Sunday, May 06, 2007

A movie / A wedding / The Channel / The Deal / The Mission

Spiderman 3 hit theatres in India. No, I did not watch it. Hence, this is not a review post. This is not even a post trying to gather junta to go and watch it with me. I have no plans of watching the movie.

Well, unless you can arrange for the Bhojpuri dubbed version. Who can resist power packed, spitfire dialogues like this one:

"Hum makad maanav hain, ud kar aayab aur tohar tetuwa dabaa deb."

Sheer brilliance!

I hope they also the come up with some title good enough to match "Ek Bandar Hotel ke Andar". How does "Makad Maanav, Bhagaaye Daanav" sound?

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The Abhishek-Aishwarya wedding finally happened. After all the talk about Aishwarya being a Martian and being made to marry a tree and a bush and what not, to wash off the Mars effect. The public hysteria about the whole wedding was quite ridiculous. And even the media went into a full-throttle mode. Whether it was the insanely stupid Aaj Tak style coverage of the event, or the in-depth analysis and criticism of how it was a demeaning affair for the ladies in the Bachchan household, and to Aishwarya herself, and to women in general.

I don't understand, what's the big deal? Why so much attention? A wedding, who cares?

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Another disturbing piece of news was the ban on FTV. That explains why Billu spent most of his time at home sleeping.

Suddenly, I feel nostalgic about the times I spent watching those lingerie (didn't even know how to pronounce the word then, bloody French) and Pirelli calendar shows with my senses on high alert to prevent the embarrassment of being caught while watching the forbidden channel. Channels like Trendz came and went, but FTV will always be FTV.

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Microsoft planning to buy out Yahoo! (for 50 billion dollars!), Rupert Murdoch trying to buy out Dow Jones, some other company trying to buy Reuters' agency, Anchor switches bought by Matsushita, how could I be left behind?

I bought an All-Out machine to keep the blood sucking monsters at bay.

Right, bad joke.

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I'm on "Mission IMDB Top 250" these days. I'm not planning to watch all 250, just trying to get my count up to 100. 28 more to go. So, without wasting any more time, I shall start watching 'Double Indemnity'.

11 comments:

Sultan of Samarkand said...

What a crappy code flow for deleting comments! Anyway, I wanted to say

Mheh!

Siddharth Chaudhari said...

spiderman 3 rocks!

and i completely identify with the ftv part ;)

@nks said...

i thought "sica" was an extinct species in blogosphere...!!

Anonymous said...

cool post
btw how is lingerie pronounced ?
how is life at M$ ?

Anonymous said...

is sidkc a iiitian ?

Anonymous said...

3 Was kinda boring. Maybe they should have renamed it Spiderman 69.

And about the FTV ban, its over.

Anonymous said...

Bloody mosquitoes, I must survive this uprising. About the FTV thing, I was caught(Imagine the expression on my face). This event was followed by lot of gyan on "Why, one should not get distracted during 10th CBSE exams".

Sankalp said...

@hah!b33t: mheh!

@sidkc: spiderman 3 rocks? i read very negative reviews. anyway, i'm not watching it in any language other than bhojpuri.

@lord: not so easy to get rid of me. i'm the cockroach of the blogosphere. can survive anything, lack of ideas, lack of readers.

@sleeper: it's roughly pronounced as lawn-zh-ray. check the dictionary for exact phonetics.

@anon: no. he is from a place with one 'i' less in its name, located on the west coast of our country.

@neon: spiderman 69? weird.

@tomriddle: i was caught too. not the most pleasant experience. but the fear added to thrill of watching ftv.

mythalez said...

well .. u wonder why so much hullabaloo abt the wedding and by wondering out loud .. u r adding to it :P best way to deal is to ignore ;)

Siddharth Chaudhari said...

i stand by my statement. sp3 rocks :) heard that the bhojpuri version is even better ;)

and sorry for the break, but im back :)

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