Iliad, Bollywood-ishtyle
Jan. 26th, 2010 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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or, there's a meme going around that involves (re)casting your fandom: this has the most comprehensive links.
Being as how I'm a sheep, and this is an amazing idea, I've followed suit. Also, I'm being alphabetical, because I'm bad at organising, mkay.
So, er,
Also, should you be unfamiliar with these actors, and wish to learn about them,
Being as how I'm a sheep, and this is an amazing idea, I've followed suit. Also, I'm being alphabetical, because I'm bad at organising, mkay.
So, er,
Also, should you be unfamiliar with these actors, and wish to learn about them,
Achilles: Milind Soman
Agamemnon: Sanjay Dutt
Andromache: Konkona Sen Sharma
Cassandra: Kangana Ranaut
Clytemnestra: Sushmita Sen
Hector: Chandan Roy Sanyal
Hecuba: Shabana Azmi
Helen: Kareena Kapoor
Menelaus: Saif Ali Khan
Odysseus: Shahrukh Khan
Patroclus: John Abraham
Penelope: Tabu
Priam: Naseeruddin Shah
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Date: 2010-01-26 02:03 pm (UTC)(You already know my feelings about Kereena, so I guess I should just be glad you didn't stick Aish in there.)
Also SRK as Odysseus makes me LOL. He's such a ham! I would prefer someone more like, say, Ajay Devgan, who does stretched out and silent with grief really well.
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Date: 2010-01-26 02:27 pm (UTC)SRK is terribly OTT, but he's also done things like Anjaam and Chak De! and he's good as long as he can't play himself. Besides, Odysseus doesn't have to be grieving at all, in either of the epics, no? He's all sparkly-eyes and manipulative.
Kareena I cannot stand either. (This is why she's Helen.)
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Date: 2010-01-27 03:43 pm (UTC)Er, not quite. A man who spends almost ten years trapped on an island, yearning for his homeland doesn't strike me as quite the same 'sparkly-eye[d]' Odysseus of the Illiad. He's in a situation where all his wiles avail him naught, and his patron goddess appears to have abandoned him.
In fact, the Odyssey is pretty specific about Odysseus' emotional state every single day he stays on Calypso's island: endless tears streaming down his face as he stands his daily lonely vigil by the sea, facing the direction of Ithaca.
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Date: 2010-01-27 05:15 pm (UTC)And even the man in the Odyssey, before and after his interlude with Calypso, is very definitely the trickster manipulating his surroundings to full effect, no?
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Date: 2010-01-27 02:46 am (UTC)(Also, having just seen Dhoom, I have John Abraham in my head as a [younger] Agamemnon: he's got that reptilian ego thing going on. I'm sure he's played nice characters since then, but, rowr.)
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Date: 2010-01-27 02:56 am (UTC)And Roy Sanyal is intense and curly and a theatre-person, and... uh. I'm rather irrationally fannish about him.
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Date: 2010-01-27 01:59 pm (UTC)Yes. Exactly.
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Date: 2010-01-27 03:21 pm (UTC)In contrast, Milind Soman as Achilles is pretty hot, but he doesn't 'click' quite as perfectly for me; he won't become my dominant mental picture.
Anyway, as a die-hard Classics nerd and Homer fan I have so much love for this project. Part of what made the movie 'Troy' so horrible for me (well, besides the whole 'Sword of Troy' biz--whiskey tango foxtrot?!) was the historically inaccurate casting. Newsflash, Hollywood: historical/mythological Troy is in Turkey. And it's pretty obvious where the 'Greeks' are from. From whence the pasty European actors? The whole movie was whitewashing on an epic scale.
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Date: 2010-01-27 05:18 pm (UTC)I'm iffy on Achilles myself, but Milind Soman fit in better than, say, Hrithik Roshan.
And Troy, quite apart from how terribly it skewered the story, is horrible to me because of Paris and Helen and Patroclus and... yeah, everyone. And Menelaus is red-haired, and Achilles is golden-haired, but for love of Dionysos, why so pale?
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Date: 2010-01-28 05:39 am (UTC)I linked your post on my book blog =D
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Date: 2010-01-28 01:21 pm (UTC)Thank you.
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Date: 2010-01-28 02:50 pm (UTC)(Wandered on to this post via dhobikikutti. :) Hello!)
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Date: 2010-01-28 03:07 pm (UTC)It could work rather brilliantly, given how terrifying clan feuds can get regarding unsuitable marriages and elopements.
Zamindarni runs away with unsuitable younger son of a neighbouring village's zamindar.
Gather the men, dig out the old rifles, send someone to dig up that rather brilliant stripling who uses razors on other men's throats better than his own barely-there beard!
er, I'll stop getting carried away, now.
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Date: 2010-01-28 03:16 pm (UTC)This looks like it could be a solid paisa-vasool story... and it's definitely more interesting to me than all the Greek dudes, heh.
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