SM Live-blogs the *other* SM, at The Oscars

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Tonight, I’ll be trying something a little different in the bunker.

Instead of live-blogging the Academy Awards the way I might have in the past, via a disjointed, half-kundi’d sort of list, I’m going to use the nifty program you see below. If it’s good enough for Sports blog Ball Don’t Lie, it’s good enough for this fellow fan o‘ Sheed:

What’s great about this is…well…everything. I can put up instant polls, pick out comments from you to publish in the stream of live blogging, and then tie it up at the end in to a lovely little package with a “replay” ribbon on top, so all may enjoy it at their leisure. I played with it on my own blog, here, so that’s what the finished product will look like. I’m excited, about this and whatever else may come. Are you? 🙂

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I will also be one of many, many people participating in SAJA’s post-Oscars Call-in Web Radio Show Thing tonight. It’ll go from 11:30 – 1:30 am, EST and there may be some surprise guests beyond the usual journalist/blogger/entertainment exec suspects. The handy thing about these webcasts is that there’s no need to stay up past your bedtime. If you can’t listen to the show live, you can hear it whenever. Do both via this link.

We’ll discuss everything from the foofy (“What was she WEARING??” to the frank (“This is SO poverty pr0n”). Call-in with your own mutinous thoughts: +1-347-324-5991. So much to do, on such a potentially eventful night! Who needs a disco nap? Anyone? Anyone? Whatevs, yo. I’m totally taking one. See you in 90 minutes, SMers!

73 thoughts on “SM Live-blogs the *other* SM, at The Oscars”

  2. For God sake I hope they don’t have Indian guys on stage, twirling around in bedazzled silk shirts with no shoes on. I am sick and tired of being emasculated.

  18. America loves themes, huh? This is the year of the Obama, Slumdog, Winslet….:)

    BTW, does anyone else see Dev Patel grow up into this guy?

  24. Well, given that Follieri is behind bars, Anne can’t afford to put her haath away. If you know what I mean.

  25. Don’t care for the movie but cheered like it was world cup final when Rahman and the kids were on stage.

  26. I am happy that AR Rahman won an oscar, hope he wins a Grammy soon. I have to say though, Delhi 6 music is far better than Slumdog.

  28. 27 · Rahul said

    DevD beats both hands down, IMO.

    I agree, about Dev D. I was just comparing Rahman’s recent work. In terms of music, Bollywood had a great start to 2009. I liked couple of songs from Luck By chance.

  29. 27 · Rahul said

    26 · kal said
    Delhi 6 music is far better than Slumdog.
    DevD beats both hands down, IMO.

    delhi 6 lyrics are kinda awesome. the music of dev d is far bolder in tone; delhi 6 for when you are in a more introspective mood. but that’s just one dilliwaali’s opinion. [it is so great to see dilli at the movies!]

  31. Live blogging idea was AWESOME. Just read it now and lol’d at the comments – it was so much fun to read your conversation about Attention Whore Anil, Freida’s granny dress, the WONDERFUL Rahman…YAY.

    And for brown Oscars – yay yay yay yay YAY!

  32. Yoohoo, Gulzar named at least some international awards. I would give him noble for his poems ( and so so many oscars for so so many movies/songs/scripts) .

    My fave part of the ceremony was watching one of the kids high five dannie boyle in the most unaffected joyous fashion sun the entire crew went onstage.

  33. first tamil remarks in an oscar speech 🙂

    Looks like I should not have slept. Congrats Rahman. He has prepared well for the award and is being diplomatic.

  34. Except for Best Director and couple of other wins, I do not know if Slumdog deserved half of its wins(though I would have been fine with anyone but the guy who directed Reader). At least Danny Boyle is a great director who really made a goood mainstream movie out of something like this. Also why is a non artsy movie like this OK for oscars but The Dark Knight gets no respect. Both are escapist entertainments with some serious indie cred directors giving them some seroius undertones.

    Also I thought Rourke was perfect in The Wrestler. It would have been nice to see him do an encore after his entertaining acceptance at the IFC Indie Spirit Awards.

    As far as Slumdog music, it was decent, but other than the MIA portions, I didn’t find the music that great. I wonder if the lack of exposure to Bollywood made them overrrate the music. I understand best song fiasco as Oscars rarely get this category right. Even Lagaan songs were better and wasnt that by Rahman.

    I hated the death montage this year. With so many well known deaths, I would have preferred the older versoin instead of some production member trying to put his imprint on the show. Gvie us a simple effective montage where each picture is not swooping aorund the screen making it tough to concentrate on each dead person’s image. Also Latifah’s singing was, as Bale would say, FUCKING DISTRACTING even though it was not her fault(she sang well).

    Best screenplay? Give me a break. Danny Boyle and his “codirector” deserve most of the credit for taking a cutesy story and making a good movie out of it.

  35. Man, that MIA girl has lost a whole lot of weight in two weeks. I bet she had Liposuction. She looked fairer too; must be the Fair & Lovely.

  36. All you Anil haters, pox on your tongues throws a fit. for once, i am not embarassed to be voluble, and bear-japphi and all – because it’s one of mine doing the same on stage. so nyaah. eat my kachcha. we’ze just born with big… hearts. didja know anil donated his earnings to an ngo.

  38. As far as Slumdog music, it was decent, but other than the MIA portions, I didn’t find the music that great.

    It was not good by his usual high standards IMHO. It was nice to see Rachman quash Pixar like a bug. I hate their show tunery.

  39. As far as Slumdog music, it was decent, but other than the MIA portions, I didn’t find the music that great.

    Lots of people keep saying this, and I’m not saying this is you, but I think a lot of it is preciousness and affectedness. Rahman has produced so many incredible songs over his career, and has a very high standard, but the point is, that he melded his music to this movie so perfectly. Best soundtrack is for the musical vision of a composer melded to a cinematic narrative, and Rahman’s work perfectly elevates, probes and integrates with Slumdog. It is raw, hungry, frantic, swaggering, sympathetic, characterful and tender, and it is an absolutely brilliant conflation of cinema and music. It deserved to win, and I don’t think it is a lesser work of Rahman’s at all.

  40. 11 · ironman said

    Alicia Keyes didn’t mess up Rahman’s name!

    Will Smith messed up Resul’s last name ‘Pookkutty’. The way he pronounced, it means flowerpot in Malayalam. It also is a local slang(among the naughty boyz only) for someone with immature ejaculation problem( Flowerpot in fireworks, you get the point). It should have been pronounced ‘tty’ as in Putty. But he did the ‘tty’ as in Kitty.

  41. It was not good by his usual high standards IMHO.

    In my opinion, it absolutely was, and stands tall and at least shoulder to shoulder with his other work as a unitary achievment. It has to be judged together, as one collection of songs that meld with the movie, that is the context in which it exists, and he nails the tone and aura of the story just perfectly.

    He has produced a universe of brilliant music before SM, but his music on this movie takes its place beside them, perfectly and easily, and you can argue the toss about individual songs, but this fashionable downgrading of his work in relation to other Rahman work is not right, in my not very humble opinion.

    I was amazed to read that he completed the soundtrack in 3 weeks from start to finish. One word for the man — GENIUS.

  42. I am happy for Resul Pookutty

    He said,

    But I grew up watching films in Malayalam like Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Elippathayam and Aravindan’s Kummatti, Pokkuveyil and Thampu where the sublime use of sound represents the cultural context … Devadas and Krishnanunny have done immensely truthful work in these films. My work is an extension of theirs. Their works taught me the art of blending technology with aesthetics.”

    Adoor Gopalakrishnan’s Elippathayam(1981) is the best Indian movie I have watched.

  43. The ‘twng’ sound of the electric wires of the local train is one unforgettable sound for anyone who has spent time in Bombay. When I heard that sound in it original form in the movie, I went back to my Bombay days and lived the rest of the movie. But, I agree with Salman Rushdie the storyline is impossible on impossible, a usual theme in Bollywood.

  44. Bobby, I just like some of his other work more is all. Not downgrading or anything. I will take the worst of Rahman over the usual treacly, Oscar bait bs.

  45. 40 · LandBeyond7Zs said

    Will Smith messed up Resul’s last name ‘Pookkutty’.

    will smith is generally a douchebag with the acting chops of a turnip. he’s like jitendra without the white pants.

  48. I loved the kids on the red carpet, I loved the fact they were all talking past each other and the little Azhar blurted all the English he knew when someone asked him a question. I feel Seacrest is an idiot and I was disappointed that Anil Kapoor didn’t go totally mental.

  49. 49 · KashytheCableMan said

    F*ck Hollywood’s love affair with homosexuality

    I am sympathetic to their cause. It is one group that is not treated equal in American political system. They deserved to be treated equal. I consider people with homophobia as boys( not real men) who are always doubting whether they are homosexual. Real men need not be afraid of homosexuals, we should accept them as real and equals. Make jokes about them, but dont hate them. LOL! Good thing that we dont have any in India.