Re: SRK/Who does this ng represent?

>> And SRK is largely a romantic/melodrama specialist.
>
>Heh, there can be only two kinds of commercial movies in
>the world - that focussing on action or love. Wayne used
>to do only western movies which is one category of
>action movies. SRK has done movies of different types
>based on love. A Devdas is completely different character 
>than his characters in Mohabatein or a K3G. An Amitabh
>used to be famous for only action movies like Lawaris or 
>Don or Deewar though the characters in them were different.
>A Rajesh Khanna used to do only love stories but i can vouch
>that the characters in Aradhana or an Amar Prem were 
>completely different. All these claims of SRK being stereotyped 
>is nothing else but bilge.
>

I'm not sure why you brought up AB or Rajesh Khanna.  I don't think very highly
of them either.

>> The difference is that Cruise, in this stage of his career, does a variety
>of
>> films.
>
>Like porno "Eyes wide shut"? C'mon, Cruise is actually no longer
>giving hits like before and so has invariably gone to do 
>roles with realistic scripts. Till he was a Box Office king, he
>used to do movies like Days of Thunder, Cocktail etc. Every actor
>or actress goes into arty roles once their films fail at the
>BO by a dozen so that they can remain in the news. 

Cruise can't do Cocktail and Risky Business forever.  He has to grow as an
actor, or he won't have any credibility.  The Last Samurai will do well at the
box office.  SRK is a huge star, and he has the ability to choose more esoteric
roles occasionally.

> Take Karisma or 
>Raveena or Tabu for example. No one does them because of the liking 
>for such films. An Ajay Devgan is doing those small-budget movies
>because most of his big-budget ones have failed. That dosen't mean you
>start blaming the actors who are commercial successes for not doing
>realistic scripts.
>

When an actor is as big a star as SRK, he can go after interesting roles.  He
doesn't have to stay in the Yash Chopra/Karan Johar school of filmmaking all
the time.

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