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Gems from Hindi Cinema!

Whenever I think of movies, there are a few characters I just cannot miss thinking about… Some of my favorites from the world of Hindi Cinema…

Prem Pratap Patiyaale Wala from Wo Saat Din

Ram Prasad Dashrath Prasad Sharma from Golmal

Soorma Bhopali from Sholey

Miss Chamko from Chashmebaddor

Jai from Sholey

Angrezon ke Zamane ka Jailer from Sholey

Sukumar from Chupke Chupke

Babu Rao from Hera Pheri

Subhodh and Sameer from Dil Chahta Hai

Daljit or DJ from Rang De Basanti

Ashok from Angoor

Som Mangal Budh Guru from Satte Pe Satta

Ashok, Vinod, Tarneja, Ahuja from Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron

Crime master Gogo, and Amar Prem from Andaz Apna Apna

I am sure that is not all… if you remember any other scenes, please do share the links and I would put them up here!

29 July 2009
getting there…
Slowly but surely I am loosing my patience for the weather here in Milwaukee… It continues to stays cold.. under 5 degrees Celsius… with rain and wind and occasional snow…

a week back thinking about the Spring was easier, and now its just getting build into a desperate cry for some warm(er) weather !!!

And this weekend was a movie weekend… well almost..

Saw
- Monsters Vs. Aliens (Beautiful animation… my favorite being the character of BOB… there is so much that you can see in the eyes when you are watching an animation movie… loved it.. )
- Straight (Vinay Pathak needs to get out of roles that focus on self pity… he is getting boring and very very predictable… Need a helping of Bheja Fry to get over this one ! I felt it was slow movie… at least the first half was very very slow)
- Alu Chat (A lot of people have not really liked this one, but I really enjoyed the movie… some dragging parts here and there, but overall a decent one time watch.. even laughed out loud at a few scenes… worth it… felt that Saurabh Shukla should have been in the movie, though Manoj Pahwa is an excellent actor, I still missed Saurabh Shukla)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Though I have seen these, but I want to see all the Harry Potter movies again… and then will watch the Pirate’s of the Carribean series followed by Matrix)
- and a lot of episodes of Scrubs (Season 3… I really like JD and Elliot… there is something about them that I relate to so well.. and Dr. Cox and the Janitor are lovely characters as well)
I wanted to watch Fast and Furious, however I am not going to see it on the laptop… it needs a big screen.. for that matter almost all firangi action movies do.. and animations as well.. I am hoping to watch it next week and then Transformers-II is coming as well… need to find an iMAX for it.. not watching it on the regular cinema screen by any chance…
6 April 2009
Husbands and Wives in HINDI

What is the hindi translation of Husbands and Wives?It is “Dil Kabbaddi”.

There are movies which are adapted, there are movies which are inspired and for the time first time ever, I saw a movie which is a translation, and with different faces and characters, but the same dialogues, the same time of doors being slammed and opened, the same timing of smiles and laughter, the same reference to places, phew !!!!

Rahul Bose , Konkona Sen and Irfan Khan are real fine actors without doubt, but I am sad to see them act in this movie because all they are doing is speaking the same dialogues which were spoken in Woody Allen’s “Husbands and Wives” in Hindi and bits of english and trying to act the same movie out in different settings ! What were they thinking when they decided to do this? And Soha is such a misfit ! She has done a terrible delivery of the dialogues and expressions !!!

So if you were waiting to watch “Dil Kabaddi” I would say don’t, rather watch the original !!! You will like it more for sure !

and while you are at it, do try to watch “Match Point“… what a smartly made movie… I liked it more coz it reminded me of London.. one of the places I love to love !

13 December 2008
A Burrito of Thoughts…

I have loved the movie “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind“, every time I have seen it, which should be about 10 times already so far!

And I so wish that I erase the memory of a few people from my brain, because anything about them just brings back the pain that I went through, with them, because of them, when they were there and whatever crap… Even the mention of their name is painful at times !!! Actually not pain, its the wrong word to use right now, but for the lack of a word, worse or better (wondering what !) then this one, I will let it be !

Anyway, the good part is, that the movie is wonderful and Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet can be seen doing something which is unusual for their typical style of acting… The movie has been directed the unusual way too, or should I say the “Pulp Fiction” or the “Memento” way… (This basically means that you have to add two more movies in addition to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in your must watch list)

Had mexican today for lunch… (wish i could rewrite it like this – had a Mexican girl for lunch today, but I guess she would fit better for dessert I guess 😛) anyway….

so this Mexican Girl.. no, Mexican GRILL, yea that’s right, Mexican Grill, called Panchero’s serves all sorts of food (Deepu, Subbu, Bindiya, Aro, you have a lot of love here as I heard that the non-veg is great at this place) but I managed with a Veggie Burrito… which was both very tasty and filling… I am going to refrain from speaking the name of the place too much, because it sounds more the common sentence filler in Hindi 😉

वैसे हिन्दी में बोलें तो, मैदे की बड़ी सी रोटी में, राजमा, चावल, सब्जी, और चटनी भर कर खायी !!! और काफ़ी स्वादिष्ट भी थी…

First time experience of Mexican Food… and I guess, we can put this on the menu in the Chai Ki Dukaan too sometime later 🙂

Oh and btw, this weekend has offered me a series of first time experiences, which I am going to write about later… Till then, its for you to guess!

And the people who know it already, please do not spill the beans, I might use them in the next Burrito that I eat !

4 August 2008
Blue Umbrella…

चाचा, छाते को लेकर कोई फायदा होगा क्या?

अबे, ये इन्द्रधानुस को देख के कोई फायदा होता है क्या?
ये पानी में सोट्टी सी कागज़ की नाउ तैराके कोई फायदा होत्ता है क्या?
वो पहाड़ी के पीसे सूरज को डूबते देखके कोई फायदा होत्ता है क्या?
और तेरे जैसे निखट्टू को काम पे रख के कोई फायदा होता है क्या?
…
आत्मा की सांति में नफा नुस्कान नहीं देखा जात्ता !!!
…
कुछ पिछले ही जनम का संबंद है !!!
छत्री और खत्री का !!!!

This is just one of the many dialogues that will keep you hooked to the Blue Umbrella… a movie which revolves around an old man’s love for the blue umbrella a young girl Binya, in his village, got from the tourists, how he tries to buy her into giving the umbrella to him using all he could and more… The movie is based on a novel by Ruskin Bond and is directed by Vishal Bhardwaj.

I am not going to discuss the plot of the movie here because it has its own climax and how it unfolds, however I should mention that Pankaj Kapoor as Nandkishor Khatri, is at his amazing best with the simplest of scenes and dialogues that you would like to remember… The accent of Nandkishor Khatri is something to notice (well you will, without me mentioning it anyway). I am mentioning it specifically because I loved it !!! I LOVED IT…

What adds to the beauty and simplicity of the movie are the songs which have been written by Gulzar… every song is a gem in itself…

मेरा टेसू यहीं अड़ा,
खाने को मांगे दही बड़ा,
सूख गया मेरा टेसू,
एक टांग पे खड़ा खड़ा… is one of my favorite songs ever, and needless to say the movie is a favorite too 🙂 Do I have it in MP3? yes I have 🙂 Do you want it? You know what to do

Chai ki Dukaan highly recommends this movie !!! Go get the VCD/DVD and watch it with the entire family !!

बिल गेट, अरे नंदू, बिल गेट…

अरे पता भी है कौन है?

अरे पता है… बिल गेट एह … इंडिया गेट के पास है… पीछे की तरफ्फ़ पड़ता है …

12 July 2008
The Motorcycle Diaries

One of the movies that tops my list of “Oh I Can see it a million times” is The Shawshank Redemption… After the first time I saw it, I must have seen it already about 20 odd times still a while to go before the million happens but anyway 🙂

… and lets add another to this list today….

The Motorcycle Diaries or Diarios de motocicleta… The story of two doctors, well almost, who set out on an adventure in a old Norton 500 bike, which they call “The Mighty One”, “La Pederosa” to be specific in the language the movie is made… The movie is in Spanish and I saw it with the sub-titles ofcourse… During the course of their journey, these two friends go through whatever one can think of… Bike Accidents, Crashing into cattle, skidding off into water, Snow, Desert, Water, Wind, Hunger, selling off the bike and so on and so forth…

One of the best scenes for me personally was when Emesto Fuser, jumps into the Amazon to cross it in the night only to reach the other side which is the camp for leprocy patients and celebrate his 24th birthday with them….

When I finished the movie and started reading about it, I realised that this man Emesto Fuser, later went on to be called Che, the iconic Marxist Revolutionary… Incidently I was unaware of this name till a few weeks ago when Bhumika talked about a Luxar highlighter ad which had won at the Cannes festival… That is when I had about the face with Subbu and Aro and we had briefly discussed him…

So Coming back to the point… This movie is now a favorite and stays one !!!!!

30 June 2008
One Flew…

“I don’t know what freedom is about…”

I kept repeating this line to myself for atleast 5 minutes before I started writing this…

Is freedom, the freedom to speak?
or to act?
or to think?

or to think and speak?

or to think and act?

or to have the liberty to speak and act the way we want?

or to just be calm about whats happening?

Or is it about getting away from everything once in a while, spend a couple of days in silence with yourself and then get back to this noisy world where freedom is just a word…

Wondering what triggered this thought? I am wondering too !!!

Was Randle McMurphy ( Jack Nicolson as we know him) wrong in doing what he did?

Should the Chief have left him like he was after the lobotomy operations?

Or did the chief do the right thing before he escaped?

It takes guts to make a movie like “One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest” and I must admit that it did bring me closer to a lot of questions I would like to get answers for sometime in my life…

If you have not seen the movie yet, see it… Don’t read about it on IMDB or Wiki… you would know what happened in the end… Get a CD or a DVD… watch this movie… its brilliant… I should use a better word, but I can’t think of any right now…

If you have read this post, do make an honest attempt to watch the movie… and tell me what you think !!!

One of the nicest things that has happened to me on this UK trip is movies like Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump etc… thanks Lalit for the lovely idea… I owe you one…

28 December 2007
A Date with Friday Evening…
~Come back home early… Ok atleast try to… 30 minutes early is good enough…~Don’t change…

~Sleep in what you were wearing…

~Wake up whenever…

~Find out what time it is… (No Idea why this is important, but I tried to find the time as soon as I woke up)

~Think of something different to eat…

~Think of a nice movie to watch… now that you have slept for a while, you can stay awake longer…

I am kinda stuck at the last step now..

I have
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Silence of the Lambs
- The American Gangster
- Goodfellas
- Momento
- One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Pulp Fiction
- Ned Kelly
I have never been an english movie buff, and I never cared to make an attempt to watch the classics so far. Thanks to Lalit, who helped with finding out what all I can watch, I made a move in that direction. Let me do an Inky Pinky Ponky and choose my movie for the night…

Oh, I think I have Manorama – Six Feet Under too…

So here is the plan…

Lemonade and Pineapple Juice, some noodles, Doritos and one or two of these movies… You are welcome to join in !!!

Song in the background :
धम धम धडाम धढैय्या रे , सबसे बडे लढैय्या रे … ओमकारा ….

I love the way this song has been sung… Infact the rest of the songs in this movie also have the folk touch that I love to love like in Beedi and Namak…

Can’t Forget how Saif Ali Khan did Langda Tyagi to perfection… Amazing stuff… Another movie where he impressed me a lot was Ek Haseena Thi…

anyway… I should get back to the angrezi movies and go to the kitchen to make my dinner…

Adios… May God be with us…
14 December 2007