Jaan-e-Mann: Bollywood goes Baroque
Today's pic-spam are stills from Jaan-e-Mann, a Bollywood movie that opened last week, starring Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta. Yes, it's the love triangle so beloved of Bollywood. However, it's also apparently a bit of a tongue-in-cheek, phantasmagoric fantasy, with some surreal imagery thrown in. And huge points to Salman Khan, the wild child of Bollywood, to be so willing to poke fun at his persona and image. I was going to post it last week and had the images ready and everything, but then it slipped my mind. Oh well, better late than never.
Salman plays a narcissistic, immature, big-headed actor-wannabe failure, who, through a crazy twist of events, ends up helping the socially awkward Akshay Kumar woo his ex-wife (and the mother of his child!!!) played by Preity Zinta. And he grows up in the process, too. Mix in crazy hijinks and angst (mmmmm, crying Salman=HOT) and we get the movie in a nutshell.
I am planning to see this within the week, if it's still playing. Any takers? It doesn't look like any other Bolly movie so far, visually. And Preity and Salman always have rocking chemistry (this is their third movie together and I really hope they finally end up together in this one), and, if you are still not convinced? How can you not want to see the movie where someone can really put something like the following in his review "Anupam Kher is funny as the midget" and mean it. (Some IMDB reviewer). Come on!
My favorite still from the movie. Salman Khan and Preity Zinta:
Larger Version:
Preity and Salman when they were mushy:
Preity:
Salman. I just love this weirdly surreal image:
How very Gene Kelly:
Akshay, Preity and something that looks like a Busby Berkley set:
Salman can read!!!
And angst:
No idea but it looks scary:
Salman in NY:
'Daaaaance with me...'
Awwww:
Seriously, this looks like s 30s musical:
Preity's house seems to have a quick turn-over:
Akshay Kumar, being business-like:
Salman Khan:
Western? Meet Ali Baba:
It looks like Salman has loved and lost yet again. Or does it?
Salman and Akshay:
Akshay woos Preity:
I don't even want to know:
Akshay doing Tai-Chi:
Hellllloooooo, Indian Elvis:
Toreadors?
And we close on a romantic note:
Salman plays a narcissistic, immature, big-headed actor-wannabe failure, who, through a crazy twist of events, ends up helping the socially awkward Akshay Kumar woo his ex-wife (and the mother of his child!!!) played by Preity Zinta. And he grows up in the process, too. Mix in crazy hijinks and angst (mmmmm, crying Salman=HOT) and we get the movie in a nutshell.
I am planning to see this within the week, if it's still playing. Any takers? It doesn't look like any other Bolly movie so far, visually. And Preity and Salman always have rocking chemistry (this is their third movie together and I really hope they finally end up together in this one), and, if you are still not convinced? How can you not want to see the movie where someone can really put something like the following in his review "Anupam Kher is funny as the midget" and mean it. (Some IMDB reviewer). Come on!
My favorite still from the movie. Salman Khan and Preity Zinta:
Larger Version:
Preity and Salman when they were mushy:
Preity:
Salman. I just love this weirdly surreal image:
How very Gene Kelly:
Akshay, Preity and something that looks like a Busby Berkley set:
Salman can read!!!
And angst:
No idea but it looks scary:
Salman in NY:
'Daaaaance with me...'
Awwww:
Seriously, this looks like s 30s musical:
Preity's house seems to have a quick turn-over:
Akshay Kumar, being business-like:
Salman Khan:
Western? Meet Ali Baba:
It looks like Salman has loved and lost yet again. Or does it?
Salman and Akshay:
Akshay woos Preity:
I don't even want to know:
Akshay doing Tai-Chi:
Hellllloooooo, Indian Elvis:
Toreadors?
And we close on a romantic note: