It is fashionable to bash our media but shouldn’t we be grateful to them and not just for the entertainment they provide.
After all, what did we have before this media. What chance would Natha farmer have in the good old days of Doordarshan. Chetan Bhagat says that the Star World generation is being led by Doordarshan generation. He is implying that it was boring ( I guess); but more than boring it was heavily censored. Something like the Harshad Mehta scandal would get a tempered down 30 second coverage while Narsimha Rao’s visit to a local school village where he inaugurated some Gandhi Yojana will get 3 minutes. Because Doordarshan was the monopoly supplier, and it was controlled by the reigning powers in Delhi, you would only get to see what the government wanted you to see. continue reading…
I wrote a blog post on this movie some time back. I think it did not go down well with people. Well my fault partly, I think I did not explain myself properly.
Another one of those movies, where a white Caucasian comes to India and is completely baffled. In this case, he is not a tourist in India but on a corporate mission – something he was manipulated into doing by his slime-ball boss. Apart from the obnoxious and oversimplified stereotyping of Indian characters that is a usual in such movies , another thing that struck me was that they are actually giving us Indians way too much credit at many places. 
I have been having a writer’s block (or a blogger’s block) . So, to get out of the rut, I have decided to post some delightful quotes from Woody Allen movies. For some reason they are wanton , risqué and lewd. One would imagine that to get over a writer’s block I will need all the blood to reach my head, but whatever.
Due to certain circumstances I had to watch 2 hours of Ekta Kapoor type soaps for two consecutive days. Now I tried to be polite and managed to keep my mouth shut most of the time, so that I do not offend the people whose lives are revolving around these stories.There was one particular soap on Jhansi Ki Rani. They have taken the story and given it their soap treatment and it wasn’t the worst of the lot. But I was wondering at the cartoonishly evil portrayal of the East Indian company official in the show. 
Woody has forever been pondering over some very important quuestions in his movies. Like the role of chance, meaning of life, existence of god, what women want, why men cheat, why women cheat, does guilt follow murder and so on and so forth. This movie which is the last one Woody Allen has made, as of yet, tries to present his answers. And some answers they are. 
So Ekta Kapoor got tired of being made fun of. It must be getting hard for her to defend her “work” in those elite parties. She can possibly say – what I do in selling my saas bahu soaps is not any different from selling Coca Cola. Its called capitalism. Or she can say – if it is so bad why are there so many people watching it. Or she can retort with – don’t like it ,then don’t watch it. But she knew none of those arguments are cutting any ice with anyone. So apparently, she decided to put her money behind a movie that will be so fringe, so bold and so jarring, that it will make all those sophistoes, pee in their pants. 
So, Saint Valentine day massacre is here again. All you husbands, lovers , boyfriends and wannabe’s would be forced, coerced or manipulated into buying gifts. Or maybe you are aware that women feel enormous pressure to give away their modesty once they have accepted an expensive gift and want to try out that theory. Whatever be the reasons, many of you would be hunting for gifts in the world which is truly the devils workshop – the fashion world. You would come across this high end luxury brand – chanel and would silently curse the company and buy one of its product. 
