Thursday, December 30, 2010

check out the heights of plagiarism

Rednex is a Swedish manufactured techno/folk/bluegrass band. They had an international novelty hit with the song "Cotton Eye Joe" in 1994. Although extremely popular in Germany, where the band holds the record of most total weeks (25) at No.1 on the German singles chart over the past 30 years—scoring such hits as "Old Pop in an Oak", "The Spirit of the Hawk” and "Wish You Were Here"--"Cotton Eye Joe" remains Rednex's sole hit in the United States.Rednex is a Swedish manufactured techno/folk/bluegrass band. They had an international novelty hit with the song "Cotton Eye Joe" in 1994. Although extremely popular in Germany, where the band holds the record of most total weeks (25) at No.1 on the German singles chart over the past 30 years—scoring such hits as "Old Pop in an Oak", "The Spirit of the Hawk” and "Wish You Were Here"--"Cotton Eye Joe" remains Rednex's sole hit in the United States.( source: wikipedia)

their version of cotton eyed joe which made them popular is here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddgyg_5FF_0
మరి మేము గొప్ప వారము. మాకు మేమే సాటి. నమ్మకము లేదా ? చూడండి:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYhrbj3i53U&feature=related   

పాపము శమించు కాక

cotton joe

i dont remember my age-but the class is X
doordarshan was the only channel
on occasions we had to listen to pop
this one was my child hoods favourite tune. ok its lifted and used shamelessly in Simhadri

"Cotton-Eyed Joe" is a popular American folk song known at various times throughout the United States and Canada, although today it is most commonly associated with the American South. In the Roud index of folksongs it is number 942.
"Cotton Eyed Joe" (also known as "Cotton Eye Joe") has inspired both a partner dance and more than one line dance that is often danced at country dance venues in the US and around the world. The 1980 film Urban Cowboy sparked a renewed interest in the dance. In 1985, The Moody Brothers' version of the song received a Grammy Award nomination for "Best Country Instrumental Performance." Irish group The Chieftains received a Grammy nomination for "Best Country Vocal Collaboration" for their version of the song on their 1992 album "Another Country." And, in 1994, a version of the song recorded by the Swedish band Rednex as "Cotton Eye Joe" became popular worldwide.( source: wikipedia)
 And guys from my childhood memories

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS3yKR66AYc

you can check links for rednex on youtube

fast car

thank you kamesh for introducing a world which i never felt before your advent
one such memory is the following musical piece
i am sure my friend will travel back in time listening to this
this is for you kamesh
the older one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl6yilkU1LI&feature=related

on the stage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orv_F2HV4gk

guys this song is directly lifted and used by keeravani and used in the "Prashant" starrer: LATHI ( first film by gunasekhar). When i refered to the songs of the film to Kamesh he gave me the cassete of Tracy Chapman to listen and the result is :

search for tracy chapman-- some thousand links are found.

Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artistTracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "GiveTracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for her singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", "Give Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist Me One Reason" and "Telling Stories". She is a multi-platinum and four-time Grammy Award-winning artist

Search for gunasekhar made prashant starrer keeravani musical " Lathi"

if you find any link do inform me

Sunday, December 12, 2010

complex subject--- simple treatment

My son who is  studying 8th  class raised three serious questions:


Q1:What is wiki leaks ?
Q2:Why Noble Prize was  placed on a empty  chair?


I explained him in  many ways. 
He felt confused and put up a serious face as if he was trying to understand the repressive measures by democratic and communist govt.
Not able to see his failure to understand i took up rather amusing way to solve his problem.


I)Ans for Q1:


I took him to my relatives house. There I left him for a while. Then I visited another relative X's home. There we talked about the previous relative. On our return I asked my son what he saw  and felt. He asked me "Nana(dad) , why they are complaining against each other?" I asked him to wait for a while. After  a hour my both my relatives  came to our house.They talked in great spirits. 


I thus spoke to my son: sampath( his name) now i am  US govt . I know about both my relatives but play the card of innocence. They also play the same card when both are  present. now there's a secret which i alone know. Now you also know  that. If you want you can leak it. You will be despised  by both of them. This  is what wiki leaks doing. Leaking secrets.

My son seemed satisfied with my explanation.

II) The second answer was rather delivered by a teacher  in his class.

Shyam his friend is  not in the great looks of the teacher. He was always given  punishment by that particular teacher. Yesterday he received a medal for his skill in sports. I( oh, i am sorry. i  am the correspondent of the school) sent the medal to the class and as to give it to him. At that time Shyam was given a punishment to stand outside the class. The teacher could have  called him in and should have made him happy. She simply put the medal near his bag. And proceeded with the class. My son was horrified and asked me why was it so? I simply   connected it to the noble prize episode.

III) Then my son asked me the climax question: Why you answered same questions in different manner in the morning? All these happen in and around


That's it Ravi Babu garu. Complex issues . Simple solutions.

Loved  your comic sense in Manasaara. 
Loved the music.
Loved the plot.
Your heroine will go places. That's for sure.

But Sir, Love Stories should be simply  told. You wanted to  tell 
---- how love happens all of a sudden
---- how  people forget everything  when they are in the aura of love
---- how hard to digest when the girl knows that the boy is coward and runs away
---- how a coward can overcome his cowardice to  win his love.


Alas. You brought in
---- Kalari or Kalarippayattu ( martial art of kerala) 
------ A  village ( or town) called rajapalayam in kerala
------ you declare the village is still 200 years back in civilization
------ but a bank with computers operate where the village elders don't even allow cell phones
------ a school for blind
------a national championship of kalari( this is great cinematic liberty)
----- and two love stories of mother & daughter
----- training modules aka karate kid


And i am unable to follow all these in  one movie. 
I am even unable to understand whether   a simple story  was presented in a complex way or too many  complexities made  simple


Thank  god. I  left my son at home.Other wise my life would have been simply  complex.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

THE RGV REALITY

when I was 11 I used to sleep on the dhaba ( terrace ). starring at the stars and their small size ( my social teacher should be complemented for he failed to explain the funda of stars) I often wondered why humans never try to bring them down.I always dreamt one day I will take a vessel of a stars size and go there in a space ship and trap a star in the vessel and bring the star down to earth. It gave me immense pleasure to imagine the scene and my childhood innocence made me believe that  one day I will .

But as I grew up and ironically chose social as a subject to teach, I realised the fall of my dreams. Even though i knew the foolishness of my dream i liked it. For it taught me impossibility should be accepted with grace. and its better we realize the reality in its own terms. And throughout life till date I always saw the way reality murdered the dreams.

And some dared to present the reality in books paintings and more often movies. Govind Nihalani made Tamas and people are shocked to see the ugly face of truth. Gulzar made Maachis and people remembered the days of trauma. Recently a journalist made Peepli Live and the country for another time discussed farmers suicides.

I have lots of examples in the pipeline. Ray, Mrinalsen, Shyam benegal ,Basu chaterjee, Ritwik Ghatak, made films to present reality by accepting its bitterness. The films never distorted the reality. they never provided solutions. often the directors accepted the truth that " bringing stars down is a impossibility" thats why these great men always vented out anger through characters ( see the character of Nasserudin shah in Aakrosh)

Dear Ram Gopal Varma : watched your Raktha Charitra 2.  you does an impossibility. you murdered reality.

i don't want to discuss movie here.

 What  ever be the profession one should always choose between two things.

                                                          Create.
                                                          Follow.

Paradoxically  often you quote Ayn Rand.

Let me tell you

 The pain of knowing yourself  will make you prepare yourself for the ultimate you are destined for.

This is what Roark should have felt when he declined the deans offer in the beginning. This is how peter keating should have felt when he tried to build his last project. ( sorry guys to know Roark and Keating study "The Fountainhead")

                                                        In Ayn Rand's Words
" ---------------- only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature_ and that the rest will betray it."

you belong to rest--- dear rgv

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

neither sugar nor salt in this ORANGE

Greats have tried to evolve a definition for love and no one ever defined it in a universal way
 love is universal but definition is highly localized.
Almost love as per the annals  of Indian cinema is just like the Indian federation. The National love ( bollywood) is a way different from regional cinema.Tamil love is different from telugu and kannada is different from ............. often these loves were imported ad presented on the screen. Some times they were dubbed( maine pyar kiya, DDLJ ,  HAHK.....)

Folks in all these movies there is love love love and love. Love that ever ends. Love that is compared with ocean. Love is God. Love is ...............scores  hundreds thousands lakhs and crores of tons of love............and the so called youth of various generations  swam in this great depths of  love  and identified them with the romeos and juliets of the magical screen..

 Two questions always bothered me from the age of 16. they are:
i always thought :                         1) what is endless love -- what is more love-- what is less love
i should be thankful to my friend kamesh that i got a very good explanation.
it is as follows:
The writer of Chivaraku Migiledi-(చివరికి  మిగిలేది) ( a classic in Telugu literature)
simply concludes theres never more or less in love. its simply love.
( ప్రేమలో ఎక్కువ ప్రేమ తక్కువ ప్రేమ ఉండవు )
                                                        thank you sir doubt cleared

                          2) Can any one remain the same with a girl  with the same amounts of affection and care through out as our great movies proclaim.
My theory was even devdas may lose at a point of time alas no one told him.
this remained a doubt and i went on reading a lot of fiction as well as watched a lot of  stuff to under stand but never no one tried to tell how to sustain and  the secret behind the ever lasting relationships.movies like jerry maguire ----pretty woman------ghost------- have never given me a thirst quenching answer. Books like priyuralu pilichindi..... pride and prejudice... all tried to stop somewhere in the middle.

I always wondered what achieves the line  "they lived happily ever"

I have become curious when i heard Orange tried to tell this. i am made to rush (despite my severe disturbances at office) hearing that the protagonist is a pioneer of true love. and nothing stopped when i read in a review that the hero concludes pure love never lasts
  • I rushed to Theater pushing all my programs back with my student
  • watched the movie in the  floor ticket ( నేల టికెట్టు )----at  100 rs -----thanks to our multiplex culture we achieved equality rather in a variety way
  • i tried to get the point in rather a forgettable 2hr 30 min ride. let me tell you -some are amazed at the grandeur of the movie----some at the innovative way of love ( some may have prayed to legalise such system)- even my student was satisfied with the directors effort( he changed his view after some clean sleep and thought).
so lets get into business

the story:
__________________________________________________________________________
  • .............................. hero falls in love with a girl.
  • has to keep lying and acting to keep her happy.
  • As such breaks up with her and devlops an ideology that ever lasting love is myth and .....
  • -------------starts loving a girl till they develop aversion( how he knows the aversion: simple when he has to lie to her or she develops situations where he has to lie..... the relation is over)
  • ------------------------he continues loving 9 girls and breaks up with them(honestly informs every girl before hand his ideology and that this is a short term relation if the girls makes him lie)
  • ------------------and ----------------------------------
  • the 10th one is our  heroine------------
  • our hero falls for her for the 10th time------------------
  • informs her about his ideology-----------------------
  •  she gets shocked ------------------
  • tries to avoid him but he never leaves her..........
  • for the rest watch it on the screen

Saturday, November 13, 2010

kalyan ram katti

i dont know what made me this film my first to put here. perhaps years back i watched "athanokkade" when iam very much uder distress. that  movie introduced surender reddy to telugu screen.i thought this hero has a love for movies.so when i learnt this man is introducing aother new oe with this film i thought .....................

so heres my first post on a film which you should even need not watch on a tv roadcast-

scene 1:  i love foot ball( since i can hit it with my legs) 
scene 2 : i love my sister amd my family( sis is a part of family but i love her a  lot)
scene 3 : i will fall on the legs of goons to protect my sister
scene 4 : i will thrash the goons for other girls( funda of a life time)
scene 5 : i love the heroine( sorry heroine loves me. dont kow why. girls are hard to understand) 
scene 6 : i love the villain ( sorry my sis married him)
scene 7:  i love to die and again live at the same moment
scene 8:  i am god (because the villain worships my photo)



     అందుకే  ఈ సినిమాకి కత్తి అని పేరు (thats why this film is named katti)
     my line: they should have thought before the film. they forgot  to do so during the making of the film.
                                          కత్తికి బలవకండి
rk

my way of a movie

i am not here to review a movie like every one. my desire is to share a right spot in otherwise a worst movie. my desire is to share my point with u and hope fully we make a ride
just waiting for the first movie