Showing posts with label Movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movie. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 17, 2015

5 Things I learnt from the movie Kingsman: The Secret Service

It is not usual for me to get up and decide as a task to go watch out a movie. Specifically if it is an English one, then it is all the more rare a scenario for me. But this one actually intrigued me from it’s title itself. Yes, I am talking about the Kingsman: The Secret Service. 
5 Things I learnt from the movie Kingsman: The Secret Service
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I agree that initially the title sounded resembling to something from the period era; but I am thankful to my friend +Vishal Dogra who mentioned the popular dialogue from the movie, which actually ended up as a sales pitch for me to watch this one. And so I ended up watching the Kingsman: The Secret Service.

No, I never intended to write this post to serve as my unique review on this present age classic(just like so many out there), but actually to list down all that I gathered as a new learning from this entertainer. So here it goes:

1The people at the Spy organisations are good at lying

It takes a good amount of training to hone an individual into the likes of a spy. Surely, that involves being mentally stoic, and sub-involving not letting out the truth so easily or at times never at all, irrespective of how hard the situation seems to be. But I never knew that people there could be such straight-faced liars at literally all the times. 

For an instance, the character Merlin played by Mark Strong lied to the testing-to-be-recruited bunch of kids that few amongst them could end up losing their lives and the organisation will not be responsible for that. This particular lie was a big one; within it, it included a lot many. For an example, the other girl in the batch who lost her life due to drowning in the first test was never really taking the hurdle test. In fact, it was later revealed that she was a Kingsman staff instead.

Then, the parachute hurdle thingy; none of the parachutes were handicapped. They all worked and did open for each and every one. But Merlin again lied about that one; and so the series of testing the other person's personality by the means of telling an untruth kept on going a number of times in the movie. Hence, I finally gave up counting them. 

No matter if a lie for betterment is better than a truth; but the truth is that a lie is a lie even if spoken conveniently by a Kingsman spy organisation. 


   2. One should never throw away gifts, even if they seem useless

Does anyone who has seen the movie even doubt as to what would have happened if our Eggsy or his mother had thrown away the medallion locket gifted by the character of Colin Firth? Surely, then the future for the Hart family would have been doomed. The entire story takes a mammoth positive leap the moment Eggsy uses the number engraved on the back of the gifted medal and speaks out the secret message.

With that I did learn something of prominence - not to throw away any token of appreciation, no matter how insignificant it may seem at any point of time. 

3. One should be cautious of free gifts from big corporations

  I have lost the count to the number of times I have received a conditioner free with a shampoo or scrubbing pad free with a dish washer and a DVD player free with an LCD screen. But how much I am happy to think that I never ever should receive a house with roaches embedded in corners or something even worse - kids free with a husband!!
     
Now getting back to the movie; receiving a free mobile or a telecom network connection from a big corporation turned out really freaky. It was like getting to become a confident first time murderer for literally at no cost. Not sure if someone commoner like us would be a game for it; though if the secret was out in open before distributing the freebie stuff, progeny from the mafia fraternity could have saved some money. 


4. The rich ones also eat a McBurger

    Ahhh this one was a complete shocker for me. Cause I kind of dream loud to be so rich one day that I could dine at the Urasawa at the Beverly Hills for some Sushi. Though I consider my writing abilities as excellent whenever I have earned enough money to indulge myself to a smoked salmon and some deliciously cooked butter-garlic-pepper sauteed crabs. Also, every day before hitting the bed I am grateful to my stars for not losing my life due to starvation. I know it got a little too dramatic....

    But, but the billionaire philanthropist character of Samuel Jackson washed away all my assumptions of dining preferences of the rich and famous. He did offer his esteemed guest of honor a Mcburger from McDonalds. I mean can you believe it? 
    If ever I get to connect with Mr. Matthew Vaughn; I would like to know from him the reason for depicting a rich man with such queer hosting demeanor. 

5. Princesses also indulge in kinky stuff.

    I had to keep this one as the last one for all the naughty ones out there. If you have seen the movie, I know you must have enjoyed it for this one especially. I agree that people belonging to the royalty are basically human beings with a lot of extra riches; but the sexual favors that the princess was ready to cascade on Eggsy were unbelievable. I am so not going to put any spoilers here; you will have to see it to surprise yourself. By the way, I later got to know that that particular part was dropped in few geographically altered versions of the movie so as to comply with the censor rules being governed there. This last piece was information was also sourced from +Vishal Dogra

Now over to you......

This was basically my learning from the entire movie; please update me with more if you can. I would love to grasp what I missed out in the entire 129 minutes of it.


Thursday, March 5, 2015

Relationships between stars that you never knew existed


I know that we all know that Arbaaz Khan is Salman Khan's younger brother and there is one more younger brother to both of them whose name I do not remember and I am in no mood to google on him. But I do remember that he has a prominient nose to his face. Or for that matter everyone knows that suave Anil Kapoor has a self-obsessed self-proclaimed fashionista daughter in the name of Sonam Kapoor who is a cousin sister to two good looking men from Bollywood; who are also cousins to each other, namely Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor.

NO! NO! I know that we all KNOW that stuff. So, I thought of putting together more of some data that will probably surprise you.


1.          Kim Sharma and Arjun Rampal


Arjun Rampal, Kim Sharma (Photo credit: http://www.filmibeat.com)
Yes, fortunately or unfortunately they both are related to each other as "cousins." I mean literally they both are cousins. Well they are indeed first cousins as their respective mothers' are real life sisters.
Unbelievable, yes even I found it hard to believe when I read it for the first time.

2.          Raveena Tandon and Gabbar's Sambha

Mac Mohan  (Photo credit: www.dnaindia.com)
The actor named Mac Mohan who is famous as the Sambha from the hugely popular movie Sholay is rumored to be responsible for landing a National Award to the actress Raveen Tandon's kitty in the year 2002. If you are wondering why even for the rumors he did so; it is because he was her maternal uncle. (He died a few years back.)

English: Vikas Bhalla at Monaco Grand Prix Scr...
Vikas Bhalla  (Photo credit: Wikipedia)






3.          Vikas Bhalla, Sharman Joshi and Prem Chopra

Now the question that pops up is who exactly is Vikas Bhalla before getting to know his relationship with the legendary Mr. Prem Chopra and the also popular Mr. Sharman Joshi. First things first, Vikas Bhalla is a Bollywood actor from the mid-90s who has done a movie with yesteryear actress Neelam; and then went on become a prominent name in the pop culture scene of the late 90s. Recently he was spotted doing some popular television shows and a Garnier Hair Color advert.

Now that you can recollect this good looking man, so you may also care to know that he is the son-in-law to the dashing villain from the good old days of Bollywood - Mr. Prem Chopra.

And yes, ditto for Sharman Joshi. He is also a son-in-law to Mr. Chopra and that makes both Joshi and Bhalla related as brothers-in-law!

4.          Rajat Bedi and Tulip Joshi

English: Hindi film (Bollywood) actress/heroin...
Tulip Joshi (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Rajat Bedi (Photo credit: http://www.indya101.com)
Though both the names here seem not so familiar, still one can clench some memory muscles to recollect Tulip Joshi as one of the 3 actresses in a Shahid Kapoor starrer movie which also happened to be the debut vehicle of Soha Ali Khan. Currently I got no idea where is she and what she must be doing, but all I care to tell you is that she is sister-in-law to a good looking Gladrags Man Hunt winner called Rajat Bedi. Bedi has acted in a lead role with non other than Tabu in a movie called 2001: Do Hazaar Ek before moving on to become a side-villian in numerous movies like Partner and Jodi No. 1.

It is interesting to note that both the sister-in-law and brother-in-law duo are shy and and have hardly given any press interviews or done anything significant to haggle the limelight towards them.  



5.          Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Tupur/Tapur

Almost a decade and a half back there was a twin-sister duo who were the darlings of modelling industry. They were the famous and cute Chaterjee sisters with even cuter names - Tupur and Tapur.
Tupur Tapur (Photo credit: http://www.seasonsindia.com/)
Though they never made an entry into the Bollywood circuits even when they happened to be maternal grand daughters to the veteran director of yesteryear cinema Mr. Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Mr. Mukherjee is synonym with cut classics like Chupke Chupke, Anand and Guddi to name a few. Some people are just too above the petty wants of life like money and glamour.

6.          Om Puri and Annu Kapoor

Wow. Are these two also related? Yes, they both are ex-brothers-in-law. Annu Kapoor's sister was once married to Om Puri. So that makes a connection between these two veteran actors.

7.          Raghu Ram and Sugandha Garg

Raghu Ram and Sugandha Garg (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Raghu Ram we are all familiar as one of the bald bully masters from Roadies. Though which one amongst the two is not sure since both of them are identical twins. Probably the apparent difference between the two is of a familiar wife. I mean all I know is one of them is married to a lady named Sugandha Garg. Ms. Garg is the sweet lady from the movie Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Nawho plays Ms. Congeniality to the leading lady of the movie - Genelia D' Souza.

Yes, I also wondered how come seemingly aggressive people get such seemingly coy partners?



Yes, and I also wonder how come my highly data-centric (read eccentric) part of the brain, and the not-so-well practiced mnemonics over these years collaborated to come up with the following post. Hope it did not get boring with my detail oriented style of writing.  I also hope it was a little more entertaining than all the cumulative entertainment that all these Bollywood stars have brought in their combined careers.

Let me know if there are more relations in Bollywood that I am yet to know about.

Till then sit back, read it again, and get unlimited surprises. Enjoy.





Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Kicking Action Jackson

These days getting to watch the old school idiot box is a luxury. Since the time I have got into my current work profile in the Pacific Time frame, sitting here in this prominent dry state of my country, life has changed with a capital C in all respects.

I can go on ranting about it on from posts to posts but for the sake of the title of this blog post I stay focused on what inspired me to write this one at this time of the day, though it is supposedly night for me.

So, I am talking about the latest rushes I got to see during my last week's Thanks Giving golden life-saving break of the movie called Action Jackson. The first ever snippet of the fascinating titled movie I got to see was the song where Ms. Sonakshi Sinha snakes her head to the tunes of the respective song played in the sequence. I kind of liked that typical Bollywood number that has stylishly dressed lead characters with their set of obedient back-drop dancers on a foren picturesque location dancing to the desi beats minus any apparent inhibitions.

Nice. now moving on to the second sequence of the aired teaser - a romantic mushy number between Ms. Yummy Gautam and Mr. Devgn. I do not have much to say about this one as it seems like an usual formula song between the couples in love that has been successfully tried, tested and repeated umpteen times since the Yash Raj genre of Bollywood depiction came into being. Again no issues with this one also; except that I am reminded of the Fair and Lovely commercials of Ms. Gautam through this song. Both the actors set the perfect pairing for before and after scenarios of using the hugely popular no-wash required bleaching cream in a tube.

Now coming to the third and the most important teaser of the film that actually kept me uneasy for a long time during my 4 day break. What I got to see in this one was tall-dark-handsome Mr. Devgn back-kicking a woman!*

Yes, he literally uses his left leg to kick-back a woman while displaying his apparent macho in his attitude before and after the kick and also in his apparently swollen so called 6-10 jam-packed abs. (I did not count them)

Seriously man give me a break!

With an act like that, though I understand it seems apt for your gangsta look in the movie, but actually kicking a woman??

Mr. Devgn dropping an 'A' from your legendary family name does not make you any less of an ass-hole with this act of yours. And I get to know that you also have a so called very vocal on feminist issues brand of wife and your in-laws through her. Did they never object you on that kicking act?? Though a lot of amount of matter on the internet suggests that you were petrified when your sister-in-law was rightly ruffed up in the 7th season of BigBoss for her superfluous attitude and  not at all required throwing off her mighty weight around. When you revengefully acted in that scenario, then why not this time?? And also I get to know that you even have a mother, sister and a daughter. Do you actually get nightmares of them being treated the same manner in some time from now?? Though I hope no woman gets to be treated this way neither on-screen and definitely not off-screens.

I know you get to do what your director tells you to; but if in the past you can scrape of some leading lady of your movie for a failed extra-marital relationship with her, why not exercise your right of being a Devgan without an A this time.

Talking of the lady being kicked here, Ms. Mamgai I had not expected this from you either. Although I appreciate the fact that you claim to be here without a Godfather, but doing raunchy pumping and gyrating pelvic-booby dance movements in some highlighted neon brassieres is also not going to do much for your career in the long run. For the records, we have a bucket list of actresses from Mandakini, Mamata Kulkarnis to Mallika Sherawats of this world. And feeling privileged in a I-GOT-KICKED by an ace Bollywood actor is definitely not what you, your friends or your family would ever want. (I SUPPOSE) There is no preachy or I-know-it-all thingy here, but me being a data obsessed person can only claim that you never know, may be you could also be the Queened lady of Bollywood in some time from now; very much like the one who royally kicked Mr. Devgn (Devgan without an A) for dropping her in-between a torrid extra-marital affair of his. But only if you would want to, by a simple polite NO to anything that is nonsensical and demeaning at the same time.

And how can I spare the director, the ultimate dancing double God of Bollywood. Well I spare you, your ex-wife has already done the needful by washing your dirty trousers in the media.

                                            * Watch the 2:03 part of the video



Sunday, January 12, 2014

The myth of a Strong Woman

Bollywood & Beyond
Bollywood & Beyond (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I do not know why the term 'Strong Woman' makes me uncomfortable. I am called by that term innumerable times and to admit it honestly, I do not like to be aliased by that particular term at all. All my life I have displayed feats of bravery; and have fought all the battles with strength and grace. But typically that should not imply me to be a strong woman, though a strong person or an individual/ human being would do.

The reason I say so is because  all my life I have gathered a rather twisted image of the people who are termed as strong women. If I get to describe any one from my personal sphere, then any one of you reading this post would not be able to relate to them. So, I will name a popular person who comes close to the description of a strong woman from my perspective; that will put the point that I am trying to make in a vivid perspective.

The lady in connection happens to be Tanuja Mukherjee. I am sure if any one of you is aware of the yesteryear stars from the Bollywood, then you would know for sure as to why I get to name this particular lady as a strong woman.

Firstly, she is someone who comes across as a stuck up bitch to the core. I know that for sure that I do not know her as a person, but as to whatever I observe from the media and secondary information available on the internet, she comes across as a woman who always wanted to have the reins in her hand and never missed a chance to pull it to make the ones tied to it feel the bounds strung to them.

As far as I know, she married someone with whom she wanted to get married to. Then, she got separated from him when she wanted to, and also took both her daughters along with her. She also claims vehemently that she allowed her children to interact and be with their father on a simple condition that after that she would not allow the children to enter her house. Sounds cool...sounds much like a strong  woman. She also inculcated to her daughters that their father was not a wonderful husband, but was an amazing father.

If the figures on the gossip magazines are to be believed, then she stayed separated from her spouse - Mr. Shomu Mujherjee for more than 2 decades. But surprisingly, she cried her heart out and her emotions were free flowing at the time of his death. I remember seeing her overwhelmed pictures of weeping profusely by the side of a pillar and being absolutely unnerved of the confusing difference of personality that she was portraying then. Simply put to words, at that time she did not look anywhere close to the persona of a strong woman that she is believed to be.       

That is completely understandable from a human point of view, but the logic in me fails to believe it. I cannot understand how come a woman who is strong, independent, extensively traveled and well read as her expect her daughter to follow her instructions to the T. How can a strong woman constantly instruct her 35 year old daughter to be told what to do in her love life. How can she force her to leave the country just because she does not approve of her relationship. How how how??

Till the time I do not get the answers to such questions, I get busy shunning off the notion that I am a strong woman. No, I am not and do not want to be a strong woman.     

P.S: A lot of data is pulled from the current season 7 of Bigg Boss.


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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Things that I just dont get - IX

I never thought that my curiosity will take me to this post one day. I do not know why my eyes and my curiosity gets stuck to things that may seem just normal to everyone else around.

With this curiosity of mine many a times I get embarrassed for this peculiar quality of mine.

I never thought that my curiosity will take me to this post one day. I do not know why my eyes and my curiosity get stuck to things that may seem just normal to everyone else around.

With this curiosity of mine, many a times I get embarrassed amongst friends. Though, my family is quite used to it now.

The latest episode in the series of not understanding stuff was when I watched the rushes of the recent romantic block buster called Aashiqui 2.

Obviously as you would know it is a sequel to the original block buster that came in almost 20 years back.

To be frank I have not seen the movie, I am not those rom-com loving kinds. And to be more frank, I am not even going to watch it, even if it comes free on any of the movie channels.

Now talking a little about the movie - The current director of the movie is from the same family that created the original one some decade ago. He has also liked his predecessors tried to cash in all the charm and lovey-dovey magic that the original one had created. That also lead to re-making of the iconic poster of Anu Aggarwal and Rahul Roy replaced with the latest pairing of Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapur.

But the complex part about the movie that makes me post about it here is its same movie poster.

But why exactly the poster is stuck in my curios part of the brain?

The reason is very simple. It is regarding the use of the jacket in the current sequel too.
Let me explain it a bit more.
I understand that the yesteryear poster had to have a prop for the coo chi-cooing couples in the form of a jacket in order to prevent the censor-board from banning an outright lip-to-lip kiss in a bollywood movie.
                                                   
original-aashiqui-poster

Now I come to the part which I find disturbing. Why it is that the same old prop is used again in this sequel. Was it really needed anyway?
When in one song you show the couple making out nicely, then why cannot they be shown smooching in public?
It makes me think that the jacket was just a superfluous baggage that the lead actors of this sequel generation just had to carry along for just the sake of carrying along?

Or was that the same jacket that the now flops, but back then hot actors had used?

It could have been a lucky charm that the director family must have insisted on using to pass on the same moolah magic that the last one had created.

If that is really true, then definitely jacket is the only one from the last movie that has got a chance to re-appear in the sequel. Though it seems that it has been made to look different by dying it in black this time.

                                                    
now-aashiqui-poster

Monday, July 1, 2013

Penelope Pitstop and Katrina Kaif

The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Penelope-Pitstop-resembling-Katrina-Kaif
Ever since I saw the bollywood movie on a vacation-cum-reunion called "Zindagi na mile dobara", I have been having the I have seen this somewhere moments......

No, I do not say this because of the unusual similarities between the mentioned movie and the Hollywood flick "Lords of the Dogtown."

Oh come on, even directors who copy cat all their movies from some or the other cinema legacy outside India also know about such inspirations.

No, no I was not mentioning Mr. Gupta in the last line, I am really sorry if you thought so.

Anyway, what I am getting on to is not a similarity or an inspiration (read copy cat ideas) on a desi movie; but rather a copy idea on the looks of a character in the same movie.

I know, I know that that is also common considering how many gossip websites come up with the repeat wardrobes of bollywood stars of some or the other Hollywood bigwigs. 

But what I am actually coming up with is a little more different than the usual different.

I am talking about the similarities in the look of the leading lady's in the ZNMD and the ever popular cartoon character.

Yeah, if any one of you is also of the vintage era as mine, then you can recollect Miss Penelope Pitstop and her bike and her trademark helmet.

I am very sure, if not the direct inspiration, but somewhere at least inspiration's inspiration for Ms. Kaif's role must have come from her.

You too think so that I have gone real crazy??




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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Re-The overdose of co-branding

Hi,

This is just a P.S. kind of post to my last one. I was right; I did have a feel that I must have missed mentioning at least 1 advertiser for the latest sensation YJHD.

So, yesterday after I had posted, I was slapped on my face with another co-branded commercial for the movie.

And this one is the tooth-paste brand. Of course, hair, face, clothes and accessories, travel, and phone are already taken care of, so the only one that seems left out till now is the dental hygiene. 

Therefore, I am glad that that is also taken care of. Plus, there is an added advantage too. With the purchase of that particular limited edition brand of Close-Up tooth-paste, one gets a special autographed wrist band.

Do I really need to mention who has autographed that special wrist band???

LOL

Saturday, June 1, 2013

The overdose of co-branding

I know this movie released yesterday, and I think it is a hit. The television channels have been showing the rushes of the movie every 10 minutes, and yeah going by the lead cast and the energy bursting out of them, the movie does look an intersting one.

I also like all that joyous, colourful burst of energy, but what I really get distracted is by the flow of advertising that flows along with this peppy rom-com. Of course, it is just not possible to watch Ranbir or Deepika without either Makemytrip, Pond's, Nokia Lumia, Parachute Hair Oil, or Jabong.com being flashed on your screens. (Pardon me if I missed any)

I do not know what made these brands to co-brand with the movie. Do the advertisers really think people will buy those products because they are being tied with the movie.

Really these companies think we as consumers are so dumb??

Because if we scratch our head a bit, then we realize that it was not so long ago that we witnessed Ms. Padukone selling BB Garnier cream. And a little before that she was selling Maybelline cosmetics.

Oh yeah, I do agree that the only product that she endorses both in the movie trailer and otherwise also is the Parachute Hair Oil.

OK, I agreed with that one, but then why exactly the Pond's scrub that claims to remove tan is associated with the leading lady in the movie? Even if the HUL brand has co-branded with the movie producers, would not it have been more intelligent to replace the other lady Ms. Koechlin in the fairness inducing product??

On the other hand, the apparel online retailer is selling the wardrobe of the stars in the movie. I liked that concept of mimicking what the stars wear in order to become at least half as good looking as them. So, I thought of sourcing the same deep blue sari that Deepika drapes in the signature "badatmeez" song of the movie. But believe it or not, I searched the entire site, left right and centre, but I just could not find it, and how depressed and cheated I felt after that. Sigh....

Hope some of us understood the conniving ways of thrusting consumerism... 


Saturday, May 25, 2013

The unsure jitters

Do not know why but a many a times there are moments when you feel excited in feeling something, and then shouting it out to anyone you know or even to ones you do not know.

It may not be everyday that you feel such a moment, but that does not rule out the possibility of never ever feeling that feeling.

Though the only problem with such feelings is the surety of the mere existence of those feelings.
Without creating a confusion, I am simply trying to say that those rarely felt feelings are sometimes just a juxtaposition of the altered mind; and not really a reality. More of an illusion if I could say.

One such moment of feeling a feeling happened with me just half an hour back.

I was lazing on my bed watching the movie "Aiyaa" on the television and immediately I felt that my bed shook vigorously for a second or two.

It took me another 5 minutes to comprehend what had exactly happened. When I was sure that I was not day dreaming and hallucinating like the Rani Mukherjee character in the movie, I did what any technology obsessed person would do in practically any kind of situation. Yeah, I googled.......(lol)

But it took me to the quake news that was dated back to the year of 2001. Then I called up my best friend Gaurav; and as usual he believed me. He never really says NO to me, be it anything.

Then it was the time to call up the person who always says NO to me for everything, my dearest husband. But he did not disbelieve me on my seismic update, but did say NO for inviting over my brother-cum-friend Yogesh bhai for a dal makhni dinner tonight.

But in all this series of feeling an earthquake and updating my friends about it, I did not go in with my hunch of updating it to the entire social world. Yeah but here I am updating it on the internet, but yeah blogging is not really the "social media" updating. So, I am fine with this up-dated post of mine.

Happy Weekend !!!



Wednesday, August 15, 2012

My Tiger

ek-tha-tiger-preparation
ek-tha-tiger-preparation
I had been bubbling with excitement since the time I had heard about the making of the Ek Tha Tiger. And why I should not have been. It is my favourite actor's film. It is Sallu's movie after all. It is a kind of tradition with me to watch all his movies on the very first day of their release, and luckily this time I happened to watch it bang on the first day first show. I had pre-booked the ticket, but owing to the fear that I may not be able to get a ticket pre-booked for the D-day, I also booked another cheap ticket as a back-up. So, for the today's show I had 2 tickets for 2 different theaters at the same time. Naturally, I landed up watching the one which was more expensive, the Red Lounge of Cinemax and chucked the cheap Fame Cinemas one.

Also, I had prepared myself well for the movie a week in advance; as in I had my Sallu bracelet ready, and I had my whistles too. I am not good at whistling frequently, so I had asked my husband to get me one. He being a helpful and proactive person got me 2. His gesture made me realise that both of us are so similar when it comes to keeping a back-up. LOL

I used my back-up strategy with the alarms also. I used mine as well as my husband's cell to set an alarm to wake up early at 7 am. Luckily I got up at 7:30 am and rushed to make a breakfast of Sago cutlets, the batter for which I had prepared the previous night.

They took about 10 minutes to get shallow fried and then I dressed into my jeans and T-shirt and left at about 8:15 from my house. I took the bus and reached the auto-joint. Just by chance I got into the one which had adorned the inside walls of the vehicle with Ek Tha Tiger posters of both Katrnia and Salman Khan. When I told the driver to take me to Cinemax, he took the liberty of enquiring if I was going in for the same movie's first day first show. I answered him in affirmative and asked him why he did not go for the same, considering he seemed to be a big fan of them. He politely told me that he could not because of Ramadan. I felt sorry for him and moved on.

After reaching my destination, I had a difficult time at the booking counter. The kids at the counter were just not able to locate my booking. In a moment of despair I even thought that I misread the movie hall as Cinemarc instead of Cienmax probably, and was wondering whether I should take an auto-rickshaw to Cinemarc or go to Fame where I already had a spare ticket booked. But luckily the kids got intelligent and gave me the paper ticket, and they looked surprised doing that. I understood that they could not imagine a single woman watching a first day first show with such enthusiasm.

Landing at the movie hall, I just pulled my chair back, held out the rest flaps below my feet and rested my legs on it. After few of those numerously repeated Vicco turmeric advertisements, I finally got intimate with my Sallu and his Ek Tha Tiger.

And the moment Sallu made his entry, I took out one of my whistle and blew a large one. And everyone including the "dude" appearing college kids turned back to glance at me. I whistled again when I got goose bumps watching Sallu doing a back slide on stairs while sitting on a cart. And this time all the educated co-audience asked me to not to do that. I was like what?? why?? this is a Sallu movie and that too on a first day first show. I was not like hooting or shouting profane remarks, I was just whistling. But since I was more interested in watching Sallu, I did not indulge in a conversation, and kept my whistle back in my bag.

Now coming to the story, well like all his movies it was not there. A simple boy meets a simple girl, and falls in love with her. Initially she refrains, but then she too indulges hesitatingly. And then the character actors around the 2 curb their love heaven; but that makes their love intense instead of its minification.

But the USP of this one is of course Sallu, and to a smaller extent the leading lady Ms. Kaif; and the larger than life action sequences delivered both from Sallu and Katrina. Yes, it was hailing to watch an actress doing such lively stunts with such panache. Indeed they were lovely, cause they were neither over-dramatized or to that matter over-glamorized. The scene where she strongly holds on to her shoulder bag while being robbed by the local goons was something that remained in my memory for a long time. Further talking about the other characters, Ranvir Shorey and Girish Karnad; along with the cinematography were good and made good accompaniments to the entire fun element of the movie. Coming to think of it, there was no item number or no romantic song in the movie and not even a kiss or smooch or the quintessential bikini; all in all there were just 2-3 songs; 2 in between and one at the time of closing credentials. So, the movie is only going to run on the true asset of the star value of the leading man.

The entire movie spoke about the difference between India and its troublesome neighborhood country; the fact that is deep-rooted in our real life too. Though I find all that baseless and over-exaggerated, I have always found Pakistanis a very good hosts and friendly people who love Indians, this comes from my experience of dealing with about 10-15 of them. I would leave that discussion there only, and I move on to the movie.

After the movie I went to have brunch with my husband at our usual eatery in the city. The owner of the eatery happens to be our friend and out of concern he advised me not to watch a movie on a day when it is more likely that most of the Muslims would not be outside but inside their houses. It is because the Pakistani terrorists cleverly plan terrorist activity on those days to kill maximum Hindus. I gulped my delicious cheese topped Omelet along with those pearls of wisdom from a devout Indian Muslim and felt my Ek Tha Tiger moment in real.


Saturday, August 4, 2012

And she is back again

How can I not post about her now, now when her first bollywood movie or the first non-porn movie is out. How interesting to note that these days when any average Indian actress is all ready to get rid of her clothes to mark an entry, here we have the Sunny Leone who has actually covered her up to do the same....lol

Though I have not seen the movie, nor do I intend to do any day, I ended up reading an article which had the director Pooja Bhatt's interview. In the article she stated that "Jism2" is to her career what "Arth" was to her dad ages back. I mean come on Ms. Bhatt, I never knew you were such a narcissist and so very dumb.

Your dumbness was proven well when you actually thought of casting Sunny Leone in clothes in a censor certified hindi feature film. You think people will shell out money from their pockets and time out of their busy lives to see Sunny Leone smooching and nose nudging our home grown Haryanvi hunk?? Madam Bhatt, people get to see much more than that for free at the comfort of their homes. I mean who would be interested in seeing her in clothes, even if they are different coloured bikinis singing and walking around trees; when she actually gets more playful in her true real self with people of all gender and hues??

Yeah, but all those who do not have a broad band internet connection at home, can surely give it a shot.

Madam, you would have been smart if you could have imaged her as something truly shocking to our cognition of her; like probably a nun or someone clad to look vulnerable in a 9 yard sari.

wasted effort in titillation
Well on a serious thought why do not you enroll in some Business school, a short crash course would also help you (and us indirectly); and yeah do take your black shirt and blue jeans wearing dad too.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Pandey Vs Leone


This image exactly depicts the situation that was in my house. My usually simple and sidha sadha husband was caught in a similar embarrassing situation.

Porn star Sunny Leone at the 2007 Adult Entert...
Porn star Sunny Leone at the 2007 Adult Entertainment Expo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The occasion was a simple get together at our friend's place when this event occurred. Few friends started on with the argument of ethics of the entire country at stake when such porn stars are aired on the prime time family channels;well in our country all channels are family one, except for Parental Guidance required for few shows on some.


Usually I am the one who has a liberal stand on most of such arguments involving nudity or physical expression of love; but I was and I am till today against a porn star being a part of main frame entertainment industry. She might be anybody anywhere, but in those nations it is a legal business, so she has no right to use her country of origin to promote her illicit business. Well, porn is an illicit one in my country. By saying that I do not take a Sati, Savitri stance that I have never seen a porn; but seeing it and doing it, producing it and getting rich through it and then exploring newer geographies to increase your sales is something I am deadly against.

So, these kind of arguments were being thrown at a discussion, when suddenly my husband shocked everyone by saying, all said and done, she is damn good looking. Look at her skin, her lovely eyes, lips and to complement it all, a perfect body. I was like, Boy!! where did this come from?? Is this my husband speaking?? By the way, he is the same person who never liked my watching "Kingfisher Calendar Girls", he always used to react to the show by saying "is this all left to do in this World to get name and fame???"

Also, he actually loathes Poonam Pandey. About her he has nothing good to speak; as per him, she neither has a good face, has a dark black complexion, no natural assets and top of it she has got a country name - Pandey.

"OMG why do parents do not object to such kids who in the awe of glamour retort to competition by coming out with such derogatory statements, which may sound cool, but are in fact demeaning to them and their family equally."

What a strong bias, poor Pandey has not even shed her clothes, she only spoke of doing that. But Leone, not only sheds but performs stunts umpteen times. Ahhh so bad.

So, one can imagine my plight. He went on with "So what if she is a porn star, she is clear with what she wants in life. Also, she is doing it all in open, and does not give a sob story to sanitize it all!!" To this I just  wanted to answer "....as if Sunny Leone can afford to wear a Burqa and then perform her stunts." But I did not say a word, it was taking me some while to get over this new general knowledge of my better half.

Exactly pondering on the situation for a day I realized where the disconnect or the connect was. Well it was all because the porn sensation happened to be born as a certain "Malhotra" and so the support for her. Now you can understand why the semi-porn sensation miss Pamdey is loathed, cause she reminds him of his sasural wale.

Malhotras, Khannas, Mehtas are all family for him.
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