Retro Bollywood Masala!

Anurag posted a fabulous countdown list of classic bollywood dialogues of the 70s and 80s. A preview - (read the best ones here)

"Kuttay, Kameenay mai tumhe jaan se maar doonga!"

"Tum mere liye mar chuke ho!"

"Bacchhhaaaaaooooo!!!"

"Mulzim ko baa-izzat bari kiya jata hai."

"Ma, tum kitni achchi ho!"

Banglore Theatre Update

Looking forward to two long anticipated comedies from Bombay. This time, thankfully, they gave Chowdiah a miss and are playing at Rangashankara, so tickets will be affordable at 150 bucks.

On the 10th and 11th, The Company Theatre will present The Blue Mug at Rangashankara. The play stars Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shoreay and Sheeba Chaddha.

On the 12th and 13th Rangashankara will host C For Clown which has performed over 100 shows worldwide. The play is enacted by Atul Kumar, Joy Fernandes, Niloufer, Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shoreay, Niloufer and Vinay and Ranvir.

"C for Clown" is a show created completely out of improvisation on the rehearsal floor. Six clowns trace a day in the life of a circus/theatre performance. The act includes mime, patomime, acrobatics, dance with a little bit of spoken word. A complete theatrical creation based on an actor’s experience on and off stage, "C for Clown" is a first of its kind on Indian stage.

Showtime 7:30pm!

Chennai Open

Those are pics from Chennai Open 2005. Lifted from the Chennai Open website, I acknowledge; I didn't carry a camera I'm afraid, but it was an amazing experience watching Moya and Srichappan up so close. The final was a treat to watch, it went down to the wire and had plenty of entertaining rallies.

The best part was watching these guys serve. Matches on TV hardly ever show a full serve action. In fact I picked up a few tips watching Srichaphan and have been bombing the courts with some power serves ever since.

Speaking of serves, a couple of interesting serve stats from the tournament:

Prakash Amritraj served up a 219km zipper during his 1st round match against Ivo Hubereger. Though he lost the match to the the Swiss, this remained the fastest serve of Chennai Open.

Paradorn Srichaphan served the most number of aces in the tournament. And here's an interesting one I read in a newspaper: One of these was the slowest first service ace - at just 137km! Srichaphan, serving strong and hard, suddenly slipped a fizzing wide serve that caught his quarter-final opponent on the wrong foot.