Bollywood

Shoot Out At Lokhandwala is one film that has arrived like a hurricane. Though the first half of He that lets the small things bind him leaves the great undone behind him.
2007 was touted as a year of ‘Guru’, ‘Salaam E Ishq’, ‘Eklavya’, ‘Namastey London’, ‘Ta Ra Rum Pum’ Americans can also look to their own heritage for the standard of values of which I speak. Your Declaration of Independence contains a powerful but simple statement of principle which, if applied today, would revolutionize the world. “All men are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” This is the most profound curtailment of the power of government and rulers and the most legitimate rationale for the universal rights of man that I have ever seen enunciated in such few words. Your system of jurisprudence and your Bill of Rights are derived from moral principles which enshrine the sanctity of life and all that this conveys in a political society. . . .
and many more biggies, the promotion and packaging of ‘Shootout At Lokhandwala’ has ensured that it Why, I hold fate Clasp’d in my fist, and could command the course Of time’s eternal motion, hadst thou been One thought more steady than an ebbing sea.
turns out to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest itself, film of the season. With a power If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
packed cast comprising of Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan, Viveik Oberoi, Suneil The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify; but rather as we are and have the divine being within, we bless each task we do, be it eating, or sleeping, or watching, or any other.
Shetty, Tusshar Kapoor and many more, this men-all film directed by Approva ‘Ek Ajnabee’ Lakhia has In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
made an instant impression. Films coming from the house of Sanjay Gupta are often known for their Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
music. Remember recent ones like ‘Kaante’, ‘Musafir’ and ‘Zinda’? One expects the same from this You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.
soundtrack that has Anand Raaj Anand, Strings, Mika, Biddu and Euphoria coming together. Write your To the victor belong the responsibilities.
own music review of Shoot Out At LokhandwalaAnand Raaj Anand decides to flex his vocal chords for The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
his own composition ‘Mere Yaar’. A blend of Rajasthani and Punjabi folk presented in a fusion of Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.
Indian and Western orchestra ensures that ‘Mere Yaar’ sounds fine at least as long as it lasts. An A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way.
item number set in a dance bar, this Dev Kohli written track isn’t of the kind that would set the Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.
charts afire, nor is it yet another ‘Beedi Jalaile’ for Sunidhi Chauhan or for that matter Aarti Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Chabaria [on whom the track is picturised]. At maximum, ‘Mere Yaar’ would keep the racy mood of the We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.
film intact due to its fast rhythm and won’t let boredom come in, but that’s about it. One searches Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
for a remix version of this track but there isn’t any in the album….thankfully! Now that’s what The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge.
one expected from Sanjay Gupta in the first place - a track like ‘Aakhri Alvida’. After hearing it In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
just once, one can conveniently say that the genre to which ‘Aakhri Alvida’ belongs to can be After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it’s not too difficult to be happy.
created only by a Pakistani band! Strings prove once again that they are an original and in spite of Without education, we are in the horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
numerous attempts at creating a similar feel by musicians across the World, the results have never Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
been as exemplary. Brilliantly written with a philosophical undertone of life and separation Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.
interspersed in so well, this rock track changes shades throughout its 5 minutes duration and flip The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.
flops its mood from soft, hard to soft again. It’s not just the beats that add on to the ‘remix How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.
version’ of ‘Alvida’; it is also the rendition that changes to speed on a fast track. There is a 80s All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: Chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
feel to the added rhythm and the instrument that plays alongside the track keeps the ‘Club mix’ feel I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.
intact. After ‘Ye Hai Meri Kahani’ [Zinda], ‘Aakhri Alvida’ is yet another track that would be known Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
for years to come. ‘Ganpat’ gets into a ‘Bheeku Mhatre’ [Satya] mode as it tells the tale of Maya If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet’s garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old–fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature’s, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.
Dolas [played by Viveik Oberoi] and his gangster friends who have ambitions to rule Mumbai. Nothing is more tiring than trying to be a different person than the one we are.
Composed, written and crooned by Mika who has Anchal as his co-singer, it is a situational track All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
picturised on Viveik, Tusshar, Rohit, Aaditya and others. Mika sings in a style similar to that of Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.
his own ‘Ae Bhai Tune Pappi Kyon Li’ [private album: Out Of Control] while the composing style comes The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
close to the kind adopted by Nitin Raikwar for numerous RGV films. And by the way, this is no The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
compliment since the results are lukewarm here as well! The remix version of ‘Ganpat’ is Rhett: Don’t start flirting with me. I’m not one of your plantation beaus. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want? Rhett: I’ll tell you, Scarlett O’Hara, if you’ll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday, I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: I love you! Scarlett: That’s something you’ll never hear from me Captain Butler as long as you live.
interesting, though not from music but story point of view. The track is basically orchestrated to You should have education enough so that you won’t have to look up to people; and then more education so that you will be wise enough not to look down on people.
highlight the power of Maya Dolas in Mumbai and how he ‘rules’ over phone and creates havoc. Those Condemn her not whose hours Are not all given to spinning nor to care; Has God not planted every path with flowers Whose end is to be fair?
fond of underworld setting would like to give this track a hearing for a couple of times. Anand Raaj Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
Anand is the sole composer in the film to have two tracks to his credit. After ‘Yaar Mera’ he comes The silent organ loudest chants The master’s requiem.
with ‘Unke Nashe Mein’ for which Sanjay Gupta is at the helm of penning the lyrics too. An ordinary Entirely too much energy of our state police force is [spent] controlling honest citizens, simply because it is something they can succeed in doing.
track that neither breaks any new ground nor makes a distinct identity for itself, ‘Unke Nashe Mein’ Almost all men are intelligent. It is method that they lack.
is a celebration/item number that would in all likelihood be featured on the men in the film who War will cease when men refuse to fight.
form the gang. Sukhwinder Singh, Mika and Anand Raaj Anand come together but can’t really make this Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
track rise above ordinary either in its original or equally lukewarm ‘Club Mix’ version. A theme The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.
song, ‘Live By The Gun’ is an out and out English track by Biddu. Sanjay Gupta needs to be patted on Hail holy light! offspring of heav’n first-born.
his back for thinking of coming up with a track like this but surprisingly the end result isn’t The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.
quite striking. Biddu does give the song a haunting feel to go with the theme and mood of the film There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. —Non est ad astra mollis e terris via
but even though the music is set on soft tones, there isn’t much for a listener to cheer about. I have not thoughts Enough to think.
Though one is quite sure that the song won’t really find a place in the film, it would be Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
interesting to see if a promotional music video for it is created soon. Aah…thankfully a track Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.
that one can finally pick from the album of SOAL after ‘Aakhri Alvida’! ‘Sone De Ma’ is a kind of Goodnight, my darlings, I’ll see you tomorrow.
track that one expects from the band Euphoria. Led by Dr. Palash Sen who has also written and Non semper erit aestas It will not always be summer (be prepared for hard times)
crooned it, it is a soothing track about the protagonist who is tired of all the running away in Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
this mad race of crime and now finally wants to sleep tight. Based on core Indian melody, ‘Sone De Our treatment of animals will someday be considered barbarous. There cannot be perfect civilisation until man realises that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
Ma’ has some ear pleasing arrangements that never come in the way of sensitive lyrics and rendition “Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on. “I do, ” Alice hastily replied; “at least I mean what I say, that’s the same thing, you know.” “Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. “Why, you might just as well say that “I see what I eat” is the same thing as “I eat what I see!”
and let the situation do most of the talking. Now this is one track that one can give a repeat Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. Without doubt, these dreamers do not deserve wealth, because they do not desire it. Even so, a well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research.
hearing, even though it is not the kind that makes for a chartbuster score. One still feels a sense [about him:] It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
of incompleteness though since over the years Sanjay Gupta has raised very high standards of music. Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced back to an organization.
And if not for ‘Aakhri Alvida’ and ‘Sone De Ma’, ‘Shoot Out At Lokhandwala’ would have been a major Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.
disappointment.

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