Arre O Sambha

August 29, 2006

Do these guys look like… the same guy? The MM reports on Ramu’s spat with Manoj Bajpai:
The much-discussed midnight meeting between Manoj Bajpai and his erstwhile mentor Ram Gopal Varma came to a stalemate because apparently Manoj wanted to play Veeru (the part originally played by Amitabh Bachchan in Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay) rather than Sambha (the role of Gabbar Singh’s main side-kick, originally played by Mac Mohan).
Except that, uh, it was Dharmendra who played Veeru, not Amitabh as the report says.

Sheesh.

And the report goes on to tell us about RGV’s final word on Manoj Bajpai not playing Sambha, which is… several paragraphs long. The point being, Mr Bajpai will not play Mr Sambha.

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  1. In this recent interview with the Hindustan Times, I was very intrigued to read that Chandra listens to music while writing. He has extremely good taste in music….

    Going for the kill

    Aditya Sinha

    New Delhi, August 27, 2006

    Vikram Chandra listens to Hindi film music while he writes. And considering it took him over seven years to write his latest novel, Sacred Games, a 900-page thriller that has propelled him to the pantheon of Indian writing, he must have heard a lot of songs.

    No wonder, then, the main characters in Sacred Games are often singing or humming a tune, whether it is Inspector Sartaj Singh (Main zindagi ka saath nibhaata chala gaya) or the Hindu don Ganesh Gaitonde (Chala jaata hoon kisi ki dhun me, dhadakte dil ke tarane liye).

    And no wonder then, while strolling through the cramped lanes of Delhi’s Nizamuddin, when you decide to play a parlour game and suddenly ask him what five songs he’d like played at his funeral, he pauses and says: “One by Kishore Kumar, one by Mohd Rafi, and one by Mukesh,” adding that any song by each would do. Number four: “A hiphop artist in the States, the1shanti, he’s Indian… he actually read Love and Longing in Bombay (Vikram’s collection of short stories) and did a song of the same title on his album Indian Bambaataa.” And last? “It’s not really a song, but Harivanshrai Bachchan’s poem, Madhushala.”…

    Comment by Dahlia Sen — August 29, 2006 @ 2:07 pm

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