Monthly Archive for May, 2005

The Changing Face, Sorry Chest, of Bengali Cinema

Published on May 30, 2005 in Pop Culture, Reviews and Society. 9 Comments

Popular Bangla movies. There was a time when the problem faced by the hero heroine used to be —guy belongs to religion 1 and girl belongs to religion 2 , guy loses memory, guy rich girl poor, girl rich guy poor, rural-urban tension………..familiar, comfortable topics.

But breasts ? A Bengali movie where the point of tension between the hero and heroine is the expanse of cleavage ? Chobi Biswas and Pahari Sanyal, for whom a Hindu-Christian marriage would have been the thin edge of the wedge, must be turning like tops in their graves.

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Hotel Rwanda

Published on May 28, 2005 in India, Politics and Reviews. 12 Comments

Watched “Hotel Rwanda” yesterday night.

And wondered how good the remaining movies had to be for “Hotel Rwanda ” not to have won “Best Picture” at the Oscars or how great had to be Jamie Foxx’s histrionics to have squeezed out Don Cheadle for the “Best Actor” award ?

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The Greatest Conspiracy—–Ever !

Published on May 26, 2005 in Comedy and Religion. 13 Comments

The greatest mystery in the world———-what is the Holy Grail ? How were the pyramids constructed ? Who made the scribblings in the Nazca desert?

No sir.

It is—” Who character-assassinated the Pandavas ? And why?”

The first answer we still do not know. (I have my hypothesis—will talk about it at the end) But some of the greatest minds of this age have at last put their fingers on the answer to the second.

It was all a part of an insidious plot to denigrate Hinduism.

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A Personal Post

Published on May 26, 2005 in Personal. 5 Comments

I have recently moved to Greenbelt, MD where my research however will be on reliable software engineering of automotive software—-basically the same kind of stuff I used to do at my old job.

Jo Bole So Nihal—-the Disaster

Published on May 22, 2005 in Bollywood and Religion. 10 Comments

Jo Bole So Nihal—-a horrible piece of putrid trash like so much of muck that comes out of Bollywood every Friday. Sunny Deol saving the world, bashing up the baddies, romancing girls half his age, screaming like a bull undergoing castration——standard staple tripe that does decent business in the Northern distribution belt but goes belly-up elsewhere. Zor, Ziddi, Farz, Jaal-the Trap, Maa Tujhe Salam……..the list is endless. And forgettable.

But this is one Sunny caper we cannot forget. Or ignore.

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