Monday, February 21, 2005
Se*y
There was a huge furore over a couple of songs about 12 years back in India when the "se*y" word was used? The one song was Govinda singing "Mere pant bhi se*y, Mere shirt bhi se*y etc" and the other was Karishma singing "Hi se*y, hello se*y kyun bole". The Govinda number was a poor remake of "Right Said Fred"'s "I'm too se*y for my shirt".
The Indian parliament being completely bereft of issues of national importance got involved and I understand got a special screening of the songs (or that might have been for Choli ke peeche) Anyway as an end result both songs were banned from the air and the latter was modified to say "Hi baby Hello baby kyun bole"
Anyway what I am coming around to is, the other day I was watching this new movie and that had (an undeniably catchy) number called "Teri kurti se*y lagti hai, teri kurti se*y"
I don't know if this song is getting a lot of air time back home but I am guessing that our own FCC isn't making such a big hue and cry any more over the "se*y" word anymore! The times, they are 'a changing.
PS I am using the * instead of x not out of any misplaced sense of propriety, just to bypass any filters you may have set :)
The Indian parliament being completely bereft of issues of national importance got involved and I understand got a special screening of the songs (or that might have been for Choli ke peeche) Anyway as an end result both songs were banned from the air and the latter was modified to say "Hi baby Hello baby kyun bole"
Anyway what I am coming around to is, the other day I was watching this new movie and that had (an undeniably catchy) number called "Teri kurti se*y lagti hai, teri kurti se*y"
I don't know if this song is getting a lot of air time back home but I am guessing that our own FCC isn't making such a big hue and cry any more over the "se*y" word anymore! The times, they are 'a changing.
PS I am using the * instead of x not out of any misplaced sense of propriety, just to bypass any filters you may have set :)
Friday, February 18, 2005
More movies and liking what you do
I borrowed 13 going on 30 just so that I could have something to watch with my wife, who doesn't much care for heavy stuff like Eternal Sunshine or About Schmidt. The first few minutes were painfully /// to Mean Girls and then it generated into some kind of poor remake of Big. At least with the Tom Hanks movie he became someone who wasn't already there- Jennifer Garner becoming someone who already existed was rather bizarre. The missus didn' t much care for Ms Garner anyway.
Spiderman 2 was well worth it though at times Peter Parker's life was verging on the seriously tragic. I don't seem to like Kirsten Dunst though. I didn't like her in Drop Dead Gorgeous, though I thought the movie was a riot. I didn't like her in The Virgin Suicides which was another of those 70's nostalgia trips that I didn't quite get. I didn't like her in Crazy Beautiful and I didn't like her in Spiderman. Doc Ock was terrific!
Then we watched something called Sasneham Sumithra which I swear is a remake of or at least based on Rebecca. None of the websites that reviewed the movie mention this fact however. Why does Sai Kumar look and act so villainously? Wasn't he a nice comic turn way back in one of the Mannar Mathai (or Ramji Rao) speaking movies?
I wonder if all professional athletes and actors and performers like what they do? At least they are working in a profession that they thought they have a talent for and one that they chose voluntarily. It would be weird to think there are basketball players who hate playing basketball but do it for the money.
Do actors wake up in the morning and say to themselves "I wish I had followed my dad into the family grocery business?"
I wonder what percentage of people like what they do- I certainly don't. I would have liked to been a teacher or a writer. Which perhaps is why I spend time typing in all these thoughts.
Spiderman 2 was well worth it though at times Peter Parker's life was verging on the seriously tragic. I don't seem to like Kirsten Dunst though. I didn't like her in Drop Dead Gorgeous, though I thought the movie was a riot. I didn't like her in The Virgin Suicides which was another of those 70's nostalgia trips that I didn't quite get. I didn't like her in Crazy Beautiful and I didn't like her in Spiderman. Doc Ock was terrific!
Then we watched something called Sasneham Sumithra which I swear is a remake of or at least based on Rebecca. None of the websites that reviewed the movie mention this fact however. Why does Sai Kumar look and act so villainously? Wasn't he a nice comic turn way back in one of the Mannar Mathai (or Ramji Rao) speaking movies?
I wonder if all professional athletes and actors and performers like what they do? At least they are working in a profession that they thought they have a talent for and one that they chose voluntarily. It would be weird to think there are basketball players who hate playing basketball but do it for the money.
Do actors wake up in the morning and say to themselves "I wish I had followed my dad into the family grocery business?"
I wonder what percentage of people like what they do- I certainly don't. I would have liked to been a teacher or a writer. Which perhaps is why I spend time typing in all these thoughts.
