London diaries day 2 - I am in London for some work.
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Today after the meeting, together with my Italian colleagues, Gio and Davide, we all went to Hyde park. Gio said that he wanted to see the speaker's corner where some body can go up on a podium and speak his or her views. We went around the rose garden and walked along the serpentine lake. I took lot of pictures of ducks. But we didn't find the speaker's corner.
It is in that direction, a guy told us, pointing vaguely in the opposite side. Walking through the park, there were some really nice trees with trunks swollen like pregnant tummies - must have taken them centuries to become like that. Any way, we gave up before reaching the speakers corner. It was too far away and after two hours of walking, I was tired.
It is in that direction, a guy told us, pointing vaguely in the opposite side. Walking through the park, there were some really nice trees with trunks swollen like pregnant tummies - must have taken them centuries to become like that. Any way, we gave up before reaching the speakers corner. It was too far away and after two hours of walking, I was tired.
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Pirated Bollywood Films
Pirated CDs of Bollywood films are easily available in London. They are difficult to get hold of in Italy.
In the hotel, I also watched on my Laptop, initial parts of Bollywood film, Bunty & Bubli up to the Kajrare song. This film has very nice colours. It is also nice to see Rameshwari and Kiran Juneja after so many years. However, the film is pleasant but seems kind of synthetic - the small town feel is not authentic.
After reading Mukul's blogpost about Bunty & Bubli, I could appreciate the subtext of the background song from Umrao Jaan and dialogues when AB Sr meets AB Jr - those internal references about the personal lives and older films, are not understood by most of film-goers, but once I read about them in his blog, they seemed so obvious!
The part about selling Taj Mahal with the actor dressed up as Mayawati-kind of person is really good. Kajrare song is also good but didn't like Ash in it. Her vigorous heaving of bosoms made her look like a transvestite. Watching her reminded me of Praveen Babi when she was forced to wear bhartiya nari kind of clothes. Her jhatkas are good but on the whole it looks like she is trying too hard.
Later, I also watched Bride and Prejudice. It was not that bad and Ash was ok. I wish though they had reduced the " colourful Bharat" a bit. Made me wish I was kind of colour-blind.
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After reading Mukul's blogpost about Bunty & Bubli, I could appreciate the subtext of the background song from Umrao Jaan and dialogues when AB Sr meets AB Jr - those internal references about the personal lives and older films, are not understood by most of film-goers, but once I read about them in his blog, they seemed so obvious!
The part about selling Taj Mahal with the actor dressed up as Mayawati-kind of person is really good. Kajrare song is also good but didn't like Ash in it. Her vigorous heaving of bosoms made her look like a transvestite. Watching her reminded me of Praveen Babi when she was forced to wear bhartiya nari kind of clothes. Her jhatkas are good but on the whole it looks like she is trying too hard.
Later, I also watched Bride and Prejudice. It was not that bad and Ash was ok. I wish though they had reduced the " colourful Bharat" a bit. Made me wish I was kind of colour-blind.
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Actually that's a goose. I hope you liked London. i try to make a living out of making people like it. Interestingly, I went to Bologna with some friends to celebrate all of us hitting the 40 mark without spontaneously combusting. We loved Bologna.
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