Desicritics Comments on Is Anurag Kashyap Bollywood's Newest Motor Mouth?

Comment by Sakshi

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:17:19 EDT

Oh No! I am just so misunderstood. A decent and overly polite soul like me has been accused of "slapping" people around...and to top it up, I have been called a "journalist". Wow....now that's seriously a blow below the belt. With regards to Mr. Oz (is it after Wizard of Oz or you just happen to love Down under??)'s comment - Firstly, I am not a journalist taking a dab without knowing what I am speaking off. Secondly, I think I do know what blogging is all about considering I have been doing so over 2 years now (maybe you need some hand at backhand research), plus I don't generally boast about this...but dude my techno rank is way higher than yours. I know what you have written as a reply back to my post is nothing but siding with your good friend. So in many ways your words have been simply ignored by me. On the topic of PFC, well its funny isn't it, you chose to ignore my compliment but concentrate more on the "not-so-buttering" part. I guess you are not good at tasting your own medicine. Anyways, like you...I too am not interested in any sort of ~~flame war~~ blog war (this is in fact the correct term, thought you knew the ins-n-outs of blogging world??). I personally think PFC is excellent when it comes to assortment of thoughts on films from world over....but it would be a more worthwhile visit without the Google Ads being shoved right in my face. Wish you the very best... An amateur blogger, Sakshi

Comment by Kim

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:29:08 EDT

hmmmmmmmmmmm..... Sounds very different from the Anurag Kashyap I thought I knew. (Through all his plays with Makarand Deshpande & a workshop that I did with him) but then that was 2 years ago before his movie released. If what Sakshi says is true, then it would be really sad because Anurag has a wonderful brain, creative spark, extensive in-depth knowledge of non commercial & commercial cinema around the world. The sad part would be if all this has been suppressed & over looked because of current success.

Comment by Deepti Lamba

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:18:55 EDT

Jeez, I don't think our gentle Sakshi is prone to slapping people; are you Saks?;)

Comment by Aaman

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:18:33 EDT

Saks,your opinion is valid, but one must say I have a soft corner myself for iconoclastic filmmakers like Anurag K. While they might be nouveau cineastes, unlike, say, Ray or Tarantino, their passion for cinema is undeniable, and if they could let go of the Bollywood film structures, they might actually be creative originals. Being a motormouth is almost normal in art, film,etc., FWIW

Comment by rajesh

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:02:50 EDT

Anurag Kashyap responds to oz on PFC too: it's her opinion..that is skewed and i did get upset and posted a comment on her blog.. but then it was my anger that passed and it's ok..i have met her and she is straight..atleast she doesn't have pretense and she speaks her mind..guess i will take her slap too.. but yes i strongly disagree with her views about PFC..

Comment by rajesh

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:49:13 EDT

oz's comment on passion for cinema: I'm not gonna allow this to turn it into a flame war. I've read Sakshi Juneja's article and it is her opinion. She makes it very clear. I'm sure she is not very clear about the "blogging" concept a medium she herself has used to write that article. Actually many in India and the Indian media have yet to decide what and where they should place this whole new thingy called "Blogging"... that article would have had very different shades had Saskhi understood a blog, on open online diary. Had she understood that it's a stand alone website that is not shoved down people's throats or sold off stores, rather people interested in it would go to the web address and read it. And lastly it's an open forum, of course moderated for just the comments section, but yet good bad whatever, people can come in talk and be published right on the same page as the author's post. Sakshi could have done that but chose not to. It's her choice her decision. I have no problems with the article, just that it gets very skewed when the author hasn't completely grasped the term blogging. She even accuses PFC of leaning towards commercialisation... this on a website where authors are forced to enter amazon item numbers to create advertisements by the software for those entered item numbers... posts don't get published unless an author enters those amazon numbers. She fails to give examples of commercialization... again a whim, a fancy, she took to without giving any reasons for it. Had she known how PFC is run and how the cash is collected to move it from month to month... again it's a journalist taking potshots... without any research

Comment by Kartikeya

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:41:56 EDT

Between Salman Khan and Himesh Reshammiya Bollywood has two V8 motormouths... i wonder how you'd compare Kashyap with them.

Comment by anish

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:13:41 EDT

yes lets hope his coming films live up to the expectations of us movie maniacs who loved black friday. and also that he gets the hawaa out of his bheja.