I use the words "WHY NOT?" a lot.
---- Can we have ice-cream - "WHY NOT?"
---- Can we have bitti oota - "WHY NOT?"
---- Can we watch a match - "WHY NOT?"
---- Can we go for some stupid quiz - "WHY NOT?"
---- Can i maintain a blog - "WHY NOT?"
So here it is. A blog that i will try to maintain.
Well the name of my blog is a tribute to the things i like the most - SPorts and ENTertainment. Few quizzers will automatically know what SPENT means.
I am trying to get the writer instincts in me going. But it seems to be waking up a bit slowly. When was the last time i wrote for the love of writing. School - to pass those awful classes by writing the worst of poetry and entertain my mates in class, or during those English classes where our teacher asked us to write some stuff and then make us read it out in class. Anyway - Past is Past and Present is good. My writer instincts seem to come back and if in case any of my school mates read this, please remember the poems i used to write were of the lowest quality of literature. But it still entertained you people i guess..
The other day i had to watch the movie Coolie No. 1 where an overweight Govinda (similarity between him and me exists only in our sizes) and an equally horrible looking Karisma Kapoor romanced and proclaimed their love to each other in the song - "Main to raste se jaa raha tha"
Here are the lyrics of the first paragraph
Main to raste se jaa raha tha
Main to bhel puri kha raha tha
Mian to Ladki ghuma raha tha
Raste se ja raha tha
Bhel puri kha raha tha
Ladki Ghuma raha tha
Teri Nani Mari tho Main Kya karoo
Teri Nani Mari tho Main Kya karoo
Which roughly translates to
I was walking on the street
I was eating Bhel Puri
I was going around with a girl
If your grand mother died what can i do..
Now is there any sense in this song. How is the death of grand mother even related to the brewing romance between the hero and the heroine. There is another movie with the same hero, heroine and the director. Whats more the movie is also similarly titled. It is called "Hero No.1". This movie was what i call "Rip-off from many places" - inspired by Mr. Bean, a wonderful Rajesh Khanna movie called Bawarchi and so on. Well my love for plagiarized stuff is somewhat unusual. I try to watch movies where i try to find out what part of this movie is taken from which movie of the west or TV series.
Now as a reverse i can very proudly say there are few instances when we have given movies which are taken into Hollywood, packaged better and then released. One such instance is Choti Si Baat, which was released in 1979, starring Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha, Asrani and Dadamoni Ashok Kumar. The story has a lot of similarities to Hitch, but Hitch is not a complete rip-off. Thats the difference..
Well so long till my next blog..
