Do Not Cry Over Salim, the Lame!

30Apr08

Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro is arguably the best movie ever made in the Hindi film industry in the bildungsroman genre. When it comes to presenting the moral degradation and the eventual redemption of an ordinary on-the-street person, this movie is a sure winner. It reminded me vaguely of Mira Nair’s Salaam Bombay.

Saeed Mirza has cast Pavan Malhotra [...]

Filed under: Experiences, General, Movies, Music, Society, The Dark Side, Trivia, Uncategorized   |  6 Comments
Tags: Hawa Hawa, Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro, Saeed Mirza, Pavan Malhotra, Hindi Cinema, NFDC, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Makrand Deshpandey, Neelima Azim, Vikram Cokhale, Sharang Dev, National Award Cinema, Sudhir Pandey, Rajendra Gupta, National Integration, Ajit Vachhani, National Film Development Corporation, Classics, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Cult Hits

Don’t bother

28Apr08

The Dude and Mr. Quiet were having a conversation about an author and her works. They were in amicable disagreement. I wanted to shout out to them, tell how both of them were wrong. But I hadn’t been invited to it. I sighed and bent down to stare at the monitor at my desk.
The Dude [...]

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Tags: Fuck-up, Ironies, Irony, Life, Thoughts

The ghosts within…

26Apr08

Watching Ghostworld sparked off a flood of emotions on an uneventful dusky evening while I lay on that blood red bean bag pitying the world and mocking myself.
Mohammad Rafi made the pathetic coagulated hours flow more freely. I wasn’t surprised for he has always managed to do that with an amazing consistency over the years; [...]

Filed under: Crap, Experiences, Frustration, General, Girls, Movies, Music, Nostalgia, Rafi, Videos   |  4 Comments
Tags: Blues, Devil got my woman, Ghostworld, Groove, Gumnaam, Mohammad Rafi, Scarlett Johansson, Skip James, Steve Buscemi, Thora Birch

Cooked in the kitchen

25Apr08

‘… and a pinch of red hot chilli peppers. That should provide the sting. It looks like a Queen’s meal now. I wonder if the Prince is going to like it. He’s been in Fool’s Garden ever since Frankie went to Hollywood. Before that, he used to visit Linkin Park.
The cold play and the cheesy radiohead [...]

Filed under: Bands, Boredom, Crap, General, Green Day, More Crap, Music, Queen, RHCP, Uncategorized   |  9 Comments
Tags: Aerosmith, Backstreet Boys, Band names, Boyzone, Coldplay, Dave Mathew's Band, Death Cab for Cutie, Deep Purple, Dire Straits, Eagles, Experiment, Foo Fighters, Fools Garden, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Gorillaz, Grateful Dead, INXS, Killers, Linkin Park, Nirvana, Poets of the Fall, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, REM, Scorpions, Sex Pistols, Shit, Simon and Garfunkel, Slipknot, Sting, Tales from the kitchen, The Beatles, The Carpenters, The Cranberries, The Doors, The Who, Useless

Fishing in dark waters

24Apr08

I bunked office yesterday. There was no particular reason to do so, but there was no reason not to do it either.
I guess I was just tired of the everyday ritual. I needed a break. Routine makes one a zombie. All the windows of thought are locked, power of reasoning shut out. The comfort of [...]

Filed under: Books, Boredom, Crap, Experiences, General, Insanity, Longings, Movies, Nostalgia, The Dark Side, Work   |  7 Comments
Tags: A Map of the World, Break, Despair, Jane Hamilton, Life, Once upon a time in the West, Routine, Sergio Leone

Between the lines, all I say

22Apr08

I wish the seconds would linger
keeping the rest waiting;
I hope the coming would go,
rewinding the play,
making it possible so.
You wish you were I,
making full fill
and the sun sin;
I wish I was you,
lusting the list,
gunning the gin.
We can’t be singular,
except in terms of grammar,
on the pages etched,
just as us comes
between I and you.
The lovely Bess still [...]

Filed under: Boredom, Crap, Fiction, General, Insanity, Kubrick, More Crap, Poems, Uncategorized   |  11 Comments
Tags: Between the lines, Experiment, Innovation, Meaning, Mindroll, Shit, Surrealism

About Synchronicity and Causality

20Apr08

The only idea related to actions and events arising thereof or otherwise that I was aware of was causality that in simple terms refers to the cause and effect theory. Every cause has to have an effect and every event has to have a cause. There can’t be any action which doesn’t produce any effect [...]

Filed under: Books, Experiences, General, Science, Uncategorized   |  40 Comments
Tags: Causality, James E. Thompson, Sci-fi, Science fiction, Synchronicity

The value of a good education can never be overrated

18Apr08

I was fortunate enough to go to a school which had English as the medium of communication. In those days, schools were less in number and most of them imparted education in vernacular languages. As I grew up during my schooling days I realised how much pain and struggle my parents had undertaken to put [...]

Filed under: Bhubaneswar, Books, Experiences, General, Nostalgia, Orissa, Uncategorized   |  15 Comments
Tags: Authors, Bhubaneshwar, Childhood, Dash Benhur, Education, English, English Course, Growing up, Library, Literature, NCERT, Schooldays, Schooling, Schools, Text books

Last evening’s last thoughts…

17Apr08

I watched Shaurya y’day. Having watched A Few Good Men, I wasn’t expecting anything but a decent copy but it failed at that too. Some pointers:
- Shaurya could’ve been titled Shit… and nobody would’ve even noticed much rather complain.
- KK’s performance was commendable but the way his character was portrayed as a bigoted zealot only [...]

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Tags: Buddy Holly, Ghostworld, Gumnaam, Jaan Pehchaan Ho, KK, Rahul Bose, Shaurya

Mao’s a dung!

16Apr08

‘Out of a rain of blows, friendship flows.’  – Mao Zedong after the Chinese aggression in 1962.

Give us your dime and nickel,
and lend us your hammer and sickel,
We’ll hammer the blows
and see how friendship flows.
Spare us the taunt,
hold back your jaunt;
Standing on your deathly unfriendly heap,
don’t preach the lesson of friendship.
Your kind has been lucky,
’cause [...]

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Tags: 1962, China, Chinese aggression, Communism, Foreign Relations, Friendship, Hypocrisy, Indo-China war, Mao Tse-Tung, Mao Zedong, War