I saw several movies over this weekend...partly because i was bored and partly because a severe constipation and a hand injury has reduced me to a bag of bones. The movies were all hindi movies, drawn from Prateep's collection.
I began with Parineeta, a movie which I have already seen and appreciated. The print was bad but the music was good.
NExt came Umrao Jaan, a classic which I ve always longed to see. The movie is elegantly made, and provides deep insight into Lucknow"s lavish mujra lifestlye of the late 19th century. The movie was particularly dear as it was in urdu - a language i ve always had a fascination with. The movie is as rich as Mughal-e-Aam or Devdas and only lack of fancy characters undermine its popularity.
I followed it up with Maqbool, an underworld movie a class apart from the likes of Satya and Chhal(both my favourites). Again, the movie revolved around the muslim world. The movie has a brialliant star cast in Om puri, Naseerudin shah, Irfan Khan, Pankaj Kapur , Tabu - all accomplished actors. The script is just brilliant and the performances by Om puri and Naseerudin shah have simply doubled my respect for them.
I saw half of No Entry till I got bored of Fardeen Khan. Movies like these are partly responsible for my lack of interest in Hindi movies over the past 2 years.
I ended the day with Zakhm which I ve always remembered as Ajay Devgan's finest movie and a national award winner. Everything in the movie - the script, the dialogues, the direction - can be described as ordinary. What stands apart is the acting, and I won"t be surprised if Devgan won a National award for his performance here.
More later....I just drank a glass of Garlic water, another of the thousand remedies suggested to me by well-wishers. This reminds of "Chikitsa ka chakkar" by "Bedhab banarasi", a beautiful vyangya katha in my hindi textbook of class 10th. I hope i do not end up like the poor narrator in the story.
I began with Parineeta, a movie which I have already seen and appreciated. The print was bad but the music was good.
NExt came Umrao Jaan, a classic which I ve always longed to see. The movie is elegantly made, and provides deep insight into Lucknow"s lavish mujra lifestlye of the late 19th century. The movie was particularly dear as it was in urdu - a language i ve always had a fascination with. The movie is as rich as Mughal-e-Aam or Devdas and only lack of fancy characters undermine its popularity.
I followed it up with Maqbool, an underworld movie a class apart from the likes of Satya and Chhal(both my favourites). Again, the movie revolved around the muslim world. The movie has a brialliant star cast in Om puri, Naseerudin shah, Irfan Khan, Pankaj Kapur , Tabu - all accomplished actors. The script is just brilliant and the performances by Om puri and Naseerudin shah have simply doubled my respect for them.
I saw half of No Entry till I got bored of Fardeen Khan. Movies like these are partly responsible for my lack of interest in Hindi movies over the past 2 years.
I ended the day with Zakhm which I ve always remembered as Ajay Devgan's finest movie and a national award winner. Everything in the movie - the script, the dialogues, the direction - can be described as ordinary. What stands apart is the acting, and I won"t be surprised if Devgan won a National award for his performance here.
More later....I just drank a glass of Garlic water, another of the thousand remedies suggested to me by well-wishers. This reminds of "Chikitsa ka chakkar" by "Bedhab banarasi", a beautiful vyangya katha in my hindi textbook of class 10th. I hope i do not end up like the poor narrator in the story.
posted by Sahil @ 5:09 PM
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6 Comments:
well i remember the author names because we were made to remember them. The first question for any passage was, ' From which chapter has this passage been taken? Name the author and his other famous works?'
This is class X for sure. I was in ICSE!!
I think the real name of Bedhab banarasi was 'Krishan Dev Prasad Gaud'. He kept this pseudonym to go with his image of a hasya kavi !
gud dat u guys remember dat much..
yeah, d story chikits ka chakkar was extremely hilarious yaar ,.:)
ManV is right and so is Sahil. In CBSE curriculum it was in class 6th/7th but may be in ICSE it was in 10th. nonetheless, the story was really hilarious. I also remember one by the title "Cycle ki sawari". does anyone remember the name of the author for that?
Does anyone know or have a e-book copy of Chikitsa ka chakkar?? Please i nedd this urgently...
Can somebody provide me with this story? E book, pdf, even a word doc would do... I really need this one.. Thanks..
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