tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10209858.post3630852089937125372..comments2023-11-03T18:01:28.604+05:30Comments on thequark: 3 Idiots or Rancho B.E. or Lage Raho Rancho or Hirani's Crusade against the SystemTheQuarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17380581344714982852noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10209858.post-14135011349721846312010-01-03T12:10:52.300+05:302010-01-03T12:10:52.300+05:30@Amit, Kapil: I wanted to avoid the credit controv...@Amit, Kapil: I wanted to avoid the credit controversy because it is just a pointless argument.<br /><br />@Kapil: As I said it is Hirani's mythology retold in new context. Parts of the movie were hilarious and parts were drab. <br /><br />There was a scene supposedly poignant but being an engineer it made me cry out loud because it looked pretentious. It also reminded an incident back from my college days. In a presentation given by a student on a tiny database which has very less memory, the professor asked what is the typical size of memory and the answer was "One". Professor definitely lost his cool as the boy missed the unit now go figure the scene in the movie.<br /><br />@Jaideep: Yes engg college time humor used well, ragging, resenting professors etc. I am sure we always felt engg colleges have not been tackled in Hindi cinema.<br /><br />@foibled spirit: Glad that you got my point to the T. Ashis Nandy had a brilliant essay on Manmohan Desai's crazy movies, will dig and send the title to you some day. Currently I am thinking of something on the lines of how different were daddy issues in Hrishi Da's movies vis-a-vis Amitabh Bachchan's angry young genre. If one had reconciliation in Hrishida's (and other so called middle class movies) with paternal figure (often played by Utpal Dutt) then Amitabh's movies always had a missing/domineering parental figure.TheQuarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17380581344714982852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10209858.post-71577541759433843952010-01-03T11:55:17.204+05:302010-01-03T11:55:17.204+05:30Practicing Pop Psychology successfully indeed requ...Practicing Pop Psychology successfully indeed requires a certain skill. Quark, you give us a peep into the formula which nicely anticipates the structure of this pop psychology. Perhaps, another entry about linkages between ideologies and pop psychology/filmic formulae would be an interesting read. I say this because all too often sugar coated pop-ish entertainers are considered bereft of any ideology but it is precisely in these entertainers that we should look for ideologies.foibled spirithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00405557926611671324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10209858.post-23583086502351046362010-01-03T10:58:43.931+05:302010-01-03T10:58:43.931+05:30correct analysis patrick bhai! I have become too c...correct analysis patrick bhai! I have become too cynical to buy this all is well nonsense. I liked the movie for its humor much more than for its message.Jaideephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02799671663570208702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10209858.post-62886946664741591292010-01-02T19:57:56.985+05:302010-01-02T19:57:56.985+05:30@Patrik bhai: Aapko kaisi lagi?
Chetan bhagat ke ...@Patrik bhai: Aapko kaisi lagi? <br />Chetan bhagat ke interview dekha tha maine ek youtube per bechara dukhi tha ekdum... bol raha tha "Bhagwan dekhta hai sab kuch. Is janm mein jo kharab karo uska fal isi janm mein milta hai" :DKapil Barvehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07155571891545324691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10209858.post-650749658226007442010-01-02T19:04:23.714+05:302010-01-02T19:04:23.714+05:30I agree that message-wise the movie
goes a step be...I agree that message-wise the movie<br />goes a step beyond novel and is more in line with munnabhai-style pop preaching, but in execution, scenes after scenes are copied blatantly from the novel in fact most bits which make it engineering college story, raggging, khadus prof, prof ki maal beti, paper chori, suicide attempt and god know what more are all taken from book. Atleast he deserves a credit as prominennt at a starting "inspired from" or something, not a hidden line at endAmithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481771232265201910noreply@blogger.com