Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:31 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 11:51:54 pm Rishab Ghosh wrote: What surprised me was that after I spent some minutes videographing that video and uploading it a couple of days later - a friend of mine - who is by all accounts very modern and liberal (he is also 25 years younger than I am) apparantly got the Rafael stall to pull the video because it offends Hindu sensibilities Offends XYZ sensibilities (insert your favorite cause here) is a lovely catchphrase that can be used to stop anything and everything. I recently saw a poster of the movie formerly named Billu Barber. The new poster just said, Billu. Apparently someone objected to the use of the word Barber and it was dropped. Venky
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
On Wednesday 11 March 2009, Rishab Ghosh wrote: [snip] i loved it too. it was so sad-funny. and low budget. shows a sense of humour. I've tried twice now and I just CAN'T watch past the halfway mark, it just hurts too much. And I want to give it a chance - they're trying so hard! -Taj.
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
This is wtf-ness of the leave-me-speechless-knock-me-down-with-a-feather variety. It mocks bollywood in a way in which only someone desperately trying to imitate and not mock, can. Actually, that bit I don't find insulting, I find it amusing. Also, apparently our armed forces are equatable to some kind of damsel in distress that needs Isreali protection. I mean what's the logic behind this. Why would it work? Why would you do something this stupid when you want to bid for a contract that is of immense value? Nikhil Mehra Advocate, Supreme Court of India Tel: (+91) 9810776904 Res: C-I/10 AIIMS Campus Ansari Nagar New Delhi - 110029. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:54 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 8:34:46 am Venkat Mangudi wrote: ss wrote: On Tuesday 10 Mar 2009 3:14:28 pm gabin kattukaran wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:18 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/iron-eagle-isra.html Now I can't get the tune out of my head. It had the same effect on me. After I put it up on Youtube - I was surprised to find that it initially got a lot of hits form China of all places. Right now most of the views are from South Korea. shiv
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Nikhil Mehra nikhil.mehra...@gmail.com wrote: Also, apparently our armed forces are equatable to some kind of damsel in distress that needs Isreali protection. My interpretation was that Israel would like to do to the Indian armed forces what the guy would like to do (to) the damsels in the video. Thaths -- You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel. -- Homer J. Simpson
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 8:25:00 pm Nikhil Mehra wrote: This is wtf-ness of the leave-me-speechless-knock-me-down-with-a-feather variety. It mocks bollywood in a way in which only someone desperately trying to imitate and not mock, can. Actually, that bit I don't find insulting, I find it amusing. Also, apparently our armed forces are equatable to some kind of damsel in distress that needs Isreali protection. I mean what's the logic behind this. Why would it work? Why would you do something this stupid when you want to bid for a contract that is of immense value? :D I seem to be in a minority. I liked the video as a bit of fun. It all depends on how yo erad the symbolism. If you look at ethe girl as India and the man as Israel all these objections could arise. But I think you need to look at the company Rafael promoting its missiles to a end user together forever - I'll hold you in my heart Like I said I loved the video. It's original if nothing else. shiv
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
:D I seem to be in a minority. I liked the video as a bit of fun. It all depends on how yo erad the symbolism. If you look at ethe girl as India and the man as Israel all these objections could arise. But I think you need to look at the company Rafael promoting its missiles to a end user together forever - I'll hold you in my heart Like I said I loved the video. It's original if nothing else. I totally get this perspective but I felt that this isn;t the kind of topic or industry in which innovative ways to make your point are necessary. I can't imagine a committee of generals or other high-ups in the armed forces being even mildly amused by this. Hence, I thought it was self-defeating. Nikhil Mehra Advocate, Supreme Court of India Tel: (+91) 9810776904 Res: C-I/10 AIIMS Campus Ansari Nagar New Delhi - 110029. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:51 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 8:25:00 pm Nikhil Mehra wrote: This is wtf-ness of the leave-me-speechless-knock-me-down-with-a-feather variety. It mocks bollywood in a way in which only someone desperately trying to imitate and not mock, can. Actually, that bit I don't find insulting, I find it amusing. Also, apparently our armed forces are equatable to some kind of damsel in distress that needs Isreali protection. I mean what's the logic behind this. Why would it work? Why would you do something this stupid when you want to bid for a contract that is of immense value? :D I seem to be in a minority. I liked the video as a bit of fun. It all depends on how yo erad the symbolism. If you look at ethe girl as India and the man as Israel all these objections could arise. But I think you need to look at the company Rafael promoting its missiles to a end user together forever - I'll hold you in my heart Like I said I loved the video. It's original if nothing else. shiv
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
Also, apparently our armed forces are equatable to some kind of damsel in distress that needs Isreali protection. My interpretation was that Israel would like to do to the Indian armed forces what the guy would like to do (to) the damsels in the video. Thaths For some reason, I couldn't bring myself to see the whole video. It may have had something to do with how utterly crappy it looked. I mean, sure, someone in the Israeli company decided they wanted to get this video made. But why the heck not go and hire a decent Bollywood music director to do it. Heck, even a decent any-wood director. This is like IBM trying to market it's supercomputers with mailed postcards! Just not the right medium for the target market. - Vinit
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:51:01PM +0530, ss wrote: Like I said I loved the video. It's original if nothing else. i loved it too. it was so sad-funny. and low budget. shows a sense of humour. but a poor judgement of the customer, since i don't think indian defence bureaucrats (or for that matter, israeli defence bureaucrats) share that humour. must have been made by a couple of kids from the draft. -r
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Rishab Ghosh ris...@dxm.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:51:01PM +0530, ss wrote: Like I said I loved the video. It's original if nothing else. i loved it too. it was so sad-funny. and low budget. shows a sense of humour. but a poor judgement of the customer, since i don't think indian defence bureaucrats (or for that matter, israeli defence bureaucrats) share that humour. must have been made by a couple of kids from the draft. OTOH, maybe the israelis know something about your defence bureaucrats that you don't. Andre
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 9:29:13 pm Nikhil Mehra wrote: I totally get this perspective but I felt that this isn;t the kind of topic or industry in which innovative ways to make your point are necessary. I can't imagine a committee of generals or other high-ups in the armed forces being even mildly amused by this. Hence, I thought it was self-defeating. I think they did it as timepass for the public. They have figured out that a huge number of visitors are just curious onlookers and enthusiasts. Israeli stalls tend to have fairly dramatic videos of mayhem from the thousands of action videos they have. Those were there too as usual - but they have seta precedent and I wonder if someone will learn from them and do something similar. shiv
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 11:51:54 pm Rishab Ghosh wrote: i loved it too. it was so sad-funny. and low budget. shows a sense of humour. but a poor judgement of the customer, since i don't think indian defence bureaucrats (or for that matter, israeli defence bureaucrats) share that humour. must have been made by a couple of kids from the draft. What surprised me was that after I spent some minutes videographing that video and uploading it a couple of days later - a friend of mine - who is by all accounts very modern and liberal (he is also 25 years younger than I am) apparantly got the Rafael stall to pull the video because it offends Hindu sensibilities Obviously there seem to be many things that offend many people. But frankly I did not find the video any worse than scores other song and dance sequences that expose themselves to me as I live my life. shiv
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:18 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/iron-eagle-isra.html this one seems to have been removed as well -gabin -- Bob Hope - Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
On Tuesday 10 Mar 2009 3:14:28 pm gabin kattukaran wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:18 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/iron-eagle-isra.html this one seems to have been removed as well -gabin Try again - the server may have been overloaded or something - YouTube sometimes does that. I just checked - it's still there. shiv
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
ss wrote: On Tuesday 10 Mar 2009 3:14:28 pm gabin kattukaran wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:18 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/iron-eagle-isra.html Now I can't get the tune out of my head.
Re: [silk] Dinga Dee
On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 8:34:46 am Venkat Mangudi wrote: ss wrote: On Tuesday 10 Mar 2009 3:14:28 pm gabin kattukaran wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:18 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/iron-eagle-isra.html Now I can't get the tune out of my head. It had the same effect on me. After I put it up on Youtube - I was surprised to find that it initially got a lot of hits form China of all places. Right now most of the views are from South Korea. shiv
[silk] Dinga Dee
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/iron-eagle-isra.html I had earlier put up (on YouTube) a far worse quality video of the same thing at Israel's Rafael stall at Aero India. A friend of mine (an exhibitor) later told me that he had the video removed as it offended Indian sensibilities) I don't know. I thought it was funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKJ63lihmEw shiv
