So I had heard this song from Kal Ho Na Ho<\/i> playing on the TV, with Shankar Mahadevan singing Kudi Ghooma<\/i> to a Bhangra beat and Ehsaan Noorani’s guitar plays the riff of Roy Orbison’s classic Pretty Woman<\/i>. 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.<\/p>\n
But hey, Kudi Ghooma<\/i> was catchy.<\/p>\n
When I checked out the cd of Kal Ho.., there was no song of that name! There was one called Pretty Woman<\/i>, with Shankar Mahadevan and Ravi “Rags” Khote ( the same guy who did that atrocious rap in Lucky Lucky<\/i> from Ratchagan<\/i>) doing the honours. And the cd said “The song ‘Oh, Pretty Woman’ was originally composed by Roy Orbison.”<\/p>\n
D-uh! I had heard Shankar Mahadevan saying ‘Kudi Ghooma’ instead of ‘Pretty Woman’.<\/p>\n
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<\/i>…er….Pretty Woman<\/i> 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”. <\/p>\n
Now, a small hitch. Sony’s copy-protection technology on the Kal Ho Na Ho<\/i> 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. <\/p>\n
Sony calls it “cutting-edge” security technology! Ha ha ha. Actually, Virgin’s was worse, when I put in my Fuzon<\/i> 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!<\/p>\n
Speaking of foul-mouthed, I watched From Dusk Till Dawn<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n
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 –
\n1) 28 Days Later.
\n2) Cabin Fever.
\n3) House of a Thousand Corpses.
\n4) I Spit On Your Grave.
\n4) Bad Taste: the sequels.
\n5) Cannibal Holocaust.
\n6) Anything else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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