Another Weekend

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Another weekend with movies and virtual world. I wouldn't say it was a wonderful weekend but left me with some ideas. It seems to me the Indian movie industry has come to an stage were it can proudly say that they are coming with better story, better acting and better box office performance. Though the industry still remains slave of big names and big banner but atleast they have some good story though bad star cast sometime. In past 2 weeks have seen almost 8-10 movies and almost 4 movies had good story and acting though couple of them may not do the good business on box office. But still 4 out of 8 is a good number.

Movie industry has moved from the regular script of rich vs poor , horse riding Dacaoit's (Looter) theme movies to movies which actually have some content. I am not saying those movies were complete waste, instead I would say they were melodramatic and were perfect for that time period. Current movies in those time could have had created a lot of noise with no real outcome. Its like a marketing concept, never launch the product before the market demands nor launch it after the market is overloaded. Do it just on the time and you would be the king maker. Anyways, coming to the topic - We do not see the agony of a person who is not able to go to get the president award for his hard work because of lack of money and other responsibility. Instead, we see the richest of the lot, UK, US based rich people who drive expensive cars, and party hard in some posh restaurants. They never get problem in getting Visa, never have to bribe officials and never get monetary problems(if have, then usually it lies in billions of dollars , lakhs and crores are no more problem for them). Well planned loots happened with billions of dollars at stake which would make earlier loot based movie look more like a child play. Its fun seeing these moments, only reason I was grown in that era of movie which will look more like a shit or melodramatic sequence from today's perspective. Anyways, coming to Movies which I watched during the weekend.

Accident On Hill Road - I guess this movie was released long back but due to some reason I was avoiding it. This movie made me think how a bad star cast can spoil the mood for watchign movie and at the same time how a good story can hold you till the end in spite of having irritating character. This was a heroine centric movie with couple of out of context scenes but over all a good story and which will hold you till the end. This was another movie ( Mein, Meri Patni Aur Wo) which I saw till end in spite of unbearable flow but both for different reasons star cast was perfect for other but not for this. Or may be Celina Jaitly did played the role perfectly well which left me completely irritated with her acting. How far people can go for the sake of their own life and career is something which is unacceptable. And becoming inhuman and emotion less is something a complete NO NO. Bitch would be a compliment for the heroine after watching the story and shouldn't be taken in derogatory sense.

Chance Pe Dance - Another good movie, but was more like a cocktail of 'School of Rock', 'Persuit of Happyness'. Story goes on regular story line of current era - hero wins all and hero is the best type movie. No matter whatever hurdle comes he always wins, exception is something defined for hero. Slow heroine suddenly become 'Schumacher' to get the out of turn opportunity for Hero. Whatever, Shahid do know how to dance, and terrific dancing steps by him. There is nothing as such in the movie which you have never seen if you are a regular movie goer. But still acting and the flow will hold you till the end. Guess this would be doing good business on box office taking into account star slavery and total masala content.

Raat Gayi Baat Gayi - How can Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shorey and Neha Dhupia become so natural in acting? I am sure this movie will not be doing good business nor it will win any awards but still, its a good movie and should be watched by everyone who cares for natural acting and good story line.There is something about the trio (Rajat, Vinay and Neha) when they come together become natural and make the viewer feel like a real moment. Characters did the justice to the role and lived it well. This is story about a party and moves very fast maintaining the suspense. One more thing which I noted that Vinay's movies are usually low cost movie involving little of 'Movie Set' cost. Songs too are good. This is voted as best movie for this week by me.

Did see some old English movie in free time after watching these and yes, I do not do anything apart from watching movie.

I wanted to book tickets for my 2 week holiday planned in February but couldn't do that because of the unavailability of credit card with me and eventually that made me to apply for it today. Hope I will be able to make it before the cost of ticket become insanely high. I miss India now where the Bank agent were regularly giving irritating calls for new credit card and their scheme and where I had the credit card with me even before I had my regular debit card. I hate the companies who insist to have a credit card to book the tickets. :(

Movie Marathon

It was snowing whole day making it impossible to go out, nor would have had gone anyway. And hence whole day was dedicated to movies. And my note on them as below. This is just for my personal reference, so you can ignore this post .

Pyar Impossible - or Dekhna Impossible!!! How could you do this? Please for Hell's sake do something. Movie start with BS note, gets little better in middle and ends with BS. UC n PC combo was deadly and to top it Mandakini's child version, you gotta be kidding. Coincidence happens only in movies . India is developing fast, real fast. And Danu Danasur??? Was he there only to deliver loser's dialog. That all. But hey wait, did what I told made any sense? No? Really? Well then welcome to PI, it will be the same.

Dulha Mil Gaya - FK, I mean Fardeen Khan, you gave a real FK performance in the movie as usual. This movie is about a dog, hey I am talking about Bozo(key character). I guess I found this movie good because I watched this after Mission Impossible (PI).


Bolo Ramm - Not sure either my taste was getting worse or the movies were getting better but by the time I completed 'Bolo Ramm', I actually felt better that I saw something good today. Movie had a good story and the star cast though new, were perfect for this story. No big names, nothing, but this movie should be watched if option is given between PI and BR.

Marega Salaa - I am happy that I did not see this movie earlier though it was released a week back(or two). And also realized that Jimmy Shergil is most underrated actor though he has a huge potential. His movies are good and mostly have off-beat theme. If he will continue to take the movies like this, one day he will join the class of Nasruddin Shah, Anupam Kher and Om Puri (not talking about comedy kinda role) because his role always carries some weight. and have a good narrating voice. Its a suspense thriller so will not give any spoiler. But yes, all the members are equally important. You may like Kim's confidence and attitude, though it would look copied from some Hollywood actress.

That's all for today.

P.S. - I have a record better than this. So no need to get shocked over the number. And not to mention this is my views, you may like the movie which I disliked and dislike what I liked. You may think one more thing, that don't I leave any movie? Well in my capacity I try my best to watch as many as movie I can because "director itni mehnat karke movie banata hai, kaise usko niras kiya jaaye"

Movie and Property price

hehe, I wanted to come with something good but couldn't resist myself coming with this short post. Also, I usually do not like blog post with picture, but exception are there. and exception is as below.


I got this picture from my apartment maintenance team saying property prices might soar after its LAUNCH in movie 3 idiots. It took me some time(or can I say lot of time?) to identify what they were showing in the picture. hehe.. LAUNCH??? That's a good one. I do not know what will be the property price for IIM Bangalore now. :P

BTW one thing is sure they have downloaded the movie illegally and were seeing it on their computer and some over over-enthusiastic member posted it to the group. Wish someone from anti-piracy team go for a system check and screw them so that they never try to send any stupid posts like this. ;-)

Opportunity for film producer/directors now, you can churn out money even before the movie or songs are release. Just make a deal with such apartment owner to show their building. Who says ideas are over and no more opportunities are left for making money. =))

3 idiots

Forewarning:- By any chance if you haven't watched this movies then stop here itself. There might be some spoiler. But if you are a regular HINDI movie goer, I wouldn't call that as suspense anyways.

3 Idiots? That's just for the the name sake. Reality is something different. But why why why? Why this happens only in movies? Hero wins all as usual and hero is the best of lot. Now coming to few points about movie and loopholes:-

1) Ground work about the engineering could have been done at higher level. Movie forgot important fact that night before the exam is most sacred of all your semester night. If you do not study on this night, no one can save you from failing. In engineering terminology, the amount you devoted a night before the exam is directly proportional to the marks which you will obtain. With threshold differing from person to person, for some its 1 am for some its 5 am. A night before exam in hospital not studying, you can pass but certainly not top until you are in the exception list. More about exceptions will come in point three.
2) No one join engineering thinking about insane ideas like knowledge and learning. Students are immature and their minds are not corrupted with words like Value and Learning. Everyone join it for job and recognition of degree. Leave the terms like value addition, learning etc for MBA aspirants and PHD Scholars.
3) Those who are topper are mostly non-fun kinda people who have a bypass for rule number 1. Because they have devoted all day and night to studies and preparing notes and have read the theory so many times that they can even teach their children after 30 years without looking at book, . And these noble souls are the one whose notes, oops xerox is going through hands of 99% to-be engineer. No offense meant to toppers. In fact everyone will praise you highly entire life for your notes which made those 99% lot getting engineering degree. You were like saints who never thought about wordly desire and gave life for the greater cause - well being of mankind, a philanthropist I should say.
4) Dare to give counter reply to your professor, you can be sure of one thing between two - egoistic, insane and ahole prof/lecture is highly pissed off and will either complain about you to Dean or will make every attempt to screw you while checking your exam papers. However good you are but you won't be topping like Rancho.
5) Names? My goodness, dude how did you came till this far. Children though less known for cruelty but are nonetheless most brutal at emotional level, names like Ranchor Das Chanchad will be hot cake. :D Forget about Schooling for a while engineering will definitely carry some funny name(and may be butt of all jokes) for you rather than being Rancho like some hot dude.
6) Taking cuts at your director, leave lecturer or even professor, but director?? and director needs reason to rusticate you out of college? And pressurize others to stand against you? Dude - day one, one Disco (Disciplinary Committee) And Day two, you will get lucky and OUT!!! Immediately Out of Hostel minimum and suspended from college. College prof takes pleasure in doing such things, one such example in my knowledge, merely for playing Holi(A festival) with no college property loss or physical or mental abuse to prof ,18 noble souls where rusticated from the hostel and suspended from the college for week along with fine. But again these are the things which makes the college life exciting and adventurous. Definitely after coming out not when in college and while passing through such mental trauma.
7) Committing suicide? That too for studies or year back? Cm'on I have seen people partying hard when they had year back and over it 17/18 arrears (fail grade) out of 19 subjects in year. No one commit suicide. Everyone is damn happy. But yeah after coming out engineers are the one who run through identity crisis and may think about suicide all the time. No one in sane mind would give so much importance to studies when in engineering college. Or may be people are camouflaging their suicide by reasons like not able to learn google wave.
8) Real time project? Which world are you leaving in? Are you sure you was talking about Indian engineering? No one works on new idea, they are left for masters degree holder or doctoral candidates. I have seen people taking fake report and fake presentation to get the final degree.
9) Well its not the case that engineering degree from low end college like my college was/is only like this. Even IIT's are like this. Please do not defend on the basis of ranking if it was comparable to IIT's or not . It would still be BS for me.
10) Aha forgot the most important thing, Doing such stunt in ragging? haha, one thing you can be sure of right away - you are not studying in this college for sure.
11) Director complained about the student's performance to his/her parent and talk harshly saying their ward will not get the degree because of poor performance and next day guy found dead as he committed suicide and still police is not arresting the director?Where is media? This is totally bad, you should show some reality in movie.
12) Beautiful girls in engineering college are like rare engineering concepts which will stick to your brain cells when professor is giving lecture, I mean near to nil(for god sake, do I need to tell it again and again). And they going for Chanchad? As in Ranchor Das Chanchad? That's complete insanity and height of fantasy. Girls do go after rich kids but atl east not Chanchad, or probably I am ill-informed. Hey, no offense meant to reader who is unfortunately Chanchad.or have best friend as Chanchad. Anyway, Some great writer had said, "What In Name" but unfortunately he added his signature as Shakespeare so that no one else can own it. hehe

This post was written so that people do not get wrong idea about engineering portrayed by 3 idiots. hehe. Well, I can write tons and tons of matter about engineering and its greatness no need to give proof about it. ;-)

Good movie, a must watch. Low comparing Amir's standard but still can be seen. Dialogs are good in fact would call the best, because even after watching it once, dialog would stick to your mind like mischievous engineering plan's. To end, go and see this movie, because baad mein sochoge ki, accha review the movie ka, hall mein lagi bhi thi, bus ticket black mein mil rahi thi, lekin fir bhi thodi si himmat karke thode aur rupye deta to ticket mil jaati aur movie dekh leta. (Translation, though will nto make much sense : Go and see the mvoie, because you may regret later that movie review was good, it was running as well in the cinema hall, tickets were being sold in double or triple cost, but if would have given some more money would have got the opportunity to watch the movie on big screen)

P.S. :- Its not easy degree but not tough as well. Anyways, engineers always work on the concept of Rockets. Do not start work until your ass is on fire. ;-)

P.P.S : - On serious note, if Aamir/Directors would have taken note of all 12 points and boring stuff about engineering, you wouldn't have had been watching this movie N'th time in same week.

P.P.P.S : - (Disclaimer)Whole post was written on lighter note, and shouldn't be taken seriously. If any of my comment hurt your emotions, please leave your comments in comments section I would edit that part.

P.P.P.P.S : - And here I make world record for my own blogs by posting post notes after post notes. And reason is, its tough to be in real world and have to write disclaimer to make people aware that I can make the change if they did not like anything (Only if ,you think I am trying to defame you).

Chuck De Hey Baby!!!

Forewarning:- By any chance if you haven't watched these movies then stop here itself. There might be some spoiler.

I may differ or in fact will surely differ from others opinion about chuk de and hey baby. ;)

So here is my version of review for chuk de.. Sole aim of the movie was to bring back the scooter back to his house. Alas!!! days of scooters are now over else we could have seen some good ad there, or may be not, because his scooter seemed to have either maintenance problem or may be mileage problem. How? Dint you see, Kabir bhai was rolling the scooter instead of driving it most of the time. And to showcase how a small mistake can make you pay a humongous cost(Thanks to Media). Jokes apart this movie was so so(watchable).But if you are seriously looking for something real good then this movie is avoidable(but taking into account movie standard these days you can watch it if you are a movie buff ). Few points I noted after watching the movie(or guess directors know the secret):

• Movies with some religious issues(add India-Pakistan match too) and movie will break box office records.[Question: Can't you feel that there is a need of change over this caste and religion related thing]
• Movies with sport theme generally gets better opening if a weak team emerges as a winner(and obviously that team is Indian Team.. No offense meant). Indirectly we are accepting that we are weak and some miracle will make us win. [Question: If weak emerging as strong finally is so much sought after, then why do we try to keep weak away from the main line.]
• Movies were everything depends on last 3 minute performance or which make ur adrenaline flow faster generally emerges as a winner on box office(be it a lagaan or chuk de). [Question: Why Mr Kabir didn't gave direction for 1st two shots on goal which resulted in close call with Australian team ;)]
• And yeah evergreen formula - show the hero as Bechara(chucked out from main stream) and help him regain his old stature through the movie. And you will get a super hit.[Question: Why movies are so distant from cruel reality?]

These formulae comes one or other way in most of the hit movie(w.r.t. sport based).Whatever may be the case at last our kabir bhai(the great coach) was able to bring back the scooter to his old house. [:D]

Anyway, hope India winning the Asia Cup, teams superb performance throughout the series and soft corner for Hockey developed after the movie will make hockey to reach those heights or say surpass those heights which where a cake walk during 1940's(Dhanchand and Team).

Hey Baby or Baba!!! Why on earth do you make such wonderful movie. Put us in situation of saap and chuchunder(snake and mouse ka bhai.. don't remember the actual phrase). I mean they make life of movie watcher difficult.I found it difficult whether to laugh or weep or commit suicide at such wonderful emotional scene(yeah even though I watched the movie. So I am entitled for an award). I don't have words to explain the beauty of this movie. But just have two words to say. "AVOID IT". Be the emotional touch given by star's or director everything was just intolerable. Director/hero/heroine everyone seemed confused about there stand in movie. Things move at fast pace but are never able to hold the attention. Overall a big failure for each and everyone.This is perfectly my opinion and its a consequence of literally wasting my precious 2.5 hours. And I don't expect other to go by it as opinion differs with people.