its so taxing.. feels like i have been living a black money of a life for so long that now it decides to take me out with 300% fine. Since the days when i played football, i never felt my legs pain so bad when i go to sleep. Since the days when i forgot to do my school work, i have never been so scared of taking a 2 and half hrs long journey to my office..
Life's come a 3/4 circle .. i used to travel this much for my college, but never to work.. But you can't bunk work when you feel so. Well i just hope i get used to it soon. because i know people who travel more then i do for a wages lot less then mine. I know there are people who leave earlier then me and arrive late.. there are people with days working.. there are people who work in the heat all day where i dread travelling for 45 mins. Problem is i can't thank GOD for exposing me to more faces of life then i have seen before.. i can't thank him enough for making me luckier then 80-% people in India.. i can't prey him for letting me live the life i am.. coz I am an atheist. That's where we guys face problem when we get lucky that we don't get anyone to thank with. But yeah .. we don't blame anyone when we loose our mobiles or break two mobiles in one week..
I have been fighting with my wife with this GOD stuff for past few weeks, she promised to visit Siddhivinayak if i get my current job (with specs described above). I told her go alone, i can't go where i don't believe in.. the next day my mobile broke. Damn GOD trying to extract revenge on me for deriding his follower. Are all GODS such egotistical, self centered, self protecting .. reminds me of Lalit Modi often.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
3 Idiots and the Art of fooling the intellectuals
Lets be honest, for me 3 Idiots is "Ham aapke hain kown" for young, educated(especially engineers) ambitious men. Its wrapped up differently, it served in a different plate but in the end it is always a feel good romantic comedy.
With this film i have developed a kind of personal vendetta against Aamir Khan and Raju Hiraani. Aamir khan who preaches don't-run-after-success-but-run-after-excellence, spent 15 or something days travelling in disguise all over India and letting Newpapers and magazines and tv channels documents the trip marketed the film to death as if he has to create gimmicks rather then banking on films excelence to attract audience. Raju Hirani just can't get over his Munnabhai things and his characters and situations are repeated scene after scene in different appearances/situations. They just wear a different wig or a different accent but essentailly the core remains same just look at it closely. The heroine as always is third fiddle with heros sidekicks coming second.
Yeah the film has its message but it is at best a caricature of realities in India. Maybe we need hyperbole everywhere to understand things, maybe understatement is not an Indian thing. Try giving the same answers that that Joshi guy gave in his interview and i gurantee you will fail 10 out 10 chance.I for not once in my entrie 35 years of life or maybe add 55 of my dads too, did i found a single guy like Aamirs character who never used his knowledge to his personal gains. Yeah we had had intelligent, patent scoring guys but they were always VP in some companies or at best President of our country at old age (With all due respect to Dr. Kalam., i am his greatest admirer, but he never taught in a school anytime.). And after all these socialist messages.. umm no i thing there wasn't any socialist message anyway but all that be true to yourself and your passions messages, the best things that the film is remembered for being the highest grossing movie ever (well they discounted inflation, but that another story). It show that 3.5 million house does matter in the end :-).
The worst thing i am jealous about the movie is that Raju and company won all awards(i have lost count) for third consecitive time for giving us a another sweet tasting goody goody movie. Hell when will Dev D or Kameene get their dues.. Or maybe we Indians just like living in a dream world complete with a song and dance sequences..
Play On...
With this film i have developed a kind of personal vendetta against Aamir Khan and Raju Hiraani. Aamir khan who preaches don't-run-after-success-but-run-after-excellence, spent 15 or something days travelling in disguise all over India and letting Newpapers and magazines and tv channels documents the trip marketed the film to death as if he has to create gimmicks rather then banking on films excelence to attract audience. Raju Hirani just can't get over his Munnabhai things and his characters and situations are repeated scene after scene in different appearances/situations. They just wear a different wig or a different accent but essentailly the core remains same just look at it closely. The heroine as always is third fiddle with heros sidekicks coming second.
Yeah the film has its message but it is at best a caricature of realities in India. Maybe we need hyperbole everywhere to understand things, maybe understatement is not an Indian thing. Try giving the same answers that that Joshi guy gave in his interview and i gurantee you will fail 10 out 10 chance.I for not once in my entrie 35 years of life or maybe add 55 of my dads too, did i found a single guy like Aamirs character who never used his knowledge to his personal gains. Yeah we had had intelligent, patent scoring guys but they were always VP in some companies or at best President of our country at old age (With all due respect to Dr. Kalam., i am his greatest admirer, but he never taught in a school anytime.). And after all these socialist messages.. umm no i thing there wasn't any socialist message anyway but all that be true to yourself and your passions messages, the best things that the film is remembered for being the highest grossing movie ever (well they discounted inflation, but that another story). It show that 3.5 million house does matter in the end :-).
The worst thing i am jealous about the movie is that Raju and company won all awards(i have lost count) for third consecitive time for giving us a another sweet tasting goody goody movie. Hell when will Dev D or Kameene get their dues.. Or maybe we Indians just like living in a dream world complete with a song and dance sequences..
Play On...
Friday, February 12, 2010
The trouble with separation
is that it is never painless, and it leaves scars.Trouble with planning is that it is useless as the world is to complex to comprehend.
And I planned a smooth separation. Well anyway i will leave this story to that and come back to it sometime later but it has again been amongst those big mess i have made in my life.
My younger brother Vivek is getting married and lets talk about unions and matrimony. The house is just planning the wedding as the most awaited event for a long time. Dada talking about barats and bands, vishal's talking about his dress for barat, meenu's talking about his saariees, gauri is talking about her chachi, Vivek is dead and buried with stress of having his new house painted (umm no he talks about an interior designer who charges 4 lacs for doing his house ). I don't know what to talk about.. but guess it would be as lovely as Vishal's marriage.
Second test starting in Kolkotta on Sunday and i have that sickening feeling that SA will hold on to its lead. Our bowling is simply not good enough. Somebody go and hit Harbhajan on his head hoping to remind him of his hattrick here in that historic test. Only thing to smile about is that Laxman is back.
My Name is Khaan finally release and i think on this issue is I support SRK though i am not a big fan of him. Kuch Kuch Hota was my date movie and I hate Shahrukh and Karan for it as as 10 years heace i know how good wife, a girlfriend could turn out to be :). Me and Meenu still fight over our mistake :). I would have made a perfect life long bachelor I am sure. Back to SRK, he has every right as an Indian of free speech and free thought. Traitors are those who break public properties and divide India amongst Indians. Traitors are those who beat poor man on street to show their Courage.
And I planned a smooth separation. Well anyway i will leave this story to that and come back to it sometime later but it has again been amongst those big mess i have made in my life.
My younger brother Vivek is getting married and lets talk about unions and matrimony. The house is just planning the wedding as the most awaited event for a long time. Dada talking about barats and bands, vishal's talking about his dress for barat, meenu's talking about his saariees, gauri is talking about her chachi, Vivek is dead and buried with stress of having his new house painted (umm no he talks about an interior designer who charges 4 lacs for doing his house ). I don't know what to talk about.. but guess it would be as lovely as Vishal's marriage.
Second test starting in Kolkotta on Sunday and i have that sickening feeling that SA will hold on to its lead. Our bowling is simply not good enough. Somebody go and hit Harbhajan on his head hoping to remind him of his hattrick here in that historic test. Only thing to smile about is that Laxman is back.
My Name is Khaan finally release and i think on this issue is I support SRK though i am not a big fan of him. Kuch Kuch Hota was my date movie and I hate Shahrukh and Karan for it as as 10 years heace i know how good wife, a girlfriend could turn out to be :). Me and Meenu still fight over our mistake :). I would have made a perfect life long bachelor I am sure. Back to SRK, he has every right as an Indian of free speech and free thought. Traitors are those who break public properties and divide India amongst Indians. Traitors are those who beat poor man on street to show their Courage.
Friday, January 22, 2010
A nice little poem sent by Mandar
Jaan buj kar..
Thak gaya hoon sahi hokar, ab thodasa galat hona hain
Jaan bujh kar koi bhool karke muje uska mazaa lena hain
Jvar ke darr se ab tak main, barsaat se bachta aaya
Lekin saawan me jhumne ka anand kabhi na paaya
Chori karna hai buri baat.. hamesha ye maine maana
Lekin ped se aam churakar ek baar hai mujko khaana
Madira ke savan se hai hoti.. swaastha ko kaafi haani
Lekin jaam me dubkar, kehni hai muje bhi ek kahaani
Badhti hui umar ne mujse, mera bachpana cheena hai
Ab wapas kuch der mujhe phir, shararti banke jeena hai
Thak gaya hoon sahi hokar, ab thodasa galat hona hain
Jaan bujh kar koi bhool karke muje uska mazaa lena hain
Jvar ke darr se ab tak main, barsaat se bachta aaya
Lekin saawan me jhumne ka anand kabhi na paaya
Chori karna hai buri baat.. hamesha ye maine maana
Lekin ped se aam churakar ek baar hai mujko khaana
Madira ke savan se hai hoti.. swaastha ko kaafi haani
Lekin jaam me dubkar, kehni hai muje bhi ek kahaani
Badhti hui umar ne mujse, mera bachpana cheena hai
Ab wapas kuch der mujhe phir, shararti banke jeena hai
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