As Abhi posted, Sesame Street is creating an Indian version. But it’ll be nothing more than a homecoming. It’s a little-known fact that Sesame Street follows the narrative arc of a masala western.
Why Sesame Street is like Sholay:
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Brought to you |
Brought to you |
Not Sholay, but I couldn’t resist:
 Grover |
 Gulshan Grover |
Update:
 The Count |
 Pran |
(thanks, Turbanhead)
You do know that Big Bird is a male right?
LoL @ Gulshan Grover thats funny!! they really do look like each other 🙂
Oh sure, they claim Big Bird is male, but with those hips, that voice and that name (bird = ‘chick’ in Britspeak)…
…played by a guy with a woman’s name, Carroll Spinney . I think, because of the name confusion, urban legend has spread it around that Big Bird is female.
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Comparing Amitabh to Bert- that’s a bold move. I see some Dishoom in your future. 😉
Yes, well, the Sesame Street characters are hairy with big noses, so clearly they’re Punjabi like me.
Um, actually, Veeru is the hero; Jai dies in the end. Sorry, spoiler for those who haven’t seen Sholay at least 20 times (like me).
Won’t have it. Amitabh is the heeeeero by definition. 😉 Besides, Veeru is the goofy, half-serious suicidal drunk.
Pran should be the count (yeah, I know he’s not in Sholay)
Hilarious….
What about Snuffalupogous? How can you have a Seseme Street reference without him. What Indian character would be, and no he/she/it doesn’t need to be a character from Sholay. I think he/she/it has the same problem as big bird, it has long eyelashes but talks like a man…
On a somewhat different tangent do any of you remember like me when Snuffalupogous was a figment of Big Bird’s imagination and everyone thought big bird was crazy and then all of a sudden he was just part of the cast and everything was normal.
Wasn’t Big Bird pissed off? I mean all this emotional scarring from people and muppets, if i was the big yellow monstrosity i would sue. I would sue seseme street, the muppets i would sue everyone!
Okay I have too much time on my hands today 🙂
sholay is the best! now we just need to find the sesame street equivalent of jaya bhaduri’s widow character.
Uh. . .I know a lot more about Sesame Street than I do about Sholay. The reason Snuffy so suddenly became a real character (as opposed to them drawing it out or deciding that he was just imaginary) is b/c a bunch of child psychologists contacted Sesame Street and told them they were worried kids would think this meant that they (the kids) should not tell grown-ups about their problems (like being abused) or odd characters they’ve seen (like strangers bothering them) because no one would believe them. Sesame Street decided not to wait and find out what the verdict was on that, and quickly made Snuffy real to be on the safe side.
Joking aside, I think it was very responsible move on their part. Big Bird is most definitely a boy.
Caroll Spinney considers Big Bird to be around 6 years old. A smart, somewhat petulant little boy.
Yes, I have actually met Caroll Spinney and Oscar the Grouch, and I have a book autographed by Big Bird.
Maybe Snuffleupagus was inspired by Ganesh. But he’s so droopy, he’s more like Marvin the Paranoid Android.
Amitabh may be paranoid, but he’s no android.
Over the top…very well done…
I can see it in my mind’s eye already…
Muppets do Sholay, on Broadway!
Move over Bombay Dreams…
How can Bert be The Hero? Dontcha know? Bert is Evil.
And Big Bird is definitely a hijra.
Saheli… did psychologists complain or applaud? I ask only because I thought Snuffalufagus was written into show to specifically address “hidden-secrets” (i.e. sixties-seventies pop-psychology, the The Elephant in the Room, etc.).
Indian Sesame Street, what else will India not think of next…
Indian Sesame Street, what else will India not think of next…
I was told there actually is an Indian Sesame Street that a family friend of mine is working on. I don’t understand how she landed the gig, but I’m just glad she wasn’t yet another lawyer for my not-for-profit ass to be compared to. In any case, as you might have guessed, the source of this information is my highly unreliable mother, so I verify..and oh! my friend’s quoted–yay! I’m two degrees of separation from BBC and hence three from Preity Zinta!
Check out this hilarious tidbit from the same article too:
[Insert here the tasteless joke I didn’t have the heart to put in]
takeing this too seriously:
Well, from what I remember of hearing Caroll Spinney speak/reading his book (which I will have to dig out) I think that they complained in a sort of urgent, “folks-we-might-have-a-problem” way, and then when Snuffy was made real, they were much less worried. So he was not originally inserted to be emblematic of any psychological lesson (the Muppet aspects of Sesame street never really were), only as a cool story idea. But his quickly being made real was as a result of the Muppet people deciding they had a responsibility to their child audiences to heed the warnings of the psychologists in this case.
Yeah that’s what I am talking about MUPPET CHILD ABUSE, so wonder I am so screwed up as an adult!
Since we are this kick about actors to muppets, thre has to be a muppet for RAJNIKANT right?
Tickel me Elmo perhaps?
Damn Saurav beat me to it! Bert is evil!