It's been 4 years I have started my professional life. I have learned a lot many things in these years and am still learning and hope to keep on doing the same in coming years. Whenever I am at loggerheads with any of my colleagues for some reason or the other, I get really agitated and I overreact at times, and every time my boss tells me, "you are giving him/her more attention than he/she deserves."
I think Indian media is also suffering from this syndrome. They are concentrating most of the their attention where it is least required. Recently word Bombay was used instead of Mumbai in a movie and some good for nothing people have protested against the same and lead the director to apologize to their so called leader, and this news took 1/4 of the front page of Times of India, the most read English daily in our country.
If you had to name the most covered people by Indian media, they would probably be Rakhi Sawant, Raj Thackeray, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, M S Dhoni, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Gandhi and recently joining the band wagon is Shashi Tharoor, for all the wrong reasons. In case of Shashi Tharoor, the reason he is covered so much is because he keeps on giving free news through twitter.
I wish our media also learns what I am trying to learn i.e. not waste your attention where it is not required.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009
Falon Fach Fach Bolo Kaminey Kkkkaisi Lagi
One of the most anticipated movie of the year, at least for me. The reason is only one man associated with the movie, Vishal Bhardwaj. He has never disappointed me in the past. Every time he made a movie, no matter what the cast is, he did wonders. Did you ever expect Saif to do a Langda Tyagi? This time again, the expectations were huge and I was hoping not to be disappointed. Something was not right with Kaminey, the reason could be it was not inspired by Shakespeare but by Guy Ritchie. The difference can be seen clearly when you watch the movie. This does not mean, it's bad movie. It's much better than many movies you would have seen recently, yet it's not as good as you expected it to be. It's not brilliant. May be I would not have written so much above, if it was not made by Vishal Bhardwaj.
Kaminey is story of one night and how it affects the lives of twins, Charlie and Guddu. The only thing identical about these twins is their looks and that is precisely the reason they are not talking to each other (then why the hell they had each other's cell nos). While Guddu is in love with Sweety, who cons him to get married to her, against her brother Bhope Bhau's wish. Bhope Bhau happens to be a politician promoting son of the soil in Mumbai and our Guddu happens to be from Barabanki. On the other hand Charlie, who fixes horse races, land up with a Guitar case full of Cocaine, which belongs to Tashi the great (that's how he addresses him once and nobody seems to recongnise him) and is being delivered to him by Mumbai Police Anti-narcotics Cell's Inspectors Lobo and Lele. By the time you hit the intermission, both the brothers and fallen into hands of the wrong party. What happens next is nothing but a long list of coincidences, which result into both brothers realising the bond of blood.
Here again Vishal takes the best out of his actors. Every actor has done good job, specially Priyanka and Shahid as Charlie (there is something about bad guys in Vishal's movies). Surprise package is Amol Gupte as Bhope Bhau, hope to see more of him in front of the camera. The trouble about short length stories, (here it covers barely 24 hours) is that they mostly are a sequence of events and the flow of the script depends on many God-only-could-create coincidences. This is what happens here too, although Vishal tries to put some sense to the proceedings by the use of narration (thank God it was Charlie narrating the story not Guddu), and some flash back. Another problem is, I could clearly see Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels while watching the movie. Some scenes are shot brilliantly like Guddu-Sweety encounters, while some I found over dramatic and lengthy like where Mikhael is shot. I realise, I have talked so much about the film and have not talked about the background score, Dhan te nan. Well as soon as the movie starts, you get to hear the soul of the film, Dhan te nan and every time you hear that sound you get alert expecting Charlie to surprise you. Overall the movie is good and should be watched at least once, but don't expect it to be an Omkara or a Maqbool. Just go there with your brain else by the time you realise what's going on you would be seeing end credits.
I would give this film 7 out of 10, it's a nice film but I expected more.
Kaminey is story of one night and how it affects the lives of twins, Charlie and Guddu. The only thing identical about these twins is their looks and that is precisely the reason they are not talking to each other (then why the hell they had each other's cell nos). While Guddu is in love with Sweety, who cons him to get married to her, against her brother Bhope Bhau's wish. Bhope Bhau happens to be a politician promoting son of the soil in Mumbai and our Guddu happens to be from Barabanki. On the other hand Charlie, who fixes horse races, land up with a Guitar case full of Cocaine, which belongs to Tashi the great (that's how he addresses him once and nobody seems to recongnise him) and is being delivered to him by Mumbai Police Anti-narcotics Cell's Inspectors Lobo and Lele. By the time you hit the intermission, both the brothers and fallen into hands of the wrong party. What happens next is nothing but a long list of coincidences, which result into both brothers realising the bond of blood.
Here again Vishal takes the best out of his actors. Every actor has done good job, specially Priyanka and Shahid as Charlie (there is something about bad guys in Vishal's movies). Surprise package is Amol Gupte as Bhope Bhau, hope to see more of him in front of the camera. The trouble about short length stories, (here it covers barely 24 hours) is that they mostly are a sequence of events and the flow of the script depends on many God-only-could-create coincidences. This is what happens here too, although Vishal tries to put some sense to the proceedings by the use of narration (thank God it was Charlie narrating the story not Guddu), and some flash back. Another problem is, I could clearly see Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels while watching the movie. Some scenes are shot brilliantly like Guddu-Sweety encounters, while some I found over dramatic and lengthy like where Mikhael is shot. I realise, I have talked so much about the film and have not talked about the background score, Dhan te nan. Well as soon as the movie starts, you get to hear the soul of the film, Dhan te nan and every time you hear that sound you get alert expecting Charlie to surprise you. Overall the movie is good and should be watched at least once, but don't expect it to be an Omkara or a Maqbool. Just go there with your brain else by the time you realise what's going on you would be seeing end credits.
I would give this film 7 out of 10, it's a nice film but I expected more.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
I feel weak
I have been taking all my decisions since I was 9. There have been many decisions I have taken in the past, big or small, which were not liked by many people. Some people even suspected those to be wrong decisions, but time and again I have made things work and proved the sceptics wrong. That made me feel so strong. I started believing that I can do no wrong.
Some of the decisions taken in the past, I thought were the biggest decisions of my life, but I was wrong. I have many more big decisions to take and the one I have to take right now seems to be the biggest so far. This time, for the first time, I am not able to decide. Which is making me feel weak. Weakest ever. Never before in my memory, I have felt so weak.
There have never ever been so many variables to consider while taking a decision and never before there have been variables which are controlled by someone else, but they affect me so directly. I am loosing control and that is what is making me feel weak. The worst part is, even when I decide, the decision needs someone else's approval, which is something I have never experienced before.
The problem is, I don't want to feel weak. Nobody does. I have two options, take a decision and wait for the consequences, but consequences in this case can be so strong that they might haunt me all my life, if my decision proved to be a wrong one, or don't take a decision and let things go as it is and forget that this kind of situation ever arose in my life, which certainly is not going to be an easy task either.
Some of the decisions taken in the past, I thought were the biggest decisions of my life, but I was wrong. I have many more big decisions to take and the one I have to take right now seems to be the biggest so far. This time, for the first time, I am not able to decide. Which is making me feel weak. Weakest ever. Never before in my memory, I have felt so weak.
There have never ever been so many variables to consider while taking a decision and never before there have been variables which are controlled by someone else, but they affect me so directly. I am loosing control and that is what is making me feel weak. The worst part is, even when I decide, the decision needs someone else's approval, which is something I have never experienced before.
The problem is, I don't want to feel weak. Nobody does. I have two options, take a decision and wait for the consequences, but consequences in this case can be so strong that they might haunt me all my life, if my decision proved to be a wrong one, or don't take a decision and let things go as it is and forget that this kind of situation ever arose in my life, which certainly is not going to be an easy task either.
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