MbS made the remarks at an annual speech to the advisory Shura Council, which he gave on behalf of his father, King Salman
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Consider these facts: Irrfan Khan shows up in the all-time record-breaking hit Jurassic World in a role which doesn’t decimate him entirely to a bystander. Unlike his cameo — for want of a better word —in The Amazing Spider-Man.
In fact, Irrfan Khan is Simon Masrani, the cash-savvy owner of the fictional theme park in which those malevolent dinosaurs go on the rampage yet again in the special effects extravaganza’s fourth edition. Next on Khan’s global plate, count Inferno, adapted from the bestseller by Dan Brown, toplining Tom Hanks.
Meanwhile, Priyanka Chopra is raving from the rooftops about her upcoming American TV series Quantico, in which the promos show her to be a young FBI recruit, who should truly mind her language and attitude. Ms Chopra’s pronounced accent is as American as a martini — extra-dry.
Anil Kapoor is in the throes of picturising the second season of the Indian version of TV series 24. Anupam Kher, who has been stewarded by such famed auteurs as Woody Allen in You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, Ang Lee in Lust, Caution and David O Russell in Silver Linings Playbook, is increasingly casting his eye westwards.
In recent times, Om Puri bantered with the Oscar-winning Helen Mirren in The Hundred-Foot Journey. Earlier, he was directed by Roland Joffe (City of Joy), Stephen Hopkins (The Ghost and the Darkness) and Mike Nichols (Wolf). In addition, he has led the ensemble casts of several film festival-friendly tracts on the lives of Asian immigrants abroad — notably East is East, West is West and My Son The Fanatic.
And Naseeruddin Shah went to the US for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, to cross swords with Sean Connery, only to be disappointed majorly when his part was shredded to ribbons.
Aah, win some, lose some. C’est la Hollywood, still the ultimate destination point for Bollywood actors. And filmmakers too. So what if Broken Horses by Vidhu Vinod Chopra (he produced the Munna Bhai movies, surpassing their box-office takings with 3 Idiots) proved to be eminently forgettable? His underworld thriller Parinda, which he directed almost two decades ago, couldn’t quite make the grade at domestic or global multiplexes. But James Cameron, of Titanic fame, endorsed Broken Horses unconditionally, in vain.
BIG SCREEN, SMALL RETURNS: Shekhar Kapur’s Four Feathers, which tanked without a trace; Anupam Kher in You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger; Naseeruddin Shah in the blink-and-you-miss-him role The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen; Kabir Bedi in the Bond flick Octopussy |
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