10 Sep 2008, 3:59pm
When I am insightful...
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One of my all time favourite dialogues is from Kshatriya, a pretty obscure movie if you were born after 1981. Being as it was released in the 90s with no cable television or internet porn, yours truly watched it at least three times - twice in colour, and once in black and white on my granny's Beltek TV. Those were simpler times indeed. We were happier then with much little than we are sad today with much more. Whoa, that was quite an insightful statement. I had to read that over ten times to completely soak in its beauty.
Anyway, the dialogue. It was a scene between Vinod Khanna and Sunny Deol. Deol, who had just returned from London, wanted to get married to Khanna's daughter, which was impossible for the same reason that Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla could not get married in QSQT. The father of the not-to-be bride (Vinod Khanna, of course) says something to the effect that their families share a fiery enmity to which Sunny says that you cannot fight fire with fire and you need water to douse the flames. This is when this gem of a line comes from Vinod Khanna, "Oh, and you have brought the fire-dousing water from London!"
In isolation, the dialogue itself is not interesting. Then again, in isolation nothing is interesting unless I happen to find Angelina Jolie in isolation. However, the dialogue has stayed with me for a good fifteen years now. In retrospect, perhaps those fifteen years were not all that good if the only solid memory I have of those years is that of a cheesy dialogue from a super flop movie. I should have got out more often, and not like those Goa trips with my parents. I probably should not have said that out loud. Hot women reading this post should disregard that statement.
This raises another question. No, not the question if any hot women read this blog at all. The question simply is this, "Would a woman continue to be perceived as hot if she had the time to wander in the online space reading some loser's ramblings? Shouldn't she be out there getting laid?" Another insight to nicely round off this post.
Current Mood: Gloomy
Current Music: Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
Anyway, the dialogue. It was a scene between Vinod Khanna and Sunny Deol. Deol, who had just returned from London, wanted to get married to Khanna's daughter, which was impossible for the same reason that Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla could not get married in QSQT. The father of the not-to-be bride (Vinod Khanna, of course) says something to the effect that their families share a fiery enmity to which Sunny says that you cannot fight fire with fire and you need water to douse the flames. This is when this gem of a line comes from Vinod Khanna, "Oh, and you have brought the fire-dousing water from London!"
In isolation, the dialogue itself is not interesting. Then again, in isolation nothing is interesting unless I happen to find Angelina Jolie in isolation. However, the dialogue has stayed with me for a good fifteen years now. In retrospect, perhaps those fifteen years were not all that good if the only solid memory I have of those years is that of a cheesy dialogue from a super flop movie. I should have got out more often, and not like those Goa trips with my parents. I probably should not have said that out loud. Hot women reading this post should disregard that statement.
This raises another question. No, not the question if any hot women read this blog at all. The question simply is this, "Would a woman continue to be perceived as hot if she had the time to wander in the online space reading some loser's ramblings? Shouldn't she be out there getting laid?" Another insight to nicely round off this post.
Current Mood: Gloomy
Current Music: Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
10 Sep 2008, 6:52pm
It depends. Your competition is not an opportunity for getting laid, but articles with titles like "Flying Fish Breaks Arkansas Teen's Jaw". I think you'd be read. After the masala story, that is.
Angelina Jolie in isolation. Mmmm.
10 Sep 2008, 7:03pm
The only part of your comment that I understood was about Angelina Jolie in isolation. It created a few million images in my head - of Jolie and you in compromising positions. Now that is an Mmmmmmm moment!
10 Sep 2008, 7:33pm
Sigh. Never mind. I cannot help it if my discourse goes totally over your head, Scripto. Sadness.
Compromising positions. Hmmm.
10 Sep 2008, 7:37pm
That was hardly a discourse, Aran. The frightening thing is that even that went over my head. Or may be I read the Jolie part first. She has this effect. You should know :-p.
10 Sep 2008, 7:39pm
Thing is, there's this Jolie-esque person among my friends. And one that looks like Kiera Knightly. I keep staring at them.
10 Sep 2008, 7:41pm
Now I know why you never introduce me to your friends. Kiera Knightley you can keep for yourself. Give me Jolie.
10 Sep 2008, 7:42pm
Um, no. That's not happening, sorry. Why would I want to share them? Or you?
10 Sep 2008, 7:46pm
For the same reason that people who eat out once in a while are not being disrespectful to home food.
10 Sep 2008, 7:47pm
It's not the same thing. You're not food.
10 Sep 2008, 7:49pm
I don't mind being eaten.
10 Sep 2008, 7:52pm
There's nothing I can say to that...!
10 Sep 2008, 8:04pm
I have the Aran speechless! Don't remember when that happened last.
10 Sep 2008, 8:41pm
You say that every time this happens.
11 Sep 2008, 4:36pm
Could that mean I have alzy?
11 Sep 2008, 6:28pm
It's possible.