(Inspired by a rhyme sent by a friend which was in turn inspired by The Slumdog Millionare and the evergreen song "These are a few of my Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music. CAT)
Edit: After seeking permission,I am reproducing the rhyme that started this chain :-), CAT
"Average movie with Oscar additions,
Resul's a musician,Rahman a Magician,
Oh what a pleasure to hear Sukhvinder sing,
These are a few of my favorite things!
Amitabh may be right,
Rushdie's words don't sting,
Thick skinned us,we don't feel sad,
We simply revel in the shit jumping scene,
And then we don't feeeeel sooooo baaaad!"
copyright Aman
"Reality bites and we usually love tripe,
A fairly made movie,we just cannot abide..
Coz it a phirang,who has shown us the sites...
These are a few of my favorite gripes!
When the crap flies,...
in the face or on the screen,
(which makes us so green!)
We are reminded what needs to be mended...
And then I don't feel soooo baddddd!"
copyright CAT
Edit: After seeking permission,I am reproducing the rhyme that started this chain :-), CAT
"Average movie with Oscar additions,
Resul's a musician,Rahman a Magician,
Oh what a pleasure to hear Sukhvinder sing,
These are a few of my favorite things!
Amitabh may be right,
Rushdie's words don't sting,
Thick skinned us,we don't feel sad,
We simply revel in the shit jumping scene,
And then we don't feeeeel sooooo baaaad!"
copyright Aman
"Reality bites and we usually love tripe,
A fairly made movie,we just cannot abide..
Coz it a phirang,who has shown us the sites...
These are a few of my favorite gripes!
When the crap flies,...
in the face or on the screen,
(which makes us so green!)
We are reminded what needs to be mended...
And then I don't feel soooo baddddd!"
copyright CAT
18 comments:
Slumdogs and oscars
and blogs by sweet kittens ;)
trains that go chu chu
and warm woollen mittens
memories of brit thieves who ran with their loot
now they are back with their cameras and soot!
When boyles pop
when rehman sings
when the truth starts to hurt
I think of back when we didn't live in the filth
and hope it wont stayyyyy thisssss bad
( when the truh makes me sad - rhyme)
Slumming n slamming and blogging n blahblah(ing),
Shame n fame,all set us aflame,
Swaroop seems happy n the music was tappy,
These are a few of the favorites n whacky.
Boyle and his spoils,
were sullied and soiled,
Rehman was a star, Gulzar a czar,
Resul not afar,
the rest of the pack,
oscars or lack,
made a spectacle of themselves
and that makes me feel soooo baddd.
Boyle...a zit.. just another male brit
Reh...a man with the right notes
me...the sucker who watched all of it
Frei..duh she got the votes
So...red carpets and shebangs
la...di dah and all that jazz
tea...with jamal and the gang
and that brings us back to bo zo bo zo.....
Sing it for best effects haha...good one CAT..u got me meowing!
Moi prefered Swaroop,Beaufoy gave it new roop,
hard hitting was it,heartburn it cause_it,
no poverty,peace around,all children happy,
these are a few of my favorite dreams.
UPA has lost it,wanted all credit,
Bol Bachchan contention,aimless intentions,
India shining,intellectual uprising,
these are a few of my favorite dreams.
When disharmony strikes,
When the reality stings,
When I'm feeling sad,
I simply remember my favorite things,
And then I don't feel, so bad.
Jai Ho !
Hitch writer....Was expecting more than a Jai ho, ho jai???
Crap film, 8 Oscars...? Kalyug hai bhaiya!
Agreement with AI... Hai re Hai Daiya!!
These are all moments rarest of rare... :-)
Most Indians are happy, we should we care?
Bachchan & Rushdie's have been Just & Straight,
Squalour exported, don't make a movie great.
Oscars '09 were an average one,
Based strictly on which average movie won.
The Oscars were a standard, the bar has gone down.
The Age of Mediocrity is now in our town!
Warhol & Rama ji were absolutely right!
Quality in Kalug is really a fright!
....
(C) Aman.
One can go on, but I think one must stop oneself. Lest mediocrity creeps in. ;-)
My point is this:
If novelty won the movie the Best Picture & Best Director Oscars, then films like Memento, The Number 23, Monsoon Wedding, Lagaan, Paheli etc. too should've won!
If Triumph & Hope are the themes everyone wants to celebrate, I'd like to remind them of Lagaan & Life is Beautiful.
Slumdog's win is nice, but apart from the technical & music awards, it deserved nothing.
PS: Crap above means average. Or a reference to the shit-jump scene if you like. The movie isn't bad. It's good. It just isn't Best Picure-Best Director-Oscar-worthy.
"The movie isn't bad. It's good. It just isn't Best Picure-Best Director-Oscar-worthy."
Agreed absolutely.
Perhaps it may not be so much the age of mediocrity as it is the age of "political" motivations!
Trainspotting by Boyle was an absolutely dark movie about scottish depraved addicted youth and was absolutely hardhitting and almost unbearable to watch.But is a cult movie!
Slumdog is more masala softer unreal fairy tale portrayal of reality.He has just told the story a la bollywood style with brit sensibilities. Nothing more, nothing less. And we need not go aboard in offense or in defense...its just another movie,period!
Brits have eaten so much CURRY that their movies are beginning to look like Indian ones! After all, you are what you eat!
hahaha...wish it were true though!
Then we could have fed the world curry and made them into Indian clones....World would be a much simpler place then !!!
My first trip to London..long ride to wimbledon by cab from airport and I was taking it all in like a typical tourist,remember the cabbie asking us if we still resented them for what they did. Hubby had to nudge me to not say what he knew I'd want to...so I was polite and said "the past is behind us". But is it really?
LOL...and using that phrase ( past behind us ) reminds me of Pumba and Timon in Lion King.
Pumbaa: It's like my buddy Timon always says: you got to put your behind in your past. Timon: No, no no. Amateur. Sit down before you hurt yourself. ..
Bohat ho gaya standing ovation...time we all sat down!
:D
If you put your behind in your past then you are sure looking ahead as your nose is in your future! Smart Pumbaa really
Cabbie on my first visit to America asked me, "So do you also hate us like the rest of the World?". I said, "Nope. Not the people of America. We just don't like the Foreign Policies of your Govt."
That is exactly the crux of the problem.....the line between the policies (of governments/ nations )and their people is getting blurred as seen by those offended and we all know then who suffers the most!!
Another time,elsewhere, a cabbie from Afghanistan said they were selling empty missile shells back home. Some were even stealing from each other's backyards. "when that happens what do you do?" we asked him. Said 'Toh kya huee? ( afghan's and their urdu!!)? Aur aa jaegee!"
Sigh
Terrible actually...
Post a Comment