I was watching on Youtube an interview by Preity Zinta with Bobby Deol on Up Close and Personal and it reminds of how much I have felt for the Deols all my life.I never want to see anything bad happen to them.
No they are not my family members, so my only introduction to them was through their movies. Actually I was a total Dharmendra fan and it went beyond styling the puff of my hair like him. I even wrote a mail on Amitabh's blog not very long ago. Am not sure what exactly I wrote about but I remember going through the angst of dealing with not wanting to lie that he was my favourite actor because Dharmendra was.
That's how it was. I wanted so badly to see Amitabh's films because it was so much fun-people who saw his movies enjoyed it and the little I got to see was so entertaining.But I wanted to make sure nobody misunderstood who I loved more. So I suppressed my enthusiasm when people around me were gushing.I saw his films till it got terrible. Finally I love films more.
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There was this time when Sunny Deol was being launched, I was looking forward to seeing Dharmendra's son. I don't remember whether it was his entry but it was a scene where Sunny Deol comes out of the water-his hair was plastered over his head (important detail you'll see why). When I saw Sunny, I was so happy because he looked so much like his dad and it just addressed my concern about-What happens when Dharmendra goes away> There was a lifetime of Sunny now. Yeah then when his hair dried up for the next shot, he had curls. If I had seen him like that first, I would have failed to see the similarity, I would have only seen the difference. Dharmendra was the most gorgeous man, who lived on this earth. It was like watching a beautiful flower, who pounded goons . Oh when I saw the Hema Malini and Dharmendra films, I didn't know the history, I just saw them as a couple-the most lovely couple one could see. Nobody rivalled them and nobody came close.
Then, Bobby Deol came on the scene. I was transfixed by his eyes-the most expressive I have ever seen. Not Dharmendra, not Sunny, nobody had it. I went to see Bobby Deol's films to see what his eyes would do, long before Kajol made Ajay Devgan's eyes history by her description of it. While watching this interview, I realised his eyes are as expressive as ever, more perhaps because of who he was being interviewed by Preity Zinta-a college friend, before they became actors. The second thing I realised is that he could've been a comedy sensation with his impish eyes, maybe a combination of comedy and a bit of brawn and in realistic settings like the copy of Ramoji Rao speaking. But it would depend on his comfort in that genre of acting.
I have loved Sunny Deol's films but then it got too repetitive, then lazy and finally the nail in the coffin was Rok Sake To Rok Lo. I just had to look at him in the poster to keep away.
Dharmendra started working in some really bad films in the mid to late 90s and I kept away. Bobby Deol never got so big so that he got to make choices the older Deols did. I looked forward to Esha Deol and though she was not a patch on her parents, I liked a couple of films. Na Tum Jano Na Hum-never figured why that film did badly. It was nice and insanely humourous in the background. You need a big screen to see the little details. Her other film-the film was bad, she was good-was with Ajay Devgan in Main Aisa Hi Hoon. She was really good as this drug addict and took me into that world of hopelessness and decadence with her performance. I always hoped she'd do well despite Dharmendra's objections to her being an actor. Now I look forward to seeing her dance.
I think Vijeta films, whose films I looked forward to at some point, did a fabulous job of making films until till it was handled by Dharmendra. I was surprised at how good a job he did as producer. More than just making hits, they identified really good talent. How they did it is still mystery. Perhaps through the films Dharmendra grew up on and the golden era of the 50s, 60s and to some extent the 70s, he naturally assimilated the good work, the good systems and processes around him, which became the architecture of Vijeta films. That changed when Sunny Deol took over. I believe he saw films more as business opportunities because good talent did not come out of Vijeta films after that. He couldn't identify good talent and so it would have been prudent to hire someone who could. But then that also requires talent. I was glad that Yamala Pagal Deewana and Apne did reasonable businesss because I'd love to see Dharmendra where Yash Raj was when he died-a success. I think the process worked out well earlier in another Vijeyata film-Socha Na Tha, which introduced another Deol from the Deol family-Abhay Deol-who my guess is will turn out to be the best actor in the family (if he manages to successfully handle his stature and choice of films in the next few years)-who has done great service to the movement of neo Indian films of this era along with the likes of Anurag Kashyap.
This interview with Bobby just showed me that I was once a Deol fan and will always be one.
(Requires an edit... but published in fear of never doing it.)
No they are not my family members, so my only introduction to them was through their movies. Actually I was a total Dharmendra fan and it went beyond styling the puff of my hair like him. I even wrote a mail on Amitabh's blog not very long ago. Am not sure what exactly I wrote about but I remember going through the angst of dealing with not wanting to lie that he was my favourite actor because Dharmendra was.
That's how it was. I wanted so badly to see Amitabh's films because it was so much fun-people who saw his movies enjoyed it and the little I got to see was so entertaining.But I wanted to make sure nobody misunderstood who I loved more. So I suppressed my enthusiasm when people around me were gushing.I saw his films till it got terrible. Finally I love films more.
There was this time when Sunny Deol was being launched, I was looking forward to seeing Dharmendra's son. I don't remember whether it was his entry but it was a scene where Sunny Deol comes out of the water-his hair was plastered over his head (important detail you'll see why). When I saw Sunny, I was so happy because he looked so much like his dad and it just addressed my concern about-What happens when Dharmendra goes away> There was a lifetime of Sunny now. Yeah then when his hair dried up for the next shot, he had curls. If I had seen him like that first, I would have failed to see the similarity, I would have only seen the difference. Dharmendra was the most gorgeous man, who lived on this earth. It was like watching a beautiful flower, who pounded goons . Oh when I saw the Hema Malini and Dharmendra films, I didn't know the history, I just saw them as a couple-the most lovely couple one could see. Nobody rivalled them and nobody came close.
Then, Bobby Deol came on the scene. I was transfixed by his eyes-the most expressive I have ever seen. Not Dharmendra, not Sunny, nobody had it. I went to see Bobby Deol's films to see what his eyes would do, long before Kajol made Ajay Devgan's eyes history by her description of it. While watching this interview, I realised his eyes are as expressive as ever, more perhaps because of who he was being interviewed by Preity Zinta-a college friend, before they became actors. The second thing I realised is that he could've been a comedy sensation with his impish eyes, maybe a combination of comedy and a bit of brawn and in realistic settings like the copy of Ramoji Rao speaking. But it would depend on his comfort in that genre of acting.
I have loved Sunny Deol's films but then it got too repetitive, then lazy and finally the nail in the coffin was Rok Sake To Rok Lo. I just had to look at him in the poster to keep away.
Dharmendra started working in some really bad films in the mid to late 90s and I kept away. Bobby Deol never got so big so that he got to make choices the older Deols did. I looked forward to Esha Deol and though she was not a patch on her parents, I liked a couple of films. Na Tum Jano Na Hum-never figured why that film did badly. It was nice and insanely humourous in the background. You need a big screen to see the little details. Her other film-the film was bad, she was good-was with Ajay Devgan in Main Aisa Hi Hoon. She was really good as this drug addict and took me into that world of hopelessness and decadence with her performance. I always hoped she'd do well despite Dharmendra's objections to her being an actor. Now I look forward to seeing her dance.
I think Vijeta films, whose films I looked forward to at some point, did a fabulous job of making films until till it was handled by Dharmendra. I was surprised at how good a job he did as producer. More than just making hits, they identified really good talent. How they did it is still mystery. Perhaps through the films Dharmendra grew up on and the golden era of the 50s, 60s and to some extent the 70s, he naturally assimilated the good work, the good systems and processes around him, which became the architecture of Vijeta films. That changed when Sunny Deol took over. I believe he saw films more as business opportunities because good talent did not come out of Vijeta films after that. He couldn't identify good talent and so it would have been prudent to hire someone who could. But then that also requires talent. I was glad that Yamala Pagal Deewana and Apne did reasonable businesss because I'd love to see Dharmendra where Yash Raj was when he died-a success. I think the process worked out well earlier in another Vijeyata film-Socha Na Tha, which introduced another Deol from the Deol family-Abhay Deol-who my guess is will turn out to be the best actor in the family (if he manages to successfully handle his stature and choice of films in the next few years)-who has done great service to the movement of neo Indian films of this era along with the likes of Anurag Kashyap.
This interview with Bobby just showed me that I was once a Deol fan and will always be one.
(Requires an edit... but published in fear of never doing it.)
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