Slumdog bullshit

Kamal Haasan sums it all up very well:

"This day means something to Danny Boyle, Rahman and to an extent some of the Indians. But it doesn’t mean anything to Indian cinema till Indian cinema tries to make quality films. So when it does that, it will deserve the recognition and it doesn’t mean that we are not making quality cinemas. We are not respecting quality cinemas as it should be. That is because content might be king but placement is very important."

So all you jokers rejoicing on Indian cinema's superb victory at the Oscars - read between the lines. A R Rahman won - awesome! Leave it at that. This ain't no effing Indian victory.

Thanks to Mutiny.in for the article and the words from Kamal Haasan.

Hey Ram!

Wow, came across this beautiful set of posts on Hey! Ram. I love the way they have been written. I think Anwin and Karthik would love it too.

Love Kamal! On reading these posts, I am somehow come to terms with what I have understood with the movie when I watched it. This puts it in words - great job!

Nadsat and A Clockwork Orange

I was watching A Clockwork Orange over the weekend. What an insane movie!!. It was directed by Stanley Kubrick of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb fame. He's also directed such cult classics as The Shining and Full Metal Jacket. Damn, the movie is so captivating and disturbing that it made me think twice. More on that on another post. Meanwhile, in the movie, the characters speak in a lingo amongst themselves. Wikipedia tells me that this is called Nasdat. Damn, there is a whole article about it. So I tried my hand on it too. See if you can decipher it.

I don't think I have to make an Appy polly loggy at all. There is no need to. I just went to to the Biblio to get a book and saw this devotchka. So we went out to have a firegold. She looked kinda bugatty also. Off we went to the local peeta and she offered me a cancer. I declined as I do not want to have cancer through cancer. Her name, she said was Olga. I am sure you all know about russian cheenas. Hehe, since you know about them, let me continue. Olga called her droog too!. But her droog looked like her 'em. They both wanted to filly. I fillyed for raz. Ordered a forella and tried to hide my boredom by hiding behind the gazetta. The em gave me the glazz. Collocol rose up my gorlo. I felt so grazhny to govoreet to her. Her groody was rising up. I knew they wanted to filly. The old in-out-in-out. Olga started lapa. But I wanted to be lubbilubbing alone!. Her mum looked more like a malchick!. Seeing it yeckate, I took out my nozh and used it to oobivat them both!.

Saw IV

Damn I love the Saw movie series. So all you lovers of this series of flicks, you'll be happy to know that Saw IV is gonna be out soon. Check out the trailer here....