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GoMiCh, the Trinity
I had just finished my Class VIII examinations and was enjoying a break - not entirely well deserved as it turned out later when the results were declared. While I was revelling in, what I would later look back to and refer to as, my salad days (as Shakespeare almost stole my lines and wrote “when I was green in judgment, cold in blood”), the nation was going through, what an average writer would call, tumultuous times.
Mandal, till then the surname of that girl living next block with allegedly malleable morals, suddenly came to mean more to us. That a lot of young men fought over Mandal remained common between the girl and the Report. Mandir was no longer where Amitabh went to vent his spleen at the end of the movie. It now had terms like shilanyas and kar seva tagged with it. All in all, the kind of “nazuk haalat” of the “desh” on which Mehul Kumar built his career.
However, as an impressionable youth on whose shoulders the future of the country rested, I was quite oblivious to my surroundings. You see, I was in deep religious delirium in those days. Religious delirium, you ask? Yes!! I have often demonstrated my religious bent on these pages and my devotion to the trinity. And I thought it was time I come clean. Why should I shirk from professing my faith? To my Trinity – GoMiCh.
Ah! How the word come together to create a cosmic reverberation that uplifts the soul.
GoMiCh – that’s short for Govinda, Mithun and Chunky Pandey. And I remember distinctly, this devotion to this trinity (as a combination) started at around the times described above.
How the trinity came together in my mind is a story in itself! I remember the exact moment. I had recently taken to BP Double Bubble Gum, an iconic brand that along with the aforesaid Double Bubble Gum also provided you, the gummer, with a stamp-sized picture of film star. This allowed a lot of us to build up a collection and then indulge in trade thus foreshadowing our bad business acumen. One day, as I opened the wrapper to see who I have landed, I found myself staring at Chunky who had made such an impression on me that year in Khatron Ke Khiladi. What doubled the pleasure was there was a postal address mentioned at the back of the picture. You could send fan mails to Chunky on that address.
I will confess it was a slow summer. So, one afternoon, I took the 35 paise Inland Letter and wrote my first and only fan mail ever. To Chunky. What I wrote is immaterial. You still want to know. Ok! I think I sort of concluded the mail with a sentence that combined the names of his released movies and I felt extremely smart (something like yahan Aag hi Aag hai, par tum Khatron Ke Khiladi ho jo is Paap Ki Duniya mein Gunahon Ka Faisla sunayega – you get the picture). Anyway, it is not what I wrote that is important to the story, it is what I received a few weeks later. One afternoon, as I sat down at the videowallah to watch Jeet Hain Shaan Se, the postman passing by handed me a postcard. It was a typed response which went “Dear Fan, thanks etc. Please watch out for my forthcoming attractions Nakabandi and Gola Barood.” As I read this, Mithun and Govinda were reducing some economy-sized musclemen to pulp in Jeete Hain. Chunky’s response in one hand and eyes riveted on Govinda and Mithun. This was revelation time. The hair at the end of my arms stood up. There was a flash of lightening and I found myself traveling down a tunnel of white incandescent light. At the end of which, I discovered the Trinity and the words GoMiCh danced in front of my eyes. That is when I realized that no matter what happens, my life is not going to be the same again.
Mithun, the Creator, started it all with Gunmaster G9 in Suraksha and Waardat. A character which deserves a million sequels. By the time I had finished with Wanted, Karate, Disco Dancer and Boxer, there wasn’t anyone who could hold candle to His Incandescence. But Mithun wasn’t satisfied. He followed it up with Kasam Paida Karne Waale Ki, Avinash, Dance Dance, Waqt ki Awaaz, Jeete Hain Shaan Se and Commando. By the mid ’89, I was gasping for breath. Somewhere along the line he thought it was appropriate to win a few National Awards as well to keep the devotees in thrall. And when the going got tough in 90s with marriage videos and NRI romances ruling the roost, the Creator showed us the path with Hitler, Suraj, Chandaal and of course, Gunda.
See for yourself the origins of Mithun’s divinity here (title song Gunmaster G9)
While the Creator showed the path, Govinda, the Preserver, burst upon the scene with Love 86. In a short span of few years, he reassured us that while the Creator might run out of steam, he will continue to preserve the hallowed traditions. While he lit the late 80s sky with such gems like Zulm ki Hukumat (a film which will be avoided by future generations purely on its name, but, how can I explain to you that winter evening when after scoring the highest marks in Maths, I bought a One Rupee ticket and sat down to watch Govinda’s best performance ever), Hatya, Dariya Dil etc, it was in the early 90s that the Preserver, along with David Dhawan, turned to become the protectors of our sanskriti and sabhyata. From Raja Babu to Aunty No 1, Govinda made the 90s his own. And just when you thought, the Preserver was done for the day, he came back with Partner last year to remind us of his omnipresence. And you wonder, why RGV keeps those Govinda chants in Sarkar movies? Because, He preserves.
See the Preserver at his best here in a Superman outfit:
And here the Preserver on rasgulla, jalebis and Atom Bombs.
With 2 of the trinity establishing themselves in my life. I had only the Destroyer to look for. And I found him in Tezaab, Aag hi Aag, Paap Ki Duniya and Gunahon Ka Faisla. An actor who could do impossible roles in Gola Barood, Nakabandi (title song – Are you ready, naka bandi), Na-insaafi, Kohram and Zahreelay. Chunky Pandey!! After he was done with his dance of death in Bollywood, he decided to let himself loose on Bangladesh. A land that was accustomed to many a vagary of nature – cyclones, floods et al – didn’t know what hit them. Chunky became the byword for superstardom in the Bangla land before he returned as the mad cap scientist intent on destroying Bombay in Qayamat.
The Destroyer benignly flexing his muscles at his home (pls see around 2 mins into the video):
Destroyer in throes of temptation:
There you have it! My Trinity.
Poor man’s Amitabh – Mithun
Poor man’s Mithun – Govinda
Poor man’s Govinda – Chunky
Poor man’s Chunky – Itna gareeb bhi koi hai?
It’s 19 A.D today (my dates start from the day I had the revelation). And I look back with contentment of having spent the better part of these two decades in selfless devotion to thee, the holy Trinity.
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Subrat in crackling form as usual…!I remember watching many of Mithunda/Govinda/Chunky movies in the early nineties. Somebody in the colony would rent VCD/VHS cassette and then the whole gang of friends would be invited to watch. It was counted as betrayal if you didn’t invite anybody and decided to just enjoy it with only your family…
Subrat..what can I say..I bow before thee in obedience or some such activity..priceless, this is!
I think you are the only living person that I know who agrees with me that Zulm ki Hukumat was the “performance” by Shri Govinda!
You omitted Prabhuji’s (Mithun C) well advised forays in Bengali cinema in the later years of 19AD period!
Chunky’s most memorable turnout in 1989 as the lackey of Anil Kapoor in Tezaab had me buying tickets in black at a very worrisome movie hall in Alampur, near the bustling town of Uluberia in Howrah district.
My eyes glaze over in the joy that I have derived from those memories, alone in the city of Kolkata, doing dubious break shifts as a very junior executive in Park Hotel (we juniors cleared tables and piled the soda into the restaurant freezers all day), I got breaks from 3pm to 7pm and I used to practically run to make it Majestic, Globe, Paradise, Lighthouse, Roxy or Gem, wherever these miracles were screened to get myself transported away from the mortal drudgeries that I suffered. Even better that the tickets were 10, 15 and 25 only!
No matter what purists say, an Aankhen or a Gunahon ka Faisla still evokes deep seated emotions!!
The Trinity remained..even the girl friends changed (for I only spent on Rs. 3 chana bhaja)!!!
Subrat superb piece. For all my hostel days during school, my primary identity was being the biggest fan of Mithun Chakraborty within the premises. Like you, I even sent my one and only fan mail to him. Needless to say, the sole content of the letter was denigration of Mr. Bachchan, to whom Mithun da was considered to be a challanger. I wasn’t lucky enough to get back any reply though. I guess the creator was not as desperate as the destroyer.
superb !!!
brahmha vishnu mahesh teeno covered…
now a post on the legend from hell (the yama) rajnikant ..puhleeeeeez …
WASAN KAHAAN HAI TU ?? KYA FALTU POSTS PAR FALTU COMMENTS KARTA REHTA HAI ??? SUBBU KA GEM POST PADH YEH WAALA !!!
fantastic subrat…
this is the post of the month….
im still laughing at the poorman’s analogy…..
by the way did u check out chunky’s act in mumbai se aaya mera dost…ull surely laugh in disgust……
talk of mithu always reminds me of the scenes in chandaal (i think m not sure) where he rapes women in the grave….holy shit man…
expecting more such stuff from u subrat….
aah… saw the video of Gunmaster G9 after a loooooooooooooooooooooong time… Still remember watching Wardat on DD 3. On that matinee movie show (at 3, i think). sahi!!!
and ofc a hilarious post :)
KK naan late-aa vandalum latest-aa varuven…mind it…
awesome… yaar ye thoughts kaha se laate ho :)
well written
Poor man’s Amitabh – Mithun
Poor man’s Mithun – Govinda
Poor man’s Govinda – Chunky
Poor man’s Chunky – Itna gareeb bhi koi hai?
Superb!.
Some of the GOMICH movies I enjoyed in same era..
Mithun- Pragiyabadhdh, Ladaai, Bhrastachar, Paap ki kamaai, Gunahoon ka devtaa, shikari, Trinetra, Numbri aadmi, Roti ki keemat, Ilaaka…..
Govinda- Karz chukana hai, Bhabhi, Swarg, Pratiksha, Baaz, Brahma, jaisi karni waisi bharni, Dariya dil, Ghar ghar ki kahaani, Sindoor, Dadagiri….
Chunky- Kohraam, Kasak, Khilaaf, Policevaala, mitti aur sona, Ghar ka chirag, aaj ke shehenshah, Vishwatma, Rupye dus karod,…
oh, its a long list
hahahaha…ROFL!!! is there a way to rate 10 out of 5!!! Gomich ke bhakt ki jai ho, jai ho!!
Amazing amazing stuff!!
You should have mentioned the Teen Deviyaan who were paired with the Trinity - Neelam, Sonam, Kimi Katkar.
@Subrat,
Hillarious stuff. Hope this quality is resulted soon in to a wonderful book. Basic raw material of language and humour is absolutely ready and your fertile mind should search soon a genuine subject.
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you should have a valid degree in law also because trinity is going to face court martial when Chitragupta will read their sins and they will be found guilty to spoil or atleast degrade Hindi cinema in the phase when they were commercially successful and could have controlled their lust to do as many films as their secretaries could have remembered or their diaries could have contained.
Dharam ji and Jacky S too will have to face this case. Kadar Khan too will join this brigade. More or less all will have to spend few days in hell for their knowingly done crimes.
They will be found guilty on several grounds. They reduced to the level of low graded films in every aspect.
They became their own incarnation in a new and low valued times.
Hillarious will be scene when in court a person will call- Dharmendra hajir ho and he will be reprimanded for degrading his high level acting skills in cheap films made after mid 80s. as a punishment in next birth he will have to do a lot of efforts to gain good acting skills because in this life he insulted the god gifted skills for so many years.
Mithun’s case will be bit tough as his business minded approach spoiled the cinema after 1989-90. He will have to face poverty again in next birth so that his desire to earn more and more money is appeased.
Jacky will be punished to learn bad tricks from Mithun’s case and not to take lesson so that a standard could be maintained.
Films of those times played a great role in breaking the connection between cinema halls and good and regular audiences.
New audiences are always there to see any kind of cinema so false gods remain under illusion that they rule the world.
Itna gareeb bhi koi hai?
ab to sab taraf garibi hi garibi hai.
and we are living in the era where we have to face 4th or 5th generation of clones and even TV stars can feel some proud that they also have got clones.
We should ask now a genuine question that itni garibi mein koi amir bhi hai kya?
Hilarious stuff!
I actually saw Chunky on the first day of this year.
Dhanya’ ho gaya.
I was trespassing the property of Hotel Taj Goa, and there Vijay Mallya was barbecuing; standing next to him was Chunky Pandey. I really left like breaking into a jig singing Main Tera Tota Tu Meri Maina. :)