Talking with Subhash K Jha, Shehzad Khan focusses on his performance in Andaz Apna Apna, a film he says is very close to his heart.
You did any number of films before and after Andaz Apna Apna (Aaa). Yet you are identified with only your character, Bhalla, in Aaa. Did your mimicry of your father’s style in that film impede your career?
The answer to your question is that, no, it did not impede my life. It was just a character that I was playing, and I did a lot of other films as myself in my own voice, and it was great fun. But yes, this film became a kind of a, introductory film for me, a launch pad for me. Although I had done Som Mangal Shani, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Purani Haveli, etc. I had also done Abhi Toh Main Jawaan Hoon before that. But this...
You did any number of films before and after Andaz Apna Apna (Aaa). Yet you are identified with only your character, Bhalla, in Aaa. Did your mimicry of your father’s style in that film impede your career?
The answer to your question is that, no, it did not impede my life. It was just a character that I was playing, and I did a lot of other films as myself in my own voice, and it was great fun. But yes, this film became a kind of a, introductory film for me, a launch pad for me. Although I had done Som Mangal Shani, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Purani Haveli, etc. I had also done Abhi Toh Main Jawaan Hoon before that. But this...
- 4/28/2025
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Last night, I came back from my private screening of Raj Kumar Santoshi’s Andaz Apna Apna. The chuckles never stop. They never did. Over the years, this tour de ‘farce’ has made a place among moviegoers as The go-to movie whenever the blues bellow to get their dues.
There is nothing even remotely logical or sensible about the farcical antics of Amar (Aamir Khan) and Prem (Salman Khan) as they negotiate their way through a screenplay that is more of a screenplay. Not a soul in the audience would imagine for even a second that the actors were given a hardbound script. The improvisational spirit is so high that the narration often feels like a bridge doddering toward an impending collapse. The shakedown never happens, even though we feel the characters are going too far with their antics.
More amusing than anything that the two Khans do on screen...
There is nothing even remotely logical or sensible about the farcical antics of Amar (Aamir Khan) and Prem (Salman Khan) as they negotiate their way through a screenplay that is more of a screenplay. Not a soul in the audience would imagine for even a second that the actors were given a hardbound script. The improvisational spirit is so high that the narration often feels like a bridge doddering toward an impending collapse. The shakedown never happens, even though we feel the characters are going too far with their antics.
More amusing than anything that the two Khans do on screen...
- 4/24/2025
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: A Star-Studded Cult Comedy That Doesn’t Fit in Any Bollywood Box
The year was 2000. The place: A local South Asian grocery store in suburban Michigan. The occasion: Friday night, baby, the night for browsing the store’s DVD library for a rental, and my father’s pick for the week — “Andaz Apna Apna.”
I don’t think Rajkumar Santoshi’s seminal comedy was made with a nine-year-old American girl in mind, but I ate the film up. It’s not overtly childish or adult, but boasts the kind...
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: A Star-Studded Cult Comedy That Doesn’t Fit in Any Bollywood Box
The year was 2000. The place: A local South Asian grocery store in suburban Michigan. The occasion: Friday night, baby, the night for browsing the store’s DVD library for a rental, and my father’s pick for the week — “Andaz Apna Apna.”
I don’t think Rajkumar Santoshi’s seminal comedy was made with a nine-year-old American girl in mind, but I ate the film up. It’s not overtly childish or adult, but boasts the kind...
- 6/29/2024
- by Proma Khosla and Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
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