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SATYAMSHOT
February 26, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Good stuff Qalandar. Enjoy your trip and do spare a thought for Ray and Aparajito as well!
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February 26, 2009 at 5:46 PM
I thought of Aparajito as well, but mentioning Ray in the same breath as Sarkar, Parashar, and Behl might have been tempting fate!!!
Of course the mother of all recent films set in Varanasi is obviously NAAN KADAVUL…
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February 26, 2009 at 6:32 PM
Yeah I really want to watch the latter.. in NY though sometimes it’s easier to catch a film from Congo in the theater. Unless of course one is willing to make a bit of a trek to NJ which in turn (and no offense to NJ residents) is always a bit of a trauma for a New York resident!
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February 26, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Have Fun Q. Where else in India ( specifically wher in UP) are you planning to go?
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February 26, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Only Varanasi in U.P. (hamesha shauq tha jaane ka, and had never been). But will have to make some time for family, so am heading to M.P. (Bhopal) for a couple of days as well (my chacha is currently there). Will also be squeezing some time for Karachi-based family, so all in all this is a bit of a rushed trip… 🙂
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February 26, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Qalandar, you deserved to be a ‘brown saheb’ in colonial times and have a job in the railways or something where you could have been forever touring India! Not a bad fate at all (if one discounts having to live in pre-Bachchan times!).
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February 26, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Jokes aside while I haven’t been to Benares (let’s be colonial here!) it is definitely on my ‘to do’ list. This city it seems to me is a rather unique place in the world. I doubt there’s another place in the world where the dead do so much traffic with the living.
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February 26, 2009 at 6:05 PM
I guess you will not be Moderating at NG then for next few weeks !
Kidding !!
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February 26, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Try and watch a bollywood movie at a Karachi Theatre and let us know your experience.
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February 26, 2009 at 6:29 PM
yeah but that has to be done before the Taleban get there! it’s terrifying to see how they’ve advanced in that country.
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February 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM
Let’s see what Obama has in his mind.
btw- how does the order of comments changes suddenly. Freaks me out !!
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February 26, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Rocky, nowadays wordpress gives you the option of responding to a comment, not just to a post — hence the order changes, and hence there’s a “reply” after each comment…
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February 26, 2009 at 9:06 PM
But it’s still clear because there’s threading.. if one is just responding to the topic one can do so in normal fashion.. however if one is responding to someone or something in specific it’s a useful option.
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February 26, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Yes. I think from DLW Colony . There are some scenes from outskirts of city as well.
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February 26, 2009 at 9:50 PM
arey qalandar bhai,aap kab benaras aa rahe hain,i’m based here.Will be nice to meet you.
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February 26, 2009 at 10:07 PM
And qalandar bhai bunty and babli does have scenes from benaras in the final cut too,during the starting credits and the sequences between raj babber and abhishek(on the roof with the kite on antenae with abhishek’s entrepreneur streak doing a water tap)
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February 26, 2009 at 11:46 PM
awesome! didn’t know you were based in Varanasi…I arrive there the afternoon of March 2, leave march 7 afternoon…email me your phone number at qalandar4ATgmailDOTcom…
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February 26, 2009 at 11:47 PM
Thanks, both of you — good to know.
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February 26, 2009 at 11:50 PM
I have made the correction to my blog post
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February 27, 2009 at 3:41 AM
Q bhai i will email to you today evening.
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February 27, 2009 at 3:43 AM
yes abcd the scene was shot in DLW colony.You too from benares?
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June 10, 2009 at 11:26 PM
kya yaar ab mail ka bhi answer nahi de rahe ho
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June 10, 2009 at 11:32 PM
who is this addressed to?
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