Browsing articles from "March, 2009"
Mar
25
2009

The 2009 Dandanakka Awards – Part 2

Someone once said, with great power comes great responsibility, we say with great traffic comes even greater expectationwith great traffic comes even greater expectation. We left our previous post in the air with the promise to come back with more and the hits have been flowing ever since. Thanks to the kind hearted folks at DP who linked to us, a lot of you have been waiting for part two. We’ve racked our brains to [...]

Mar
21
2009

The 2009 Dandanakka Awards – Part 1

It’s that time of the year when we salute the worst in Indian cinemawe salute the worst in Indian cinema. It’s not everyday that we recognize the efforts of these filmmakers who put in hours of work to churn out box office duds. These duds are relegated to the depths of the box office under the heavy weight blockbusters every year. What began as a stroke of misfortune, turned out into a hobby as I [...]

Mar
10
2009

Om jai lalu hare

Om jai lalu hare swamy jai lalu hare chaare ke ghotaale railway ke mantralay rabri sangh door kare Om jai lalu hare Kitne scam mein pakde gaye phir bhi jail na gaye Swami phir bhi jail na gaye ghar mein cricket teaam banaye bihar gaye tel lene paisa toh hain desh ka Om jai lalu hare A more sombre and watered down version of the above lines may really be sung to the sound of [...]

Mar
4
2009

Shaktimaan will punish you

Shaktimaan was India’s first television superhero and hence commanded a roaring fan following among kids. There was a time when the streets and parks would be empty and the kids all glued to the television, for their favorite superhero would greet them on the tube. After the highly engrossing epics of Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayana and B.R.Chopra’s Mahabharata, never had any TV series come this close to silencing the deafening madness of kids. The same would [...]