The day this post was typed; I stumbled on the imdb comedy chart for confirming the answer for one of the Quiz questions on the internal bulletin board.
Here’s what I found: http://imdb.com/chart/comedy
The imdb charts list the truly great movies of all time, and also genre wise and it’s more or less a correct compilation.
And the movie that heads the comedy charts now is Lage raho munna bhai!!!!!!
What the!!!!
And this is placed right above the all time classics of the like Singin in the rain, Some like it hot and Monty python and the holy grail
I guess the hindi speaking (knowing as well! :D ) population is crawling all over the place and hell bent on spreading it’s mediocrity world over
IMHO, Lage rahoo….was decent…silly movie, good enough for a few laughs, summer hit. That’s all…In fact I liked the first part much better…
It definitely is not in the all time greats league…Someone please drive the bollywood scum off imdb!
And if a hindi movie does have to be up there, I would gladly carry the banner for Jaane bhi do yaaro…may be for position 8…

P.S: the highest rated Indian movie however is Pushpak (pesum padam; kamala hassan and amala) at 9.6/10

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Posted by Sat at 4:04 PM
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Lousy title I know ;)
But as much as I enjoy a cup of coffee in between work....especially during those mid day blues...I hate washing that mug.
Actually not really, but who'd want to walk back to the cafeteria just to wash that mug....anyway I'd have to wash it next time I'd want to have a coffee right?!
My friend responded to this with an 'eeeeeeeesssssshhhh!'...mainly because sometimes I drink from that mug once in 2 or 3 days!
I know....under normal circumstances I'd cringe myself, but then 'Nobody's perfect' (Thanks Harish...that's an awesomely handy oneliner!)
Of late I am trying to get back to the wash-mug-immediately habit; it so happened that in my haste to rush for free chocolates in someone's cubicle (ooru perellam kekala!) I happened to fling my earphones on my desk. Now one of that landed straight into this dirrrty mug with remnants of some 2 day old latte...And when I got back I was least bothered to check it and hurriedly put it back on to my ear...Yikes!
Trust me, the only thing that my ears have found worse than that was Himesh 'Nosetradamus' Reshamiya's voice...Nashty...

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Posted by Sat at 12:28 AM
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Thevaya enakku indha vendatha vedhanai?...despite scores of warnings, I watched Dhoom 2...pls...I know, appadi andha padathula enna thaan irukunu paaka poi maatikitten :(
Plus en janma virodhi(I've put a reward on his head now) said that you just might catch a glimpse of John Abraham...so there!
I think the whole of Yashraj shouldn't be allowed to produce movies. It's turning out to be quite a threat to mankind. Now to the punch bag which i just love doing...I got loads for this movie, let me get to them one at a time:

Hrithik: Flaring ugly nostrils are his idea of gr8 acting. Thank god he doesn't do that in this movie. What he does manage to do is dance; I thought we were going to witness someone like the ice cool Kabir, but what do we have; Michael Jackson meets Mcqueen? Oh boy...this conman can actually spend time trying out those john players outfits, wierd wigs and shaking a leg. I hope Danny Ocean is listening. And did you say acting?...c'mon when did this guy EVER act? Kudos to Hrithik for making a lover boy even out of this character... *barf*!

P.S: Most hillarious sequence I've seen in recent times; Hrithik wearing an old man get up melts a man hole cover
(yawn) and jumps in only to emerge on the other side in that 'fountain' and viola, dressed in that body hugging black whatever. Now I can really picture him ripping his clothes and beard off him as he was running underground; guess the last time someone did that was in one of those scary movies (some dumb blonde!). They should have shown that; it would have given all the comic flicks a run for their money.

Ash-tray: Wow, I just love thrashing this one; that's the only thing it's fit for :) She's lost so much weight (inspiration Bips?) that she looks like one of those famished pale women from the German concentration camp; and of course over aged for the role. Does a couple of unnecessary good dances and lip synchs to that irritating 'crazy kiya re' (how do they come up with lyrics like that?). And her attempt at acting is just as pathetic as ever; really even the dumbest of bimbos learned to act by the time they were her age; I mean look at Raveena in films like Mohra...and then look at what she did 10 years later. Look at our very own Simran in films like Nerukku ner and VIP and then kannathil muthamittal. But ash...wow, she only gets worse with time. And this time she attempts to be the glamourous siren with loads of attitude, something that comes naturally to a lot of other actresses...it's almost enraging! :D
'Are you like checking me out?' I never felt like killing an actress before, but looking at the way this was delivered, I am re-thinking!

Bipasha: I like this actress. Guess she along with Sush are the only ones who have some brains in mainstream bollywood. And both of them spell attitude. She's been completely wasted in this movie. Bips dont sign movies with yashraj; ditto for ur beau. She's in this movie for skimpy clothes and god...they had to create a twin out of her character obviously coz they can't get a police officer to walk (read pose) around Rio clad in an itsy bitsy bikini. Pathetic!

Abhishek Bachan: He's ugly. He's dull. He sucks...big time. Worst line 'tumse milkar bada maza ayega mr A' yeah yeah. Abhishek should stick to RGV and Mani Ratnam only. They're the only ones who can make him look good, and more so make him act. Otherwise he's so trying to be his papa-like that's it's annoying.
P.S: Another funny one here. Did you know that they make submarines that look like water scooters? A.B uses one such thing in this movie, he appears from nowhere from under the water, flies over a boat and shoots down a couple of guys in the meantime before getting back on water. And yeah, there's also a hitch hiking on a parachute.

Chopra guy: He's in this movie because they wanted some jackass on steroids for this movie and since he's completely jobless being the loser that he is and since no one else would sign him and since he's a chopra and probably they dont have to pay him (cost cutting ya see). I've got no more lines to waste on this one.

That's all that this film has to offer?...not really. There's more. Some really 'brilliant' cons like the one at the museum, train.Dhoom 2 would have been a cult hit had it been officially released as a spoof; but then the director thought that it's possible to pass this off as a serious con movie in India and I must say he has succeeded in doing that. It's always house full!...I dont believe the number of morons in our country. After watching a movie called Aankhen I thought this genre can get a following in Indian film industry, but Dhoom series gives that hope a lethal blow. There would be more such plastic films coming our way, may be a ghoom or a jhoom or god forbid a Dhoom 3...but pls...the likes of RGV, Kamal and Mani Ratnam, pls make a world class con movie....puhlease!

P.S: That reminds me...There's a movie called The Italian Job; not the one starring Ed Norton, Mark Wahlberg and Charlize Theron...but the original Italian Job starring a much younger and handsome Michael Caine. It's one of the best cons I've ever seen. And a world class parody ...try and get a DVD from one of those lending libraries; might be difficult to get, but worth all that trouble. Truly a gem and has one of the best endings.
'You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!'
P.P.S: Guess Yashraj will soon be back in town with another no brainer Kabul Express…the promos feature a John Abraham looking absurdly happy (is that lip gloss he’s wearing?....shudder!) and an Arshad Warsi who seems to have the larger half of the Pizza…But I like circuit so I just might watch this one :)

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Posted by Sat at 11:00 PM
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All those familiar with Calvin couldn’t possibly have missed out his dad…and of course the kind of ‘answers’ he has for Calvin’s questions. The sad thing is there’s a Calvin dad in almost every dad!
I remember my dad not having ever taken the pains of really educating me reg. certain things. The most famous one; at least according to witnesses that day would be ‘The Pelican crossing’

Me: Pa, what’s pelican crossing?
Pa: eh?...where did you see that?
Me: There by the road side…
Pa: Oh…okie, may be someone breeds Pelicans somewhere near by
Me: oh!....hey wait a minute, why would you need a crossing for them?...they’re birds aren’t they…won’t they just fly across?
Pa: Of course they do…they fly yes, don’t they….but you see people need to be warned that their windshields are likely to become dirty!
Me: Oh!

So how many of you have more such pelican crossings to narrate? :D

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Posted by Sat at 10:16 AM
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Well some ideas just backfire so mercilessly…it leaves you wondering what on earth made you come up with it. Recently as part of some celebrations arranged in an office, it was decided that there would be a 20 plus metres long banner put up which will have messages from the employees. What they did not anticipate was that all the pent up fury would explode on this banner! The employees chose to crib their hearts out on this…from cries of increase in salary to pleas for that long pending transfer to general outcry on how the whole system..er sucks! As expected the banner did not see light after that :D
Moral of the story; don’t push your luck too hard with a frustrated work force!

P.S: Wonder where that banner is right now?!

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Posted by Sat at 12:50 AM
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