A nice weekend in Bangalore
The Indian Movie Industry has finally ARRIVED!
‘Rang de Basanti‘ is undoubtedly one of the best Indian films that I ‘ve eva experienced. Aamir Khan with his infinite wisdom, has used the media to effectively evoke intense patriotic feelings from the the Next Gen audience. Well timed comic-reliefs, balances the seriousness of the topic, in this 3 hour movie.
The cast was carefully picked to appeal to a variety of audience across India. The story is about an English documentary maker who ropes in a bunch of Delhi college students to re-create the account of freedom struggle as mentioned in her grand dad’s diary.
K, I ”ll shut my gob now, before I am tempted to narrate the whole story.
Jethro Tull
Uncle Anderson ( or is it Grand pa Anderson) had an awesome stage-presence. I couldnt relate much to Tull but it wasnt bad either. Think Ilayaraja got some influences from Tull. Could hear a lota influences from Tull, Mozart in “Nothing but Wind”
TAAQ
Only the Lead Singer of Thermal and A Quarter seemed to be enjoying their cacaphony. I ‘ve neva seen such a dull show in Bangalore.
Radia Gaga was the only decent number they played and their own numbers failed to rock the crowd.
Books
I spent coupla hours at Landmark and this picked up these books.
http://www.tenfacesofinnovation.com/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679755551/104-6492817-9731117?v=glance&n=283155
I guess the problem was with the audio…The show had very poor audio…many have not said that but I felt it was a shame listening to TULL and not being able to really tell the words even from his most popular songs… I was shocked when, standing there right in front I cudnt decipher anything from My Sunday feeling…but then the flute solo and the others really made up for it…
It was a pity that way…but hey who cares It was TULL and it was Magic!!!
Mebbe, I wondered sometime later, after the show if it would have been worth tring to get one of those 1500 tickets for the Mumba leg of the show earlier…mebbe another time!!!
I usualy get my highs on rock shows and this time i couldnt even take off.
Yeah Lukas,
guess you are right. Ian Anderson was the last man standing from the original Jethro Tull band. May be, this show was not truly a Tull show because of the absence of the rest of the dingbats.