The Amazing Spiderman: A Love Story

If you could erase Spiderman 3 from your memory, first two Spiderman movies were almost perfect. After third movie studio decided a reboot of the franchise and came up with The Amazing Spiderman. They changed everything, but kept all that was wrong with Spiderman 3. The result is less of a superhero movie and more of a love story. If I wanted to watch a love story I would not have chosen Spiderman. When I go for a superhero movie I expect some super action and I believe it was stupid of the makers to sacrifice action for the sake of parallel love track.

The Amazing Spiderman starts with a young Peter Parker being left to his uncle Ben's custody by his parents, who never come back. Search for his father's past leads him to Oscorp where he gets bitten by a genetically engineered spider and gains his superpowers. He then uses his new found powers to confront high school bully and impress his crush Gwen Stacy. When he decides to not stop a burglar, who ends up killing his uncle, he turn a vigilante searching for his uncle's killer. In a stupid move he hands over his father's formula, to Dr Curt Conners, probably the same person his father was trying to hide it from. The formula helps Dr Conners become a giant lizard, giving girls across the world more reason to be afraid of lizards. Now spidey takes it as his responsibility to save the world from the giant lizard. The climax fight is not very impressive and much less spidey-like.

While Andrew Garfield does a fine job as Peter Parker, I believe Tobey Maguire was a better Spiderman. Green Goblin and Doc Oc were more menacing than Dr Conners' giant lizard. On the positive side Gwen Stacy is much better than monotonous Mary Jane. Director Mark Webb leaves his mark on the scenes between Peter and Gwen but I would rather watch (500) Days of Summer again for that rather than look for those elements in a superhero movie. Also 3D experience in Big Cinemas sucks.

I am now waiting for The Dark Knight Rises, hoping Nolan will not disappoint.

Inspired by Saas-Bahu style fights with-in team Anna, Balaji announces a daily soap around the same

So many fights among various members of team Anna has inspired leading TV producer Balaji telefilms to launch a daily soap around the same. A senior executive in Balaji confirmed to Faking News, "These fights are so much similar to saas-bahu fights, which is the premise for all our daily soaps and we want to jump to the opportunity and exploit the situation. This will also save us whatever we spend on screenwriter ans will be a unique combination of daily soap and reality TV thus capturing both the audience groups."

"Anna is like baa, who is respected being the eldest in the family but everyone thinks he is too old and senile to take a correct decision hence nobody follows his instructions. Baba Ramdev is like the illegitimate child trying his best to be adopted by the family name but this decision is not liked by the legitimate children of the family. That is why the eldest son Arvind stages a walk-out from the ceremony of including Ramdev as a family member." He draws a comparison from the latest event.

"This is not only about the plot and story line. It is also a wise business decision. We have found out that the TRP of Arnab's news hour debate on Times Now goes higher than our prime time shows on the days of these fights in team Anna. It is a clear indication that common Indian enjoys the drama in Anna's family more than the drama in Kapoor family." He justifies the decision further. "We have even modeled a character inspired by Arnab, who is like the Narad muni from those mythological serials" he adds further.

*Originally written for Faking News.

I want to be the President

So much discussion around coming presidential election has got my attention again after five years about the existence of the post. Since now I am again made aware of it, I somehow am feeling the urge to go for it. Not because I want to serve the nation by becoming the President. That is clearly not what last president did, as per the information available to us, which is almost non-existent. So I am assuming that if nobody was aware of your existence, you clearly did not do anything that made any difference.

Why I want to be the President is because of the benefits associated with it. Such as, you get to live in one of the biggest houses in the world for five years. You get to holiday in all corners of the world along with your family and friends without worrying about the cost, since Indian public is paying so much tax to sponsor those holidays anyway. Even when you are out of office all your expenses are sponsored by the government. Above all you do not have any accountability of any of your actions or inaction. This clearly sounds like the best job in the world.

What more, I think I am also qualified for the job. I do not have any political affiliations. Nobody knows me. I can even enjoy my holidays better than the current President. I will not make for an awkward sight on a beach. Besides our country will feel so good on finally having a president who can walk on his own without any assistance. It can also help fool other world leaders for India finally becoming a progressive country by having a young head of state.

The only thing that probably disqualifies me for the job is that I am not completely useless.