I've officially fallen in love with the
soundtrack from
Flavors, yet another desi-Amru movie, but with a cast that's fairly multi-ethnic, it (hopefully) will be of a better flavour than
Amru Desi, that NRI-angst flick which got all its cultural affinities wrong. I particularly like the
Nagumomu track from the lot; it's an interesting juxtaposition of jazz-like beats with a classical composition. The singer, Sobha Raju, is a classical singer of considerable talent, and with a voice that's melodious enough to cross the sea and immerse ourselves in Falejbagh yet again.
I also fell in l..., ahem, well, the infamous (and bigoted, racist) Clause 2 of the Project for the New Mating Century policy guidelines has suffered a minor amendment because of one of the cast members. I mean, since when have Gult ladies started looking so international?
6 Comments:
At 5:35 pm,
Metlin said…
Eeeeeeeee! How can you like that stuff? :-|
Funny thing - I went to this desi restaurant here a while ago, and Atlanta has very few desis, and GT even less. The place was called Bollywood Grill, and had projectors with lots of Bollywood songs being played (the place had caucasian amrus dressed up as desis, that should tell you how "Indian" Atlanta is). For the first time in a year and a half, I saw a desi music video.
Realized I didnt' quite miss that stuff, and the NRI-ishtyle movies kinda make me want to cringe. Ow! You know?
Prefer good old Hollywood =) And lately, have taken a liking to the oddly Cannes-nominated-kinds -- those are quite cool too!
At 5:49 pm,
The Cydonian said…
Ummm, my disdain for American Desi isn't apparent?
Personally, I'm all for off-beat, indie movies, particularly Ind-glish ones; in addition to Flavors, I intend checking out Hyd Blues 2, Bhopal Express and (okay, not desi) Motorcycle Diaries and, perhaps, this Columbian flick on drug runners (forgot its name though).
Only problem is that the junta here isn't quite in favour of non-English/Hindi movies, so a tad difficult to find someone to watch Spanish/French stuff on the big screen.
At 3:52 am,
Anonymous said…
American Desi, American Chai, etc etc.
Those are at one end of the spectrum.
Flavors otoh, is a simple movie - doesn't attempt to have a story. The characters are all in the US of A and very comfortable with it. Some people have adjusted to the new lifestyle, some haven't. Some bear resentment to the strange culture, some couldn't give a dam. No opinions voiced, no objections raised. Just clean fun.
Basically, like I told the Cydonian, worth a dekko.
At 4:06 am,
Anonymous said…
PS:- For all who detest Bollywood flicks with inane humor and moronic plots : AVOID "EK SE BADKAR EK" LIKE THE FRIGGIN PLAGUE!
Just as a deterrent, I might as well post a small extract of the plot:
"Shekhar Suman is the Multi-crorepati industrialist's lawyer and his alter is a mystery writer who writes a novel about a dying Don who in his will leaves all his earnings to his son, but adds the condition that the son must first become the city's biggest don. As it would happen, he's coincidentally editing the industrialist's will (wherein all the money happens to go to HIS GARDNER'S SON!!!). The industrialist has some conditions and the Don's condition manages to work its way into this will too. So, the gardner's son, in order to inherit Rs. 400crore (that's 400 followed by 7 zeros) must become the city's biggest don!
If that didn't turn you away, this will. A cop (Raveena Tandon) hears the plan and decides to help the gardner's son (SUNIL-I-CAN'T-DELIVER-A-COHERENT-DIALOGUE-SHETTY) to become a don and would then nab him TO GET A PROMOTION.
At 9:39 am,
The Cydonian said…
Bhai log, you haven't seen Bollywood until you've seen this piece of crap they call Vaastu Shastra. Ek Se Badhkar Ek can be excused, mainly for the director, Kunal Shah's earlier venture, Jeene Bhi Do Yaaro, which is about the funniest Hindi movie I've seen since Golmaal. Or perhaps not even that.
But Vaastu Shastra man... they try to make a Ju-On and fail miserably.
At 11:58 am,
Anonymous said…
He told me not to. But I was forced to watch it. On the whole I could agree with only one thing about the whole "movie" (will calling that piece of *bleeep* that cause a freak wormhole to open and send me in to the movie - sh*t I did it again): "the vaasthu of the house is really good."
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