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Emotional Atyaachar

Now with the work I do listening to songs and selecting them to be air played has become quite monotonous.  I have some how developed a deaf ear for songs which keep coming on to my desk.  There are very rare moments I get to open them and EA (Emotional Atyaachaar ) from the movie Dev D was one such song.  The brass band of marriage processions which is part of most of our north Indian marriages (most because I did not get married the brass band way) and now a days slipping in our south Indian weddings too.  That sound has an immediate connect to something important to all of us. The term Atyaachaar means Rape in our modern day to day dialect.  But the thought of it being used in a Bollywood song with such power was unthinkable.   Anurag Kashyap who directs the movie too has shared a fantastic story about this song -  http://passionforcinema.com/devd-emosional-atyachar/   The influences he has shared are eye openers too.  The slightest thought of Atyaachaar gives us many ima...

Bollywood Blues...

I hit bollywood!!! Yes acted in a Bollywood movie "Yeh Fhassa" , in an funny scene with one and only comedy king Johny Lever. And realized First Sandlewood & now Bollywood. This came as a simple chance to me and thanks to Bangalore which has dearth of actors who can speak Hindi. Also thanks to good friend Arun Sagar the set maker for many movies I suddenly got a call after my morning walk. He said theres a movie directed by Indrajit Lankesh (Old Govindappa Road acquaintance) and they need a good Hindi speaking theater artist. Immediately got a call from the production manager Babu and I landed up there by 11 am after sending few mails to workplace and excusing myself from work that day. Thanks to my new company PGSL who are really considerate in such matters. I spoke to Abbas Hirapurwala after settling down at the location about the movie story. Simple story about seventh year itch of marriage. Arbaaz Khan and Tara Sharma are happily married with a daughter. Ar...