Friday, December 30, 2005

Flunkophobia

Meaning: Fear of failure.
Usage: Everytime I gave the Machine Drawing test, I used to have seizures of flunkophobia.
Pronunciation: Flunk-ko-phobia.
Root: To flunk is to fail.
Note: Kakorrhaphiophobia is the current word for fear of failure. I find it a mouthful. Hence my coinage.

Thursday, December 29, 2005

Punch

Meaning : a collective noun for a group of fillains who are felled by a single blow from the hero
Usage : A punch of fillains usually wait and watch without attacking while the hero handles other punches.
Pronunciation : same as punch
Root : punch + bunch

Pyarody

Meaning : a love story that is so badly written that its a laugh riot
Usage : Most SRK pyarodies make me roll with laughter.
Pronunciation : Pyar+o+dee
Root : Pyar + parody

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Baulks Office

Meaning: A measure of the loss making ability of a film.
Usage: Kevin Costner's 'Waterworld' should make it to the Baulks Office hall of fame.
Pronunciation: Homonym of Box Office. So can only be used in a written form.
Root: To baulk is to thwart.

Suckolade

Meaning: An award that that sucks.
Usage: The Filmfare Award is India's ultimate suckolade. Because it unfailingly celebrates the most mediocre flicks of the year.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with accolade.
Root: Obvious.

Titrahaar

Meaning: Sleazy song sequences.
Usage: The winning formula in Bollywood is a little story liberally interspersed with some titrahaar.
Pronunciation: Tit-ra-haar.
Root: Titilating Chitrahaar (a popular song and dance show in India's National television).
Related coinage: Shitrahaar = Banal song sequences shot primarily to act as a 45 minute filler.

Starchaeology

Meaning : the systematic study of old(er) film stars
Usage : Starchaeology students tend to be fine actors. Many fail and become mere imitations.
Pronunciation : star+key+ology
Root : star + archaeology

Circumambulatree

Meaning: the act of walking/running around a tree
Usage : Circumambulatree chases were probably invented to make it easy for those actors who sucked at dancing.
Pronunciation: circumambulate + tree
Root : same as pronunciation

Character Assasination

Meaning: Editing out an entire character from a movie after the movie has been shot.
Usage: It is rumoured that directors dangle the threat of character assassination if minor actors don't sleep with them.
Prounciation: Obvious.
Note: Existing phrase. Context is new.

Stalkie

Meaning: A person who is so madly obsessed with a movie, that he watches it over and over again.
Usage: MF Hussain is a celebrity stalkie. He watched 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' for over 15 times.
Pronunciation: Stocky.
Root: Stalk a talkie.
Inspiration: Avinash's coinage: Stalkies - movies that refuse to go away.

Triopic

Meaning: A film about three characters in a love triangle.
Usage: Bollywood is a factory that churns out triopics by the dozens.
Pronunciation: Try-o-pick.
Root: Trio (three people united by a common bond) + Pic.

Dhobi Film

Meaning: A C-grade movie made for the sake of money laundering.
Usage: They say India makes close to 800 movies a year. My guess is at least hundred of these are dhobi films.
Pronunciation: Though-bee-film.
Root: Dhobi is the Hindi word for a launderer.

Egonym

Meaning: A pompous title bestowed on a star by sycophants who call themselves fans. A very common practice in Kollywood. Strangely, the star has no qualms using this silly title as a prefix for his or her name.
Usage: Rajnikanth's egonym is Super Star. Sarath Kumar's is Supreme Star. While Ajith's is Ultimate Star.
Pronunciation: Eego-nym.
Root: Nym in latin means name. Egonym is an ego boosting name.

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Abscene

Meaning: A scene where the hero comes shirtless to show off his abs.
Usage: Salman Khan is famous for abscenes.
Pronunciation: Ab-seen
Root: Obscene
Derivative: Abscenity

Drip tease

Meaning: Titillating scenes in Indian movies where a female actor wearing thin clothing, usually a white chiffon sari, gets wet wet wet in the rain.
Usage: Mandakini surfaced to fame with the drip tease in Ram Teri Ganga Maili.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Root: Strip tease

Aruval Westerns

Meaning: A sub-genre of Tamil action films usually featuring an angry young man who has a penchant for slicing and dicing opponents with a humble aruval.
Usage: The Vikram movie Sami spawned a spate of Aruval Westerns.
Pronunciation: Aroo-vaal-westerns.
Root: An aruval is a long curved knife popular in rural & suburban Tamil Nadu.

Damplitude

Meaning : A measure of how wet an actress can be without affecting her dance steps, measured in buckets
Usage : Tuxom actresses should account for the water retention of the padding when calculating their damplitude
Pronunciation : d + amplitude
Root : damp + amplitude

Throatagonist

Meaning: The voice of the main character
Usage : Throatagonists are essential for the success of feature-length animations.
Pronunciation : rhymes with protagonist
Root : Throat + protagonist - prot

Monday, December 26, 2005

Maatyr

Meaning: Heros who would do anything, (and I mean anything!), for their mothers.
Usage: I just love the way Dharmender, the maatyr bleats 'Maa!'
Pronunciation: Ma-a-tyr
Root: Obvious

Clockbuster

Meaning : an overly lengthy movie
Usage : Peter Jackson is making one clockbuster after another. Good for him they are also blockbusters.
Pronunciation : just like blockbuster
Root : Clock + blockbuster

Gelodrama

Meaning: gelatin induced melodramas
Usage : Some actresses who excel in gelodrama have found work in the megaserial world
Pronunciation : jelo + drama
Root : Gelatin + melodrama

Spliterature

Meaning: written work devoted to star divorces
Usage : The Brad-Jen spliterature ate up quite a few rain forests.
Pronunciation: sounds like literature
Root : Split + literature

Skimpression

Meaning: impression created by skimpily attired starlets
Usage : In bollywood,as in real life, the first skimpression is often the best.
Pronunciation : sk+impression
Root : skimp + impression
Note : i did find another skimpression in pseudodictionary. but it doesn't mean the same thing. so if anyone's against it, i'll take it out.

Foreground Score

Meaning: Outrageously dramatic music punched into a scene to inject some life into it.
Usage: Bollywood movies of the yesteryears used to have screeching foreground scores during the climax.
Pronunciation: Four-ground-score.
Root: Opposite of background score.

Eyetem

Meaning: An eyecandy star who does an item song.
Usage: Aishwarya Rai was the main eyetem in Bunty Aur Babli.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with Item.
Root: Obvious.