gurubhai!

we've gotten used to tv news as entertainment and entertainment as news...but an ad-film parading as a full-length feature film?? at 12crore, guru has just got to be the most expensive and unabashed ad-film to be made...ever! money ratnam sir has finally sold out...making me both, sad n angry...so many years ago chomsky wrote about "manufacturing consent"...reliance even tried getting some big docu filmmaker friends to pitch for a film on why sez's are a good thing!!

abhishek's shameless defense of unfair industry practices as the climax made me ill ...but then we were just about 13-15 people in the audience at the start of the second week! made me wonder how come the gujju-bhais hadn't lapped up the film. but, mithunda was a revelation...quietly commanding our attention. and i believe a lot of madhavan's scenes with abhishek were cut out only coz he appeared much stronger!!

...and with reliance buying adlabs and adlabs buying synergy, the juggernaut's only getting bigger n closer to over-running the country. however much i may hate monopolies, i remind myself that for the most part of my television life, my cheques have been coming in from murdoch n now from ambani!! no runing away from that ...no hole big enough to hide...there i stand head in hand...