Its amazing , how I catch the most bizarre bits of news even after I’ve proof read the whole newspaper when it had first appeared on my door mat at the break of dawn. Now its way past midnight I’ve had coffee I glance over the newspaper. It reads “Amar Singh’s phone tapped”, “Subhaash Bhowmick held on charges of accepting bribe”, “Roger Fedrer in final” nothing unusual but wait what’s this in the magazine section? “Fight Club starring Sohail Khan, Zayed Khan”. It is true they are making Fight Club in Hindi with manicured boys spitting blood like Brad Pitt, male duds pulling punches onto each other and fighting till their faces are smeared with blood. The promo’s have it Dino Morea with a prophetic sigh yelling “Fight Club ka pehla rule koi bhi fight club ka baat nahi karega” (…...ueee maa I’m scared ) juxtaposed with 1999’s Edward Norton starrer you’ll see the reason for my hilarity. This doesn’t end here, just last month I saw “Chocolate” and it was such a pathetic immitation of Kevin Spacey’s “Usual Suspect” that me and friends were peeling to laughter adding to the dismay of people sitting next to us. 
The Fight Club released in 1999 was an adaptation of Chuck Palahnuick’s novel which some found sick. I found it faithfully following Chuck Palahniuk's acerbic satire, Fight Club presents the vast emptiness of modern existence- ridden as it is with shallow values, rampant consumerism, empty of meaning, feeling and life itself- in a slick and ironically consumer oriented fashion. It talks about a group of bare knuckle street fighters headed by Ed Norton who is a bored surveyor of an insurance company. In his subconscious he is a vagabond soap maker called Tyler Durden i.e. Brad Pitt and comes to life at night. It is the insomnia of Ed Norton that compels him to acquire a schizophrenic double identity without being completely aware of it. It rather compels the viewer to draw their own conclusions. Now I’ll be surprised if the Hindi version of movie will be any good because Sohail, Dino, Ashish etc..are the regular cuttie-cuddlies, their non existent acting skill can’t depict the masochistic tendencies of the Fight Club dudes who were antisocial/ anti-establishment and counter culture to the core. And I’m sure Neha Dhupia and Amrita Arora don’t make beautiful sluts like Helena Bonham Carter. And forget the ciggies there is a blanket ban on smoking in Bollywood. I wonder can someone stop these third generation filmmakers from making these heart felt “inspirational movies”.
The Fight Club released in 1999 was an adaptation of Chuck Palahnuick’s novel which some found sick. I found it faithfully following Chuck Palahniuk's acerbic satire, Fight Club presents the vast emptiness of modern existence- ridden as it is with shallow values, rampant consumerism, empty of meaning, feeling and life itself- in a slick and ironically consumer oriented fashion. It talks about a group of bare knuckle street fighters headed by Ed Norton who is a bored surveyor of an insurance company. In his subconscious he is a vagabond soap maker called Tyler Durden i.e. Brad Pitt and comes to life at night. It is the insomnia of Ed Norton that compels him to acquire a schizophrenic double identity without being completely aware of it. It rather compels the viewer to draw their own conclusions. Now I’ll be surprised if the Hindi version of movie will be any good because Sohail, Dino, Ashish etc..are the regular cuttie-cuddlies, their non existent acting skill can’t depict the masochistic tendencies of the Fight Club dudes who were antisocial/ anti-establishment and counter culture to the core. And I’m sure Neha Dhupia and Amrita Arora don’t make beautiful sluts like Helena Bonham Carter. And forget the ciggies there is a blanket ban on smoking in Bollywood. I wonder can someone stop these third generation filmmakers from making these heart felt “inspirational movies”.
3 comments:
dude, how ve you been? i saw Chocalate too, didnt have to pay for it luckly. excellent description of the bloggers meet, when's the next one?
Dhananjay
dude, how ve you been? i saw Chocalate too, didnt have to pay for it luckly. excellent description of the bloggers meet, when's the next one?
Dhananjay
The original Fight Club is brilliant.
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