Thursday, July 02, 2009

NewYork!

My twitter status would have given some insight about how I found it watching the movie!
So.. if you are one of the kind like me who got appealed by the trailers and were waiting for the movie to hit the screens, I really pity you, cuz that's what I did to myself too! :P
Yes.. for me it definitely was a non-entertainer except for those clips that run around the NYSU campus and these people's friendship. Probably friendship and fun are like two things that fascinate me no-matter-what, not just me perhaps everybody and that could be one reason why I could park my a$$ for 3 hrs out there in the Banjara hills Cinemax.

So.. coming to the storyline, most of you who were waiting for it, just like how we did would have read enough amount of reviews in the web and the manual reviews as well from people around.
Let me still give my 2 cents over it.

John and Katrina seem to be the most loving couple. And there comes this Neil Mukesh's Omar character. A typical Hindi movie sorts where you cannot just find a 'single' hero-heroine characters, there 'has to' be a 3rd person giving company to one of the genders. No wonder all these northis are so much behind group dates :p
Few things take a strong stand in the mind.. like when these guys talk of what we refer to babes in India -'tota', When Omar meets Kat after years and looks at her kid and says 'oh his eyes resemble Sam' and Kats giving an immediate reply 'Is that so Omarr.. But I'm not married to Sam' that part puts us into a shock for a moment. Omar getting into the beer guzzling thingie ending up running to the loo and John following him only to come out carrying Omar, I was reminded of a lot of those notty things of my friendship over the years :)

They have tried their best to pull the movie towards the theme 'false victims of 9/11' that they have actually wanted to incorporate into, otherwise its all like a series of not-so-relevant bits and pieces of things happening one after the other.
Some of the scenes stay undisturbed in the screen for as long as 4-5 minutes, just to give a highly puking sensation in your abdomen, one example could be, what happens in the detention centre when John sits with that plate of food, 'trying' real hard to cry thereby bringing in sympathy, whereas the audience just start shouting 'ohhh phulleeeezzz enuf of it, next scene plz'!! hard luck dude, we are sorry.. looong way to go for you when it comes to acting!
The sooper cute thing that anyone do not want to miss in the whole movie was the kid character Danielle! The baby just makes us fall in love with him by the time the movie gets over. At least I just went on remembering some of those cuddly dialogues that he utters like 'so.. do you like pastaa' and all that :)
The FBI role done by Irrfan Khan is worth a shot. Some of the truly funny scenes gets you into the laughter mode! Kudos :)

So.. 'S' told me just before going that he got to read the review and it was wayy too below the expectations, still you can enjoy watching John and I would not take my eyes off Kats. The later though is very true and ultimately even I couldn't resist turning my eyes towards Kats, just get it straight guys ;) no pun intended :P :D The 1st time I liked Kats on the screens, dunno why, she reallyz damn.. soo sexxxyyyyyyyy :) ;)

This fella, Roshan, who was one of those false victims and who works with Kats had done quite a good job. It was touching when he goes behind that policeman who bodychecks Kats and kills him and finally kills himself too, so some Indian touch in NY!
The director/producer had saved a lot of money that must have gone to the Music Director, guess there were some 2 songs in the whole movie. But, ya.. One did made us hum the tune after you come out of the hall.

Overall belongs to the below average kind. Just to kill time over a weekend, you may try buying a CD on the roadsides and sit at home watching it with a good gang of friends around, you will have good time passing whacky comments on every scene of the movie ;)

Monday, June 29, 2009

Blessed!

a lazy Sunday afternoon..
a long to-do list...
cold weather...
a cup of coffee..
loved one besides..
some peacocks around..
an unseemly chat..
And... loadsa smiles!

With all this, one would love to stay ignorant of what's happening in the world outside! And that's when you feel Blessed!!!
I am one! :)

Friday, June 26, 2009

I need U!

I was in the bend,

Life was about to end..

There I was dying,

And I saw u coming! :)

U gave me your shoulders,

That .. wiped off my tears..

You love me with all you have!!

For my broken heart, that is the salve..


And then everything is fine,

With all the sun and stars shine!

In all the life’s rhythm..

It’s you I fathom!


Now I need you.. for the rest of my life...

Without you I walk on the sharp edge knife!

My heart bleed,

And Mind agreed…

You are my hopes!

You are my love!!

You are the God-sent!


I need U!


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P.S: I Suddenly felt Life's so beautiful.. that turned me a poet! This is my poetry venture, after long years!

Love Ya! :)

Monday, June 22, 2009

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish - Book review

this has been a long pending one to update.
I read this book around 4-5 months back when I saw it at a friend's place. Having no other thing to kill time, I just thought I would borrow it for a weekend and it might be a good time pass.

So for those who have got no clue about it, its completely about entrepreneurship, written by an IIM-A Alumni, Rashmi Bansal, about 25 IIM-A grads, how they started out on their entrepreneurship ventures and what all it took for them to make it big in their life, who had passed out of IIM-A since 1970s and the list goes on till what you call 'quite' some years back.

Let me point out the good things first.
  1. It certainly inspires you, no-matter-what unless you have no bias towards the author. At least I had the after effects of it :D
  2. The book would perfectly make a valuable read to those guys who grow with a criss-cross net around them, with all the IIM dreams and of cracking CAT etc etc. You get inspired like crazy and go behind your IIM dreams even more ;)
  3. You get a hang of what is entrepreneurship and how it mostly works inIndia. Each of the 25 grads have gone through lots, and ultimate things each one of the problem, very different.
  4. You definitely get to learn about all the jargon that co-exist in an IIM grads' life.
  5. The price of the book is only INR 125/- Perfectly affordable for a dull weekend.

Cons:
  1. Each one of them, I mean the 25 grads say 'money shouldn't be the motto' and ultimately all of them hit the same goal of making money. some way or the other.
  2. Too much of IIM stuff hyped up, and for a normal non-IIT-IIM reader, it turns out to be quite irritating after a certain point.
  3. Things get too monotonous after about half of the book is done reading, the same "don't expect money, do what you are passionate about, work with a smaller-larger firm for a while, before starting on your own". Common, what was different you trying to convey!? Nothing!?
  4. A definite amount of thought should have gone into shortlisting the 25 entrepreneurs who got a place in the book. Well I see some strategy on that here, which I don't understand, rather I don't want to understand ;) Some of the very well known guys from IIM-A are found to be missing, the one that hits my mind right away is Chetan Bhagat, is he not an entrepreneur!?
  5. Instead some people who are very less known, especially in India, like those guys from Mumbai-the software people, and the San Jose based fashion designer lady, I forgot their names. Does it contribute to the cost-cutting part!? :P
  6. And the entrepreneurship cell contacts that are mentioned at the end of the book to get in touch with, for all those who have their entrepreneurial dreams, does not work. I tried them and found absolutely no responses!
  7. Rest of the damage is done here
But after all, we should give everything its time and so is to Rashmi! Let her get the hang of writing books and not just journals. Lets wait ;)

Monday, June 15, 2009

My first 3D experience

it was worth a mention weekend for me after landing in hyd.
the very 1st time i've heard of 3D movies was when I was studying 3rd std, my cousins were taken for 'My dear kutti chathan'. They came back and told us they watched a movie with some goggles and all on, and that althrough the movie they could sense things as if they were happening so close, they felt everything so close and all that. Me and my other cousins went on wondering how could that be possible, but failed realizing.
Later in my 7-8th std physics we got to read about the Polaroids and then could crack that which was a rocket science for so long.
Anyways, now I'm out of school 8 long yrs back! And the weekend had a special friend's budday, so something to celebrate upon, you see! :) Anyway finally managed to watch 'Monsters n Aliens' at the Prasadz IMAX 3D hall. Thanks a ton to 'S'.. for making up my weekend!

The movie was awesome.. Great dialogue delivery by each of the characters.. especially the Monsters! I just loved them. Susan, B.O.B, Dr.Cockroach, the Missing link and the Insectosaurus. Their friendship sounded one of a kind. Its not just me like this, I realized, thanks to Susan.

Some parts of the movie that impressed me greatly
1. When Dr.Cockroach experiments on Susan to get her back to her old form, the apparatus bursts, putting us into a lot of laughter. Susan with that sad face says 'its ok Doctor. Please try tomorrow'.. only hoping that things will somehow get back to normal. Awesome!

2. The Gallaxhar's computer is set to destruct, Missing link says "its anyway nice meeting you Mr.Doctor". I have heard of this before in some American based stories, I still was stunned.

3. When the insectosaurus was dying, Missing link says "Do not close those eyes.. Do not.. dare .. close those eyes" n all of them cry for him! How sweet!

4. And Susan after getting to know about Derek's real character comes back weeping. When friends ask "so howz Derek", she says "Derek is a selfish jerk! why should I cry for him, expect anything out of him. It was me who saved California all alone, I'm so powerful. After all.. why. why should a meteor hit me to know what he really is!". I could relate so well to her emotions! The way she was regaining her confidence in no time is ultimate!!

5. When Gallaxhar takes away Susan, these 3 ppl rush to save her and the tricks that they play to cheat the clones in Gall's planet. Kudos. I simply loved their friendship!

And the much notable comedy pieces every now and then.. On the whole, movie was ultimate!

Also, the 3D experience was great! given that I haven't had one such so far.
But... Needless to say, the mall was crap. the toilets were stinking, crowd was wayy tooo local and wotnot! Hardly any couples or educated ppl! And most of the crowd were with their purdahs on, those that haven't seen the washing machines for yrs, n the ppl who haven't seen the bathrooms in yrs with some stinking perfumes on.. n the weather doing its part, the sweating souls.. yack!!!!