Kkkhushi Mogambo ki
Dear Filmi, the headline doesn’t mean nothing. Don’t waste your precious time pondering over its profoundity. It’s not. It’s pure drivel. It sounds kool & all that, but what does it mean? Mundu (ZILCH). So without taking up more space in your RAM / ROM / DOS, I come straight to the point. Who let the dawgs out? Well how the heck would you know. OK, I will ask a question that is more politikally korrect in nature. Meri bhains ko danda kyon maara? Stumped? Me too! OK fine, before you draw your swords, & sue me for violating your sanity with such atrocity, here you go – Happy New Year.
No, even that wasn’t the purpose of this post. In the past few days, since Anurag kashyap wrote about the genesis of Dev.D, a lot of dirt was raised. Dirt would be a understatement. It was a bloody SHIT-FEST to say the least. It happens on & off when AK or someone else of due-importance comes out with some worthwhile filmi dope at PFC. This is where the relevance of my headline & the intro paragraph kicks in & how…
I dunno where they come from, what they do for a living, do they like beer or vodka (that’s irrelevant, sorry) what are the faces behind their skreen-names… but they loom large. If you are fokat enough to check PFC archives, you will realize that there is a formidable bunch of such pretentious filmis who will outrage the mood of the post, the author and everyone in general and take up huge amounts of webspace.
I was discussing this furore with a fellow-filmi and this is what he said (uncensored) – “They could be a bunch of bitter old farts who couldn’t get laid or get their films made, so they take it out by spewing this gibberish bullshit on PFC time & again.” With due regard, an almost valid argument. Or may be not. But it was so hillarious, I mean those comments going back & forth. Each sounding stupendously profound, but when you inch towards the end, what does it mean – Mundu!
This is my humble request to one & all at PFC, let’s make the most of what we are getting at PFC. Let’s learn & share our passion for cinema here. We can save the pretentious name-dropping & other ‘droppings’ for some other sites where it’s a norm. A majority of us here at PFC are the greedy-hungry knowledge-seekers, so it makes perfekt sense to stick to the rules / hygiene. Take what you want & ignore what you don’t. It would be unreasonable to assume that all of a sudden there would be a revolution & the face of Indian cinema will change (we still hope).
Anyways… now that the message is delivered, I would go back to my beer & see another year fly past. So many resolutions that went outta the window, so many jobs left undone… too much dust. Time to get my act together and WRITE. Hope 2009 brings glory & cheer to all fellow-filmis & brighten up their lives! Keep rocking guys, stay filmi. And while you are at it, let’s make some films, shall we?
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
Mundu! Ha – great word, Magik. I’ve only heard it in Jhankar Beats previously.
“We can save the pretentious name-dropping & other ‘droppings’ for some other sites where it’s a norm”
That’s a great line. In the meantime, let’s discuss the ontological existentialism inherent in the title of your post hee hoo ha ha ha :D
Apun ka philosophy simple hai re, dil ki baat suno, agar tere dil to pikture accha lagta hai, to dekho. Yeh ontology, existentialism, New Age, Old Age, apun ki bas ki baat nahi hai.
Khao, daaru piyo aur pikture ka mast mazaa le lo. Yappa
Magik-yaar tune phir se meri mooh ki baat cheen li.There’s already so much of negativism outside with the recession & all that.PFC is one way atleast I try to maintain my sanity.So lets keep rocking – here’s to a very Happy & Prosperous New Year to one & all.Yeah let the spirit flow- let the music start and yes lets talk & make movies in 2009.
@ Kenny: bro, please spare me the *&^%^*ISMS atleast till i get my refill! Mundu is the jhankar beats legacy that i still carry with me… where is sujoy ghosh? why is alladin taking so looooong? answers anyone?
@ RS: true. so true.
@ Sethu: fuck recession. cheers to PFC yaar!
ab to shaam ko jamke peena padega & I have a telugu potboiler to watch tonite ( Nagarjuna’s king).so yes cheers to PFC!!!
all else’s fine, but what’s your mise-en-scene? Let me guess? Mundu!?!
@ abhi: haule haule chadh rahi hai bhai… kahe kar rahe ho intellectual atyachaar?
Whats mise en scene? I know only of bisibele baath and some Yenne.
@ RS: haha. damn, but bisibele doesnt go wid my beer. fuck mise-en-scene! LOL!!!
I guess now for every post,we need to have a statutory warning
“Too much thinking is injurious to the health of the brain”
Cool! Another Jhankar Beats fan around! God knows how many times I’ve watched it. How did you find Home Delivery? I haven’t seen it yet.
Watch Home Delivery. Funny movie. Better than Jhankar Beats in all departments due to better production value. Boman Irani is hilarious as Michael. Every-time I say ‘How’ it reminds me of him and this film. Ayeshia Takia is gorgeous. Vivek Oberio’s best fillum after Company. A complete typical (musical) romantic – comedy entertainer. And its got Saurabh Shukla.
@ RS: valid point. may be such posts cud start with – TAKE LITE.
@ Kenny: Bro, even i have lost kount now… hey i loved home delivery. gawd knows y it didn’t work for others. May be it cud be about the absence of a brilliant music a la jhankar. wudever.. tell me wutz the dope on alladin…
@ HG: Dunno y am i missing out on the musik part of home delivery… damn, will watch it again… Certainly VO’s best. Saw Mahima Chaudhry at her lustiest best. KJo… ahem… no komments!
Who let this dog out first? (sorry couldn’t help that, dog being a euphemism for the shit doled out)
the first four paragraphs were god knows what in the name of an article only saved by a request (well meant) for a climax! Some people’s outpour no matter how unjustified to you DID NOT warrant a post that too from a featured author, damn. At least they were polite, articulate in their arguments without resorting to profanities when they were attacked. Rahi baat pretense ki, name dropping ki, we will leave it that.. LEAVE THEM AND MOVE AHEAD
The weekend warranted a nice warm positive post ,anything filmy, but this comfortable convenient piece of shit knowing very well the positive response it will garner and again shit loads of attack and counterattack. kya mila yeh likh kar?! anything gained and said apart from what has been said before? Saala subah subah mood kharaab kar diya?!
Ratnakar, I will sue you next time you talk of raagi mudde, bisi bele baath… gareeb logon ka mazaak mat udao yaar. Every time you smear yenne on your mudde or sip/slurp the curd chutney (that is served at some places), let the place around you run out of drinking water.
@magik
I was also a silent witness to that bloody and thrilling debate(or fight) between AK and his gang and three small guys.Even though I didn’t support them,they did raise some valid points and these type of debates should be there and should be encouraged otherwise i feel democratic nature of PFC will be lost
@ SKTK: Sawry if u didn’t like it. wish u recuperate soon and have a great year ahead. gawd bless.
@ Sharath: u r right bro. i hope we have debates that lead to something…