Hope you guys find it as much amusing as we did :), nice and creative sync spoof of jalsa.

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We did too and here is the solution.

We like what Jukebox is doing. Hope to see more of them on our site in ‘08.

Tar Zameen Par, the title song in Ameer Khan’s home production venture (’Tar Zameen Par’) is one of my favorite songs for 2007. I like it for its authenticity, simple style and the depth of its lyrics. Here are the lyrics for Tare Zameen Par, (not sure who penned them - Prasoon Joshi??).

Dekho inhein yeh hai onss ki boodein
Patto ki goodh mein aasmaan se khude
Angdai le phir karwat badal kar
Nazuk se moti hasde phishal kar
Kho na jayee yeh
Taare Zameen par […]

300 spartan apples went to war against heavy odds and a nonchalant senate. The rest is madness and heroism that oozes out of being the ruthless underdog..err..sorry…underapple.

MassnMurdProductions created this awesome stop motion epic saga using unbelievable creativity and countless hours of hardwork.

Michael of Tativille posted a nice list of the Ten best movies of each year starting from 1930 to 2006.

Michael is a rare Ph.D. in the history of Art and film studies and, needless to say, a lovable film buff. Do drop him a line if you like his work.

Here is his list for 2006:

• 1. Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais, France/Italy)
• 2. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/
  France/Austria)
• 3. Still Life (Jia Zhangke, China/Hong Kong)
• 4. Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey/France)
• 5. Kodak (Tacita Dean, United Kingdom/France/United States)
• 6. Longing (Valeska Grisebach, Germany)
• 7. I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France/
  Austria)
• 8. Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho, Indonesia/Austria)
• 9. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain)
• 10. Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, Portugal/France/Switzerland)

If you look at the whole list, it is pretty dominated by American and European (Italian and French) Cinema.

p.s: It is interesting to note that India has a small contribution to the list as well - around 23 movies out of the 760. But that pales in comparison to the number of movies we make in India every year !

I wanted to do this post on top hindi movie dialogues and quotes in 2006 for some very long time. Now that 2007 is drawing to a close and we are running out of time, I decided to blog some of the best hindi movie quotes in 2006. better late than never ..what do you say/think ?

3. Pyar Aur Maut

This one is from Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna. Amitabh plays the playboy father-in-law who breaks down when he realizes that his daughter-in-law is cheating on his son, but never opens his mouth before his son after an oath. Eventually, he becomes sick and prepares to die in silence.

He plays some very meaningful last minutes on his death bed, with his daughter-in-law on his side, where he renders this powerful sentence very casually.

Pyar aur Maut unbulaye Mahman hothe hai beta. Un dono pe kisee ko adhikaar nahee hotha.

[Love and Death are uninvited guests, my dear. No one has control over them.]

Saying so, he calmly advises his daughter-in-law to leave his son and do herself a favor.

2. Vinamratha !

This did not have the same seepage as our #1 but the ingrained irony is great! Coming from the same movie (Lage Raho Munnabhai - 2006), Vinamratha is the Sanskrit word for politeness. This is the way Arshad Warsi thinks his goon boss Munnabhai can win the heart of the movie’s leading lady - a Radio Jockie played by Vidya Balan of Parineeta fame.

But what cracks up the audience is how Munnabhai bashes up some characters in the movie to bring them to senses and tells his love interest that he tried to use ‘Vinamratha’ to win their hearts.

‘Usko maar peet ke Samjhatha tho woh thoodee mantha. Vinamratha se Samjhaya Na!’

[ If I bet him up or bashed him (which he does already), he would not listen at all. That is why, I taught him with ‘Politeness’ ]

The undercurrent of this dialogue runs directly against the core of the movie but also represents the initial conflict that the lead role Munnabhai goes through to change his inner self.

1. Gandhigiri !

This catch-phrase presented the whole era of Gandhian ideology in a new light in ‘Lage Raho MunnaBhai’, the runaway hit of 2006.
Munnabhai, the goon, is guided by his inner voice (and his recent reading spree on Gandhian ideals) to leave Gundagiri (goon lifestyle) and adopt the much harder path of non-violence, truth and peaceful resistance to injustice, coined in one simple, catchy phrase that he comes up with - ‘Gandhigiri’ !

Gundagiri tho koyee bhee kar saktha Hai ! Kya thum mere maarg par chal sakthe ho? Uska Naam hai Gandhigiri !

[Any one can lead the lifestyle of a goon. Can you follow my path? It is called Gandhigiri !
- Munnabhai’s inner voice, dressed as Gandhi, speaking to him]

The idea struck a cord with hoards of crowds that were drawn to the theatres to watch this movie. People in India started using this in their protest marches as a new way to draw attention & press. Even Indian immigrants in US of A chose to send flowers to the consulate general in a floral protest against a change of rules that could have delayed their green cards for a long time!

All of a sudden, there was a new way to protest from the streets of Calcutta to our capital D.C. ! Now, THAT is a Hindi dialogue/quote/phrase ingrained into popular culture !

These are the ones I could remember. If you can recall more, hook me up please

A lot of expectations and hype surround the release of Sivaji in bay area. The preview shows are sold out, the T-shirts are sold out, the audio CDs are sold out, there is an enormous demand for the posters and people still want more! Shankar and Rajini have gone to great lengths to render a stylish look to Rajni’s character in this movie and it definitely shows in the enthusiasm and energy that the fans are displaying to watch this movie on the first day , first show!

The trade circle talk also indicates a strong storyline with a multi-layered plot and special, memorable characters for Suman and Nayantara (a sign of Rajini’s magnanimity in the wake of the recent controversies). It is no doubt widely accepted that Rajini is a super star not just because of how he competes but also how he