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Originally posted by: ThaneOfElsinore

Thank you. 🤣🤣

Honestly, I really loved his performance in Baazigar and Darr. Those are my favourite SRK films. The hits are actually quite boring to me (sorry again) since they don't have the repeat value (I feel so, again apologies) and the concepts are quite weird. In DDLG, I couldn't fathom how Kajol's character, Simran could potentially end up with Raj because he literally stalked her throughout Europe. What on earth! Although I understand the 90s portrayed such behaviour as insistent courtship and true, charming love, but Simran clearly wasn't interested in him before he started deliberately intruding into her personal life.

In KKHH, the whole "pyaar dosti hai" messed up really big time. Also, I couldn't understand how an eight year old girl could do and say all that in the 90s! The letters were quite strange, considering the fact that Rani's character gave up completely and named her after Anjali. Alright, that's poignant. But why did she think that Anjali could possibly reunite her father's pehla pyaar, pehli dosti on her freaking eighth birthday?! We won't go into the contemporary criticism themed around gender dynamics of the film because I have taken a pledge to limit my words. The film to me was nothing but SRK's Rahul finally getting both the girls and Salmon Bhai was left alone, crying. I feel you, Savlon Bhai.

K3G was Ekta Kapoor inspired or Ekta Maata's inspiration (since I am not sure about the timeline; it's the same question of what came first: the egg or the chicken). It was a soap opera stretched for 3 hours and the film was stretched like a chewing gum literally, for the size of the theatre screen. It had the same tropes, same 3 generations, same heavy makeup, same weird catchphrases (think Poo), same ghar waapsi, same mother and mother-in-law, same Jaya and BigB passive fight, and a melodramatic background music. I really thought about SRK's choices when I saw that film.

Raju Bana Gentleman was a comic relief. I liked it. Kal Ho Naa Ho was pretty good. But others like the later 2000s to 2010s, I absolutely dislike. Mohabbatein was a rip-off of one of my favourite films in Hollywood - Dead Poets Society. They did a fair job but not convincing. And I have a special corner for hating Chennai Express in my heart. Rightfully so. 😤🤣

P. S. But I like the songs in his movies. I even parodied them as you all know.

Baazigar is the only SRK movie that I like. I was 8 years old when the movie released and I was living in Dehradun back then, I would keep going to the cable wale uncle and tell him uncle Baazigar lagao almost every evening!

A fun fact - since I was a child and did not know the actors names, for some time I was thinking Kajol's name is SRK because when the baazigar o baazigar song in trailer would come on DD, on Kajol's picture, Shah Rukh Khan's name would come so I thought her name is SRK. It was my mother who broke my bubble one day!

Originally posted by: ThaneOfElsinore

Thank you. 🤣🤣

Honestly, I really loved his performance in Baazigar and Darr. Those are my favourite SRK films. The hits are actually quite boring to me (sorry again) since they don't have the repeat value (I feel so, again apologies) and the concepts are quite weird. In DDLG, I couldn't fathom how Kajol's character, Simran could potentially end up with Raj because he literally stalked her throughout Europe. What on earth! Although I understand the 90s portrayed such behaviour as insistent courtship and true, charming love, but Simran clearly wasn't interested in him before he started deliberately intruding into her personal life.

In KKHH, the whole "pyaar dosti hai" messed up really big time. Also, I couldn't understand how an eight year old girl could do and say all that in the 90s! The letters were quite strange, considering the fact that Rani's character gave up completely and named her after Anjali. Alright, that's poignant. But why did she think that Anjali could possibly reunite her father's pehla pyaar, pehli dosti on her freaking eighth birthday?! We won't go into the contemporary criticism themed around gender dynamics of the film because I have taken a pledge to limit my words. The film to me was nothing but SRK's Rahul finally getting both the girls and Salmon Bhai was left alone, crying. I feel you, Savlon Bhai.

K3G was Ekta Kapoor inspired or Ekta Maata's inspiration (since I am not sure about the timeline; it's the same question of what came first: the egg or the chicken). It was a soap opera stretched for 3 hours and the film was stretched like a chewing gum literally, for the size of the theatre screen. It had the same tropes, same 3 generations, same heavy makeup, same weird catchphrases (think Poo), same ghar waapsi, same mother and mother-in-law, same Jaya and BigB passive fight, and a melodramatic background music. I really thought about SRK's choices when I saw that film.

Raju Bana Gentleman was a comic relief. I liked it. Kal Ho Naa Ho was pretty good. But others like the later 2000s to 2010s, I absolutely dislike. Mohabbatein was a rip-off of one of my favourite films in Hollywood - Dead Poets Society. They did a fair job but not convincing. And I have a special corner for hating Chennai Express in my heart. Rightfully so. 😤🤣

P. S. But I like the songs in his movies. I even parodied them as you all know.

Chennai Express is absolutely pathetic! I don't know why it became so popular!

Originally posted by: shwetha85

Baazigar is the only SRK movie that I like. I was 8 years old when the movie released and I was living in Dehradun back then, I would keep going to the cable wale uncle and tell him uncle Baazigar lagao almost every evening!

A fun fact - since I was a child and did not know the actors names, for some time I was thinking Kajol's name is SRK because when the baazigar o baazigar song in trailer would come on DD, on Kajol's picture, Shah Rukh Khan's name would come so I thought her name is SRK. It was my mother who broke my bubble one day!

Same here! It's only Baazigar for me as well. I absolutely love the songs in that film. Especially that "Chhupana Bhi Nahi Aata" and "Baazigar O Baazigar". That's one film that thrilled me when I first watched it. I feel SRK did well in that obsessive, anti-hero role.

@Bold: You thought Kajol was SRK! That's funny! I used to think that they're married in real life. I think everyone did. The bubble broke when I read an article about Kajol and Ajay Devgn on the entertainment page of the newspaper when I was 10.

Originally posted by: shwetha85

Baazigar is the only SRK movie that I like. I was 8 years old when the movie released and I was living in Dehradun back then, I would keep going to the cable wale uncle and tell him uncle Baazigar lagao almost every evening!

A fun fact - since I was a child and did not know the actors names, for some time I was thinking Kajol's name is SRK because when the baazigar o baazigar song in trailer would come on DD, on Kajol's picture, Shah Rukh Khan's name would come so I thought her name is SRK. It was my mother who broke my bubble one day!

I was 8 when Kuch Kuch Hota Hai released. I watched it in a cinema hall. I know many people criticise it. But I like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.

Originally posted by: Shirsha

I was 8 when Kuch Kuch Hota Hai released. I watched it in a cinema hall. I know many people criticise it. But I like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.

I was 13 when KKHH came and I too saw it in the theater at Mumbai with my mom and younger sister. In 1995, we shifted to Mumbai from Dehradun. So, I now know that I am 5 years older to you Shirsha

Originally posted by: shwetha85

I was 13 when KKHH came and I too saw it in the theater at Mumbai with my mom and younger sister. In 1995, we shifted to Mumbai from Dehradun. So, I now know that I am 5 years older to you Shirsha

Do you have parents who were in the All India Services, Shwetha? You seem to have done a lot of moving.

Originally posted by: ThaneOfElsinore

Same here! It's only Baazigar for me as well. I absolutely love the songs in that film. Especially that "Chhupana Bhi Nahi Aata" and "Baazigar O Baazigar". That's one film that thrilled me when I first watched it. I feel SRK did well in that obsessive, anti-hero role.

@Bold: You thought Kajol was SRK! That's funny! I used to think that they're married in real life. I think everyone did. The bubble broke when I read an article about Kajol and Ajay Devgn on the entertainment page of the newspaper when I was 10.

Yes, in the song trailer, SRK's name would come over Kajol's dance on baazigar o baazigar and I thought that it is her name. Such a naive childbut then of course my mother broke the bubble and explained.

Originally posted by: ThaneOfElsinore

Do you have parents who were in the All India Services, Shwetha? You seem to have done a lot of moving.

My father was in ONGC, he was a geophysicist and did oil exploration so we lived in Dehradun, Mumbai and when I was ready for engineering, he was transferred back to Chennai. I didnt wanted to live separately so I moved along with them to Chennai and did my engineering there. Then of course moved to the US and for the past 17 years now living here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkHjRwQC8fs

Not really sure, what is he trying to say here. To me, it feels like read between the lines!!

Originally posted by: shwetha85

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkHjRwQC8fs

Not really sure, what is he trying to say here. To me, it feels like read between the lines!!

What was that..? 😂😂🤦‍♀️🤣🤣

I like the fact that he said such toxic characters acche lagte, "I hope not", par acche lagte hain... That was so fresh coming from an actor. I like the fact that he acknowledges the forced nature of such characters in most narratives due to audience pressure. He does seem a lot more disappointed with the change and reveals that OG Neil's character was tough for him because it was different from recent MLs and the roles he himself has played in the past. But why was he speaking so much at length about co-actors and what they bring to the table?! 😂 Reading between the lines toh pakka sab karenge. 😂 Especially the co-actor's level part. 🤦‍♀️ I also felt that he seemed disconnected from the interview. The blurred background looked weird to me. I seriously don't know why I notice such insignificant things. 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️