Its Thursday and yet another new poster of Thugs of Hindostan has been unravelled. This time its "John Clive" played by Llowd Owen. He is introduced as the merciless officer in the world of Thugs. The motion poster again with the sizzling background score looks menacing. It really gives us a glimpse that his character graph is also going to be really good and have a major impact on the movie story line.The fiery look in his eyes and his pose with that cruel background score lifts the entire poster to another level. This seems to be a character to watch out for in the movie.
Aamir khan, in his movies unlike most of the other Bollywood movies, has always made sure that if there is any foreign actor in his movie, he is not made to look like a caricature. We often see Bollywood movies painting the foreign actors as if they are just stocks of laughter or pure villains without giving them a proper background or character graph. Aamir khan perhaps the first time in Lagaan, gave the British character, played by the magnificent "Paul Blackthorne" a meaty role. A role that was villainous, yet is not showing as a comic stock. The role had a brilliant graph right from the start till the final credits roll on. In fact, Aamir khan makes the foreign actors look as real as possible in his movies. He does not give them unnecessary lengthy Hindi dialogues. The beautiful and classy "Rachel Shelly" , the sister of the British Officer in Lagaan is another example. She was an extremely lovable character who falls in love with Bhuvan, the villager. The character of Rachel Shelly was designed to be as realistic as possible. Her one sided love with Bhuvan makes our heart melt and root for her even though she is a British.
The Character of "Sue" in Rang De Basanti is another example. She comes from a foreign nation to India and just falls in love with character of DJ, played by Aamir Khan. But, then she is just not any other girl who falls in love. She has a strong role, she supports her friends in their movement to fight against injustice, she is a working woman who has a haunting past of her father and wants to make up for it. Sue is not painted as a foreign girl in the movie, she is made to look like one amongst the group of Indians, she stays with them , she shares their happiness, their sorrows.
I am pretty sure Aamir khan would certainly also make "John Clive" a remarkable character in Thugs of Hindostan. You would be surprised to know why I mentioned Aamir khan and not the director of these movies as the reason for their characters. I strongly feel that Aamir khan gives so many inputs during the movie making and script development that he has a strong say in all the characters. He just wants every character to look the best, have great graphs.
Aamir Khan firmly believes that if the film is good, every character will shine. Aamir khan just takes care of all the characters in the movie so well, it is the reason the audience takes care of his movies so lovingly!
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