Monthly Archive for July, 2007

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Knowing Thyself

Here I was, thinking that the reason why I consider Pratibha Tai to be “not Rashtrapati Bhavan material” is because she defrauded a cooperative bank and distributed the bank’s assets to her relatives.

Evidently not.

The reason why I oppose “I-see-dead-people” Ms. Patil’s candidature is because I am an MCP who is afraid that Ms. Patil’s ascendancy to the top would open the doors to even more female participation in our national life, a dystopian vision of the future that puts the fear of God into my black chauvinist, power-hungry heart.

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Aah Taj

“India can do it” said Mother Indira in 1983.

And today in 2007, they have done it.

Once again.

Indians from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, regardless of whether they adore Himesh, Bappi or Rajini, came together as one in a massive tsunami of emotion to propel Taj Mahal into the prestigious list of Seven Wonders of the World, overcoming amazing odds and many alien conspiracies and geopolitical string-pullings.

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Aap Ka Surroor—the Revi eeew

When there is faith, there is no fear.

— Aap Ka Surroor the Moviee 2007

One of the most standard plot devices in porn movies is to have a beautiful, surgically augmented hottie in a flimsy nightie prancing about, alone at home in a sunlit mansion, when in comes the “pizza man” or the “gardener”. And before you realize it, intense amorous action is initiated accompanied by passionate facial contortions and rapid locomotion of assorted body parts. The key to enjoying what follows is to suspend disbelief—to accept without questioning that there is something about the pizza man or the gardener that makes women jump on him, without the exchange of even the minimum of pleasantries.

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Red Swastika–the Review

Readers of RTDM will know my fondness for independent, avant-garde Hindi cinema —the movies that don’t make it to the multiplexes, the movies that do not have songs shot in Paris, the movies that have to rely on the strength of their stories and the histrionic abilities of their actors to make an impact.

Yes I am talking about my love for classics like “Naughty Boy”, Nabh Kumar Raju’s “Topless–it takes more than guts to reach the top” and “Laila”. And today,I am proud to announce yet another addition to my “must-see library” : Vinod Pande’s “Red Swastika”.

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