Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Happy New Year’ is the kind of film that Bollywood has not had too many of.
After weeks of hiatus in terms of no big release happening in wake of Hrithik Roshan’s ‘Bang Bang’, superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Happy New Year’ is finally here. While the movie has been marketed heavily to ensure top box office collections performance, not much has been revealed as what exactly the film is about? Here we reveal what the audience is going to be treated to, in Shah Rukh Khan’s own words:
Shah Rukh Khan: ?It’s an irregular and new genre. We keep talking about Aamir Khan’s Dhoom and Salman Khan’s ‘Kick’, although I haven’t watched them, as heist films. ‘Dhoom’, I know is a robbery film. Heist films to me are like ‘Ocean’s Eleven’. Unlike robbery films, heist films are those where a plan is made by a set of people to outsmart some people and get away. Usually it’s an ensemble film? not about a particular person or two people, but about six to seven people. Their lives are entwined and they all come to a crux because of this heist. In Happy New Year of course, there is the world dance championship they have to participate in. Heist films have a formula; you have four-five different people, each good at a job and then you collect them to pull off the heist. And then there is some speciality of your film; for instance, how cool is it? Or how interestingly did they outsmart the authorities? Did they, did they not? In Ocean’s Eleven you thought that they had committed the robbery, but they had just played the video (in the first one) so you are like, ?oh they did not steal only’. And when you think they are not stealing, they actually are, and walking out.
I have really enjoyed the experience, because I have never been a part of a film that is based on heist. You get to wear jackets, go through ventilators, open safes; stuff like that. The in-depth part is all that, but it’s also extremely funny.?
