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7
Apr

RIP - Chalrleston Heston

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The Arun Govil of Hollywood is no more. my dad got bleary eyed while seeing the news. Someone else called up from Chennai to talk about 'the death of Moses'

 He was one of the first Hollywood Actors that i saw on the big screen. There was this film called Earthquake and someone in school (it could even have been me) took a bunch of us to see this film in Eros for a birthday. I remember crying when the lead pair died - ( I was in the 7th standard, and didn't understand too much else apart from that). In later years i realised what a terrible film it was.

I saw more films with him in the nine year stint in London. His movies would be dusted out every Christmas and Easter or other Bank Holidays and shown without a break. He was definitely a man who seemed at home in a costume drama. Be it Ben Hur or The Ten Commandments. I enjoyed neither of these films. Possibly because they were big screen spectacles and by the time I got around to see it in the late 80's it was on television and these kinds of films look really funny on the small screen.

Moses

(the picture is from the net…. the reason why there isn't any link back is because it is from one of the poker link back sites) 

Having said that, I enjoyed Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, El Cid, and of course The Touch of Evil. I also enjoyed the spin off of Dynasty, The Colby's - in which he played the patriarch… (yes, i watched it)

 I felt sorry for him in Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine. I thought that the film maker was being completely anal. But, despite Moore's bad behavior Charleston Heston came across as a gentleman.

finally, I am sure that there is a whole bunch of Jewish and Christian kids who grew up with the image of Heston as Moses, Just as there is an entire generation of Hindu kids who visualise Arun Govil as Ram. 

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19
Feb

Poloroid Instant Film Dead…..

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… after a long battle with obsolescence, Polaroid finally switched on the life support of the Polaroid Instant Film.

Known world over for its rat trap like design, and its faded colours, the Instant  Camera & Film, nevertheless represented the consumer's desire for instant photographs. Before the age of digicams and mobile camera's - it was Polaroid. 

But somehow, with the onset of cheap, easy to use and great resolution digital camera's - Polaroid's days were numbered. It is actually surprising that it took so very long.  

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10
Feb

A Sense of Personal Loss….

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The last of the Gandhians passed away today… Baba Amte, who brought so much hope, not just to the communities that he worked with… but to all others who saw his work and got inspired.

Today as I read the obituaries, there is this tremendous feeling of losing someone very close… the sense of being bereaved… and i never even met him…

People like him are Bharat Ratna’s not idiot politicians….

MSM obituaries here.

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27
Dec

Conversations on Benazir Bhutto’s death

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I was returning home in the evening, stuck in a traffic jam somewhere near Andheri Subway, when dad rang.

Dad: Benazir Bhutto has been shot dead

Me: How ? ( i meant how would gunmen get past a security cordon… would she have the equivalent of Z level security)…. but it came out as how….

Dad: With a Gun - they killed her. Bast***s.

JD called next…..

JD: You Heard?

HC: Benazir?

JD: Yes. They shot her and then some suicide bomber blew the place up.. What a great story. (JD is a journalist and you need to forgive his ghoulish attitude towards news)

Next was K… a friend who is also a Sindhan.

K: Musharaff did it. He is the Modi of Pakistan. He can pretty much get away with murder.

HC: hmm..

K: I didn’t like her - that family was nasty to Sindhis, despite being Sindhi themselves.

HC: I had forgotten the Sindhi part…

The next was RM

RM - there are lots of people who hated her, the military, the mullahs, the mohajirs, Musharaf……..It could be anybody.

HC - or it could be everybody !

RM - no that is not possible. They like us more than they like each other…

HC - thats not really saying too much….

RM - No it isn’t and the Hindutva nutcases want the entire f***ing nutcases back…..

before he could launch into how screwed up the ‘Akhanda Bharat’ policy was, i reached home and rung off

At home the folks were tuned to the BBC - the news was official. She was dead. A gun man/men shot her multiple times and a suicide bomber blew himself up just to make sure. As I was registering the news, SR called from Kerala (he is holidaying there) -

SR : Is it true? Benazir has been blown up..

HC: Yes. I saw it on the BBC….

Benazir Bhutto - rest in peace. And hopefully, the people of Pakistan will be catalyzed by this to throw out the Mullahs, Musharaf and the Military and take back their country.

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