Khushwant Singh in the Hindustan Times:
“Once while attending a writers conference at Hawaii the only participant I knew was R.K. Narayan. He was a saintly sort of person, not great company for the likes of me. He was a strict vegetarian.
“In the evening he would buy a carton of dahi and go from cafe to cafe looking for plain boiled rice. He insisted I keep him company.
“One evening I tried to shake him off with the excuse that I wanted to see a blue film. ‘I come along with you,’ he announced. So we went to a locality where there were a few cinemas showing blue films.
“After an hour I got bored. So did he. We came out and resumed our search for dahi-chaawal and place where I could also get a meal of fried fish. I have not been able to find out why sexy films are called blue films. Why not red, yellow or green?’
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Tags: Churumuri, Hawaii, Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, R.K. Narayan, Sans Serif
16 April 2012 at 10:28 am
They are called blue films becoz Narayan saw them; Vishnu is blue in color
16 April 2012 at 10:54 am
So Khushwant Singh tried to corrupt RKN too? Thankfully the dirty old man didn’t succeed.
16 April 2012 at 4:13 pm
If only RKN had enjoyed the movie and sought much material from these genre of films, he surely would have written a book, “The Moll of Malgudi and Her Friends”.
16 April 2012 at 6:15 pm
Blue films because they contain blueberry muffins prescribed for the depressed.
16 April 2012 at 6:42 pm
“Blue” is a survival from the nineteenth century. Means something that ought not to be talked about, seen, or sold.
Back to RKN again. Why is K. P. so preoccupied with Narayan?
Let’s see a few references to his contemporary writer in a “phorin” language, Raja Rao. And let us not forget that there is some “blue” language in “Kanthapura.”
16 April 2012 at 10:51 pm
So whats wrong in watching blue films Mr. Churmuri??? Why are u making big deal if RK N has seen it
16 April 2012 at 11:38 pm
Another of the sick minded old man’s sickly sad lie
17 April 2012 at 9:53 am
Story of any two Indian guys visiting a foreign country: watched some porn, ate some rice/daal/roti/curd and went to sleep.
All this used to be news during Kushwant Singh’s/RKN’s days?
17 April 2012 at 10:08 am
On a light note: Well RKN watched it with Kushwant Singh? What’s the big deal? Some one seems to have gone ahead and produced one with another Singhvi (Abhishek M)!!
On a serious note: What folks do in their life is left to them. It is of concern to them and their immediate family and not really our business, unless it effects their public conduct in any way.
17 April 2012 at 1:30 pm
Khushwant,a first rate liar…who will trust this boot licker!!!
18 April 2012 at 2:08 am
Kapi thanu keduvudallade vanavannella kedisithu…this provers suits perfectly to Kushwant Singh…
18 April 2012 at 3:45 pm
So..whts the point KS is trying to make?
18 April 2012 at 10:07 pm
rhey are called blue films because blue is the colour referred to krishna(neelmeghashyama) who is famous for raskreeda
19 April 2012 at 9:44 am
i think it is fair to say:
With ole Khushwant Singh acting in a porn movie, you will be watching the hairiest movie as in literal sense and also in the metaphor sense:)
23 April 2012 at 2:43 pm
DB, just off the cuff, though not a full fledged masala, you can see an element of “blue” literature in RKs Financial Expert where the village banker Margayya teams up with Mr.Pal to produce some printed matter of it. Nicely portrayed onscreen by Lokesh and Sundrakrishna Urs.
23 April 2012 at 8:07 pm
Long back in a weekly feature on photgraphy/cinematography in Chitraprabha or in the cinema supplement of Prajavani(dont remember exactly), RN Krishna Prasad, had said that different colors suggest different moods, green for serenity, red for anger, blue for passion etc. May this is the manifested into “blue” films. Dont know if its the right way though. Blue films, yellow journals, red books, things are quite colourful. ;)
23 April 2012 at 10:19 pm
When porn films were first made they were made in low lit very small hotel rooms or make shift ramshackle studios. Since the filming was done in low light the image captured had a bluish tinge. This made the films actually look blue. Hence the name blue films.
25 April 2012 at 11:05 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_film
20 June 2012 at 2:20 pm
I am not believe this false story by Singh . probably like others he wanted to bring defame to RKN also. so don’t believe such a nonsense.
20 June 2012 at 6:16 pm
dear gururajan
false??????
defame??????
nonsense?????