tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post1917236005111930265..comments2024-03-23T16:19:36.154+05:30Comments on A Potpourri of Vestiges: Zee Classic presents 'India's Finest Films' every Saturday at 10 PM Murtaza Ali Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09747183316188241022noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post-70725126101183191272017-01-06T19:54:13.812+05:302017-01-06T19:54:13.812+05:30OM's is the pockmarked face that launched a th...OM's is the pockmarked face that launched a thousand characters and burnt the topless towers of Bollywood stars...Starting somewhere behind Naseer...he did some forgettable two-bit Ollywood, too... in the late Seventies (watch SPARSH) , he bulletted fast forward into the hearts of audiences by portraying Indian characters that he was not...check out JBDY, A'SATYA, S'GATI, NASOOR, TAMAS, GANDHI...his better known movies are , of course, better known...His domestic troubles recent - of comic stature - only bear witness to the fact that Bollywood is quite easily the most beguiled befooled bedeviled bubble among film industries in the world...try realism as hard as you might in there, you will never learn that acting drunk when you are sober is easier done than acting sober when you are drunk...and so, OM's true decline began as he tried to climb the steps to the Anna Hazare stage set up on Ram Lila Grounds in Delhi...before AAP was even imagined...Notwithstanding that, RIP,OM... we will continue to turn Naseer's phrase to mean that the two true greats of the graduation combo of NSD +FTII are OM & Naseer...and sigh at the thought that now there is only one! nataranjan bohidarnoreply@blogger.com