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I was craving for some respect

Posted by Unknown Rabu, 11 Juli 2012 0 komentar

Sonu Sood on completing a decade in the industry and being constantly compared with Amitabh Bachchan

Sonu Sood seems to be a content man today. After all, he has just completed 10 years in the industry, with several Bollywood and South films next to his name.

The actor has apparently even purchased a Rs 20 crore duplex property in South Mumbai, a move that clearly confirms his sound financial standing. From his debut with Shaheed-E-Azam, Bhagat Singh in 2002 to his recent role as a tough cop in Maximum, Sonu speaks to us about his decade-long career…

Do you think Maximum was the next best logical step after Dabangg?
I would say that an actor needs at least one Maximum once in their career. I am glad that critics have loved my work and I think that while Dabangg gave me the stardom, Maximum has given me the respect that I was craving for.

The critics have compared you to a younger Amitabh Bachchan. Are you flattered?
I think he is too big a legend to be compared. If I even achieve 10 per cent of what he has achieved that I would say that my life is made.

You are said to be the only north Indian actor to establish yourself in the South...
I received the Nandi Award in 2009 for my film Arundhati and I feel that it has been my best performance in South till date. Thankfully, my track record in South comprises 95 per cent hits and it feels good when people say, ‘you are our lucky mascot and you are the only North Indian to establish himself in South’.

I have made it a point to at least have two releases there every year. It gives me the freedom to choose among the best in Hindi films.

People feel that you are no longer open to negative or character roles?
I am still open to roles that will take the script forward and where I will be one of the pillars of the story. It can be negative or positive as long as it is an integral character.

What have been the highpoints in your career so far?
Definitely working with some of the biggest directors in the country like Mani Ratnam, Ashutosh Gowarikar, and Sanjay Gupta, not to forget my South director as well.

With every film like Aashiq Banaya Aapne, Singh Is Kinng, Jodhaa Akbar, Dabangg and now Maximum, I have tried to take that one step forward and that has worked for me in its own way.

You play Dawood in your next film. How has been the experience?
I would like to say that the combination of Ekta Kapoor and Sanjay Gupta (as co-producers) is like Sachin Tendulkar and Virendar Sehwag, which can never go wrong.

I have always maintained that Gupta is one of the finest technicians that we have in the industry today. Gupta presents his actors in a completely different form and the character of Dawood that has been written for the film is something that no one has ever seen before.

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Abbas-Mustan to direct remake of Arundhati

Posted by Unknown Selasa, 10 Juli 2012 0 komentar

Abbas-Mustan have been approached for the Hindi remake of Telugu film Arundhati, which starred Sonu Sood and Anushka Shetty

A while back there was buzz that Kareena Kapoor had been offered the film but she had declined it.

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Sonu feels 'Maximum' may not earn Rs.100 crore but will become 'respectable' movie

Posted by Unknown Jumat, 29 Juni 2012 0 komentar

Sonu Sood starrer "Maximum" has got mixed reviews, but the actor is confident that the film will carve a "respectable place" for itself irrespective of its box office business.

"I don't know if my film will earn Rs.100 crore or not but it will definitely make a place in the category of respectable films," the 38-year-old told reporters.

"Maximum", which hit the theatres Friday, is the story of shootout specialists played by Sonu and Naseeruddin Shah.

Reviewers have given their verdict. One of the reviews said that "Maximum" shows minimum originality thereby making it a plain average attempt, while another says that the film is a case of too much blood and blabber being wasted on a tale that has been flogged to death.

. But Sonu is confident and says a lot of people will identify with the subject.

"There is no message but it talks about an era which most people have seen and they will be able to identify with it," said Sonu.

When it comes to female leads, Sonu is not choosy about working with established actresses.

"Frankly speaking, I can't take one name. Until I know about their role, I can't choose one. They are all brilliant, they are all big achievers. Whoever suits the role, be it a new girl or an established actress, I will always welcome them," he said.

"I have worked with all of them and I think I have worked with most of the established actresses - Katrina (Kaif) in 'Singh Is Kinng' and with Kangna (Ranaut) I have done some southern films. Whoever is good, I would love to work with them," he added.

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Maximum is a minimum-fuss crime drama

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Starring Naseeruddin Shah, Sonu Sood, Neha Dhupia, Amit Sadh, Vinay Pathak

Written & Directed by Kabeer Kaushik

Rating: *** ½

With a kind of brisk businesslike immediacy and the least amount of fuss Maximum takes us into the world of encounter killings and the internecine war in Mumbai’s police department which threatens to destroy the very institution built to mend the wounds and fissures in the social fabric.

Writer-director Kabeer Kaushik seems to be a born minimalist. His earlier film the underrated Saher was also steeped in the khaki colour. In Maximum the world of legally-enforced corruption is created with such a lack of back-projection, history and vocalized subtexts that you often feel the director takes his audience for granted.

This is not the case. Kabeer Kaushik only presumes that we are intelligent enough to enter the murky morally ambivalent world of his characters without being led by the hand. It’s a dark unlit and often dreary world ignited by repugnant flare-ups of violence where cops are shown to behave like hardcore criminals. You really can’t tell the two sides apart.

Naseeruddin Shah who plays a ruthless encounter cop Arun Inamdar is introduced to us when a victim lies bleeding in front of the cop. Characteristically director Kabeer Kaushik plunges into the scene of crime when the dark deed is done. We see Inamdar watching the victim bleed to death and then pumping two bullets into the chap to make sure there’s no unfinished business here.

This is a world of unmitigated immorality. Bullets are fired not to stop but to merchanidize crime. And the lawmakers are shown to be as corrupt as the ones they set out to nab and mend. Pratap Pandit, as played by that fine versatile actor Sonu Sood, is a man of a few words, much action.

We are not given a chance to know him closely. He shifts gears so often we’re often left looking briefly at gaping wounds that can never heal in our socio-political system. The view is swift and disconcerting.

The narration assumes a peculiar pace. Though there are bloody shootouts, grim exchange of dialogues, item girls gyrating in smoky dance bars, and car cashes on Mumbai’s deceptively glistening roads, the underbelly of the film is coated with a deathly silence.

As guns roar and Daniel George plays out an elegiac evocative background score to underline the senselessness of the violence, we can see the characters’ selfimposed emptiness in the face of the volatile noise that they’ve created around their lives.

The hollowness hits you in the head more than the heart. And when the emotions seize the plot in a vice-like grip we feel terribly sorry for the characters for the deathtrap that they’ve built for one another and finally themselves.

The film opens in 2003 at the height of the encounter killings in Mumbai. Two encounter specialists played by Sonu Sood and Naseeruddin Shah are at loggerheads the way any two professionals in the same job-space are bound to be.

Admirably the director doesn’t use the two principal characters to form a central conflict. This is a world deprived of moral and legal bearings. Dog eats dog. Cop kills cop.

Kaushik’s narration is as ruthless and stripped of humour and other sources of cinematic solace as the world his characters inhabit. A certain amount of familiarity with the world of encounter killings is assumed on the audiences’ part.

We are expected to understand the subverted value-system of the encounter cops who do their social cleansing and in the process get so embroiled in blood, their hands are soaked in the very blood that they are meant to wash away.

Hence our ‘hero’ Pratap(based on a real-life encounter specialist) is shown to kill criminals, extort money from builders and businessman and hobnob with the powerful and profance. And yet he returns home to a loving wife(Neha Dhupia, blending into the saree folds as fluently as the slit gowns that she generally wears) and a daughter. The father-daughter scenes are done with a tremulous tenderness.

Sonu Sood invests immense emotion in these scenes. His performance takes him through several moral dilemmas. Years pass. Sood’s body language expresses the deplorable shift in power equations. Here’s a performance that again proves this underrated actor’s unimpeachable versatility.

“When you are slipping you either fight back or you keep quiet, ” he tells his journalist-friend, played by an interesting actor Amit Sadh. They share keema-pao at an Irani restaurant. As the years pass earlier the cop paid, later the scribe does.

A subtle illustration of a power-shift that says so much about the socio-economic equations of Mumbai. The journalist’s character remains a kind of sutradhar who gets willnilly sucked into the power game between crime and politics.

By the end of the film we really don’t know who is in the crime folds for the money and who’s there for the power.

Maximum is a film that’s far more in-charge of its out-of-control sharp-shooting cops than it seems. Yes, there have been any number of films about encounter cops. But this one gets at the underbelly of desolation and isolation of such cops as effectively as Shimit Amin’s Ab Tak Chappan.

The are some brilliantly executed shootouts. Note Neha Dhupia’s haunting alaap just before a pen-ultimate exchange of fire. And the climactic confrontation between Sood and Naseer’s character on a station leaves us sickened yet invigorated…

The stunning endgame is one of the many pleasures of watching Maximum. A layered sharp and sagacious look at the internecine world of encounter cops, Maximum is a minimum-fuss crime drama where the characters are so austere in their emotions they somehow seem to be constantly shadow-dancing with their conscience.

The performances by Sonu Sood and Naseeruddin Shah propel the plot to a gripping summit. But there isn’t enough of Naseer. Vinay Pathak as a UP ka politician and Amit Sadh as a journalist both trying to make sense of Mumbai’s confounding cosmopolitanism add considerably to the film’s powerful personality.

For Sonu Sood Maximum is a new beginning.

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Maximum' director 'honoured' to work with Naseer

Posted by Unknown Kamis, 28 Juni 2012 0 komentar

Director Kabir Kaushik, whose movie "Maximum" is set to hit screens Friday, loved working with Naseeruddin Shah, and hopes the audience will love the movie.

"I am extremely honoured to have Naseer sir in the film. The film is based on crime and police. It's a complete package and I am sure the audience will appreciate the hard work we've put in," said Kaushik.

"Maximum" also features Sonu Sood, Vinay Pathak and Neha Dhupia.

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