Thursday, 14 June 2007

The Gupta Gyan





Sanjay Gupta is back with a bang. This time the bang is not connected with "a stunner who can gyrate to a song". Its the big bang at the box office. White feather has delivered a hit and everything is gung ho with the trade pundits who have many scores to settle with Gupta.
They feel he does his own thing. They think he makes movies which are not universal hits. They think he is very stylized and reflects no soul. They feel he is living in some cocoon. In simple language when these barbs are translated it means ( but they dont have the balls to say it openly): " This man is having a blast of a time doing what he knows best: MOVIES!!!"

He reads tons and tons of books. Shockers of all he reads charles burowski too. He reacts to new authors and books like a child reacts to candy. He has thousands of movies on DVD and he watches it with a passion, you and me ordinary mortals make love to our loved ones with. Be it Irani, Malyasian, Chinese or Russian he watches all movies. Unlike some directors who claim status by quoting books and talking international cinema, Gupta does not feel the need to flaunt his knowledge. He instead parties and you see quaint photos of him in "dumb" parties. But he does not want to impress anyone. He wants to make his movies. He wants to make his brand of cinema.

And finally he will be able to do so. Many have attempted to ape his stylised way of his movies. But they have failed. Infact when others make movies that have the cutting edge...we are already saying, " that was such a Sanjay Gupta genre of film".

Which means he is already become an "adjective". From a proper name to adjective. Sanjay Gupta has come a long way...

Roll in the limousine, bring out the champagne glassess...uhh where are the fine legs. Throw in Sanju Baba with the golden tooth cap...sprinkle in the infectious beat and what you have is Gupta Gyan. Totally addictive..Just like gupt gyan!!!

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