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Monday, June 8, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
VivA La MuSiCa.....Et ARR!!! Woot.. UHU
Hey, I'm still alive?!? It has been such a long time since I posted last and so much has happened!
1. Yuvvraaj was released
2. Ghajini was released
3. Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was released
4. Connections released
5. ARR nominated for and wins first Critic's Choice Award
6. Delhi-6 was released
7. Nominated for and won first Golden Globe Award
8. Nominated for and won first BAFTA Award
9. Nominated for two Academy Awards
10. Performs on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
11. ARR article in Rolling Stone magazine
12. Performs his two nominated songs at the Oscars ceremony
13. ARR wins two Oscars !
14. Performs on the Oprah Winfrey Show
15. Pussycat Dolls do a remix of the Oscar-winning song Jai Ho
16. ARR appears in an Akon music video titled Beautiful
The possibilities are unlimited! (I hope I did not miss anything in the list.)
Wanna blog about ARR the day he won Oscar..But was sorta busy..
I've been going through an emotional craze these past few months. There is simply too much to say and too much I have felt to document it all here.
Wanna write about this one stupo(Anitha) who go nuts about A.R.R...I wish I mus have seen her when she heard the happy news!!UHU....VIva la MuSiCa Et ARR!!I wish I mus have seen how being speechless is like..
A R Rahman, wherever you are, all I can do is shrug my shoulders and wonder how God ever gifted you, your music...
SimPly Fabulous..Words fail me if i wanna express how its like to think about ARR and his acheievements
1. Yuvvraaj was released
2. Ghajini was released
3. Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack was released
4. Connections released
5. ARR nominated for and wins first Critic's Choice Award
6. Delhi-6 was released
7. Nominated for and won first Golden Globe Award
8. Nominated for and won first BAFTA Award
9. Nominated for two Academy Awards
10. Performs on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
11. ARR article in Rolling Stone magazine
12. Performs his two nominated songs at the Oscars ceremony
13. ARR wins two Oscars !
14. Performs on the Oprah Winfrey Show
15. Pussycat Dolls do a remix of the Oscar-winning song Jai Ho
16. ARR appears in an Akon music video titled Beautiful
The possibilities are unlimited! (I hope I did not miss anything in the list.)
Wanna blog about ARR the day he won Oscar..But was sorta busy..
I've been going through an emotional craze these past few months. There is simply too much to say and too much I have felt to document it all here.
Wanna write about this one stupo(Anitha) who go nuts about A.R.R...I wish I mus have seen her when she heard the happy news!!UHU....VIva la MuSiCa Et ARR!!I wish I mus have seen how being speechless is like..
A R Rahman, wherever you are, all I can do is shrug my shoulders and wonder how God ever gifted you, your music...
SimPly Fabulous..Words fail me if i wanna express how its like to think about ARR and his acheievements
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
BOoKs-UnDeR ThE BiG BaNnEr "PoRtRayIn' ThE ReAL InDiA"
Now comin' to the list of books under the tag "portrait of true India" , the one that tops our list is our much hyped "The White Tiger" BY Aravind Adiga, which am readin now
Havin' thumbed thro' only first few pages of the novel, I was utterly shocked to see the followin' lines,
"One fact about India is you can take almost anything you hear about the country from the prime minister and turn it upside dwon and then you will have the truth about that thing.Now, you have heard the Ganga called the river of emancipation and our prime minister will no doubt urge you to take a dip in it. No! - Mr. Jiabao, I urge you not to dip in the Ganga, unless you want your mouth full of feces, straw, soggy parts of human bodies, buffalo carrion, and seven different kinds of industrial acids."
"I wonder if the Buddha walked through Laxmangarh-some people say he did. My own feeling is that he ran through it-as fast as he could- and got to the other side- and never looked back!"
"Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he(Hanuman) is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love and devotion. These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us, Mr. Jiabao. Understand , now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India"
Such were the lines of the Man Booker Prize winner-Adiga.
Naipaul was being hated by many Indians for talkin' contemptuously about India, about how cleaners mop the floor in restaurants by crouching and moving like crabs and all that talk about Indians defecating in the open.Adiga is the same, focusing on everything that is bad and disgusting.
-a review by a freelance editor.
After all, a review is a perception of one person. Films and novels are meant for people and as different people have different takes, lemme write my take of the novel after i read it fully.
Havin' thumbed thro' only first few pages of the novel, I was utterly shocked to see the followin' lines,
"One fact about India is you can take almost anything you hear about the country from the prime minister and turn it upside dwon and then you will have the truth about that thing.Now, you have heard the Ganga called the river of emancipation and our prime minister will no doubt urge you to take a dip in it. No! - Mr. Jiabao, I urge you not to dip in the Ganga, unless you want your mouth full of feces, straw, soggy parts of human bodies, buffalo carrion, and seven different kinds of industrial acids."
"I wonder if the Buddha walked through Laxmangarh-some people say he did. My own feeling is that he ran through it-as fast as he could- and got to the other side- and never looked back!"
"Do you know about Hanuman, sir? He was the faithful servant of the god Rama, and we worship him in our temples because he(Hanuman) is a shining example of how to serve your masters with absolute fidelity, love and devotion. These are the kinds of gods they have foisted on us, Mr. Jiabao. Understand , now, how hard it is for a man to win his freedom in India"
Such were the lines of the Man Booker Prize winner-Adiga.
Naipaul was being hated by many Indians for talkin' contemptuously about India, about how cleaners mop the floor in restaurants by crouching and moving like crabs and all that talk about Indians defecating in the open.Adiga is the same, focusing on everything that is bad and disgusting.
-a review by a freelance editor.
After all, a review is a perception of one person. Films and novels are meant for people and as different people have different takes, lemme write my take of the novel after i read it fully.
Films-UnDeR ThE BiG BaNnEr "PoRtRayIn' ThE ReAL InDiA"#1
Now after havin' seen the movie "Slumdog millionaire",I don' wanna give any review on this flick as the talk about this is all in the air.Man Oh man!!Its one heck of a feel- good-movie!!It simply rocks the tinsel town.With six golden globe awards and as an Oscar nominated movie it has been much hyped eva' since the first day of its release.But not all Indians cheer for the flick as they feel it is focussed too much on crime,organized beggin' rackets and prostitution under the big banner "portrayin' the 'true' INDIA".
The one scene of Jamal gleefully divin into the outdoor latrine to get the 'all the more important' autograph of Amitabh Bachchan is disgusting to the core and the scene has a sparked a debate over whether the movie is on the trial of portrayin the true India or is it yet another stereotypical foreign depiction of India accentuatin' corruption, crime, etc.
After all this is not the first time a movie of this sort is gettin' wide acclaims!!
"Phantom India" directed by Louis Malle a few years ago had already been in this list.
So this is the question that ought to be answered!
What ,exactly is, Slumdog millionaire?
a) a portriat of the 'real' India
b) a Bollywood style melodrama
c)a fairy tale
d) a stylish shot collection of cliches
It all depends on one's perspective!
And ya! leavin all the serious arguments now- while watchin' the movie as an ordinary one, I need to tell ya this- The hero Dev Patel is mind-blowin'.and do ya know that next he is gonna take up the film "Last Airbender" of "Sixth Sense" fame Night Shyamalan. Wish the duo an hearty "all the best".
The one scene of Jamal gleefully divin into the outdoor latrine to get the 'all the more important' autograph of Amitabh Bachchan is disgusting to the core and the scene has a sparked a debate over whether the movie is on the trial of portrayin the true India or is it yet another stereotypical foreign depiction of India accentuatin' corruption, crime, etc.
After all this is not the first time a movie of this sort is gettin' wide acclaims!!
"Phantom India" directed by Louis Malle a few years ago had already been in this list.
So this is the question that ought to be answered!
What ,exactly is, Slumdog millionaire?
a) a portriat of the 'real' India
b) a Bollywood style melodrama
c)a fairy tale
d) a stylish shot collection of cliches
It all depends on one's perspective!
And ya! leavin all the serious arguments now- while watchin' the movie as an ordinary one, I need to tell ya this- The hero Dev Patel is mind-blowin'.and do ya know that next he is gonna take up the film "Last Airbender" of "Sixth Sense" fame Night Shyamalan. Wish the duo an hearty "all the best".
Monday, February 2, 2009
ChEcK OuT tHe aLL ThE mOrE pOpUlAr sLuMdOg mIlLiONaiRe SoUnDtRaCks
Mad hot Soundtracks man..they are amazzzzzin'..Heres an "hurrah" for ARR for representin' Indian awesomeness at Golden Globe. AR Rahman is @ his vintage best..
Slumdog Millionaire
But heard MIA remix track is a rip off of The Clash's song "Straight to Hell" ...dinno these many days..But seems to be.
Anyways ARR and MIA deserves a beeeeeeeeeeeg thumbs up n kudos
Slumdog Millionaire
But heard MIA remix track is a rip off of The Clash's song "Straight to Hell" ...dinno these many days..But seems to be.
Anyways ARR and MIA deserves a beeeeeeeeeeeg thumbs up n kudos
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