Friday, April 30, 2010

the satvaan ghoda described

she(its a mare actually) goes by the name of pankti-- the youngest and the most adamant.she does not follow orders; always tries to run the other way.pankti is aruna's nightmare.just see her trying to run towards the left,just when the other six are turning right.this one horse always delays the surya,and makes him so late everyday,that one day every four years an extra day has to be added.how aruna wishes that lord surya will allow him to put eye covers for pankti,just to make that wild beast more focused...but this child is surya's favorite.
pankti means a queue roughly,and this one horse is so much not a part of the queue.possibly she wants to make her own line!what impudence
all said and done it is he who determines the speed of the sun's chariot.
in Grecian mythology he/she is called philogen, the earth horse.
so much for the fables!
now its our turn....
more later

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

byomkesh and the seventh horse


rajit kapoor(not the rajat kapoor who is doing so well in bheja fry and likes..) is one of my fav. actors.with an immensely forgettable role in the sick slick flick ghulam,he disappeared from public memory.but those who remember byomkesh bakshi,the 23 episode serial which was telecast on the doordarshan,would know the true potential of that man.byomkesh by sardendu ,is one of the finest characters in detection created in literature including English.byomkesh is smart,pragmatic and stunningly brilliant..
he is any-days better than mediocre s like Poirot,Rex stout, Lupin,and matches Father Brown,Saint,and even Holmes any day.set in middle class Calcutta,with all its ramifications,Byomkesh is visible,identifiable and so much the part of the Indian pathos.
Here,even a recovery of a lost purse means a lot,without the purse carrying any secret nuclear program details.
personally i think its next to impossible to recover a lost purse in India,unless u r Somebody.
Byomkesh filled that lacunae ably which chilling intelligence.bengalis sp.the 60's 70's will cringe at the statement that Rajit kapoor played that role with a finesse,and mastery far surpassing the revered Uttam Kumar(Soumitro is not even in the competition,sorry people..brilliance is not his forte),but the statement stands.
anyone who saw the serial,would have mistaken rajit as a typical Bengali middle class intelligent teacher,the kind who has topped university mathematics exams,without much effort,and is doing a govt job.
anyone playing byomkesh again will have to match his smile,which was never dumb,or out of place,his confidence,which was always in place,his gait in that dhuti- unpretentious,just perfect..
well i stayed his fan ever since.and when suraj ka satvaan ghoda was released,i was ecstatic.
it went ahead and won awards at different levels-the parallel movie kind.
in fact i tried to watch the movie once on TV and ended up watching mujse dosti karoge(not the Hritick Roshan one!)which was pretty cool too,100 times better than the Hritick Roshan,Kareena kapoor starrer.Still it was the smartest ,slickest most happening name ever for any hindi movie ever,and somehow it sounded like those smart westerns,super action filled semi historical,semi fabulous movie.the fact that it was a rajit kapoor movie,seemed just apt.
i caught the movie several years later,well ..
i couldn't sit through the whole movie,but rajit was in his true self..
unparalleled...
then i saw him in ghulam,and aamir khan finished him for keeps.(i hate aamir khan-that guy is a fake if ever there was one)
but the name stays
suraj ka satvaan ghoda...
a ode to all that could have been
so lucky that no one has picked such a dashing name already...
to you Mr Rajit kapoor,take a bow!

right from the horse's mouth

today is a sudden holiday...
i like them better than a planned day off,I'm sure others do too.u always have things to do in the latter,unplanned day offs r cool. Sp. if its a bandh, there's just nowhere to go out.thank god for the communists..(so called)they honestly believe that a day of strike will reduce all prices.
P.Chidambaram wrote 10 yrs back,that if only the general public sacrifices a bit on movies,and pays 1 rupee extra per kilo of rice,it will be a rainfall for the farmer and he will jump across the poverty line.he suggested public paying 14 rs/kg of rice from the present 13 rs/kg...
surprise surprise Mr HM..we r now paying 21 rs /kg and still our farmers r committing suicide..not to mention the gen.public which is slowly being drawn into the same vortex of self-destruction,after not being able to afford 21/kg rice.Why do the ministers think that everyone in city is better off than the farmer in the village?that guy has a land,and some work..and the city slicker has dreams..only dreams
anyways
back to what this blog is,or rather why this blog is...
do you really want to know!

Sunday, April 25, 2010

introducing the seventh horse

i'm not really sure why i started this blog.one of my friends,or should i say one friend of mine,these people are so rare these days...asked me to.she thinks i've too much crap in my head,and its jamming,and blocking my sensory perception.so she said its better that i let that crap flow out into the cyberspace,which is mostly filled with anyway,but then it is like a black hole- keeps on collecting all the garbage and sending it(if we r to believe our physicists)into another universe.well well... i hope that parallel universe has a filter,or a trash can to destroy all this rubbish,or else....one day they r going to come and kill us...
coming back to my friend..i never really listen to her ever,and this blog has limited future...
as if someones going to read all this....
so this is it friends,foes,readers..
i wish i will be back with more...
but dont wait..