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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
Usage : Throatagonists are essential for the success of feature-length animations.
Pronunciation : rhymes with protagonist
Root : Throat + protagonist - prot
Monday, December 26, 2005
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
Usage : Peter Jackson is making one clockbuster after another. Good for him they are also blockbusters.
Pronunciation : just like blockbuster
Root : Clock + blockbuster
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
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.
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.
Usage: Bollywood movies of the yesteryears used to have screeching foreground scores during the climax.
Pronunciation: Four-ground-score.
Root: Opposite of background score.
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