Re: kishore kumar
- From: kcp <kcpingle@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 09:01:03 -0000
On Jul 20, 11:32 pm, surjit singh <surjitsi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 20, 11:45 am, Vinay <v9y....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 12, 6:35 am, shri37 <shr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.buzz18.com/showstory.php?id=3252
Interview taken by Pratish Nandy in 1985.
The article says "this is certainly one of the best Kishore Kumar
interview". I cannot agree more. Personally, I would rank it among one
of the best interviews I have ever read. A mix of brutal honesty and
enchanting wit. Often deep too.
The humor reminds me of a Mammootty interview in Filmfare in late80s-
early90s sometime.
Some interesting excerpts:
(PN - Pritish Nandi; KK: Kishore Kumar)
PN: People would have thought you crazy. In fact they already do.
KK: Who said I'm crazy. The world is crazy; not me.
PN: Why do you have this reputation for doing strange things?
KK: "It all began with this girl who came to interview me. In those
days I used to live alone. So she said: You must be very lonely. I
said: No, let me introduce you to some of my friends. So I took her to
the garden and introduced her to some of the friendlier trees.
Janardhan; Raghunandan; Gangadhar; Jagannath; Buddhuram;
Jhatpatajhatpatpat. I said they were my closest friends in this cruel
world. She went and wrote this bizarre piece, saying that I spent long
evenings with my arms entwined around them. What's wrong with that,
you tell me? What's wrong making friends with trees?
"Then, there was this interior decorator-a suited, booted fellow who
came to see me in a three-piece woolen, Saville Row suit in the thick
of summer- and began to lecture me about aesthetics, design, visual
sense and all that. After listening to him for about half an hour and
trying to figure out what he was saying through his peculiar American
accent, I told him that I wanted something very simple for my living
room. Just water-several feet deep- and little boats floating around,
instead of large sofas. I told him that the centerpiece should be
anchored down so that the tea service could be placed on it and all of
us could row up to it in our boats and take sips from our cups. But
the boats should be properly balanced, I said, otherwise we might whiz
past each other and conversation would be difficult. He looked a bit
alarmed but that alarm gave way to sheer horror when I began to
describe the wall decor. I told him that I wanted live crows hanging
from the walls instead of paintings-since I liked nature so much. And,
instead of fans, we could have monkeys farting from the ceiling.
That's when he slowly backed out from the room with a strange look in
his eyes. The last I saw of him was him running out of the front gate,
at a pace that would have put an electric train to shame. What's crazy
about having a living room like that, you tell me? If he can wear a
woollen, three-piece suit in the height of summer, why can't I hang
live crows on my walls?"
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PN: But you, as the director should have known? (on Kishore's
suggestion that nobody knows how DGKCM became a hit while Subodh
Mukherjee's eagerly anticipated April Fool a flop)
KK: "Directors know nothing. I never had the privilege of working with
any good director. Except Satyen Bose and Bimal Roy, no one even knew
the ABC of filmmaking. How can you expect me to give good performances
under such directors? Directors like SD Narang didn't even know where
to place the camera. He would take long, pensive drags from his
cigarette, mumble 'Quiet, quiet, quiet' to everyone, walk a couple of
furlongs absentmindedly, mutter to himself and then tell the camera
man to place the camera wherever he wanted. His standard line to me
was: Do something. What something? Come on, some thing! So I would go
off on my antics. Is this the way to act? Is this the way to direct a
movie? And yet Narangsaab made so many hits!"
Kishor is absolutely correct about Narang. I wish to nominate his
Bomaby Ka Chor as the worst Hindi movie ever (somewhat like Plan 9
from Outer Space)
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ha ha ha.
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The score of BKC being one of the best in Hindi Films ever - top 100 -
IMHO.
KCP
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