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Dev.D Music Album Soundtrack and Review

04 November 2008
Late afternoon in Bangalore. Cloudy outside. The world has just woken up to the sound of ‘Emosanal Atyachar’ and the buzz can’t get any bigger with Pintoo Meena from Sikar, Rajasthan, Animesh Pandey from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh and R.V. Natarajan from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu all resorting to incessant, tax-free use of the phrase, on/in reference to all forms of humanity surrounding them – parents, girlfriends, relatives, nobodies, random passers-by/passer-byes/passers-byes on the street, the random guy at the cyber café, the sexy elder sister of the kitaabi keeda in class, bade papaji, college warden, and the friendly neighborhood paanwaala.
EA, as analysts on NDTV Profit suggest, will soon replace all other similar sounding EA’s. Jeeye to jeeye kaise soon to be replaced by EA to EA kaise, all cool kids in college highly suspected of using EA to maximum benefit, the focus …

iView Author: SATYENDRA JHA (Pune, India)
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I have been a long admirer of PFC, and have been contributing to the various discussion-forums on & off. The sheer magnitude at which the topics are looked into with an in-depth analysis, and the sweet-sour (but always well-meaning) comments that follow have always fascinated me no end.
Upon learning that almost all the ‘usual suspects’, who are the major contributors to these free-flowing & insightful views, are professionals engaged in some other field but are passionate about the ‘cinema’, brought in me a desire to write something that is close to my heart, and to kill two birds with one stone, so to say… One, fulfil my long-cherished dream of actually contributing to the world of cinema, and two, to get recognition on this …

Edit Post: I didn’t want to write on this movie, as a lot had already been said and discussed here. But, it was hard to resist myself.

Yes. The times are surely changing. And for the better. Dibakar Banerjee’s new offering sweeps you off your feet. First of all, Oye Lucky.. is not a comedy in its entirety, it is a fantastic take on the present society, people’s hollowness, the despair of the middle class, the doublestandards of the people, the desperation to be known, and hence, the fascination with media. And a million littlethings. It is about life, and why it doesn’t appear in monochrome. It is about desperately trying to cling on to certain things, but, like sand, everything slips out of hand. But, still running after them, and even foolishly trying to buy them with money.

I don’t know Punjabi. But, We have all seen numerous Punjabi families on screen. The affable …

We all work hard for our money. At least some of you do.

I don’t believe in guilting people into giving to charity, so I won’t ask you to support good cinema. And I certainly won’t use the trope of paisa vasool; money buys what you want her to buy.

She makes the world go around, about that there is no doubt. Tis love that makes this place bearable. One can’t buy love (at least not the kind worth arguing with into old age), but you can sure as hell try stealing.

And so sets out Lucky. To win a gullfraynd.

***SPOILER ALERT - THERE ARE NO SPOILERS HERE***

The film starts with Lucky Abhay, waiting to appear in court, with his loot on display, among which is a Pomeranian that runs …

Heart rate. Check. Pulse Rate. Check. Cause after watching these videos they may just shoot through the roof! Part One shows the hilarious three calls Dibakar made to Paresh, Abhay Deol perfecting the art of jumping walls… Part 2 starts with a startling statement from Paresh Rawal followed by Neetu Chandra, and above all Sneha Khanwalakar the music director showing videos of her research that she did in the interiors of Haryana and Punjab!

For Hi-Res (fast internet connections) click: Part 1 and Part 2

For slow net connections click YouTube Part 1 and YouTube Part 2

Nikal ja saamne se nahin to maar dalunga!

Thus gentle words of endearment did Paresh Rawal speak to his make up man of eight years on the first morning the beard found his cheeks on the sets of Oye Lucky.

The beard was a problem. Paresh Rawal hates putting on a false beard. His skin can’t take it. He can’t talk. He shuts off. He hates growing one even more, and even if he did grow one, by the time he would grow one the size we needed we would all have reached dotage.

As soon as the beard was fixed, the generally happy, relaxed mood of the set changed. We had become used to a Paresh who was easy, patient, chilled, forever on the sets, standing at his mark happily even between lighting adjustment, benevolently chiding the crew to get …

UTV Motion Pictures is hosting a special preview of “Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!” on Monday, November 24th at 7:00pm at New York University Cantor Film Centre. This is a free screening open to everybody.

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New York City, New York 10003
(212) 998-4100

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Starring Abhay Deol, Paresh Rawal in a triple role amongst others in a splendid ensemble cast, the film is directed by the critically acclaimed director of “Khosla ka Ghosla” Dibakar Banerjee.

Inspired by the incredible true story of Lucky Singh, an extremely charismatic and fearless confidence man and thief who socialized with the rich, famous and influential …

O Boy!

UPDATED: Included Hi-Res Superchor Promo
It’s out! …

And…
Click here for the zip pow zing theatrical trailer

Tauba tera jalwa
Tauba tera pyaar
Tera emotional atyachaar

YES IT IS, but before we move on to that, allow me to inflict upon thee some “emotional atyachaar”!

Love it or hate it, No Smoking has been one of the most discussed and debated film all over the blogosphere for the last one year, and continues to be so and Anurag Kashyap is here to stay. And if the trailer of his latest film is anything to go by, the stay is going to be a rocking affair for film buffs around India.

DEV.D, based on characters from Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s classic Devdas is as far detached from the book as the characters are from sainthood. In Anurag Kashyap’s own words he has used Devdas as an adjective and not as a work of literature or cinema; it’s a look at relationships through the phenomenon that is Devdas.

Abhay Deol, who also came …

There are so many reference points for ‘Punjabi’ in films. You tend to go about it stereotypically. Dhaba. Butter Chicken. Lassi. Aloo da paratha. Truck drivers. Jalandhar. Patiala. Phagwada. And so on.

The question is, what defines it? The culture, the language, the mannerisms, the way of life… and the music and dance that finds itself in an exhortation of life. We have seen umpteen films on Punjabi culture, mostly taking Punjabi as a fallback and moving on with whatever story they got, with a modest dose of naach-gaana, bhangra et al. sometimes the film goes awry and the director thinks ‘Punjabi!’ and lo and behold you get yourself a dhamaka item number. Universally acceptable oft-pointless song and dance. Oye balle oye. Bhangra paao ji paaji, giddha paao ni kudiyon.

Let’s take the discussion further. Punjabi pop. Daler Mehndi. Malkit Singh. London Brigade. You think of the words Billo, Jugni, …