A friend of mine sent me a mail today with a link to a blog, it was Arindam Chaudhuri’s blog about the movie “Slumdog Millionaire” and the blog label said “Don’t see “Slumdog Millionaire” It sucks!”, when I read the blog I could not believe that a person, an icon like him is so immature and backward.
Here is the link to his blog and after that is the response I posted him as a comment to his blog. Enjoy the masala.
For you I have just one suggestion that "Tell people what you feel/think, don’t make a verdict for others based on your beliefs".
You are a celebrity and people look up to you, you have followers and some of them follow you blindly, so be a sensible and responsible celebrity.
According to Me,
# It’s just a movie, so just chill and don’t get overexcited, didn’t you read in the start of the movie that everything is a fiction !!!
# If this movie alone hurts you that much then where were you when Indian directors made such movies which does not portray India at all. I can’t believe that you are ok with the things shown in “Page 3” and “Fashion” but not Slumdog, don’t have such double standards. Where were you when people made "Love Story 2050" and "Chandni Chowk to China" .... "Slumdog millionaire" at least pays back what we spent.
# You said that this movie is hyped pointlessly, aren’t you also doing the same thing, hyping it unnecessarily.
# And mind you that “slums, open-air lavatories, riots, underworld, prostitution, brothels, child labour, begging, blinding and maiming of kids to make them into ‘better beggars’, petty peddlers, traffic jams” are ALL INDIAN REALITY, come out of your Disneyland and open your eyes to see the real India because I don’t think that you have seen it yet.
# Please don’t create it a national issue, you have all time to say things about Slumdog but I never heard a single word from you on 26/11. People like you just criticize anything to keep them in the limelight but will never make any effort to make this country a better place.
I hope Arindam Chaudhuri is sensible enough to learn from here and realize what he must write from next time.
Yesterday night me, my wife and few friends went to watch "Raaz - The mystery continues" and I went with no huge hopes that movie would be a great because of the reviews and the kind of build up all the movies are getting these days and then turn out to be a waste of money. We went to "Urvashi" theatre and we bought 100/- ticket and sat with the auto driver class crowd, every one was whistling even for the sari ad he he he .... It was great enjoyment after a long time ...... I don’t know why the crowd was so happy, what I felt that 75% of the guys came to see the movie just because of this advertisement.
:-) Yes trust me, I think all the auto driver crowd was waiting for this Raaz to open in the entire movie but they went home with down hopes.
Ok lets talk about the movie, Raaz 2 is that kind of movie which is meant to watch in the theatre only, its the movie which needs your full attention throughout because it has all those abrupt emergences and sound score which will make you fly off your seats, I actually enjoyed the movie in 100/- rupees, for that much money it was worth.
The movie is not so unique but it has somehow has some freshness of its own, the plot is as simple as in any other Indian horror motion picture, someone dies and now he/she is taking vengeance. The part where Emraan Hasmi could draw future is picked up from US TV series “Heroes” in which a character "Isaac Mendes" has a power to draw future. It has a minor theme picked up from Ring 1 and a great scene from Ring 2 with the bulls. Taken as a whole movie is regular and can be watched for 100 bucks but must be watched only in theater or else many scenes will not serve the intention.
The climax is not so good otherwise it could have been a wonderful movie to watch as a whole but I am sure you would enjoy the first half and 1st half of the second half too but the end made it slight not good enough, the paramount thing for the guys is that Kangana Ranaut has not wore anything more then short tops and bum shorts and also this is I think the first movie where Emraan Hashmi did not die and did not kiss the heroine, I m an enormous fan of Emraan Hashmi so I liked him a lot in the movie. The new hero "Adhyayan Suman" son of Shekhar Suman did not look bad but he could be hero in just a B grade movies or movies like this.
You can weigh this movie against "Bhoot", there are few unexpected and sudden appearances and each time anything falls it falls on a DRUM, whenever a thing falls it makes a massive sound :-) If you have some time to kill and you like horror movies you can catch it up in the nearest theater.
I DO NOT agree with Mr. Masand's verdict that its "Waste of Time" because I dint feel it was.
From childhood you must be listening to your parents that you should have faith in god, its a good habit but sincerely speaking I don’t understand it. I mean what is the reason behind it ?? If I pray or not what distinction will it create, I know I must have made many people angry by now but hey that’s a new record that I made people angry within the 3rd line of my Blog.
No seriously, I don’t know why people compel others to do it, I have learned one thing in life that "You must do whatever you want but don’t impose that on others BECAUSE you think its GOOD" Let me ask you "What is the explanation of GOOD or BAD"
GOOD: - Things which you can do, things which you want to do, things which you are allowed to do.
BAD :- Things which you cannot do, things which you don’t want to do, things which you are not allowed to do.
Am I not correct !!! How can you say that intake of Liquor is a terrible habit when entire world except half of India consumes, just because few of us go out of limit does not mean everyone in this world is bad. Only because some of us cannot drink it, some of us don’t want to drink it and some of us are not allowed to drink it, so all those people made a verdict that it’s BAD. C'mon man it could be food for many, just because you can’t do it does not mean it’s immoral.
Oh, I almost diverted to some other topic, so what I was trying to tell is that, I understand why people ask us to have trust in GOD because you get mental harmony but I have never experienced that, I cannot give explanation why for the reason that I don’t know !! Someone get mental peace that doe not mean I also might get it, I might get it at the age of 60, who knows ?? When I want it I will look for it, Simple.
They also say that if you wear slipper in front of god OR if you will say bad things to god OR if you do any un-ethical work "GOD will punish you" !!!!! HOW ???? If God really punishes then why Kasab is still breathing !!! Why all politicians have uppermost class of comfort, I never saw anyone going through any punishment. Punishment is only intended for people like us,
# We get punished by our politicians
# We get punished by Terrorists
# We get punished by our company
# We get punished by our police
# And some of us get punished by our Wives too, Not Mine :-)
And then they say "We only must have done something wrong to get this penalty from GOD !!!!”WAKE UP, YOU ARE NOT 4 yr old anymore.
I am sorry if I have hurt your sentiments directly or indirectly but I had to write it because I had an hour to kill :-)
Yes Boost is the secret of all the energies identified to mankind, we all require boost up to do well, pay and appreciation gives us boost to thrive and do well in our job, all achieved triumph gives us boost to keep aiming for more of it. All of us want boost [Not the drink:-)] every day to stay distressed but it was very heartbreaking to know that people around me are no longer very cheerful. Almost all my friends are suffering from NTFA syndrome.
NTFA Syndrome
NTFA stands for “No Time for Anything” illness, under this sickness a person working in IT industry does not have adequate time to do anything what they want to do in his/her everyday life but that’s what they think.
Me and my wife also work for an IT company and we have all the time for every solitary thing in life, we play games, we cook, we go out even on weekdays, we watch movies on weekdays, in short we have all kinds of fun the entire week and that makes our life very very very unbelievable for us but I think many of us do not know what to do and yes there is a large mass which does not desire to do anything. So this brings us to the categories of NTFA.
NTFA Categories
1. NIWTDIL (No Idea What to Do in Life)
It is a very fundamental level of this disorder, under this stage an IT employee does not know what to do to keep him boosted for next day, he/she does not know what they are passionate about, their life can become happy if they get the right direction OR bad if they disagree with the advice.
2. GMMW (Give Me More Work)
This particular kind of symptom is the most hazardous one. These kinds of people persuade their managers to give them as much as work as possible by showing them that they are bond in the office. They then sob that they don’t have time to do anything else in life.
3. LSB (Lazy Spoiled Brats)
This class is fundamentally lost in their own world, they don’t want to do anything huge in life, they just want to sleep, eat and sleep back, they are least interested in doing any kind of work, they also have same grievance that they don’t get time to do things, reality is that they want to do things in life but they don’t do because of their routine of laziness.
All these stages are curable they just need to be given a slight boost which has to come within you. You are alone in this world, if you have to get motivated then it’s you who will have to give yourself a drive, let’s talk about some therapies to this sickness.
Cures:-
1. Trim down the Sleep – I know and understand that sleeping is very vital and a person must sleep. But just do it for 8 hrs, I am asking to reduce your sleep to those who sleep their weekends out!!!
2. Substitute watching TV to something healthier – Everyone loves watching television, I also love it but in very controlled manner, just think about it for a minute, why do you watch TV?? A very widespread reply would be to lighten up or to kill time, firstly, if you are relaxingby watching TV then why do you say that you don’t find the time to relax :-), secondly if you are killing time that means you have to exploit this time to get quality time for you, lets see what can be done.
But if you are a movie freak then that is totally different because then watching a movie is something which you like doing, it’s just not merely killing time.
3. Do something you are passionate about – This is the thing I was talking about, do something which you always liked, let it be cooking, listening to the music, sketching or even writing stories.
If you start doing something which you are passionate about you would rather get pleasure from that concise moment and your day will become dazzling all of a sudden, ask yourself, have you ever gone to bed pleased after watching TV?? There is nothing pleasing about watching television unlesss it was a great 20-20 cricket match but that again is as similar as to watch a movie.
4. Sleep Early – Sleep early so that you catch about an appropriate sleep of 8 hrs, so that you start brand new for the following day.
5.Make your weekend cheerful– I m sorry for the next statement, I personally hate people who sleep out their whole weekend!! Why?? It’s ok if you had lots of work in the weekdays and now you are catching up that sleep which you missed lately but what about those who had their share of 8 hrs EVEY SINGLE DAY and still sleeping for the entire weekend, these are those who we identified as “LSB”.
You can make your weekend cheerful by some very straightforward things which might never have thought of, you can go out to watch some stage plays, a walk in a garden, visit to a friend’s place, join some hobby classes, basic idea is do something different in everyday life. One important cheat code to this is, if you finish your some of the work on weekdays (Like paying bills) by doing a little more the you will save yourself atleast a half a day extra on weekend.
6. Keep things simple – Many people understand a lot wrong by the word “Weekend”, weekend for some (including me some years before) means 2 days where you will spend lots of cash which will give you delight, I am sorry to say its not that way, you can get pleasure from very basic things, we just don’t give it a try, we just know that eating out and watching movies in the theatre is magnificent and we do that but is it wonderful??? You cannot buy happiness by spending foolishly.
There is a very good song which I like a lot, it’s called Ka-Ching, sung by Shania Twain, and I would like to present its starting lines to you
“We live in a greedy little world--
That teaches every little boy and girl
To earn as much as they can possibly--
Then turn around and
Spend it foolishly
We’ve created us a credit card mess
We spend the money we don’t possess
Our religion is to go and blow it all
So it’s shopping every Sunday at the mall”
Don’t we do that? :-)
What do I DO:-
I consider my life is an incredible saga without being boastful, I don’t know why, it may be because I know what to do in life but most crucial thing is I care about my time, If I have time I can do everything, I do many things to keep me boosted, I write blog, I watch movies, I play guitar, I read comic books, I read newspaper, I listen to the music, I chat and laugh with my friends, I cook, I watch FRIENDS, I even organize a cricket betting, we just play it like a game, it gives me something to look forward to. These are the stuff I do approximately each day. The basic essence is, there always something else other then my work. One basic rule of life is if you keep doing only one thing again and again, you are bound to get bored. Here our work is that thing above which we do not try to think, the moment you will understand this, you will enter in the magical world of satisfied happiness.
You might be thinking where is the time to do all this!!! You have it mate, you just need to look for it little harder :-)
I know few people might have laugh on me after reading this and they would say that he is old and married so he does all this, but their laugh gives me BOOST to do better and Some saint said long back that BOOST is the secret of my energy :-)
My friend says that I complain a lot, Yes that’s right, there is a very darling pal of mine who always thinks that I always find fault in every single thing in this whole world and yesterday again he told me that I am a Complain Boy because I did not like the movie Ghajini, so I sat back and started thinking, when a person is telling me a thing again and again then there must be something wrong with me, so I started analyzing all those things that I remember for which he said that I always have grievance with,
1. My company's Bus Policies
My Complaints - # Why do you still want to charge an employee when he does not use the bus facility. # If I hold a valid bus pass and I am paying full amount towards the bus service still I cant get on to another bus other then my route, what if I have emergency? # If employee makes a fault it’s a blunder and he/she has to compensate towards it but when company makes an error, nothing!!
His judgment - Who cares, you just complain about everything, you have problem with everything.
My opinion -I think its ok with my buddy to pay 3000/- or 4000/- as a fine then to fight against the illogical policies and pay just 1000/- but it’s not ok with me because it’s my hard earned money and to get my money back if you have to complain then YOU MUST.
2. Pantry @ My office
My Complain - In summer when I reach office, I don’t find cold water to drink.
His judgment - Who cares, you just complain about everything, you have problem with everything.
My opinion - I think its ok with him to drink any water, he does not care, but I do, it depends on person to person what they need and if you don’t want it that does not mean someone who is asking for it is complaining.
3. People @ My workplace
My Complain -
# Why should I complete the left over work of my colleague every single time and that co-worker take pleasure in working less and going home before time # Why should I accept a smaller amount of hike in appraisal when I work almost equivalent to what 2 employee do.
His judgment – Who cares, you just complain about everything, you have problem with everything.
My opinion - I think he does not care how his supervisor rates him but I STRONGLY DO because I have not done my manager’s work free of charge; I do a high-quality work so that I can get a good climb in the salary. To battle for your privileges does not imply that you should not complain.
4. My first blog about 26/11 Mumbai attacks
My Complain - Why our Indian administration is not doing anything, why we don’t do anything, terrorists disgusts me.
His judgment – Who cares, you just complain about everything, you have problem with everything.
My opinion - I think its ok with him that so many people died and politicians aren't good for anything because he just knows that he did not die in that assault and none who died was known to him. But it’s intolerable to me because as Mr. Naseeruddin Shah said in the movie "A Wednesday" "No bastard will decide about my life or death by pushing a button". I am not complaining I just want to raise my voice so that it could reach to those bastards who can take measure so that my, your and everyone's life will become less vulnerable.
5. My Second Blog about my Shirdi Yatra
My Complain - Why I should suffer badly in traveling when I have paid sufficient amount what to be paid for a comfortable drive.
His judgment – You just complain about everything, You are a complain Boy.
My opinion - I think its ok with him if he pays 1000/- to travel in Volvo bus and gets to travel in an horrible, 3rd class, stinking bus, may be because he does not care about his money. In my blog I did not complain I just made everyone aware so that all of you should not go through what I suffered, I did complain because what happened with me was not right.
6. My 3rd Blog about the movie Ghajini
My Complain - Why movie theatre is charging twice only for this movie and after even paying that much why can’t director come up with some good movies.
His judgment – You just complain about everything, You are a complain Boy.
My opinion - I think its ok with him to pay 350/- rupees for a movie, I did complain because the movie was not worth that much, is it wrong to complain if you get cheated.
In the conclusion I just can say one thing, I complain for the reason that I care about things, I care about my money, I care about my nation and I care about my work, when I m sincere with my work or in shelling out whatever amount is essential then why cant I get back a genuine outcome or an honest service, because i complain things might become better for you my friend, don’t you throw your maid out when she starts under performing, do you go purchase new laptop when the old one stops functioning within a year. Will you not go to the police station to get your complaint registered if you will get robbed?
This blog is about us, we do that and we get that, Its not that someone just complaint, its one’s perspective, so next time before telling anyone that you criticize think about it because from his opinion he is making things better for you and me :-)
Yesterday my wife pressurized me too much to see a movie in the hall and alternatives were “Rab ne bana di Jodi” OR “Ghajini” and given that Ghajini was too much puffed up movie I gave it the first choice. We went for 10 pm – 1 am show in vision cinemas, Bangalore.
The movie is about a person who is suffering from amnesia or in more simple words short term memory loss, this person Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan) cannot memorize things which are 15 min old. In this illness the patient retains information of every single thing till the day he met with the accident and any new thing he can remember for only 15 minutes or whatever the time period director has determined for him/her. The best movie I saw on this subject matter was “51 first dates”.
I will not talk about the story here because that you can find anywhere on the net but I don’t know where to start about this movie because after I watched it I think I also have a short term memory loss and I don’t remember what happened in the movie. It starts with Aamir khan killing one mobster by doing his activities of reminding himself after every 15 minutes, now why did he killed that mobster and for what reasons please don’t ask me because the director also did not feel it was required, director just wanted Sanjay to stumble on few things which will keep the fairy-tale moving. And there are many more cases like this in the complete movie.
The story is about a man who wants to settle scores with a person named Ghajini who slaughtered his girlfriend and who himself is suffering from temporary memory failure, so to remind himself about everything he writes everything on notepad or tattoo his body so that it could jog his memory to settle the score with Ghajini.
The basic plot is flicked from the English movie “Momento” but when I saw the movie it’s not completely accurate, the movie is the mixture of 33% “Momento” + 33% “Songs” + 34% “Ghulam + Jab we met + any other bollywood movie”, so lets have a discussion about it one by one
1. Momento
The part where he reminds himself of what do after he fails to remember is taken from Momento. When I saw momento I thought it was a very complicated movie and I did not like it but when I saw Ghajini yesterday, I developed a soft corner for Momento and I like it a lot now.
2. Songs
Movie is packed with needless GOOD songs, all the songs are very good, they sound good as well as look good, photography of every single song is overwhelming; the song “Guzarish” has some stupefying sight capturing.
3. Rest 34% - Rich guy & poor girl, girl does not know that guy is rich and tale goes on and on. But Aamir Khan has looked very good in the new toned body and trust me he does not at all look bad like SRK in OSO. Aamir khan acted very very well in this movie and all his fighting scenes are incredible.
4. Heroines
Asin looked great and gorgeous and have also acted very well but on the other hand there is Jiah Khan in the movie so whenever there is some loop hole or a technicality missing in the story, like where Sanjay cant remember what to do next, how to find Ghajini or for Ghajini, How to find Sanjay, She is there for all such troubles, if she was not there I suppose Ghajini and Sanjay in no way would have met each other.
I personally did not like the movie and it may be because I
have already seen “Momento” which was much much much better than this movie, even if you have not seen “Momento” before tell me 1 good reason to go and watch this movie;
# Very very long movie, around 3 hrs, the part where both hero and heroine falls in love is stretched too much with lots of songs. Why can’t we have a movie like “A Wednesday” where there was no necessity of any song so director dint include any.
# It lacks the story, The title says "Ghajini", its the villain's character name, Now it wondered me a lot that a character in the movie who is performing the title role gets just 10 minutes in the whole 3 hr marathon movie, about 4 minutes when he kills Asin, 4 minutes when he gets killed by Sanjay (Aamir Khan) and 4 short appearances of 30 seconds each!!!!
# It has not 1 or 2 but many loose points, like in the end when Zia Khan takes Sanjay to Ghajini’s hideout his short term memory loss elongates from 15 minutes to half an hour and when director felt that at a place where Ghajini must overpower Sanjay for 5 minutes and here if he forgets it will be breathtaking to watch and he there comes the memory loss!!!!
# Every movie theater is charging more then double for single ticket of what usual price is and only for this movie, can Mr. Khan tell us why??? Or he wants to accumulate as much money as possible with the first set of audience only because he also knows movie is just puffed up. I paid 200/- for a single ticket in Vision cinemas, its 350/- in PVR and 250-280 in Inox, Why???? They charge this much for such movies and they say stop piracy, Mr. Khan tell me 1 good reason why I should not download and watch your movies after watching Mangal Pandey and now Ghajini in theatre.
I think you better rent and watch Momento, Ghajini is too much overvalued movie and I will not recommend you to watch it unless
# You are millionaire ever after recession and 300/- bucks are nothing for you.
# You have lots of leisure time.
# You have not seen “Momento”
# You are a blind hardcore fan of Aamir Khan, who watched Mangal Pandey also in the theater.
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