A Short note on 3 idiots Music (Shantanu Moitra).

Shantanu Moitra made a classic when he wrote the music for Parineeta. The film was so dense that it flowed right through everyone’s cultural conciousness and let lesser musically weighty and more pretentious musical scores (paheli, om shanti OM) take center stage, so much so that Shantanu moitra languished in relative obscurity making few between [...]

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Inglorious Bestards

A film made entirely in Quintein Tarantino’s head, IB would have been much better off as a published screenplay. A Jewish-Nazi revenge comic reminiscent of Alistar Mc lean adventures,  the film ends up looking more like one of James hadley chase’s work(JHC was a British colonel with Indian army experience,who wrote novels aout the US [...]

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Kaminay Vishal Bharadwaj, 2009)

(Addendum: people ask me where the ta tana tada comes from. its the drunk rendition of the james bond theme (here). you just paraphrase the 0:19 phrase by one note, from tadap tadan  dada dan, you say tat ta dan da da dan… To ahieve the eight you say tat ta dan da dada da [...]

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Capsule reviews

Harry potter and the Half blood prince: When you’re British, white and you own a musty old castle full of skeletons in the closet, Gay cousin Valdermot does need some explaining away, specially if you think youre Jesus, John lennon and Prince Harry , all in one…and there’s that complicated business of snogging, too….Arrg its [...]

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The Sloka youtube post

This started as a trip on facebook, which has absorbed much of my youtube passion these days.
Quick links: Ganapathi stotram, Mantra pushpam, Om Klim Shreem Lakshmim, Purusha Suktam,Sri Suktam,Rudram I II III ,The Prajnya Paramita Sutra(the Heart sutra),The Lotus Sutra,The Green Tara Mantra,The White Tara Mantra,Gayatri, The Padma Purana vishnu sahasranamam, Vishnu sahasranamam I II [...]

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Editorial: The Rape of Shiney Ahuja

Long ago, dearly beloved(would begin Rudyard Kipling’s Classic stories from the Jungle tales(of which mwogli gave America the Jungle book)- Stories of an apocryphal india from the jungles of madhya pradeh and the chambal valley, from an India not recognized by the schoolchild in humid Mumbai who sincerely believed that Kipling Imagined the stories from [...]

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Kambaktth Ishq (khan 2009): The joke’s on US.

Chick flic meets stoner buddy comedy. Universal Studios theme park meets Pammal K Sambandan(Kamalhaasan).Harry bhai meets sallyben, (Ramesh meets Moitra ).  Nadiedvala grandson meets white women in progressive states of undress. Indian paisa vasool meets Eros international. Ought to be a winning combination, right? So where did it go wrong?

KI has so much [...]

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New York(Kabir Khan, 2009): educating on terrorism.

**Disclaimer** This is a FILM REVIEW and is not a DECLARATION OF FAITH or IDEOLOGY or INTENTION. The ideas expressed in this piece are no pointer to how the author would think or behave in the past or future.
New York is the Godfather of terrorism films. It takes a complicated subject and simplifies it into [...]

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99 (Raj nidimoru, Krishna D K, 2009)

99 is a buddy caper film . its losely based on pulp fiction(the gangsters in it are straight out of  the big lebowski). It has a cohen brothers feel to its narrative commentary without the cohen’s smart alecky snark.  Populated with real and laugh out aloud funny charecters ,the film allows for neo realist social [...]

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Short Takes(june 09)

Shiney Ahuja slept with his servant maid. The national conference of women, the press,  the chief minister of maharashtra state and the maharashtra police found him guilty of having sex (also called rape in India). It’s now time the court to follow suit , or else.  In class conscious India, this “having sex  across class [...]

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