Rajnikant‘s superstardom in karaokeland, Japan, which is what the lettering in the headline above means, has long been an object of mystery and mirth. Finally, there is proof of his hold in Nippon, where at a song and dance show on television, a Japanese singer mimicks the Tamil superstar. The original number was sung by S.P. Balasubramanyam to the lyrics of Vairamuthu and the music of A.R. Rehman.
Link via Alfred Satish Jones in Washington, DC
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Tags: A.R. Rehman, Churumuri, Japan, Rajnikant, Rajnikanth, Sans Serif, SPB, Vairamuthu
19 February 2010 at 11:09 pm
uppigintha ruchi bere illa, oppikondoru daddaralla — http://web.archive.org/web/20040903012655/http://upendra.to/
19 February 2010 at 11:10 pm
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://upendra.to
20 February 2010 at 12:33 am
indian popular entertainment is a banal, cringeworthy joke played by movie stars on everyone’s intelligence.
20 February 2010 at 1:45 am
I am not sure which video you are looking at or what kind of green stuff you are smoking! It looks like these guys are “MOCKING” at Shivaji Rao than “mimicking” him.
But here is one thing that I don’t understand. Why is Churumuri so fascinated by Tamil film industry. To what do we (Kannadigas and Mysoreans) owe this privilege to? Couple of days back we saw a post refering Manirathnam (one of the most overrated directors) and now Rajani, SPB, Vairamuthu, AR Rehman! Am I supposed care for this?
How about showing some pride in Kannada Film Industry? I haven’t seen an article about our own Mysore boy Raghu Dixit who is making waves with his excellent music. How about an article on Mano Murthy or Jayath Kaykini? or about one of the best directors of our times Girish Kasaravalli?
ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಮಾಸ್ತ್ರ, ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ಒಳಗ ಕೆದಕಿ ನೊಡ್ಕೊಳ್ರಿ ಸರ, ನಮ್ಮ ಜನಗಳ್ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಒಂದು ಚೂರು ಹೆಮ್ಮೆ/ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಸಿಕ್ಕ್ರು ಸಿಗಬೋದು.
20 February 2010 at 7:31 am
He he. This is nice. Btw, did you watch this kannada video?
http://www.youtube.com/mindryin#p/a/f/0/TK9j1ry0Y3w
20 February 2010 at 10:39 am
Commodification of Journalism isn’t it?
Kannada sahitya sammelana in Gadag . no article on it.
Some wonderful things going around. Churumuri can start a campaign of publishing some path breaking ventures like -
http://kredl.kar.nic.in/Electrification.htm
The hut looks classy.
Isn’t it a article worthy than Rajininippon?
20 February 2010 at 3:59 pm
they are mocking, not mimicking
20 February 2010 at 4:26 pm
Could somebody please do a write up on the mindry guys- they simply rock- far better than any pretentious stuff made by the Maniratnams or mindless stuff by the Rajnikants.
20 February 2010 at 6:57 pm
dont they, gaby? they are awesome writers and very keen observers, very serious kids.
20 February 2010 at 9:14 pm
Totally agree with u TS- but their stuff is very gallic and great fun as well.
20 February 2010 at 11:12 pm
Yes, why not interview the Mindry.in team?
Dr. Sree Reddy,
mock mock mock mock mock mock M-A-J-A
adE maja!
Sing to the tune of G-A-J-A Gaja song!
21 February 2010 at 3:53 am
Yes. I’d want to see a write-up on Mindry. If Tamil can get here, our Kannada Mindry.in deserves some news spreading.
21 February 2010 at 7:23 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LND1N8lFJUc This one is good…
21 February 2010 at 7:51 am
BTW .. this is a Japanese entertainment called monomane.. Artist mimics other people.. The artist was making fun..some of the Japanese lyrics are as given below.
“chikubi ni papa ga ninma ~ ri”
(Papa smiles at the site of a nipple”)
“benjo de rippani narima~ri”
(Becomes nobel in a toilet)
“bouzu ga byoubu ni jyouzu ni bouzu no e wo kaku”
(Monk draws a monk well on a folding screen)
But Rajni really has lots of following in Nippon. Rajani transcends language as an entertainer. He has charisma that spell binds viewer even when language is alien!!!
22 February 2010 at 9:56 am
@NAWN
mocking does not happen with china/korea programmes. bcoz they will be on the street protesting. Japan has great admiration for west and more so for US of A.
Anything represented as “India” is full of disdain in the Japanese language print/visual media and I dont see any respect in that. If it was with some sense of humour, I would have enjoyed. But that’s not the case.
When Rajanikanth’s movie(only one movie became popular and rest flopped in Japan) was well recieved among Japanese audience, it was immediately after the burst of bubble economy and it was a time when Japan was trying to see some “asian(ajia in japanese means mostly developing countries)” movies.
23 February 2010 at 7:07 am
Mannina Maga and Mannin MakkaL (I mean Kannada Saviours and Tamizh torchbearers) must be made for each other, because the one is so insecure of the other, that it is hard to tell who is doing the worrying. For the vast diverse family that is the professionals of Indian cinema, barriers of language do not exist. It is only here that people talk about a Kannada cinema and a Tamizh cinema or a Bengali cinema and an Oriya cinema. For the professionals within there is cinema – that is all. Dr.Rajkumar’s children went to school in Madras with the children of NTR, ANR, and D Rama Naidu, while Sivaji Ganesan’s children were schooled in Bangalore with the current crop of directors and producers of Kannada film. Amitabh Bacchan makes it a point to visit the family of his mentor – S. Ramanathan’s – in Madras every year – the man who gave him a break with Bombay to Goa. And Bharatiraja makes it a point to visit the family of his mentor in Bangalore – Puttanna Kanagal’s family.
Indian popular entertainment, especially our movies are the finest and most profound expression of modern India’s artistic and aesthetic sensibilities. While the Europeans invented cinema its acme is approached in India. The rest of the world’s cinema is but a few fleeting moments worth Indian cinema. There is more to be studied in a single song and dance sequence of a popular Indian film than all the movies produced by Hollywood in one year.
23 February 2010 at 8:01 pm
@kaangeya:
“While the Europeans invented cinema its acme is approached in India. The rest of the world’s cinema is but a few fleeting moments worth Indian cinema.”
Come on let’s not getting carried away and fool ourselves. Yes Indian cinema has its own idiosyncrasies, thrills and entertainment and cinematic value. But to say world cinema is but a few fleeting moments worth Indian cinema is too unrealistic a claim. Indian cinema has lots to learn and places to go.
24 February 2010 at 9:43 am
Mindry.In, you seem to suffer from either diffidence or plain unfounded disbelief, much in the manner of scientists of the late 19th century who confidently asserted that a heavier than air craft could never be made to fly. I have lived long years in India and abroad and can forget much more about cinema in an afternoon than some critics have learned in a lifetime. Besides Indian bloviators know next to nothing about the roots of Indian cinema, and its history through the decades. The only frontier that Indian cinema is yet to breach is the grand FX based spectacular. In all other modes Indian cinema is way ahead. That is the reason why it is the only industry outside Hollywood that Hollywood is powerless against. Indian cinema is today showing the way ahead to newly emerging industries in Nigeria, Brazil and Spain. Unless you have lived in the US you won’t understand how formulaic and superficial Hollywood is apart from the 3-5 decent movies it makes every year. Hollywood scripts are pretty tame stuff because they are completely divorced from any artistic tradition. But that is for another day.
For heaven’s sake why are Kannadiga posters on this blog so diffident and sound so dejected?
24 February 2010 at 7:59 pm
Kaangeya all of us Kannadigas are on depression inducing drugs- what euphorogenic stuff are you on?