Archive for April, 2005
Monday, April 25th, 2005
He checked his watch. Five past six. Standing at the corner. People passing by. They seemed to be in a rush to get home. The same rush, they used, to get to office, the same morning.
He stood there, waiting for the pedestrian light to go green. The Mexican restaurant was opposite the street from where he stood. The meeting was at Six fifteen. Ten years ago when his senior colleague in Tokyo had casually mentioned it to him, he refused to believe it. Now, ten years later, he came to accept it. Seven years, two thousand five hundred and fifty five evenings, each one of them stepped in silently to stab him again and again. ...
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2005
He had always been troubled by the thought of the purpose of his existence. Teenage life saw him pouring through religious, theological books which tried their best to confuse the answer to the question. In adult life the pressures of making a livelihood took over. He realized the importance of burning ambitions and hard work and they took him places.
His personal life was in shambles though. In the U.S., with a good job, car and a rented home, having a debt of thousands of dollars, he had lost his path on the tracks which lead to many acts which made him – each time - squelch at the mere thought of having done ...
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Friday, April 15th, 2005
The 20 greatest song picturizations from Bollywood. Best – not in terms of large canvas, no techno wizardry or razz-a-dazz, no 2000 dancers doing p.t. exercises, or matkas on the beach; But those great songs which could capture the emotions and mood of the song on camera. Turn off the volume, and if you can feel the same emotions by “watching†the song as you did while “listening†to it, then that song most probably ends up on this list….
1. Kaagaz Ke Phool – Waqt ne kiya, kya hanseen sitam….
The best song captured on camera, ever, in Hindi cinema. Black and White. A defeated Guru Dutt, immersed in thoughts; a sad and yet hopeful Waheeda Rehman, hopeful that she will ...
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2005
Sanjeev Kumar’s house was strictly vegetarian. So whenever SK visited Gulzar, SK would ask for one of his favorite foods - “paaya†to be made and thus he would satisfy his non-veggie palate. And there were strict instructions given to Gulzar to keep a bottle of “Black Label†at all times at his house. SK only drank Black Label and Gulzar would ensure that a bottle of it was always available whenever SK dropped in.
According to “Because He Is…â€, a look into Gulzar’s life by his daughter, there’s an incident where one of Gulzar’s friends was rushed to fly to Delhi to get “paaya†made from one of their, I guess, favorite places, and ...
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Monday, April 11th, 2005
Skating through the dense Mizoram forests, the BSF confronts their enemy. Bodo militants, who cruelly cut the ears of their victims, use human captives as bait to trap Indian forces or use bird voices to communicate with each other in the thick forests.
Tracking the journey of Tarun Kumar a new BSF recruit, from fighting the Bodo militants, to the Naxals, to combating Gujarat rioters and finally protecting our bridges from Pakistani terrorists, Tango Charlie the call sign for Mr. Tarun Kumar (Bobby Deol, trying his best to perform), has fizz as much as in a empty soda bottle.
Excuse me, but could Mr. Mani Shankar’s name be scrapped out of the “To watch out for†directors ...
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Monday, April 11th, 2005
Part I traversed through a few of SK’s famous performances and many of his exceptional but not widely known films.
We begin Part II with one of SK’s lesser known gems, today, though when it was released it was a fair neat hit, what with it being Jaya Bhaduri’s last movie before her hiatus through the 80s and 90s.
Nauker (1979) - Amar
SK played a rich widower with a daughter who along with their servant (Mehmood), travel to meet a family who are equally enthusiastic to get one of their daughters married to SK. But as fate would have it SK falls for their housemaid (Bhaduri), who is mistreated by the lady of the house ...
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Friday, April 8th, 2005
Chiti Chiti Bang Bang. Mr. Cop-bum’s marriage is on the rocks, and he has his whiskey on the rocks, rock-ah-lullah! Bashing drug sellers in a rock party, where everyone looks like they are from Timbaktoo, Mr. Cop-bum busts a big drug lord (played by spider-like-man), seizes loads of cash from the raid and stuffs it into the air-conditioned police-thana’s T-jori. Lordy Lordy Lordy! The police-thana (read thana = station), now tilts under the weight of the T-jori. Poor johri. I sulk into my seat chori chori. Kaun Banega Crorepati! Mrs. Cop bum cries – I want my pati. Tacky tacky.
Ms. I don’t know why I’m Lost, a.k.a,. IDNWIL, plays with idli in eden vile, breakfast on ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
“Honey, do you think you should attend this male multiple orgasms seminar?†asks “J†my girlfriend. And I know I’m in for trouble. I admit I’m not a porn star, who shoot their cum left and right, on the ceiling, spraying it around like a machine gun - ratat ratatata rrrrtttaaatttt - and when they are done there is still a lot left to spray on the porn girl’s tits and her face and the camera zooms in to show how much the girl is enjoying the male cum by rubbing it over her face and tits as if it’s the new-age beauty cream.
Fuck. The last time I shot my whole cum (which on good days is not more ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
Anurag Kashyap. The usual question shot back on mentioning his name – Who the fuck is he? Well that’s what I’ve been meaning to find. Who is Anurag Kashyap? - and why am I so excited to watch his work and then beat my head on my desk each time his work is pulled back or stopped by actors, producers and wow – the Censor Board – ironically from our democratic country.
Kashyap, originally from Delhi came to Bombay, I suspect attracted to the theater rather than movies. The usual Bombay grind saw him living on the streets before he started working at Prithvi. Writer of television serials like “Auto Narayanâ€, he got noticed first by Manoj ...
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Tuesday, April 5th, 2005
Sanjeev Kumar, a.k.a. Harihar Jariwala, a.k.a Hari-bhai. Boon to the world of art and cinema. The most precious gift to movie lovers. No one, and I mean no one in the entire Indian movie industry from its birth to present, comes close to the genius of SK, when it came to portrayals of sensitivity or complex emoting or masked emotion relay – the art of letting the audience know what an actor is feeling/thinking without the actor speaking a word.
Except for Dilip Kumar, Kamal Hassan, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri (and most recently glimpsed in Irrfan), I have yet to see anyone, anywhere, come close to the bar, raised sky high ...
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Monday, April 4th, 2005
Ever wonder ‘what the hell was that movie about?’ - the movies which in the very first minutes had you checking your pockets for an aspirin, or trying to push back your seat so you could sleep for the next 3 hours or had you running to the nearest exit door so you could breathe some fresh air and get back into the world of sanity – YES, YES, YES – those very same – insane, idiotic, pain giving, movies HAD TURNED INTO SUPER HITS. And on reading or hearing about that, you were looking for the nearest immigration office of any country, be it Japan or Jhakas-Land…it made you cry out on the state of the “public†tastes. Fortunately ...
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Sumeet, can’t remember the tune. I know it was...
Now I remember. Thanks Satchit!
