Saturday, July 9, 2005
A sorry state of affairs
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Okay I promise. This is the last time I will mention Shilpa Shetty and blogging in the same post. Three posts in a row is a bit too much even for me. But as Mark Twain says — Better a broken promise than none at all.
So I wrote a post about giving and forming impressions in the blog world, based on Sharanya’s interesting analysis. Yes we are back to interesting. Of course, the wise-ass in me cannot resist looking for humor in every situation, so I turned it into this elaborate whoop-de-doo about different responses and the potential impressions they give.
In hindsight (no it doesn’t mean I was checking out someone’s ass), I realize this may have given Sharanya the impression that I am offended ‘cos she has apologized. Now apologies are something I take very seriously, so I feel the need to clarify some things from my end. I have already done so in a comment response, but for the sake of all those readers who avoid my commentspace like I avoid Sumeet Saigal movies, here is a repost of what I said, with some minor edits —
This is what I was hoping would not happen. Please don’t apologize. You see, I am easily guilted, so if you apologize, then I’ll feel guilty for writing this post and then I’ll apologize and then it gets messy with a whole load of sorries about something nobody should be sorry about.
As I said before — I was not offended in the least. Firstly, you didn’t say anything offensive. You said nice things about me, regardless of whether I agree with you or not. Secondly you said them on your blog, which is your space so you shouldn’t apologize for it. Thirdly, being judgemental is something we all do, so if we started apologizing for that, we’d all be one very sorry bunch. Fourthly, I don’t think you were being judgemental, you were simply stating an impression. Lastly, if my ‘meant to be tongue-in-cheek‘ post in any way offended you in turn, I apologize. I wasn’t trying to mock you or make fun of you. Your post made me think about the ease of forming impressions in the blog world, and so I wrote. The Shilpa Shetty part, of course, was what I call a ‘necessary evil‘.
You know, I was thinking. That courtroom scene I talked about in my earlier post in which I was the hapless heroine? On second thoughts, I think I’d be better off cast as the defense lawyer. Wot say?
Ah. Never realized that that’s what ‘hindsight’ meant. No wonder they say it’s 20/20 ;)
Saturday, July 9, 2005 @ 2:38 AM
Ah. so you could be the defense-lawyer-second-hero of the movie. And Shilpa Shetty dumps stud hero and realizes that he one true love was you! And they lived happily ever after!
Sorry, is a tough thing to say. Guilt is a contagious thing. And I desperately need some sleep. Hearing 7/7 and 9/11 all day gets to me.
Saturday, July 9, 2005 @ 3:51 AM
Pardon me, I am not so challenged when it comes to framing sentences usually. It was not ‘realizes that he’, but, ‘realizes that the’. Or hey is that wrong? Something like that at any rate. But, you are an intelligent girl, so am sure you will figure that out!
Saturday, July 9, 2005 @ 3:56 AM
:)
I reckon Bappi Lahiri’s musical genius and Shilpa Shetty’s assets ought to be safer territory henceforth.
Saturday, July 9, 2005 @ 5:30 AM
Oh the defense lawyer..i remembered kareena in aitraaz…just in case u were tired of shilpa..:D
and as of ’sorry’, somebody said “angrez gaye or sorry chod gaye”
over used,over manipulated,over abused and misused word..
’sorry’ for a long comment:D
Saturday, July 9, 2005 @ 7:29 AM
Damn.. I half expected u to talk about Shilpa Shetty in a wet Sorry :)
Saturday, July 9, 2005 @ 8:14 AM
What the..@$#@%$@%$!!!
Thats it - Megha no more.
Saturday, July 9, 2005 @ 9:53 AM
Loved the last two posts…next time, will try to be the early bird :)
And yeah the closing statements are extremely ‘fascinating’ so i guess you would make a great defense lawyer :p
Saturday, July 9, 2005 @ 11:25 AM
No more Sharanya’s blog?! That can’t be a good thing. Hopefully its not permanent :-|
Saturday, July 9, 2005 @ 1:03 PM
:-)
“If the Blog personality of Walk in the Clouds is, a reflection of who she is, then .. bla bla bla .. comments .. apologies .. comments .. counter apologies .. fun .. arguements .. bla bla ..:-) .. and now a sorry state of affairs !!
It’s come to a happy end like a typical hindi movie, and it was as unnecessary as a hindi movie as the premises of all this (re-read the text in bold) was higly incorrect.
So watch it (read read it) enjoy n forget :-) (with all apologies to Shilpa shetty fans)
Now, i am still evaluating (or trying to ) the zillion new templates shown by the madamoiselle, i will take my sweet time to select one. Hopefully by Monday.
Saturday, July 9, 2005 @ 4:11 PM
Does this mean no more SS? Awww….
Saturday, July 9, 2005 @ 11:11 PM
Apologies tend to be counter-productive! Who would have thought Blog posts can lead to drastic measures. Scary world it is, I think Behaviour Psychologists ought to look at this media a little closely now!
Sunday, July 10, 2005 @ 12:30 PM
madam aaap mahaan ho! the old farmer said to the village head (who is ou case is a lady). the lady dressed in a cream saree with golden border, smiled and said, “mama mia humesha justice karti hai” :)
Sunday, July 10, 2005 @ 1:33 PM
I see that you are distributing (fixing/writing) templates. One in this direction please ….
Your wages for that would be:
for (i=0;i infinity+1 >i; i+++)
{
generate link-love to Megs;
#if you ever try to come out of the
#loop, I will put you back in, you
#stupid blogger.com.
}
Oh..we are stil stuck on Shilpa Shetty’s navel, never mind…
Sunday, July 10, 2005 @ 3:53 PM
[Rajesh] Happy to have filled a gap in your education :)
[Closet Claustrophobic] Hmm, I think I like the lawyer part more than becoming Shilpa’s heroine :) As i’ve mentioned once before on this blog - Once upon a time, when I was a little blubbering baby and had infuriated my mom for the 432nd time, she was ready to throw me out. At that point a kindly astrologer interjected and told my mom to keep me, as one day, i’d be a famous lawyer. Through this movie, I hope to make my mom’s astrologer’s dream come true. Hope you’re caught up on some sleep by now! :)
[Sharanya] You knew you had a fan in me the day you mentioned Bappi Lahiri on my blog :) I can’t wait to discuss this most interesting specimen of mankind with you :)
[anubhav] Oh good lord, now we’re moving to other Bollywood babes? The saga never ends, it seems :) And not to worry, no more sorries.
[Harish] Now THAT is a good one! :)
[missnupur] I did promise, didn’t I ? ;)
[Kumari] Thankoo thankoo :) My mom’s astrologer also profusely thanks you! (Please refer to my response to CC for more info)
[Devdutt] It is very unfortunate :( I hope it is only temporary and that she’ll resume writing soon.
[Invincible] Glad the template info was useful :) And I liked your whole Hindi movie ‘whole lot of noise and drama, enjoy and forget’ analogy. I have always believed (and insist on explaining to people, with examples, much to their agony) that for every situation in real life there is a Hindi movie scene or song that nicely reflects the moment. Nice to see that the parallel is being drawn by others too. Me is most pleased :)
[Sriram] What did I say? Better a broken promise than none at all. What do you think that means? ;) Shhhhh..
[Putative Insanity] Um, I think that’s what started all this, in the first place :)
[Sagnik] Kyun janaab, sirf Mahaan hi kyon, Toofan aur Jaadugar bhi hain hum. (Why only one Amitabh movie? Why not others too?) But why cream-saree-gold-border? Some Mallu reference I am not getting?
[Suhail] Ask and you shall receive input. Please to first tell what template change you are looking to make? Then enough feedback shall be given to drive you crazy :)
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 12:20 AM
Sumeet Saigal’s movies? lol! i had to ransack my brain to recollect this name…n i vaguely remember the cut ’bout his eyebrow :))
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 12:43 AM
Surprisingly that the only thing I remember about Sumeet Saigal too!
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 10:13 AM
Megha: Btw, wasn’t the Gangleader soundtrack a Bappida creation?
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 10:46 AM
[Swathi and Manjusha] I will have to write a combined comment response, cos talking about Sumeet Saigal TWICE would be a sheer crime :)
Luckily for me, I don’t remember Sumeet Saigal’s face too well and as an extension of that, the cut above his eyebrow :) What I do remember is a song of his that used to constantly play on Chitrahaar on Doordarshan. From a horrendous C-grade T-Series produced movie called Bahaar Aane Tak (1990). (A movie I have unfortunately watched!) The song was picturized on him along with Rupa Ganguly (of Draupadi fame) and went ‘kaali teri choti hai parandha tera laal ni, roop ki o rani tu parandhe ko sambhaal ni‘. From what I remember Rupa Ganguly’s parandha (the tassle/silk thing tied at the bottom of a braid) is not even remotely red. I can’t vouch for this 100%, but I am deifintely not planning to watch the movie just for confirmation sake :)
Sumeet Saigal is also known for another movie - Sauda (1994), a remake of Indecent Proposal (1993), the Robert Redford-Demi Moore starrer. Vikas Bhalla and Neelam play the happy couple and Sumeet Saigal plays the debonair (?), dashing (!) millionaire. Groan.
[aNTi] Yes yes, most certainly so! Fundoo memory you have! :) The Telugu version of Gang Leader, pronounced Gyaaangu Leader if the way it was spelt is to be believed, was a Bappi Lahiri soundtrack as well, one of the rare Telugu movies that he did. And a superhit one at that! *exits singing geee yeeaa ennnn geee .. gyang gyang, bajaao bang bang .. *parapam pam papam pa pam pam* .. Gyaang Leaderrrr!!*
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 1:35 PM
Ewwwww Sumeet Saigal (u either need to do a piece on bloggers who’ll end up as Sumeet Saigal’s of the blogging world or stic to discussing Shilpa Shetty). Was I the only one who felt kinda weird to see u apologizing on ur blog after u had just mentioned that a blog was supposed to be a personal space and one could say anything on it w/o gettin apologetic.
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 3:35 PM
aarrgh!!! have not been reading the blog for sometime and am landing in the same position as where Sumeet Saigal is now! jinxed!Coz my understanding jinxed ! in following things :) and am going to go back and read stuffs and get back on sumeet saigal,shilpa sheety and commenting :)
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 3:59 PM
[Rohan] Hmm.. ‘the Sumeet Saigals of the blogging world’. Now don’t go giving me ideas ;)
But on a more serious note - You make a very valid point. I could certainly play the ‘my blog, my wish‘ card and not apologize. But if my silliness and fun can compel someone to apologize, then it is not really serving its purpose. It is a different matter that my silliness has no purpose, but let us not digress. Bottomline - there’s no sense in making someone feel bad, when they have done nothing to offend me. And as someone once said - An apology is a good way to have the last word :)
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 4:15 PM
Umm, i just had a devious idea! If apologizing makes you feel awkward (as awkward as SS in a costume covering from head to toe? or maybe even as defense lawyer?), methinks me should write a comment consisting of “sorry”, of course multiplied by 432. now THAT would be interesting. of course, the ego-maniac that I am, i wouldn’t come down from my lofty perch on the tree (unless a hurricane passes by) but it would be an interesting experiment wouldn’t it? OK ok.. i know it is time for me to go Bappi Lahiri hunting. (NO NO, me is not going to hunt him down. me hunting for music of his :D) In hindsight.. oh wait.. me is not going there. if me goes there, blog rating shall change from U to NR/AO.. so me now decides to do the above said act. Thankoo. (Yes, me is totally jobless. now go check your mail!)
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 4:21 PM
[Megha] Fundoo memory you have!
Naaku antha scene ledhu! Just that a couple of weeks ago, on a loonnnng drive, my friends refreshed my memory. But I have heard Gangleader’s songs a long time ago and in fact seen the movie on video too. My neighbor was involved in making of that movie and several others in the same era (Assembly Rowdy etc.) And last yr when I was still in Ohio, we convinced the ISA to screen Gang Leader and Indra! Btw, my fav song from Gang Leader is that song that goes “Tapu Tappu Tapori… Kanyakumari”!
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 4:33 PM
[IBH] I think Sumeet Saigal had a lot more problems that just being jinxed ;) Hope you get caught up soon and come back to comment :)
[Sriram] If you say 432 sorries, then I will scowl at you and make you be even more nice to me. Then you’ll be even more sorry and then .. well the saga will continue :) And you are going Bappi Lahiri hunting? Awww, you make me so happy. Please please, let me make some recommendations? :) If you are looking for Telugu, then I highly recommend starting with Gang Leader. Chiranjeevi meets Bappi, so it doesn’t get much better than that. But if you’re looking for Hindi, the list is far far longer. Vintage stuff like Armaan and Pyaara Dushman, the secret-service-agent Mithun-era of Suraksha and Wardat, or the dancing-Mithun era of Disco Dancer and Dance Dance are some that come to mind. But on a more serious note, Bappi has some genuinely nice stuff too. Especially some soft romantic numbers with Kishore Kumar. Can recommend those for the sake of your sanity :)
[aNTi] Well well, we have a serious Gang Leader fan in our midst it seems! Well, you are talking to someone who had a crush on Chiranjeevi after watching Gang Leader, so I cannot really heckle you :) C’mon, we all have our share of embarrassing things we hope nobody finds out about, don’t we? I just broadcast mine on my blog :)
Now coming to that fine musical creation - Tap tap tappori. Firstly, I don’t know how much Telugu you understand, but if you listen to the lyrics of this song, then you will understand why, for your sake, I hope it is not much. Incidentally the tune for this song is very similar to a Hindi number, also by Bappi from the movie Sailaab (1990). Yep, the very famous Madhuri koli dance number - humko aajkal hai intezaar, koi aaye leke pyaar sung by Anupama Deshpande. The chorus portions are very similar to the ‘bhadrachalam konda seetammavaari danda‘ opening line of tap tap tappori.
Gawd, this is such a trip down memory lane :) Much coolness!
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 5:27 PM
[Megha] To each his/her own! ;)
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 7:34 PM
wow… a penitent Megha… now I’ve seen everything!!! :)
Monday, July 11, 2005 @ 11:31 PM
Sumeet Saigal, the horsey faced….
oh a thousandddd apologies saaarrrrr
cheers. have a nice day….
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 @ 3:08 AM
well just happened to come across ur blog (best way of hiding the fact that i came across it when i googled my name!!! ya i know this sounds to wierdy) and i must say its really witty and u have great writing skills!! i am so proud of my name! ha haha
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 @ 5:29 AM
[Megha] My friends tell me that “Bhadrachalam Konda” is full of made up words and that way that song is cut out for someone like me with minimal Telugu knowledge! Anyways since last night, I have been singing the first line and then Tap tapu tapori!
And I think I have heard some songs from gems like Bobbili Raja and Assembly Rowdy too! Will elaborate later!
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 @ 12:06 PM
two more days to go 100 comments
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 @ 12:50 PM
[Pushuka] It’s good to mix it up a little ;)
[KJ] The way I see it, his face is not his fault. He was born with it and had no choice about it. On the other hand, his decision to ‘act‘ was HIS choice that he inflicted upon us, so that is worthy of heckling :)
By the way, long time no see! Hope all goes well at your end?
[Anonymous - Part One] Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed reading what I write :) So you stumbled upon my blog when you googled on ‘Anonymous’ eh? ;)
[aNTi] Minimal words is correct, and now that I think about it, they are rather harmless by today’s standards. But considering this was 15 years ago, and when you couple the lyrics with Chiranjeevi’s ‘who’s your daddy’ look, they can make for a very potent combination :) On that note, I find that Telugu lyrics (and I am sure this is true of all south-Indian languages, but you’d have to confirm) were a lot more explicit compared to their Hindi counterparts, even back then. ‘Bedroom lingo’ appeared in Telugu songs much early on and the audience accepted it rather matter-of-factly. On the other hand when sarkaiye lo khatiya jaada laage arrived, the moral police brought the roof down. Does that make the average south-Indian movie watcher less prudish, or is it that we just have a higher tolerance for crap? Topic for an whole new blog I suppose :)
Btw, Bobbili Raja remains a favorite of mine, even after all these years. Classic Ilayaraaja stuff! Especially the whole ‘kanyaakumaari kanabadadaa daari‘ number where they mixed animation and live-action, Who Framed Roger Rabbit style. Or ‘balapam patti‘. Divya Bharati’s first movie, and she looks sooo sweet and innocent in it :)
[Anonymous - Part Two] Thank you for the positive thinking :)
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 @ 3:41 PM
[Megha] Yup… Balpam Patti! And that was IR? :O
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 @ 4:15 PM
[aNTi] Oh yes very much so! Of course, not the Guru style of IR, but IR nevertheless :)
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 @ 4:24 PM
The very mention of ‘kali teri choti hai’ reminds me of the guy with a cut on his eye brow ! and I used to like that one song ..so many movies have come and gone and all that we remember is probably one song form the movie(except in cases where you end up watching the movie !!) One such movie that I remember is don 2(?) with the famous song “hawa hawa aye hawa khushboo luta de” ..yes I do listen to all such numbers :p.. makes for a good nostalgic trip :)
Divya - “Mummmy ! I am going to jungle with Raja”
Vani Sri(Mummy) - “Raja tho jungle kelladam enti, naansanse !”
Tuesday, July 12, 2005 @ 5:17 PM
Hi!
i wanted to know the name of the flim which had “hawa hawa ye hawa khusbu luta dey”
Friday, November 30, 2007 @ 5:57 AM