a belt for me

I am so utterly pleased because i finally got a belt
very smart and all only it is
in blue denim with distressed fabric
the belt guy said now cloth is more in demand and so more expensive than leather
i dont believe that
i am sure it must be faux though he swears it is real
but anyway so i have a belt
and now i have 75 mails in my inbox just waiting to be trashed!
hmm
hey that rapper kanye west's mum dying after cosmetic surgery is quite scary no?
why would anyone want to do cosmetic surgery
that is the question
it is like a surgery no?
i remember when mum went for her that totally unnecessary thyroid surgery only i was thinking why would anyone willingly go under the knife
so not right
then that lakshmi child with eight limbs thanks to parasitic conjoined headless twin is apparently doing well
we decided to not to carry picture because it would be like a freak show but the thing is i was following the reports from other papers and if i was not so obsessed with e! news and sundry things i am sure i would have seen the child's pictures in all the electronic media too.
how come even though there was radio and telly forever, this whole concept of electronic media is just a couple of years old and the max?
from that khandahar hijack time?
i guess so no
oh that fashion show was pretty cool except for pointless company
and that wasted guy sitting next to me and snoring softly was definitely the cheery on the cake
the reporter with the many piercings who i thought was a model till she flourished notepad was disconcerting to put it mildly
coming back to twins, i can only think of god of small things and the fact that a twin was put to death in the medival days as twins were considered incestuous.
eeewwww where did that come from
i am reading another modesty blaise, it is called the night of the morning star
it is not as weak as last day in limbo but still the spark is not there
and there are the death dealing polish twins who are of course pale shadows of those other siamese twins in that hindukush book
and then half way through the book there is this hysterically improbable attack on the golden gate
oh i guess this is the first book where modesty goes to the USA
ok now time to get to work

karim chacha and billa no 786

Watched Deewar for the millionth time and was wondering why vijay did not do anything for karim chacha who was a kind of father figure to him. But you can always argue ki vijay was not looking for father figures and Karim chacha is one of the bit players who just went away into the text sea. But we know that Karim was a young man when he started off as a coolie and also that things have not changed since then. that he was lifting heavy weights then and still is now.

He also believes in the wisdom of walking away so that you could live to see another day. Something that vijay is not willing to do.

The movie is spare and economical. There is no character or incident that is superfluous. Including the boring Ravi bits. Okay the songs are a bit of a drag on the pace, but that is alright because it is scored by none other pancham. It is wicked that R. D. Burman who scored for some of Amitabh Bachchan's biggest hits was kept out of team Big B. Bad karma only that is.

So yeah when you have a movie this economical with a kind of reflexive symbolism-- the two brothers go different ways from the temple, even the priest who tells the mother not force Vijay to come to the temple later on tells ma that vijay had come to the temple to ask for his mother's life.
there is samant and jai chand who stop at the boot polish boy (vijay) while discussing the day's horses and that scene is recalled when the grown vijay tells samant that he still does not pick up money that is thrown at him. Also those many years ago samant identifies vijay as the dark horse who would leave everyone behind, which is what happens.
and then there is the building which ma slaves on carrying bricks with the wicked evil lala taunting her and the grown vijay buys it as a gift for his mum. even the confrontations have an excellent rhythm with each dialogue finding a counter and an echo. When Vijay tells Ravi that he will only sign after Ravi gets the signature of everyone that has insulted him, his mum counters each of those accusations with a counter question to which Vijay has no answer. And think of the recall, even the young Vijay wears his shirt knotted at the waist!
Then there is the billa or the badge which Karim chacha says is auspicious for the number 786 translates to bismillah and which is what saves Vijay from the first attempt on his life. In the climax, vijay loses the badge and so his fate is effectively sealed. The climax is also in the temple--where vijay first rejects god, then cuts a deal and finally finds his peace.
There are so many of recurring themes. Think of the tattoo--when Vijay comes to light his father's funeral pyre, a tear drop falls on his arm on the tattoo.
The point is when all these events and characters combine and recur to form this beautifully constructed movie, isnt it strange that karim chacha never figures in the later stages of Vijay's meteoric rise to the top of the criminal world?
Would Vijay have tried to give money to Karim chacha?
maybe he would not accepted it
rather he definitely would not have accepted but at least we would have known that.
now he is like rosencrantz and gilderstern
would he have continued as a coolie? till he died under the weights?
would he have come for vijay's funeral?
maybe what the filmmakers could have done is have him at the award ceremony when ravi is going to collect his bravery award then that would have been a nice sense of closure

needs to be done

it is all on the to do list
today some swearing in something or the other is happening
like it matters apart from the wretched banner headlines saying manic monday with 70,000 people coming into the city
all panic masters only i tell you
but coming back to swearing in, it must be making a difference no in the larger or maybe small scheme of things
the systems are creeping along at snail's pace
ha
then there was big weekend with saawariya and om shanti om
everyone is for oso and all are saying saawariya is too indulgent
i loved sanju's comment though about the film being made by sanjay neela bansali
ha ha ha
what a joke only
now i am quickly quickly reading up the three modesty blaise novels that i had not read
i finished last day in limbo which was quite sad you know
the villains were total paper tigers who just died off like that
none of the big set up and the sadism and sex
they were just shot and poof
were are the delicatas and the gabrielle of yesterday?
ou est la delicata et gabrielle d'heir?
i think i stumbled a bit on the yesterday
au jour dhui is today na?
is it?
i loved jasper fforde's nursery crime series but the first among sequels was too cute by half and so self referential that it became irritating
in eyre affair i was suitably amazed at the supposed original jane eyre story
gotta go because comp has officiously told me to log out