So I had heard this song from Kal Ho Na Ho playing on the TV, with Shankar Mahadevan singing Kudi Ghooma to a Bhangra beat and Ehsaan Noorani’s guitar plays the riff of Roy Orbison’s classic Pretty Woman. Shucks, I thought, so much for originality, and this from fellow-Rahman-loving composers. My faith in Indian Film music dropped twenty three notches lower.
But hey, Kudi Ghooma was catchy.
When I checked out the cd of Kal Ho.., there was no song of that name! There was one called Pretty Woman, with Shankar Mahadevan and Ravi “Rags” Khote ( the same guy who did that atrocious rap in Lucky Lucky from Ratchagan) doing the honours. And the cd said “The song ‘Oh, Pretty Woman’ was originally composed by Roy Orbison.”
D-uh! I had heard Shankar Mahadevan saying ‘Kudi Ghooma’ instead of ‘Pretty Woman’.
Yes, the song is kind of a bhangra reinterpretation of the Roy Orbison number. Done very well, with a different tune leading to the main Kudi Ghooma…er….Pretty Woman chorus that we all know. There is a part in the middle which goes “Sone ka ang hai…” which is the same as “Pretty Woman, yeah yeah yeah, pretty woman, look my way”.
Now, a small hitch. Sony’s copy-protection technology on the Kal Ho Na Ho cd. Yesterday, my computer, running Windows 2k, does not recognise it, and neither did my colleague’s Linux box – it refused to mount the cd saying “unrecognised file system”. Gave it to my Systems Administrator, who calls me up five minutes later and says – “where do u want the mp3s stored?”. Whoa. Seems, you don’t even have to mount the cd on a Linux system. The default ripping software autodetects the cd and proceeds to grab the tracks.
Sony calls it “cutting-edge” security technology! Ha ha ha. Actually, Virgin’s was worse, when I put in my Fuzon cd in the computer, it said “This cd needs additional software to be played. Do you want to install it?” I clicked “no” and proceeded to rip the tracks pretty smoothly to my PC. Dumb!
Speaking of foul-mouthed, I watched From Dusk Till Dawn again last night. This was another gory movie I had forgotten about, watched it way back when I was in the third year. Tarantino’s dialogues, so the usual giggly bouncy feeling applied to this one too. Crazy script.
Some gory movies I need to see, and I can’t think of all of them together, so there are bound to be some more –
1) 28 Days Later.
2) Cabin Fever.
3) House of a Thousand Corpses.
4) I Spit On Your Grave.
4) Bad Taste: the sequels.
5) Cannibal Holocaust.
6) Anything else?
:D
Toh!
Tum Kudi ghumaata hai kya boss?
Ekich.
Another way to counter Sony’s stoopid Copy Protection. Run a felt pen on the outermpost track of the disc. Magic!
I knew that. But was worried about messing up the cd. :)
The Linux way was less messier.
I knew about Linux too, just y’know for the benefit of non-Linux friends.
I wanted to talk to you about this earlier too. What happened was a friend of mine bought the CD too, which of course refused to run on his WinXP PC. Wouldn’t even run on Linux(He had SuSe I think). Ergo the felt pen solution.
What really got my goat(I love this expression) was the temerity and gall of the honchos at Sony to proclaim on the disc jacket that since the CD was copy protected, it “might not run on certain devices, including but not limited to PC CDROMs, DVD Roms…” or something like it. What they are basically saying is, “you bought the cd wiseguy. if it don’t run on your device, tough luck. you’re screwed, fuckface!”
Even if it happens with a normal audio system, Sony is not responsible… NOOOOO.
And all this to people buying cds for legit listening, and not ‘unauthorized distribution’. Since Sony cds are not going to run on my PC, and with no guarantee that they’ll work with my audio system, they are forcing me to ‘pirate’ music. I’ll just download the fucking songs and put them in my vice city/mp3 folder.
If the world had pone more genius like the ones behind this idea, I swear I would have gone Black Mamba over everyones asses.
If the world had pone more genius like the ones behind this idea, I swear I would have gone Black Mamba over everyones asses.
I laughed so hard at this I fell out of my chair just now, I swear.
So how was it? :-D
Surreal. The ultimate geek movie. I mean, its like this comic book I always wanted to read(see?)… its like all great movie schools rolled in one…. its just, its just, so beautiful man. All the tributes to 70s campy movies, Japanese movies, video games, and still the movie holds out on its own.
One day I’m gonna make a movie like this, and it’ll feature “yeh mera dil”, the original as its theme.
its like this comic book I always wanted to read(see?)…
Hmmm. Now why does this sound familiar? ;-)
Is it true that geeks have better tastebuds than the rest of the world or is it just my imagination?
Why “yeh Mera Dil”?
::Hmmm. Now why does this sound familiar?
I know, I know. Its just that its exactly how I felt too.
I think geeks do have better tastebuds… and thats coz true geeks have taken the time to experience mediums to their absolute fill. This, methinks enables them to appreciate art when they see it.
Yeh Mera Dil…(just to be safe, its that Helen song from Don)
Play it in your head, from the start. It starts up in a wild bass guitar crescendo(dumb-umb-bawa-bawa), and near its peak theres a trumpet blast(tantaraaraa), while the bass continues behind. That particular 20 second piece of music is what symbolises the 70s – all of them – for me. All of the campiness, the clothes, the attitude, and more importantly, the movies. I dunno, its just like that for me. I have discussed this with a few sane friends before, and they all think I have lost it, so I won’t blame you.
Hmm. I will have to listen to the song tonight. Will let you know if i think you’ve lost it. :)
Yeh Mera Dil
I know exactly what you mean, brother !
Re: Yeh Mera Dil
At last! Some one who understands my geekiness for the song. Thanks dude, you made my day.(And my movie) :D
I heard Karan Johar paid a bomb for the rights to the Pretty Woman song!
Whoa! didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.
Yes, I too read that somewhere. So for once, this is a genuine cover version ;-)
I shouldn’t have thought so badly about S-E-L – after all, they’re guys who refer to ARR as God. A brilliant effort, that song! Have u heard it?
Nope, I haven’t. Is the Kal Ho Na Ho cd worth buying ?
Not at all. That song is the only one I liked. The rest of them are filler stuff. Take the mp3s from me when u are here. btw, i sent u a mail yesterday to your netscape id. didja get it?
your email
Nope. I stopped checking my netscape mail a while back. Checked it just now and couldn’t find one from you. Try madhavn@hotmail.com (replace hotmail with livejournal)
Re: your email
sent again to madhavn at lj dot com.
From Dusk Till Dawn is a crazy movie with a crazy script, allright! But what I remember most about that movie is this dance by Salma Hayek for the amazing song called “After Dark” by Tito & Tarantula… I’m quite sure you would have enjoyed it…
heh heh. of course.
after the song finishes, and everyone turns into vampires, among the mayhem comes one of my favorite lines from the movie…
Vampire Salma: (hissing)Welcome.. to slavery!
Clooney: (lying down, gun cocked) No thanks, I already married.
oh hahahahaha. ;)
:)
Try saying this real fast, with a Mexican accent.
Pussy, pussy, pussy! All pussy must go. At the Titty Twister we’re slashing pussy in half! This is a pussy blow out! Make us an offer on our vast selection of pussy! We got white pussy, black pussy, Spanish pussy, yellow pussy,hot pussy, cold pussy, wet pussy,tight pussy, big pussy, bloody pussy, fat pussy, hairy pussy, smelly pussy, velvet pussy, silk pussy, Naugahyde pussy, snappin’ pussy, horse pussy, dog pussy, mule pussy, fake pussy! If we don’t have it, you don’t want it!
I tried memorizing this once, in college. knocks me out everytime. :D
I wouldn’t go into ’28 Days Later’ looking for gore. It’s a lot more about tone and implication than just gore. It’s a hell of a movie, though.
Ah, ok. I have been waiting to see it a long time. Hope it comes to Indian theaters by the end of this year.
Speaking of gory movies, have you seen “In the Mouth of Madness” by any chance? The goriness quotient is quite decent methinks.
And Kudi Ghooma!!/Pretty Woman. Weird.. Haven’t heard the song yet. What’s with Bollywood these days anyway, tearing apart the movie (Chameli, I heard, is loosely based on it) and its songs.. :P
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The one with Sam Neill and the creepy ending, right?
Saw it on Star Movies once, but am pretty sure they censored it to bits.
Yeah, the very same one with Sam Neill. And yeah, they did censor it a lot ‘coz when I saw it on CD later, it had a lot of bits ‘n pieces added to it.
Sarika.
Does ‘Kudi Ghooma’ even mean anything? :)
“The girl turned.”
As in, she turned around and she looked at me and I saw her and all that Indian movie stuff. ;-)
It would definitely make more sense than “Pretty Womaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.”
Actually, Kudi Ghoomi would be ‘The chick turned’. Kudi Ghooma would be ‘Take the chick out’. As in I say , ‘yo Beat! What’re you doin this saturday? Dude! Kudi Ghooma! Take a(the) chix0r out dude!’ [in my best sprite commercial voice].
And then you say, ‘Sam you’re a loser. Shut the fsck up.’
Uhhhh…
*Shuts the fsck up*
erm…poetic license? ;-)
You were able to rip the Kal ho na Ho CD?! I wanna know how that happened..*needs to burn her own cds…sigh*
Couple of ways to go about it:-
1) Simplest way:- Use Linux. It has its own cd-ripping software that overrides all these copy-protection stuff.
2) Next-to-simple:- Disable cd-autorun in your computer. Put the cd in. You need an app called CloneCD, which copies cds as is. tweak a couple of parameters and you can copy the cd as a copy-protected audio cd ( ;) ) or as a normal audio cd.
3) Toughest:- u need a marker pen, and u need to darken the last track of the cd, which is the copy-protection track.