Sonam Kapoor, the star of Saawariya, has decided that she'd like to remain decent in the industry that is known for it's skin-shows. Sonam is influenced by her father Anil Kapoor, and has denied some big names to maintain her good-girl image.
Sorry about the lack of captions. Still have to get some of my old programs back.
You know, some people wonder why so many people go into therapy nowadays. It's because of their parents! You know, most parents are supportive of their kids, encouraging them in whatever they do and hopefully being there for them when they screw up. They're also the ones that tell you you look gorgeous/handsome/thin/smart/whatever you feel down. Then there are other parents who are demanding, perfectionists, irrational and just a royal pain in the ass. Poor Sonam Kapoor has parents of the latter category, or at least, her father is like that.
Sonam celebrated her 20th birthday yesterday and like others, did not have a lot of fun because of the bug that seems to be going around Bollywood. Or maybe she was sick because her father is a douche-bag who gave her a fat free sugarless cake on her birthday! That shouldn't even be called a cake...you know what else is sugarless and fat free? Crap. I think I made my point.
"I thought I had slimmed enough. I lost 35 kgs before Saawariya. I've been constantly keeping my weight down. But I think Dad knows the other girls are looking very slim these. It was his way of letting me know that I needed to get even thinner. A strange present on my birthday."
"None of us was in the mood to party. Dad did get me a sugar-free cake and I blew out the candles in front of my family. But that's about it..There were too many illnesses and hospitalizations in the family."
"I'm going on a diet. I need to get thinner to look comparable with the other girls. Look at Deepika. She's athletic and slim. I'm not an athlete. But I'm a runner. I love to go on long runs all on my own for miles and miles. That is a sure way to lose weight."
"I have to. It's not a vanity. It's for my sanity. I can't be happy being healthy when the other girls are frantically losing weight. So thanks to my Dad I'm losing more weight."
Thanks to her dad, she'll have an eating disorder before her next birthday. Someone, please, call child services in, this is horrible! As a girl with a serious sweet tooth, I know we shouldn't have too much chocolate and sweets but there is also a thing called a healthy balance. Look at her, she's already freakin' skinny, if she loses any more weight, she'll just fade away to nothing.
Urr, maybe it sounds like I'm over-reacting but it's stuff like this that pisses me off big time. If parents start acting like the pictures in a fashion magazine, then we are so screwed.
Another interview post because I'm just feeling too sick to update properly here.
Akshaye Khanna hasn't been in the news for a while, possible because he's so boring, but since his new movie, Mere Baap Pehle Aap (My Father, You First) is coming out, the media wants to talk to him.
Q. What’s the most important part of this film?
A. The most interesting part of the film was rebuking Paresh Rawal. Because, in my real life, I would never have chance to scream at my father.
I think audience will have a great chance to watch a feel good movie after a long gap. You will certainly feel better with everything around you after watching the film.
Q. Priyadarshan, Abbas Mastan and Anil Kapoor believe in your acting ability. Do you feel pressurized because of that?
A. Not at all.
Q. There was a somber relationship between father and son in Gandhi My Father and in Mere Baap Pehle Aap, the same relationship between a father and son is comic. Personally, which do you enjoy most?
A. Actually, there is no special genre that I can enjoy personally. My job is the most important matter to me. I enjoy them while I face the camera. That’s all.
Q. Getting little personal, how is your personal relationship with your father?
A. My father is more friend than father to me. He is such a man who never imposes any of his decisions on anyone else; it may be his children or his wife. He accepts people from the core of his heart. Believe me; I have met more than thousand of my father’s friends. He is really a social being.
Q. What’s the reason that you are still a bachelor?
A. The answer is ‘freedom, freedom and only freedom’. I have no interest in marriage and I will never get married. I think I must not be answerable to anyone. I neither like to reply to anyone nor do I like to enquire anyone.
Q. Please tell us about your forthcoming films.
A. Along with Mere Baap Pehle Aap, there are films like Anil Kapoor’s Shortcut and an animated film Ab Dilli Door Nehi. I have dubbed for this film. It was a completely different experience from usual acting schedules.
And that's it, I'm done for today. Good night everyone, be back with more interesting news tomorrow. Hopefully the main one being that I'm not dying...I think I was having heart palpitations just now.
Weirdly enough, Sonam Kapoor is one of the few actresses that is happy that she wasn't cast opposite Shah Rukh Khan for his next movie.
Rab De Bana Di Jodi (God made this relationship) is Yash Raj's next attempt at getting a hit and after realising that Kareena and Saif aren't going to bring in the money, Aditya Chopra has moved back to tried and tested Shah Rukh.
Sonam says that the role was never offered to her to begin with,
"Since the film was announced speculation started about me being in the project. Arrey baba, I was never offered the film! I don't know where this whole thing started, honestly. I did visit Adi a couple of times like any other actor.
But not for any particular role. Maybe people saw me entering Yashraj. Nowadays even if an actress passes by Yashraj she's rumoured to have signed a film with them."
"I had never even approached Adi for this role and I had a reason for it.I know it required someone very Punjabi and young.
I've just played a full-on Punjabi kudi, salwar-kameez sharara-gharara and all, in Rakeysh Mehra's Dilli 6. Even in Saawariya I was in full elaborate Indian clothes. Now I need change of pace..and grace."
Even though Sonam is looking for a more modern role, she is not into skimpy outfits...after all, her father Anil Kapoor is her adviser and it's understandable that he wouldn't want his teenage daughter parading around like that. Sonam is worried about honour too, after she reportedly turned down a Rakesh Roshan project because it asked for a bit too much skin.
"All I'll say is, I'd never do anything to compromise myself or my family, or any film where I've to cringe at the premiere."
No one make fun of my paint skills!
So it's official...I think. Tashan is a flop. Is it gloating if I say "I told you so"?
I've been surfing some sites and I've seen reviews such as
"Total bakwas movie,Save your time and Money. Donate some money a poor rather watching this Trashan"
and
"Totally crap movie, Yash Raj sucks big time"
Sounds like something I would write, and
"Worst movie of the year....nothing about this movie is worth talking about. I think its about time Yash Raj Films should start taking film making seriously."
It's a Friday, I'm lazy and still have oodles of work...Watch the trailer of Tashan and...I dunno, watch it. It's not even a trailer, it just shows Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Akshay Kumar walking, if you're into that kinda thing, than go for it.
Hey, did you notice that all their surnames start with a 'K'? Yeah, I'm that apathetic.
Hi All! Apologies for the lack of updates and unfortuantely, it'll continue for this week. I really will try updating when I can though. Thanks for those guys who missed me...or at least noticed when I wasn't there.
Shah Rukh Khan and Sonam Kapoor will be acting in a love story together. Before you think that they'll be trying to make Shah Rukh look younger and the 19 year old Sonam look older, they won't. They story is about the love between a 40 year old man and a 16 year old girl.
Feel free to vomit on your keyboard. I know Bollywood is into trying new things but is pedophilia really the way to go? Even though they were trying to find an actual 16 year old for the role, they couldn't find anyone to fit the profile and went with the slightly older Sonam.
No comment from Sonam but I know Anil Kapoor is all for it.
And that's it today. I think...I hope not.
Unlike most actresses who start of in decent, Indian girl-next-door roles, and can't wait to throw off the stereotype, along with some clothes, Sonam Kapoor is looking forward to being conventional, and relatively conservative.
After Saawariya, even if it wasn't the greatest, the mind-numbing publicity won't let you forget her and I'm sure directors will be knocking on her door...after all, she's still Anil Kapoor's daughter. She says her parents are kinda conservative and she'll follow their wishes and her own norms of decency but may cross some boundaries if the role asked for it.
"I'd love to do conventional roles, but within the limits imposed by my parents. You know they're slightly conservative. So far there has been no occasion to cross my boundaries."
"I hope I get roles that require more substance than skin. If a particular situation demands me to break my self-imposed censorship, then I'll do it."
I like her, she sounds like she has a brain, a rare commodity in any film industry where materialism and superficialness are the keys to success. Though directors be warned, it won't be her choosing roles and scripts, it will be daddy Anil, but Sonam doesn't mind, she trusts her parents to do what's best for her.
Wow, is she for real?
Playing a bad actor? Wow, I wonder who should do the job? Arshad Warsi of course, he's a terrible actor! Ok, well, I'm joking, he's not, he's quite funny. But he's funnier on-screen because his jokes here are quite unfunny. Get a script-writer man!
The funny-man will be acting in a new movie, a remake of some other movie and it will be called Shortcut. Get it, shortcut? Because the director is taking a shortcut by not making an original movie. Yes, I get puns.
"You see, in a film to be produced by Anil Kapoor I'm supposed to play a very very bad actor who becomes a very very big star."
"It's a genuine dilemma. Am I capable of playing a bad actor. Can I even fake such a horrific circumstance? But jokes aside, I'm looking forward to this film because I team up with Akshaye Khanna again after Priyadarshan's Hulchal.
Akshaye plays a film director. But my role is to die for. I play this super-sleazeball….cunning, corny and capable of going to any extent to get my way. On top of it all, my character is terrible at his job,"
"Playing a bad actor will be as tough for me as dancing badly. Believe it or nuts, Raj Kumar Hirani forced me to dance badly in the first Munnabhai film because my character was supposed to be rather clumsy. I guess if I managed to be convincing as a bad dancee I can swing the bad actor. But it'll require all my acting skills, ha!"
Another interview post because I'm just feeling too sick to update properly here.
Akshaye Khanna hasn't been in the news for a while, possible because he's so boring, but since his new movie, Mere Baap Pehle Aap (My Father, You First) is coming out, the media wants to talk to him.
Weirdly enough, Sonam Kapoor is one of the few actresses that is happy that she wasn't cast opposite Shah Rukh Khan for his next movie.
Rab De Bana Di Jodi (God made this relationship) is Yash Raj's next attempt at getting a hit and after realising that Kareena and Saif aren't going to bring in the money, Aditya Chopra has moved back to tried and tested Shah Rukh.
Sonam says that the role was never offered to her to begin with,
No one make fun of my paint skills!
So it's official...I think. Tashan is a flop. Is it gloating if I say "I told you so"?
I've been surfing some sites and I've seen reviews such as
Unlike most actresses who start of in decent, Indian girl-next-door roles, and can't wait to throw off the stereotype, along with some clothes, Sonam Kapoor is looking forward to being conventional, and relatively conservative.
After Saawariya, even if it wasn't the greatest, the mind-numbing publicity won't let you forget her and I'm sure directors will be knocking on her door...after all, she's still Anil Kapoor's daughter. She says her parents are kinda conservative and she'll follow their wishes and her own norms of decency but may cross some boundaries if the role asked for it.