VCR Days-3

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“Main tujhe sabak sikha ke rahungi u bastard”and walks away as she is walking on a Ramp endorsing Reena Dhaka’s nonsense dress. Rakesh Bedi with one of his bespectacled friends provokes Mithun Da resulting oath from Dada ‘Iska guroor todna hoga’.

In a fraction of second Shakti Kapoor with his mawali friends try to looted the ijjat of the heroni stops Mandabikini near the badminton court saying
“kamini bahot ghamand hai tuje apni jawani pe main aaj tera ghamand todunga”

with bated breath I anticipated Ram teri Ganga maili kind of paisa vasool stuff but all in vain as our Mithun Da jumped from the fifth floor of the building to save her. (I still think! Wat da hell he was doing on the 5th floor and y his name was not registered in Guinness Records after all he has broken the record of Sargei Bubka). Suresh Kalmadi should rethink Dada's candidature for long jump and high jump in coming commonwealth games.

Dada pulped Shakti and his friends with new form of martial arts which can even give complex to Jetli( Fascinating fact: Mithunda is also a Li…..???? Bengali)

This was enough to lighten the spark of love in Mandabikini’s heart and within a minute’s exchange of the 3 words ILU both were in switzerland singing Anand Bakshi song with the maha romantic voice of Mohd.Aziz(Munna) and Anuradha Paudwal.The scientists are still working hard to know the secret of transpacing within seconds from Mumbai to Switzerland.

After college scene Mithun Da reached his home which was in a slum area. Nirupama Roy who played the widow mother of the hero was very ill and use to sew clothes of the mohalla wala while her healthy sister played by Tanvi Azmi is unwed and doing bartan kapda for her time pass. Both of them wearing old faded and torn clothes but our hero Mithun Da’s eshtyle resembles him to Prince Charles.

After the lunch, Nirupama Roy’s started coughing on a very high intensity and the frustu sister offering last few drops of Glycodin(khasi ke liye to bas glycodin) which failed to stop the asthmatic attack. Doctor (Iftekhar Khan) came and after examining closely to same aged Nirupama Roy with his sexothoscope
the doctor ask Mithun to came outside and says

‘Inhe dil ka daura pada hai maine inhe neend ka injection de diya hai aur kuch dawaiya bhi likhi hai par inke lungs ka operation jaldi se jaldi karwana padega’

To be continued...............

VCR Days-2

The film continues in the college with the middle aged hero with his shaved side locks (Apna Bengali Mithun Da) sitting in the Hindi period with his 4- 5 friends who are majorly failed actors like Rakesh Bedi(I am astonished that he is still playing the same role) and the teacher(Krishi Darshan wale uncle) as usual teaching Hindi and the subject was Prem(love).

The villain was apna AAU guessed rightly Shakti Kapoor whose father Pinchu Kapoor was a big business man and a trustee of the college thus Shakti has the right to create any kind of nuescence with his group of mawali’s in the college campus.

Heroine (Mandabikini) is a daughter of a very rich father (Ramesh Deo) and a very proudy girl who use to wear a high heel sandal and a frock which is just above her mind sorry knee. Her deep neck was the USP of the film and the reason for her selection in the movie. The hero has a crush on her but she hates him as once her big Fiat NE118 damaged the Atlas bicycle of our poor Mithun Da and he insulted her when she offered a couple of 50 Rs. note to repair it.

To make his Dil ki Rani he also sung a song “aapdi ki topdi toti ke baan hai meri amma 18 baras ki chokri jawan hai meri amma” (thanks to the lyric writer mixing African ascent and words to make the song spicy.). All his friends including Rakesh Bedi sychronising all the typical steps of Mithun Da in the back giving complex to our 26 january P.T.rehersal.

Mandakini annoyed with the tamasha and try to slap Mithun Da but Dada was Dada like apna Saurav Da’s fielding, cathched her hand in the air Mandakini shouted “U bloody mera haath choddo” and in reply our Dada confidently said with his typical style
“Arey O (pause).....nakhre wali raees zadi ek baar Hindustani mard haath pakkadta hai to wo saat janam tak nahi chodd ta hai”.The debate continues as they were foreign secretaries of indo-pak in SAARC meet.

To be continued...............

VCR Days-1

While watching a movie today in Zee Cinema my mind took me to the era where watching movie in home was as rare as seeing a glimpse of Bhupen Hazarika in any TV channel now a days.

It was the time when teen agers of India was bored with Renuka Shahane’s Motiyo jaise chamakte daant wala programme Surbhi and Sanjay Khan’s appearing every Sunday with 'Sword of Tipu Sultan' which if watched now can be called pito sar sultan.

The most awaited chitrahaar use to telecast twice in a week with same old Shashi Kapoor type songs but sometimes with enticing songs of new films forcing us to watch them on VCR.

It was the era when watching films in the home with family in Funai’s VCP or Weston’s VCR was as expensive as watching them now in multiplexes with all your relatives including chunnu munnu who could give your patience a roller coaster ride by insisting you to purchase 50 Rs pop corn or cold drink costing almost 10 times of its MRP.

I being the follower of the trend,  convinced my Mom-Dad for hiring a VCP on 26th January to watch 3 brand new films. We hired Funai VCP from Pintu shop with three video cassettes one of which was my all time favorite Mithun Charaborty’s new movie and other two was Ganga Ki Saugandh featuring Indian Brad Pitt Sumit Sehgal and 'Main kab tak Chup Rahungi' starring sweeper deeper star Aditya Pancholi with madrasi Angelina Jolie Amla.

The show started at 11 in the morning,after having a fastly executed Hamam soap bath with Vicco Turmeric application all over my face, parachute coconut oil on my tiny cutted hair and breakfast of half paratha with ghar ka bana aam ka aachar .I sat infront of Salora Black and White  television set which if not sold on the right time could be an antique piece now.

The VCP wale bhaiya took out 2-3 cables from his embroidered carry bag especially stitched to safeguard the most demanding electronic entertaining device of that time. He after fixing all the cables put out the video cassette from his magical carry bag and dusted it with whistling sound (it is still a mystery why he did so).

 The 20 inch fatty B/W screen started blinking unclear picture and the only thing visible was Shemaroo Video reflecting on the top left side of the screen.

I objected to VCP wale bhaiya and after a small surgery of poor channel button we saw the same censor bored certificate which is still unchanged in the latest movie Veer. The Mickey Mouse match of blinking and vanishing the picture in the screen lasted for 10 minutes till the perfect synchronization of TV and VCP took place.

At last the movie started, I was sitting just 2 feet away from the TV, sitting with both my lap folded (Baba Ramdev’s kapal bhati style) and eagerly waiting for the entrance of the Hero.

The Hero entered in a very predictive way with his white P.T. shoes polished with Paintel’s endorsed cherry boot polish. The movie plotted around a college in Mumbai.


To be Continued...............