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I have this enormous repulsion towards few people that repeatedly blinds me to their positives and magnifies their not-positives. I have let many instances where I can pounce upon, pass by me and remain unaffected but with these people it is as if I am just waiting to capture that every oppurtunity. Actually when I do look back, it is not that I hate the people, not even dislike them, but pure can’t-stand-you feeling.

Sometime ago, there was a similar incident and the character is the sameperson. He saw a flashy car and cribbed “I don’t have such a car”¹ (the conversation was in Kannada and the original sentence was even more full of cribbing - it was with such a tone that indicated “sadness” “hopelessness” “anger-towards-destiny” all together ). Now that tone and that formation of sentence was what irked me most.

Needing/wanting a car is different. Not having a car is different. And I with utmost patience and with a very un-emotional and controlled voice decided to enlighten him.

“I do not understand why if it had to be any diffrerent. I mean, lets look from other direction. Why is that you “should have had” a car by now ?” His reaction, as expected, was a reaction to unexpected reply. He wanted me to sympathize/join him. He was silent. I grabbed the chance to continue my onslaught (In kannada with choiciest of effective words -eg ನಿನ್ನ ಯೋಗ್ಯತೆ ಏನಯ್ಯ ? - and my tone I am sure I was hurting and as well as making a point crystal clear). “Lets see if you deserved to have had a car by now. There are few cases where one at an as early age as yours could have owned a car. Lets see. Do you have a rich industrialist father, who could have gifted you a car in your early teens to even go to your college ?² Or have you won any lottery ? Ok, lets leave the “luck and chance” thing aside, have you done any thing remarkably great and ‘earned’ a lot of money - say like Sabir Bhatia - at an early age ? You have been just an engineer with less than 2 years experience and if you have had to own a car by now, you should have been earning and saving x many thousands a month, are you doing that ? Being a software engineer you are earning quite more than many others and at least you could desire/hope/plan to own a car after a few years where as there are others who could not even hope or plan now. I do not understand why you should have had a car by now, by any reason ! It simply means that either you haven’t worked towards it (like stealing!) or you do not deserve it. When you have not done anything and there was no other way by which you could have had a car, where is the point of worry ? Do you think otherwise ? ”

“Ha, of course if you had said “I want/wish to buy a car”, that would have made sense. But “Aiyyo I do not have a car” does not make any sense. Agree ? “. He nodded.

I was happy I could drive home the point with a neutral voice and with good words Also now I keep a watch on myself if I complain for not having what I do not deserve.

1. ನನ್ನ ಹತ್ರ ಅಂಥ ಒಂದು ಕಾರ್ ಇಲ್ವಲ್ಲಾ ಅಂಥ :( [back]
2. I do not mean any disrespect to any father for not doing so, and I told him that. It was just that this is the easiest logically possible thing [back]

Some excerpts of reviews :

Dhoom by Rangan:

THE censor’s certificate for Dhoom 2 has the number of reels as 16, which approximates to roughly two-and-a-half hours. But I’ll let you in on a little secret – the content, such as it is, barely fills up a couple of hours. So what’s with the extra thirty minutes, you ask? For the slow-motion shots, of course…..Heck, even Uday Chopra is allotted a quota of slow-motion.

I noticed that even basket ball is treated just like the stars, that it gets its time of glory in slow motion. The basket ball and the turn-by-turn bullet is slowest-crap!!

Oz in DT

I am in all awe of the screenwriter Vijay Krishna Acharya who accomplished such a difficult task of taking around 150 fashion photos of all Dhoom 2’s actors and writing a screenplay around it. And under Aditya Chopra’s tutelage has invented a new kind of screenplay. One that contains the portfolio of the film’s actors all striking a pose… and then with great pain he has to spoil the pictures by scribbling some dialogues over each of those pictures…

I don’t see Aditya Chopra being very happy as he saw Shri Vijay Krishna Acharya spoiling the 150 pictures by scribbling dialogues over them. If Chopra had it his way Dhoom 2 would be a motion picture of still photography where the 150 pics are held together and the right edge is quickly flicked through to give the impression of motion… in a picture.

There is this age old notion that many (if not most) people with eye popping physical beauty are actually “dumb”. Dhoom 2 stamps it’s signature on this notion… for the scenes have never looked so pretty, the actors so mindblowing handsome, the locales ever so gorgeous and an iota of intelligence - so absolutely invisible from the first to the sixteenth reel…..

If Chopra and Sanjay Gadhvi the director, had it their way, dialogue writers will be banned from Bollywood in the next few years. Stories will revolve around stunts, crashes, parachute jumps, wire stunt plays and ofcourse models… who enter in a scene with a background music that makes you lose your hair faster and upsets your stomach at cheetah speed.

And another movie review blog I hopped through and a good review of Dhoom could be found here.
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As for me, have seen quite awful films like Apna Sapna Money Money, himse arasai(mostly bcoz i didnt understand it)..and good ones like Casino Royale. Haven’t had time or interest to review those. My blog is not being updated with anything other than reviews and that bothers me.

Also saw Dhoom2 and was disappointed in more ways than one. I guess Abhishek’s dialogue “Mujhe laga Kya pyaar hai, kya aadmi hai ..phir laga kya bhakwas hai” suits to movie like a T like this “pehle mujhe laga kaisa movie hoga, aise log hai…phir laga kya bhakwas hai”. With such a jaw dropping star cast and with such a superb foundation in the previous edition, so much could have been achieved if there was an intention to give a good movie. But alas, the intention itself was misplaced - as every other review will highlight- only to showcase the people. What an irony that the first part was a landmark in Abhi’s career, just hope that this does not turn the graph back in his career. He, Ash are so pathetic that I have no words. Second Bips(No clue why first Bips was removed and a sis was introduced ..and both of them didn’t have anything to do in the movie) and Uday compete with these fellows. Hrithik (for a part) and first Bips were ok to say the maximum. As far the implausibles, there is a huge list which is a waste of time to look into. But as Rangan says

Why all this fuss in a film that hired Bipasha Basu for the sole reason that she could put on a Baywatch-red swimsuit and jog… in slow motion?

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