K Mallikarjun

A snap that I took at a recent concert.

Finally we have one!!! A concert where Indian Rock Bands get together and play ONLY originals!!!

Finally,

The ‘Indian Rock Band’ even today is worse than a prostitute. Given a regular audience, it HAS to play the played and overplayed stuff, whether the band likes it or not. There are people who scream ‘CAN YOU PLAY KAJRAREEE’ as soon as the band hits the stage. Nothing more demotivating than that.

Oh well, you can aruge all that you want. The band needs to play FOR the audience, how can the band play only what it wants to. It is an endless debate.

But now all that matters is that ‘Rock Ethos’ is here!!

I think I’ll have to go alone. It IS a concert for a niche audience; not easy to get company. Day long concert, so I will take a book and my camera along.

Long Live Indian Rock!

Thanks to Jithesh, I saw two movies of T.V. Chandran’s recently - ’Dany’ and ‘Kathavaseshan’. Both of us love those movies and frequently discuss them. Jithesh seems hell bent on convincing people that ‘Dany’ is a better movie. I don’t know which is better or even if it is fair comparing the two. Nevertheless both of us agree that we are talking about two truly great Malayalam movies.

What inspired me to write this article is a funny discovery that we made yesterday. We were watching a part of ‘Kathavaseshan’ since we had felt like listening to the lovely song ‘Kannum nattu’. The scene after the song shows Jyothirmayi and her friend walking into some sort of a ’suicide cause investigation’ office. As they walk, the camera moves to the walls of the office where pictures of Kurt Cobain etc are displayed.

After showing the pictures of 2-3 others, the shot remains still at a photo with the name ‘Chavaro’. It shows the head of a man who died by hanging himself. I had never noticed this man when I watched the movie before. But this time, I jumped up saying ‘CHAVARO!!!!! EDA.. CHAVARO!!!!!’. For a couple of seconds, Jithesh had no clue why I was getting excited. After that, even he joined ‘AAAH. DANYle CHAVARO!!!! EDAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!’ Well, the point is that ‘Chavaro’ is a character in ‘Dany’. In the movie, Chavaro commits suicide and the narrator speculates on  why he did so. To add to our excitement, the ‘Chief Suicide Investigator’ or whatever the head of the ’suicide cause investigation’ is called appears in the scene and that turned out to be the same man who played ‘Chavaro’ in ‘Dany’.

Jithesh said there are references about ‘Susanna’, another film by the same director, in ‘Dany’. We wound up by talking about how Alfred Hitchcock appears in his movies.

T.V. Chandran neenaal vazhatte!!