Iliad, Bollywood-ishtyle

[toujours_nigel]

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,

Achilles: Milind Soman

Agamemnon: Sanjay Dutt

Ajax: Salman Khan

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

Paris: Kunal Kapoor

Patroclus: John Abraham

Penelope: Tabu

Priam: Naseeruddin Shah

Comments

[dhobikikutti]

Sush for Clytemnestra is PERFECT!

(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.

[toujours_nigel]

Sushmita would be a brilliant Clytemnestra. I was wondering about Raveena, but I keep thinking of all the terrible films she's done with Govinda. blechh

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.)

[jjhunter]

"[...] Odysseus doesn't have to be grieving at all, in either of the epics, no? He's all sparkly-eyes and manipulative."

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.

[toujours_nigel]

er, sorry, I meant more Iliad's Odysseus.

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?