SoggyCornflakes - Bollywood

I know SoggyCornflakes isn’t a political blog but honestly, has the whole world gone mad?! Before I go back to my usual flip style, I just hope all of our readers (and their family and friends and everyone in the subcontinent) is okay and our thoughts are with the victims of these brutal attacks and their families. Everyone knows this isn’t what any religion is about and anyone who thinks otherwise can burn in Hell.

Ok, rage-driven rant over now…and about my absence, completely out of my control, I was 100% ready to update yesterday, had pictures and everything up, so I’ll be flooding SoggyCornflakes with posts today to make up for it.

First story, Subhash Ghai’s Yuvraaj is a terrible flop and now Katrina Kaif’s line of hits has been broken and Salman Khan’s line of flops continues, which is actually pretty amusing, if you get pleasure from other people’s failures like I do.

Things have started off so badly for the movie that several shows are being cancelled in cineplexes across the country (and this has nothing to do with the attacks, it just really sucks). The burning chemistry that Katrina said existed between her and Salman is seriously lacking and because of the bad reviews that have been making the rounds, no one is really interested in watching the movie at all.

Now what is Salman supposed to do? Maybe a movie with Akshay Kumar will boost his career?

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It looks like Katrina Kaif is tired of Salman Khan’s obsessiveness and reports suggest that the 4-year relationship is about to end. Obviously there’s no official confirmation but let’s just assume it’s the truth.

Problems with their relationship:
1. Rumours that Katrina only got the roles and recognition that she did because of Salman, which irked her.
2. Salman’s supposed jealousy about her co-stars, including Akshay Kumar and recently, Shahid Kapoor that Katrina is supposed to partner with.
3. Salman hasn’t seen Kat is more than a month, since she’s been shooting in Australia with Akshay Kumar for their new movie Singh is King. Before he would move a whole film-set to be near her, now he can’t even catch a flight?
4. Salman’s been pressuring Katrina for marriage, which she’s not ready for. No big surprise there, since he’s not getting any younger.

So things don’t look good for this couple…and if history repeats itself, they were due for the split. Salman Khan always seems to go into these long-term relationships that end in break-ups, most notably his relationship with Aishwarya Rai. Now we just wait for the official announcement.

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Or would it just be more appropriate to say that Salman Khan is not exactly fond of Priyanka Chopra? Even though guys through history have had to put up with the enormous amounts of time that girls take to get ready, Salman wouldn’t have any of that on the set of their movie God Tussi Great Ho (God, You are great) and was quite cold to Priyanka when she finally emerged from her make-up van.

Priyanka isn’t your wilting flower either and the friction eventually led to a bust-up on set, resulting in the director packing up for the day, with encouragement from Salman Khan.

Even though the two make a very cute couple (Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Salaam-e-Ishq) on screen, it’s reported that Salman and Priyanka don’t have the most smoothest of histories, with both actors having refused to work with each other on certain occasions, increasing tensions every time they actually do end up working together.

Hopefully the love of God will bring these two together on sets again, with things becoming so bad that Salman had refused to touch her in some romantic song (how can you even shoot a romantic song without touching?). Next thing you know, Salman will be whispering on set that Priyanka has cooties. Mature guys.

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With so much Shah Rukh Khan news around, I can’t be bothered to write separate posts, so you’ll get a super SRK post and don’t blame me if his arrogance knocks you over.

Firstly, Shah Rukh is acting in a new romantic movie with Sushmita Sen. Ok, not really, but since everyone liked his relationship with Sushmita in Main Hoon Na (um, wasn’t she taller than him?) that he makes a guest appearance in her new movie Dulha Mil Gaya (I found the Groom). Sush says:

“Shah Rukh and I are getting together again in ‘Dulha Mil Gaya’, though Shah Rukh only makes a guest appearance in the film,”

And she also talks about how Salman Khan isn’t conscious about his height, as she’ll be partnering up with him again in David Dhawan’s new comedy:

“I love working with him. We’ve such a beautiful equation. He’s one hero who doesn’t let me feel my height. On the contrary whenever I kick off my high heels he asks me to put them on. It’s not hard to see why he’s so loved.”

And Shah Rukh really does annoy people, whether it’s by having stupid scenes in Om Shanti Om or being disgustingly tactless. A scene in OSO showed a young Manoj Kumar being beaten up and the real Manoj is not impressed. Farah Khan and Shah Rukh say that they apologised to him and he accepted the apology:

Shah Rukh says:

“I and Farah have apologized to Manoj-ji over phone and we will go to meet him personally as well,”

Farah says:

“He (Manoj Kumar) was very sweet and said there was no need to apologize, ‘you are like my children’. We even offered to remove the scene from the film if it hurt him so much, but he said there was no need at all for that,”

But other sources say that Manoj hasn’t accepted the apology and Shah Rukh and Farah and going to have to do a lot more groveling before he’s happy with the apology.

And lastly, Shah Rukh shows how stupid he is by smoking around Farah Khan, even when he knows that she’s pregnant with triplets. Shah Rukh was told off by the National Organization for Tobacco Eradication (NOTE) to quit smoking in public and, instead of accepting that he made a mistake smoking just said that the places where he was smoking was private property and threatened to sue NOTE for sending him legal notices. Charming…moron. Even if you wanna kill yourself (believe me, no one cares) at least have some respect for your friend’s health. If Farah’s kids are born with flippers, we know who to blame.

Could anyone be more arrogant?

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Katrina Kaif is sick of being Salman Khan’s girlfriend. Not that she’d break up with him of course, but she wants us all to realise that she’s more than a pretty face and if directors acknowledge her talent (free of Salman) why can’t we?

Reports say that she got her role in Main Yuvraj because Salman encouraged director Subhash Ghai to cast her. She’s furious at the allegations though, saying:

“It’s so stupid to think like that, specially now when I have ‘Namaste London’ to my credit. Actually, I met Subhashji long before. He had offered me a film. I think it was ‘Kisna’. Now for ‘Main Yuvraj’ he asked Vipul Shah to show him my work in ‘Namaste London’. That’s how I think he decided on me,”

“Do people think Subhashji is the kind of filmmaker who can be influenced by people into signing anyone? He has always gone by what is right for his film.”

What if Subhash really wanted Salman in his film but Salman said he would only act if Katrina was given a role? So giving Katrina the role would be right for his film, right? What, I’m just saying! I think I’ll go watch Namaste London again, just to appreciate her talent.

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