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Posts Tagged ‘bollywood

Tween TV and Self-Reference

Posted by: Aadisht on: February 13, 2010

Jet Airways has very few domestic planes equipped for inflight entertainment; but it’s inflight entertainment systems completely pwns Kingfisher’s inflight TV (which shows some shady Zee network channels, and horrors of horrors, Kambakht Ishq). You get touch screens, video and music on demand, the flight path interface is nicer; and quite a selection of movies [...]

The Skilful Use of Navras

Posted by: Aadisht on: March 29, 2009

So long, long, ago, Beatzo came up with a muhuh thuhuh about A R Rahman: The deal with Rahman music is that most of it, the stuff that has stood the test of time, is music that does not really have a template from previous film music. You sure as hell hadn’t heard an acoustic [...]

The Movie With All The Stereotypes

Posted by: Aadisht on: October 15, 2008

What got me started on all this pontification about Indian movies being filled with hippies was watching Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. Although I liked the movie, one question went through my head throughout the movie: don’t any of these people have jobs? And then I put analysis and realised that pretty much all Hindi [...]

Why is there no Yuppie Programming?

Posted by: Aadisht on: October 15, 2008

So what is it about TV that inspired me to write arbit posts defining lalas, yuppies and hippies? Well, it’s like this. Ever since I started watching TV about four months ago (when I moved in with relatives in Mumbai), I’ve realised this about it – all Indian TV (fiction) programming is centred around lalas [...]