tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post2932571339753010638..comments2024-03-16T03:53:39.493-07:00Comments on Twist in the Tail: Dear Mr Rushdie, I love you.Jhoomur aka JBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11863377244719408313noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-80446522053750425402009-05-03T18:41:00.000-07:002009-05-03T18:41:00.000-07:00A> newer reader of thy blog, remembered you fro...A> newer reader of thy blog, remembered you from the NDTV interview. Love it<br><br>B> as much as id love to hate the man whose been selling millions of ruddy stupid books, simply because people still expect a midnights repeat. and because i refuse to believe a man could voluntarily let padma lakshmi go. despite all that. he has a point about this one.freudian sliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07784033111061867450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-23518454990950487292009-05-03T18:50:00.000-07:002009-05-03T18:50:00.000-07:00@ Freud? Slip?: A. Thankyou B. Think she was doing...@ Freud? Slip?: <br>A. Thankyou <br>B. Think she was doing the letting go...or running off.JBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06940726266857576700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-27228024776112776962009-05-03T19:20:00.000-07:002009-05-03T19:20:00.000-07:00Feels stupid being out there and answering to sill...Feels stupid being out there and answering to silly questions about India which they grabbed from this movie and then spending time explaining this isnt India etc which ofcourse they wont understand since the big visual image over powers the words i tried to put in their mind.Have even passed sticky notes to this guy who sat next to me at work,explaining my point.Wish i could send him this link.Sreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09477030581749662681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-60572025491946505962009-05-03T20:27:00.000-07:002009-05-03T20:27:00.000-07:00Yes Mr. Rushdie, you're not such a bad egg aft...Yes Mr. Rushdie, you're not such a bad egg after all.<br><br>This post of yours only serves to reinforce what I've been hollering all along, that this movie was made with a one-point agenda...to sweep all the award ceremonies.Mamma mia! Me a mamma?http://www.blogger.com/profile/04136269509737254271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-80864918321635202822009-05-03T22:47:00.000-07:002009-05-03T22:47:00.000-07:00Oh! I didnt know that. Havent read Q&A, thank ...Oh! I didnt know that. Havent read Q&A, thank you for bringing it to our notice.<br><br>There is creative liberty, and then there is fuck all twisting a story just to suit a stereotype.Junehttp://www.shetalkslikejune.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-6627748873615029832009-05-04T07:51:00.000-07:002009-05-04T07:51:00.000-07:001. @freud:correction-midnight's children is no...1. @freud:correction-midnight's children is not his only good work.i found the satanic verses pretty fascinating too.If you read the book without any Islamic forethought,then it’s a fantastic piece of fiction. He has used all the examples which aren’t to be brought up on Islam’s dinner table and has created some hilarious paradoxes.<br>2. my floundering faith in the academy of motion pictures took a serious blow when they gave the best movie Oscar to Slumdog...and how can someone who has made a movie like Trainspotting get it so wrong??serious case of playing to the gallery!!<br>3. i just fail to understand how he gets all the gorgeous ladies!!Razahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07589444683469069637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-61108696422734226822009-05-04T09:21:00.000-07:002009-05-04T09:21:00.000-07:00Agree.. I had cribbed about why, why suddenly medi...Agree.. I had cribbed about why, why suddenly mediocre Indian based themes are getting so much undeserved international attention! <br><br>Slumdog, the movie, and White Tiger, the book, both fall in this category. Yet, it is only the average Indian that sees them in the light of reality!!<br><br>Are the rest of them really just dumb? I wonder if something else is going on??!<br><br>Btw.. your post is about a couple of things (religion, mis-perceptions of Indian-ness) I have been ranting about for sometime.. glad to see I am not alone :)<br><br>TWTWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14502043560621556580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-44920968458663248602009-05-04T11:39:00.000-07:002009-05-04T11:39:00.000-07:00jb,whatever salman talks of is visible in our writ...jb,<br>whatever salman talks of is visible in our writings. perhaps he (and surely naipaul) would point out<br><br><i>Please don't misunderstand; I am no great lover of Hinduism.</i>in your post.<br><br>like you, i have tried to find positives in the movie. i like the visual brilliance part but the glamorizing of poverty and pain seems unnecessary. perhaps the nation was reveling in western attentionKartikeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16727196954608850804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-41136312858588959762009-05-04T16:13:00.000-07:002009-05-04T16:13:00.000-07:00Eve* aka JBI love you. You look very happy in your...Eve* aka JB<br><br>I love you. You look very happy in your gravatar (or whatever its called). <br><br>Entering the 30s are we?<br><br>AmolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-33071496454106745442009-05-05T14:57:00.000-07:002009-05-05T14:57:00.000-07:00Everything is based on a roadmap. We were due for ...Everything is based on a roadmap. We were due for Oscars. But not that due. Hence the UK hand. Or some such reasoning. Besides who cares about all the symbolism anyway. India would remain India - jacked!<br><br>Would Happy Birthday be too clichéd?<br><br>AjayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-76384702441468298492009-05-05T15:13:00.000-07:002009-05-05T15:13:00.000-07:00@ Ajay; Amol: thankyou for the wishes.@ Ajay; Amol: thankyou for the wishes.JBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06940726266857576700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-53230820996862296482009-05-06T01:48:00.000-07:002009-05-06T01:48:00.000-07:00That last part is quite true.I haven't seen th...That last part is quite true.<br><br>I haven't seen the movie so I can't really comment on that much. I did read the book though. The movie seems like it'd be a typical Bollywood flick with the naach-gana. And while the book is "piles impossibility upon impossibility", it isn't all that bad really.Espèrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00312759044190536243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351069863973132986.post-53598363689608789492009-11-15T12:13:09.518-08:002009-11-15T12:13:09.518-08:00By the way, what's the point of God?By the way, what's the point of God?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com