Curious about what the Gandhi video, which sparked a controversy, is all about, I decided to watch it. Thankfully Hindustan Times, in its article reporting that 2 Indian TV channels expressed regret for airing the video, also provided a link. The link was to Gautam Prasad's page and that has the link to the video.
The video titled "Time to get sexy" is of 3.24 min duration. It starts with Gautam Prasad, dressed like Gandhi, dancing on a Pubjabi Bhangra number in front of live audience. He's put a ball on his nose like a clown. He's worn a white dhoti and has another white clothe covering his top. Now as he dances, he first throws away the top white clothe...then takes off his dhoti...there's still one langoth (I've always wondered what's the correct spelling of this word). There is a pole in the middle of the hall in which this dance is shot. After he's free of his dhoti, Gautam now starts a pole-dance...making some obscene (and funny) gentures once in a while...like itching his ass...
I could not understand much of whatever happened in the last one minute of the video. The mime ended with Gandhi (played by Gautam) accidentally pulling the pole out of its base support. The pole falls down. Gandhi is totally flummoxed. Then he walks to where the audience are seated and pulls a guy up on stage. Then Gandhi goes and hides behind a door just behind the middle of the stage, peeping once in a while. And this guy from the audience seems confused too. He comes and fixes the pole back over its support and goes back. Then Gandhi comes out, stands near the pole and the video ends. All through the shoot, Gautam stood with a slight stoop and the legs bent a little at the knees...a posture depicting that of an old Gandhi.
I would say that the mime was definitely quite creative and artistically enacted and it would be pretty funny as well if watched live. I don't want to get into the rights and wrongs of creating a video like this or of doing such a mime in the first place. There are papers, politicians, and news channels to do all that. Let's talk about other things.
Gautam Prasad is a Bengalooru (a.k.a Bangalore!!!) born, Indian-Amrikan - just like my client. But guess what...Prasad went to US to become a clown, not a Software Engineer. Or may be, he became a clown by accident, or because he couldn't become anything else. But after working for 2 years as a clown in the most well-known circus in the US - Ringling Brothers, Prasad promoted himself as a stand-up comedian. He also performs as a clown in private events. May be this video was shot in one such event. And now he's become a Yoga teacher too! He's got a nice little web-site as well. I was happy to see his email id - it's on hotmail. Whatever be the reason he uses hotmail for, but the point is that he uses hotmail and so do I. And believe me...everyone - be it my friend or girl-friend...has something to advise me whenever I give him/her my email id. These days everyone suggests gmail. For me, it sucks. I mean gmail sucks. I never find the compose message option in it without searching for a long time. It doesn't have many other useful options. And the interface is so boring. I don't understand why people don't like hotmail. It's really cool.
The best part of Gautam's website is his biodata. It has 2 parts. A bakwaas one under Bio... and a serious one under But Seriously... I don't want to copy it here...do check it out...
The video titled "Time to get sexy" is of 3.24 min duration. It starts with Gautam Prasad, dressed like Gandhi, dancing on a Pubjabi Bhangra number in front of live audience. He's put a ball on his nose like a clown. He's worn a white dhoti and has another white clothe covering his top. Now as he dances, he first throws away the top white clothe...then takes off his dhoti...there's still one langoth (I've always wondered what's the correct spelling of this word). There is a pole in the middle of the hall in which this dance is shot. After he's free of his dhoti, Gautam now starts a pole-dance...making some obscene (and funny) gentures once in a while...like itching his ass...
I could not understand much of whatever happened in the last one minute of the video. The mime ended with Gandhi (played by Gautam) accidentally pulling the pole out of its base support. The pole falls down. Gandhi is totally flummoxed. Then he walks to where the audience are seated and pulls a guy up on stage. Then Gandhi goes and hides behind a door just behind the middle of the stage, peeping once in a while. And this guy from the audience seems confused too. He comes and fixes the pole back over its support and goes back. Then Gandhi comes out, stands near the pole and the video ends. All through the shoot, Gautam stood with a slight stoop and the legs bent a little at the knees...a posture depicting that of an old Gandhi.
I would say that the mime was definitely quite creative and artistically enacted and it would be pretty funny as well if watched live. I don't want to get into the rights and wrongs of creating a video like this or of doing such a mime in the first place. There are papers, politicians, and news channels to do all that. Let's talk about other things.
Gautam Prasad is a Bengalooru (a.k.a Bangalore!!!) born, Indian-Amrikan - just like my client. But guess what...Prasad went to US to become a clown, not a Software Engineer. Or may be, he became a clown by accident, or because he couldn't become anything else. But after working for 2 years as a clown in the most well-known circus in the US - Ringling Brothers, Prasad promoted himself as a stand-up comedian. He also performs as a clown in private events. May be this video was shot in one such event. And now he's become a Yoga teacher too! He's got a nice little web-site as well. I was happy to see his email id - it's on hotmail. Whatever be the reason he uses hotmail for, but the point is that he uses hotmail and so do I. And believe me...everyone - be it my friend or girl-friend...has something to advise me whenever I give him/her my email id. These days everyone suggests gmail. For me, it sucks. I mean gmail sucks. I never find the compose message option in it without searching for a long time. It doesn't have many other useful options. And the interface is so boring. I don't understand why people don't like hotmail. It's really cool.
The best part of Gautam's website is his biodata. It has 2 parts. A bakwaas one under Bio... and a serious one under But Seriously... I don't want to copy it here...do check it out...
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