Here we go again! There is hullabaloo going on again in the SRK fandom! This time, it's for the new project partly confirmed by Shah Rukh himself, Happy New Year by Farah Khan. Most of you must have gone, "Yay! Another SRK movie", "Awesome! OSO and MHN were great masala movies and were such BIG HITS" or "WTF? The other day they fought, today a movie?"
My reaction was similar to the third one while being split between the first two at the beginning. I get excited for all new SRK movies and considering the fact that OSO and MHN were superb movies, I'd have gotten very excited but then I reminisced the slapgate of Janurary 31st, 2012. Fabulous time! Shah Rukh had slapped Shirish Kundar, Farah's husband. After that, Farah said quite a bit of crap about Shah Rukh which totally removed the little remaining adoration I had for Farah. After that, I am not even ashamed to say but I hate Farah and her guts.
Somebody had guessed that the media would create news of Shah Rukh and Farah doing a movie after they patch up. I laughed it off saying Shah Rukh wouldn't do her movie since he may forgive people but he doesn't forget. But rumors started coming in of Shah Rukh "immediately agreeing" to do Happy New Year, a movie he denied for years. Even then I did not believe it. Later news came in that Shah Rukh is busy with other projects so HNY will have to be on the hold for a few years. I was soooooooooo happy that the media would finally shut up!!
A few days back, came the word straight from the horse's mouth, a.k.a Shah Rukh himself confirmed that he will be doing HNY but no one else is confirmed for other roles. My faith is shaken up quite a bit. Most people are giving examples of OSO and MHN to me, saying they were hits and I don't have to worry if HNY goes on to become similar. I have been least concerned about Farah's last movie, TMK. What I hate is that why did Shah Rukh agree to do a film with the lady who humiliated him so much? I will let go of Shirish too because he's not part of HNY (I hope). This is a question of self respect. I never thought in my whole life that I would go against a project of Shah Rukh's. But the fact is if I am not happy with something, I cannot at all be happy about it.
Imagine if Shah Rukh and Salman patched up and they agreed to do a movie together. Would you support it? I understand that SRK-Farah and SRK-Salman are two cases poles apart but the fact is that both Farah and Salman are the volunteered victims of my hatred. They hurt Shah Rukh which means they hurt me as well.
But I am still positive that Happy New Year won't happen. If I let superstitions kick in then see? It has been in writing mode for so long and the movie was supposed to happen before Om Shanti Om but problems. I hope without any damage to Shah Rukh's bank account, the movie still gets delayed or does not happen at all. I have never missed a Shah Rukh Khan movie and it will hurt me a lot emotionally to miss out on any of his releases. I can wait months/years for his movies but if Happy New Year is made, I cannot watch it.
The rest is up to you. If you would still like to celebrate HNY with Farah and Shah Rukh, I respect your decision but I thought I'd write this in order to present the idea why selected few are against HNY.
My reaction was similar to the third one while being split between the first two at the beginning. I get excited for all new SRK movies and considering the fact that OSO and MHN were superb movies, I'd have gotten very excited but then I reminisced the slapgate of Janurary 31st, 2012. Fabulous time! Shah Rukh had slapped Shirish Kundar, Farah's husband. After that, Farah said quite a bit of crap about Shah Rukh which totally removed the little remaining adoration I had for Farah. After that, I am not even ashamed to say but I hate Farah and her guts.
Somebody had guessed that the media would create news of Shah Rukh and Farah doing a movie after they patch up. I laughed it off saying Shah Rukh wouldn't do her movie since he may forgive people but he doesn't forget. But rumors started coming in of Shah Rukh "immediately agreeing" to do Happy New Year, a movie he denied for years. Even then I did not believe it. Later news came in that Shah Rukh is busy with other projects so HNY will have to be on the hold for a few years. I was soooooooooo happy that the media would finally shut up!!
A few days back, came the word straight from the horse's mouth, a.k.a Shah Rukh himself confirmed that he will be doing HNY but no one else is confirmed for other roles. My faith is shaken up quite a bit. Most people are giving examples of OSO and MHN to me, saying they were hits and I don't have to worry if HNY goes on to become similar. I have been least concerned about Farah's last movie, TMK. What I hate is that why did Shah Rukh agree to do a film with the lady who humiliated him so much? I will let go of Shirish too because he's not part of HNY (I hope). This is a question of self respect. I never thought in my whole life that I would go against a project of Shah Rukh's. But the fact is if I am not happy with something, I cannot at all be happy about it.
Imagine if Shah Rukh and Salman patched up and they agreed to do a movie together. Would you support it? I understand that SRK-Farah and SRK-Salman are two cases poles apart but the fact is that both Farah and Salman are the volunteered victims of my hatred. They hurt Shah Rukh which means they hurt me as well.
But I am still positive that Happy New Year won't happen. If I let superstitions kick in then see? It has been in writing mode for so long and the movie was supposed to happen before Om Shanti Om but problems. I hope without any damage to Shah Rukh's bank account, the movie still gets delayed or does not happen at all. I have never missed a Shah Rukh Khan movie and it will hurt me a lot emotionally to miss out on any of his releases. I can wait months/years for his movies but if Happy New Year is made, I cannot watch it.
The rest is up to you. If you would still like to celebrate HNY with Farah and Shah Rukh, I respect your decision but I thought I'd write this in order to present the idea why selected few are against HNY.
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