Desi Galaxy

Thank God, Bollywood celebrities have finally realized the impact of the internet on public opinion. At first some bollywood stars started from blogging which gave them the taste of communicating directly with fans and followers. But seems like blogging is too difficult for them because of their busy schedules. So many have found Twitter, the microblogging site a great alternative for traditional blogging. Below are the links to some of the bollywood stars on Twitter.

Shahrukh Khan, The charasmatic Shahrukh Khan tweets about his kids, family and friends on his twitter account. He also lets you see a glimpse of the film making world. Shahrukh didn’t like ipad’s spell checker he tweeted that it keeps dictating like a nagging elder. Noticing Shahrukh’s discomfort with ipad Amitabh Bachchan suggested him in a reply that he should try iphone4

Amitabh Bachchan on Twitter, The legendary Hindi Film actor is very active on twitter. He communicates effectively with the people he is following such as Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan and many other Bollywood related people.

Aamir Khan on TwitterAamir Khan’s tweets are very casual. He recently congratulated Karan Johar and Imran Khan on the success of their movies. He is also following the football worldcup.

There are many other bollywood celebrities on Twitter, such as Karan Johar, Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone . However some of the Hindi Movie Stars didn’t bother getting their Twitter accounts verified. Verified twitter accounts come with a Verified Account logo.

3 Idiots aka Three Idiots is Aamir Khan’s upcoming movie which is produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and directed by Rajkumar Hirani the duo has worked together in the akha Mumbai me world famous series of Munna Bhai. So the expectations from the movie are great and since it has Aamir Khan playing one of the lead roles the expectations are even greater. 3 Idiots is based upon Chetan Bhagat‘s novel “Five point someone” which was the highest selling English novel in India. The movie has an amazing star cast, starring Amir khan as Rancho, Madhavan as Hari, Sharman as Alok, Kareena Kapoor as Neha kurien and Boman Irani as professor Kurien.

Story of Three idiots revolves around the lives of three students (Three Idiots) at IIT Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. The movie depicts the lives of young students in universities. The younger audience is the prime target audience of the movie. Aamir Khan has previously played the role of a college student in “Dil chata hai” and “Rang De Basanti”. Both did amazingly well at the box office.

When offered the role Amir Khan was worried to be part of this film because he did not fit into the age group. Aamir initially reluctant to play a 20 something at the age of 44. But Aamir is one of those actors who are good to get make overs for their movies to fit into roles so he worked hard to make sure that he looks younger than what he looked in “Dil Chahta hai” and “Rang De Basanti”.

Director Rajkumar Hirani has said, that he was unable to find the perfect younger combination for the three lead chracters so instead he decided to go with more experienced actors like Aamir khan, Madhavan and Sharman Joshi to do the job.

Kareena kapoor plays Aamir khan’s love interest in the movie. This is Aamir and Kareena’s first time together in a movie. Aamir Khan has done “Raja hindustani” with Kareena Kapoor’s elder sister Karishma Kapoor and the chemistry between the two looked magical on the silver screen. Today the same Aamir is coming with BeBo and audiences are curious to know if they could create the magic again. Director Rajkumar Hirani understood the need to create magic on screen so according to some sources there are three lip to lip kissing scenes between Kareena and Aamir Khan. Kajol will appear in guest role and T.V. actress Mona singh is also playing a small roll in the film.

The music of 3 Idiots is average. Song “Zoobi Doobi” is a nice song.The song video is amazing and kareena, Aamir khan look good together. Release date for the movie is December 25.Now, lets see if the movie becomes a box office hit or a flop.

Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan working together in a movie? Well yes, there is a very good chance that we will soon be able to see the greatest Hindi movie stars of our times together on the screen in Danny Boyle‘s upcoming movie. Entertainment media is being informed by reliable sources that Aamir Khan has already signed and Shahrukh Khan is seriously considering the role offered to him. As you all Know that the role played by Anil Kapoor in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ was first offered to Shahrukh Khan but at that time Shahrukh Khan was busy with ‘Rab ne Bana Di Jodi’ and ‘My name is Khan’.

Shahrukh Khan hasn’t had any major movie release since ‘Rab ne Bana di Jodi’. His next major release would be ‘My name is Khan’ which is still on the sets and is expected to be released next year. But you know Shahrukh, he is not just an actor. In his own words he is an entertainer whose job is to entertain people and make money from it. So he is making money other ways. He appears in advertisements of countless products, has a cricket team of his own, he is also trying to mentor a team in Dance Premier League. At the age of 43 he is more energetic that teenagers, a true workaholic and an Indian icon that Newsweek ranked as one of the 50 most powerful people in the world.

We hope that Shahrukh Khan agrees to work in Danny Boyle’s movie. It will be like a dream come true for the audiences of the Hindi Cinema who has waited so long for this great moment. Not only it would be great fun to see this movie starring two greatest actors, it will be also a historical moment in the history of Hindi Cinema.

Hrithik Roshan has won Filmfare award for best actor 2008 for the movie Jodha Akbar. However, Aamir Khan’s fans are disappointed by jury’s decission. There was debate going on between Aamir Khan and Shahrukh Khan’s fans about who will win the award this year. But jury’s decission to pick up Hrithik Roshan has surprised many. I think that Hrithik deserved the award for his role as Akbar the great in Jodha Akbar, but even I am surprised. I didn’t thought that the judges will ignore the popular opinion and would instead pick up the better actor.

Aamir Khan’s performance in Ghajini is been lauded by critics and masses alike. I personally don’t think that it was an out standing performance. It was good but not amazingly well done. In fact when I saw Ghajini I was kind of surprised that how stereo typical Aamir acted in the movie. The stories of revenge, obsessive lovers and violence are nothing new to viewers. We have seen such roles before and even though Aamir peformed extremely good in his role still it was a story told many times before. Some people are also blaming Aamir’s attitude towards awards specially Filmfare. He once even sued Filmfare for using pictures for award ceremony promotions.

Shahrukh Khan’s Rab ne Bana di Jodi was a light romantic movie. King Khan surely knows how to charm the audiences but it was not the kind of role that people will never forget. It was good but not one of his best performances. He has previously acted much better than that for example in Paheli, Swades, Don, etc.

On the other hand Hrithik was playing a real person from the pages of history, Akbar The Great. This historic love epic provided him a great room and a much bigger canvas to perform. He had to work on his Urdu, to carry on the costumes, to be as impressive as people could imagine that Akbar was. It was a story that was never told before. Critics and masses were comparing his performance with that of Prithvi Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar in Mughal-e-Azam. He comes with his own memorable performance. From walking to sitting, from dialogue delivery to war scenes, he had to perform extremely great in every scene. I think he did justice to his character.

What is your opinion, please feel free to disagree. But I would love to hear what you think about Best Male Actor award for the 54th filmfare awards and who you think actually deserved the award.

Ghajini an Aamir Khan production directed by A.R.Murugadoss. Cast included Sanya Sivakumar, Nayantara, Asin, Pradeep Singh Remat, Riyan Khan and of course Aamir Khan himself, so yes the movie was expected to be a hit. The movie right from the first day of the shooting had created a huge hype among the fans of Aamir Khan and also the critics who were waiting with their pens ready for the movie to hit the cinema.

The story of Ghajini was based on the old and much used concept of short term memory loss faced by Aamir Khan in the movie. However, It had its own unique charm of a different narrative. A new approach to retell the story of revenge. It all fits well, how Aamir and Asin met, the chemistry, the charisma and the comedy is fun to watch. How Asin is killed and how Aamir khan prepares himself for vengeance and helps himself with tattooing himself to remember everything which he forgets. The songs are great; one becomes speechless when it comes to the cinematography. No one can have relevant criticism when it comes to the way Aamir khan movies pay attention to every detail in each and every scene. Every minor detail is given high importance which is rarely found in Bollywood movies but we always find it in Aamir Khan’s production.

Talking about the movie I believe that other than Aamir Khan all of the characters were merely supporting characters even Asin because the whole story revolves around Aamir Khan. Even if there was someone else in place of Aamir Khan then I would say that the movie would have had 60% chances of being a flop. The power packed performance of Aamir Khan made the movie blockbuster which it is today. Of course majority of the audience was here to see Aamir Khan marvelous body which he had to workout on for three months straight and I mean a heavy workout!

Other than that the movie rating is for everyone but parents should watch out when the naked rage takes over the movie as it is harmful for children. A social activist requested the Supreme Court to have the movie rated as adult rating. As a result a few scenes were removed from the movie but still the movie does have some disturbing scenes and parents should watch out.

Even though it had disturbing scenes and OK story line but still critics and the audience came out with huge smiles on their faces after the first show and almost everyone gave compliments. The movie truly speaks for itself by doing a business of 200 crores in the first two weeks and making itself a truly blockbuster, breaking all records of 2008 and opening new boundaries and new challenges for our Bollywood industry. I would not want to rate the movie as it is just a remarkable piece which adds up to the list of Rang De Basanti, Taare Zameen Par and Jaane tu ya Jaane Na but just for official records I would give it a 4.5/5.

While my friend Addy is comparing Shahrukh Khan with Aamir Khan. I would like to spend sometime on comparing Shahrukh Khan with Akshay Kumar. You will find lots of people saying that Akshay has given many more hit movies than Shahrukh Khan during last few years. Unfortunately, these Akshay lovers are terribly wrong. Shahrukh Khan still rules the box office.

In 2007, Shahrukh Khan had two major releases. Chak de India and Om Shanti Om. Both did amazingly well on the box office. Shahrukh was praised for his role as “Kabir Khan” in Chak de India by critics. Critics didn’t like him much in Om Shanti Om but movie’s hype and better marketing techniques made it a blockbuster. 2007 was also the luckiest year in Akshay Kumar’s career. He had four hit movies back to back. Namastey London, Heyy Babyy, Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Welcome. What I don’t like about all these four movies is that Akshay never moved away from his Hera Pheri style. There was no change in his acting and character development was extremely poor. His character looked the same in all these four movies. There was no versatility and nothing new in his acting.

In 2008 two Akshay Kumar movies were released. Singh is King and Tashaan. Tashaan was a huge disappointment at box office. Singh is King did fairly well and it was the third highest grosser in Bollywood. However, Shahrukh Khan had only one movie as the major release in 2008. Rab ne Bana di Jodi which was the highest grosser movie of 2008. Akshay Kumar’s latest movie Chandni Chowk to China Town has caused distress to the film makers who has signed him at very high prices. Chandni Chowk to Chinatown went flat on box office and it seems like no one is yet ready to buy the rights for his upcoming movies. Rohini Bhandari at the Business of Cinema suggests that producers may need to re-evaluate Akshay Kumar’s upcoming movies.

If you take TV shows, advertising campaign and International tours to measure the market value and popularity of the stars then Shahrukh Khan clearly beats Akshay Kumar.

Honestly, I don’t really care about who is more popular. I love these kind of comparisons because I think such healthy rivalry improves the quality of Hindi Cinema. This race to be the no. 1. Bollywood star benefits the audiences. So I would say that we the audiences of Hindi movies should encourage such debates. By the way I dont think that Aamir, Shahrukh, Akshay or Salman could ever beat the charisma and stardom of Hrithik Roshan. Who is, in my opinion, the best male performer in Bollywood right now.

Everywhere anywhere, Salman Khan vs Shahrukh Khan’s rivalry is all over the Bollywood. Only a few people know that Aamir and SRK have an undeclared fight between them. Remember Farha Khan’s Om Shanti Om in which SRK stole the show and while also providing tremendous career growth to Deepika Padukone. Well, the trend has been adapted by our cute little Aamir. Having the film focus on him in terms of acting, story even songs! He has stolen the whole show and yet giving tremendous career growth to the south Indian actress Asin.

Of course how can we forget the six pack, we all can see the competition and Aamir really won that one flawless. One thing which no one realizes is that the competition between these two Khans is from the start. Yes, competition is healthy but we are talking about a personalized competition and it clearly shows when we see Aamir claiming in an interview that King Khan was “scared” to work with him.

“Fight! how can I dare to fight with Shahrukh. He is a very good friend and I have a lot of respect and love for him”. Aamir told the media while promoting Ghajini in Delhi and when he was asked about his views over SRK’s claim over the biggest screen star, Aamir took an indirect dig at the actor by saying, “People who are No 1. don’t state the obvious. For me Amitabh Bachchan is No 1. Does he ever claim about it. Does Lata Mangeshkar claim about it? Superstars don’t need to say anything about their status.”

From the very start SRK and Aamir have never shared screen space and even now. It is heard that they will make an appearance in Zoya Akhtar’s directorial debut ‘Luck by chance’ and guess what? SRK and Aamir will show up individually. This clearly shows that neither of them want eachothers A** to be bigger than theirs.

When Aamir threw the challenge to SRK by claiming that he is no. 1 Shah Rukh did not dare say a word against him. Instead he went on to say, “Aamir is a dear friend and if he says that I’m second to him then it’s a great compliment to him….oops that was a genuine slip of tongue (amidst peals of laughter)…I mean it’s a great compliment to me. We are complete opposites. He is an intelligent, intellectual person, I’m more physical. I do things. He thinks them out. I know his jokes, he knows mine. He is 100% No. 1…I just said Kkkk Kiran…he really loves Kkkkk Kiran”. Of course Aamir truly did himself with physical stuff so boo to SRK.

It is also true that Aamir named his dog Shahrukh. People think that Aamir admires Shahrukh so much that he named his dog after him but little do they know that what the real reason behind that is After a thrashing up from SRK’s fans Aamir apologized and said that he did not mean to offend but he thought that it would be a compliment for SRK (sure it was ).

We want to see a lot, we want our heroes to do our dream projects, but the audience does not always get what they desire. It is every hindi movie lover’s desire to watch Aamir Khan the Mr. Perfectionist and Shahrukh Khan together in a movie. In a love triangle, a romantic comedy, or some historical epic. Whatever the theme is audience want to see them together in a movie, and just imagine the market worth of the movie. It would be definitely a very huge investment and producers would get back atleast half of their money even before the release of the movie.

Shahrukh Khan is all set to his “Temptation Reloaded” in Germany. Shahrukh khan is desperate to make the tour a hit and is extra guarded as the Bachans “Unforgettable Tour” ended up receiving a mixed response by the audience. Hence SRK is not in mood to take chances, other stars who are expected to join this tour are Priyanka, Arjun Rrampal, Rani Mukherjee and some undisclosed names. Lets see who would be in King Khan Clan this time.

Are two khans ready to work together?

The news made the hype that Shahrukh khan has called upon Aamir Khan to join him during the show, as he has not been able to secure in any other big name for the show other than himself (if he would not have a recent fight with Salman Khan). But Kiddy khan has declined the rumors that indicated him to be a part of SRK’s much anticipated world tour “Temptations Reloaded”. Aamir also denied being the part of the sequel to Raj Kumar Santoshi’s hit Andaz Apna Apna.