saw sholay yesterday night . first time with nish . both of us had seen it earlier ( who hasn’t ) but never together.
and i surprised him by spewing out almost all the dialogues . not only the famous ones like ‘kitne aadmi the’ , ‘ye haath mujhe de de thakur ‘ or ‘mausiji ….’. i remembered even the not so famous ones also. if there are any in this category for this film.
nish was so surprised at my filmipanna ; as he called it . ya , i still remembered the complete suurma bhopali’s speech . with all the right pauses n all.
i would remember it , why wudnt i ? i had learned it by heart from a two cassette set that was at my nani’s place. tho the movie had released at the time when i couldn’t speak but its euphoria continued till i did . n my mama maassi et all kinda rataoed me the whole thing during vacations. so vella were they !
n this skill i was asked to display time and again in front of adoring public. which comprised of my other maasis n mamas mostly. n i loved the attention i guess. i continued for quite a while till i outgrew them, maybe.
but i never forgot them, i guess.
why would i forget them now …i didn’t forget the multiplication tables , did i ?
ya there were lots of things tho, which kinda looked weird now. like thakur saab’s get up in the last scene – it was so obvious that his hands were inside the kurta . it was funny.
or that scene whr after the mehbooba mehbooba song jay gets injured , n comes back all crouched up on the horse. in obvious pain , yet .. surprise !!! he starts playing the mouth organ looking at radha, the moment he dismounts . clutching his wound with his other hand. arre somebody bandage the wound first .
there were some more too. but these are tiny points in a film , that is a huge masterpiece. part of every indian’s growing up. All of us have some or the other memory attached to this movie . so much is re-lived every time we watch it .
sholay is still one of my favorite movie of all times.
after all , i don’t remember the dialogues of rest of them .
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made dum biryani the first time on saturday .. n it has been officially appointed the dish for all Saturday lunches to come.
it is not so hard to make. just requires a little patience and advance preparation.
**tip - instead of dough to pack the sides , you can use aluminium foil also . i used both of them :D
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austere
: 6:24 PMWow Dum-Biryani sounds delicious. I love trying new dishes, maybe this will be the next one on my list...;)
: 5:38 AM : 8:57 AMaustere so true. 25 yrs ago to be precise ; n we still swear by the dialogues n characters.
pixel8 wAAh re meri dhanooo ;)
Ricky canadian tv ? they show hindi movies there too ? or is it a cable channel which shows indian movies ? try the biryani n tell me how it was ? remember the foil :D
anumita i can give you my recipe , gimme ur mail id . or just google for dum biryani - you wl find all you want.
somshubhra sahi kaha .. hey , you have a public blog too ? coz the link you leave here is of the one public (like me )cant access.
Nice post, anyway, sanguine...
in fact you have visitted it earlier!!
try http://wrik.blogspot.com.
i will see what i can do to make my blog public.
SUDIPTA LOL .. i know, goof up on their side ..
SOM of course i know you ..you are on my blogroll .. but the link that you left , doesnt let me access the blog, so i tho it is some other som .
n btw you havent updated for a while .. do it .
I will for sure try the Biryani and message you if I mess up...he he
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