Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Moin Akhtar - Underrated or Overrated?
Since where on Pakistani cultural icons, here’s a link I made. Vital Signs to Strings. Strings is made up of Faisal Kapadia and Bilal Maqsood. Bilal Maqsood’s father is Anwar Maqsood. Anwar Maqsood is host of the legendary show Loose Talk with Moin Akhter and occasionally Javed Jaffrey. Actually, I made it up retrospectively but who cares right?
So on to my main point, I think its very very hard to overrate Moin Akhtar. The man has proven himself to be consistently great over a long period of time. Given his lack of exposure abroad compared to say Nusrat, I started to think, is comedy culturally confined? Now, I think the Daily Show is great but then I’m also pretty plugged into American Culture so that doesn’t really count. At the same time, I’m guessing that a lot of evangelical christians don’t find it funny at all.
Thankfully, my rambling has to come to an end as I have to go to class. Enjoy the clip and there’s actually a huge archive on youtube if you want more.
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