Seeing Aditya Chopra is an extremely rare event.

Bollywood’s only mogul in our opinion keeps to himself, is never seen at filmi events, stays away from the media and has only done one photoshoot way back in 1995.

So when Adi, as he is fondly called by those who know him and those who would like to know him, was spotted with director Kunal Kohli outside the Royal China restaurant in Bandra, northwest Mumbai, we quickly requested the photograph.

Is Kunal — who made Hum Tum [Images] and Fanaa [Images] for Yash Raj Films — making another film for Yash Raj? We dunno, but we just want to tell Adi if he is reading this, ‘Thank you for making ChakDe India! You rock! It is an amazing film, for which we will always be grateful to your courage and vision.’

Photograph: Sujit Jaiswal

Source: Rediff

Shah Rukh Khan had initially resisted playing the lead in Aditya Chopra’s “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge”, the 1995 mega hit that created his screen persona of a yuppie romantic hero, says film critic Anupama Chopra in her biography on the Bollywood superstar.

The actor enjoys stardom, but gets creative satisfaction from playing diverse, unconventional roles, Chopra says in “King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema” that was launched in New York last week.

She says that “Darr” led him to the Yash Chopra-Karan Johar camp. “Kuch Kuch Hota Hai” and “Dil To Paagal Hai” built upon the “Dilwale…” persona. Read the rest of this entry »