Shah Rukh and Farah Make a Great Team

All right so we've all heard the taunts about women drivers, and wanted to run over every man who made them. To be honest, some of us would have run them over anyway as we struggled with tongue curled over upper lip to stay in our own lane!

But here we are, about to say something about women directors. You see, this is where our double X chromosomes comes into play. We're women so we couldn't possibly blanket insult of every beautiful creature of our sex, now could we? We're pointing our finger at one woman, one woman director alone…Farah Khan.

Okay, so Main Hoon Na, her directorial debut was a super duper hit. The film wasn't a fluke, some innovative scenes, camera frames, the lighting patterns, colors, brilliance yada yada…and now with Om Shanti Om near about ready for release, it's hardly expected that the film will be a disaster. What a great year for the woman, to have two hit films and three babies all under one belt. Yes, she's expecting triplets.

Why? Well, because Bend it like Beckhams' Gurinder Chadha, yet another woman director, had twins. This is Bollywood baby, we have to do it bigger and better!

We happened across a very interesting rendition of a sequence of events during some OSO patch work scenes of Shah Rukh Khan's to be shot by director Farah Khan. Well, that's how it will read in the credits anyways…and if it's to be believed this is how her film is shot, every shot…

So this day, there's the cameraman very busy setting up the lights, getting the frame just right, SRK rehearsing his lines and Farah… well, she was off in the corner grumbling about being hungry. Can't blame the woman she has four mouths to feed! So the cameraman approaches her and asks how he should set up the next scene.

Response from Farah is more grumble, grumble and a shout for where's-the-food-yaar! So cameraman suggests something else, he puts across three options and dare we say it…. suggests in so many words how to direct the scene. Gasp!

To which, Farah-- now remember people, hormones are an issue here-- she could blow up and scream at him for attempting to call her shots, quite literally, in fact. But nope, she waved him off with a 'whatever' and then went pouting to SRK to find out if he was finished with the scene so they could have lunch. SRK irritably told her to munch on air.

While he and the cameraman figured out the camera angles, FK pouted in a corner, alternately whining and grumbling about how long it was taking….

End deal, the shot was canned no thanks to Farah, she ate and yet another glorious moment of celluloid was created. Lady, take a bow…hang on, here have a seat instead. Somebody get some more food!

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