Just Finished watching Kaminey and I cannot find better review of this than this one from REDIFF..
Once in a particularly blue moon, comes a film that makes you wolf-whistle. One that then ties you to the edge of your seat and forcibly pins you there and pounces on you, eventually leaving you sitting in the dark, drained and grinning and more satisfied than a film has any business leaving you. This, ladies and gentlemen, is that kind of ride.
And way more.
Vishal Bhardwaj [ Images ] reinvents the filmi rollercoaster with feverish glee as he takes a wonderfully twisty plot and paces it flawlessly around a bunch of madcap, irresistible characters. It takes nearly twenty minutes to get used to things, the characters, the words they speak, they way they speak them, and the tone of the film -- heck, to get used to this film's world. Then on, the film just freakin' flies.
Yet before getting into the breakneck chaos, it is this unapologetic figure-it-out stance that we must initially applaud. Too often are our caper films and thrillers compromised by oversimplification and spoonfeeding, by filmmakers believing audiences need things spelt out and giving them bite-sized flashbacks to easily digest each twist. No more, says Bhardwaj, throwing us a delicious jigsaw and letting things fall into place in their own sweet time. The result is startlingly clever, an innovative film with genuine surprises. Kaminey [ Images ] is the kind of film whose success we ought all pray for, because it'll prove smart cinema works.
So delicious is the movie's gradual unravelling that I refuse outright to let you in on the plot itself -- an enthralling tale of drugs, deceit, dingbats and dead-ringers -- because you need to discover this on your own. Go in as fresh as you can, you deserve to taste this one by yourself. Letting on what actually happens would make me one of the film's titular knaves.
Suffice it to say that Tassaduq Hussain, who also shot Vishal's brilliant Omkara [ Images ], does it more than adequate visual justice, and the largely-handheld film emerges very stylistic indeed. It's fast, funny and constantly rollicking, and the characters are spectacularly entertaining.
As is the cast. Shahid Kapoor [ Images ] plays Guddu the stutterer and Charlie with a lisp, saying f for every s, and does strongly enough to credibly seem like two different people; Priyanka Chopra's [ Images ] delightfully high-strung Sweety pulls off hysterical Marathi with impressive fluency. Yet it is the ensemble of fantastic oddballs who truly make this film special: from Amole Gupte's [ Images ] demented Santa Claus [ Images ] routine as Maharashtra-lovin' gangster Bhope Bhau to Chandan Roy Sanyal's lethally capricious coke-lover Mikhail, from Shiv Subrahmanyam's helpless corrupt cop Lobo to Tenzing Nima's ludicrously likable drug-smuggler Tashi -- the film is full to the brim with splendidly unfamiliar faces, each of whom deserve a hand, not just the ones singled out here.
And Vishal generously gives each character their time in the spotlight. Guddu heartwrenchingly recounts his middle-school love, while Sweety captures beer-driven arousal with charming realism. Bhope bribes a big-eared nephew with chocolate, while Lobo coaxes the stutterer to give a police statement through song. The Bengali gangsters shoot bullets near each other for laughs, while the Marathi ones are transfixed by Guddu-Sweety screensavers on a laptop. Charlie unwraps a cellphone from plastic as he tries to placate gangsters, while -- in an extraordinary moment -- Mikhail sets the screen ablaze as he staggers in on the same gangsters, high on coke and unpredictable as a broken roulette wheel. There's so much to marvel at in these characters that it isn't funny. Oh wait, it is. Very.
What raises this rambunctious gangster movie head and shoulders above its genre is the writing. The wordplay is constant, subtle and absolutely exquisite -- a tough ask when one hero trips over words and the other narrates -- yes, narrates -- with a lisp. And there's a witty duality running through the film's twin tales: a character barks into a phone, and this sound echoes later when someone pleads in front of Bhope, daring not to take his name but just calling him repeatedly big brother, "bhau-bhau"; Mikhail introduces himself to Bhope by calling himself Tope Bhau, and nearing the climax Bhope is told by another that they have 'topein' (cannons) too; when Mikhail wins a race, arriving just in time, he breaks into the Spiderman theme -- and Charlie responds with Fpiderman-Fpiderman. When a character wants to steal a king's ransom in drugs to help a pregnant woman, another snarls back: 'Toh kya meri coke ujaadega?' Ha. It's nuanced, lovely writing, the sort we never get to see in films nowadays.
Bhardwaj has never been secretive about his Quentin Tarantino [ Images ] adoration, referencing the director in Blue Umbrella and doing it here again with high heels and an injection. While Tarantino exclusively uses music he already loves because he doesn't trust anyone to create anything as good, Bhardwaj has always done it all himself, writing, directing and composing -- not to mention singing, and its worth noting the slight s/f lisp he gives the film's magnificent title track when it plays on screen. Yet here he takes a leaf from QT's book and brings back the saucy RD Burman track 'Duniya mein logon ko' (from 1972's Apna Desh) and makes it his own, giving it sassy new context out of its dated backdrop -- no more Rajesh Khanna [ Images ] in a red suit, this song is now all Shahid.
So the film leaps through implied ultraviolence and dark humour and you hold on, exhilarated -- just as you have through, say, Guy Ritchie's [ Images ] Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels. And while that itself would be no mean feat, Bhardwaj ups the ante with an audacious climax, suddenly bringing emotions right to the fore.
And while films of this ilk are full of disposable-bodies and corpses-in-waiting, one discovers that Vishal has -- sneakily, stealthily, surreptitiously -- kept the sentiments so darned real that by the time the climax rolls around, you do actually give a damn about these characters.
Wow. Now if that isn't kameenapan, I don't know what is. Awefome
Monday, October 26, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Kamakhya Temple
The header Photo has been changed with the snap of the famous Kamkhya shrine wihich is stuated on top of the Nilanchal hills in Guwahati, Assam.
The Kamakhya Temple had been built in reverence to Goddess Kamakhya or Sati, who was one of the numerous incarnations of Goddess Durga or Goddess Shakti.
The temple is situated a few kilometers away from the Guwahati Railway Station, and is open for visitors throughout the year. There is a legend attached to the history of the temple, which goes way back to the mythological age. According to the legend, Sati the wife of Lord Shiva (one of the holy Trinities in Hindu mythology) took her life at a 'Yagna' ceremony that had been organized by her father Daksha, because she could not bear the insults hurled at her husband by her father. On hearing the news of his wife's death, Shiva, the destroyer of all that was evil flew into a rage and punished Daksha by replacing his head with that of a goat. Torn between misery and blind fury, Shiva picked up the corpse of his beloved wife Sati and performed a dance of destruction called the 'Tandava'. The intensity of the destroyer's fury was so overwhelming that it took several Gods to pacify his anger. In the midst of this struggle, Sati's corpse accidentally got cut into 51 parts by the disc in the hands of Lord Vishnu (also one of the Trinities in Hindu mythology), and her female genitalia or 'Yoni' fell on the spot where the Kamakhya temple stands today, forming one of the many Shakti 'Peethas' embellishing the rest of her body parts.
King Nara Narayana of Cooch Behar rebuilt the temple in 1665 after it had suffered destruction at the hands of foreign invaders. The temple consists of seven oval spires, each topped by three golden pitchers, and the entrance spirals down to a curvy path of some distance, which specially links the main road to the temple. Some of the sculptured panels of the temple carry depictions of Gods and Goddesses of Hindu pantheon carved in a delightful pattern. Tortoises, monkeys, and large number of pigeons have made the temple their home, and loiter around the premise, being fed by the temple authorities and the visitors. The cryptic, as well as the peaceful ambience of the temple combine together to soothe the nerves of visitors, and take their minds to flights of inner salvation, and this is the very reason that people come here for.
With all its enigmatic splendour and picturesque locale, the Kamakhya Temple is one of the most astounding structures, not only in Assam, but also in the whole of India
The Kamakhya Temple had been built in reverence to Goddess Kamakhya or Sati, who was one of the numerous incarnations of Goddess Durga or Goddess Shakti.
The temple is situated a few kilometers away from the Guwahati Railway Station, and is open for visitors throughout the year. There is a legend attached to the history of the temple, which goes way back to the mythological age. According to the legend, Sati the wife of Lord Shiva (one of the holy Trinities in Hindu mythology) took her life at a 'Yagna' ceremony that had been organized by her father Daksha, because she could not bear the insults hurled at her husband by her father. On hearing the news of his wife's death, Shiva, the destroyer of all that was evil flew into a rage and punished Daksha by replacing his head with that of a goat. Torn between misery and blind fury, Shiva picked up the corpse of his beloved wife Sati and performed a dance of destruction called the 'Tandava'. The intensity of the destroyer's fury was so overwhelming that it took several Gods to pacify his anger. In the midst of this struggle, Sati's corpse accidentally got cut into 51 parts by the disc in the hands of Lord Vishnu (also one of the Trinities in Hindu mythology), and her female genitalia or 'Yoni' fell on the spot where the Kamakhya temple stands today, forming one of the many Shakti 'Peethas' embellishing the rest of her body parts.
King Nara Narayana of Cooch Behar rebuilt the temple in 1665 after it had suffered destruction at the hands of foreign invaders. The temple consists of seven oval spires, each topped by three golden pitchers, and the entrance spirals down to a curvy path of some distance, which specially links the main road to the temple. Some of the sculptured panels of the temple carry depictions of Gods and Goddesses of Hindu pantheon carved in a delightful pattern. Tortoises, monkeys, and large number of pigeons have made the temple their home, and loiter around the premise, being fed by the temple authorities and the visitors. The cryptic, as well as the peaceful ambience of the temple combine together to soothe the nerves of visitors, and take their minds to flights of inner salvation, and this is the very reason that people come here for.
With all its enigmatic splendour and picturesque locale, the Kamakhya Temple is one of the most astounding structures, not only in Assam, but also in the whole of India
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
IIT......The Dream Curbed.
Kapil Sibbals ( HRD Minister) statement that the Students will have to achive 80% marks in the 12th Exam,in order to sit for the IIT Jee examinations. Now , this is ridiculous. There has been wide criticism for this statement all over. In support of his claim he adds that he want to clear the web of the coaching centers surrounding prestigious enterances Examinations like IIT,IIM, medical etc.
Mr.Minister has forgotten that India has more than 25 state education boards and millions of students sit for their 12th exams.The average percentage achieved is not more than 58%. These student come from poor bakground and cannot afford to pay hefty Fees of the CBSE Public Schools.Moreover, the medium of Instruction in these State Governed schools is the state language. The Examination pattern is the same old one, wherein the student learn by heart the entire subject and sit in the examination to attain more and more percentage.
Unlike CBSE , the state board sylabus is not revised every year and the examination pattern not changed from Marking to Grade System. These changes in the CBSE has definitely led to the increase of the passing percentage as well as Marks percentage in Boards like CBSE and ICSE.The students of these boards are more Objective in thought and knowledge helping them attain higher percentage in the Board examination which also support the same pattern of thought and expression.
I strongly support Sibbals view when he says that he want to put out the coaching Institute Industry out of education.But this is a Himalayan Task. They could only be removed through Resolution in parliament, What I feel? U curb them on one, they will start the another. The industry will shift to pass out the students in the 12th Exam.
Hence, Mr.Minister should have a second thought on it and revoke his decision for the good of the students belonging to moderate or poor background studying in Govt: funded schools all over India.
Mr.Minister has forgotten that India has more than 25 state education boards and millions of students sit for their 12th exams.The average percentage achieved is not more than 58%. These student come from poor bakground and cannot afford to pay hefty Fees of the CBSE Public Schools.Moreover, the medium of Instruction in these State Governed schools is the state language. The Examination pattern is the same old one, wherein the student learn by heart the entire subject and sit in the examination to attain more and more percentage.
Unlike CBSE , the state board sylabus is not revised every year and the examination pattern not changed from Marking to Grade System. These changes in the CBSE has definitely led to the increase of the passing percentage as well as Marks percentage in Boards like CBSE and ICSE.The students of these boards are more Objective in thought and knowledge helping them attain higher percentage in the Board examination which also support the same pattern of thought and expression.
I strongly support Sibbals view when he says that he want to put out the coaching Institute Industry out of education.But this is a Himalayan Task. They could only be removed through Resolution in parliament, What I feel? U curb them on one, they will start the another. The industry will shift to pass out the students in the 12th Exam.
Hence, Mr.Minister should have a second thought on it and revoke his decision for the good of the students belonging to moderate or poor background studying in Govt: funded schools all over India.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Madhopur Buzurg.. My Village
Madhopur Buzurg, my village. Located in the Kushinagare District of eastern UP, also known as Purvanchal. Kushinagar , land of the BUDDHA and The MAHAVEERA, Land where they took their MAHANIRVANA. Eternal Bliss..
MADHOPUR as we call it, lies on the plains of the Hiamalayas and hence the climate is extreme. Hot in summmer and cold in winter.The Kosi-Gandak canal project,a joint collaboration between India and Nepal passes through my village.
My village has well equipped transport facility with NH 28 passing by the sides.
Agriculture is the main occupation of the people. Wheat and Rice is the main food crop, while sugarcane,Mustard is the cash crop.
I love my village.
MADHOPUR as we call it, lies on the plains of the Hiamalayas and hence the climate is extreme. Hot in summmer and cold in winter.The Kosi-Gandak canal project,a joint collaboration between India and Nepal passes through my village.
My village has well equipped transport facility with NH 28 passing by the sides.
Agriculture is the main occupation of the people. Wheat and Rice is the main food crop, while sugarcane,Mustard is the cash crop.
I love my village.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Guwahati.. The life Spent...
Guwahati... The place where I was born and spent the entire 16 years.Guwahati was wonderful place to be born and spend the childhood.There was wonderful environment for studies. Good schools were less though in our times, but now I have heared that some good CBSE board schools has come up.In our times most of the schools were recognized by SEBA the Govt: board of education.
My Parent provided all of us the best of the education available. Guwahati was a new city sprawling up, that time. The only city for the entire NE.
When I was in class III or IV, there started the ANDOLAN, that they called.ANDOLAN against the peple from differnt states, regarded as foreigner by the Locals. Foreigner in our own land.
Thousand moved out of the state and found refuge in nearby states of Meghalaya, Tripura, Bengal and others.People from Bihar, UP and other North Indian States had tough time. I remember being in a crowded meter gauge train GL, without reservation as no reaservation was available and we had to run out of the state.GL many memories in this train, will have another Post on it.
After the Andolan,Prafull Phukan;s Govt. came in being.Indias Youngest Chief Minister. The Andolan became the guiding force of the Student Politics in India. AGP was founded. Months later, we returned, Education was hampered, I remember, but Yes, as a child think. Pleasent Holiday were over.
One Good thing about Assam is that, they have utmost respect for the teachers. A teacher is regarded as God. One of my teacher was Liza Miss. She was an Extremely knowledgeable person.I remember the pomp and fare during the Sarawati Puja in schools. We would spend the whole night in the school, and she was always there to guide us with new designs to make our show the Best every time. For us it was more Like a Picnic Camp fire, When we would light up a big chulha with wood fire and then prepare the Khichdi for everyone and then the tea, while some of our mates would be Busy decorating tha Pandal. We were so excited and happy when we danced over the DI DI song by Khaled the Algerian Singer and Yes, Baba was out with his Thanda Thanda Pani song.
Friends were great.Many of them..Sunil, Diaganto, Santosh alias BullDogg, Amit-Vineet Duo, Vijay, BabuRam..and many many more.They were all school friends. The locals were Pramod, Yogesh, Kishore, Harpinder, Kripal, Babu to name a few. We spent a large part of our Chutti playing Cricket in the Central school. Our teams name was EKTA CRICKET CLUB, on team unity and jokingly on Kishore's first girlfriend EKTA.
We often had matches with the Assamese local team and we use to lose largely due to BaiMaani.LBW was the main reason.LBW BaiMaani was quite common and then when we scrapped LBW in one of the match,We Won.
I passed the high school in 1994 and then came to UP for further education. Though I visted Guwahati in 1997 and then in 2008 but the memories of the place will always be fresh in my mind forever.
My Parent provided all of us the best of the education available. Guwahati was a new city sprawling up, that time. The only city for the entire NE.
When I was in class III or IV, there started the ANDOLAN, that they called.ANDOLAN against the peple from differnt states, regarded as foreigner by the Locals. Foreigner in our own land.
Thousand moved out of the state and found refuge in nearby states of Meghalaya, Tripura, Bengal and others.People from Bihar, UP and other North Indian States had tough time. I remember being in a crowded meter gauge train GL, without reservation as no reaservation was available and we had to run out of the state.GL many memories in this train, will have another Post on it.
After the Andolan,Prafull Phukan;s Govt. came in being.Indias Youngest Chief Minister. The Andolan became the guiding force of the Student Politics in India. AGP was founded. Months later, we returned, Education was hampered, I remember, but Yes, as a child think. Pleasent Holiday were over.
One Good thing about Assam is that, they have utmost respect for the teachers. A teacher is regarded as God. One of my teacher was Liza Miss. She was an Extremely knowledgeable person.I remember the pomp and fare during the Sarawati Puja in schools. We would spend the whole night in the school, and she was always there to guide us with new designs to make our show the Best every time. For us it was more Like a Picnic Camp fire, When we would light up a big chulha with wood fire and then prepare the Khichdi for everyone and then the tea, while some of our mates would be Busy decorating tha Pandal. We were so excited and happy when we danced over the DI DI song by Khaled the Algerian Singer and Yes, Baba was out with his Thanda Thanda Pani song.
Friends were great.Many of them..Sunil, Diaganto, Santosh alias BullDogg, Amit-Vineet Duo, Vijay, BabuRam..and many many more.They were all school friends. The locals were Pramod, Yogesh, Kishore, Harpinder, Kripal, Babu to name a few. We spent a large part of our Chutti playing Cricket in the Central school. Our teams name was EKTA CRICKET CLUB, on team unity and jokingly on Kishore's first girlfriend EKTA.
We often had matches with the Assamese local team and we use to lose largely due to BaiMaani.LBW was the main reason.LBW BaiMaani was quite common and then when we scrapped LBW in one of the match,We Won.
I passed the high school in 1994 and then came to UP for further education. Though I visted Guwahati in 1997 and then in 2008 but the memories of the place will always be fresh in my mind forever.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Idhar - Udhar ki
Days are really hectic.I am also a student of LAW now. It is a wonderfull subject, Really but very exhaustive. The more u read . still u need to read more and more and there is no end. Thats the reason I feel why the Lawyers practise Law all their lives and never be perfect.. haa haa.. Mind bogling....BOGLING, Wats that.. Oh, I just heared it in BIGGBOSS 3 from Ismail Darbar, the lesser known music director.
BIGGBOSS 3 has started with Shri Amitabh bachchan as host and 13 contestents.. all made headlines and then lost in oblivion. I think BiggBoss is a sanjivini for those who want to comes back to limelight after they lose it, providing new lese of live as they call it. 13 lives, 13 personalities and a house. Its really interesting to see them play the game.Can understand well, how much it takes to be in there in that position. There are some ba***rds this time.. like the one self shortformed KKR alias kamaal.. I dont understand Who the hell is he? Is he Brad Pitt, or the pro.dir,wri.edi. and blah blah blah of a third class z grade DeshDrohi.
The way he boasts... JINDAGI JHAND BA.. FIR BHI GHAMAND BAA (Thanks RAVI for this.)
ABbe! Apni Aukaat mein Reh.. bhootni ke..
The other is SherLyn.. the girl with a really sexy Body Who Want to give it all? Though she started well with the 25 kiss movie who nobody seemed to care or watched.
Ya, Though peeped some of her naked photos for PETA .I didnt Knew she is is so dirty in looks without makeup..Are all these self proclaimed celebs are the same, I doubt.
Hope she gets a launch.. Sorry Relaunch from the MultiMillionaire KKR.
Vindu..Who started with KARAN.. way back when I was in the 8th std.. Then lost.. and then Jai Hanumann....Kambakht ishq.. and now this.. Is he Thali ka baingan or What? I guess..still Known as son of Dara Sngh.What a Shame? Be youself.. and stop Lingering around with Kamaal or U are next.. MIND ITTTTT....
Criicket.. Cricket .. Cricket.. Such a Bore..
Watched a very Good movies, last Weekend..Anurag Kashyaps GULAL.. I love the way he uses the canvas and projects the characters.. Everyone has a Reason.. a Strong Reason
..I think the main protoganist was a fool.. But LOVE IS BLIND... is it ? I Guess..
i love the charcter RanVijay.. in the first half.. he led the movie on his shoulder,, was awsome.. Somebody will please comment his name ...
BIGGBOSS 3 has started with Shri Amitabh bachchan as host and 13 contestents.. all made headlines and then lost in oblivion. I think BiggBoss is a sanjivini for those who want to comes back to limelight after they lose it, providing new lese of live as they call it. 13 lives, 13 personalities and a house. Its really interesting to see them play the game.Can understand well, how much it takes to be in there in that position. There are some ba***rds this time.. like the one self shortformed KKR alias kamaal.. I dont understand Who the hell is he? Is he Brad Pitt, or the pro.dir,wri.edi. and blah blah blah of a third class z grade DeshDrohi.
The way he boasts... JINDAGI JHAND BA.. FIR BHI GHAMAND BAA (Thanks RAVI for this.)
ABbe! Apni Aukaat mein Reh.. bhootni ke..
The other is SherLyn.. the girl with a really sexy Body Who Want to give it all? Though she started well with the 25 kiss movie who nobody seemed to care or watched.
Ya, Though peeped some of her naked photos for PETA .I didnt Knew she is is so dirty in looks without makeup..Are all these self proclaimed celebs are the same, I doubt.
Hope she gets a launch.. Sorry Relaunch from the MultiMillionaire KKR.
Vindu..Who started with KARAN.. way back when I was in the 8th std.. Then lost.. and then Jai Hanumann....Kambakht ishq.. and now this.. Is he Thali ka baingan or What? I guess..still Known as son of Dara Sngh.What a Shame? Be youself.. and stop Lingering around with Kamaal or U are next.. MIND ITTTTT....
Criicket.. Cricket .. Cricket.. Such a Bore..
Watched a very Good movies, last Weekend..Anurag Kashyaps GULAL.. I love the way he uses the canvas and projects the characters.. Everyone has a Reason.. a Strong Reason
..I think the main protoganist was a fool.. But LOVE IS BLIND... is it ? I Guess..
i love the charcter RanVijay.. in the first half.. he led the movie on his shoulder,, was awsome.. Somebody will please comment his name ...
Proud Father.
hurray... I am a proud father Now.. Dhan- chick... dhan- Chick... I am very happy.. Soon will upload , Loads of picture on this site...Watch it for more
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