Archive for November, 2006
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Not many may like Kader Khan. Not many recent entrants to Bollywood may have heard of him. Not much is written about him. - do check the web out... I did try... nah... nada... its bits and pieces of snippets here and there. Not much.
And this is the guy who was one of those, from whom, the great Amitabh Bachchan learnt better dialogue delivery. Every evening after packup on the sets of Mr. Natwarlal, KK would speak out Amitabh's dialogues in a tape recorder, which Amitabh would then listen to later that evening.
Goes to show what KK was and still is made of. One of the most prominent dialogue writers in the seventies and eighties and ofcourse one of the ...
Posted in Bollywood | 20 Comments »
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
Well emails like these perk me up and have me jumping on my seat... A big thanks to Ajay Silvojax, for sending in the link to the video, which is now in Desitrain's Video collection.
So what makes Kamal's Marudhanayagam... so special... as per Silvojax's comments the movie "his dream project started before 5 to 6 years ....unfortunately due to many reasons the movie couldn't be completed ..."
I've been hearing about this movie for many years too. I believe Kamal has mentioned in several interviews that it's his dream to complete the movie but the budget constrains lead to the the movie being stalled time and again. Apparently it will be Kamal's most expensive movie to date.
Marudhanyagam is a period ...
Posted in Movies, TV etc. | 22 Comments »
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
For those with whom I don't share stuff in emails... perhaps this post would give you a sneak glimpse of the churning of events in the last few days... or perhaps not... Went to bed pissed at someone... Why can't people use their brains... Emailed the guy in crystal clear words... He comes back playing the same rant on his drums... I felt like hammering his head to a mashed potato state...
It's all disoriented today... Early morning I'm in the men's room at work holding my mini-me... standing... waiting... I know I had to pee... and as I stared at the wall in front... some thoughts flew by and so I ran after those thoughts... A few people came and ...
Posted in Life Flava | 19 Comments »
Monday, November 27th, 2006
Continuing the series... (click here for Part 1)
Nana Patekar in Ankush
O the ways of the mind. When a stupendous act or manner impresses one infinitely, the mind refuses to see or recognize the other performances or traits an actor has so amazingly brought out on screen.
Nana Patekar falls in the category of such an actor. The slap in your face performances may get the best of taalis, whistles and coins thrown on the screen... but sadly they've made many forget the range and span of this actor. I strongly suspect that Nana Patekar is another actor after Sanjeev Kumar and Kamal Hasan that can cry your eyes out, without him having to utter a single word.
The scene: The teacher in ...
Posted in Bollywood | 5 Comments »
Friday, November 24th, 2006
Hero No. 1 flies down from the air onto the train. Background music... bang bang bang... The wind plays wonders with his Greek Godly hair. He is brazen bronze head to toe. Get up get up from your seats and bow as he gives a pose on the roof of the train to fashion photographers.
Hero No. 2 flies from the shore on his motor cycle and lands on the boat. The bad guys growl and frown. Mama didn't serve them breakfast hash browns. They stick guns on Hero No. 2's head and just stay there. Quick Click click click. Hero No. 2 goes into some odd dialogue baazi, that makes some grandpa sitting next to you, hide into grandma's pallu. ...
Posted in Bollywood, Movie Reactions | 21 Comments »
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
A different turn... a different take... saw Saaransh for the nth time and still cried over those permanently etched in memory scenes... what gives... About to shut the desktop for a Thanksgiving Holiday tomorrow. Have to come back to work on Friday!!! DAMN IT... I'll be in office while the rest of America on Friday Morning will be going in for that yearly Black Friday (no not Anurag Kashyap's movie) shopping...
Guess I'll start this list for you, dear readers to pour in more movies that break your heart and turn on the faucet that lets breaks those tear dams... List is no particular order...
Saaransh
If you and I were just born yesterday and shown Saaransh, we would refuse to believe ...
Posted in Bollywood | 22 Comments »
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
There are some news that I absolutely fall in love with. And specially in America where the mind bounces on either side the thin line dividing the highly imaginative and the absolute craziness.
About a year ago, in Tempe, Arizona, a new kind of a fast food joint was opened. It's called...
The Heart Attack Grill
The slogan? "Taste... worth dying for"
Yeah... you would hardly feel any damn taste in your mouth while sitting below a large sign painted in red "The Heart Attack Grill"
So why is it called the Heart attack grill?
Dear Reader... let the menu of the place do the talking and convey to you the exact reason for calling it by that name...
Menu
1. Single Bypass Burger (I kid ...
Posted in News Catch | 2 Comments »
Monday, November 20th, 2006
Now you are talking... now you are talking. Dammit the solution was so simple. Had anyone thought of this before so many lives could have been saved, so many wars prevented, so many (ahem) orgasm... the result... peace... world peace.
And now you know why oz is at peace all the time... the key to peace in you, in your neighbor, in your neighbor's neighbor, your local mohalla, your town, your city, your state, your country, your world... Have orgasms at one go... the world over...
Hey I'm serious... atleast the people behind Global Orgasm are...
Visiting their site shows their mission statement...
The mission of the Global Orgasm is to effect change in the energy field of the Earth through ...
Posted in News Catch | 6 Comments »
Friday, November 17th, 2006
Spent the night awake until 1am talking to guys in Bombay. Guys who are amazingly passionate about cinema and theater. So many creative & full of fire - ideas being exchanged between LA and Bombay. The air waves must be boiling hot... I can feel it... Nothing excites me more than being in conversation with highly imaginative minds... last night was a good night...
Got a 4 hour quick nap. Early morning meeting. Get my morning dose of strong coffee when the first text message arrives... read it... I go "Wow!"... about to enter the conference room... another message arrives... unfolding the latest project plan for my VP to save his ass which is online... if only he had done things ...
Posted in Friday Masala | 6 Comments »
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
Three : Everyone is a paying guest in your life
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G. Venkatesh was perhaps one of the few from South India who had made forays in the diamond community from Gujarat. He with his elder brother started dealing in diamonds from a young age. Business grew. It prospered. Offices were set up in Europe and America. When demand outgrew their current capabilities. GV, as he was known in the industry moved to Europe to personally handle all their European and American business and bring some sanity into the day to day management of the company.
In about ten years, V-Gemstones International, was one of the major power houses in India and the leading gemstones company in Europe. No ...
Posted in Fiction, The Deal | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
A few days ago, DT reader and PFC author, Striker, sends me these links to a couple of online gaming sites that have cricket games. I thought I was way past the age - playing video games and all that.
Nevertheless I clicked on both the links he sent me. THIS IS GODDAMN CRAZY... Since the day he sent me that email, I find myself spending an hour or two playing those cricket matches online... THIS IS FUCKING CRAZY...
Please don't send me such addictive online stuff - I'm GOING NUTS!!!
Now I want to spread the disease.... after all if my last few days have gone to waste, I would like to share this lovely experience with DT's readers too. ...
Posted in Sports | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Two : Character rests on your tongue
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The 10 acres of land facing the beautiful ocean had a marble house build in the late nineteenth century. It was a folklore that the house was built by an Englishman for an Indian Princess whom he had failed to marry. But his proposal was rejected by the local king, the princess' father. Dejected, he had request his superior officer to transfer him to another part in the British Empire and that's when he landed in Cape Town, South Africa.
The heat of Cape Town though could not find a way into the house, which was covered with tall trees all around and 21st century air conditioning pipes ran through ...
Posted in Fiction, The Deal | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
By now you may have read that Sascha Sippy is gunning for Ram Gopal Varma. According to reports he's filed copyright lawsuits in court that prevent RGV from making any references to Sholay. Hence you may have noticed the many changes in names and characters, as discussed on Desi Train in the past.
Jaya Bhaduri's character "Radha", now to be played by Sushmita Sen is now called "Devi" who wears black (instead of white), is more aggressive (instead of passive), is a trained nurse (instead of trained to walk to and fro to the nearest temple)... whereas
Basanti is now called Ghungroo. Dhanno, the horse is now an auto rickshaw... etc. etc.
The story... it's no more a Sholay. I repeat. ...
Posted in Bollywood | 4 Comments »
Monday, November 13th, 2006
First break from the shit load of work that flooded my office since morning. Luckily it came after I had wrapped up Suparn's post on PFC adding all those pictures and uploading those videos. Hope it helps cine-fanatics out there for whom PFC has become a second home.
It's kind of a going in shell time for the last few days. Too many things, thoughts, ideas, fears shooting around at the same time. Personal, professional and all the rest. As always it's weird to see one thought troubling me and suddenly the next instant there's another thought completely tangent from the first, coming out to rattle my cage.
Spent most of the weekend, reading and watching movies at home. Just finished ...
Posted in Life Flava, Movies, TV etc. | 8 Comments »
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
... Or is he making a complete (mis)use of the loopholes in our system by raping our justice system right in front of the judges who are there to uphold and protect it.
The Jessica Lal case. It's already been made a mockery of by the corrupted to core politicians who rule the Royal Dictatorship of India.
To jog your memory... Jessica Lal was killed by Manu Sharma, son of former union minister Vinod Sharma, because she refused to serve alcohol to him at a celebrity party after 1:30am. Jessica died on the spot.
Years went by as the trial dragged its feet and finally the courts let go of Manu Sharma and his associates.
The complete details of the story ...
Posted in Lens Eye View, News Catch | 27 Comments »
and excited for the june...
