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Some genius mind has written/said

“ Shabd to shor hain tamasha hai,
Maun hee prem ki bhasha hai ”

[ Spoken words are nothing but exhibition of a noise,
Silence is the real language of love ]

A Poet has written

You smiled,
You did not talk to me,
But I felt that
I was waiting for long
for this moment only

Another brilliant and highly constructive mind has mentioned a beautiful thought

“ Where love exists, there silence seems very natural and joyous. When it is a matter
of loving someone silently then there is no comparison to this feeling of calmness.
Does there exist any desire to say something while looking lovingly at the lover ? ”

Love can not be explained in words. Recipie of love can not be published. When no language was here …

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(Mumbai, India )

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Indian Cinema is LHS +

…i.e. Lead Hero Syndrome. Kamal Hassan’s latest release, Dashavataram, once again brought the epidemic to fore.

The disease however is an age old one and heroes, more so superstars have an extremely high rate of susceptibility.

So what’s Dashavataram about? If you think it’s about some undercover agent, some temple priest or even the costliest epic ever produced in India, you are still way off the mark. It is simply this – Kamal Hassan’s acute denial of ageing. He contracted the virus a while back; it’s just that the effects are more visible and pronounced today. There are many expressions of this syndrome, Kamal Hassan’s illness took the ego-trip route. Even in the near past, in films like Hey Ram, one could see the actor’s overwhelming urge to hog each and every frame …

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Amanda Sodhi

(Washington, DC/USA )

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amandasodhi[at]gmail[dot]com

On-Screen Dads

As always, June features Father’s Day—while you are busy honoring and paying tribute to your daddy dearest, let’s also take a quick look at some of the top Bollywood actors who have portrayed the role of a father on-screen (list in no particular order, and, no, this list is NOT comprehensive).

1. Anupam Kher—Anupam Kher certainly knows how to excel in the role of a father. Whether it be Khosla Ka Ghosla!, Chaahat, Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain or Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge he has always given his on-screen children reason to sing “Mera Daddy Cool Cool Cool!”

2. Alok Nath—Hum Aapke Hain Koun…!, Hum Saath-Saath Hain, Pardes, Taal and Vivah—bechaara Alok is an actor who always seems to get stuck with the role of a sensitive and worried father.

3. Amitabh Bachchan—Now here is a …

Some time ago a famous Director who has earned his reputation as an intellectual director also, said, during a private talk with someone, while asked to give his take on two actresses, that he can not have a conversation with a certain famous actress as she is too dumb for that.

Its immaterial who he was and about whom he had said but important thing is this that a wise director thought in those terms.

Nevertheless his sayings gave push to an interesting topic.

Being a director he needed an intellectual actress on sets, who could talk on any topic under the sun with a good wisdom but who could not bring life and true justice to the character given to her or he needed an actress who might not be thoroughly intellectual in real life but who could make her character alive on screen?

What a director demands and what …

He was trembling, no shivering– no, no quivering– no,no shaking !..“Moss, I am leaving ! Moley toh, idhar bahut risk ho gaya hai!! Mete, ye shahar ab rehne kay liye theek nahin!!!”

I was wondering at his nervousness but wondered more about the gibberish he was mumbling..And then he expressed his real fears..He was earlier scared by Raj Thackeray’s tirade against North Indians especially UPites and Biharis..But now he was completely terrorized after Uddhav Thackeray joined in the turf war by blasting anything and everything pronounced with letter B ! Then it dawned upon me what he meant actually ( Boss, I am leaving! Boley toh, idhar bahut risk ho gaya hai!! Bete, ye shehar ab rehne kay liye theek nahin !!!) .

Though he was from Punjab he was paranoid..He had this nagging feeling that the virus could spread..I tried to allay his apprehensions but he was unmoved.

Like a subprime …

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Nirad B. Bhattacharjee
(Mumbai, India)
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k niradbaran [At]gmail [Dot]com

Always Being Born

The Indian new wave started almost a decade later than the Italian new wave with Ray’s ‘Pather Panchali’.

This film ignited the imagination of a wave of budding filmmakers. Two other Bengali directors followed Ray and soon they became the famous new wave Bengal trio – the other two were Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen.
Ray was the most feted of the three and received almost all-important recognitions including the Lifetime Achievement Academy award. Ghatak has been acknowledged as the eccentric genius – the one who broke all possible rules of the film book to create his masterpieces. Posthumously his work became the cynosure of all film institute students. Mrinal Sen, …