Everything in Rakesh Roshan’s Karan Arjun looks incongruous, at odds with contemporary cinema. Both Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan look like ancient clones of their current selves. They are not really the backbone of the plot. Raakhee Gulzar and Amrish Puri are. Their embarrassing over-acting bordering on an incurable hamminess, could inspire an entire thesis on how good actors were coerced to go over-the-top in the 1990s, as it was believed that audiences of the past eras really wanted their favourites to ACT. Directors who scream, “Aur acting aur acting!” from behind the camera until the actors fainted and