{"id":175,"date":"2007-03-16T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2007\/03\/sholay-a-little-nostalgia-never-hurt-anyone.html"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:00:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:00:40","slug":"sholay-a-little-nostalgia-never-hurt-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2007\/03\/sholay-a-little-nostalgia-never-hurt-anyone.html","title":{"rendered":"Sholay : A little nostalgia never hurt anyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever hanker for that “Sholay”<\/a> fix ? You know, the one where Veeru goes “gaonwalo” and means YOU ? If you did, nirvana is in sight. Star’s stand-up comedy show “The Great Indian Laughter Challenge” is calling out to contestants for the new season, and they do it in a very Sholay-esque style. And while the show itself is unwatchable currently because of it’s sexist jokes and lets-paw-the-hostess<\/a> attitude, the advertisement pretty much hits the spot. It’s got a Dharam-paaji style voice, complete with swagger and drunken attitude, a la Veeru, exhorting the viewers to gain fame – “Famous hona chahte ho ? To gaonwalo , apna DVD\/tape\/VCD yahaan bhejo . . .”<\/em><\/strong> A little re-phrased, but that’s pretty much what he’s saying.<\/p>\n

Besides bringing back memories of Sholay, and the time when I actually saw Sholay, it tickles me no end to see the very modern junta of Star TV viewers addressed as “gaonwalo”. Essentially “village-people”. And philosophically, nothing wrong with that. After all the world is one big village, no ?<\/p>\n

Now if only they’d get the master-minds behind that advert. to actually direct the show itself, the show might actually regain it’s sense of humor.<\/p>\n

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Ever hanker for that “Sholay” fix ? You know, the one where Veeru goes “gaonwalo” and means YOU ? If you did, nirvana is in sight. Star’s stand-up comedy show “The Great Indian Laughter Challenge” is calling out to contestants for the new season, and they do it in a very Sholay-esque style. And while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-india","category-movies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":1,"uagb_excerpt":"Ever hanker for that “Sholay” fix ? You know, the one where Veeru goes “gaonwalo” and means YOU ? If you did, nirvana is in sight. Star’s stand-up comedy show “The Great Indian Laughter Challenge” is calling out to contestants for the new season, and they do it in a very Sholay-esque style. And while…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}