My Expression!! My Life!!

So ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is the talk of the world having bagged 8 Oscars and especially the current rage in India what with one of the country’s best musicians coming back with 2 of the gold plated statuettes, a little known sound editing guy winning an Oscar all the way in the US of A and having made the country proud. Better still, they made the world sit up and take notice of our country. Isn’t it a wonderful thing? I am very proud of the people who have won the award and am even more proud of the fact that they belong to my country. I am immensely happy. Much more than I can express… So why is it that in most places that I have come across it’s been received with mixed reactions? Everywhere I have read about it, it’s got its fair share of criticism. It’s a movie that’s been made by a British director, produced by an American, based on a storyline written by an Indian author…. Right from the talk that this is far from Rahman’s best composition, to the fact that it shows India in a p...

I saw this movie called SA-RO-JA yesterday. I don’t know what to term it as… Comedy, Drama, Suspense, Adventure…. It’s a mélange of all this… Nice movie to boot… The way it’s been shot is very interesting… for the first half hour you question yourself as to what’s the whole point …. It’s all different threads that get weaved extremely well in a classy way too… the actors are all new faces (at least to me!) save a few like Prakash Raj, Jayaram, S.P.Charan …. Which brings me to the fact that Charan did a great job… I liked him the best of the lot… :-) The storyline was nothing new but the way it was shot made the movie worthwhile… and without doubt it’s one of the best movies made recently in Tamil. I want to watch the original English movie too – heard it’s based on ‘Judgment Night’ or something like that! But SA-RO-JA was so totally worth it…! :-) Good acting by everyone, a gripping storyline the premise of which was a little weak but was depicted well and brilliant comedy. Seriously!...

Points to ponder: 1) How come there are always people who know how to do a better job of doing something? 2) How come there are always people who know everything about every single topic under the sun? 3) How come there are always people who know what exactly is going to happen in a crisis? 4) How come there are always people who have an opinion on anything that happens and are so sure that their opinion is the right one? 5) How come all these people are the ones whom I end up having the misfortune to meet? As life goes on, you have the fortune (mis!) of meeting a wide variety of people. People who are of the fixed notion that, they are better off than anyone else, they are the best in whatever they do, they are always right and suffice to say, they are perfect! Far from it…. Some of these types that you meet can be classified into – The “I-am-sorry-I’m-still-in-the-past-century” type: They have fixed notions about how things should be, how people should behave, follow rules and regul...

"And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite you... " I am not romantic…! I know this! In fact I realized this - a long while back! I mean I am good with writing stuff and all that… but to be verbally romantic is something that goes right above my head… I just can’t bring myself to do it… I am every romantic’s idea of a spoil-sport…. Ask my fiancé, he’ll give you loads of examples… I am a horror cartoon when it comes to romance… I find it very artificial to be verbally eloquent in saying romantic stuff… the books are ok! I laugh at that too! I just can’t for the life of me figure out how can people say romantic things with a straight face… if I ever started to say something, I’d probably end up laughing..! You know there was this one time that me and my guy were chatting on the phone and we were kind of discussing on the topic of romance. He told me that since I read quite a l...

Any of you happened to see 'Luck by Chance?' I did and I also wrote a review about it a week or so back. Anyways, so if you have watched the movie you would remember the last few scenes where Farhan comes to talk to Konkona and apologize for whatever happened and talk about getting back together. And she refuses him. Reason being, when he talked so fervently about what he could do with his life with her in it, she failed to understand what her life would contain apart from giving him support and standing by his side, in sickness and health and all that! Am I the only one who could relate to that or was there nothing in that scene? I mean, a couple of days back, me and a colleague were having a discussion on the movie, especially on this scene and he said that there was no point in having that scene. Apparently because the film was made by a woman, it was warranted that there should be a woman-centric scene in the movie which would give the heroine a bit of standing. Now what wa...

› Why is that when you are a girl/woman in the corporate world (especially if you are not part of the upper management) people tend to take whatever you say on any subject a little less seriously than they do with guys/men? Is it that their ego can’t take a girl talking about politics/science/stocks/technology as good as any other person well-versed in them or is it just that ‘Bah! She’s a girl… what would she know about such stuff’ kind of thought process? › Why do some people talk as though they carry the burden of the entire world on their fragile shoulders and talking about the better good etc … If I am not commenting on whatever your thoughts are and I say whatever I think, why do they give me that look of derision as though I am committing a crime thinking just about whatever my life is concerned with? › Why do some people have to always butt in with their opinions on whatever 2 other people are discussing? › Why do people have to do a post-...

So there you go! Someone finally thought up of something to kick some people right up their asses and what an idea!! Yay for all women and men part of this! Hats off to you all and kudos too… Congratulations are in order too… good for you… nice… well done..! God bless you! For all the others who want to know more…. Here’s the idea and the link…. The ‘Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women’ ---> visit this for more info… I am just sorry I heard about this so late… but then Better Late Than Never..! :-)

Yup… so it’s been a while since I posted something..! Not for lack of time or anything… but for lack of topics..! Watched a couple of movies… read some books… Here is my take on them! Slumdog Millionaire I saw the movie and then I read the book. So fair enough to say that I had a lot of expectations from the book (I believe that any movie made on a book is bound to be much below expectations than the book!). In this case though, I found them both starkly different. Yeah given that the storyline and the premise on which the movie is made is the same as the book. But there is a lot more in the book than which is depicted in the movie and for once I liked the movie better than the book. I felt that the book was too filmy. There are parts in the book that feel a bit dragging when compared to the movie which is crisp and in which the actors have done a great job. Commendable, to say the least. Of course changing the name of the book to cash in on the publicity of the movie sure helped the s...