AIYYO?
There was a cartoon floating around cyberspace in which a woman leads a man looking like SRK home and tells her astonished husband, “I found him in the market. He said he’d do the household chores for a day if we promise to see his film.” Totally captured the mood.
Shah Rukh Khan’s Ra One (Anubhav Sinha’s actually, but how many interviews of the director have appeared?) is supposedly the most expensive film ever made, and with this kind of hit ’em on the head and drag them to the moviehall marketing, it will probably recover its investment. But here was a true-blue sci-fi film from Bollywood that had the opportunity to drag Hindi cinema up by its bootstraps into today… tomorrow, even. Not only does it fail to impress beyond the usual low expectation, ‘timepass’ levels, it was pipped to the post by Endhiran/Robot.
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