Monday, October 27, 2008

New 'Oscars' for corporate films announced. P.C.Ramakrishna to get lifetime achievement.

In news sure to please movie buffs, the often ignored world of corporate films has been given a boost by the establishment of a 'Corporate Oscar Awards', that will reward creative and technical achievements in the field. “These films are true works of art, and deserve to be celebrated. How many other art forms can make thirty minutes seem like three years? Can mainstream cinema make you feel like your brain is being slowly, interminably shut down, one neuron at a time? Can videogames make random corporate guys feel like movie stars, albeit for a few minutes? Er . . I should stop now.”, said a sheepish looking Pravin Srinivasan, a noted corporate film critic.

Apart from the expected categories, Corporate Oscars will be awarded to some interesting ones such as 'Best use of Richard Clayderman or Yanni music”. “Best Gratuitous Power Point Special Effect”, and “Best Blurry JPEG Logo in a Film or Presentation”.

World-famous corporate film doyen, voice-over legend P.C.Ramakrishna will receive the first lifetime achievement award. “He is the Mel Blanc of corporate films. The Jose Carreras of Powerpoint. The Vader of voice-overs.”, gushed J.S.Iyer, the chairman of the jury. “This award is a recognition of PCR's stupendous achievement of making thousands of different corporate films sound exactly the same!”


In related news, an unnamed source is said to have spotted PCR on the ECR giving CPR to his VCR. More details on CNN.


Editor's note : This is the first post in a small experiment that is actually a sort of return to bosey's roots, if you will. Smaller, 'snippet' form pieces that will free me up to explore a far wider range of topics, more trivial stuff, 'local' news and things like that. Of late, every post has been a 'major headliner', and I'd like to return to some of the lighter, byte sized pieces as well. I will also continue to post longer articles when I feel like the idea is worthwhile. In the meanwhile, I hope you enjoy these snippets (and, as always, feel free to comment, suggest, criticize). Oh - and these will not feature S.U.Saravanakumar. He can only make time for the biggies.

9 comments:

Navaneethan Santhanam said...

I think I like the longer format more, primarily, I think, because of S.U. Saravanakumar. But, this is an interesting experiment, and I hope it goes well!

Anand Ramachandran's Evil Twin said...

Actually, it isn't really an experiment so much as a revisiting of an older form. Visiting the archives (sidebar links to them) may give newer readers an idea of what I'm talking about.

Anonymous said...

Bwahahahaha!

... said...

make them yellow

Anonymous said...

All formats are welcome as long as you post more often! Also I need to point out that Kenny G seems to beat both Richard Clayderman and Yanni put together when it comes to corporate film BG music - he surely deserves a mention if not a separate article...

The Mudd said...

"unnamed source is said to have spotted PCR on the ECR giving CPR to his VCR" : killer ! .. awesome post.. ive always wondered how he makes every one of those ads sound exactly the same..N btw are there awards for commercial wildlife photography films?? :)

Anonymous said...

Ah, a return to Bosey's roots. By the way, the link to the Bosey.com archives leads to a search site for fetish porn, because "This domain name expired on 2008-09-19"

While I don't want to seem unmanly by asking you to fix this, I'd ask you to take a look at this possible error in linking.

Anand Ramachandran said...

zeb - hahaha, with red headings! Gotta love the old layout!

manish - nope. saravanakumar has all those awards wrapped-up permanently!

arjun - yeah i know. thanks. being fixed even as i type this.

everyone else - thanks for reading Son of Bosey.

Corporate Films India said...

Wow !! winning an Oscar was always my dream :D