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Raat Gayi Baat Gayi: Yaaddash bhi gayi

“Kaun Kambakth hain jo bardaasht karne ke liye peetaa hai…..Main to peetaa hoon ki use bhul sakoo…..” - Dilip Kumar, Devdas 1955.

The director of Raat Gayi Baat Gayi took this immortalised line a bit too seriously and made a film out of it.

Can drunken stupor lead to Alzheimer’s?  In Bollywood it can:

Question is can drunken stupor lead to a man losing his memory enough to make a film based on it?  If you go by Bollywood standards, it is.

2010’s first release Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi ( for our international readers can our readers comment with their literal English translation for this Hindi phrase? We are a bit lost in translation), is all about what happens to a man who has a drunken binge in a party one evening and then gets hit so hard that he forgets everything that ensues thereafter.

Enter Rajat Kapoor, a married man who goes to a party and ends up a few pegs down. But alcohol takes it toll and poor Rajat is left to deal with the deadly aftermath of his drinking spree. Add to it a pretty bimbette, a committed and funny friend, some funny lines  and we have got celluloid worth two hours over popcorn and coke.

Kapoor, who plays Rahul in the movie wakes up one fine morning with a wooden mouth and is not able to recall what happened the previous night at the party which he attended (nothing unusual, I fight such hangover like a brave heart every weekend). However, he remembers that in the party he was stoned and was blatantly flirting with Neha Dhupia, who plays Sophia in the film. (why I don’t ever get to flirt with anyone remotely like that when I get hung over is easily explainable by my mug shot) However, the duo end up going to an out-of-the-way room together and then…..there is the classic Bollywood twist….sorry Rahul remembers only this much. Booze has obliterated his memory from that point onwards. Interesting, isn’t it?

With Rahul trying hard to recall further action, he finds his wife, Iravati Harshe, Mitali in the film, leaving the house in a huff, without any usual question or explanation – What, why….arrey…hey…. Clueless and curious, Rahul with his friend Amit played by Vinay Pathak, step out to find the details about their “ one night at the Roxbury’s” . The duo then visit, Saxena (Dalip Tahil), the host and dost of that party where not just Rahul but everyone else was hitting on someone like there is no tomorrow. With no zup-zak-zup flashback sound effect, the story goes in the flashback mode to help Rahul recall (This is classic Alzheimer’s over alcohol)

As expected from the Rajat-Vinay camp, Ranvir Shorey too is in the film but has nothing much to do. The movie directed by Saurabh Shukla has no unusual twist or turn to it.  I can’t really comment on Neha Dhupia’s performance, since her curves obliterated my review-meter. Rest everyone has performed tad decent with Vinay Pathak stealing the show with his well timed comic lines. All together a decent watch, better than playing Radio inside your mind.

I will not talk further, because I am bored and I am moody, even jealous because I have never had the chance to play the one night stand game. When I am sloshed, I only remember the wise rickshaw wallah dropping me home; bloody he drops me at my place only. Yes…our English is like that only! Guys please do send comments with literal translations in English of Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi!

SRK tweets vs Fake IPL Blogger – Best Match for IPL 3?

It’s 1:54 am. Tinsel Talkies wants to be @iamsrk (Shah Rukh Khan’s twitter account) 17,000^th follower while Badshah is out for dinner with Ritesh Deshmukh as informed by the “King” himself there –

“whole day was thinking have to write and touchbase…now heading out to have dinner with riteishd…will write some meaningful bits in 5 hrs”

Yes, within hours of his first tweet, the self acclaimed Badshah’s twitter microblogging account has been flooded with tweets and followers. Now, he has 16,999 followers with only 8 in the following list (Barkha Dutt, Anand Mahindra, Junior Bacchan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Rajdeep Sardesai….) Oops, by the time I reached this sentence, the number of followers already crossed 17,000.

That’s all he wrote over the day:

for everyone who wants to know…the family is good..the kids wonderful…the wife shouting…and the new film will discuss soon…

guess i am going to be tweeting ..is that wot it is called? late nites. be back soon with some opinions that we all can discuss or trash.

sorry been in a script meet for the last four hours. actually playing arkham asylum batman new game…cos the next film is video game based.

kids and life calling…watching tim burton’s 9 with them…last holiday…so up late…catch up later. sleep or be awake well.love to all.

injury has kept me away from making more films. will work my back off to be around more…the shoulder feels strong and so do i.

thanx everyone this is really sweet…didnt expect such a warm welcome. love to u all.

hi everyone. being extremely shy i never thought i would be here. but my friend @kjohar25 insisted that i should learn to share my life.

Media is going ga-ga over SRK’s entry to Twitter. Quite obvious, Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkha Dutt are among the 8 few fortunate people in his following list. Well, perfect timing for Mr.Khan to say ‘My Name is Khan” and “I own KKR” with the third edition of IPL just round the corner. It would be exciting to see if his tweets can counter the negative blogging from mysterious Fake IPL Blogger.

SRK’s tryst with social media has been horrible with fake IPL Blogger’s during IPL 2. Remember?

Let’s see how active Shahrukh Khan turns on Twitter. Are you excited about Shahrukh’s new twitter account? Do you think he will be giving us the latest updates on his life, his changing relationship with Farah Khan or his love for KKR Skipper Sourav Ganguly? Leave us your thoughts below.

High time to go high on Twitter

Our Own Way of Talking Bollywood

Who is better – Shahrukh or Aamir? Is Big B the greatest actor Indian Cinema has ever produced or Al Pacino, the greatest that the world has ever seen? Who is the sexiest actor today? Was Kaminey by Vishal Bharadwaj a dud? Does Bollywood influence our societal behaviour or is it our society that shapes up a Bollywood script?

We talk, we question, we live, we watch, we behave, we react, we debate – Bollywood and Hollywood. Whether we are having a refreshing cup of cappuccino at Barista in Mumbai or having a yummy Kabiraji cutlet at Coffee House Kolkata, a chattering session inside a busy Café Coffee Day in Bangalore or a late night anda parantha munching session at Ganga Dhaba, JNU, Delhi or just an evening chuski at nukkad ki chai stalls in almost every Indian city, we tend to season our session with movies. Clad in intellectual attire or in low-waist rugged denim, we may be different in our outlook and behaviour – but the diversity takes a blend at one connect – That’s Bollywood.

Movies, don’t we all love to hook up to the silver screen every time something new turns up? Yes, we surely do. Thousands of hacks write about Bolly-Holly-Wood, some are paid to write and some are not. A section of the writers depend religiously on what the PR tell them to write and the other half is outstandingly critical while putting their thoughts on a particular film. End result – Film lovers seldom get the real picture.

Films have become an important news beat, probably far more important than any other.

But is that needed? We spend money on the visual medium to enjoy 2-3 hours of our day, and then later discuss over acquaintances about the brilliance or daftness of the filmmaker, cut me short if you disagree.

We are no pass outs from a film institute writing all these to deliberately bloat up theoretical finesse. We are “YOU”, the mass in love to watch good films and enjoy further by discussing it with our chums. With this blog, we want to give our readers the unique platform to talk cinema in our own way.

With an intention of only and only discussing films, I invite you all to be a part of this highly interactive blog.

Let’s connect.