Two multiplied by one equals?

I thought this intrepid account about the recent film Double Cross - Ek Dhokha by Kapeesh (also one of the rookie BCQC members) deserved a plug. Especially since it raises an important question about the ever-burgeoning "entitlement" business that is the current Hindi film name crisis.

Like Salil points out in the comments, this wasn't the first recorded instance of a swapped English-Hindi scheme. That seemed to be Bullet - ek dhamaka and was duly recorded on this blog (incidentally the post above that talks about first sightings of The Rising(s)). Kapeesh's post raises some other disturbing issues, mainly centering around how a guy/kid/pup who seems happily docile in real life can be so different on his blog.

[Side issue offering scope for further research: Why are so many BCQC members B-movie followers? Is it just a proper reflection of the proportion in the general population? This list contains George, Harish and Salil and they have done much to spread the interest among the rest. Jai Cauli Maa Ki!]

[BTW, the answer to the question in the title is "Dhokha" of course: 2 cross 1 dhokha. For a better cine-version of Double Cross, check out the (IMHO) brilliant use in The Great Dictator.]

[Thanks to Kunal S for pointing me to this post]

NOC

This "Notify Objectionable Content" flag that has started to appear on the right top corner of Blogger blogs is interesting. Wonder what they'll really do with it in the non-extreme cases. Perhaps there should also be a "Notify Boring Content" as well - that would very useful. This is merely sueful (to coin a pretty bad word).

What I've been doing instead of listening for creeping deadlines

An account of a evening listening to Pt. Chaurasia.

[If DNA was right, I'll be able to listen to the whooshing sounds soon]

Peek back

My blog-absences have been further compounded by the lack of any coherent arrangment of feeds since my trustworthy thunderbird on my previous m/c. So having missed an entire month of blog posts from friends and "followees", I finally put an hour to good use by moving into Bloglines [Thus also causing a finely unbalanced assignment schedule to go careening into the morass, but who cares in a lost cause etc.]. Nice interfaces beckon there. So now I should continue to have all up-to-minute trivia about my immediate world, no doubt at great personal grading expenses.

This is also a good time to blare about my recent other blog (in which I revived a previously registered site) which will potentially be a large hanky for me to cry into when the world is being unfair again and a receptacle of life-as-trivia (we come back to the friendly T-word again) that actually makes life worth following. The key trouble is being regular there, and since it won't be quality-conscious as this one (ought to be, anyway - stop smirking), I'm going to try and type in atleast a minimal sentence each day I have at the PC here. Even if it is "ooh ah ouch".

So if you're the type that likes to follow the trials and tribs of this blogger, change lanes to the ext3 blog.