Thursday, June 28, 2012

Kabootar

खाना खाने का भी एक ढंग होता  है , देखते है कोई एक हाथ से खाता है तो कोई दो हाथों से | मैंने बहुतों को देखा है , कुछ करीने से खाते है तो कुछ घिनौने से | बचपन में माँ डांटा करती थी , सर पर हाथ रख कर नहीं खाना चाहिए , मनहूसियत  बसती है | बहुतों को छुरी- कांटे से खाने में न तो मज़ा आता है ना ही तृप्ति मिलती ही | एक दिन ऐसे ही ऑफिस कैफेटेरिया में हमसब बैठ कर खाना खा रहे थे , विकट भी साथ था | हमेशा की तरह सबसे बड़ा थाली भर कर बैठ गया | थोड़ी देर बाद हमने देखा की , उसने अपना बायाँ हाथ कान पर रख, दुसरे हाथ से खा रहा था | नज़ारा तो हंसनीय था ही , उसको और मजेदार बनाने के लिए मैंने पुछा - "क्या हुआ , ऐसे क्यूँ खा रहा है "?

इसके पहले विकट कुछ बोलता , हमारे मित्र ने कहा -"यह कबूतर है , इसीलिए "| "एक हाथ से अपनी इज्ज़त बचा रहा है |"
गौर कीजियेगा - हाल फिलहाल में एक बहुचर्चित सिनेमा आई है , गैंग्स ऑफ़ वास्सेपुर , जिसका बहुत ही मशहूर डायलोग है -" ये वासेपुर है , यहाँ कबूतर भी एक्के पंख से उड़ता है और दुसरे से अपना इज्ज़त बचाता है "
जाहिर है की यह डायलोग यहाँ फिट बैठता है |

मैंने आगे कहा - "अच्छा तो तुम्हारी इज्ज़त तुम्हारी कान है "
विकट शर्माते हुए कान खुजाने लगा |

Saturday, June 23, 2012

My Top 50 Movies - Last Decade (2002-2012) Bollywood

My Top 50 Movies - Last Decade (2002-2012)

year
Name
Director
2012
Paan Singh Tomar
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Gangs of Wasseypur I & II
Anurag Kashyap
2011

Saheb Biwi aur Gangster
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Rockstar
Imtiaz ali
2010
Ishqiya
Abhishek Chaubey
The Japanese Wife
Aparna sen
2009
Dev.D
Anurag Kashyap
Gulaal
Anurag Kashyap
2008
Aamir
Raj Kumar Gupta
Mumbai Meri Jaan
Nishikant Kamat
Sarkar Raj
RGV
2007
Bheja Fry
Sagar Ballary
Chak De India
Shimit Amin
Cheeni Kum
R. Balki
Johnny Gaddar
Sriram Raghavan
Life in a Metro
Anurag Basu
Manorama Six Feet Under
Navdeep Singh
Nishabd
RGV
Taare Zameen Par
Aamir Khan
Ek Chalis Ki Last Local
Sanjay Khanduri
2006
Omkara
Vishal Bhardwaj
Dor
Nagesh Kukunoor
Khosla Ka Ghosla
 Dibakar Banerjee
Rang De Basanti
 Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Bas Ek Pal
Onir
2005
Black*
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Black Friday
Anurag Kashyap
Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi
Sudhir Mishra
Iqbal
Nagesh Kukunoor
Page 3
Madhur Bhandarkar
Sarkar
RGV
Sehar
 Kabeer Kaushik
Parineeta
 Pradeep Sarkar
2004
Ab Tak Chhappan
Shimit Amin
Chameli
Sudhir Mishra
Hyderabad Blues 2
Nagesh Kukunoor
Maqbool
Vishal Bhardwaj
Raincoat
Rituparno Ghosh
2003
Bhoot
RGV
Darna Mana Hai
RGV
Ek Hasina Thi
Sriram Raghavan
Gangaajal
Prakash Jha
Haasil
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Joggers Park
 Anant Balani
Matrubhoomi: A Nation Without Women
Manish Jha
Pinjar
 Chandra Prakash Dwivedi
2002
Aankhen
 Vipul Amrutlal Shah
Company
RGV
Devdas
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
The Legend of Bhagat Singh
 Rajkumar Santoshi


The Bold and Underlined ones are My Selected Top 10. One Analysis shows that 9 out of 10 are either by RGV or more recently Anurag Kashyap. Only exception is Imtiaz Ali for Rockstar and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra for Rang De Basanti.

While Vishal Bhardwaj and AR Rahman stood out among many good Music directors. Special mention to new music director Sneha Khanwalker for some amazing music in Gangs of Wasseypur I and II. Not to forget Amit Trivedi who has given some good songs including Udaan(not in the list, just missed the Top 50 slot) and  Dev D.

While Gulzar leads the lyrics department , and quite amazingly he does well with both Vishal Bhardwaj and AR  Rahman. 




Gangs of वासेपुर - An Epic Saga of Revenge

Violence and revenge are weak words when compared to Gangs of Wasseypur. Wasseypur is a part of current town, Dhanbad in Bihar where this saga of revenge unfolds through the generations. Anurag Kashyap has done research on smallest narration and made this epic closest to reality Bollywood has ever made. The story is loosely based on real incidents but if you consider the flow of events, the way it unfolds, it is bound to become a cult. The silver screen cannot be real than this.
Anurag Kashyap After DevD, Gulal and Black Friday has done all the peers proud by GoW. The story narrated by Piyush mishra was an excellent choice. From Train Robberies to Coal mafias, to Fish market, to land sharks to Scrap kingpins, the small hamlet has evolved into a great town along with the rivalries. The growth was linear and Dons were not shown like king-size. They were real, with real fights and the one with grows with time. They even had their share of Libidos and feudal cultural drops. Right from Kutta (country guns) to Beef market, so surreal and raw that one could turn their stomach out. The movie set the expectations right after first 5 second, of how much blood and gore was well below what you have dreamed.

The ensemble cast and its choice was the key to success of this movie. Even the not so important casts were detailed much. The bang was so stereophonic it could give one hell of goosebumps. Movie starts with crimson burned train robberies and run out of wasseypur.  Jaideep Ahlawat's coal fight was one of the best directed fist-fight, while Pitush mishra self punishment was something unheard of. The Birth of Protagonist Sardar Khan (Manoj Bajpayee) , still hard to digest. Where the mother dies due to heavy bleeding but the father is informed about a beautiful son she gave before loosing herself on life. Soon the Muslim Mahabharat was set to pace not limping through the ages but was galloped by a nice and crisp narration by Mishra. The rise of coal-mining and dabangg leaders were smooth and so was the introduction of Ramadhir singh (Played by Tigmanshu Dhulia - famed Director of Paan singh Tomar, Haasil and Saheb biwi aur Gangster).
The movie paced itself with orphan Sardar Khan's marriage and his quest for the revenge of his father's death. Teri Kah ke loonga song was the key to rise to another level, beautifully sung by Sneha (Music director) and Amit trivedi (DevD). This song was the cog-wheel of the movie, throughout.
Here comes the gags and humor plastered through hard facts of life, where a leader behaves differently inside his house and inside a brothel. Enters Richa Chadda (Oye Lucky lucky Oye !) as Najma Khatoon. She was given the role of a tigress , sending her man to please himself by another whore incase he is cocky. Although she doesn't hail from Bihar but the way she spoke Bhojpuri with so earthiness that she walks away with the cherry on the cake.
While Manoj Bajpayee can beat any actor when it comes to lecherous ways, his smile on the bare backs of Reemma Sen while sucking on Nalli Ghost Mutton was lecherous at its zenith best . The camera and Anurag was so perfect in providing small details of then Bihar. Rustic and Rustic. Where a Man is a 'Mard' when he woos other women. This was the right backdrop of one the best song ever in Bollywood, sung marvelously by Rekha Jha and Khushboo - O Womaniya. I must admit that Sneha used her talent to compose the song from the people who has good diction of the land and recording it a way that other music directors need to break the mold. This is it, This is real cinema. This is Cinema.
The songs  and their timing was near perfect and so engrossed that a person might miss the wordings. The local flavor is so enriched that people from other part of India might look for sub-titles. But the time has come to leave Punjab and its Butter masala flavor and reach out to new directors from Eastern part. There was a time in Bollywood where you have to have a Punjabi song to cater to Diaspora Indian by all the directors from the region, be it Chopras, Kapoors, Anand or Singhs.... The cliche is cut here and a Niche is set.

There was a time when Anurag Kashyap could not show a bullet shot on screen (Black Friday) due to financial constraint but in GOW he went over the budget five times. you can feel the bullet inside your head with blood sporting-out, oozing and dwindling all the way. The growth is not only shown in terms of budget but also a new pattern , where you've  invested in actors and research'd story. Every department Camera, Screenplay, music, Lyrics, or cinematography is well rehearsed and close to the story of the land. You will not find Hindi glossy songs or dance out of the swoosh of hand . Even the "item boy" played brilliantly by Yashpal Sharma is close to the earth. Launda-Dance was all the new thing, never entertained on silver screen. This was the show of brilliance, where Sharma is singing Lata Mangeshkar the way a Bihari sings.

Tigmanshu Dhulia was so subtle and in the skin of the character that real Ramadhir might take a lesson from him. His casting was so perfect and on the terms with story. No character was built supersize.
The theater was burnt by Bajpayee and further destroyed by Nawazuddin Siddiqui. He was the Al Pacino of this Bhojpuri 'The'Godfather. Nawazuddin was so intense with his eyes that glares were seen despite it was covered by dark aviator sunglasses. His smile when the Hunter song was played and the police interrogation was not to be missed. The black skin and lips were purposely brazen to support Chillam (Charas) smoking. The unintentional revenge in Varanasi was also best directed scene in the flick, the way Pacino shot the polce chief inside the Italian restaurant. The movie was paced on the path set by Francis Ford Coppola, Sergio Leone and of course Quentin Tarantino.
Kids cleaning train's toilet, Beef market and butchers, the living quarters of muslim, Muharram festive, and chinaware for a non hindu was so well taken care, it was so close to life. RGV's way of keeping your supporting cast as real as it could was good. The Jail scene and Manish Tippoo's Bhoos came to conviction. This is the movie where bombs are thrown but not blasted until thrown again, Butcher asking for automatic Guns to beat Atom Bombs, and beating your nemesis by footwear. These small details will hurt you so hard that you will smile and might even laugh and clap.


Pankaj Tripathi was another cast which was full of inner venom and potential , as Querashi. Vipin Sharma  and Jameel Khan also had good share of screen presence as side kicks and they were well portrayed. Huma Qureshi was the sex-appeal of movie came at the end of first part and Rajeev Ravi didnt miss the opportunity to showcase her in the best Ray-bans proposing Amitabh. The scene between Nawazuddin and Huma is another real incident driven, where libidos are shown etiquette. 
The master punch was the end of movie, end of Sardar khan, dragged to the Flawlessness with holes in the head and a pistol in the hand , when Manoj Tiwari blurtted the anthem "Jiyo ho" with such a adrenaline energy that you remain glued to your seat.
Sublime Excellence.


A rare feat. 5/5
Ekdum Bhokali.




Friday, June 22, 2012

Gym Partner

घूरना किसे कहते है , लड़कियों से पूछना चाहिए या लड़कों से | मेरे ख्याल से लड़कियों से , आखिर उन्हें सब पता होता है कौन, कब से और कहाँ से घूर रहा है | ठीक वैसे ही जैसे लोहे का स्वाद लोहार से नहीं , बल्कि उस घोड़े से पूछना चाहिए जिसके मुंह में लगाम है | विकट का तो लगाम जैसे सोने के बर्तन में मिट्टी | कॉफे कॉर्नर में बैठ कर लड़कियों को घूरते हुए उम्मींद करता है कोई शायद इसे देखकर इसकी दुल्हन बन जाये |  उम्मींद  पे तो दुनिया कायम है , और विकट इस बात का जीता जागता सबूत है | कुछ महीनो के बाद एक लड़की जो पहले मोटी थी , चाय पीने जब कैफेटेरिया में आई तो विकट हैरान होगया , लड़कियां भी वजन घटाने की होड़ में शायाद आगे ही होती है | खाना पीना छोड़ देना और गर्व से diet करना , इनके फितरत में होता है |

विकट पिछले कई महीने से gym जाने की कोशिश कर रहा है  |  वैसे  छह महीने के पैसे जमा है , पर Gym के अंदर पैर छह दिन भी नहीं गए होगे , भाईसाहब ने इरादा बदल दिया | जुम्बा डांस try करने के बाद , किसी ने ज्ञान दे दिया की सही खान-पान से वज़न कम किया जा सकता है | दो दिन में वज़न कम नहीं हुआ तो , जुडो कराटे आजमाने का भी सोच डाला | किसी और को पतले होते देख दिल भारी हो जाता है | इसी भरे दिल से विकट ने कहा - "यह किसके साथ Gym जाती है , देखो कितने पतली हो गई है ?"
हमारी हँसी रुकी नहीं , समझ में भी नहीं आ रहा था की विकट की सकपकाहट देखें या लड़की की पतली काया | हमने विकट की तरफ ध्यान दिया - आख़िरकार मनोरंजन तो इधर है |
हमने पुछा - "किस  Gym में जाना ज्यादा important है? या किसके साथ जाना ?" उसने जवाब दिया - "देखो , मैंने तो नंबर १ Gym  join किया पर मेरा वेट कम नहीं हुआ इसका मतलब अगर मैं किसी  लड़की के साथ Gym जाता तो शायद मैं आज six -पैक  रखता और तुम लोग देखते रह जाते "

मैंने कहा - "सही बोलते हो , यह भी किसी लड़की के साथ गयी होगी |"

दुसरे मित्र ने कहा - "तुम्हे लड़की कहाँ  मिलेगी "
"पता नहीं , मैं भी इसी कोशिश में पतला हुआ जा रहा हूँ !"

  

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Headphone and Common Cold

आज विकट को सर्दी लगी है , ऑफिस के मीटिंग रूम  में छींकते हुए बैठा है सुबह से |
कान पर हेडफोन लगा कर ऑफिस का काम कर रहा था | मैं देखा की हेडफोन का तार लैपटॉप में नहीं लगा हुआ था , आश्चर्यचकित हो कर मैंने पुछा - "कौन सा गाना सुन रहा है ?"
"तुम्हे उससे क्या , मैं कुछ important सुन रहा हूँगा "
"अच्छा क्या , जैसे?"
हँसते हुए कहा उसने -"कान पर ऐसे ही लगा रखा है , सर्दी जुकाम  है तो ठंडी हवा नहीं लगेगी "
मैंने फिर से चुटकी ली -"रूम में तो हवा नहीं है , बरहाल  मैं सिर्फ सांस ले रहा हूँ !"

वापस प्लग लगा लिया उसने , झेंप कर |
उफ़ विकट !!

Friday, June 8, 2012

O Womaniya - Explained


Womaniya
Gangs Of Wasseypur- Translations & Adaptions of the lyrics in English
(Lyrics: Varun Grover)
The song is sung by Khushboo Raaj and Rekha Jha, with music by Sneha Khanwalkar.
Produced by :- Anurag Kashyap


तारे  जो  बबुना , तरती  बबुनिया  | If he ogles, stares and waits , you do the same
बाबुना  के  हाथे  न  चढ़ती  बबुनिया  | While she teases, taunts and baits but don't fall for him.
ओ Womaniya 
आ हां Womaniya  

मांगे  जो  बबुना  प्रेम  निसनिया  | If he asks for a love bite on his chin
बोले  जो  थोड़ी , कट्टी  हो  कनिया  | then lean over and just nibble his ear.
बदले  रुपिया  के  देना  चवन्निया    |  instead give him a quarter if he asks for a rupee
सैयां  जी  झपटे  तो  होना  हिरनियाँ  | And when he lunges,  flee  like a deer
रह  रह  के  मांगे  चोली  बटअनियाँ   | Don’t let him play with your blouse buttons;   
जी  मे  लुकाये  लोट   लोटनियाँ  | The innocent game will end on his prick while thinking about love playing.

चाहे  मुह -झौंसा  जब  हाथ  सेकनिया   | When the bastard tries to warm his hands,
कन्धा  में  देना  जी  दांत  भुकनिया  | Play along and dig your teeth into his shoulders
बोलेगा  बबुना , चल  जयइहो  पटना , | He (fiance) will offer you a ride to Patna,
पटना  बहाने  वो  चाहेगा  सटना , | and will see this as a chance to get pretty close…
दैइहों  ना  पहुना  को  टिकेट  कटानिया … | Don’t let him buy the ticket all the way (to Patna) 
पटना  ना  जाना  चाहे  जाना  सिवानिया … | Don't go to Patna, even if you have to go to Sivan.

ओ Womaniya | You are a woman of substance 
आ हां Womaniya  | O woman

Click on the below link to listen to this wonderful song while you read the meaningful adaptation just in case you donot understand Bhojpuri Language.