old post late posting
Like any other Indian, I run high on patriotism in month of Jan and August, it reaches max level of patriotism specially in 2nd week of August, so it's obvious that I will keyboard down [a very lame pun on pen down ] something about India.- here is something typical stuff that we indian do, say, like etc etc. I will call it 'Indiangiri'
This is series post and will keep on appending stuff as and when I remember.....
We call tomato ketchup a tomato sauce. Tushar eats Pizza on almost every Saturday night, now with due respect to his love for Pizza, I hardly understand how he can distinguish two different flavors of it. He literally creates extra layer of topping filled with chilly flakes, oregano and ketchup on every pizza, something that most of us love to do and that I have observed in almost every pizza outings. Being an Indian we love our spices, sometimes more than the food....yeah it's not a new discovery just wanted to start this post with most well known truth.
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Friday, 20 August 2010
Bring Back Indipop!!! - Nostalgia Post
May be today's generation...'wHo TyPe Lik Dis' and say 'mah' for 'my'; may not understand what I am talking about, but there was something called Indipop did exist in this world. It was time when MTV (much before Rodies -1.0 aired and idea of Splitsvilla was far away) just started to show Hindi Songs. And people used to wait for Countdown shows like Superhit Muqabla and Philips Top-10.
We saw some amazing music came from a parallel industry, perhaps the Bollywood Music was going dogs that time. But, yes and we did see rise and fall of Indipop याची देहि याची डोळा [with this very soul, with this very eyes]
This is how it all started.....time to get nostalgic and remember some of veterans...Remo Fernandes- you can simply call him a hippy from Goa but he has kind of started all this with great support from likes of Alisha Chinoy and Baba Sehgal. Today Baba might sound out of sync or simply stupid but he did rocked in early 90's hosting Superhit Muqabla and giving Indians a taste of rap music and a must mention of Rukmani Rukmani from Roja. Those were the days when viewers used write postcards to PO Box number xyz. And lucky draws has been taken to find out who are the winners. And there was Alisha making all MADE IN INDIA songs. There are just too many and too good names to mention....here is few on top my mind.
Lucky Ali -
Phalguni Pathak
Shubha Mudgal
Daler Mehandi
Anaida
The Duos-
Colonial Cousins
Shaan-Sagarika
The Remixes That we loved-
Shankar-Ehsan-Loy - Instant Karma
Asha -Leslie - Rahul & I
The Bands-
Euphoria
Silkroute
Viva
The Established -
Asha Bhosale
A R Rehmaan
Sonu Nigam
Anu Malik
The Passing References-
Sunita Rao
Shweta Shetty
Milind Ingale
Rageswari and Rajeswari Sachdev
We saw some amazing music came from a parallel industry, perhaps the Bollywood Music was going dogs that time. But, yes and we did see rise and fall of Indipop याची देहि याची डोळा [with this very soul, with this very eyes]
This is how it all started.....time to get nostalgic and remember some of veterans...Remo Fernandes- you can simply call him a hippy from Goa but he has kind of started all this with great support from likes of Alisha Chinoy and Baba Sehgal. Today Baba might sound out of sync or simply stupid but he did rocked in early 90's hosting Superhit Muqabla and giving Indians a taste of rap music and a must mention of Rukmani Rukmani from Roja. Those were the days when viewers used write postcards to PO Box number xyz. And lucky draws has been taken to find out who are the winners. And there was Alisha making all MADE IN INDIA songs. There are just too many and too good names to mention....here is few on top my mind.
Lucky Ali -
Phalguni Pathak
Shubha Mudgal
Daler Mehandi
Anaida
The Duos-
Colonial Cousins
Shaan-Sagarika
The Remixes That we loved-
Shankar-Ehsan-Loy - Instant Karma
Asha -Leslie - Rahul & I
The Bands-
Euphoria
Silkroute
Viva
The Established -
Asha Bhosale
A R Rehmaan
Sonu Nigam
Anu Malik
The Passing References-
Sunita Rao
Shweta Shetty
Milind Ingale
Rageswari and Rajeswari Sachdev
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
"Rahul"
- Rahul Bajaj, industrialist
- Rahul Bose, actor
- Rahul Dev, model, actor
- Rahul Dev Burman, music director
- Rahul Dravid, cricketer, former Indian captain
- Rahul Easwar, media personality and author
- Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician and son of Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi
- Rahul Gunderjaharagand, Viceroy of Patna, 1854-1866
- Rahul Khanna, Bollywood actor
- Rahul Mahajan (blogger), noted American blogger and author
- Rahul Mahajan (politician), son of Late Pramod Mahajan, an asshole
- Rahul Sanghvi, cricketer
- Rahul Sankrityayan, historian, Buddhist religious scholar, Marxist philosopher, prolific writer and polymath
- Rahul Sarpeshkar, scientist
- Rahul Sharma (cricketer), cricketer
- Rahul Sharma (musician), musician
- Rahul Vaidya, singer, Indian Idol runner up
Shahrukh Khan as Rahul
- Darr Rahul Mehra
- Zamana Deewana Rahul Malhotra
- Yes Boss Rahul Joshi
- Dil To Pagal Hai Rahul
- Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Rahul Khanna
- Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega Rahul
- Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... Rahul Raichand
Wow, No wonder Rahul is so popular name in India
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Peepli Live - People Live
Peepli Live is one of THE most uncompromising movies ever made for Hindi audiences. I have seen many good movies getting screwed at the end just to pull more eyeballs , they either add Item song, or cameos etc etc but Peepli Live sticks to it's storyline and hits the right cords. It also teaches us to laugh on ourselves, something that we Indians should learn.
Peepli Live reminded me of Valoo (an excellent Marathi movie), Peepli Live is not about farmer suicide issue, it mainly dwells around the people and how they react in particular situation. The last thing I want is a ban or PIL against Peepli Live. If we fail to protect Peepli Live we will fail as a democracy.
Peepli a small village in Mukhya Pradesh, Natha and Budhia, two bothers and farmers who are failing to save their ancestors land are now on verge of selling it since they are unable to pay the debt. Budhia soon manipulates Natha to commit a suicide in order to fetch hefty 1 lac Rs. as a compensation from government. Natha unable to gauge the consequences immediately agrees to that, however Natha's suicide news accidentally gets published in local newspaper. In time when local elections are just around the corner (and Peepli being in CM's constituency) Natha's suicide decision soon catches the fire. Local MLA, caste politician, Agricultural Ministry, CM, opposition, state & central government and on top of it News media all land up in Peepli to incash this event.
Peepli Live has a simple storyline that has been told with pinch of humor, or I should say more than a pinch. The humor is not labored and comes naturally through the characters, the cast of movie is a real masterstroke where you just can not take away actors from their characters. background score and cinematography enhances the narration. Anusha Rizvi (Director) being a journalist herself catches the exact tone of Hindi and English News Media.
Peepli Live gives a fulfilling experience, movie that you take your home and ponder upon it....Kudos!!
Peepli Live reminded me of Valoo (an excellent Marathi movie), Peepli Live is not about farmer suicide issue, it mainly dwells around the people and how they react in particular situation. The last thing I want is a ban or PIL against Peepli Live. If we fail to protect Peepli Live we will fail as a democracy.
Peepli a small village in Mukhya Pradesh, Natha and Budhia, two bothers and farmers who are failing to save their ancestors land are now on verge of selling it since they are unable to pay the debt. Budhia soon manipulates Natha to commit a suicide in order to fetch hefty 1 lac Rs. as a compensation from government. Natha unable to gauge the consequences immediately agrees to that, however Natha's suicide news accidentally gets published in local newspaper. In time when local elections are just around the corner (and Peepli being in CM's constituency) Natha's suicide decision soon catches the fire. Local MLA, caste politician, Agricultural Ministry, CM, opposition, state & central government and on top of it News media all land up in Peepli to incash this event.
Peepli Live has a simple storyline that has been told with pinch of humor, or I should say more than a pinch. The humor is not labored and comes naturally through the characters, the cast of movie is a real masterstroke where you just can not take away actors from their characters. background score and cinematography enhances the narration. Anusha Rizvi (Director) being a journalist herself catches the exact tone of Hindi and English News Media.
Peepli Live gives a fulfilling experience, movie that you take your home and ponder upon it....Kudos!!
Monday, 9 August 2010
Dry Month
This post was intended to be published on 31st JULY, But this actually proves how dry the month was...well I have to publish before brushing it under the DRAFTS
In spite of good monsoon in Andhra this month, July went quite dry on my blogspot. I did not write anything except some random perception about Inception. Meanwhile I have heard hundreds of versions of climax from different people, so when Duniya was busy in guessing if DiCaprio was actually in dream or not, I was busy in my work...and busy means some seriously crazy busy. July also turned out to be month of Malaria, Flu and Jaundice when people around me falling sick left, right and center. I could not ducked out illness either. I suffered from neck sprain, to get rid of it medics applied some anti-sprain spay, but soon I turned out to be allergic to that spray, which caused me few rashes at unreachable areas [is this called Aasman se geere Khajoor pe atake??] in short I had my share of illness too. So could not spend much time on scribbling but far away in Islamabad we have seen a great mockery of Indo-Pak peace talks Qureshi playing ultimate villain (someone like Pran or Prem Chopra) and S M Krishna acting more helpless than A K Hangal made me cringe. But still deep down inside I feel that's the only way out if there is any.
Moving on; Inflation, Indian Cricket team's pace bowling attack, preparation for Commonwealth Games and Anu Malik continued to get worse. If CWG is the one thing we were looking forward in October, we better pull off our socks. As per sources the expenses are already 14 times more than projected cost, that's one hell of wrong projection. Suresh Kalmadi is on the verge of joining the league of high profile thugs like Modi and Ramalinga Raju
Amongst other newsmakers in July, Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah allegedly arrested in Soharabuddin case.
Newly wed Mahajan couple's nok-jhok came out in public, and all the news media took a chain ki saans. As per sources there will be Rahul fir ek dulhaniya le jayenge & Dimpy Mahajan will be in Big Boss 4
My love-to-hate guy Dhoni bagged beautiful wife Sakshi and insanely big 200 Crore Rupee contract in this very month.
Akshay Kumar delivered yet another dud called 'Khatta Meetha', I watched it for free on small screen and still I did not like it. Poor Trish got the worst debut in decades.
And yes Sachin scored his 48th Test century.
In spite of good monsoon in Andhra this month, July went quite dry on my blogspot. I did not write anything except some random perception about Inception. Meanwhile I have heard hundreds of versions of climax from different people, so when Duniya was busy in guessing if DiCaprio was actually in dream or not, I was busy in my work...and busy means some seriously crazy busy. July also turned out to be month of Malaria, Flu and Jaundice when people around me falling sick left, right and center. I could not ducked out illness either. I suffered from neck sprain, to get rid of it medics applied some anti-sprain spay, but soon I turned out to be allergic to that spray, which caused me few rashes at unreachable areas [is this called Aasman se geere Khajoor pe atake??] in short I had my share of illness too. So could not spend much time on scribbling but far away in Islamabad we have seen a great mockery of Indo-Pak peace talks Qureshi playing ultimate villain (someone like Pran or Prem Chopra) and S M Krishna acting more helpless than A K Hangal made me cringe. But still deep down inside I feel that's the only way out if there is any.
Moving on; Inflation, Indian Cricket team's pace bowling attack, preparation for Commonwealth Games and Anu Malik continued to get worse. If CWG is the one thing we were looking forward in October, we better pull off our socks. As per sources the expenses are already 14 times more than projected cost, that's one hell of wrong projection. Suresh Kalmadi is on the verge of joining the league of high profile thugs like Modi and Ramalinga Raju
Amongst other newsmakers in July, Gujarat Home Minister Amit Shah allegedly arrested in Soharabuddin case.
Newly wed Mahajan couple's nok-jhok came out in public, and all the news media took a chain ki saans. As per sources there will be Rahul fir ek dulhaniya le jayenge & Dimpy Mahajan will be in Big Boss 4
My love-to-hate guy Dhoni bagged beautiful wife Sakshi and insanely big 200 Crore Rupee contract in this very month.
Akshay Kumar delivered yet another dud called 'Khatta Meetha', I watched it for free on small screen and still I did not like it. Poor Trish got the worst debut in decades.
And yes Sachin scored his 48th Test century.