The star of the BAFTA Bollywood weekend was undoubtedly Shah Rukh Khan. Sweeping the British press off its collective feet, he was at his witty best in the question-and-answer session with the British Press. Later, at the dinner hosted by steel tycoon Mittal, British actress Emma Thompson was quite taken up by Shah Rukh. She expressed a sincere wish to work with him.

If there were any doubts about the Yash Chopra- Aamir Khan patch-up post-Fanaah then the Bollywood Weekend at the BAFTA has put them to rest. When Yash Chopra was honoured for being a Bollywood legend, Aamir Khan gave a heartfelt impromptu speech that brought the house down.

Recalls Karan Johar, “Aamir gave a rousing speech on Yashji. In fact Yashji was honoured for being the only Bollywood filmmaker to have made successful Hindi films from the black-and-white era to the present day.”

Says Karan, “During my master class on K3G the questions I was asked were really something. Someone asked me why Shah Rukh was seen with his shoes on in water in the ‘Suraj hua madhyam’ song in K3G. It was quite a question. I was also asked about the difference between the masters of the earlier years and those who are making films today.”

Karan says that he spoke about how we are scared of silences today. “For instance there's a shared moment of silence between Shah Rukh and Rani in KANK,” he says. “I had to fill the soundtrack with thunder and lightening. I explained why we need to structure the sound and visuals in a particular way to fit a given format. For example the emotional graph has to be timed with the interval. And after interval we have to have a buffer-block where we give audiences a chance to get back into their seats before the plot proceeds. I also explained why our films are misunderstood to be musicals. That in fact the songs don't manoeuvre the story. All in all, it was fabulous experience. It showed how far Bollywood has infiltrated into the European psyche.”

source:mumbaimirror