Even my son, who's 17 says it's NOT SRK, it's the quality of writers and of product considered "Bollywood" worthy that is screwing SRK over.
Look, at Leo DiCapario...so WHAT if he's not a "teen heartthrob" anymore? He can do and DOES do ADULT roles.
Just as no 19 year old could play Jay Gatsby Leo can and does so brilliantly.
Any failings of that film were, therefore attributed to the film, not to Leo.
So now he will be playing Rasputin (it seems) hardly a pretty boy in his early 20s but a very compelling character for a MAN.
Bollywood, can't or won't bother to develop good roles for adult men. Salman is basically a drawn out action joke, a la Sylvester Stallone. Luckily that works in India after more than a decade of hearts & flowers boy-meets-girl romance.
But as long as the only films that are written are written for guys in ARK's age group those guys will be the only ones capable of playing them.
Aamir, is forced to take time between films so as to find material and develop it to suit himself...as lord knows no one else is willing or able to move past 20-something hot guy falls for 20-something hot girl...preferably while she's wearing shorts and a bra top to go food shopping----cuz that shizz happens ALL THE TIME, right?
There is NO REASON, SRK shouldn't have been able to become a star on par with Johnny Depp, who is my age, and no reason he shouldn't be able to do quality work like Sridevi's English Vinglish, which proved her to still be a quality performer and one worth paying out the money for.
Seriously, if any of you all are writers you need to set your minds to creating a script worthy of SRK or that poor man will be gone (as a box office entity) in a few years.
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