TELEGU, TAMIL, MALYALI they are all like siblings for me so couldn’t match the exact header for this article! Sorry for my ignorance!
Baalls, baalls I need more baalls! Shaaik, shaaik- shaaik the flag properly!
These were the dialogues from “Bollywood Calling” where Om Puri has brilliantly enacted a south Indian movie director.
Life is all about colors, we should feel ourselves lucky we have our eyes in perfect working condition to see and like colors. We have our favorites, blue, green, yellow, red, magenta, black! But we prefer them one at a time or perhaps in combination or sometimes even contrast! But there are some who have the ability to bring the rainbow on earth! They utilize blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, blood red, violet, purple all at one time! Amazed? Well don’t be! Meet them at the SUN TV!
Kaandelum iruvenalam malayam telegu tamilum! The best I can decipher the words in the song they sing. But the music indeed top-class! So though I hear “tandala tandala tori putty kamala, tandala tandala tandala”! God I am such an illiterate man I know only Bengali, English, Hindi and can understand Oriya! Wish I could have learnt some languages from down south so that to know what exactly they are singing! And once while trying my luck to appease a client from Bangalore on hearing his dialer tone saying something “amaa amaa waare kamaa”! I praised about his fondness for his mother even after being a father of two but guess what! I made a fool out of me when he said “ammaa ammaa means wife” so now you see even in down south after marriage it’s wife who rules! And I was thinking what an obedient son he is!
Talking about south Indian movies- their concept and story line far superior, better in technique, and brilliant innovative thoughts- the most recent dubbed ones those took me by surprise were Aparichit and Indra- the tiger! You have to see Chiranjivi as Indra doing his antics with a towel(gamchhaa) an accessory of prestige in rural community down south, wham, bam, slam his towel on shoulder is a multi tasker! Taking care of enemies and its owner too! He walks like a tiger and slams, whams his towel in air which produces sound of a storm! I wish the director should put a disclaimer in those scenes “this stunt has been done by professional never try to enact lest you will end up losing your either eye” slam bam and the towel hits your cornea and you go 1½ light!*
And the best part of their movies- oh la la la- their picturization of songs! Red, green, blue, magenta, orange, purple, yellow, sepia, maroon all the colors you can think of you will find them on your screen! Roads, bridges, sky, trucks, cars, horses, bullock carts, trees, mountains, undies, ganjis, lungis, payjamas, hair, mufflers, brooms, chuniis, ghaghraas, naagraas they can paint everything and anything for the sake of making it live and colorful!
Costumes? Apnaa Govinda bhi maar kha gaya yahaa toh! Yellow pant, orange T shirt and white cheetah print shirt with buttons open! Red leopard print shirt and zebra print pants, deep purple lungi and magenta shirt! Think the weirdest color combination in your mind and you will find a Southern Express zipping through neck braking, legs twisting, spine torturing, dance steps wearing them!
There has to be some most amazing props in their song sequence take for instance- trucks with face painted on their front! Roads painted as disco floors! Heaps of earthern pots making a mountain! Live-size sunflowers, corns, roses dancing in the fields, rows of multicolored ambassador cars which look like carriages of Essel World! Rows of lanterns hanging on long bamboo poles on the backdrops of setting sun! I just hold my breath in awe and inspiration their song sequences ooze! They sure know how to make a cinema slide look like a thing of fantasy!
And I can very well understand with these types of stunts and gimmicks an average cinema theater(not multiplex) but a cinema hall must be a place something we call hell getting lose on earth! Whistles, claps, screams, shrieks rather turning into do and die spirit, praising their super express for such marvelous stunts! And for me until I get the dubbed version all those brilliant works are kandanum kaandilum telegu tamilam!