A Conversation with Om Puri

Re: scout

``I liked those special effects that I saw in the trailers.``

The special effects are really well done...it`s worth watching just for that.

``cacophonous?``

Yeah, the movie is in Chinese with English subtitles...many desi people, including me, can`t stand to hear that language...not to be racist or anything, but it just sounds really harsh and grating...it`s just not a pleasant-to-the-ear language like hindi/urdu or even italian.

scout # 84

{``Rugrats in Paris`` was an excellent movie. Great dialogue, great story, great characters.

Best of all, it`s rated G for Good.}

hmmm.....your favorite TV show would be ``Power Puff Girls``?

The content is a bit mature so the rating might not be G

yours

MoJo JoJo

saxena #86,

I liked those special effects that I saw in the trailers. If the whole movie is like that, I`m in for it.

cacophonous?

Re: scout

{Anyone watch ``Crouching Tiger: Hidden Dragon?``}

It`s good if you like the Bruce Lee action genre. The dialogue (in Chinese) is cacophonous to desi ears.

tahmed321, #78

American Beauty. I guess it is not a new one anymore, but I saw it recently. Loved it. I very strongly recommend it.

tahmed,

``Rugrats in Paris`` was an excellent movie. Great dialogue, great story, great characters.

Best of all, it`s rated G for Good.

Anyone watch ``Crouching Tiger: Hidden Dragon?``

rsridhar #80,

Some excellent ones are Waaris (great story, award winner), Unkahi (my personal favorite), Tanhaiyan (awesome female power drama), Dhoop Kinaray (you`ll enjoy this one if you`re a doc), Dasht (ethnic), Sunehray Din (army cadet humor), Parosi, Anarkali, Tansen (if you like classical story lines), Babar(great historical drama), Angan Tera (funny as hell), Khuda ki Basti (based on the novel, if can find it), Uroosa, Nangay Paon (twisted story line), Aanch (family drama), Ahat (family troubles),

there are many more, cant` remember them just now...

I`m sure other people can add to my list here.

Saxena,

{{Safaai pesh karne ki zaroorat nahi...tum jaano aur tumhara kaam jaane}}

Et tu, my everlasting friend?! O lord this hindi/urdu kick is catching more & more.

OK let me tell you something,guys. Even 20something years ago I could barely carry on a fluent conversation in hindi. You goddamned Northies & Pakistanis think you own the whole frikking subcontinent:)

Please understand that people who live from Bombay downwards to S India study hindi only because you bums from the north are a majority & want to force your language down our throats. OK OK may that language is the greatest in the world for poetry & metaphors or crap like that. Hey, I cant speak it well & I`m proud of it! So sue me!.

Besides I`m proud to proclaim that the GREATEST poem ever written in the history of human civilisation is BABA BLACKSHEEP!!-yeeaah, way to go, baba! The F_K`s of this world can take a hike, for all I care.

In conclusion, O best friend of mine, at least write a bloody translation.

tahmed,

{{How about American movies? Anybody seen some good ones lately?}}

Just came back from seeing Hannibal. Heheh, my kind of psychiatrist.

Hi guys,

I have a question mainly from Pakistani friends on this forum.A few years ago when I was in New York, my good friend from Karachi who did residencey training with me (and with whom i have seen many movies,including some Hindi movies)recommended some Pakistani plays. One such play i saw was a comedy and goes by the name of ``Bakra kishton mein``. It had Umar Shareif and some other famous actors in it. I thought it was funny but not classy. May be someone here can post a list of really classy plays. I would not like to miss them if your pakistani plays are half as good as some people in this forum seem to think.

rsridhar

Considering this conversation is starting to go slide into a ditch, I guess it is OK to change the topic a bit: How about American movies? Anybody seen some good ones lately?

Omar Phenix #

It is PTV for us.

For RSaxena it is Pee T.V. That`s where he goes after seeing it.

Sometimes he wets even the carpet of his living room.

That is why you can smell his house from Brooklyn bridge.

And from that time he uses the word in such form.

His other ``Hawaij Zarooria`` needs horror movies and he calls them sh-it movies.

So don`t worry about blabbering of the Londeys.

shankar bhai #74,

:))

i hope this means free psychotherapy.

Re: Stupid #70

``P stands for Pakistani.``

Oh really, genius?

Re: shankar #74

Thanks for sharing your life story with us...very touching. Safaai pesh karne ki zaroorat nahi...tum jaano aur tumhara kaam jaane.

shammi #44 Just saw your description of Aakrosh. Thanks for taking the trouble to describe it. It is sad that Indian (and Pakistani) movies and plays so often depict the judicial system in a negative way. What is much much worse of course is that this is reality. Hopefully, things will improve with the rise of the middle class and other trends, since there is no reason why things should be like this.

I hope to see the movie too some day...