Whether
it's
Karan
Johar,
Farah
Khan
or
Vivek
Vaswani,
Shahrukh
Khan
is
known
to
go
out
of
his
way
for
his
close
and
long-lasting
friends.
It
therefore
comes
as
no
surprise
to
know
that
SRK
has
done
one
more
straight-from-the-heart
deed
for
old
friend
Samar
Khan.
Samar
who
made
his
directorial
debut
with
the
candy-floss
episodic
love
story
Kuch
Meetha
Ho
Jaye
three
years
ago,
was
at
the
receiving-end
of
Shah
Rukh
's
largesse
in
that
film
too.
"I
consider
Shah
Rukh
my
good-luck
charm.
He
had
made
an
appearance
as
himself
at
the
end
of
Kuch
Meetha
Ho
Jaye," recalls
Samar
emotionally.
"Now
for
my
new
film
Shourya,
Shah
Rukh
will
be
doing
something
he
has
never
done.
He'll
be
reciting
poetry."
Why
poetry
when
other
friends
want
him
as
item
boy
(Soham
Shah's
Kaal)
and
narrator
(Khalid
Mohamed's
Silsilay)?
Reveals
Samar,
"I
wanted
my
writer
Jaideep
Sarkar
to
write
a
theme
poem
that
describes
my
film's
mood.
He
came
up
with
'Shourya
Kya
Hai'.
The
poem
captures
the
essence
of
my
film.
Namely,
the
biases
and
prejudices
prevalent
in
our
society
which
tends
to
isolate
and
persecute
communities
and
individuals.
Jaideep's
lines
were
extraordinarily
lucid.
I
needed
a
voice
and
a
presence
that
could
make
those
lines
weighty
and
still
accessible
to
the
man
in
the
remotest
corner
of
the
audience."
Samar
flew
down
to
Goa
to
speak
to
SRK
about
the
poem.
"Shah
Rukh
of
course,
being
Shah
Rukh
agreed
immediately.
He
wanted
to
record
the
poem
on
his
laptop
then
and
there.
But
I
wanted
him
to
do
it
properly
in
a
studio."
The
poem
by
Shah
Rukh
will
be
part
of
the
Shourya
soundtrack.
"Adnan
Sami
has
done
the
music.
And
we'll
be
giving
Shah
Rukh
's
poem
a
musical
interpretation
for
the
album," informs
Samar,
as
he
readies
his
film
for
an
April
release.
"The
theme
of
the
poem
is,
we
need
to
find
the
courage
within
us
to
fight
injustice
and
prejudice.
Shourya
is
the
film
I
wanted
to
make
first.
But
didn't
have
the
courage
and
the
vision
to
handle
as
my
first
film."
The
whole
team
has
made
the
endeavour
easier
for
Samar
by
backing
him
to
the
hilt.
"When
you've
creative
people
like
script
writer
Jaideep
Sarkar,
dialogue
writer
Aparna
Malhotra
(actor
Pavan
Malhotra's
wife)
and
a
dream-cast
like
Rahul
Bose,
Deepak
Dobriyal
and
Seema
Biswas,
you've
nothing
to
worry
about."
Shourya
goes
into
an
army
backdrop.
"We've
seen
many
films
of
Chetan
Anand
Saab
and
J.P
Dutta
Saab
with
an
army
backdrop.
But
they
went
straight
into
the
war
zone.
Since
I
had
spent
three
years
of
my
life
in
the
National
Defence
Academy,
I
wanted
to
make
a
film
about
life
in
the
army
without
going
into
war."
The
buzz
is
that
Shourya
is
inspired
by
Rob
Reiner's
1992
court-martial
drama,
A
Few
Good
Men.
Samar
shrugs
off
the
charge.
"Shaurya
is
about
a
court
martial
of
a
man
accused
of
a
terrible
war
crime.
But
it's
not
A
Few
Good
Men.
We
tend
to
bring
that
up
in
my
movie's
context
because
it's
the
only
film
in
living
memory
about
a
court
martial."
Story first published: Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 17:36 [IST]