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Karan Johar and Richard Gere

This week, Koffee With Karan will see a Hollywood guest. Richard Gere will make his debut at Karan Johar’s popular chat show.

The actor talks about his experiences in India, about his AIDS campaigne in the country, and how Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Shabana Azmi and Bipasha Basu helped to set the ball rolling. He also confessed that he has seen Indian movies, and would love to act in a song and dance Bollywood movie!

Excerpts from this week’s show:

Karan: My mother goes weak in her knees every time she sees you on television.

Richard: I have this bizarre thing happen. I was making a movie recently and there was a little press conference so that everybody would know what we are doing. And there was this young reporter there… so shy… and she came up to me and said, ‘Mr Gere, three generations of women in my family love you — my grandmother, my mother and me.’ And I started blushing.

Karan: You have actually been very consistent in this — working with your heart and soul for a while (cause of HIV Aids). But a lot of other celebrities come in initially… what do I call it… it’s considered fashionable to fight a cause or do something.

Richard: It’s not something that everyone does and maybe their interests are elsewhere or their voyage is elsewhere and there are other things they are working on. I don’t blame them for that, but I am thankful to the ones to whom it does touch and they continue. The first time I came here and started working on HIV AIDS, which was a year ago, I thought that if we did two events — one in Delhi, one in Mumbai — it will change everything. I was very na?ve and obviously, for a moment there were newspapers, talks and photographers, basically a lot of attention to this subject. So it meant really building this up from ground zero, how to build an organisation, how to build the network of friends, who are equally committed…

Karan: You feel they need to be?

Richard: Ya, I think. They can and they will be. You know, we did an event with 15,000 sex workers, which was extraordinary. A whole lot of actors and actresses volunteered for it. We didn’t have to chase them down.

Karan: Is there any one particular actor that you have been interacting with that you feel has been very supportive?

Richard: Well, Shabana Azmi is one.

Karan: She has actually been fighting for the cause since many years.

Richard: And not just this cause but many causes. And there was… I forget the name… she was wonderful.

Karan: Bipasha?

Richard: Yes, Bipasha.

Karan: Yes, she is a lovely girl. And is also considered very sexy.

Richard: I can tell you she is very sexy and hot. Ya, she is terrific and very bright too.

Karan: Do you think in India, AIDS is considered to be a homosexual disease? There is a lot of ignorance?

Richard: People just think… yes, it is primarily sexually transmitted — sex workers and truckers — they are the ones

who are in this culture, labeled the ones. ‘That it is okay, if they die.’

Karan: Oh God!

Richard: Yes. But that’s basically what has happened here. And of course, this disease has gone into the middle class community.

That was the excerpt from the show. Now about the review of the show.

I will explain it point wise

1) Karan Johar was nervous.

2) Richard Gere was perhaps too prodigious for this show.

3) About last statement Karan was also aware of this made the matters worse.

4) Richard Gere took the show really casually unlike the Indian celebs who really take it seriously.

5) The nonchalance of Richard Gere made the show tad boring.

Still it was funny sometimes when Karan Johar got the best of Mr Richard Gere. One incident was rapidfire whenn Gere said that it wasnt much rapid. To it Karan replied because it lacked fire…. Awesome reply indeed

Soon the video will be uploaded by someone on youtube so see yourself if you missed it.

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Deepika Padukone in Levis Ad

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End sems and beyond

 End sems are approaching. I can face the heat now as the schedule is very hectinc next week (to be precise Monday and Tuesday). Finally it will be over on 30th and then summer vacations will start. All plans are made for the vacations and all the preparations are to be done for placements after vacations. It seems I am not tensed about end sems but I am more concerned about placements.

 

Infosys,TCS,Flexi,Satyam,Wipro,Tech Mahindra …the  list is endless.. I have heard that all the companies will come in a 10 day slot.. Don’t know what will be the experience then.. anyways I will do lots of blogging in summer vacations..

 

Not much to say now.. Byee..

HITCH

The movie Hitch is special. As it is one of the few movies I saw on TV instead on PC and the first movie I saw 4 times. I still remember the day I saw it first time. There were 2 movies one at star movies the other at HBO. I selected Hitch as its rating was higher and in the end I was so happy that I saw it.

 

The movie is one of the sweetest film I have ever seen. Will Smith is amazing and I never expected that he can handle these roles such effortlessly (The Pursuit of Happyness is another case). It is really a movie that will make you smile and laugh. So this is indeed one of my favorite movie. Quotable dialogues, great music, amazing performances… well what else could you ask for. The only weak point in this movie was Eva Mendes, there could have been a better choice for this role than her. Aishwariya Rai was offered this role but she refused as she was buy working in a disastrous movie “Bride and Prejudice”. Anyways it was her bad luck… All in all a must watch movie.. Everyone should watch it …

 

The quotes I liked were..

 

Hitch: Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it’s the moments that take your breath away.

 

Hitch: Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

 

Hitch: Any guy can sweep any girl off her feet; he just needs the right broom.

 

Hitch: Basic principles of love… well there are none.

 

Albert: You know what it’s like getting up every morning? Feeling hopeless, feeling like the love of your life is waking up with the wrong man. But, at the same time hoping that she still finds happiness, even if it’s never going to be with you.

 

Hitch: Heard of Michelangelo? Heard of the Sistine Chapel?

Albert:Yeah?
[Points at himself]

Hitch:Michelangelo.
[Points at Albert]

Hitch: Sistine Chapel.

Albert: So you’re saying you can make this work?

Hitch: My name is Alex Hitchens. Let’s go paint that ceiling.

Shirin Bhan

Here she is Shirin Bhan. One of the prettiest face on Indian TV these days. She is the one who made me watch CNBC again (and I don’t know how many times I complained about the poor quality of CNBC to my cable operator.). She is really sweet and cute and I really admire her style (but still I consider barkha dutt the best). Anyways people at Freescale Noida are really lucky as they see her a lot as CNBC office is also in the same building. Anyways SB rocks and so does CNBC (really loved it a few years back.. don’t get much time for tv these days :( )

Shirin Bhan

Instrumental..

I was never fond of the instrumental tracks. But now my opinion is changed. Thanks to suneet for this. He gave me 2 DVDs in which some instrumental tracks were there. One of them was Top Gun theme. One of the best instrumental track I ever heard and it has been used a lot by Indian news channels.

The band Apocalyptica is awesome. I read in wiki that they were big fans of metallica. They couldn’t sing so they started playing their tracks (true. Gaa lo nahin to baja lo). The instrumental version of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to heaven” is a masterpiece.

Today I got the Theme of “The Godfather”. This can be so good I didn’t imagine. I read about in “Anything For You Ma’am”. I don’t know how many times I have listened to it since morning.

And not to forget about Rahul Sharma. His album rocks. Really mind-blowing stuff.

Today was a pathetic day. All day we were just running here and there to get notes Xeroxed in this scorching heat. Now I have loads of work this weekend. This last minute preparations really suck big time.. Anyways have to endure them..

Forrest Gump

Run Forrest! Run!

 

This is the dialogue that is still echoing in my mind and I didn’t get it first time I heard it in Fight Club movie.

 

I wanted to see this film for a long time. Finally got it from suneet but the print was poor and Tarun(biotech) gave it a negative review so I thought that I’ll not watch it. But that wasn’t the destiny (yup destiny that prevails throughout the movie). I was free at 1:00 AM so started with it and I completely lost track of time . when I saw the watch it was 2:10 AM. So I slept but woke up at 5:00 AM to complete this film. This was one of the most captivating film I saw in my life. The character is so lovable and so fun to watch his performance that you just can’t leave the movie. No doubt it grabbed $677 million at box office and it is shown at all IAS training centers too.

 

The quotes I loved were.

 

 

 

***Stupid is as stupid does.

 

***Life’s a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you’re gonna get.

 

***When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went and I ran

 

***My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

 

***Run, Forrest! Run!

 

***My mama always said. Miracles do happen.



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