2007: The year of Shah Rukh Khan, and small big films Bheja Fry and Black Friday | Bollywood News
A cracker of a year, in which the starry blockbusters were trumped by a series of indie sparklers, most directed by debutants. Of the top grossing list– Akshay Kumar with four films, Shah Rukh Khan with two, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan with one each, and Abhishek Bachchan with two, only a couple stand out creatively. Om Shanti Om was Farah Khan again paying tribute to the most beloved tropes of Bollywood potboilers — the star-struck mother who is convinced her son will make it big one day, the shenanigans of the movie moguls, and the games they play– was the year’s biggest guilty pleasure, with SRK-Shreyas-Kirron-Arjun and Deepika Padukone in her debut, looking every inch the Hema Malini stand-in she was meant to be. All cool boys and girls of Bollywood showed up to celebrate themselves in that iconic song, whose spirit SRK’s beta Aryan celebrated to the max in his crowd pleaser of a series, The Ba***ds of Bollywood. The other is Shimit Amin’s Chak De India!, in which SRK’s failed hockey player-cum-reluctant-coach …
