COMPETITIVE SECTION

Oye Pappe Pyar karke pachtaya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_xOnTzk7mc&feature=player_embedded

Crazy Prakash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efQULGc174c&feature=player_embedded

Chaal pe Chaal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv8H8KDYdSM&feature=player_embedded

The Biscuit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCr2Z2MY6X0&feature=player_embedded

Middle Class Desires (brilliant!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGb6wUrNyAA&feature=player_embedded

What’s for Lunch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKna2DZ1OPI&feature=player_embedded

Elevator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pI6YLjWPQA&feature=player_embedded

Disturbance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCjFlCx3xhI&feature=player_embedded

Love @ First sight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9paksuEzHo&feature=player_embedded

The Game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDEjejjG1fQ&feature=player_embedded

Munni (brilliant!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwOf3emsevc&feature=player_embedded

Bark (poignant)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIehp76l0yI&feature=player_embedded

Ice cream (brilliant, rofl!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlHMLblm2mE&feature=player_embedded

The Last Minute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEMlczgS0Og&feature=player_embedded

Independence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWiQYzeoorE&feature=player_embedded

First Love (awesome camera work)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3CbuLccHI&feature=player_embedded

Noiscesser (rofl)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky1EzI__Hbg&feature=player_embedded

The Visitor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG8iZf6FCmk&feature=player_embedded

The Emergency (funny!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iPVjCEJXbQ&feature=player_embedded

Warped (awesome!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzDXIe2CRDk&feature=player_embedded

OPEN SECTION

Nazariya -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKqFSTtvU9w&feature=player_embedded

Blood Element -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC1GLkHF9lE&feature=player_embedded

The Story of a Cup -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwQfRNoV-lE&feature=player_embedded

Chinnu (brilliant, so many messages within this!) -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwlPVXRc2HA&feature=player_embedded

Walk the Talk -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ78wwU4LnU&feature=player_embedded

Breaking News -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_pTntPnb2s&feature=player_embedded

Inner desires (whoa! Awesome!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0drfv_Ce20

]]> http://kirandhanwada.com/2010/01/09/passion-for-cinema-1-minute-movies-brillaint/feed/ 1 http://kirandhanwada.com/2008/05/04/two-weeks-later/ http://kirandhanwada.com/2008/05/04/two-weeks-later/#comments Sun, 04 May 2008 22:49:45 +0000 Kiran http://sarvamekam.wordpress.com/?p=95 The past two weeks were hectic, to say the least.

The most awaited movie of the year – Tashan got released. The metaphor in itself is probably the biggest awaited joke of the year. With the movie poster of Tashan looking eerily similar to Covenant, Yash Raj films indicated that this movie was not original even with the initial advertising. However, with the sole aim of watching Kareena Kapoor making a fool of herself, I watched the movie much to my bemusement and embarrassment. Terming the movie as a joke is an insult to the word ‘joke’. Attempting a Kill Bill+Ursula Andress in a bikini show, Kareena failed miserably and so did all the other co-stars (although some credit needs to go to Akshay Kumar). A shaven-bare-chested Anil Kapoor was probably the most shocking surprise of the movie – but his acting prowess (if I might call it that) has sunk from bad to worse with movies like ‘Race’ and ‘Tashan’. Spinning a yarn convincingly requires talent – and although I would accept that movies are no theorem-proof and are a mode of pure escapist entertainment, Tashan is exactly the sort of entertainment you want to escape from oh-so-desperately! A done-to-death childhood-friends-meeting-later concept and the seemingly meaningless run-around made ‘Race’ look much better in terms of quality and delivery. The prosperity of Yash Raj Films was due to their originality and dare – not cheap imitation, mimicry and mediocrity. Statutory Warning: Watching Tashan is injurious to health.

It was also a week where Sreesanth competed for ‘Award for the Biggest Sissie Drama of the Year’ and won it convincingly. A well-known dramatist-cum-patchy bowler to say the least (no, he still can’t compete with Ajit Agarkar for the Worst Bowler Award!! Ajit is miles ahead of him!) had a tete-a-tete with a bowler whose brains had been lent-on-lease indefinitely, with the result of a sweet punch on the jaw which resulted in Sreesanth bawling like…(no, let’s not insult kids like this!). With the way Indian cricket is played, don’t be surprised if you suddenly watch a soap called ‘Kyunki Sreesanth bhi kabhi Cricketer tha’! Sreesanth is the new gamma-male (alpha and beta are taken presumably!) representing India, a male who can cry on screen effortlessly and for no reason at all. He has probably opened up a whole new market for male actors who would also like to cry on screen. Soaps would be abound with the entire 138 members in a family which stays in one bungalow, dressed up in heavy bindis and kurtas sobbing and howling for 3 years straight. Sreesanth – you are just awesome; there will definitely be a role for you in each of these soaps where you can weep to your heart’s content and get paid for it.

And to round the two weeks off, this piece of news ticked me real bad. The summary of the article is that Singh has called for cut in corporate pay packets to eradicate poverty. Is this the same Singh that our economic textbooks extol of being the spearhead for liberalization in 1993? Is this the same Singh that called for extensive all inclusive-growth to eradicate poverty a while back? His call for “self-imposed ceiling on salaries and expenditure as a means to drive down demand and so ease pressure on supplies” is pure gibberish. Article after article in Markets/Economics/Finance demand that there be ‘incentives’ to growth, and here is our Prime Minister calling for a cut in incentives, thereby stunting growth inevitably. With rising prices of commodities every day across the world, a cut in incentives should have been least on Dr. Singh’s radar. Probably the functioning of Congress has got into the head of Dr. Singh – sadly, for a man I respected utmost, he has disappointed me terribly. Wretched is the situation for a man who was held in high-esteem for his forward-looking policies and global attitude to go on a pseudo-communist path – ah! It is such a shame!