SRK's Role

"what I said was that SRK has lately been playing cool guy-high profile personas in his movies... which is something that Sahil, Om and Raj all have in common. "

I feel sorry for anyone who thinks Raj was cool! It actually made me laugh so hard to read this. I hope this is not a product of you environment pitviper! Raj was the antithesis of cool.

'This film is only for Madagascar and Iran, neither of which follow American copyright law'

^^Exactly!
I always think it's silly when people say that srk has played similar roles in OSO, RNBDJ and Billu.
Om Kapoor may have been 'cool' for some people but he was a crap actor and a spoilt star son brat - at least until the makhija part came through- and therefore in a way he wasn't really cool.

Sahir khan seems similar to OK from the trailers but when you see actual movie, you realise, he is totally different. He was actually very cool but he was far, very far from being a brat. He was shown as a very down to earth, kind-hearted star, a genuinely good actor and someone who had to struggle to get where he was- definitely not a star son. The only similarity is that he is also a superstar- but that hardly matters, not even for an instant i was reminded of OK during Billu Barber. But I'm sure if you wanted you could find similarities in every role- eg both billu and sweeny todd are also barbers or hairdressers lol.

as for Suri playing RAJ- he is the most different guy. I agree with niki foonts and RobertKB, that Raj is far from being cool. He was a wannabe cool guy- a complete jerk- but who at heart was a nice guy- cause he is not Raj but Suri.

In fact I think SRK played Suri playing Raj perfectly. At first I thought he was over the top, because I fell into the trap of thinking that Raj should be a cool guy from the promos. But then i realised he's not, cause there is no way that someone like Suri could really turn into a cool guy in an instant, but a wannabe is very much possible. And i think that the raj part of Suri was in fact much more harder to play than the real Suri and I'm so glad that SRK played it so well. (anyway sorry for going offtopic)

But SRK's role in Billu Barber is definitely very crucial and he's done an excellent job. He hasn't really played himself either. Some parts might be, but the mannerisms of sahir khan were very different. I especially felt this in the speech scene - everything about him was different to how srk behaves and speaks. Also I liked that they did give Sahir khan a bigger role, cause it made the emotional scenes seem more real. We were actually able to relate to him. If all they had shown was him in a small appearance, I don't think I would have been so touched by the end. I give full credit to Irrfan as well for his perfect portrayal of Billu- I felt so sad for him one song.

Anyway so i absolutely loved Billu Barber ,- a lot more than RNBDJ- which could have been very good but was very flawed and therefore an average movie. but it was made memorable by srk's amazing performance.