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It is time for the Rofu Duel folks.. please contact your nearest customer service dictionary agent to know what it means. For the patient lot, you guys can read ahead and go figure out yourself…

Aiyo.. What it is?

Roflin had the lucky chance to interview Santhakumaran Sreesanth while he was practicing his expressions this Sunday morning while shooting for an Ad for Lux soaps. Or so it seemed .. for we later learned that he was trying to get rid of the Idli from breakfast..

Anyway this is how the next 23 minutes proceeded

Roflin: Hello Sree, hows it going?

Sreesanth: (Touches his chest, looks up kisses his 3 24 karat gold chains, pumps himself and mutters something which remotely sounded like Symmonds or maybe it was swami aandavan) Yes, I am good.. you know the victory in Australia and all I mean was satisfying I mean it feels really good to beat the world champions you know.. it is sign of things.. how we beat them in home I mean.. yea am feeling good..

Roflin: Oh ok.. so tell me something about the Australia tour..

Sreesanth: (Looks around if there is some camera) It was unbelievable you know.. I couldn’t believe myself that we had done it..it is so exciting to beat the world champions you know and we beat them in Australia.. I mean Australia in Australia.. it is un.. it is just out of this world totally..I mean

Roflin: It was unbelievable eh.. so you guys doubted whether you can win.. the celebrations sure seemed like you surprised yourself

Sreesanth: We were aggressive and it is what we needed you know. I mean to beat Australia in Australia it is just a different thing.. we were all ready for anything I mean Sachin Paaji scored that hundred and we were all pumped up you know and there was no way we wanted to lose.. it is just unbelievable that we won the match .. I mean full credit to Australia the way we played you know.. it is very exciting..

Roflin: uh huh… (trying to remember what exactly was the interview about)

Roflin: You were a young side, and there must have been a huge amount of pressure on you.. how did you as a team cope with it ?

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“And tell Ram Parsad, how was your trip to Bambai?”

“Ab what to say Bismil Bhai, it felt as it is my own home, what a wonderful city! There is more waste to eat than you will ever see in Chowringhee,” was the jet black Ram Prasad’s reply, with the other crows crowded nodding their head in agreement.

That’s the thing with crows. They sit on those long stretched electricity wires and talk about food all day. Nothing about the share market, no care about the government unless there is some legislation about food of course. If its not food it has to be the famous people they have to talk about. If Darwin was ever right about evolution the reporters of India surely must have descended from crows.

They all look the same, but no mistake there is some intense regionalism in the air (quite literally) between them.
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It was a particularly dull winter morning when I decided I need to get into shape. The sun was still sleepy and I decided let’s meet him on the jogging park today. What at that seemed a blissful thought soon turned out to be a distressful nightmare at the crack of dawn. For all those people who tell you early to rise is a good thing, let me assure they got it wrong…terribly wrong.

This is how my morning (and an early one at that) proceeded.
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Perspectives can throw up interesting points of discussion and debate. However sometimes you are left with nothing but to accept any perspective as a valid reason. For when they are put in “perspective” they do make that kind of sense and you can’t do anything about it.

Gaddesh was once curious about what L-O-L stood for. His firm belief was Lots of Love.. “considering the situation it can’t be anything else ya..she told me L.O.L. while signing off..”. I stuck to my geek power and started dishing out references of various chat rooms to conclude that LOL was still very much Laughing out Loud. To Jayanand it was simply lol..”haan ..lol“.

LOL anyone?

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I had the good fortune of watching two useless Bollywood movies this weekend. While I won’t say too much about Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (what a name.. D3G), I was extremely impressed with Om Shanti Om. It very lived up to its tag of “hum film wale hai hum kuch bhi karte rehte hai“.

While Deepika’s legs looked stunning ins ome of the song sequence, there wasn’t anything new to see in the movie except that. Why even SRK’s body looks like that of the hordes of young men lining up to be in the movie industry. The scenes itself were completely a spoof of older movies of course, which the makers proudly proclaim as what their attempt was in any case. Such movies are my filmi family’s delight actually, but I wonder why I would want to see it all again if I saw it in other movies before.

Anyway, this is not a review site, nor is this post planned to be a rating zone for OSO. This is in fact dedicated to who I believe was a non existent dialogue writer. I am sure whoever it was (they showed some guy walking out of a rickshaw at the end of the movie, saying he wrote the dialogues), wasn’t paid.

Or maybe considering the absolute needlessness of dialogues in the movie Farah and Shahrukh might have just asked him to write the dialogues till the interval and paid him half his salary.

I don’t see any other reason to have heard 3 dialogues being repeated endlessly by different people throughout the movie. “Jab kisi cheez ko dil se chaho…” they went on, unfortunately the universe didn’t consipire to give some new and better dialogues. I was stuck to quayanat, and sindoor and nahiii for most part of the movie. And the other its and bits were of course carelessly lifted from older hindi films in any case. Effective cost saving I must say.. SRK is surely a shrewd guy.. (no wonder the poor dialogue man came in a rick…)

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