Hindustan Times
If y
ou’ve seen Never Say Never Again, the 1980s movie that marked the return of Sean Connery to the role of James Bond, then you’ll remember the sequence where Bond gets sent to a health farm. The film opens with Bond failing a training exercise and being told by the new M (Edward Fox) that he must seek a naturopathic cure (this M is a health nut).
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, October 10, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Hua Hin, James Bond, Jindal Naturecure institute, Sean Connery, The Oriental
The suggestions in this column, a couple of weeks ago, that I could easily imagine Danny Denzongpa playing Gabbar Singh or that Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi would have been a better movie had Naseeruddin Shah, and not Ben Kingsley, played the title role, have caused some consternation among my friends. They are, of course, entitled to disagree with me but what their responses tell me is this: All too often, an actor becomes so closely identified with a role that we refuse to accept anybody else in his or her place.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, October 3, 2008 at 12:42 am
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Agatha christie, Danny Denzongpa, Edgar Rice Burroughs, James Bond, Naseeruddin shah, Rambo, Rice Burroughs, Richard Burton, Sean Connery
It’s funny how so much of the media hype surrounding the release of the new Indiana Jones movie (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) focused on Harrison Ford. Was he young enough to play the iconic role? Would he still be convincing in the action sequences? And so on.The divide: Gandhi had a stellar Indian cast, but the lead role went to a British actor. AFPFunny, because the role was not written for Ford. movie without all the gadgetry”.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 12:21 am
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Amitabh Bachchan, Harishikesh Mukherjee, Harrison Ford, Indian Jones, James Bond, Richard Attenborough, Steven Spielberg
