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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
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Striking out, collegian bit, furious rampage, playing his age
Salman Khan's ready for 'Ready'. With some major smart alterations in the script, though.
'Ready,' a remake of a 2008 Telugu blockbuster, had the male lead, enacting a college striking out on a furious rampage. Sallu, however, would have none of the collegian bit, and has put his starry foot down, insisting that director Anees Bazmee, make the necessary changes in the script to suit his age and image.
Says a close source, "Salman is embarrassed about not playing his age in his previous movies too. In 'Tere Naam', he justified the college bit, by showing himself as an old student who was hanging out with his friends on the campus."
Presently, 'Ready' slated to roll from June 15 is going through a furious round of rewriting.
Admits Bazmee in a periodical quote, "We've changed the Hindi version drastically and it's for the better. In the original, the hero was 19 years old and a college student, and Salman felt it would be ridiculous for him to play it. Salman can't play a college student any longer and the nice part is that he's sensible enough to understand that. In the new version, Salman plays a guy who manages his father's business."
Source : http://in.movies.yahoo.com/news-detail/87660/Sallus-Age-Wise.html
I know "strike out" means "to start relationship with someone", "furious" means "angry", "rampage" means "wild behaviour" but I could not understand them together.
'Ready,' a remake of a 2008 Telugu blockbuster, had the male lead, enacting a college striking out on a furious rampage. Sallu, however, would have none of the collegian bit, and has put his starry foot down, insisting that director Anees Bazmee, make the necessary changes in the script to suit his age and image.
Says a close source, "Salman is embarrassed about not playing his age in his previous movies too. In 'Tere Naam', he justified the college bit, by showing himself as an old student who was hanging out with his friends on the campus."
Presently, 'Ready' slated to roll from June 15 is going through a furious round of rewriting.
Admits Bazmee in a periodical quote, "We've changed the Hindi version drastically and it's for the better. In the original, the hero was 19 years old and a college student, and Salman felt it would be ridiculous for him to play it. Salman can't play a college student any longer and the nice part is that he's sensible enough to understand that. In the new version, Salman plays a guy who manages his father's business."
Source : http://in.movies.yahoo.com/news-detail/87660/Sallus-Age-Wise.html
I know "strike out" means "to start relationship with someone", "furious" means "angry", "rampage" means "wild behaviour" but I could not understand them together.
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This is not a particularly well-edited piece of journalism. " In this context, "striking out" means setting out on an new course of action, and "furious rampage" means what you've said - though the word "rampage" usually implies not just wild behaviour but also destructive or violent behaviour. A "bit" means a part of something.
- This is not a particularly well-edited piece of journalism.
- " In this context, "striking out" means setting out on an new course of action, and "furious rampage" means what you've said - though the word "rampage" usually implies not just wild behaviour but also destructive or violent behaviour.
- A "bit" means a part of something.
- So, "the collegian bit" is the part of the film about the college student.
- An actor "playing his age'' is portraying a character of a similar age to the actor's age in real life.
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This is not a particularly well-edited piece of journalism. The first sentence you had a problem with should really read: "'Ready', a remake of a 2008 Telugu blockbuster, had the male lead playing a college student striking out on a furious rampage."
In this context, "striking out" means setting out on an new course of action, and "furious rampage" means what you've said - though the word
In this context, "striking out" means setting out on an new course of action, and "furious rampage" means what you've said - though the word
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You could indeed strike out on a new relationship with someone as you've described. But I would rarely use this idiom in a such a context. I say this because "striking out" more commonly means "to luck out", to try at something and fail, to use up all one's chances. In baseball, if you take three swings and fail to land a good hit, you've "struck out", and you don't get to run to first base.
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