Comments on: Jai Bhaiyya

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:03:17 +0000

Hey Patrix, I have read ‘The Spirit of Lagaan’ and once upon a time, it was my favourite book! Satyajit Bhatkal, a lawyer by profession writes beautifully and trancends you to the sets and you feel you are part of the film making! I loved the part where the team who recreated the village at Bhuj, Gujrat put sanitation facilities on priority! Every hut had a western camode!

I also saw the documentary, ‘The Spirit of Lagaan’, (Chale Chalo in hindi) in a theatre four years after it was released! :)

A friend of mine and I were part of a team which had me play Ashutosh, and another guy (Kartick) play Aamir and we’d shot a few behind the scenes (the dielema whether to make the film, the conversation with Javed Akhtar who wasn’t too keen on the script being a commercial success, etc) for a presentation during my days in B School… It was fun! :)

Yup, I agree with you that Bollywood is undermarketed. Or to rephrase that, Bollywood is still trying to find its feet in the new media to market itself. Aamir has taken a step in the blogosphere which may help in connecting to a different mass…

By: Patrix

Patrix — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:18:58 +0000

Piker, I doubt any other DVD release would have garnered such attention :)

Sampada, in the age of near-perfect animation, such rough illustrations can make you nostalgic. I think the Amul Butter ads might have made me like this cover too :)

By: Sampada

Sampada — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:17:09 +0000

I thought that artwork was an Amul butter ad. I kept looking for the caption.

By: The Piker

The Piker — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:56:53 +0000

A post about the Lagaan DVD by another Lagaan fan: http://beatzo.livejournal.com/134233.html
Interestingly the title of his post is not very different from your’s!

By: Patrix

Patrix — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:53:55 +0000

Piker, Absolutely! I like his blog just for the reason that it does seem that he actually writes it. Of course, some grammar, punctuation, and paragraph spacing will not hurt.

By: Piker

Piker — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:18:19 +0000

The good part of Aamir’s blog is the fact that he blogs fairly regularly. Of course some basic grammar/punctuation could be taken care of seems too careless. Although now after having read his blog for quite sometime, I like the imperfectness of it. Because after all HE is ACTUALLY writing it.

Not some ghost writer as with the case of most celebrities.

Hope he takes this to his domain (and preferably start using Wordpress) :) and does it as frequently as he does it now.