
This film coincidently marks exactly after 20 years the Bhatt sisters have work with SRK. The part where SRK and Alia were cycling and Alia fell off the cycle is inspired by a real-life incident that occurred on the set of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai where Kajol on a similar occasion lost control of her cycle.ħ. The other two are Hema Malini and Farah KhanĦ. Gauri Shinde is the third female director to direct Shahrukh Khan. Ali Zafar was kept out of publicity material due to the URI Attacks aftermath which banned Pakistani actors from Indian films.ĥ.

Ki & Ka has been directed by R Balki, husband of Gauri Shinde, director of Dear Zindagi.Ĥ. While Kaira (Alia Bhatt) is eating street food after breaking up with Sid (Angad Bedi), a poster of Ki & Ka can be seen in the theatre in the background. Ali Zafar (who is also a musician and singer) sang with his voice for 2 of the songs in the film - "Taarefon Se" and "Tu Hi Hai", while on the original soundtrack, the tracks are sung by playback singer Arijit Singh. "English Vinglish" is Gauri Shinde's directorial debut film with Sridevi.ģ. Jehangir (Shahrukh Khan's character in the film) mentions "English Vinglish" in one of his dialogues in the film. To compensate for the lost time, the crew shot for 24 hours the last day for they had their flights to catch on the next day.Ģ. Unfortunately, rain played a spoilsport on the first day because of which the crew had lost more than half of their day. The movie as we know has largely been shot in Goa, however, the last two days of the shooting schedule were fixed for Singapore. He really wanted us to know his thoughts.1. I put that in quotes because a disgruntled filmgoer behind me broadcasted those exact words across the theater as the credits for this film rolled. The modern horror fan goes to their local theater and parts with their money on the expectation that their selected horror film will "deliver the goods", so to speak: startle them a sufficient number of times (scaling appropriately with the film's runtime, of course) and give them the money shots (blood, gore, graphic murders, well-lit and up-close views of the applicable CGI monster etc.) If a horror movie fails to deliver those goods, it's scoffed at and falls into the "worst film I've ever seen" category.

They're more carnival rides than they are films, and audiences have been conditioned to view and judge them through that lens. A modern wide-release horror film is often nothing more than a conveyor belt of jump scares strung together with a derivative story which exists purely as a vehicle to deliver those jump scares. Despite my avid fandom for the genre, I really feel that modern horror has lost its grasp on how to make a film that's truly unsettling in the way the great classic horror films are. In many ways, Darbar is the horror movie I've been restlessly waiting to see for so many years.
