The ‘Past’ and the Furious - 7

The ‘Past’ and the Furious - 7

...MK Sinu

Deepika Padukone PR agency is at the turnstile now. The reigning queen bee of ‘Bollywood’ at least by the series of hits she’s had in the last 2 years, we are made to believe that #Fast and Furious 7 makers are desperate to rope in long-legged Deepika. We believe you. Then came in the communiqué that Dippy is neck-deep with work shooting for ‘Happy New Year’ and ‘Ram Leela’. So the makers of Fast and Furious 7 are apparently Furious. We believe even that.

We all love this once in a while. Our desi stars moonlighting in Hollywood. A decade ago or so, the phenomenon started to spread its roots. First on the list was Sushmita Sen, at least if our collective memory is serving us right. No it is not serving us right, it was Persis Khambatta. Remember Star Trek (the motion picture). My research on Google shows she was also considered for the title role in #James Bond film Octopussy.

Blame it on the Page 3 onslaught. We never complained when one morning with the regular ‘politics-violence-business-sports’ spread had a svelte colourful companion in each city. And a colour spread at that! When the updates on the moods and manias of the movies stars was getting a little nauseating. The PR agencies of these stars were keeping tab.  Let’s accept this now we are in a star-struck nation, we do treat them as high-ranking entities however insouciant they appear to be.

We had a whole lot of other to follow suit. Any star worth his or her make-up made this lofty claim of ‘connecting to an agent in Hollywood’. We too watch English movies, and we know how many of them have shown and what screen time they’ve had.  From Bride and Prejudice 2004 to #Pink Panther in 2009 Aishwarya Rai’s outings were mostly commercial clinkers. Barring one spicy scene in ‘Mistress of Spice.’ So her razzmatazz was short lived.

Even Mallika Sherawat also jumped on to the bandwagon with here slithery act in Hisssss! Eeeeeish. Well then it was a Hindi crossover film. Whatever crossover meant?  Last heard a wannabe in tinsel town lament on Hollywood films.  “A certain no to dark and uneasy stuff please…, unless it has good sex.” That pouting expression on the starlet was intact.

Our own hirsute Anil Kapoor hobnobbed in couple of Hollywood enterprise. Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and who can forget the perennially randy buffoonery act in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. It was total ‘nai re babaaa...’ act. 

On a parting note we all know how ruthless the production studios are in Hollywood. We’ll not even talk about the unchecked profiteering and ideological corruption.

Who’s next in the line?