Pathik Shah

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There are two kinds of people in the world – Those who have seen Gunda, and those who haven’t. – Some wise dude.

Today, I have transcended all intellectual, cinematic and logical boundaries to become one of the first kind.

Kanti Shah’s Gunda is very much a classic – a milestone in B Grade Indian cinema. There is a reason it has a respectable 8.3 rating on IMDB. Mithunda truly is Prabhuji and I, a believer now. The dialogues are amazing, and all of them seem to rhyme. It has everything a typical B Grade Bollywood potboiler has – dancing around trees for no apparent reason, the hero felling fierce villains in one blow, an old father and a obese (though nicely endowed) sister whose looted izzat is to be avenged, and to top it all – classic villains like Bulla, Lamboo Atta, Chutya, Ibu Hatela, Pote etc. Once you have seen this masterpiece, you will never look at movies the way you did before.

To give you a feel of the brilliantly rhyming dialogues in Gunda, these are some of the introductory dialogues by the villains.

Bulla – Mera naam hain Bulla, rakhta hoon main Khullaa.

Chutya – Mera naam hai chutya, acche accho ki khadi karta hu main khatiya.

Ibu Hatela – Mera naam Ibu Hatela, Ma meri chudail ki beti, baap mera shaitan ka chela, khayega kela?

Pote – Jo aapne baap ke bhi naheen hote.

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I just happened to read this book ‘Freakonomics – A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything‘ a few days back. It was written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner and was released in 2005. I had read a lot of reviews about it, almost all of them positive. So I gave it a try and I am very impressed.

Book: Freakonomics – A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Authors: Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner

Type: Non Fiction

Year: 2005

What is it about?

It covers a wide range of seemingly weird topics – cheating school teachers, the similarities between the Ku Klux Klan and real estate agents, why most drug dealers are still poor, how the legalization of abortion radically led to the reduction in crime rates, whether sumo wrestlers cheat, whether parenting does really matter that much and how the name of a person can affect his social and economic prospects.

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