Saturday, August 8, 2009
Raju ban gaya gentleman
Faju ban gaya gentleman is one of Shah Rukh Khan's first movies. Directed by Vijay Sippy, Shah Rukh plays Raj, a young man relocating to the city to make it big in engineering. On the way he meets a friend who helps him find a place to stay and a lovely girl who becomes his love interest. After an initial period of unemployment, Raj finds a job, gets promoted due to (it seems) his indomitable spirit, rises fast in the business world only to fall harder due to the machinations of jealous colleagues. I base this on body language as the movie was in Hindi with no sub-titles. Usually, I would turn a movie off if I couldn't understand it, but it was so interesting watching Shah Rukh Khan that I watched until the end. Anupama Chopra, his biographer, states that his co-star didn't want to work with him on this movie. She didn't think he was leading man material....(King of Bollywood, 97). His style has become more nuanced and less flamboyant as the years have gone on.
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