There goes the neighborhood

I'm sitting in my room with my telly on full blast. My mum sits on the floor, with her jaw on the floor. The serials she watches drive me to distraction, and i know there's nothing i can do about it. I try and see whats there to like about all this, and i cannot last more than 5 minutes. The hyper dramatic zooms and pans make me dizzy, and the all too over the top soundtrack makes me envy the hearing impaired. The women and their garish whore like makeup, the insignificant men and their rosy cheeks, the daft-as-rocks kids, the pseudo intelligent elders...how on earth is shit like this on air?!
what aspirations do they project?the sprawling bungalows?the 2 tonnes of jewelry per person?the costumes?the exciting lives?The bungalows are rented,and purpose built sets, and often have 3 or 4 production companies shooting in different rooms simultaneously, the jewelry is plastic...so there.
And the soundtrack, lets see, close your eyes and listen to what's going on,try and figure out what happens. here's what happens:
scene 1 (typical evening)
3 women are mumbling something in the back,in walks another woman.
cue-rapid zoom in,rapid zoom out on each face in the room,pan in,pan out on same faces.fade to white,fade in,fade to white...
music-drums,funky final cut pro stock effects, vedic shlokas,more vedic shlokas
dialogue
1st woman from group(pallavi):oh
woman who enters room(kamini):oh
cue cue-rapid zoom in,rapid zoom out on each face in the room,pan in,pan out on same faces.fade to white,fade in,fade to white...
music-drums,funky final cut pro stock effects, vedic shlokas,more vedic shlokas
2nd woman from group(shalini):tum yahaan kya kar rahi ho?
kamini:kuch nahi,bas yun hi.(echo)
cue-extreme close up,rapid zoom in,rapid zoom out on each face in the room,pan in,pan out on same faces.fade to white,fade in,fade to white...
music-drums,funky final cut pro stock effects, vedic shlokas,more vedic shlokas,
kamini:tum log yahaan kya kar rahe ho?
3rd woman(ragini):kuch nahi
cue-extreme close up,rapid zoom in,rapid zoom out on each face in the room,pan in,pan out on same faces.fade to white,fade in,fade to white...
music-drums,funky final cut pro stock effects, vedic shlokas,more vedic shlokas
kamini:oh
freeze frame,extreme close up,blanch,polarise,drum roll,slow mo
-cut to commercial-


nice na?

The Sound of Music

Why do i like jazz so much?Interesting question,i'm bored. It's something that none of my friends take too kindly to. And still i persist!I was enjoying an interesting performance the other day that i had this epiphany and i wasn't surprised that i was alone-it's better that way!I think jazz is much more palatable than painful genres like hard rock and metal, it's something one can chew on and savour, and not just gulp down like the rest. You have 3 or 4 people on stage, each playing their own instrument, on their own,and yet there's harmony, u can still distinguish notes. No growling, no nasty snarls, no homoerotic long haired dudes banging their heads around.
Jazz in Bombay is often considered a little elitist, which might be true because the passes are always beyond my reach!But what i realised the other day was that jazz unfortunately has been projected in that manner. Foreign bands are very expensive for organisers to bring in, and the only people who will support the ticket sales are the moronic hoity-toities. They patronize the performance because they can afford it, and be seen with their 'peers', not necessarily because they like it so much. Jazz, in India, has caught on very late. And thanks to 'dude rock', almost underground. Whats new is uber cool, whats uber cool is uber expensive.
That's why i say piracy truly is power to the people.
Well i guess i'l just have to wait till things become cheaper. Till then its 'bitcomet' all the way.