so then....K stands for what... K for Kafka...(errr...no...) K for the K-series...(well..not there...) K for the K-syndrome in hindi films...(rubbish..!!!) K for ....hmmm... K for... Kan it be Kashyap.... ??? (yyyyyeaaaahhhh..... u are there...) so then.. today we finally meet, as Lynch would term in his Lost Highway symbolism..."the Mystery Man" - Anurag Kashyap.... good lord that i met him in this birth else i would die with a few questions in my mind about his film and my soul would not go to rest in peace....but then.. as Baba bangali says... "aatma hai toh sharir ishwar hai.. aatma nahi toh sharir nashwar hai.." ok i guess my ramblings are not making sense...but am proud of it.. after all this is my first blog and am free to write the way i want.. neither K, nor any A to Z cares about it.... But then let me pour out my heart K - man u are awesome.. in the shallow pools of mediocrity there is a frog who jumps high and man what a leap he takes in form of "No Smoking" - "a small step for K is a giant leap for our indian cinema" and then K is so approachable... K has a photographic memory....like a kid he was going ga-ga over his "emotional hathyachaar". and after all was done.. he could sit in front of us with his lappie, when we were having lunch... and make us hear his forthcoming songs...wow!..i was floored.... K introduced us to Fatih Akin - the turkish-born German director with his films like Head-On, Edge of Heaven...etc... K my interpretations on No smoking are as follows....they maybe wrong but they are mine K..and "Nobody tells me what to do..." :) Take Smoking as a metaphor for Filmmaking... now whats new.. everyone knows that...ok lets go ahead...
1. the "the Dead Factory" - is of course RGV's now dead production house...
2. The Prayogshaala - (A) is a big production house ala Yash Raj studios who beat, whip and make people do from them what they want....it can be any other production house... hint: when baba bangali says "salaam Namaste MBBS"... both films written by Abbas tyrewala..he is directly refering to how abbas was made to write stuff... (B) the Prayogshaala can also be a Censor board - cause that is how they try to confine filmmakers and restrict their freedom to think. they decide and we make...
3. and if the concept B is true for Prayogshala, then the ZERO Hour is a film festival where there is no Censorship and people are free to watch whatever they want to - there are no certificates like U or A.. its free for everyone...
4. the character of Alex - La Fidal Castrated... is like a Sanjay Gupta character who brings stuff from outside to sell it in India. They way Sanjay Gupta rips the foreign film DVDs and sells it in India - in the name of his own....
5. the 2 fingers of K that are shown cut in the end are the 2 banned films of K - Paanch and black friday....
6. the 2 versions of a same woman are of course the 2 ways a man wants to see a woman - as a devoted wife and as a seductress in office... (but then i loved it when Ayesha Takia's chartacter says that - he married her secretary who is now her wife...so she kind of fits in both roles..but then in first half after K tells to the old lady to take the stairs - he asks in his office that where is the secretary on which he is said that she is on a leave today... well...? there i go again....
7. and then there is this wonderful hint given before everything is to begin... the eunuch comes and gives change.. and tells to K.. he may need it...
8. when we come to know in the end that the hospital was inaugrated by Baba Bangali .. the date is 1st april... welll.... that means...we are being made fools....any guesses.... hmm.... now am tired.. will try to edit this post.. when i can.... till then K, u are a magnet....
thanks for letting us think....
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