cement's been a recurring theme for me today. In the morning cement was the topic for the calvin & hobbes strip in TOI. After returning from office, i was glancing through the paper again and found that the T-shirt quote of the day was again related to cement. "drink cement, get stoned". pretty good!
i hovered over the calvin strip again and the sight of cement sticking to calvin and hobbes' back prompted a scary thought. How effective a tool for torture, grievance addressal, revenge etc can cement be! picture this - there is a person u want to badly hurt, but don't want any blood shed. Simple! tie him up, preferably with his limbs in awkward positions, pour cement over them and leave it to dry! boy! thats gonna cement his fate literally. how the hell is he gonna get it off him?
but seriously, cement can be a potent 'weapon of mass restriction'. i wonder why scriptwriters never thought of it. Imagine the prospects, Rajnikant has, to display his extra human (not to be confused with extra terrestrial, however suggestive his looks might be) skills.
Its the climax. Rajni who had been drugged and captured by the villian is covered from neck to toe in cement. An obviously irritated Rajni's temper is pushed to the limit when he sees the villian publicly challenging the heroine's modesty..next moment is heard a deafening roar from Rajni accompanied by vigourous shaking of the head and before anyone realises, cement splinters are flying in all directions and there stands Rajnikant, brushing off some dust off his shoulders, one eyebrow raised, giving his sexy look. thts fodder for a month of housefulls in chennai, i can bet.
concrete thought?
Monday, August 06, 2007
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Had a hearty laugh! :)
ReplyDeleteNeat, i say!
pretty well thought and very much implementable...infact i guess anarkali of mughale aazam fame was subjected to ur kinda torture!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a "Claustrophobic" idea!!! Anyway, a question. Will it be still funny if you replace these kollywood actors with hollywood thespians who can dodge bullets?. If not, why?!!
ReplyDeletei got your point!
ReplyDeleteits just perspective...a Clint eastwood wouldn't be picturized as effectively as Rajnikant would be
moreover..i'm sure noone overdoes it as much as we do
if u're still not convinced, search 'balayya' on youtube..literally mind blowing!!
oh!..i barked up the wrong tree earlier. now i get u'r point.
ReplyDeleteanswer to the first question - Yes
by the time "hollywood" arrived, americans was a mature country with similar (atleast related) sensibilities among its people.
but for us, cinema started as a hobby of the elite. that period saw sensible cinema. Then it was taken over by the masses. the masses were and still are 'developing'. rest is business!!
@PAdmakumar
ReplyDeletemy answer: yes
Rajnikant has always been assiciated with supernatural stunts, so what was initially looked upon with awe and "respect for cinematography", has begun to be the subject of mockery.
Such antics, if shown in real world situations in hollywood movies, would no doubt be laughable..
--nishit.
It could be since Indians are, "on an average", highly emotional and do want "supernaturality" and inhuman (ultrahuman!) performances by the actors. Even the epics like Ram. or Mah. which were enjoyed by people (mainly through story telling and nadan kalakal-Folk arts) tell of such stories. This is also the reason why some of the first films to be produced like keechakavadham or draupadivastraapaharanam were based on such stories.
ReplyDeleteIMHO, since successful films let people associate their emotions with the characters, it should not matter whether it is the "elite" class or the "masses" (if at all such a divison exist or have correlation with wealth/status) for which the film is produced for. Produce a film to vent out your feeling through the characters and voila!!! you have a box office hit!
i was half expecting you to latch on to my use of the word 'elite' against 'masses'.
ReplyDeleteBy using that i was only trying to differentiate between the ignorant (illiterate, superstitious, gullible) and the educated(cognizant, rational)
regarding the supernatural in epics, its justified even now because they are accepted to be stories. Hollywood too has its share of supernatural thrillers, but they are accordingly labelled so, Unlike auto drivers sending goondas spiralling into the air :D
and finally, what u term as emotional, i term as 'small-world-pleasure' for lack of a suitable single word :)
good one....! but dont do you dare say anything rajni!
ReplyDeleteYou don't want to get cemented by writing on Rajni...Man you are in a soup....Get this off your blog
ReplyDeleteoh its nothing man..bakfire is a jerk i know ;)
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