A R Rahman and Ashutosh are back and their combo is working magic up the charts. Rahman’s music for Ashutosh’s Swades (not the english swades but the hindi swa des) has its moments of brilliance.
If you weren’t aware then, Swades, as defined by Ashutosh Gowariker, is a movie that talks about Mohan Bhargav [Shah Rukh Khan] who realises it’s high time we stop dreaming about greener pastures abroad and giving a blind eye to our responsibilities at home.
It’s the time of rehashes. With the recent kollywood heroes(namely two, guess who ?) movies being re-made from re-made movies, Gandhi Krishna has certainly delivered a re-hashed movie, with lots of interesting moves in the script. Chellamay, may well be called Kadhal Konden 2.0, except for variance the director has shown in the script and the backdrop of the movie is a lot different from the original.
If Selvaraghavan, used a orphan kid, to talk about possessiveness, love, affection and sympathy between the kid and a girl of his same age, Gandhi Krishna makes a similar relationship a little complex. The girl with whom the protagonist or anti-hero(however you may call), is related to, is an elderly mother-figure for him. Worse, she is also married. So we have a true hero here, too. However one is prone to get miffed by the perplexed situations that doesn’t tell you for a long time, how the hero considers his relationship with girl.
Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger leaves Google. Ever since Google had acquired blogger in Feb 2003, Ev was a part of Google. On his blog, he announces that he is leaving Blogger/Google. Without allowing for much speculation, he also answers the probable questions that might crop up on the event of him moving on.
Bloggers will directly/indirectly miss this ‘Evan’gelist but it looks like he has some idea of what to do next and probably will come out with another revolutionary service as Blogger. If you are a blogger, you can see his goodbye note on your Blogger dashboard, in Blogger news section.
With SCV Channel going live for most of the day, people call in throughout the day to request songs of their choice.
Some observations from the requests. The great Sirichu Sirichu Vandhaa Seena Thaana song from Vasool Raja seems to be topping the requests. Every hour atleast it’s been asked for nearly 5 times and played thrice. Every hour. Appidi Podu from Gilli ranks second. Reema Sen’s dance number May madham song from Jay Jay is also one of the top requests.
Lessons learnt – Item numbers are people’s choice. Appidi Podu isn’t a item number in the literal sense. The other two are certainly the best examples available. This being a representation of what people ask for, you know why producers and directors are hell bent on having Item numbers on their movies. What you ask for is What you get.
On a related note, a program on Zee Music called Item bomb, seems to bring a tease club into the drawing rooms. Item Bomb is an India wide search for bombshell girls who want to dance Item Numbers in the ‘worthy’ Bollywood movies.
Being called as a reality show, they follows closely the participant girl of the show and bring on-screen their prepartion and the performances during prelim rounds. It looks like show for Peeping Toms. Reality TV is been screwed up, completely. Why wouldn’t we think of rating the TV shows. This one would be rated A++ or RR.
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The Hindu spotlights on Aditya Chopra’s Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, which is still running as a single show in a Mumbai theatre Maratha Mandir.
DDLJ could possibly be the movie running so long in the history of cinema but all that I am concerned is about the projection guy in the theatre. It was a speculation that a projection attendant in a theatre where Jackie Shroff‘s Hero crossed a couple of years, went a little abnormal. It was said that looking at the same movie throughout the day, for years, affected his thinking patterns. If that is true(which I am unsure of ), then the similar guy in this theatre should also be shown some concern.
While it’s accepted that DDLJ was superb entertainer and Kajol was a major drool-over then, I am suprised at the longevity of the movie in theatres. What about video piracy here ?
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