Arunoday Singh, who's first Bollywood Movie Sikandar is in theaters now, cues up your DVD player.
"I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender, Charlie, instead of a bum. Which is, let's face it, what I am." As he watched Marlon Brando deliver this dialogue in On The Waterfront, Arunoday Singh knew he wanted to become an actor. He was nine years old at the time.
He’s is all grown up now, and has spent the last five years working as an actor in New York, London and Mumbai. As his first Bollywood movie, Sikandar, hits theatres, we get him to dish on his favorite films:
Four Weddings and a Funeral - Right up there with When Harry Met Sally and The Way We Were (Yes, ingenious way to sneak in more favorites into a tiny list isn't it? Quite proud, I am).
Eastern Promises – About the Russian mob in London, this movie has one of my favorite all-time fight scenes, two on one in a Russian bathhouse, naked hands against men with knives.
Kaminey - Everyone's seen or should be seeing this film around the time this gets posted up. But after a year of such heartbreaking mediocre films, both Bolly and Hollywood, it lifted my spirits tremendously. Shahid managed to craft two separate identifiable and empathetic characters, and Priyanka Chopra stole my heart. Vishal is one of the few directors in Indian cinema who is, so far, still an artist.
All the King's Men – This is among the finest pieces of cinema to be made in the last five years. I shit you not, the script of this film is so great it'll give you shivers. Watch this film!!!
Sikandar - What? This is my list! You gotta problem with me shamelessly plugging my own film, then get your own damn list!! Releasing on the 21st of August and starring Sanjay Suri, Madhavan, Parzaan Dastur, Ayesha Kapur, and yours-ever-so-humble-truly, this is a suspense thriller about a young Kashmiri boy whose innocence and childhood become besieged the day he finds a loaded gun. The movie traces his journey to reclaim his imperiled childhood. As you are reading this, you are being subtly hypnotized through clever subliminal messaging and my own Jedi Mind Tricks to go and watch this film.
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