Ram-da,
I have seen this movie "Desparado" atleast three times - twice in India and half here. It jelled very well with the desert environs Rajasthan with drugs (opium) being imported from Afghanistan etc bound for Europe.
Perhaps in some dream I could even have considered doing an "Banderas" scene myself - given that it was rumored that a suddenly-rich community member was behind this drug dealing as well. However, I could never have imagined equating the killing of a drug lord with the killing of a state minister of India.
I wonder why HT reporter thought that the militants were having the style of Miriachi - while going about murdering the former minister in cold blood. I recall in the movie the miriachi fired only when fired upon.
If tomorrow those ULFA guys aim their guitars at that HT chief editor's head -- lets see how many paeans you
will here written about ULFA then in HT's next edition by that same reporter.
Umesh
Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ram Sarangapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Umesh,>is now singing praisies of terrorists gunning down former - democratically elected govt >officials of India.Is that what you read? I did not read praises from the HT - could be we are reading different editions? :-)Ram da
On 5/14/06, umesh sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I saw this news too on HT yesterday but chose to ignore the stupid comparison of an Indian minister with drug lords of Wild West--goes to show the extent of West is Best approach of some of Indian reporters --to think a newspaper which supported Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent struglle for India's independence is now singing praisies of terrorists gunning down former - democratically elected govt officials of India.Who are these terrorists and their supporters?"The Ulfa which has always spoken out against "culturally imposing" Bollywood on the Northeast but clearly has no such qualms about being inspired by Hollywood " - Rahul Karmakar in Hindustan TimesAll one can say is Go West, young man(men), Go West!.OrAntonio, Antonio, wherefore art thou Antonio?--RamIn Robert Rodriguez's classic Desperado, music like everything else is beholden to violence. A little boy ferries heroin in a banjo while El Mariachi, a killer played by Antonio Banderas, moves from town to town with guns concealed in a guitar case a tale dark enough to inspire none other than Assam's band of militia, the United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa).The latest strike by the Ulfa against former Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) minister Pradip Hazarika, say the police, would have made Mariachi proud.The Ulfa which has always spoken out against "culturally imposing" Bollywood on the Northeast but clearly has no such qualms about being inspired by Hollywood tweaked the script slightly. The guitar was substituted with a more popular stringed instrument in Assam the mandolin.
On May 9, when Hazarika and his convoy of motorcycle-bound supporters were passing through Amguri town in Sivasagar, the Ulfa was lying in wait. When the group approached, two men opened fire on Hazarika. The AGP leader survived he is now at AIIMS undergoing treatment but two of his personal security officers did not.When the police officials reached the spot soon after the strike, they found an abandoned mandolin case. Inquiries revealed that a band of young musicians were doing the rounds of the area a few days before the attack."Cartridges near the mandolin case revealed the assailants used AK-47s that in all probability were concealed in the mandolin case," said a district police officer. The local people noticed the boys moving about but did not think much about "innocuous looking musicians", the officer said.However, the attack on Hazarika he won the Amguri Assembly seat defeating transport minister Anjan Dutta of the Congress has been no music to the ears of the police. The assailants have been as slippery as their cinematic inspiration and it is feared they have sneaked into adjoining Nagaland.Talk about the reel world spilling over to the real._______________________________________________
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