19 September, 2007

Paling Sing Songs

The first email I opened this morning said: “Whatever happened to your Purplocity/Verniness series? Do you think we come to your blog to read your fine English? No we don’t! Give us Purplocity! Give us Verniness!”

Well, you know me, I gotta respond to the market. Reader Rajat Gulati has sent me a mail pointing me to a feature by IndiaGlitz on Manorama 6 Feet Under, in which an unnamed person—presumably Abhay Deol, who plays the lead in the film—is quoted explaining what his character is all about:

I am paling an amateur detective’s character in this movie, who wife usually suspects him for no reasons. I write a book on famous detective’s life and the incidents occurred in his life, a reader of that book, that it Sarika who is playing Manorama in this movie, get impress with my book as she appoints me as her private detective to explore more about her husband’s affair with a lady. While the investigation Sarika dies and I get stuck in to unwanted circumstances.

Abhay Deol happens to be an actor I think quite highly of, as much for his choice of films as for his acting. And there is no freaking way he could have, um, used the words above. This is why journalism is such a creative art. Anyway, later in the piece, Raima Sen is quoted as saying:

Though the music in this movie is not a Sing Song, I like song ‘ Woh Mere Pal’.

I’m a huge fan of Sing Song films. I like paling Sing Songs. I am very impress.

(Previous posts with Purplocity/Verniness: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.)