A glimpse of India.
For those not from England, Australia and erstwhile English colonies, cricket is a game which looks like baseball, and is played in two modes. The shorter mode, is played over 9 hours. The longer version, and the real cricket, is played over 5 days. Amazing right?
Well, yesterday an awesome test was played between England and Australia. And it will go down as one of the 3 best tests I have ever witnessed. The rivalry between England and Australia in the "Ashes" test series is matched only by the rivalry between India and Pakistan encounters and frankly, it crosses all the limits of decency and logic. Cricket is religion in India and cricketers alonside actors, the demi-Gods.
If an Indian is not watching cricket, he is watching a movie, and if he is not watching a movie either, he is dead. Out of 800+ movies that India churns out every year, 99% is crap. From the remaining 1%, some are good, some are very good, and once in a blue moon, a great movie comes out. This year, has seen a refreshing change. 3 movies, downright commercial, came without a song. The common thread was Amitabh Bachchan. Those who do not know him, he is the God of all gods in India. A tremendous actor, he is hugely popular in the third world countries and in African countries. For instance, in Egypt, you get a discount if you are an Indian because you are from HIS country. Militants, and Amitabh is not a muslim, free journalists in Afganistan and Iraq because they are from HIS country or they know him as journalists. Part of the reason why I say, BBC/CNN reporters have no idea of the ground situation in Iraq/afganistan.
Food, Indians love it. Eat to please self, dress to please others. Well I do not know about the other part, Eating part is followed to the hilt.
Well, yesterday an awesome test was played between England and Australia. And it will go down as one of the 3 best tests I have ever witnessed. The rivalry between England and Australia in the "Ashes" test series is matched only by the rivalry between India and Pakistan encounters and frankly, it crosses all the limits of decency and logic. Cricket is religion in India and cricketers alonside actors, the demi-Gods.
If an Indian is not watching cricket, he is watching a movie, and if he is not watching a movie either, he is dead. Out of 800+ movies that India churns out every year, 99% is crap. From the remaining 1%, some are good, some are very good, and once in a blue moon, a great movie comes out. This year, has seen a refreshing change. 3 movies, downright commercial, came without a song. The common thread was Amitabh Bachchan. Those who do not know him, he is the God of all gods in India. A tremendous actor, he is hugely popular in the third world countries and in African countries. For instance, in Egypt, you get a discount if you are an Indian because you are from HIS country. Militants, and Amitabh is not a muslim, free journalists in Afganistan and Iraq because they are from HIS country or they know him as journalists. Part of the reason why I say, BBC/CNN reporters have no idea of the ground situation in Iraq/afganistan.
Food, Indians love it. Eat to please self, dress to please others. Well I do not know about the other part, Eating part is followed to the hilt.
posted by F-ftOS at 5:22 PM
7 Comments:
i watched the indian oscars in mauritius at xmas. they love amitabh bachchan dont they? is he the good looking guy with grey beard?
did u see vastu shatra? so scary. really ace horror film.
Indian oscars.... lol if one can call them that... They are stupid awards given to stupid movies. But I am trying to remember when did they take place in Mauritius? There are more than 6 Hindi movie awards each year.
Vastu Shastra.... I have seen it in bits and pieces. Yes it was much better than the horror flicks that the previous generation (Ramsay brothers)used to give us.
A 9 hour game of Cricket.....wow!
Never heard about the dude, guess I'd better find myself one of his movies...his are not the musical movies I hate, are they?
Icy, did I tell you that the longer version is played for 8 x 5 = 40 hours? ;)
Dcver, chances are you wont find many Indian movies with no songs. This year has brought a refreshing change and 3 movies were without a single song, and all 3 were his. I did recommend "BLACK" to you in one of your blogs. Here is a link for more on black. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375611/
But also go through this link
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/programs/4-2005/ab05.htm
sorry, didn't realize this guy was one of the actors in Black, this probably makes me a heretic...defying the demi-god
Well, just like everywhere else, India has produced crap movies. And brilliant ones.
I think the song and dance, if used properly, well placed in the plot, can work really well. If you read other people's lit, you will see a similar technique.
I've seen some amazing films coming out from India.
I don't know if cricket in India is the same as here. Here it's food, community spirit, everybody talking to everybody, horns abd conch shells blowing, people dancing, food...it is WONDERFUL.
I dream of any team creaming the Aussie cricket team into the ground. Yayyyyy.
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