Archive for the ‘Superhit Posts’ Category
Friday, February 29th, 2008
It's a Friday. Every week most of us, generically speaking (most and generic used for the benefit of the dreaded Desan Guns), beginning right from Sunday around 4pm start looking ahead, far ahead, praying, that "Friday" comes soon enough.
Alas, but one has to cross a Monday, Tuesday and so on, until the fine 5pm Thursday, ting tong (or ding dong or bong bong or whatever sound your laptop/cellphone reminder plays for you) sweetly starts ringing in your ear. It's THURSDAY EVENING!!! FRIDAY TOMORROW. TOMORROW IS FRIDAY...
Friday is the day. That day. You wait for each week. YES YES YES THAT FRIDAY HAS ARRIVED.
Work on Friday is just non existent (generically speaking so as to avoid any misunderstandings ...
Posted in Friday Masala, Superhit Posts | 806 views | 3 Comments »
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
[A rejoinder to this post "MAY" be available here]
... could not quench the man's lust for more women... It's raining, drizzling actually. The backyard's been wet all week long. Clouds, some dark, some light been hovering since Monday. The night usually brings the rain after I've gone to bed. Amidst my snoring, I faintly have heard the plitter platter of the drops hitting the glass on my bedroom window.
The drive was slow, and I'm lost in some cloud, the brains in my head oozing thoughts that swing like a pendulum from left to right and back to left.
A few things have been happening, those, very very personal and I may dare to share it with you guys ...
Posted in Friday Masala, Sex, Romance etc., Superhit Posts | 2,421 views | 28 Comments »
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
A tragic cloud of sadness rests in some corner of my heart... I just read this news a few minutes ago...
Multi-talented entertainer, writer, and author Sidney Sheldon has died at age 89 of complications from pneumonia.
To think that just this morning, as I woke up and was making tea, standing there waiting for the water to boil, suspended in that vacuum of zero-ness ... when a thought slid in "Sidney must perhaps be the most read fiction writer in India, from the US,... atleast he must have been during my college days, a decade and a half ago..."
Strange. And a few hours later, I sit here reading the news of his passing away. Though such things do happen ...
Posted in Movies, TV etc., News Catch, Superhit Posts | 1,994 views | 9 Comments »
Friday, October 6th, 2006
Panna-ben is leaving. Panna-ben will be away for three whole months. Panna-ben’s going away is making me sad. Very very sad. Because for the next three months I won’t get good wholesome sometimes delicious many times crap but all the time completely eatable – home made food.
Panna-ben is the lady who delivers dinner at my doorstep. Day after day. Everyday. It had been a wonderful life so far. No going to grocery shops to buy your monthly list of groceries, no rushing home to cook food, no having to cry over the crap you just cooked.
Panna-ben, my messiah for food will be gone. She’s actually going to India. Gujarat to be precise.
Yes, me a Punjabi, has been eating Gujarati ...
Posted in Friday Masala, Superhit Posts | 4,507 views | 10 Comments »
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
And here's the concluding part of Kartik Krishnan's coverage of the Screenwriters' Conference in Pune, organized by the Film and Television Institue of India (FTII). While the first part was heavily loaded with insights, knowledge, highly straightforward opinions and views - the second part doesn't let go of the tight grip over you... Kartik begins Day 2 of the the Conference by attending a speech by Sriram Raghavan (Ek Hasina Thi). Over to Kartik...
DAY 2: AUGUST 20 2006, FTII PUNE
SESSION 6 - INSPIRING EXAMPLES
Had come in a little late but nevertheless was in time for Sriram Raghavan’s speech
Sriram Raghavan (Ek Hasina Thi)
• A good film can have 60 terrific ...
Posted in Bollywood, Superhit Posts | 6,544 views | 9 Comments »
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
The Film and Television Institute of India arranged a Screenwriters Conference in Pune. The first ever. Everyone who was anyone in Bollywood's criminally ignored screenwriting world was present and given a platform to speak.
Kartik Krishnan, Desi Train's eyes and ears on Bollywood's ground zero, was present at the two day conference held on August 19th and 20th.
After much pushing (from my end... damn me can be so pushy), Kartik agreed and delivered the article which goes into the minutest details of the two day event.
I'm so blown away by the coverage of Kartik's article that I'm giving it the status of a Superhit Post even before it is published. From the always straight forward Anurag Kashyap's insights to Abbas Tyrewalla's ...
Posted in Bollywood, Movies, TV etc., Superhit Posts | 10,491 views | 41 Comments »
Friday, August 11th, 2006
Ever tried stretching your arms straight up for 3 hours at a stretch? Ever tried standing on one leg for more than 3 hours? Ever tried sitting in a lotus position for more than 3 hours? You did!!! HA… try this – Ever tried sitting on your two cushiony bums applying the same pressure on each of them, while forcing your out-to-pop-out-of-the-sockets eyeballs to intensely focus on watching Karan Johar’s Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna?
If you did that last one, I bet you must have experienced the following hallucination that I’ve incurred for over 2 hours after the movie was done, out, closed out of an oz life. Please email me if you have experienced the same. Your emails will be ...
Posted in Bollywood, Movie Reactions, Superhit Posts | 7,340 views | 24 Comments »
Monday, June 26th, 2006
[Updated June 27, 2006]
This post and the pictures in it are based on real events that took place in oz's life on Friday, June 23rd 2006.
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Friday 3pm. I'm back at work pacing around to wrap the week up when Mo calls.
"Yo Dog, What's the plan for the night?"
I really haven't given it a thought. For once I wanted to go out and chill. Have a few drinks and unwind.
"No sarging tonight Mo. But I'll be glad to go out and have a few"
"Damn it bro!!! Mitch and Orn are coming because of you"
I forgot about it completely. Mitch and Orn were two shy early 30s Software geeks whom I had met at the ...
Posted in Sex, Romance etc., Superhit Posts | 7,302 views | 26 Comments »
Friday, June 16th, 2006
Salim Khan. Javed Akhtar. They came. They saw. They conquered. They created dream stories for the big screen. Stories that everyone identified with. Stories everyone fell in love with. Stories everyone wanted to bring to reality.
Be it the man sitting in a plush office with a CEO stamped on his business card or the cart pusher on the street below. Be it the curly haired Catholic teacher in school or the always irritated guy issuing tickets behind the railway window. Or it was the tensed Mom or the happy go lucky buddy sipping tea at street corner tea stall. The gregarious Punjabi or the shy Tamilian. The inquisitive Bengali or the enjoying nariyal paani on Juhu Beach - Marathi. ...
Posted in Bollywood, Superhit Posts | 5,877 views | 33 Comments »
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
Film festivals can be exhausting. They can also be rewarding. Extremely rewarding. I've never been to a film festival before. Yesterday was my first. And I realized what I had been missing.
If you are a movie fanatic who's attended film festivals, you'll quite surely know what my experience may have been. It's like stepping in a whole new world. Your world. People around engaged in conversations about movies, movies and movies. You are home. You are at peace. You are free to be you, simply you.
[Anurag Kashyap. He was walking in for the screening of "Paanch", ran into him at the door, we started chatting, shocked that he reads Desi ...
Posted in Bollywood, Superhit Posts | 8,874 views | 13 Comments »
Friday, April 7th, 2006
The camera focusses on Worli Tower. A round shaped white coloured spiral design building in Worli, Bombay. tik tik tik tik tik. Tik = Typewriter sound. Bottom left cornor of the screen. "Control Room" or something unimportant like that.
A bunch of cops seated in a top secret meeting. The meeting looks less like a cop gathering and more like a bunch of anguished guys who's wives have run away with their neighbours.
About fourty five minutes into the Harry Baweja movie: Teesri Aankh, I have started writing a book titled "Movie making 101: How not to make Shit". The entire book will consist of 500 pages. All pages shall be blank. Only page 3 shall have a single ...
Posted in Bollywood, Movie Reactions, Superhit Posts | 7,476 views | 22 Comments »
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
They say every living individual is a Genius. The genius may lie in any one or more than one area of life. Your genius may lie in a field which you are already exposed to or tragically will never realize what field you would have excelled in... all your life. Tragic indeed.
And then there are flashes of ideas. Ideas that excite you. You realize "Hell ya!!! That's what I wanna do. That's what I'm good at!!!". One such flash came through when I was about to graduate. I should be in Advertising!!! Mechanical Engineering is not for me. That's what I'm good at. Create Ideas to excite, motivate, and ignite people's minds. Sell Sell Sell. That's it. My first (and ...
Posted in Comedy, Superhit Posts | 5,298 views | 12 Comments »
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Glad to see you all back. Ok I’m lying. Just a bit. I’m glad to be back home after a 48 hour trip to the hospital. I suddenly realize how important it is to have a perfect health, one which we take for granted. I have also learnt and discovered that blonde women in super short nurse uniforms are entirely capable of giving me a hard-on.
Could you get that down?
I put my hand down which I had lifted up so she could check my veins to insert the IV
Not your hand, your other thing?
She’s referring to my mini-me which looks like a miniature form of Kutab Minar. It’s there standing at full attention courtesy (1) Hot blonde (2) Hot ...
Posted in Comedy, Life Flava, Superhit Posts | 3,684 views | 18 Comments »
Friday, March 3rd, 2006
Every Movie fanatic cries when his/her list doesn't match with any major Bollywood Awards final list. Not anymore.
Crappy movies hog the stage. Talent gets left out. And critics lament what is wrong with Bollywood. Screw them and their list.
Announcing the First OzCAR Awards for Hindi Cinema. The awards are divided in two sections. OzCar awards for the whole Filmfare Awards Nite Show. And the Second section deals with Oz Awarding the real artists and the real movies that deserve to be on top.
Section One: The OzCAR Awards ON the 51st Filmfare Nite
The Sadela Tamatar Pheko Award (Hinglish: Throw the Rotten Tomatoes Award On) goes to...
Sony Entertainment Television
In this day and age of modern technology, SET ...
Posted in Bollywood, Superhit Posts | 4,013 views | 8 Comments »
Friday, February 24th, 2006
There are a few things in life however hard you try, you just can’t let go of the nagging feeling that some secret hidden forces are in play, forces that make certain things in our lives appear or happen in the way they do. Not many may notice it, but those who do, end up becoming investigative journalists or bloggers.
And because of this nature to notice the unnoticed, have I noticed that there maybe secret-undercover powers who may have conspired with other dark hidden forces to see that ALL men living in the United States end up wearing a certain type of underwear.
Walk into a typical American clothing store. Target. Robinsons May. Macy’s. Nordstrom’s. Costco. Walmart. K-Mart. Whatever ...
Posted in Comedy, Life Flava, Superhit Posts | 25,281 views | 24 Comments »
