Friday, November 07, 2008

An encounter with a Badmaksh behemoth

This post is long overdue - earlier this year, two of the Badmaksh trinity - Arka and Kunal, decided to visit Mr. Nagrath. Who is Mr. Nagrath? Well, at this point I think our regular reader (yes, the omission of the 's' at the end is intentional) can have one of the following responses:

1) I don't really believe in deifying any one particular Badmaksh actor. Anyone who has been in a Badmaksh movie is equally worthy of worship (yes, even the guy who makes the strange noise when Mandeep rudely pushes him away at the start of "Raat Ki Baat"). So yeah, I don't care who Nagrath is - I prefer Buffet to A La Carte.

2) How dare you ask me this question! Of course, I know our defacto badmaksh commissioner-ji - I even dream of him sometimes at night (weirdly, i wake up with a damp feeling the next morning, but never mind that).

3) Dude, I don't know who Nagrath is - probably some useless badmaksh guy that you idiots keep praising - get a life!

If your response is choice 1, to each his own.
If your response is choice 2, you should be writing this blog, not me (i only dream of Nagrath).
If your response is choice 3, well ... please save whatever's left of your hitherto sad existence and read the rest of this blog before you die of badmakshorance (ignorance of all that is Badmaksh). Just yesterday I read a news report of 10 people dying with symptoms that sounded suspiciously like Badmakshorance (of course, it goes without saying that they were suffering from Type 2).

Anyway, when our two founding Badmakshers met after ages, they didn't hug, or reminisce about the memories - they created a new one! It seems that Nagrath runs a consultancy company that handles disputes in the film industry. I'm sure his stately presence and unflappable temprament as commish in movies (which us ignoramuses confused for the normal behavior of a person with negative IQ), certainly helps. Plus, the man has acted in 600+ movies! I mean, watching 1 badmaksh movie changed our lives - just imagine what this man must have undergone! Let's just say it would be similar to what a Maharishi, who having done tapasya for 50 years sees an Apsara bathing near him, experiences.

In any case, look at the pictures from his office below - don't miss the pictures with two more of our badmaskh superstars - Dharam paaji and Takti Kapoor.

And for those who think that Badmaksh movies are just a "construct" and not a real phenomenon - please read the banner in his office (picture below) ... I can't say it any better than "The One Man" himself does. Don't miss the "?" at the end of the bullet no. 2.




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