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Random Bursts of Thoughts and Happenings – 2nd Edition
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Part 3:
# Saw these movies: Great Escape, Where Eagles Dare, Green Mile, No man’s land, Saving Private Ryan, Silence of the Lambs.
Silence of Lambs was very gripping and good story telling. Though I did not clearly understand the climax – was the person she searching happened to be main criminal – was it a just co-incidence ?
What an acting. Just less than 15 minutes of acting got Anthony Hopkins an Oscar.
# Went to Ooty, Coonor. Travelled in the Chayya Chayya train. Had great fun. Clicked lot of pics.
# Had been to Wide Angle Photography exhibition.
# Sholay details on flixter was mixed up and screwed up. I mailed and they corrected 
# Enjoying facebook. Nice to see orkut changes too, but trying not to use orkut. FB is like all you want to know about me – twitter is there, flixter is there, songs i like is there, goodreads is linked there, pics uploaded would be notified there plus for playing games.
# It took few seconds before I realized it was DURGAMBA which I read as DURGA MBA !
# too many spam is coming into inbox these days in gmail contrary to good old days of gmail which combated spam well..what changed ?!
# Migrated my pics to flickr from yahoo photos. Flickr looks so vast..took time to learn the terminologies. They are offering 3 months pro – unlimited upload..thought of taking backup of all my pics. They said only 3 albums will be visible if I dont upgrade. But they also said my photos submitted to group pool will remain – I created pools, will submit photos to that and they will be seen after not upgrading ! Rangoli kelage nusulodu antaralla…
# Enjoyed the trashing reviews of Aag
# What I want: “Note this” in Google reader.Other way round-sharing the notebook items in reader has 1 drawback-doesn’t readily show source.
# Attended a very interesting and thought provoking talk by Prof Sadagopan who had come to our office. He mixed humour, real life examples, facts, knowledge and it was a refreshing experience. I still remember some of his points in good detail, feel bad that I didn’t put down most of the talk on the same day.
# Wrote lot of private post-like mails. ( But feel bad for not managing to write about Coonor trip & team outing in detail )
# No more long posts. Might even convert my twitter updates into posts.
Heyy Babyy
# Watched “Heyy Babyy”. What a waste of money – Rex has increased its price overnight. I noted that the comedy scenes were all shown in the promotional videos. Rest is all emotional crap. This is the first movie where I feel, trailer is the only best part in the entire movie. What a cheating. Grrrr….
There is one totally entertaining scene in which I almost died laughing - the scene of slow-driving the car.
Also observed those who apparently hadn’t watched trailers were enjoying movie to the core. Especially two girls in front of us. Even in the scenes I barely managed to smile, they rolled on the floor (laughing). Only reason to forgive someone who actually believed he could extend the toilet jokes that he cracks on a TV hosted show to a movie and can call that movie a comedy, Sajid Khan, but you are forgiven – you managed to make some people laugh.
I so wished SRK married Balan. They should give choices of which climax I would want to see and I should be able to select them.
To console myself, I say that there was one single compensation for going to theater – 2 scenes of Vidya Balan. One throwing flowers in the introductory song sequence and entire song sequence is watchable just because of her (or that I did not see anything else). And another in red saree, I for a second felt I was seeing Kajol. Go Balan go, just for this one reason, I am ready to forgive small things about you which I don’t enjoy – oversmiling for one.
Given the box office earnings for this movie, we are in for films like this in the future.
Chak De
What an experience it was to watch “Chak De”. I have always loved a sports theme based movie – Iqbal, Lagaan, Million Dollar Baby, so it was almost a given that I would like this movie and add to that there were positive reviews. However the experience was something even better – the crowd, the shouts, the whistles. When I had been to watch Rajini I could not get so involved and wondered what was it. Or rather when was the last time for me – involvment and celebration together ? Was it Lagaan ? Was it a laugh riot like Hungama ? Was it Swades ? When was the last time ?
Now I can say, Chak De. I admit, it was surprising for me at few points, but overall it was cliched and predictable, yet it was totally entertaining. For which half the credit might go to the highest paid screen writer in Bollywood.
It could have got a little more detailed, at least a cursory look, into what went into those 7 years. And why “7″.
I wouldn’t rate SRK’s performance higher than his in Swades.
Most importantly, the movie was more dearer for it was based on a real story of Mir Ranjan Negi. Got to know more details like he took active part in the movie and coached the movie’s hockey team.
I knew few dialogues ( from reviews ) but my favorite is the one where SRK says, “Kisi gore ko pehli baar tiranga lehrate hue dekh ke maza aa raha hai”. Priceless ! I enjoyed many other moments.
There were few other points I wanted to make, not recollecting now. What a loss ! 