Monthly Archive for December, 2007

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A Ban Is Imposed

Published on December 12, 2007 in Mithunda and Video. 71 Comments

I am, by nature, not a violent man and so do not believe in retaliating angrily to every provocation or perceived injustice.

But sometimes, just sometimes, something happens that totally makes me lose my cool and lash out with righteous anger and vengeance.

I am referring to Biharsharif MLA Sunil Kumar Singh’s, chairman of some organization acronymed BIMPA (Bihar-Jharkhand Motion Pictures Association), imposed ban on the showing of any movie that stars Mithun Chakraborty in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh since April.

If Mr. Singh’s goonda-gardi had been restricted to just Prabhuji I would still have been been angry but perhaps not as frothing at the mouth like I am now. But no, that dark agent of Sauron has gone further and even banned movies of Mithun-putra Mahashakti-shaali, God of all things, Mimoh. (not that Mimoh has any movies released but that’s not the point)

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The Champion

Published on December 9, 2007 in Cricket. 121 Comments

Cricinfo 2005:

The wheel has turned, and Ganguly’s time is over.

For all he has contributed to this team, Ganguly deserved a better farewell – if indeed that’s what this is – than being abruptly dropped. He deserved to walk away into the sunset, head held high, not be nudged out, first by coach, then the media, the public, and finally the selectors. But then again, with his batting, his behaviour and his almost stubborn refusal to let go, he barely gave anyone a chance to do any better by him.

Cricinfo 2007:

But he is living out a fairytale at the moment, and nothing he achieves will be a surprise anymore. There are many, me included, who believed Ganguly’s time as an international cricketer was over. We owe him an apology and a salute.

Thank you dear Cricinfo for being person enough to say that. Now kindly send two slices of that pie you are having, the one from  “Humble” bakery, to an Australian somewhere in Rajasthan and an Indian somewhere in Chandigarh overseeing the India Cricket League.

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The Howitzer 2007

Published on December 5, 2007 in Media. 28 Comments

For those of you who are new to these parts, the Howitzer Awards (the Pulitzer Awards are a cheap knock-off ) was established in 2006 by the Trustees of RTDM to honor the best of Indian net journalism.

Last year, this was won by IndiaDaily’s entertainment section, helmed by the redoubtable Lara Larani and Pam Bhandari for their exposes on lesbianism in Bollywood, “skirt-raising seduction”, how Mallika uses the same underwear for a week, how two Bolly hotties fought topless in a nightclub and the profusion of smelly Hindi movie creatures. [For details, read the citation for the 2006 Awards]

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The Pink-headed League

Published on December 3, 2007 in Cricket. 45 Comments

Laloo Yadav’s fodder-filled pot belly. Kareena Kapoor dancing to exaggerated facial expressions. Big bear Inzamam Ul Haq‘s “Bismillah ur Rehman ur Rahim”. Sporty men catwalking in shocking pink uniforms (picture courtesy Bombaybitch) Brian Lara in orange. Diya Mirza expressing her love for cricket. Stupendous sums of money. Twenty-two men, some with a great future behind them and some with no future ahead, running around on a bumpy cricket field in front of non-existent audiences.

Yes all this can mean only one thing.

The India Cricket League, the sporting equivalent of Mithunda’s “alternative Bollywood” in Ooty, is on.

And I, for one, am rooting for the ICL, even though doomed to failure it is in front of the “official” BCCI league with its monopolistic hold over the current stars and the real stadiums.

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