Re: [silk] Myself, Gopi

2017-01-21 Thread Anish Mohammed 


> On 22 Jan 2017, at 05:42, C Y Gopinath  wrote:
> 
> My brother, Ramu Narayan, was a veteran of Silklist and often would speak
> to me about his conversations and friends here. He passed away on January
> 14 this year, and I came down to Mumbai to be with him and now to deal with
> his aftermath.
> 
> In introducing myself to this group, I feel like I'm stepping into someone
> else's shoes.
> 
> I do many things, but primarily am know for my writing — both on food, and
> as an author of several books, including *Travels with the Fish*, *The Book
> of Answers* and *Hoyt's War*. I also make movies, cook, teach cooking, work
> with theatre in distant communities, and have reasonable graphic design
> skills, to name a few.
> 
> I'm 64, live in Bangkok, and travel around the world a great deal. My
> Twitter handle is humbird — you'll probably get a good sense of me from
> there.
> 
> Looking forward to travels with the silk. .
> 
> 
> Gopi
> 
> www.cygopinath.com
> 
> 
> [image: --]
> 
> C Y Gopinath
> [image: https://]about.me/humbird
> 

Hi Gopi,
 Welcome to the silklist. I am sure you would be pretty much at home here.
Regards
Anish

Anish Mohammed
Twitter: anishmohammed
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/anishmohammed
Skype: thecryptic

Re: [silk] Myself, Gopi

2017-01-21 Thread Ingrid 

> On 22-Jan-2017, at 12:14 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan  wrote:
> 
> If I recall correctly, you were known as one of the best copywriters in
> India. Welcome to Silk. It''s good to have you here.
> 
> Venky

That's from the era we were colleagues at what was then called Lintas. 

Saddened by the news of Ramu's death, Gopi.

Heartfelt condolences to you and your family. And welcome to silklist.


Ingrid

Re: [silk] Myself, Gopi

2017-01-21 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan 
If I recall correctly, you were known as one of the best copywriters in
India. Welcome to Silk. It''s good to have you here.

Venky

On Jan 22, 2017 11:13 AM, "C Y Gopinath"  wrote:

> My brother, Ramu Narayan, was a veteran of Silklist and often would speak
> to me about his conversations and friends here. He passed away on January
> 14 this year, and I came down to Mumbai to be with him and now to deal with
> his aftermath.
>
> In introducing myself to this group, I feel like I'm stepping into someone
> else's shoes.
>
> I do many things, but primarily am know for my writing — both on food, and
> as an author of several books, including *Travels with the Fish*, *The Book
> of Answers* and *Hoyt's War*. I also make movies, cook, teach cooking, work
> with theatre in distant communities, and have reasonable graphic design
> skills, to name a few.
>
> I'm 64, live in Bangkok, and travel around the world a great deal. My
> Twitter handle is humbird — you'll probably get a good sense of me from
> there.
>
> Looking forward to travels with the silk. .
>
>
> Gopi
>
> www.cygopinath.com
>
>
> [image: --]
>
> C Y Gopinath
> [image: https://]about.me/humbird
> 
>

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies (Thaths)

2017-01-21 Thread Thaths 
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 3:46 PM Shoba Narayan 
wrote:

> Coming of age
> 16 Vayadhunile
>

Good one. I can also think of a couple of college-oriented films that would
fit this genre.


> Bird Cage, one of my favorites, has to be a genre in and of itself.
>

Wouldn't you classify it as a comedy?

Thaths

[silk] Myself, Gopi

2017-01-21 Thread C Y Gopinath 
My brother, Ramu Narayan, was a veteran of Silklist and often would speak
to me about his conversations and friends here. He passed away on January
14 this year, and I came down to Mumbai to be with him and now to deal with
his aftermath.

In introducing myself to this group, I feel like I'm stepping into someone
else's shoes.

I do many things, but primarily am know for my writing — both on food, and
as an author of several books, including *Travels with the Fish*, *The Book
of Answers* and *Hoyt's War*. I also make movies, cook, teach cooking, work
with theatre in distant communities, and have reasonable graphic design
skills, to name a few.

I'm 64, live in Bangkok, and travel around the world a great deal. My
Twitter handle is humbird — you'll probably get a good sense of me from
there.

Looking forward to travels with the silk. .


Gopi

www.cygopinath.com


[image: --]

C Y Gopinath
[image: https://]about.me/humbird

[silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies (Thaths)

2017-01-21 Thread Shoba Narayan 
Semiya-upma western
Quick Gun Murugan
Baasha

Coming of age
16 Vayadhunile

Road trip
All those Ooty movies with Nagesh
Barfi???

Bird Cage, one of my favorites, has to be a genre in and of itself.

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian 
Coming of age for a girl - though amateurishly handled - Gippy

--srs

> On 22-Jan-2017, at 9:27 AM, karthik natarajan  wrote:
> 
> Coming of age: jo jeta wahi sikandar, udaan, rockford
> Triller+drama: 3 deewarein.
> 
> 
> -- 
> karthik natarajan
> [+91 99232 27049]
> [majorchaos.in]
> 
> From: Venkatesh H R  
> Reply: silklist@lists.hserus.net 
> 
> Date: 22 January 2017 at 9:23:06 AM
> To: Silk List  
> Subject:  Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies
> 
> Are there any teenage coming-of-age movies? I can't remember. But I suppose
> Lakshya would be a coming-of-age movie.
> Mythology comedy (is this really a genre?) - Maya Bazar
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 8:38 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
>> 
>> Gangster: Nayakan
>>

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Thaths 
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:53 PM Venkatesh H R  wrote:

> Are there any teenage coming-of-age movies? I can't remember. But I suppose
> Lakshya would be a coming-of-age movie.
> Mythology comedy (is this really a genre?) - Maya Bazar
>

Interesting. I guess the closest Hollywood genre would be one of those
Gladiator/Roman films (Quo Vadis, Ben Hur). But they don't quite have the
comedy thread running through them.

Thaths





> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 8:38 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
>
> > Gangster: Nayakan
> >
>

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Thaths 
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:08 PM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Gangster: Nayakan
>

Gangster: Don

Thaths

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread karthik natarajan 
Coming of age: jo jeta wahi sikandar, udaan, rockford
Triller+drama: 3 deewarein.


-- 
karthik natarajan
[+91 99232 27049]
[majorchaos.in]

From: Venkatesh H R  
Reply: silklist@lists.hserus.net 

Date: 22 January 2017 at 9:23:06 AM
To: Silk List  
Subject:  Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

Are there any teenage coming-of-age movies? I can't remember. But I suppose
Lakshya would be a coming-of-age movie.
Mythology comedy (is this really a genre?) - Maya Bazar
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 8:38 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Gangster: Nayakan
>

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Venkatesh H R 
Are there any teenage coming-of-age movies? I can't remember. But I suppose
Lakshya would be a coming-of-age movie.
Mythology comedy (is this really a genre?) - Maya Bazar
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 8:38 AM Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

> Gangster: Nayakan
>

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N 
Gangster: Nayakan

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Shyam Sunder 
Also sports - Chak de India, and now Dangal

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Subject: Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 5:36 AM, Thaths  wrote:

Spaghetti Western: Sholay
> Black comedy: Jaane bhi do yaaro
>

​Sports: Lagaan​

-- 

((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

Re: [silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Udhay Shankar N 
On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 5:36 AM, Thaths  wrote:

Spaghetti Western: Sholay
> Black comedy: Jaane bhi do yaaro
>

​Sports: Lagaan​

-- 

((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))

[silk] Examplars of genre in Indian movies

2017-01-21 Thread Thaths 
The other day I was thinking of whether there was such a thing as a "road
movie" in Indian cinema. After just a few minutes I could list a handful of
Indian films that could be considered road movies:

Madras to Pondicherry (Tamil)
Bombay to Goa
Chennai Express

All these films were road trips on a mass transit system. I wondered if
there were films where the protagonist(s) traveled more independently. I
didn't have to think long to come up with:

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Swades

to add to the list.

This got me thinking about two things:

1. What is an exemplar Indian movie for each genre? Wikipedia, helpfully,
has a list of genres .

2. Are there genres where we have not had an Indian film made? For
localized genres (such as Mexican sex comedy, Yakuza, Blaxploitation,
etc.), what the closest Indian genre?

Let me get things rolling with the following:

Spaghetti Western: Sholay
Black comedy: Jaane bhi do yaaro

What are other exemplars in Indian cinema of various genre? Are there genre
('Space opera', for example) where you can't think of a single Indian movie?

Thaths

Re: [silk] Intro

2017-01-21 Thread Nagi Reddy 
> Well, Nagi, you certainly have a name famous in Indian movie
> circles...welcome :D
>
> Deepa.
>

Thank you Deepa! I hear that all the time :) An old fashioned name, but my
namesake did strike it big in the movie circles.

Thank you Venkatesh, Amitha and ALL for the welcome. Pranaams. Great to see
a few familiar faces here.

Regards,
Nagi

Re: [silk] Gaurav Vaz - Introduction

2017-01-21 Thread Nagi Reddy 
Welcome aboard Gaurav! :)

Re: [silk] Gaurav Vaz - Introduction

2017-01-21 Thread Nagi Reddy 
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Mohit  wrote:

> I think Nagi missed out on saying he's an angel investor too :)
>
> Mahesh: you got company! ;)
>

I guess I was too shy to mention angel investing sirji :)  And yeah,
nothing close to what mighty MM does.

Regards,
Nagi

Re: [silk] Gaurav Vaz - Introduction

2017-01-21 Thread Gaurav Vaz 
Thanks everyone! And I see a LOT of familiar faces, that's awesome :)

And yes we should talk about all of this right from the Uke playing to the
investing and please,  I'm no where close to the Mighty Mahesh when it
comes to investing.

Looking forward to fun times here!

-Gaurav

Re: [silk] Gaurav Vaz - Introduction

2017-01-21 Thread Mohit 

> On 21-Jan-2017, at 19:35, Madhu Menon  wrote:
> 
> Angel investor too? Do tell. :)

I think Nagi missed out on saying he's an angel investor too :)

Mahesh: you got company! ;)

Regards,
Mohit

Re: [silk] Gaurav Vaz - Introduction

2017-01-21 Thread Madhu Menon 
On 21 Jan 2017 1:48 p.m., "Gaurav Vaz"  wrote:



I work as a web consultant with my start-up, The Random Lines, and am also
a very small scale angel investor who loves working with small businesses
and start-ups in various capacities.


Angel investor too? Do tell. :)

Re: [silk] Intro

2017-01-21 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan 
Welcome Nagi. We met earlier this year at SBI Mumbai.

Venky

Re: [silk] Gaurav Vaz - Introduction

2017-01-21 Thread Radhika, Y. 
Nice to see you here. I am uke-ing in celebration..

Re: [silk] Gaurav Vaz - Introduction

2017-01-21 Thread Amitha Singh 
Welcome Gaurav! Nice to see another familiar face in the conversations :)
Regards, Amitha

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
 Original message From: Gaurav Vaz  Date: 
21/01/2017  1:46 p.m.  (GMT+05:30) To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: 
[silk] Gaurav Vaz - Introduction 
Hi Everyone!

I finally managed to join this amazing group after years of hearing and
reading about it. Thanks a lot Udhay for the invitation :)

I am a proper jack of all trades and I might have interacted with a few of
you in different capacities. I play the bass guitar and am the artist
manager for The Raghu Dixit Project, a contemporary folk band from
Bangalore and am quite active in the Indian indie music scene in different
capacities.

I work as a web consultant with my start-up, The Random Lines, and am also
a very small scale angel investor who loves working with small businesses
and start-ups in various capacities.

I am really looking forward to catching up with all of you at some point
and being part of some great conversations here.

Thanks,
Gaurav

-- 
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!

http://gauravvaz.com

Re: [silk] Intro

2017-01-21 Thread Amitha Singh 
Welcome to the conversations Nagi! :)
Regards, Amitha


Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
 Original message From: Nagi Reddy  Date: 
20/01/2017  6:00 p.m.  (GMT+05:30) To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: 
[silk] Intro 
Hello All,

I've just joined the list - thanks Udhay!

I am a strategy/finance guy by profession, sports enthusiast & a dreamer by
choice. I like badminton, tennis, movies & am lazy beyond repair. Love
single malts and good conversations.

I live in hyderabad after having wandered around a bit. My alumni listing
has National Institute of Technology Warangal and Indian School of Business
Hyderabad.

Looking forward to some great conversations.

Cheers,
Nagi Reddy

Re: [silk] Gaurav Vaz - Introduction

2017-01-21 Thread Mahesh Murthy 
Hey Gaurav

Welcome aboard :)

On 21-Jan-2017 1:47 PM, "Gaurav Vaz"  wrote:

> Hi Everyone!
>
> I finally managed to join this amazing group after years of hearing and
> reading about it. Thanks a lot Udhay for the invitation :)
>
> I am a proper jack of all trades and I might have interacted with a few of
> you in different capacities. I play the bass guitar and am the artist
> manager for The Raghu Dixit Project, a contemporary folk band from
> Bangalore and am quite active in the Indian indie music scene in different
> capacities.
>
> I work as a web consultant with my start-up, The Random Lines, and am also
> a very small scale angel investor who loves working with small businesses
> and start-ups in various capacities.
>
> I am really looking forward to catching up with all of you at some point
> and being part of some great conversations here.
>
> Thanks,
> Gaurav
>
> --
> If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!
>
> http://gauravvaz.com
>

Re: [silk] Gaurav Vaz - Introduction

2017-01-21 Thread Biju Chacko 
Welcome. You may find some familiar faces here.

-- b

On 21 Jan 2017 13:47, "Gaurav Vaz"  wrote:

> Hi Everyone!
>
> I finally managed to join this amazing group after years of hearing and
> reading about it. Thanks a lot Udhay for the invitation :)
>
> I am a proper jack of all trades and I might have interacted with a few of
> you in different capacities. I play the bass guitar and am the artist
> manager for The Raghu Dixit Project, a contemporary folk band from
> Bangalore and am quite active in the Indian indie music scene in different
> capacities.
>
> I work as a web consultant with my start-up, The Random Lines, and am also
> a very small scale angel investor who loves working with small businesses
> and start-ups in various capacities.
>
> I am really looking forward to catching up with all of you at some point
> and being part of some great conversations here.
>
> Thanks,
> Gaurav
>
> --
> If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!
>
> http://gauravvaz.com
>

Re: [silk] Gaurav Vaz - Introduction

2017-01-21 Thread Anish Mohammed 
On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 at 09:17, Gaurav Vaz  wrote:

> Hi Everyone!
>
> I finally managed to join this amazing group after years of hearing and
> reading about it. Thanks a lot Udhay for the invitation :)
>
> I am a proper jack of all trades and I might have interacted with a few of
> you in different capacities. I play the bass guitar and am the artist
> manager for The Raghu Dixit Project, a contemporary folk band from
> Bangalore and am quite active in the Indian indie music scene in different
> capacities.
>
> I work as a web consultant with my start-up, The Random Lines, and am also
> a very small scale angel investor who loves working with small businesses
> and start-ups in various capacities.
>
> I am really looking forward to catching up with all of you at some point
> and being part of some great conversations here.
>
> Thanks,
> Gaurav
>
> --
> If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!
>
> http://gauravvaz.com
>


Welcome to the list :) I am sure you wouid fit in well

[silk] Gaurav Vaz - Introduction

2017-01-21 Thread Gaurav Vaz 
Hi Everyone!

I finally managed to join this amazing group after years of hearing and
reading about it. Thanks a lot Udhay for the invitation :)

I am a proper jack of all trades and I might have interacted with a few of
you in different capacities. I play the bass guitar and am the artist
manager for The Raghu Dixit Project, a contemporary folk band from
Bangalore and am quite active in the Indian indie music scene in different
capacities.

I work as a web consultant with my start-up, The Random Lines, and am also
a very small scale angel investor who loves working with small businesses
and start-ups in various capacities.

I am really looking forward to catching up with all of you at some point
and being part of some great conversations here.

Thanks,
Gaurav

-- 
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!

http://gauravvaz.com