Monday, September 13, 2010

Dabangg kills, Punjabi pop revives.

"I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do,"Marilyn Monroe had once said.
I nod my head in firm assent.
BUT, I've been so unbelievably busy of late!
Economics Project, Effective Communication Project, writing the NMIMS Entrepreneurship blog, this, that and the other.


Irrelevant, of course. I should pay more attention to this little corner I proudly call mine. Apologies. :)


Of course, all this added co-curricular and academic pressure, has brought out the veritable monster in me.
Finicky, hyperventilating at the slightest delay, at the smallest inconsistency with the project at hand.
(I screamed at three team members today, UNAPOLOGETICALLY please note. :P)


Maybe it's the Dabangg effect. 
Yes, that is what I like to call it.




I was so disillusioned with 'Bollywood", film critics (IT GOT 4 STARS ON FIVE. Whaaaaaaat?), débutante directors and of course, action directors, script writers and the whole jing-bang, crass toilet humor, the surname Pande, that the burst of adrenaline(crazy frustration?) drove me to work on a project for 6 straight hours. So much so, that my eyes were blood red, my bottom was glued to the chair, my concerned father actually put down the laptop screen and my mother cooked my favourite-pasta in alfredo sauce only to get me alive and kicking again. :P




The only thing that kept me entertained. A certain steroid-muscled Mr. Salman Khan dancing to, 
"Jo sab ko paar lagawe re hai wohi dabangg
Daar ko kaate re, cheer dhare sanatte re
Jab veer bhare khunkhaare
Udd udd dabangg dabangg dabangg dabangg" 



That killed me.


Okay, back to being busy.


Which translates into dancing madly and wildly like a roadside drunkard to cheap band music that's playing ALL the time coz a certain Hindu elephant god festival is in progress. :D (Dancing to "Bolo tarararara" right now. Aaaah, Punjabi pop is such a mood lifter!)


India, I tell you. I love it. :)

12 comments:

mgeek said...

I can't understand what's so special about Dabangg...

Anonymous said...

^^ Arbaaz Khan did in Dabangg what James Cameroon failed to do in Avatar.

Tangled up in blue... said...

Anon, and what wud that be?

Nitisha said...

TUIB, did you catch Dabangg? Rather, did you survive it? :O

Tangled up in blue... said...

Have been rather insulated from the whole "desi Quentin Tarantino" claims of Dabangg by my prelim exams in college! :D But people have made me curious enuff to catch/survive it mostly coz of their widely conflicting responses to it! :D

Nitisha said...

One tip.
If you really want to experience the sheer awesomeness of this cinematic great, watch it in the front row of Gaiety Galaxy like a true-blue Mumbai! :D :D

Tangled up in blue... said...

I was going to watch it in Plaza or Chitra coz my college is closest to them, on the last day of exams with the buddy gang and then, sort of whistle and cheer and clap like the movie is supposed to be watched! I cant imagine watching it with multiplex snobs who'll watch it like they'll watch a Akira Kurosawa film :D

sanket kambli said...

well...dabang is being hyped up too mcuh.. tashan did it all before wanted and dabang came through...
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and why are people calling it desi-QT...sheesh!

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dabang will be timepass or "paisa vasool" and like @TUIB said.. multiplex snobs will never appreciate it..

..they dont even clap..and whistle..

not even when optimus prime hits megatron..in the face..

forget about appreciating Sallu's histrionics..

had this movie starred akki...it would have been thrashed by critics..

Nitisha said...

SALMAN KHAN IS GOD.
I am an atheist, (Okay, agnostic), and I say this! Salman Khan has defied all conventions and gone absolutely against all the rules ever written by cinema stalwarts. And he has come out 'dabangg'. What more could one ask for?

@TUIB, Gaiety is THE place to watch it. Leave the multiplexes for another time. Like for a Shah Rukh Khan movie. :P :P

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