Wednesday, January 27, 2010

What An Idea Sir-ji!








Ye jo world hai na world usme do taraha ke insaan rehatey hai....ek jo poori jindagi bahoot kaam karake Super-Star banatey hai aur, ek jo thodasaa kaam karakey bhi utani hee limelight mein rahatey hain... for example main aur mera beta...haayin!

Yes, I am talking about Pa and his Laadalaa.

Big B had started his career with Saat Hindustaani. Zanjeer, Deewar, Don, Sholay, Mukaddar ka Sikandar, etc. were some of his hits in 1970's. In 1983 while shooting for Coolie he met with an accident and had to take a long leave. With major flops like Mrityudata, Lal Badhshah, Akayla, Ajooba in late 90's everybody thought that The Angry Young Man's career had come to an end but he might have said at that time-"Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost".

Shehenshah bounced back with his husky voice with, "Confident? Lock kiya jaay?" in Kaun Banegaa Crorepati? Then there was no looking back for him. Hits like Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, Mohabbatein, Baghban, Black, Sarkar and latest being Pa and Rann are all at his credit. Singer Amitabh is also not too bad at all. Songs like Rang Barse, Mere angane mein, Ye kahaan aa gaye hum, Say shaava shaava are some of our all time favourites.

Ads like Cadburys-Kuch meetha ho jaaye, Navratan Oil-Thandaa thandaa Cool cool, would never have been so memorable without the Don. Today, he has become the Brand Ambassador for Gujarat.

Amitji has proved that Excellence should be at such a level that success just follows you. Tussi Great Ho.....Bade Miya!

Now here comes the Pa's laadalaa born with the silver spoon- Mr. Abhishek Bachchan. His debut was Refugee which did not fulfill the expectations of the Janataa Janaardan. Tera jadoo chal gayaa, Dhaai akshar prem ke, Bas itna sa khwaab hai and the list of flops to his credit is endless. Flops affect Actors but not Stars, especially stars like Abhishek.

Dhoom in 2004 was a super hit. In 2005 came Bunty aur Babli, Sarkar, Bluff master which did very good business followed by Kabhi alvida na kehna, Umrao jaan, Dhoom 2, Guru, Dostana, Delhi 6 and the latest being Pa where he has shown his acting skills. And a large number of his hits had him working alongside his Pa.

He married Miss World, Aishwarya Rai in 2007 which was a big event and again Small B in focus.

His debut TV show, National Bingo Night has hit the television screen. He is happy about it and says Anchoring is easier than Acting.

Well, this is what I call Destiny. Mr. Bachchan at the age of 65+ has to slog to win the hearts of the public and on the other hand AB Baby's trivial incidences create a hype among the crowd that is enough to ensure that he is in the limelight. It may be a Kajaraa re song, stage-show or for that matter even the first episode of National Bingo Night, all with his Pop. He is piggybacking on Big B's publicity, and doing it well!.

Cant resist saying Chote Miya......What an Idea Sir ji!

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Interesting Coincidences

My birthday is celebrated world-wide with great pomp and splendour; since it falls on 25th December. My husband luckily could spare time from his busy schedule and more luckily, tickets for 3 idiots which was the most special gift I could wish for this year. I am sure there are lacs of people like me who wait for Aamir Khan's movies.

3 Idiots was a treat indeed. Excellent script, mind blowing dialogues, cool sense of humour is what I can say about 3 Idiots.

Around the release of this movie, I noticed a few news about student suicides due to frustration. 3-4 days back, our local Pune newspaper had published news of 3 students from different colleges and schools in Maharashtra commiting suicide. Today I read about 6 students from different colleges commiting suidice. The reason was the same; Educational Cut-throat competition, Exam stress, Fear of Failure, and Huge Expectations from Parents, just like that depicted in that movie.

Parallely, there were news about a spree of allegations, counter-allegations and apologies/patch-ups by the original story-writer, movie producers, etc. and all these with front-page coverages in leading newspapers.

During election times, there was a swarm of news on farmers of India->Maharashtre->Vidarbha commiting suicide and the government offering huge packages to stop those.

My husband always says that nowadays, it's getting more and more difficult to distinguish between real news and publicity stunts/advertisements. Difficult to understand why news of farmer suicides suddenly got replaced by student suicides, especially given that exam fever is just starting to build; results are way far off.

But I am pretty convinced that:


  • These are mere coincidences

  • Journalism has not yet gone to the dogs

  • Nobody would attempt manipulating news for cheap publicity

  • O bhaiya AAL IJ WELL!!

I hope everyone agrees.