As the movie starts off with very high expectations, I am all bucked up to see it, after paying a higher (than average) cost for the ticket. As the movie goes on, and hits the highest with the nerd’s speech in “Hindi” sequence, where I laughed my lungs out with tears in my eyes with stomach crunches and paining cheek muscles, I began to expect higher and higher from the movie. I was no longer resting my back in the cushioned seat, and curiously looked at the screen, anxious to know what next would happen. Every part of it was funny and a pun on the current education system though I was completely in disagreement with the few parts of the movie, which if edited would have taken the movie to a different height.
So, coming to the low points of the movie, the whole “Labor Scene” sequence was presented stupidly. Second, some places, Kareena and Aamir looked older. I wish young newcomers could have been taken, but may be the risk factor would have been a problem for the movie makers. And, finally, leaking out the exam paper and the friend not even having a glance at it was indigestible. Now c’mon, anyone would at least have look at the questions, though, might continue to prepare for the complete targeted syllabus, as, before getting the leaked questions. At least I did that, in my so called “Engineering Life”, just like a larger population of other students.
But, I would let that go, and forgive the story of the movie, and completely give all the credit to the humor put into it, which completely justified the movie, in itself, to be, a big release and a hit. I would rate “4 STAR”. I might be a bit harsh in bringing out the flaws in the movie which everyone would have loved, but I wanted it to be a “5 Star”, which it could have, if not for those parts. Well I just wish that the level of comedy in other Bollywood movies will also be made competent enough in the coming year.
With that note, I would say - watch the movie. It’s worth one watch!
Merry Christmas!!!
Friday, December 25, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
2 -states
Not being able to take out time from my regular schedule, has opened yet another option for me to stay late in the nights till 3 so that I can complete a book, and if the book is interesting, how can I resist myself?
After seeing a movie followed by dinner on a Sunday evening, I was in my usual trauma, of having to go to office the next day. But who knew that I will have an amazing 2 day read about an almost masala-movie-cum-novel – “2 States”. I had decided earlier that, I would sleep by 11:30, so that getting up @ 6:30 will not be as painful as it had recently become, because of my Late-to-bed habit. As I read, continued to flip the pages lying on my bed, rarely getting my eyes off the book, at a point of time, my eyes felt heavy. I wondered if I was fine. Then I looked at my mobile to a shock! It was 3:00 in the morning. I just had three and a half hours to sleep. Oh shit! I said to my self – “Sleep, otherwise you will have a tough Monday to fight” and as I turned over to face the wall on my right, thoughts of, what would happen next, pondered in my mind. Will Krish and Ananya, the lead characters of the story, be able to convince their parents who had just arrived IIM-A for attending the convocation ceremony of their children respectively. Next, I was overpowered by the temptation to know more about what “will happen”. And I opened the book. Somehow, I could no longer keep my eyes open after half an hour, as it had started hurting me.
Yesterday after I came back from office around 9, I was stuck with the book again. I had completely forgotten that, I had not had anything for dinner. At around 11, realizing I had skipped my dinner, I went to the kitchen. I thought for a while I stood there in a strange stupefaction, I came back to my bed again and let my laziness win over the hunger. I will put it better – “Let my curiousity win over laziness”. But I wondered if I was really hungry!
Story continued. I kept moving from one page to another, one chapter to another. As Krish, one of the protagonist of the story trying his level best to convince his girlfriend’s South Indian parents, bearing the brunt of their behavior and followed by Ananya, the girlfriend, looking up to getting her would-be-mother-in-law convinced to accept her to prove herself the perfect “bahu”.
I shed a drop of tear as Krish had stopped having his food and fell ill due to a small misunderstanding with Ananya, though not very sure, if tear drop was because I was hungry and I could feel his pain. I would go with the second option. :)
The story continued with the dark colored shades of cultures from respective states merged to end into a beautiful color of happily-married-ever-after ending.
Oh, how much I love happy endings... :)
After seeing a movie followed by dinner on a Sunday evening, I was in my usual trauma, of having to go to office the next day. But who knew that I will have an amazing 2 day read about an almost masala-movie-cum-novel – “2 States”. I had decided earlier that, I would sleep by 11:30, so that getting up @ 6:30 will not be as painful as it had recently become, because of my Late-to-bed habit. As I read, continued to flip the pages lying on my bed, rarely getting my eyes off the book, at a point of time, my eyes felt heavy. I wondered if I was fine. Then I looked at my mobile to a shock! It was 3:00 in the morning. I just had three and a half hours to sleep. Oh shit! I said to my self – “Sleep, otherwise you will have a tough Monday to fight” and as I turned over to face the wall on my right, thoughts of, what would happen next, pondered in my mind. Will Krish and Ananya, the lead characters of the story, be able to convince their parents who had just arrived IIM-A for attending the convocation ceremony of their children respectively. Next, I was overpowered by the temptation to know more about what “will happen”. And I opened the book. Somehow, I could no longer keep my eyes open after half an hour, as it had started hurting me.
Yesterday after I came back from office around 9, I was stuck with the book again. I had completely forgotten that, I had not had anything for dinner. At around 11, realizing I had skipped my dinner, I went to the kitchen. I thought for a while I stood there in a strange stupefaction, I came back to my bed again and let my laziness win over the hunger. I will put it better – “Let my curiousity win over laziness”. But I wondered if I was really hungry!
Story continued. I kept moving from one page to another, one chapter to another. As Krish, one of the protagonist of the story trying his level best to convince his girlfriend’s South Indian parents, bearing the brunt of their behavior and followed by Ananya, the girlfriend, looking up to getting her would-be-mother-in-law convinced to accept her to prove herself the perfect “bahu”.
I shed a drop of tear as Krish had stopped having his food and fell ill due to a small misunderstanding with Ananya, though not very sure, if tear drop was because I was hungry and I could feel his pain. I would go with the second option. :)
The story continued with the dark colored shades of cultures from respective states merged to end into a beautiful color of happily-married-ever-after ending.
Oh, how much I love happy endings... :)
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Why -
1. do i wish to have something and can never have it?
2. do i not have the power to revert time back?
3. do i think too much about what is "past"?
4. do i not take my decisions seriously?
5. do i sometimes think "if this would not have happened"?
6. do i sometimes take things too much to heart?
7. do i make mistakes and repent over the spilt milk?
8. do i smile when i repeat my mistakes?
9. do i yell at small things and keep mum for bigger things, when actually required to be yelled?
10. do i always expect for everything to fall in place?
11. do i sometimes like rains, even though i don't like it other times?
1. do i wish to have something and can never have it?
2. do i not have the power to revert time back?
3. do i think too much about what is "past"?
4. do i not take my decisions seriously?
5. do i sometimes think "if this would not have happened"?
6. do i sometimes take things too much to heart?
7. do i make mistakes and repent over the spilt milk?
8. do i smile when i repeat my mistakes?
9. do i yell at small things and keep mum for bigger things, when actually required to be yelled?
10. do i always expect for everything to fall in place?
11. do i sometimes like rains, even though i don't like it other times?
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