Stardonic

Ajay Devgan, foot firmly in mouth, on his upcoming film Omkara which is supposedly based on Shakespeare’s Othello.

Devgan, who admitted he had not read Othello before shooting began, said the Hindi film was, in some senses, “better”.

“We picked up the story line and it’s completely adapted by Vishal. The way he has adapted it I would want to say he has done a great job — for me it is better than the original, the way he has adapted it.” [Link]

Ajay Devgan, foot starting to tickle throat by now, continues…

“I am not letting Shakespeare down or anything of the sort but when you make a novel into a film, there has to be some changes according to our country — though the whole credit is to Shakespeare…” [Link]

Ajay Devgan, botched attempt at extrication of foot causing it to slide deeper down esophagus, has more wisdom to proffer.

“What I was trying to say (is) the original was not a film, when we talk of Shakespeare,” Devgan pointed out. [Link]

Not a film. Good Lord, who would’ve thought.

And here’s Viveik “characteristically eloquent” Oberoi, holding court on the same subject.

“Omkara is a very interesting interpretation of Shakespeare and I might stick my neck out and be in a little bit of a sacrilegious mood to say that it enhances what Shakespeare started up with.”

How naughty! Thank goodness Aish left Cannes before Viveik got there. Who knows what he would’ve done to her in this sacrilegious mood of his.

“The fact that Shakespeare, one of the greatest writers of all time, devoted an entire play to this emotion is a large statement on how global jealousy is.” “When I read the play, I was bored of Cassio. He is very uni-dimensional. When I read the script, I was floored…” [Link]

Uh, ok. We might as well turn this into a foot-in-mouth edition and present Salman Khan in New York.

The police found two dead blackbuck at the time. “The first post mortem said the first animal died of overeating; the other jumped over a wall and was eaten by a dog,” says Salman. The second post mortem, conducted after 10 days, concluded the animals could have died of gunshots. [Link]

Eaten by a dog. Overeating. Wow.

So he’d actually chance going to jail to save the lives of those who put him in? “That’s the way I’ve been brought up, dude,” he responds. [Link]

Uh, ok. Words seem a little hard to come by today in the face of this onslaught. Ms. Rai, if you are reading, there seem to be some serious bugs in your mate picking software.

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