odadune
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Post by odadune on Nov 22, 2013 3:38:02 GMT
Based on a book by Chetan Bhagat (author of the books that inspired 3 Idiots and Kai Po Che), this story deals with the romance between a Punjabi boy and a Tamil girl. Produced by Karan Johar and Sajid Nadiadwala.
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rubicon
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Post by rubicon on Feb 21, 2014 23:57:16 GMT
The first look:
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Post by gulfam on Feb 28, 2014 14:09:43 GMT
Trailer for the film looks good also
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Post by Prem Rogue on Feb 28, 2014 21:38:04 GMT
They should have cast a Tamilian/South Indian actress in the Alia Bhatt part.
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Post by muska on Feb 28, 2014 21:58:02 GMT
^I agree. Someone like Priyamani would have been a better choice, in my opinion.
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Post by Prem Rogue on Feb 28, 2014 22:17:14 GMT
They're just copying Tamilian filmmakers by casting a NI actress as a Tamilian
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Post by rose on Mar 1, 2014 9:00:50 GMT
I haven't been keeping up with this at all and I thought this an India/Pakistani movie! But this looks very well made, and it's gorgeous. But I agree a Tamilian actress should have been cast. C'mooon Bollywood.
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Post by dancelover on Mar 1, 2014 19:21:49 GMT
They might have cast a *fourteen* year old Tamilian actress opposite 28-year-old Arjun! Which is more appropriate: getting the Ages close, or getting the State right? IMO, as long as the actress is less than ten years younger than the actor, it hardly matters what state they are from. Dancelover, supporting the privilege of Actors to work anywhere! I haven't been keeping up with this at all and I thought this an India/Pakistani movie! But this looks very well made, and it's gorgeous. But I agree a Tamilian actress should have been cast. C'mooon Bollywood.
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Post by Prem Rogue on Mar 1, 2014 22:14:58 GMT
They might have cast a *fourteen* year old Tamilian actress opposite 28-year-old Arjun! Which is more appropriate: getting the Ages close, or getting the State right? IMO, as long as the actress is less than ten years younger than the actor, it hardly matters what state they are from. They're both important. The entire point of this movie is that the man and woman are from two different states. The title and poster are pretty clear about that. Might as well get the casting right. In a country as diverse as India, the different states might as well be different countries, in many aspects. Language, culture, sometimes even in physical appearance.
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odadune
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Post by odadune on Mar 14, 2014 1:33:43 GMT
I seem to recall that the original casting was Shahrukh+Asin, but that fell through.
First song video if anyone cares:
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Post by rose on Apr 2, 2014 7:04:57 GMT
I seem to recall that the original casting was Shahrukh+Asin, but that fell through. First song video if anyone cares: SRK and Asin, that would have been AWFUL but I can see why he wanted his own 3 Idiots. Some more song promos! Mast Magan (my most favorite song from the soundtrack) Offo "Punjabi mother-in-law" clip This movie is looking very good.
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odadune
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Post by odadune on Apr 2, 2014 11:33:49 GMT
Well, Asin would have been fine, but as far as I'm concerned the 90s veterans need to stay the heck away from college student roles unless they're willing to go the "non-traditional student" route.
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odadune
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Post by odadune on Apr 12, 2014 15:31:55 GMT
More songs, haven't watched them all the way through so can't vouch for content.
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Post by Prem Rogue on Apr 13, 2014 5:23:49 GMT
Chetan Bhagat: Writing 2 states helped me forgive my fatherChetan Bhagat, 39, loves taking on challenges, is grounded and is happy that he is able to straddle many worlds — be it writing, Bollywood or being a motivational speaker with equal ease.
He is open and communicative and lives for his family. Being a popular artist, he also aspires to change things in his country. He is the only Indian author, whose every work has been made into a film. Ahead of the release of his next book that is being made into a film, 2 States, he spoke to us about his turbulent relationship with his father, his love for his mother and what he loves about Tamilians. Excerpts: Talk about the idea of writing the book 2 States...I am a Punjabi born and brought up in Delhi. I was always a curious kid, who was good at two things — maths and telling jokes. In typical Indian middle-class fashion, they tell you to forget about the jokes and focus on maths. And that's what I did. Today, I make a living out of my jokes and storytelling. I went to the Army Public School and was not a particularly bright student and scored just 76% in Class X. That is when I decided to take on the challenge and got through, first, to IIT Delhi and subsequently, to IIM Ahmedabad, where I met my Tamilian wife Anusha. After completing an MBA in 1997, I worked first for Goldman Sachs and then Deutsche Bank, first, in Hong Kong, and the last one year in India, but left them to write full-time in 2009. Writing was my hobby, but I never thought that I could be a career writer. I wrote three books while I was at the bank, when I met a French journalist friend and he said to me, 'In all three books of yours, the relationship between the protagonist and the father is dysfunctional. In Five-Point Someone, one guy doesn't like his parents, the other guy has a paralyzed father and the third guy has a strict father. In One Night At A Call Centre, Sham is underconfident and his parents are always fighting. In 3 Mistakes Of My Life, the father has deserted him and even Ishan's father slaps him and he has a bad relationship with his father.' So he told me, 'You have a very turbulent relationship with authority. To us, French people, it's shocking that you have written three bestsellers and are still doing a job. This bank job is a surrogate father. You get that security and authority figure here, but you are rebelling by writing books on the side. You need to deal with the father issue. That will free you as a writer.' It hit me and I decided to tackle it. I was scared as a typical middle-class person of leaving a secure investment banking job to be a writer. My income would drop by 95%. My wife who was and continues to be a banker got, coincidentally, transferred to India and with her, I came here. I continued at the bank for a year, but knew that I couldn't manage to do my job and writing together, so finally quit to take on full time writing and first wrote 2 States, which to me essentially is a father-son story. A lot of people, including Anusha, felt that marrying between communities was not an issue any more and that people would not be interested. But I was convinced that it was a very big issue and it's still a very big issue. The truth is that kids can elope and marry, but they don't want to do that. They want their parents to agree and smile on their wedding day. There is a line in the book, where the boy says, 'I don't want you to just tolerate me, I want you to accept me.' I have met hundreds of couples who are going through that. I met a sardarji who became a heart patient because his daughter wanted to marry a Keralite. He read the book and not only consented to his daughter's marriage but at the wedding, there was a food stall, a dessert stall and a 2 States stall. He gave everybody a book as he said, 'The community is going to ask me why I agreed so I wanted them to read it. I wanted to see my daughter happy, but the community would have judged me.' Talk about your father...I don't like abuse of power, and somewhere down the line, I felt he was not fair to my mother. She did a lot for him, the family, the in-laws, but she never got her due and it was a life lived just like a lot of Indian women who do that. When I was very young, I didn't realise it but by the time I was a teenager, I started realising and resented it. I was always a rebel. My father being in the army was authoritarian and would deny her simple things like meeting her family, as it would make her happy. Maybe, it was a result of his own inner frustrations, but he would not give her freedom and I had to write 2 States a) to understand where my father was coming from and b) to forgive him. It was difficult for me to forgive him, but 2 States helped me forgive my father. Have you forgiven him?He lives in Delhi and I rarely meet him. I last met him at a family function two years back. Even if not forgiven completely, there is no anger in me today and at least I have reached a stage of indifference. I am still working on it. I have a disproportionate influence today, so I can say these things and I am sure he has his own side. I love my mother the most in the world and know that she has brought me up in hard times. Her relationship with my father was always turbulent and still remains like that. But today, they are separated and she is the happiest I have ever seen her. A lot of time has passed and I'm not looking for an apology as her life cannot be undone, but I try and make her as happy as I can. So, for instance, I bought her a house in Mumbai and am so happy that she is able to see all this for me. When I read about 2 States still being there on Arjun Kapoor's mother's shelf, I can't even imagine how he must be feeling. I asked him what was the most challenging part of doing the film and he told me how he relates to those emotions of pain in the relationship between him and his father, where the relationship is very close and yet there are unmet expectations from both sides. What attracted you to your wife, Anusha?
She genuinely is very simple and yet intelligent person with a pure heart. I anyway get turned on by articulate, intelligent women. A partner who is intelligent can really help. Being a Punjabi, where would I get a girl from IIM-A? And I like the whole poise that Tamilians have, though sometimes, of course, I feel they are too dry. She never wants to ride my fame and is happy to be Anusha Bhagat who works in a bank. What does it mean in real life for a Punjabi boy like you to get married to a Tamilian girl like your wife?When Punjabis are happy, they will start dancing. Tamilians don't dance for fun. For them, it's a form of art. You will not see people dancing at Tamil weddings, but you can't have a Punjabi wedding without dance. If a Punjabi is sad, you will have a Punjabi aunty expressing her emotions clearly and can even beat her chest for it, whereas for a Tamilian, emotion is taboo and you are expected to suffer. There is no word for fun in Tamil. Anusha comes from a very simple and steady emotional state of family. I was looking at that stability and lack of turbulence and she was looking at that little bit of excitement. And that's what 2 States is. It's not about two communities, but also about hum kis tarah ke logon ke saath zindagi bitana chahate hain. The book has a happy ending ,where the father of the boy accepts his choice of marrying the Tamil girl. Did your father agree to your marriage in real life?Parents are important to all Indian kids. They want to get married, but they also want the blessings, want them happy and want the whole family taam-jhaam to go with their marriage. For me, too, my father mattered and it still matters, but in real life, my father did not come for my marriage. After that, he even came and visited us and now it is on neutral gear. I have always been a rebel and it has always been hard to control me. My profession and my fatherhood has, however, really healed me to an extent that I was able to write a happy ending for 2 States. And today, I have accepted the ending of 2 States as my reality. For my father, the driving thing was control and not the South Indian factor. It was an assertion that the boy chose the girl for himself. It came to a point where I was scared to be a father and, of course, now after having my twin sons, I realise how I was unneccesarily scared and I share a great relationship with them. For me, this is all a healing journey. People often wonder why my books connect? They are ordinary stories, ordinary language, everything is ordinary about them and yet they wonder what makes them connect. And the answer is that there is genuine pain in each of them. While my mother is proud of me and knows that I am a responsible person, she feels that, sometimes, I react too emotionally to things. But I know that I am far more emotional than any man I have met. I often joke that I am half a girl and may be, that is what makes me a good writer as I am very perceptive of people and very intuitive. There is that yin and yang in me, that male and female that exists in me. With 2 States releasing next Friday, I am tense because it's not just another of my books being made into a film. It's too personal and I know it won't be made again and again, so I hope it has been done right.
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Post by dancelover on Apr 14, 2014 17:46:40 GMT
The Free Library of Philadelphia has 1 copy of One Night @ Call Center. It also has 2 States, and is getting 3 Mistakes - in Gujerati! (2 Stetsa: Mara L. Katha, and 3 Mistaka Opha Maya Laipha) And it also has Kai Po Che and Hello, on DVD. Dancelover Chetan Bhagat: Writing 2 states helped me forgive my fatherChetan Bhagat, 39, loves taking on challenges, is grounded and is happy that he is able to straddle many worlds — be it writing, Bollywood or being a motivational speaker with equal ease.
He is open and communicative and lives for his family. Being a popular artist, he also aspires to change things in his country. He is the only Indian author, whose every work has been made into a film. Ahead of the release of his next book that is being made into a film, 2 States, he spoke to us about his turbulent relationship with his father, his love for his mother and what he loves about Tamilians. Excerpts: Talk about the idea of writing the book 2 States...[snip - d]
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