On Tuesday 17 Jun 2008 8:57:40 am Gautam John wrote:
> Spoiler Alert:
>
> http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=75893f9a-3391-4ab5-88c8-cf7e74bcd
>835

But but - many "serious" Hindi movies are just like this, and reactions to 
serious scenes are usually laughter.

Example "Shaan"

There were also a couple of Tamil movies in the 70's whose names I never found 
out even when I saw them

One was advertised as "Color falooda, Sex masala". Was nothing of the sort. I 
returned to a cold room (in Vellore) - I was there with the college cricket 
team only to find that all the other team members had put on all the pads, 
gloves and wrapped the crepe bandages around their faces to keep themselves 
warm and I shivered through the night along with the guy who took me to the 
movie. That guy is now a Kidney transplant surgeon in Coimbatore. I recall 
wanting to bash someone's head in with one of the bats I had for a pillow 
when - at 4 AM - a loudspeaker started blasting a devotional song over and 
over again about ten thousand times "Maruthamani maamaniye Murugaiya" - it 
went IIRC

Of the other, I recall parts. A man picks up the phone and says, "Operator! 
Give me America!" When he finally says "Hello" I presume someone on the other 
side has answered saying "Hello, this is America speaking". That is the movie 
that taught me those immortal words which I presume would be absolutely 
appropriate for "The Happening"

"What balls is this, Chalapathy?" - or to be precise "Wat baalls iss thiss 
Chalapathy?"

shiv



Reply via email to