MUMBAI: There’s always that one dreaded scene in every script – the one that keeps you up at night thinking about whether you’ll be able to feel it on the day, to get t out between actions and cut when it counts.
It’s what you can’t wait to shoot and also what you can happily keep putting off. In my experience, it’s usually a breakdown scene. Incidentally, my fiancé was called Ajay in both Rang De Basanti and Mumbai Meri Jaan.
My most difficult breakdown scene was Mumbai Meri Jaan, where I had to emote to a rather poor prosthetic leg cut off at the knee, in a pool of make-up blood. That was all that was left of my fiancé. In Rang De Basanti (RDB), news of my fiancé Ajay’s death on green screen TV, in the college cafeteria, in front of the crew, extras and the entire main cast of RDB, especially Aamir Khan was my toughest scene.
This was one of my first films, I was very new to acting and terrified by the idea of having to break down on demand, and that too in front of so many people. Having to be the centre of attention and the possibility of getting it wrong and having to redo the scene and waste people’s time is a lot of pressure.
I knew weeks in advance the day that the scene was scheduled for. I had rehearsed in my mind a thousand times to actually do the scene and everything you plan so meticulously goes out the window immediately of course! I thought about someone I loved deeply and imagined how I would feel if I were to lose him or her. I tried empathy over method and blocked out the others.
It was a wide-angle shot, so I focused more on body language and actually felt a physical pain in my stomach when I fell to my knees. That’s how I ended up clutching my stomach and saying, “No…please….no…I can’t I can’t!
I couldn’t breathe; I didn’t know what the other was going to do because we didn’t really rehearse the shot, so when someone came towards me I think I pushed him away. I cried as if I had really lost my fiancé, until Rakeysh said cut and I heard some clapping. Take one was given the green signal, but then on review a few extras were chatting and laughing amongst themselves in the frame, so we had to do a safety. Cinema is such a marriage between technique and performance and it’s only when you get both rights that it works. I learn that while doing this scene.”
Thursday, August 18, 2011
John & Bipasha have a pact
MUMBAI: Actor John Abraham and Bipasha Basu may have split after nine years of being together.
They shared a healthy relationship and made a handsome pair until now. Reports came out that the two avoid each other and won’t even change a word then their paths cross these days, and their friends only feel sorry that it should have come to this.
However we are told that John and Bipasha have a kind of break-up pact. The two had decided that they wouldn’t wash their dirty linen in public, come what may! Also, Bipasha may have gone to the press with their break-up news, and John was taken aback with the thing she said. The two then came to a conclusion that they wouldn’t talk about the break-up at all. SO while Bipasha maintains a no comments stance when questions of John are posed to her, John simply asks ‘what are you talking about?’ And that’s exactly what happened them about ignoring each other when they landed up at the gym at the same time.
They shared a healthy relationship and made a handsome pair until now. Reports came out that the two avoid each other and won’t even change a word then their paths cross these days, and their friends only feel sorry that it should have come to this.
However we are told that John and Bipasha have a kind of break-up pact. The two had decided that they wouldn’t wash their dirty linen in public, come what may! Also, Bipasha may have gone to the press with their break-up news, and John was taken aback with the thing she said. The two then came to a conclusion that they wouldn’t talk about the break-up at all. SO while Bipasha maintains a no comments stance when questions of John are posed to her, John simply asks ‘what are you talking about?’ And that’s exactly what happened them about ignoring each other when they landed up at the gym at the same time.
Dev Patel is my action hero: Freida Pinto
LONDON: Indian-orn actree Freida Pindo is all praise for her long-time boyfriend, Dev Patel, and says he is her “action hero”. The 26 years old, who has been dating Patel since meeting on the seat of the 2007 movie ’Slumdog Millionaire’, said she loves her boyfriend’s down-to-earth” attitude, reported Contact music. “He’s my own action hero. He is one of the cutest, cutest boy I have ever met, very down-to-earth, very humble and so unaffected everything that has happened. “It is really funny when you introduce him to any celebrity he just goes like a little kin and jumps about all over the place,” Pinto said.
The actress also says that Petel’s idea of a perfect date is very different from hers – while she would like to be whisked abroad, he is happy to visit restaurants. “We went out to get a bite a while back
Freida Pinto - Dev Patal
and he said, I’ll take you to this really cool place to eat and he took to TGI Fridays. The most romantic thing he could do would probably be to arrange a trip to Tuscany. That would be amazing.” She said.
The actress also says that Petel’s idea of a perfect date is very different from hers – while she would like to be whisked abroad, he is happy to visit restaurants. “We went out to get a bite a while back
Freida Pinto - Dev Patal
and he said, I’ll take you to this really cool place to eat and he took to TGI Fridays. The most romantic thing he could do would probably be to arrange a trip to Tuscany. That would be amazing.” She said.
SSGC dues on KESC Rs. 28 billions – pay or disconnection gas
KARACHI, PAKISTAN (PR): The Sui Southern Gas Company’s Limited Board of Directors has taken very serious view of long outstanding dues of KESC, which are now Rs. 28 billions. The Board of Directors has directed to the Sui Southern Gas Company’s Limited management to adopt all means at its disposal for early recovery, including disconnection and curtailment of gas
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Multilateral Conference will be held October 19 & 20, 2001 – Kader Jaffer
http://enewspaper.com.pk/?p=1285
Saturday, April 30, 2011
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