Those of you who liked Omkara (and especially, Saif in it) may have been pleasantly surprised by what Shri Khan pulled off -I for one, was hunh-was-that-reallySaif-amazed.
I remember hating him in his "Ole -Ole" days - primarily because I couldn't determine if he was the leading man or lady. Secondarily because of his voice that could set most car alarms off.
So we had another star kid asserting his star kid-ness upon us. Ho hum. Click. Next channel.
Sometime in this period of generally ignoring him, I happened to watch Ek Hasina Thi. Being a Ramu film, it didn't seem too unsafe an option to commit a couple hours to. So I went - and was pleasantly surprised to find that Shri Khan had finally found a hiarstyle that conveyed gender unambiguously, clothes that looked nice on him, a worked-on physique that made those martial arts moves extremely credible, and importantly, a role that suited him well (he plays a suave, rather brash conman who deceives belles for his pleasure and twisted ends)!
The know-it-all that I clearly am, I remember telling myself then - This guy has finally found his groove. After Omkara, he certainly has. And how.
I could never have imagined him playing the role of Langda Tyagi the way he did. From the 10 plus word expletive (translation available upon request) while playing marbles, to the brutally rural (or rurally brutal) hairstyle, to the properly yellow teeth, to the theth accent all through. The chhota nawaab in him doesn't surface for a second.
Of course, credit in no small measure to Shri Bhardwaj for making another haleem-esque, emotionally rich film, which lets such characters shine out. And kudos all the more to him for (in Shri Khan's words) "...believing that somebody like (Saif) could've done something like this..."
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6 comments:
saif has truely become the most reliable actor in bollywood...he seems to have a taste 4 everything...comedy-romance-villian-hero-....name it...the guy can pull off any role...ur right omkara stands like a masterpiece because of him....he simply blew my heart away by that role...undisputed perfection,that's what i wud say ........saifu u rock!
dude - while i agree on most counts, you sound like you're dying to shag him! easy now!!! :)
very well written...and whatay performance by Saif, langda tyagi rocked in the movie!
hey saif seems to have developed as a matured actor...I fully agree to the fact that Saif can do every kind of role irrespective of the character...he really rocks...We can see that in Tara-Rum-Pum..he was gr888888...cheers to SAIF...
finally-I found tera wala blog. and dangerously enough, i could imagine the words in ur voice-with the shake a minute head and the wave a second hand movements :D Lage raho. have you seen this movie called 'parampara'? saif, aamir, raveena and neelam at their ridiculous best :D
to q^2 -
on discovering my blog: welcome to fine reading :P
on parampara - sounds positively scary. the closest i've come to this is the vanilla coke ad - "param param param param paramparaa - WACKAW!!" :))
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