The Dirty Picture- BOMBAAT movie of 2011

My ratings for this movie is 4 out of 5 stars.

Many will argue that this film is filthy, lewd, sleazy and every other word that conveys the same. But since it's based on a character who personifies all these adjectives, it only ends up being a deliciously dirty tribute.

The unofficial biopic is based on the life of famous south Indian dancing diva and actress, Silk Smitha. The story shows her erotic personality and her lustful life.

The ’80s was probably the lowest point in our cinema. Doodh ka karz, behen ka badla and maa kasam ruled, as plot lines of each film. The story almost always revolved around the film’s lead star, a comedy track was a must, there had to be a punch line in every scene, and it was a necessary ingredient. There was also a vamp walk an attempt to impress others in skimpily clad outfits around the good-hearted hero.

And that is what The Dirty Picture does. Meant to be a biopic of south siren Silk Smitha, the film really is a recreation of an era when this type of cinema was cool. It also pays tribute to all things silly about our films.  Vidya plays a struggling junior artist Reshma, she gets a small break in a song but film’s intellectual & rigid director Ebrahim(Emraan Hashmi) edits it out. When the film bombs, the desperate producer Selvaganesh(Rajesh Sharma) reinserts the song is in theatres and the cash registers begin to jingle. Selva traces the girl and renames her Silk. She got her first big break -- an item song with superstar Suryakant. Suryakant does not like her but Silk decides to seduce him and he quickly turns into her mentor. Wherever she goes, she snatches the spotlight, drawing attention to herself using her body, “Jab uparwaale ne zindagi ek hi di hai toh dobara kya sochna” is her philosophy of life. When a lover wants to introduce her to his parents, she cheekily asks him what his dad;s age is! The Indian man derives his desires from ancient sculptures, like from the caves of Khajuraho or Ajanta-Ellora. Silk is that for the silver screen. Soon Silk became as the top celebrity, at that stage, Suryakant’s younger brother Ramakant (Tusshar Kapoor) enters her life and falls in love with her. He is an aspiring scriptwriter. But this relationship also fizzles out when Ramakant wants her to leave films and get married. Silk’s journey comes to halt when a new girl arrives and she alienates all her fans & supporters. But Ebrahim is a failed filmmaker and he finally decides to make an entertainer with himself as a hero in a triple role. Competing with him Silk invests all her earnings into a similar script. Ebrahim’s film is a hit, Silk loses all. And a strange love-hate bond develops between them.

Vidya Balan pulls off Silk in a manner no current female actor can. This Vidya’s performance is one of the boldest & bravest roles so far in the history of Bollywood. Emraan Hashmi, on the other hand, is good. The chemistry between him and Vidya is sizzling (the two dislike each other, making their scenes interesting). Naseeruddin Shah gives a pitch-perfect performance as matinee idol Suryakant, each body movement laudable; every expression priceless. Shah makes the role his own, making it impossible to envision any other actor in his place. Tusshar does not have much scope. Hats off to Milan Luthria for handling such a controversial theme with such sensitivity and boldness. Also it is the naughty dialogues of the films which add a spicy flavor in the movie.

The music is good, composed by duo Vishal-Shekhar. Ooh la la is already rocking the charts by beating Chammak Challo and Sadda Haq. This Bappi Da’s track is a very strong contender to become the ‘Song of the year’.

The only reason why you need to watch this movie is Vidya Balan. This the most BOMBAAT (fantastic in Kannada) movie of this year. Go & watch this delicious dirty movie!

Silk concludes – There are three things you need for a successful film: entertainment, entertainment, entertainment. Over here, “I am the entertainment.” She is absolutely right!

Desi Boys- A no-brain entertainer!

3 out of 5 stars for our Desi Boyz

After entertaining motion-picture fan with Garam Masala six years ago, Akshay Kumar and John Abraham unite again in Desi Boyz. Directed by first-timer Rohit Dhawan, son of the King of entertainers David Dhawan, this one goes a step further. Serious issues such as recession, unemployment and economic crisis have been mixed into the story, which compels the boyz, Akshay Kumar and John Abraham, to rename themselves as Rocco and Hunter and join the morally-low but highly-paying profession of male escorts’ agency run by Sanjay Dutt.
The two leading men are forced into the gigolo business by extreme circumstances- one wants to earn enough money to maintain custody of his nephew; the other dreams of the great suburban life, with a beautiful wife (Deepika), two kids, a dog and a satisfying bank balance. Here comes a twist, Deepika see the video of John’s pole dancing with few women. As a result the two friends part ways- one goes off to study at Trinity College, while the parks himself at his girl’s doorstep to please her furious girlfriend by dancing & singing song.
It’s the chemistry between the duo Akshay-John that makes this movie a worth watch. Chitrangda might not have as much extensive role but brings a refreshing appeal and immense screen presence to her character as a sexy & strip-tease college professor who sheds one piece of cloth everytime for every correct answer. (This strip-tease act is a straight copy from one of the sequence of the movie Good Boy Bad Boy). Deepika is charming and makes her presence felt in the male-dominated flick. Sanjay Dutt's cameo becomes the undisputed winner here, for his comic timing and overall act. Omi Vaidya is hilarious in his short role. Director Rohit Dhawan tells his story in most simple manner without compromising on the fun quotient.
Desi Boyz’s music is one of the major drawbacks of the movie. Subha hone na de is the only foot-tapping number, but the rest of the album is boring and doesn’t compliments the mood of the film. The English rap portion of the title song is peppy but the rest Punjabi lyrics spoils it.
On the whole Desi Boyz is entertaining if you leave your brain at home.
My ratings for the movie is 3 out of 5 stars.
So make some way for the Desi Boyz. And I am sure they won't disappoint you!

What is Life?

Life is a race,

Which everyone has to face.

Life is a mirage, a beautiful dream.

That takes on its way, the smiles, the laughter,

The tears & the pure heart stream.

Life is an express, always on the run,

Life is a hurricane, never undone.

Life is a tiny light in an infant’s hand,

Life is a roaring ocean that can never be manned.

Life is a tiny pearl in an oyster shell,

Life is as gorgeous as a silver marriage bell.

Life is a crystal of diamond in a coal mine,

Life is on a worker’s forehead as sweat and grime.

Life is full of surprises,

In this life we make and break promises.

There are days which we can never forget,

There are deeds which makes us regret.

At some stage it takes a turn,

And leave the people to mourn.

This life always shows horrors and fears,

For the real parting, we have to shed tears.

Nobody knows what this life is,

I tell you that this Life is full of mysteries.

(One of the winning poem from TTIS competition in 2007 written by me)

The Orphanage

Yesterday I was solving some English Language paper of my Bank Clerical Exam. What I like most about this subject is that, I get to read different types of interesting short stories. From the past one month I solved around 40-50 English Language papers of different banks. Mostly all of the stories remind me of my childhood days, where I don’t eat a morsel of meal without listening to the different bedtime stories from my Dadi & Bua. At the end of those stories they would teach me a specific moral from it. But this story is quite different from others, so I thought of sharing this short story with you all in my blog.

There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six to seven years old, just several weeks or may be a month before the orphanage turned me into an old man.

I would get up every morning at the orphanage, make my bed just like the little soldier that I had become and when I would get into one of the two straight lines and march to breakfast with the other twenty or thirty boys who also lived in my dormitory.

After breakfast one Saturday morning I returned to the dormitory and saw the neighbor house parent chasing the beautiful monarch butterflies that lived by the hundreds in the bushes strewn around the orphanage.

I carefully watched as he caught these beautiful creatures, one after the other, and then took them from the net and then stuck straight pins through their head and wings, pinning them onto a heavy cardboard sheet. How cruel it was to kill something of such beauty. I had walked many times out into the bushes, all by myself, just so the butterflies could land on my head, face and hands so I could look at them up close.

When the telephone rang the neighbor house parent laid the large cardboard paper down on the back cement step and went inside to answer the phone. I walked up to the cardboard and looked at the one butterfly who he had just pinned to the large paper. It was still moving about so I reached down and touched it on the wing causing one of the pins to fall out. It started flying around and around trying to get away but it was still pinned by the one wing with the other straight pin. Finally its wing broke off and the butterfly fell to the ground and just trembled.

I picked up the torn wing and the butterfly and I spat on its wing and tried to get it to stick back on so it could fly away and be free before the house parent came back. But it would not stay on him.

The next thing I knew the house parent came walking back out of the back door and started yelling at me. I told him that I did not do anything but he did not believe me. He picked up the cardboard paper and started hitting me on top of the head. There were all kinds of butterfly pieces going everywhere. He threw the cardboard down on the ground and told me to pick it up and put it in the garbage can inside the back room of the dormitory and then left.

I sat there in the dirt, by that big old tree, for the longest time trying to fit all the butterfly pieces back together so I could bury them whole, but it was too hard to do. So I prayed for them and then I put them in an old torn up shoe box and I buried them in the bottom of the fort that I had built in the ground, out by the large bamboos, near the blackberry bushes.

Every year when the butterflies would return to the orphanage and try to land on me I would try and shoo them away because they did not know that the orphanage was a bad place to live and a very bad place to die.

Small truth to make our life 100%

If, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

Equals to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26

Then

H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K = 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E = 11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

L+O+V+E = 12+15+22+5 = 54%

L+U+C+K = 12+21+3+11 = 47% (Don’t most of us think this is most important???)

Then what makes 100%...?

Is it MONEY? i.e. 72%...No!!! or,

Is it LEADERSHIP? i.e. 97% No!!!

Now check this out…

A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E = 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

“It’s our attitude towards life and work that’s made the difference”

Reality of the World!

Rockstar- The painful & atrocious journey of a singingstar.

Imtiaz Ali’s Rockstar is a bittersweet story of a man, an artist, from being an ordinaryman to a superstar. Ranbir Kapoor as Janardhan Jakhar, the Haryanvi boy who aspires to be a rockstar like Jim Morrison.He tries his best but doesnt strike d chord. One day d college canteen man explains him that the only way he can light the musical fire in his heart is by getting it broken. Bingo! Mr.Jhakar got d life changing idea & here comes d "hot-rich chick" Heer.Now Mr.Jhakar's initial assignment is to trying to flirt with her & hopes to be dumped, shattered and instantly become a musical genius. Now a notty-buddy bond between dem started.They watch soft-porn movies, drinks desi daaru and do wild things which dey often say as "Gandh machate hain!". But then Rockstar's an Imtiaz Ali film where lovers always meet at the wrong time and have travel across long distances 4 their romantic longings. Soon after, the girl is married off to some NRI, the boy is thrown out of his house, he seeks solace in a dargah and next you know he's a singing sensation renamed as Jordan.

Ranbir Kapoor is Hindi cinema’s next big thing,with Rockstar he lives up to the expectations & plays his character in  most effective manner.Newcomer Nargis Fakhri ,who plays Heer, is a breathtaking beauty with a fair amount of screen presence. Though her voice is dubbed by someone else but her expressions exactly flow with the character, especially while watching Jungli Jawani she look likes a school kid enjoying the circus. But I loved her wide mouth overcoming her face coz it reminds me of Angelina Jolie. But while good acting is always an incentive, it’s a director’s vision that makes a film truly watchable, and Imtiaz deserves credit for trying his hand at something different from the mainstream cinema.

AR Rahman's music is the soul of the film.After some of his disappointing music in Robot & Jhootha hi sahi, he delivers his best in Rockstar.Each AR Rahman number is woven beautifully in the story.

"Sadda haq" (song of d year) is an energetic youth anthem.

"Jo bhi mai" is a soft rock number,it's the sound of 'ya ya ya', that has a 'pahaadi' feel to it.

"Katiya karun" is a punjabi number but its basic tune is a copy of Rehman's own work "Ringa ringa" from Slumdog Millionaire.

"Kun faaya kun" is a soulful sufi song reminding me of "Khwaja mere khwaja".

"Tum ho" is very peaceful by Mohit Chauhan's earlier sad songs like "Tum se hi", "Ye dooriyan", etc...etc...!

Lyricist Irshad Kamil does an outstanding job, writing words that reflect the lead character’s state of mind and situations appropriately.

There are some great moments in the film. Like the beautiful & heart-stopping duet between Shammi Kapoor and Ranbir; the Kun Faaya Kun song in the Nizamuddin dargah; the hilarious massage scene involving a leopard print underwear-clad music baron, Piyush Mishra; the witty line of Ranbir,"Tum or mai rock kar denge!" and his style of saying this; or even Ranbir dancing in a trance at a nightclub,  transported into another world.But the duration of the movie is for almost 3 hours...which is quite long,especially in the second half the screenplay of the movie is lenghty & fall flat. On the whole Rockstar rocks you in every aspects whether it is acting,direction,cinematography,lyrics and last but not the least is its music.

My rating for Rockstar is 4 out of 5...! Rockstar is a must watch of 2011.

I would like to rename this Rockstar as a Modern Devdas or may be you can say Dev D ver. 2.0...!

I, Me & Myself

Hi, this is my blog, so I have to say something about myself. Sometimes it is hard to introduce yourself because you know yourself so well that you do not know where to start with. Let me give a try to see what kind of image you have about me through my self-description. I hope that my impression about myself and your impression about me are not so different.

            I am a person who is positive about every aspect of life. There are many things I like to do, to see, and to experience. I like to read, I like to write; I like to think, I like to dream; I like to talk, I like to listen. I like to see the sunrise in the morning, I like to see the moonlight at night; I like to feel the music flowing on my face, I like to smell the wind coming from the rain. I like to look at the clouds in the sky with a blank mind, I like to do thought experiment when I cannot sleep in the middle of the night. I like flowers in spring, rain in summer, leaves in autumn, and snow in winter. I like to sleep early, I like to get up late; I like to be alone, I like to be surrounded by people. I like country’s peace, I like metropolis’ noise; I like the beautiful Ganga River in Kolkata, I like the tall coconut trees in Mednipur. I like delicious food and trendy clothes; I like good books and romantic movies. I like the land and the nature, I like people who make me laugh. And, I also like people who make me cry.

            But it’s not possible for me to do everything that I like, because it’s very hard for a Paraplegic to do what he wants. I am suffering from past 20 years. I like to walk without any support, but I can’t. I want to run, but I can’t. I want to dance, but I can’t. Though it’s very painful to live a life like this, I never regret myself on this position. My dreams are still alive.

“I’m beautiful in my way

Cause God makes no mistakes

I'm on the right track, baby

I was born this way

Don't hide yourself in regret

Just love yourself and you're set

I'm on the right track, baby

I was born this way! "

-Lady Gaga

This is a brief introduction of me. If you are interested in knowing more about my thoughts, ideas & views then follow my blog.