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Manasha Panchali has stayed with me forever,courtesy - my granny! Today, she is no more..i dedicate this to her..
( Excerpts from Rituparno Ghosh's Bariwali... )

hoilo modhu maash e biya, baashor shaajai modhu kolosh diya.                        

holud chondon diya,Chaand er nondon boron kori giya,                            
Dhonopoti'r koinna je shundor! Chaand er nondon jamai Lokkhindhor!
chokher jol'e bhaashay baap'e maay'e..poti'r shathe Chaand er puri jaay

modhu maash e biya, baashor shajai modhu kolosh diya.
modhu maash e, modhur o milon! kolosh kolosh modhur aayojon,
holud diya shonar boron gaa,koinna re mor shob'e deikkhha jaa
modhu maash e biya,jaage paara ulluddhoni diya!

ranga cheli..shonar olonkaare,chokher jol'e shaajailo koinnare
shohag shaaje chhili ghor'er kon'e
porer ghore pathaimu kemon'e


modhu maash e biya, baashor shaajai modhu kolosh diya.
holud chondon diya,Chand er nondon boron kori giya,
joto e modhu deo na kolosh bhoira...
kopaaler likhon khondai kemon koira!

chompok o nogori dekhe roop er 'o tulona                                                          
sadager er beti koinna,onek olonkar
konoko konkono golaay gojomotir haar

Chaand er puri chhaaira jaailo shonge Lokhinndhor
sontali porbot e koinna'r lohar bashorghor

lohaar baashor ghor'e,
shonar shohaag uthaal paathal kor'e..
baashor ghor'e shotin'o naagini
Lokkhindhor re dongshaailo omoni......
shonar boron bisher jaalay bhaashe
baashor boibo kola'ar o maandaash 'e

kisher biya hoilo modhu maashe!!
bashor boibhab kolar'o maandash 'e
modhu mashe biya, kola tolaay ulluddhoni diya

biyar uluddhoni,kola tolaay jotek 'o romoni,                                                    
shopto (7) bodhu modhu kolosh kaandh'e
sheel er por'e maatir bhaando raakhe...
naaraay sheel 'e paayer paara diya
nijer kopaal nijei bhaange maaiyya

hoilo modhu maash e biya, baashor shaajai modhu kolosh diya.
baaper shohag maayer aador baare,
bhaanga kopaal kemne juri tobe!!

Mahanagar@Kolkata..

Aangshik Chandragrahan (Partial Lunar Eclipse..!)

Director Suman Mukhopadhyay's Mahanagar@Kolkata is based on three short stories by Nabarun Bhattacharjee that deals with the real and surreal textures of the lives of people living in a metropolitan city! One special aspect of the film which intrigued me a lot is the marvelous depiction of a surrealistic dream sequence in the third part of the story Aangshik Chandragrahan ( Partial Lunar Eclipse)

The self obsessed almost-crazy Rohit (Chandan Roy Sanyal) watches in a hallucinatory trance on the night of a partial lunar eclipse, Rongili (his wife,played by Rituparna Sengupta) consigned to the flames after a series of detailed and cruel rituals in preparation of Sati,the other women's faces are painted in silver to heighten the illusion.Her red sari floats across the funeral pyre, across the burning ghat, to try and find a landing somewhere in the multi-storied block of flats where she began her loveless life with Rohit.

The Sati scene is visually stunning and beautiful but does not relate to Rohit's character, a modern-day, upstart US returned MBA who has hardly had any experience of Sati except from books and hearsay..an insight into the life of a confused young man on-the-go depressed and suicidal because his love life, within marriage and out of it, has gone haywire!!

Which somewhere throws a flash light into the inner psyche of the people living in a urbane world filled with fear,phobia,striving to make it hard,depression,boredom,loveless marital lives,sleeping pills,abortions,childless ness,extra marital affairs etc..

Sizzling Chikni needs a Saroj Khan !!

I hated it at the first time when i saw the promo, but later when i saw the full song on youtube,i couldn't help but applaud Katrina for setting the rustic tone & raunchiness of her act almost in perfect sync,specially the portions where she uninhibitedly lures the audience with her jiggling midriff & bosom along with the pelvic thrusts! Watch out for the step where she gyrates with the line 'pahua chara ke aayi..' and u would agree that she has come a long way from her barbie girl image to a rustic seductress onscreen..and i loved the fact that apart from her thunderous moves, she did a lot with her eyes as well,at least she tried..well,of course there can't be a second Madhuri when it comes to emoting with eyes !!

But yet again (like most of the item numbers these days!) she is heavily let down by the choreographer Ganesh Acharya ( he did ruined 'beedi jalaile' as well!) who is only best known for his Govinda style numbers! This was actually a tailor made number for Saroj Khan! Or even Farah could ve done it better in her 'munni' style..any panga with her recently KJO???

CHIKNI sizzles in the hindi version of 'Kombdi palali' while Kjo selects the wrong Choreographer !!

P.S : Don't compare this number with Helen's 'Mungda' or MD's 'Humko aajkal hai'..though in the same format,those were of different genre..

WELCOME 2012..!!

The year 2011 ended on a positive note with a splendid outing with an awesome company,thanks to my friend Kaustav! and started on an equally charming note with one of the closest person of my life,thank 'YOU'! New year,new hopes,new dreams,resolutions to work on..more shopping (yes!),more dvds' (oh yes!), books (absolutely yes!), more perfume (yeahhhh!),early morning jogging (wake up!) ;( gymming (ya ya ya ya ya ;'/)...cut down on the booze (hmmm!), more fridays, more movies, few more outings on the list (travel time!),partying (yipppeeee! arre yaar! tequilla shots again! hmm...),at home during durga puja (hopefully!),more music for the soul along with the rains,sea shore (again!),a hand to always hold onto..time to make some sincere 'bang on' decisions and to stop making hasty decisions! make out time for friends,family! and most importantly,with a hope and a prayer to see ma,baba,all my well wishers,friends and family in good health and prosperity! Amen !!

Radhika's dilemma..!!

My biggest fear is when he says ''i shall go mad and step out of the house''..

What if he goes away all of a sudden?..

wot if he steps into an unknown lane?..

and wot if..

in his place,comes back a mad man wearing his clothes! wild eyed with poison,he comes to me and asks 'give me food,m hungry! i shall bathe with u,shall sleep in ur arms!'..

the body is familiar,but his breath is unknown,the smell is different! the way he looks at me is unusual,his body..an unknown yet familiar flesh of bear!!

Lying together,content..wot if, confused - i grab him by his hairs,off my chest, i ask 'Who are you?'

Least i forget,being locked in love..with him..

that 'my man' is lost!

lurking somewhere in the cold crowded streets!

in some platform,or crouching under a vegetable stall..

MY MOST INTIMATE MOONSTRUCK MAN...UNKNOWINGLY BETRAYED!!

                                                                          courtesy - SHOB CHORITRO KALPONIK

'TOMAR THOT AAMAR THOT CHULO...'

 

  tomar thot aamar thot chulo

  jodio ei prothombar noi                                                            

  chumbon to ageo bohubar...

  eibar thothe mileche ashroi

  jemon shob bhoyer golpe

  doitto danob rakkosh r khoi

  tile tile shukhoi rajkumari

  ontomile rajputrer joy

  tobuo khub bhitore badhahin

  lorai chole shumbo nishumbher

  prothom bole, phool ti chire khabo

  ditio bole, hath pate shekh

  ashole tumi dirgho shalmoli 

  shobar matha chariye torbor

  tomar thoth amar thoth chulo

  r ja kichu okinchitkor

               --- sugato gangopadhyay

Vidya Balan in The Dirty Picture...Silk Smitha or Mamta Kulkarni??????

I love women oriented flicks. Period! action based,sci fi, war flicks have never intrigued me so much,so i went for The Dirty Picture only because of the very same reason, to witness the bio pic of an 80's southern semi porn star..and also to catch up with our very own demure lalitha shedding her 'girl next door' image.Vidya didnt disappoint,infact its one of those roles that comes once in a while for bollywood actresses, more to that later. As we know prior to its release,the film captures the life of Silk Smitha,the only memory of this starlet that i have is with the Kamal Hassan, Sridevi starrer Sadma where the actress with minimal outfit seduced Kamal Hassan with her sexual overtone and tongue rollicking and seductively gyrated to a raunchy number sung by Asha Bhonsle! Before the release of the film, i had made it a point to go through various Silk Smitha videos available on Youtube, hence to my disappointment,while watching Vidya onscreen i could'nt relate her with the Silk Smitha i have seen in those videos! 

Silk, as i ve seen in her videos, seemed more garish,with over the top hairdo,loud make up,funny costumes (feathers on top of her head wearing zebra style bra and panty!!) and at times ugly! whereas Vidya, even though tried hard to go overboard with her make up and costumes,instead, turned out to be prettier and graceful in the film! and then,it strike me,that instead of Silk Smitha, she was more like one of those 90's starlets like Mamata Kulkarni! Mamta's filmograph too traversed the same path like Silk,except one doesn't know the whereabouts of Mamta Kulkarni these days.Mamta Kukarini was one of those actresses who happily played the second lead or item girl in most of the successful films of the 90's,she was a graceful dancer,revealing outfits on full display (sex bomb,we used to call her!),thunder thigh figure with heaving bosom but..she was pretty and charming in her own way,unlike Silk!!

Now coming to the film.Its all about Vidya Balan.At a time,when heroines are more concerned about getting their hour glass figure intact and no chub look perfect with size zero mantra and botox,hats off to her for showing the guts and carrying off a role that required her to even put on excess flab and chubby cheeks and even flaunt it off  post interval! Performance wise,Vidya has always excelled as an actress (Parineeta,Paa,Ishqiya,No one killed Jessica to be precise),and here too,she does more than full justice to her character which again makes her a sure shot winner at all the major award functions next year.

P.S. : i ve a complaint with the climax though, instead of turning it into a cliched death scene (more like Marilyn Monroe style tragedy!),the film maker could have shown the real truth..because,Silk Smitha did'nt end herself popping those sleeping pills.......she hanged herself !!