If Jeetendra was at the helm of starting the 80s fire of cinematic depression, it were people like Mehul Kumar, Eesmayel Shroff, Pranlal Mehta, Mithun Chakraborthy and many others of the wonderful PKTK club, who willingly or unwillingly put ghee in the fire thereby increasing the depression to many many more years. But in '86 they would be joined by a kid, who God put in Viraar, hidden away from the PKTK club (Public Ko Torture Karo club)... for God knew, however talented the kid be, he had the power to turn PKTK's fire of depression into a firestorm. Alas God could not keep him away from the ...
Somehow the two songs from Rock On!! playing in the last post are still on a non stop loop. It's been a long time since I did a Friday Masala but instead of writing something I thought lets do a different kind of Masala this friday. So here's a playlist for you dear readers. I randomly (and very quickly) picked a few songs to play for you. The playlist may only hit the sweet spot if you are in the mood for it... else just keep skipping over the songs till you find something good.
The playlist includes
Nahin Samne Tu (Taal)
Ye Tumhari Meri Baatein (Rock On!!)
Ek Lau (Aamir)
Chup Tum Raho ... 
Watched with Biwi-jee, the movie Rock On!! again. It was her first. Me a second time. Then there was vaccuum. I wanted to swim within myself alone bring back those days when I was single and watching the ocean while sipping bloody mary or driving those long distances with some music that i loved playing on non stop loop. these two songs bring back those memories, and have sucked me in them, in my past that I am lost in myself oblivous to Biwi-jee and those around... those loner days, dusky cold evenings and a sweet sadness resting somewhere close to me...
here are the two songs... ... 
They were the dark ages. Shockingly after an amazing 70s. Creativity was the last thing on everyones mind. No one cared. Hindi cinema was treated as a prostitute by those who had come in to make money. And that was their only objective. Dish out a 3 hour film to make money. Video had made it's foray into India and almost overnight - video became the villain of the film industry. Video was made out to be the cause on why the Hindi film industry was suffering. Of course it was true, to an extent. Yet if one compares the number of illegal downloads of a new ... 
