Spot the difference! Millie Mackintosh and Hugo Taylor move into a new family home (which is near identical to their old Chelsea house!)īritney Spears takes a tour of Drake's Hidden Hills 'YOLO' estate with fiancé Sam Asghari. Kylie Jenner admits she's 'been MIA for a while' from social media following birth of son Wolf before touting Kylie Cosmetics' recently launched lip lacquers Lee has always served crime and violence with dark humour, as films such as Malcolm X, Do The Right Thing or Crooklyn prove. The film is an unusual revenge saga with brutal action and a climax highlighting one of the most grotesque plot twists a thriller can imagine. Oldboy, a 2003 hit every world cinema buff holds special, won a host of awards including the Grand Prix at Cannes besides influencing violence in cinema the world over (in Bollywood, Sanjay Gupta tried rehashing it as Zinda in 2005). But when reports trickled in that Spike Lee would direct, most doubts were quelled. When Hollywood announced it would remake Park Chanwook's Korean blockbuster Oldboy, hardcore fans of the trendsetting thriller were not convinced. Seriously, does she need this sort of hype?
This Hollywood hoax business is for out-of- work stars dying to grab some news space.ĭeepika, we all know, is at the top of her game right now scoring consecutive blockbusters with a speed that would pale India's ever-escalating inflation rate. And then came news she would not be able to do the film because - here is the whopper - she was committed to Hindi films.
The PR machinery then tossed around info on how she beat Kangna Ranaut and Chitrangada Singh for the role. What's with Deepika Padukone, why is she trying to do a Mallika Sherawat? Smartly circulated news doing the rounds on the gorgeous actress has lately suggested she had been invited to audition for a starring role in the upcoming Hollywood biggie, Fast And Furious 7. So what if many of the lot would not openly love to admit it. The success of Grand Masti in urban multiplexes shows a very different segment is now game for the genre. Sex and comedy has always been a potent mix to woo the lowest common denominator. Grand Masti's grand run at the box-office (Rs 50 crore in five days) shows adult comedy could now be a saleable option for big-ticket Bollywood too. They were small budget productions that made quick, small profits. The only difference is the films Kondke made were deemed C-grade fare in that era. Kondke's films were unapologetically trademarked by double meaning and cheap humour. Quite in sync the pioneer of the genre in India was Dada Kondke, a man who built a loyal fan base with his loaded brand of slapstick in Bollywood of the eighties after becoming a rage in Marathi cinema the decade before.
In Hollywood, films such as the American Pie series, The Naked Gun flicks or the Austin Powers series have mostly featured second or third-string actors. If Hollywood trend is anything to go by (the genre has thrived in the West for ages), big stars will shy away from adult comedy in Bollywood too if the genre catches on. Only, the 2013 film augments the effect in a way that portions of its main song, Tu bhi hai mood mein, had to be pixelated when aired on TV. The Aankhen template of dirty dancing is retained in Grand Masti. Cameras lapped up in close angles gyrations of the film's stars that left little to suggestion, to the beats of songs meant to be funny. But when the film released it grabbed eyeballs by literally institutionalising the pelvic thrust in Bollywood. The Govinda-starrer may have had no outright double meaning in its dialogues and, by today's standards, its humour would seem harmlessly flippant. In a broad sense Grand Masti is to 2013 what David Dhawan's Aankhen was to 1993. Grand Masti makes the ribald its main ingredient. Only, low-brow humour was so far normally a part of the bigger masala package comprising melodrama, action, romance and naach-gaana that we have come to know as the Bollywood film. This trend is in tandem with what happened to all other genres - on-screen violence has become more violent, the garish has become more garish, and dialogues more laced with cuss as the years progressed. The success of Grand Masti in urban multiplexes shows a very different segment is now game for the genre