Archive for April, 2008
Do Not Cry Over Salim, the Lame!
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 | 3 Comments
Tags: Ajit Vachhani, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Classics, Cult Hits, Hawa Hawa, Hindi Cinema, Makrand Deshpandey, National Award Cinema, National Film Development Corporation, National Integration, Neelima Azim, NFDC, Pavan Malhotra, Rajendra Gupta, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Saeed Mirza, Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro, Sharang Dev, Sudhir Pandey, Vikram Cokhale
Don’t bother
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 [...]
Filed under: Books, Conversations, Crap, Experiences, Frustration, General, Longings, More Crap, Work | 5 Comments
Tags: Life, Irony, Ironies, Thoughts, Fuck-up
The ghosts within…
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 | 3 Comments
Tags: Gumnaam, Ghostworld, Skip James, Devil got my woman, Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Mohammad Rafi, Groove, Blues
Cooked in the kitchen
‘… 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: Nirvana, Poets of the Fall, The Doors, Fools Garden, The Beatles, Coldplay, Shit, Experiment, Tales from the kitchen, Band names, Useless, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Sting, Killers, Scorpions, Eagles, Simon and Garfunkel, Dave Mathew's Band, Death Cab for Cutie, The Who, Radiohead, Sex Pistols, Grateful Dead, The Carpenters, Aerosmith, Backstreet Boys, Boyzone, Foo Fighters, Dire Straits, INXS, Gorillaz, The Cranberries, Deep Purple, Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot, Frankie goes to Hollywood, Linkin Park, REM
Fishing in dark waters
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: Life, Despair, Once upon a time in the West, Sergio Leone, Jane Hamilton, A Map of the World, Routine, Break
Between the lines, all I say
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: Shit, Mindroll, Experiment, Innovation, Between the lines, Meaning, Surrealism
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
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 | 13 Comments
Tags: Childhood, Growing up, NCERT, English, Authors, Schools, Schooldays, Literature, English Course, Library, Education, Dash Benhur, Schooling, Text books, Bhubaneshwar
Last evening’s last thoughts…
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 [...]
Filed under: Books, Conversations, Experiences, Frustration, General, Longings, Movies, Music, Nostalgia, Rafi, Trivia, Uncategorized | 5 Comments
Tags: Jaan Pehchaan Ho, Gumnaam, Ghostworld, Buddy Holly, Shaurya, KK, Rahul Bose
Mao’s a dung!
‘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 [...]
Filed under: Events, General, Nation, News, Personalities, Poems, Quotes, Society, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Tags: 1962, China, Chinese aggression, Communism, Foreign Relations, Friendship, Hypocrisy, Indo-China war, Mao Tse-Tung, Mao Zedong, War
