Discoveries of 2008
2008 was a very low key year as far as music & movies goes in my life. Esp after last 2 years of marathon movie watching & discovering music. But I would still go ahead & write a diary similar to last years Discoveries of 2007.
Books -
I read a lot of books this year. I tried to read of lot from the Random’s 100 list.
1) Animal Farm – George Orwell
This was probably the most satisfying book I read last year. What happens to Boxer brought tears to my eyes. Thats very rare in my life. I can’t believe I had not read this book till now.
2) The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A year when Hollywood got curious about Fitzgerald, I finally read his classic. Loved it.
3) Bend in the River – V S Naipaul
Naipaul at his detached cynical best.
4) GUNS GERMS & STEEL – Jared Diamond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns%2C_Germs%2C_and_Steel
Pulitzer winning work. The story of civilization from a Biologists perspective. Highly reccomended.
Why Eurasians conquered the world? And How?(The answer is diseases).
Why Man could not domesticate Leopards(My fav part of the book). Etc etc
5) Spike, Mike, Slackers and Dykes: John Pierson
Of all the filmy books I read this year, this was the one I enjoyed most this year.
MUSIC –
I’m gonna list the songs that played on my car/laptop more than anything.
MGMT – Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris – Dance Wiv Me
Friendly Fires – Paris (ft. Au Revoir Simone) (Aeroplane Remix)
My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
The Rolling Stones – You Can’t Always Get What You Want (2008 Soulwax Remix)
Bon Iver – Skinny Love
Sam Sparro – Black and Gold
Mark Farina – Dream Machine
Death Cab for Cutie – I will posses your heart
Amadou & Mariam – Sabali
Albums I liked
Sneha Khanwalkar – Oye Lucky Lucky Oye (Soundtrack)
I think Oye Lucky Soundtrack was the best album made in 2008 anywhere in the world.
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular definitely was the album of the year for me. It was the sound of 2008. It pushed Electronic music into the living rooms of American kids. The JUSTICE REMIX of Electric feel is the most played song on radio in LA. And it just keeps growing on me.
Moby – Last Night
A long awaited album. Although the magic of Moby is gone, this album had quite a good songs. Ooh Yeah & I Love to Move in here are my fav so far.
Gnarles Barkley – The Odd Couple
A Great second is so rare these days. Also the only big live show I went too. Gnarles Barkley to me is the best thing in Pop Music right now.
Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
My Hip-hop artist of 2008. His SNL version of Lollilop just blew me away.
But most importantly I loved a britney Spears song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4NayXtzsBo
Piece of Me is the song. If you had told me that I wouldn’t be able to stop listening to a Britney song I would have laughed at you. Also I also think this is the best & most personal lyrics a Britney songs can get.
FILMS -
I watched very few films this year. One film that stands out for recommendation would be Everything Is Illuminated.
It was the best film I saw in 2008.
Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye was my fav film of 2008. Mainly because of how Dibankar showed us Lucky’s life. My friend after watching the film said, there was something lacking in the film. My 1st thought was that it didn’t have the standard “Arc” type 3 act story. And thats why it felt odd sometimes. As if questioning how this scene is moving the film. Because we are so conditioned of the standard stuff. It took some time to realize what Dibankar had created. And the music was amazing. After watching the documentary of how Sneha did the music, there was no question in my mind that this was the album of the year also.
I also liked DASVIDANYA a lot. The movie had the most heart of all the movies of 2008. This year again belonged to Vinay.
ROCK ON was something that exceeded my expectation. Is Farhan Akhtar the most talented man in Bollywood right now? He might not be the best singer, best actor, best director, but he is good at everything he does.
HELLBOY II was my fav film of the year so far. This was the year when I watched a lot of SuperHero film. Even THE FANTASTIC FOUR. This was the year of Superhero films.
The best scene of the year so far also goes to Hellboy. Those were the best moments inside the theater this year. Even more so than Jokers presence in Dark Knight.
2008 movies that I missed and will watch this month would be –
The Class ,Man on Wire, Waltz with Basir, Gomorrah, Che, Wendy & Lucy, Happy Go Lucky, The Wrestler & WALL-E.
TELEVISION
I watched the 2nd best show on Cable TV ever –
THE WIRE
Now that the show is over, I urge you guys to watch this series. Also you cannot call yourself a cinema lover & not know who OMAR is.
I also discovered what was the big deal about SIX FEET UNDER. Probably the best Pilot of a TV show I have seen. Alan Ball is one of my favorite writer/director right now.
2008 was also the year of SNL. Esp Tina Hey & Amy Poehler.
My fav SNL video of last year
Dick in a Box –
One of the major discoveries for me was Stop Motion Graffiti films. Check out this artist Blu from Buenos Aires
Like last year there are so much i probably don’t remember right now. I will add them as we go along.
What did you like & discover in 2008?
Tags: 2008, best of 2008, Books, mainak, Movies, Music, videos, youtube
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Amen to OMAR, my man!
DUDE – Biggest & Best – BARACK OBAMA!!!
Dreams from My Father and Audacity of Hope were awesomeness indeed for me.
MIA – her sound is so so the OTHER music.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona – Film-making without boundaries.
Directors who crossed over – Danny Boyle, Aronofsky, Fincher.
Year of the KIDS! Too many people having kids!
@ Ravptor
I intentionally ignored OBAMA & MIA. I agree this was their year also. But its so obvious & well known that I saw there is no point plugging them on my post.
Yes I should have mentioned Vicky Cristina Barcelona. It was one of my fav films of 2008.
Music – discovered/rediscovered:
Hendrix (all studio albums; collaborations with BB King, John McLaughlin etc; all available legal concerts and studio sessions; rarely available vinyl records)
BB King, Buddy Guy, Howlin’ Wolf, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hencock..
Joni Mitchell..
Armin Van Buuren, ATB, Tiesto..
Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale..
Midival Punditz, Karsh Kale, Nitin Sawhney and others in Asian Underground genre..
Books:
Kafka (’In the Penal colony’ and ‘The country doctor’ became instant favorites – I feel ‘No Smoking’ had shades of these two stories more than ‘The Trial’), Dostovyeski, George Orwell, O Henry..there are some other Russian authors too but I can’t recall names.
More as I recollect..
This year, I discovered the Blues. BB King, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy etc. Then there were these film festivals, so many films, I will forget their names probably, but the experience will never fade. Books I hardly read, but I did get hooked to this film site, mooninthegutter.com. I didn’t do anything drastic in my film appreciation, same old films, DVD’s, world cinema.
In TV,I discovered Family Guy, Adult Swim, Weeds, Craig Ferguson. Then I discovered some new aspects of comedy, stand up comics and shit, and ya, the year I discovered Will Farrell, Jean Pierre Melville, Bert Haanstra, Tarsem, Jules Dassin, True Romance, Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow, Amit Trivedi, and then some animation stuff.
Neeraj Pandey – for A Wednesday – the most responsible channeling of ‘Public Anger’ . Now Kamalhassan is reportedly planning to remake this in Thamizh.
Well interesting year for me. Well the main discovery i made this year at a personal level, were there are things you can never take for granted.
I also discovered the meaning of terms like “sub prime”, “investment banking”, and also discovered, that i was not too bad in understanding the financial sector, which was to date Greek and Latin for me.
As a hard core techie, my favorites this year have been Google Chrome and Apple’s IPhone. Not many new movie web sites, it was still Wiki, IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes for any movie info i needed. You Tube became a part and parcel of my life, as i used to analyze a scene, check out a technique or just listen to a song i missed out.
Books
All of Michael Crichton’s novels
Such a Long Journey, Tales from Firozsha Bag-Rohinton Mistry
Maximum City-Suketu Mehta
Music
Loved songs of OLLO, Jodha Akbar.
Favorite movies this year- A Wednesday, Jodha Akbar, Rock On, Tahan, Hulla, Dark Knight, Vaaranam Ayiram, Iron Man, Wall E, Kung Fu Panda, Dasvidaniya, Mumbai Meri Jaan.
@Mainak
“Everything Is Illuminated” is 2005 Venice Winner,good comedy nevertheless u saw the film i am happy to know !!!
GK
@Mainak
Also this is the film where I discovered Ukraine in full splendour and beauty !!!
GK
@ Mainak: Great post. Here are some of my diskoveries / thoughts in / for 2008 – Surinder Sahni (Punjab Power), Oye Lucky is kickass saala, Abbas Tyrewala is a rocker, Subhash Ghai has lost it, Aamir Khan has found it, Emosanal atyachaar, SRK RULES (wudever anyone says), Harman Baweja is doomed, Sanjay Gadhvi is busted, Johny Gaddaar is here to stay, YRF has to try harder, much much harder, there are many closet filmis, they aren’t ashamed to come out, Loins of Punjab is the new-age Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron, SRK RULES (wudever anyone says), Imtiaz Ali is the storyteller to watch out for, Its not good to miss the 1:40 ki last local, Ranbir Kapoor will be the new lover boy (with or without the towel), John Abraham can’t act saala, Bachchan Family will have to live off past glory, SRK RULES (wudever anyone says), Rituparno Ghosh only makes klassiks, KJo is making more money by peddling his fantasies, Anurag Kashyap knows his stuff better than anyone else, He also has a smashing skreen-presence, Madhur Bhandarkar is stuck in his own formula of storytelling, Sudhir Sir will shut everyone up with Tera Kya Hoga Johnny, Dev.D will piss Bhansali off, Sawariya pissed me off, Farhan Akhtar should have said no to TV, Vishal-Shekhar should have komposed for Rock On!! Salman is on his way out, Sanju Baba will bounce back with a 12-pack, Barjatiyas can go to heaven, no one cares, Farah Khan knows her punches & her 70s, Akshay Kumar is not the Kinng, he is not welcome, Deepika is the luckiest of the lot, Sonam Kapoor is B E A U tiful, Navdeep Singh should make more films, Dibakar B. shouldn’t sell out, Himessss sucks, everyone knows, no one cares, Dino will b extinct like dinosaurs, All’s not well in the Khan-daan, Saif needs to go easy wid sutta, Kareena looked best in Hulchul, Irrfan is the New Khan, Imran needs to get outta mamoojaan’s shadow, Priyanka Chopra is TOO SMOKIN HAWT, SRK’s Don 2 will take Indian cinema to newer heights, SRK RULES (wudever anyone says), Hrithik needs to ask his dad to excuse him for a while, Dharam paaji is still the most macho, metrosexuals suck, Dara Singh should live hazaaron saal, Mithun da is Prabhuji, Mimoh is an INSULT, KayKay never got his due, Neither did Vinay Pathak, Rajat Kapoor should get a bag full of gold koins, then he should make his kinda films, RGV will hit back and how, Remakes aren’t happening, Darshel Safary should be allowed to live his childhood, Reality TV sucks, TV sucks,
SRK RULES (wudever anyone says), New Age Cinema has arrived, it will stay, Sukhwinder Singh rocked Phoonk De, Sukhwinder Singh rocked Chak De, Mika is a moron, Daler is not, A R Rehman is the Music Messiah, Aennu Malleik should be left for judging reality shows, Javed saab shouldn’t waste time on TV, Salim saab & Javed saab should kollaborate once more, Andaz Apna Apna will be remade, SRK RULES (wudever anyone says),
It’s fantastik if you have millionaire friends, even better if you have a billionaire dad, PFC is home, It’s good being a kopywriter, Its great to be film-writer… phew… this is all for now. Will come back with some more discoveries.
We didn’t start the Aag
It was always burning
Since Ramu started it
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Contract was torn away,
Phoonk was a surprise Hit,
Sarkaar still rules.
Terror Tour of Taj,
Ramu feels the Aag,
Raj T tries to drive away aliens.
Ek Vivaah Too many
Farhan Aktar Rocks On
Aam Aadmi Wedesday
Mumbai Meri Jaan Forever,
Raj Kumar’ Aamir take a bow,
Aamir’s Ghajni 8 Packs,
Rab is always there for Jodi.
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We didn’t start the Aag
It was always burning
Since Ramu started it
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Himesh stick to singing,
Drona misses target,
Kidnap is such a yawn,
Yuvrraj is better on the field,
Katrina needs to act now,
Salman needs better scripts,
Subash Ghai please retire.
Love Story 2050 futuristic disaster,
Papa Harman go Back Into Future.
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We didn’t start the Aag
It was always burning
Since Ramu started it
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Tashan is Styleless
Rani neeeds Magik, Pyaar
Golmaal, Kraazy, Grrrh,
Akshay is the Kingg,
Randbir is lover boy,
Saif is caught in the Rat Race
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We didn’t start the Aag
It was always burning
Since Ramu started it
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Piggy Chops is smoking Hot,
Fashion, Dostana just for her.
Abhi aint a super Hero,
Aish is still a Queen,
Hrithik rules as Akbar.
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We didn’t start the Aag
It was always burning
Since Ramu started it
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26/11, India’s 9/11.
Politicians in the Doghouse,
Ozzie falls in Cricket,
Google got a new Chrome,
Lehmann Brothers RIP forever.
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New Age, Multiplexes,
World wide Recession,
Wall Street bankrupt,
Banks go crashing down,
Obama is in the White House,
Beijing holds Olympics,
India goes to the Moon,
Dhoni, Gony make the new Pair.
IPL, Euro, ABO, SBO,
What else do i have to say?
GK Desai @8
Everything is Illuminated was shot in Czech Republic, not Ukraine.
Yes the movie was amazing.
Tejas @ 3
So far you seem to have had the best year. You found some really amazing music. And all kinda different music. Have you been to www.pandora.com ?
Ratnakar @ 10
you should copyright your lyrics. Its really cool. Billy Joel would be proud of you
@ RS: sirjee aapke andar ka ghalib zinda ho gaya! Jo bhi ho mazaa aa gaya! Keep ‘em comin!
@ Magik: Actually ur comment was the inspiration. And thats not the finished article, am still working on it.
@ RS: aila, didn’t even realize, but u did a damn good jawb of it. the genius lies in hiding the source! Cheerz to woriginal yinspirations!
mainak – completely agree on oye lucky – easily the best film and soundtrack of the year. i can’t get it outta my car since the film released.
been hearing the dev.d soundtrack since morning and though more versatile, i think it’ll still be the second best i’ve heard this year. oye lucky wins just for the genius superchor and jugni.
did u see oh my god?
@Mainak
Major they have shot in Lvov and Odessa in Ukraine and some portion in Prague,Czech Republic !!!
GK
@Mainak – thanks. I listen to both Pandora and Last.fm. Any artists you recommend?
I saw your list of music and artists. You are mostly into indie stuff, is it? Do you like Regina Spektor? I know it sounds school-girlish but I liked her songs much when heard in a bohemian tea-shop. It’s mostly anti-folk bubble-gum pop.
Other Indie stuff I carried over from 07 was ‘Of Montreal’. ‘Disconnect the Dots’ was struck in my mind like anything. So was the ‘Banquet – Mike Skinner remix’ of ‘Bloc Party’.
Since you are already into folk, you must also be knowing about Iron & Wine. Now he has gone quite mainstream but I have been a fan of his lowkey, recorded in garage sound since the first album. He definitely reminds me of Dylan and Simon & Garfunkle’s work, than Nick Drake’s (less melancholy).
Not surprisingly, my two favorite movies discovered in ‘08 were old musicals – ‘School of Rock’ and ‘West Side Story’. After Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly, I fell in love with Katherine Hepburn (it’s something with me and the dames from the b&w era). She is so fluent, bubbly and vivacious in ‘Bringing up Baby’. Kind of reminded me of Juhi Chawla in her heydays.
Do we talk extensively here about music? Sounds crazy since this is a Cinema forum, but I can just go on and on, both talking and listening to about music!!
@Magik – What was the problem with SEL’s score of Rock On!! ? Vishal – Shekhar make mostly hiphop, club-lounge and pop music. If you heard Pentagram’s last efforts (Was it called ‘Up’?) the music was electronica. Not to say that they couldn’t have done a good job, but there is no credential that should make you believe that they were a better choice. Which means… aapki baat mein dum hai, par masala-dosa bahot kam hai..
did anyone listen to “Guns and Roses”.. Sweet Child O mine… i felt that SEL copied from it,Aasma hai Neela …
I’d say my music list for the year would be pretty similar to yours. I’d add Fleet Foxes, which along with For emma, Forever Ago and Oracular Spectacular were my favorite albums this year. Just beautiful stuff!!
I also liked M83’s album, a few tracks by Portishead, The walkmen, DCFC, and Vampire Weekend.
1. we have lost the pharmoola and danny got the best masala!
2. aditya chopra had beginner’s luck.
3. aamir khan stands tallest..last year he gave one tight slap to everyone,this year he fucked them in their own game…every1 can relax now.
4. vinay pathak can be india’s philip syemour hoffman..he needs mindblowing movies, not just any indie film.
5. few films can make me really desperate… chaser n memories of murder…called a friend to know the end…cud not control myself till d end.
6. at 70 plus, shyam benegal got the best punches and ashok mishra is super brilliant!
7. YRF got stars to sell, UTV has stories to tell.
8. failed to find any mindblowing movie ths year….last year it was diving bell and the butterfly…tht was some magic of cinema (or may be it was synecdoche new york, which i havent seen yet n dying to watch)!
9. break up can do wonders if u know where to look…
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/12/having_wonderful_time_wish_you.html
@Phoenixnu
“aamir khan stands tallest..last year he gave one tight slap to everyone,this year he fucked them in their own game…every1 can relax now.”
TOO GOOD !!!
GK
@PNu
“vinay pathak can be india’s philip syemour hoffman”
SO TRUE!
@ Krishna
Have u checked out the most anticipated album of the decade?
Axl Rose’s CHINESE DEMOCRACY?
I checked it out yesterday. Need to here a couple of times more. Also gotta check The Killers’ new one.
Here it CD, on streaming:
http://www.in.com/music/track-chinese-democracy-183837.html
@ mainak –
“@ Krishna
Have u checked out the most anticipated album of the decade?
Axl Rose’s CHINESE DEMOCRACY?”
Dude… Krisha was talking about the old album… and stop chasing him with the new stufff. Pandora does nto work in INDIA!!!
Ravptor
I know he is talking about old GnR.
But I didn’t wanna comment on ESL’s music on Rock On. I have done a post on that film already.
Ravptor again –
I was talking to Tejas about pandora. I don’t if he is in India or outside.
Whats wrong with both my questions to both of them??
@tushar
Thanks for CHINESE DEMOCRACY.
oHh u old chum… you should know by now… it’s called “Mainak Pulling” hehe…
I am kinda liking Chinese Democracy now… Tushar, post!
The year started on a good note. Chinese Democracy and The Killers – Day & Age, both good albums. I like the video of Human, grand canyons and shit. Good stuff.
Hey Mainak,
Great subject, good post. I second you robustly on the OLLO score. It’s just too amazing.
Among the books:
The World Is Not Enough – Patrick French
In The Woods – Tana French
The Ice Limit – Douglas Preston / Lincoln Child
Timeline – Michael Crichton
Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago – Tim Moore
Animal’s People – Indra Sinha
Tell No One – Harlan Coben
Shakespeare – Bill Bryson
The Judas Strain – James Rollins
The Cadillac Beach – Tim Dorsey
Nature Girl – Carl Hiaasen
A Prisoner of Birth – Jeffrey Archer
Music:
The Road to Escondido – Eric Clapton/J J Cale
OK – Talvin Singh
To Tulsa and Back – J J Cale
Professor Satchafunkilus and The Musterion of Rock – Joe Satriani
The Irish Tour – Rory Gallagher
Bring ‘Em In – Buddy Guy
The Greatest Hits – B B King
@Ravptor & Tushar
What is there to like about Chinese Democracy?
After taking 10 years he has created something so outdated its painfull. he could have created this album in a weeks time in 1995.
I liked the Title Track & If The World.
I like it.
@INCA
Is that list of all the books you read in 2008 or the books you recommend among many more that you read?
Check out Talvin’s A-Ha. I remember it as my fav Talvin album.
I love Talvin, Nitin Sawhney, Karsh Kale, Shakti, Chowta. Nothing like world music for reading alongwith.
@ tushar: i wud like to add abhijit pohankar… heard piya bawri?
Magik
Isnt that album from 2004? I remember tripping on it when i was in Bombay.
It was a great song.
@Tushar
Have you tried THIEVERY CORPORATION?
They are my fav World Music band. I forgot to mention their latest album RADIO RETALIATION in my post. Check them out.
http://hypem.com/search/Thievery%20Corporation/1/
here it is…
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=KvuKAig90XQ
yenjoy!
If you like ‘Thievery Corporation’, then you’ll love ‘Hooverphonic’ too.
Yes, I love that one, Magik. I had a compilation CD which had all these tracks. That was when I was introduced to Karunesh too.
@Shekhar Shimpi
checking out your Hooverphonic right now. Thanks for the reco…
Have you heard of Gotan Project? and Mo Horizons?
@mainak
My favorite ‘Hooverphonic song is ‘2Wicky’ from album’A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular’.
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and;no man; avent heard the bands you mention,
but I’ll check it out right away
Shekhar
Gotan Project’s LA VIGUELA is the one of the 10 best songs ever in the history of mankind.
2Wicky is just my kind of song. Rest of it is ok. But yeah 2Wicky is too sexy.
Arre Shimpiji
That last Stop Motion Video is a must see for you. I bet you already know its existence. I was blown by it.
Mainak,. I love LA VIGUELA,very inspiring,
(Thaught of french Animation films while listening)
Mainak, missed your Post#46
which StopMotion film man?
batao !!
Oh!! ya!
Got it,
I love it too
Hey Mainak,
Last year I forced myself to read a lot more than I heard and watched, so yes, that was a part of my reading list. I enjoyed most, but if I have to pick just one author it’ll have to be Tim Dorsey. His Torpedo Juice is excessively funny, wacked out. Very different, madcap sort of writing.
Talvin’s Ha remains a fierce favourite; it’s absolute top notch. In the same family, Midieval Punditz (Midieval Timez) is also worth a mention. This year, Smoke Signals by Ashutosh Pathak/Dhruv Ghanekar was also good.
Movies I didn’t get on to as most of them were from the PFC recommendation list, so there.
But again, I’ll have to come back to Oye Lucky Lucky Oye soundtrack; can’t get enough of it.
Line of the year?
Jeda apna munda hai na Lucky… single hai ke bachelor?
I like Midival Punditz. Need to get hold of Smoke Signals.
@INCA
I had discovered Midival Punditz from monsoon wedding. Thats when I went crazy on this Electronic Infian Fusion music. Started with Buddha Bar sesions on Manali. Thats when I left Arena Rock & Heavy Metal forever. Karunesh, Kars Kale, Talvin Singh.
There was acompilation CD of Asian Undeground called EASTERN UPRISING. It was the best. I don’t think you can get that CD anymore. Every song from that CD has ended up in movie OSTs.
I’m trying to find smoke signals online. Can anyone help me?
BTW
Ashutosh Pathak/Dhruv Ghanekar are the Fathers of Sneha & Amit Trivedi. Remember Bombay Boys. They did with Kaizad Gustad what Amit is doing right now. Its too bad there was no other director with a sense of experimenting during that time other than Kaizad.
I still rate the OST of BOOM as the best of our times.
Didn’t Dhruv compose Drona off-late? Bombay Boys was good, but it didn’t have more than 3-4 original songs in it. Boom, never heard.
Tejas
Boom was mainly done by Sandeep Chowta at the peak of his Lounge Music phase. Check out the song ZINDAGI by Sukhwinder. Its sad that not many people have heard that masterpiece. Buy the CD right away. its worth every penny.
He he, Mainak we are back at Boom again. I guess we praise it once every year.
Yes Tushar.
We have to give our regards to BOOM every year. Its really unfortunate how most people did not give it a try because of the silliness of the film.
Hey Tushar / Mainak,
I had also noticed Dhruv/Ashutosh’s work in Bombay Boys only. Their range simply shocked me. I was always on their trail post that but they weren’t doing much.
I decided to pick Smoke Signals after Rolling Stones (India) profiled it.
It’s available at the stores of Landmark and Planet M. I got it through E-bay, India. You can also try the website of Dhruv/Ashutosh’s recored label Blue Frog:
http://www.bluefrog.co.in
Hey Tushar / Mainak,
I had also noticed Dhruv/Ashutosh’s work in Bombay Boys only. Their range simply shocked me. I was always on their trail post that but they weren’t doing much.
I decided to pick Smoke Signals after Rolling Stones (India) profiled it.
It’s available at the stores of Landmark and Planet M. I got it through E-bay, India. You can also try the website of Dhruv/Ashutosh’s record label Blue Frog:
http://www.bluefrog.co.in
moinky – check out this karsh kale video. u’ll find a surprise there – look at whose playing bass.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/video/video.php?v=1021937603032&ref=share
Yeah they have been beefin for a longg time.