My roommate kamal is a die heart Srk fan , so whenever we are sweeping channels on TV and even a single Srk shot comes up , he jumps from his seat and everything else goes into hibernate mode , he just gets glued to it.
On the retrospect I always proclaimed myself as an Aamir fan , but it never occurred to me that i should jump out of my seat and just stay there to watch the movie that i have seen so many times before. (andaaz apna apna is an exception) . So i always used to wonder that me despite being an aamir fan and despite liking all his movies , why
doesn't that "sudden urge to jump up" comes to me. Maybe i am a lesser fan of aamir then kamal is of srk, but i could never accept it.
And then came Ghajini which helped me find all the answers.
So we went to watch ghajini on the saturday , all the while i refrainedmyself from reading the reviews or joining the discussions of themovie as for an aamir movie i waanna be a judge only by myself. After waiting for 2 hrs we got the tickets and we finally went in.Now comes what went thru my mind while watching it. All the whilei was watching the moving i was trying to , wanting to like it as it was an aamir movie and as kamal was seated right next to me. The movie kept us locked to the seats for all 3hrs but i never got to like the movie, neither the south style stunts , neither the aamir's hysteria, nor the songs ,nor the eight pack ebss , nothing could impressed me. And the suddenly like aamir's hysteria and realizations it all suddenly dawned on me in one single moment of revelation.
I don't like aamir , i like his movies, the message that his movies contain, the story of his movies , the typical treatment of his movies, but if u wanna remove all that and spice up aamir and serve it to us, sorry I am not an aamir fan to gulp down anything that is aamir.
And in that single moment i also realized why kamal gets those springs under, on seeing SRK shots.His movies never contain any message ,any story , any content , whatever is there is drama and that drama can be experinced in only those shots , hence u have to have to watch those shots. aamir movies u have to watch them pateintly from the start to the last to be able to appreciate it. U wont gets kicks from singular shots like a tequilla , but u will get high after the entire movie like a smooth wine or champaine.
So all an all i got a tequilla shot in the packaging and under the name of champaine and i feel cheated to this day about it.
PS: Kamal liked the movie very much , and is considering a change of loyalty ;).
