E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: With 2010 now firmly in the past tense, here are 25 movies that have been carefully handpicked for the 25 most famous and notorious personalities of the year gone by:
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1. B.S. Yediyurappa: Do bheega zameen
2. Manmohan Singh: Silence of the Lambs
3. A. Raja: Shree 420
4. Suresh Kalmadi: The Great Train Robbery/ Ocean’s XI
5. Sonia Gandhi: Chuppaa Rustum
6. V.V.S. Laxman: Mission Impossible
7. Reddy Brothers: SSLC nanna makkalu
8. Barkha Dutt: Chor machaaye shor
9. Vir Sanghvi: Bawarchi
10. Katta Subramanya Naidu: Makmal topi
11. Ratan Tata: Honour thy Father
12. Shobha Karandlaje: Chickpete Sachagalu
13. M. Karunanidhi: Naan avan illai
14. Rajesh and Nupur Talwar: Oru CBI Diary Kurippu
15. H.R. Bharadwaj: Aaptharakshaka
16. Hartaalu Halappa: Rama Shama Bhama
17. Deve Gowda & Sons: The Sicilian Clan
18. Sharad Pawar: The Onion Field
19. Omar Abdullah: Mujhe jeene do
20. Bal and Aditya Thackeray: Two of a kind
21. Digvijay Singh: Mad Max
22. Shashi Tharoor: Dubai Seenu
23. Niira Radia: Dial M for Murder / The Matrix
24. Ashok Chavan: The Apartment
25. Rahul Gandhi: Waiting for the Moon
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Which film will you recommend for your favourite personality?
MOst of them can be used as casts and characters in a new version of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( the 1988 with Michael Caine, Steve Martin and Glenne Headley).
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Group of Ministers ‘Alibaba and Chalis (or whatever number) Chor’ and the people of India ‘Kurigalu sar kurigalu’ or ‘…….idiots’!
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ERR at his best.
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Very Intersting
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Mahesh! what are you saying?! The characters of Dirty
Rotten Scounderels were at any rate endearing. The same CANNOT be
said of any of the above except maybe V.V.S…
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The people of Karnataka should watch Upendra’s Super.
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Surely it should be
Rahul Gandhi: Brokeback Mountain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokeback_Mountain
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@G: It should be Rahul Gandhi: Dunno Y … Na Jaane Kyun. Our man is Indian after all. :)
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