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“Slow down Lobo Lobo, what’s happened and who are we talking about?”
This was to be the first of three plays, Vijay and I did together.
Ujally wen I come to see you, in SoBo, I have to take one rickshaw, change tree trains, and take one bus — Today morrning, I tought, why not avail...
Whether he played soldiers, cowboys, lawyers or men coming apart at the seams, Duvall brought empathy to the roles not sentimentality
“Dikuna men, I’m ‘thoda’ shocked — how to tell you, my name has appearded in de Episteen Files!”
Imran was an early hero of mine. The swagger, with the shirt open, shining the red ball on his flannels, he was up on my bedroom wall, a priceless...
“Uhm, Lobo Lobo, any reason why you’re dressed with this coloured headgear?”
You scored masterpieces from Mani Ratnam’s trilogy to Taal, to Maa Tujhe Salaam to Rockstar to Chaiya Chaiya and Vande Matraram, and Sir Andrew...
Wot is his plan to come every morning and play de blessed musical instruments to calm me down?
“Some people think I did it for the approval ratings, others feel I did it for the oil, sure — but that’s only half of it.”
Coldplay kiss cam couple. ChatGPT. Chhava. Cruise gets an Oscar
Rahul unc, you wanna know what ails me, what angers me, what makes me go crazy with helplessness?
“You were there in person, Lobo Lobo? Kolkata or Mumbai?”
“Dikuna men, I’m not Rehman Dakait, as you may have thought, I am Raymond Dacosta… my screen name, my alter ego… hello.”
But no one returned, to clean up, fuel up or anything — not that day, or the next day, not for a week or a month or a year.
The son, with an irritated eye roll explains, “See Pa, Dhriti equals ‘they’ — Dhriti likes to be called ‘they, them’ not ‘she, her’.”
I decided to interview Innaritu and Cruise myself. Finally they relented
But there was a “kahaani mein twist”. The family announced that Dharamji was alive. “The media has killed our ‘Garam Dharam’ prematurely,”...
“See men, Dikuna, dere are tree-foe major communities dat make up our Virar.
Satish Shah had a similar problem to Asrani, who passed two weeks before Shah, as they weren’t conventionally good looking, in fact they were odd...
Creative people tend to be wary of clients, but not Piyush, he won them over
In fact, sire, let’s write the first of your biographies – Donald Trump – Bullets and Bombs- My Journey to the Nobel Peace Prize
“Yes it is a very important mission. But it’s not political, it’s cinematic,” Sir Starmer said.
“Now tell me why you’re running like a mad person, dressed in a football jersey, holding a large silver cup in the middle of the night?” I enquired
It’s funny you were most famous for diffusing tense situations, with self-deprecating humour and jest
To Robert Redford the story was everything. There were many aspects of his charisma that stayed with one, over the years
“No men, it’s not about de small flat, it’s… see bossie, Dikuna men, I’m fully fed up men, fully fed up!”
I’ve found doctors divide themselves into two kinds, in Bombay city certainly. On the one hand, the curt and on the other, the kind….the impatient...
So, my family are deciding dat we have to be prepared wid water transportation, all dese four wheelers and two wheeler dey end up floating in de water
Five years later, the trolls and the trade critics had been silenced, the word of mouth was overwhelming
Test cricket, you’re hanging in there, for the purist, not the lover of IPL, the Instant Pyjama League, Big Bash etc
“See men, Dikuna, as you know I’m a natural athlete… (he stopped meaningfully for me to nod vociferously).”
Growing up, I had a complicated relationship with you. In fact, a complicated one with Black Sabbath
It’s a fact, that those of us, Baby Boomers who were schooled in Bombay, you sized up, judged, a guy or girl, based on the school they went to
“And anyway, why has our esteemed chosen to be absent from this all important gathering,” Kannadiga Chappal asked
“Yeah dat only, him only, if he can achieve dis, den why not me, I want to go wid him on his next space mission, represent de nation”
The stories came filtering through, of the faults with the aircraft, the fissures that had developed, the flaps that wouldn’t open — and then to...
I’d say, Nadal is the greatest ever rival there was — rivalries there were many, but Nadal was a gladiator, playing every match like it was his...
“But you, Lobo Lobo, you, how can you possibly scale up mountains and hang from helicopters?”
“Dude, did you write it also? Your Hindi is atrocious (eye roll and twinkle).”
Somehow along the way our megaphone, our microphone became a machine gun. Mercenaries with no mercy
“See men, Boss, let me be total clear and simple, as long as anyone is fit and fine, wotever be de age, he can play to whenever he feels—as long...
Where we once walked, we now navigate, with extreme caution
“I believe I’m challenging, not demanding, and I make no apologies for that,” Kilmer said.
“Dude she was in space for 9 months not 19 years,” someone pointed out.
The exposure of the sun on skin, better and more nourishing than the exposure to the evils of social media.
At a Maroon 5 show, a tattooed teenager looked at me “….Hmmm, cool t-shirt, but wrong band, dude”.
“Yeah l know men, he’s dat fallow from Krain, his name is like Zelin Misqiutta, my turd cuzzin from Dadar near de TT only.”
The grit in his gritty performances came from an instructor telling a young Hackman that he “wouldn’t amount to anything”
Dressed in maroon, half masks on so you can’t see full faces, just eyes, kind tired eyes—concern writ large on their foreheads