Comments on: Little black dress

By: Shodan

Shodan — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:00:53 +0000

Floridian, There's a hit marathi play based on Pygmalion. Written by P L Deshpande. Paresh Raval used to do Gujarati version, I think. Gujus in the house, please correct me if I'm wrong.

By: circus in jungle

circus in jungle — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:51:09 +0000

Floridian:

There is also a later movie with Juhi Chawla and one of the Kapoor guys. Don't know the name though...

By: Floridian

Floridian — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:38:09 +0000

"were there more varieties of actresses and beauty in the Golden days of film?"

As one who is "closer to the end than the beginning" (to quote the aging journalist played by William Holden in Network), I often wonder what really is the Golden Age. Is it a different age for the different generations or is it a static concept? My Golden Age would be Bogie and Bacall, the swagger of John Wayne, the earnest Midwestern look of Henry Fonda, but not Audrey Hepburn, though she did act opposite Bogart in Sabrina. In Indian cinema, my Golden Age would be the "early" Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Devanand, Guru Dutt. (The early, black&white part is important, because their influence reigned over several generations.)

All icons that were in their prime right BEFORE I turned 10 or 12 and started to idoloze movie stars. Applying the same logic, would a typical mutineer's Golden Age be the era following my Golden Age or would it be the same as mine?

My mind is very preoccupied, indeed, with this and similar issues of great import. Another slow day at the office.

By: Janeofalltrades

Janeofalltrades — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:27:02 +0000

Thank you, Bitterlemons. I am going to look for Man Pasand at my local Indian video store this weekend. I can watch any Dev Anand movie.

I highly recommend Man Pasand because Tina Munim is just a cutie in that movie and the songs are fab as well. And I must say it was very well made for a knockoff.

By: Floridian

Floridian — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:17:56 +0000

"But of course! The one I rememeber is "Man Pasand" with Tina Munim playing Audrey's role."

Thank you, Bitterlemons. I am going to look for Man Pasand at my local Indian video store this weekend. I can watch any Dev Anand movie.

By: Bitterlemons

Bitterlemons — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:00:56 +0000

Floridian,

But of course! The one I rememeber is “Man Pasand” with Tina Munim playing Audrey’s role. This was a while ago – early 80s, maybe? The movie was a pretty good adaptation of Pygmalion – the flower girl became a “datoon seller” on the local train…I think the prof was Dev Anand. I remember it as an entertaining movie, with good songs – in fact, I think one of them was “Rehne ko ek ghar hoga”….

Bitterlemons-the-old

By: MD

MD — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:58:15 +0000

I mean Mickey Rooney, not Rourke. Oh, I give up.

By: MD

MD — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:57:03 +0000

I mean: can you imagine anyone else being sexy in a role as a kept man….just wanted to clarify. Mickey Rourke was an embarrassment, though.

By: MD

MD — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:55:49 +0000

I adore Audrey Hepburn, which makes my comments in the Beauty Queen thread suspect. Hyprocrisy, thy initials are MD. Anyhoo, were there more varieties of actresses and beauty in the Golden days of film? Lots of skinniness in twenties and thirties, va-va-voom in forties, voluptious in fifties, so the skinny-minnies were in contrast. Who are the current actress contrasts, body wise? I suppose the great JLo and Beyonce, for a time. Hmmm, complicated.

Anyway, the underrated George Peppard helped make Breakfast at Tiffany's what is was almost as much as Audrey. Can you imagine anyone else as dreamy as a kept man? I loved "Fred" in that movie: what a man! I bet his cufflinks were just right and his trousers broke over his shoes in just the perfect way. I am being totally serious. Mr. Varjack be dreamy.

By: Floridian

Floridian — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:51:10 +0000

Do any of our walking encyclopedias know if My Fair Lady was ever ripped off (sorry, adapted) in a Bollywood film? It would have been a natural – poor village girl comes to Mumbai, rich guy living in a bungalow in Juhu makes her his protege, his rich and pompous industrialist parents disapprove and throw him out of the house (that’s the Indian part), ultimately love and rigorous makeover of the village girl conquers all social prejudices, and in the last scene, the waif now turned wife touches the feet of his parents as the previously cantankerous mother-in-law blurts out the ultimate word of acceptance – “beti.”