true according to Aamir Khan himself. Sunny Deol had a completely different idea of what the movie was when he signed it.

Everything's slightly vague ... there's still more to this story ? 😒

Originally posted by: Daebak

Looks like Kareena has said this to every filmmaker in Bollywood at least once😆

https://www.ibtimes.co.in/sanjay-leela-bhansali-doesnt-know-how-make-films-said-kareena-kapoor-throwback-810753

Sunny's issue must have been SRK getting 2 romantic, top songs and those songs playing on TV all day, SRK featured more in promotional material compared to him.

SRK has been main highlight of the film and others look like supporting actors in it. Whereas Sunny must have been told he was hero and SRK was villain. But film hardly looks anything like it and audience was rooting for SRK instead.

How can we ascertain who wrote what? Like we do not have any idea who contributed more in Salim Javed films and who wrote what.

So how do we know what parts were written by Honey Irani?

Originally posted by: atominis

How can we ascertain who wrote what? Like we do not have any idea who contributed more in Salim Javed films and who wrote what.

So how do we know what parts were written by Honey Irani?

Not "we"...That's exactly why I don't give a damn...because if one wants credit (and don't get any), one could be more specific for what one wants it (not just saying "I contributed"). So, did she say what her contribution was?

Originally posted by: atominis

Sunny's issue must have been SRK getting 2 romantic, top songs and those songs playing on TV all day, SRK featured more in promotional material compared to him.

SRK has been main highlight of the film and others look like supporting actors in it. Whereas Sunny must have been told he was hero and SRK was villain. But film hardly looks anything like it and audience was rooting for SRK instead.

Sunny's issue with YRF, Yashji and Darr is HIS issue...and honestly, I've NO interest at all to ponder about HIS issue.

Fact is that SRK is the villain and Sunny the (positive and WINNING hero). It was neither Yashji's nor the script's fault that Sunny lost out...it was SRK's performance that made people root for him although being a violent stalker of the woman he was obsessed with. The love songs belonged to Rahul's desire to have Kiran like that in his life - they were essentiel to make his obsession a psychopathic one.

SRK's performance simply topped the rather bland performance Sunny gave, latter being miles away from SRK's intensity and belief that Kiran would finally accept his love and love him back...SRK was so convincing in portraying a deranged mind that one started to pity him instead of loathing him.

Whatever Aamir told may be true as a fact or true only in his mind. That again is of NO interest. He didn't want to do this role...he supposedly didn't see it as a movie-defining role. Yet that was exactly what SRK did. He saw Rahul as the one who leads the movie, who is the main protagonist, who gets the most attention...and he acted accordingly. He just was much more of an actor as Sunny was...Sunny felt undervalued, so he played accordingly. SRK - in the contrary - was adamant to be valued...and played accordingly. For him, Rahul was a lover who wanted nothing else than his (kind of) love being valued by Kiran. For Rahul, Sunil was the 'villain' and he the hero...so SRK played accordingly to that, too.

This forte of SRK to understand the character he plays and make people getting strong feelings for/against this character, that was what Yashji (and/or Aditiya) saw in SRK's Baazigar (and if I remember right, Yashji watched SRK's role in Mani Kaul's Idiot (Ahamaq) before casting him).

Originally posted by: atominis

Sunny's issue must have been SRK getting 2 romantic, top songs and those songs playing on TV all day, SRK featured more in promotional material compared to him.

SRK has been main highlight of the film and others look like supporting actors in it. Whereas Sunny must have been told he was hero and SRK was villain. But film hardly looks anything like it and audience was rooting for SRK instead.

But don’t you think it was rather immature to be so salty about all this considering SRK’s one song was shot in SWZ (tu mere saamne) whereas Sunny’s one song (unfortunately forgot the song) was also shot there. During the making of the movie how’d you know which song will stick more with the audience ? Like till date I cannot figure out how Mehendi Lagake Rakhna won FF beating Tujhe Dekha that year, but apparently MLR was and is more popular. 🤔 Sunny’s songs with Juhi in the movie was beautiful too. It’s just that people wanted more of Tu Hai Meri Kiran. ☺️ A lot of that gotta do with SRK’s theatrical portrayal and charm too. His way of expressing through those eyes were addictive and kind of new to the industry. He was a hammer for sure, still you couldn’t get enough of that when he talks or thinks about Kkkkiran.

When I’d hear a movie is about hero rescuing heroine from the villain being the MAIN story of the movie, I’d really get the message that all 3 characters must be equally important to pull off a 3 hr movie JUST on that. 🤔 Isn’t it Sunny’s shortsightedness to think anything otherwise ? But I agree that Darr was one of the initial movies back then where villains started to get a solid backstory which is much necessary in the form of art. Anti-heroes are one of us gone bad in wiring due to one incident or the other in life. Not just local goons with muscles are the only types of villains. I am glad it started that way and Sunny just didn’t see it coming probably. I read Sunny’s points on arguing with Yash Ji how can a commando of Indian Army get stabbed or beaten by a rookie commoner. 😆 Poor guy was too technical. But Yashji’s vision was different.

Strictly my 2 cents.

Why are the Deols pissed?

Aditya Chopra has always seemed like a shady character. His shitck of being invisible/being out of the public eye has always felt deliberate and phony.