Kajol, for example, back from her years-long wedding/baby hiatus. There are other excellent actors and actresses in Fanaa. The PPCC of December 2008 just cannot fathom what the PPCC of November 2007 was thinking. Hamko maaf kardijiega, Rishi sahab! Ham pagal the. AIsn't that sweet?Įditor from the future (December 2008): Why all this hate, past tense PPCC?! Why all this invective against poor, jolly Rishi Kapoor? No, no, no, this will not do. And the fact that he was paired up with Kirron Kher, our all-time favorite Hindi Movie Mom, made the whole parental thing so cute and warm and squishy. But he was really quite cute in his paternal role. Or maybe the doughy look makes sense now in older age. Maybe the years have softened that dumb glazed doughy look of his. Hence our mild surprise when, sitting through the Dil Se-but-stupider Fanaa, we felt sparks of warmth for Rishi. For Shashi has those cute canines, those long eyelashes, that adorable way he cocks his head and lowers his eyes when he sings, "Bekhudi mein sanam!" Guh. There's nothing mysterious about our love for Shashi. It's as mysterious as our love of Shashi.
Uuuuggghhhh.ĭon't ask us why we hate Rishi. As the Shashi Years eclipsed into the 1980s, and Rishi began to take the mantle of Famous Kapoor for the decade, we at the PPCC gagged. Just as we at the PPCC have coveted Shashi Kapoor and built small shrines to him and paused our DVDs just to gaze at his face and drawn his face and then daydreamed about bumping into him in the street and being whisked away on some song, so has our crush for Shashi burned bright and our hate and wrath for Rishi Kapoor, his nephew, burned even brighter.