INCEPTION - No Review

There are 1000 post and blogs flying around the internet praising the movie and the director, well most of them had to praise about it because at one point of time even the actress in the movie got confused on what the hell were they doing and whose dream were they getting into.

I really loved the movie in one sense which is something never tried before and this has got lot of people thinking and talking about kicks, dreams, sub consciousness, limbo etc etc. What is interesting is how the concept got flowing and how it had being created into one of the masterpiece of the year where lot of people will still talk about it.

What more interesting is you can dream in a dream which people do talk about but they have taken it to another level.

Indian movies have done this a very very long time back if you do not believe me check this video out



I hope you get it what I mean here....our own Hrishi Da the legendary film-maker has thought about this even before Nolan started to learn how to pee in the loo all by himself

Five Point Someone Vs 3 Idiots

There has being a fight going off between the writer of Five Point Someone (FPS) Chetan Bhagat and 3 Idiots team Vidhu Vinod Chopra mainly due to the reason that there was no credit given to the book in the movie.

After rave reviews, I go for my first film of the year 2010 and it turned out to be super duper awesome experience in which people were clapping and whistling at times when the characters said some awesome dialogue or some scene which actually touched the heart (that is Raju Hirani special).

Having read Chetan Bhagat book long time back but still was one of my favorite due to the style of his writing and he went downhill after that (sorry but true).

The story is not same as the book but the overall characters and plot was similar to the book but things inside it were totally not in the book. Sorry CB you should have atleast got Inspired by CB book FPS but not the full movie credit coz there was nothing else same.

But I must say Raju Hirani pulled off another masterpiece and loved every minute of it.

In Love!!!!!

Never felt being with someone before, I am kind of a person who likes to go alone all the way be it movies, to eat food or just walk. But I guess this is for the first time I feel like walking with the someone who I know I can have fun with while I go for movies, eat or just walk.

I know this girl for a long time but was not in touch with her for but used to bump occasionally at some event or coffee shops. I have one weakness about girls which is common sense and what i know of her she has lots of that. I can walk with her for hours without saying a word and still be happy or just look in her eyes which do a lot of talking.

I for the first time hope that she becomes mine.....

Kung Fu style Career Advice

Just saw this movie and the concepts which Rashmi has come up with is really awesome, Rashmi Bansal is Editor of JAM (Just Another Magazine) which is a youth magazine...really good insight on the movie....

via Youth Curry - Insight on Indian Youth by (Rashmi Bansal) on 7/14/08

If a giant panda can become a mighty kung-fu warrior - so could you. Not kung-fu, but whatever. Ballet dancer, arctic explorer or investment banker.

I can already hear you say,"Hey, that happens only in the movies."

Well, yes and no. Here are some definite takeaways from Kung fu Panda, for all those of you struggling with questions of what, where and how to steer your career.

Lesson # 1: If you want something badly enough, you get it somehow.

Po the panda wanted to be a kung-fu warrior really really badly. He followed every kung fu teacher, every battle, every hero there ever was. The chap was a walking Kung Fu Encyclopedia!

And of course, he dreamt about kung fu too.

Ask yourself - do you care something in your life that strongly? If you do - it will be yours one day.

Lesson # 2: It could take a while but you'll get there.

So if you believe Lesson # 1 the question is 'how'? Now sometimes you may get there the straight and easy way. The way to be a kung fu warrior is to train under a great Master, right?

Well, Po got the job another way. He bumbled and tumbled up the mountain and finally literally 'dropped in from the sky'. Master Oogway then pronounced:"He is the one, the great Dragon Warrior". To everybody's surprise!

In real life there aren't enough Oogways who can see a diamond in the coal; a kung fu champion in a blubbering mass of fat.

But how many of you have struggled like the panda to even get to that mountain top where there may be a Master waiting for you?

Lesson # 3: 'A peach tree will blossom into a peach tree. It can't become an apple tree...' - Master Oogway

Why many of us come to grief is we don't know 'who we are'. Are we a peach tree, or a jasmine tree or a cactus? Every one of those is beautiful and useful in its own way. No one is 'superior' to the other.

Yet in life many of us believe that we must all be peach trees. ie MBAs and engineers. The aroma of the jasmine is lost to the world and all we have is peach, peach and more peach (fruity burp!).

Lesson # 4: 'There are no accidents in life...' - Master Shifu

Yup, the fact that you did not make it to IIT or IIM or with that cute chick on the second floor. This was the way it was meant to be.

Think about Steve Jobs being forced to exit his own company in 1985. He went through hell but was forced to think of new ideas, new directions. It led to the creation of Pixar and a whole new kind of animation.

And ultimately, he went back to Apple with iTunes and iPod.

Could he have done all this had he never left Apple? I don't know. But I think greatness is born more out of adversity than in nice hot bathtubs.

Woh Archimedes wala funda bhi theek hai but you can't run naked in the streets anymore. By the time you dress up and get out into the world, you find josh chala gaya.

Lesson # 5: There is no secret ingredient in the secret ingredient soup.

And this is especially relevant at a time when we are all on the quest for the Holy Grail. We believe that joining the right college, the right course or the right company is the secret ingredient which will spice up our soup - our careers, our lives.

The truth is, it's all about what you believe. The moment you join an IIT or an IIM you start believing,"Hey I am really really good". You get the confidence to take on the world, the chutzpah to say,"The world is my oyster".

Clearing these super tough exams is like running a lawnmower through your own mental garden. It crushes the weeds of self doubt and self pity which we've allowed to grow.

Exam or no exam, you can choose to yank out those weeds. Then look the guys who think they know better in the eye and declare,"My soup is as kick-ass as yours."

Lastly, words of wisdom from Master Oogway which apply not just to careers, but any and every walk of life: 'Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery... today is a gift'.

Have you at least undone the wrapping paper of this brand new, beautiful moment? Right here, right now, today??

Drinking!!!

"What fun do you get by drinking?"

I just shrug my shoulder and looking around "I don't know but it is just fun"

"what kind of fun?" pat comes another question.

"mmmm..." still looking around to find the answers in open spaces to find the proper words "well i don't know what kind of fun but it is still fun"

The questions came from N who does not like me drinking or in other sense anyone drinking on this planet earth....go out for dinner in a non-veg restaurant and where drinks are served i have to just sip on Lassi or Sweet lime Soda just so that she does not make faces. G his boyfriend also is a pure veg and a non drinker (i hope)......eat a lot.

So back again to the fun of drinking...as said before it is just fun to get intoxicated and get high in a good way where one can blabber anything and laugh away. That is what we do every Friday night after a hardly working week end up in a bar with 6 friends and order vodkas and whiskeys and top it off with some fish tandoori....talking about serious matters (which actually does not matter us), sports, music, movies and making fun of each other.

Seeing the person drunk (one who does not know what he is doing) is so much fun...just stand at one corner and look at him doing weird stuff which he would not do when sober...and laughing away later...talking about what we saw. I our office party one guy became sentimental all of a sudden and kind off started to dis (disrespect) one senior...which he would not remember Monday morning...people sleeping on the floor and throwing abuses to each other.

I had to post this coz it is being time when i had posted anything original for a very long time......

A GREAT MAN INDEED....

If you have to die, do so around Delhi or Mumbai

The passing away of the only Indian to be appointed Field Marshal when in active service has been remarkable for the warmth of the ordinary men and women, who queued up to pay their last respects to the gentleman-soldier (you do not see people like him nowadays, not even in our Armed Forces) who put his life on the line for them.

It has also been remarkable for the complete lack of grace and gratitude, civility and courtesy, decency and decorum on the part of the bold-faced names rapaciously grazing the lawns of power in Delhi and elsewhere, for the brain behind India's only decisive military victory.

Sam, the Bahadur, had been unwell for a while now. From about 1000 hours on June 26, reports of his being critically ill had appeared in the media. Yet, when the "expected tocsin" sounded at 0030 hours till the guns were fired in salute around 1500 hours on June 27, "civil society" chose to show its incivility.

• Pratibha Patil , the unworthy commander-in- chief of the armed forces with all the time in the world- probably she did not get her trip cleared by Sonia, her "Italian' boss: Absent

• Hamid Ansari: Vice-president releasing books and writing reviews of books by fellow-travellers: Absent

• Manmohan Singh , the prime minister who could do with a bit of the field marshal's charisma and heroism: Absent

• Sonia Gandhi : the Italian daughter-in- law of the woman the Field Marshal called "sweetie": Absent

• L K Advani: prime minister in waiting of the party which would like to do to Pakistan what Manekshaw did: Absent

• M Karunanidhi and Surjit Singh Barnala: Chief minister and Governor of the state which Manekshaw had made his home for 35 years (They were too busy scratching each other's back): Absent

Politicians may have their reasons. They always do. Maybe, there are issues like protocol. Maybe, this is one way in which 'civil India' shows the armed forces its place. Maybe, this is why we are not as militaristic as Pakistan. Maybe, the knees are just too old to climb the hills.

But what about the armed forces itself?

• A K Antony: the former failed Chief Minister of Kerala often derisively called Resignation Antony for his inclination to throw in his papers are the slightest provocation and now the non-functioning Defence Minister 'now behaving like the chairman of the confederation of the armed forces' trade unions: absent '

• The chief of army staff: absent (away in Russia )

• The chief of navy staff- absent

• The chief of air staff- absent

The fact that the defence minister was represented by his deputy Pallam Raju, the fact that the navy and air staff sent two-star general rank officers, shows that however high or mighty, however rich or powerful, civilian or military, if you should die as you must, you should do so somewhere in the vicinity of New Delhi -- or Bombay.

Or else, they must have some use for you even if you are dead. Imagine Sonia kicks the bucket tomorrow and every Johnny in the Congress Party would rush to show his or her head for Rahul and his sister Priyanka to note. No other party has deteriorated in its standards like the Congress under the corrupt daughter of a former Mafia chieftain in Italy. But then a shameless party needs to depend on her for its own reasons.

As Field Marshal Manekshaw rightly surmised once: "I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla -- although a great many of them in the past have resembled the latter."

The contrast couldn't be starker

• When Amitabh Bachchan was ill after being socked in the stomach during the shooting of Coolie, Indira Gandhi flew down to Bombay to show her concern.

• When Dhirubhai Ambani died, L K Advani cut short his Gujarat tour to pay his respects to an 'embodiment of initiative, enterprise and determination'. The man was the creation of the most manipulative and corrupts Babu-License Raj system spawned by a generation of Nehru-ites. Today, his two sons can 'afford' to go legitimate.

• When Pramod Mahajan was shot dead by his brother, Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekawat had the time to attend the funeral.

Our VIPs and VVIPs have time for dead and dying celebrities, charlatans, fixers, brokers, pimps, etc. Not for a Field Marshal and the only one in this country?

In his biography, K M Cariappa, the only other field marshal India has had (and who too died at age 94), writes of his father's cremation in May 1993:

"Honoring him in death as they did in life were Field Marshal Manekshaw, the three service chiefs all of whom belonged to the same course and at whose passing out parade from the joint services wing father had presided, the gracious chief minister M Veerappa Moily and C K Jaffer Sharief, Minister for Railways representing the President as the supreme commanded of the armed forces."

Somebody should have told the geniuses in Delhi that Sam, the Bahadur, passed away in Wellington, Ooty, not Wellington, New Zealand. The nearest civil airport is Coimbatore, just 80 km away. Perhaps the clowns in Delhi would have rushed if they received confirmation that the Field Marshal passed away in Wellington, New Zealand. Nothing excites them as being free-booters!


If this is how we say goodbye to Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, no wonder why today's politics and politicians are not able to successfully tap into the angst of an entire generation? Probably that is the reason why the best and the brightest are today well settled in the US and Canada where I have run into a large number of them at every academic institution I visited. What a terrible loss for our country that could ill-afford to lose them?

ALONE!!!

“So with whom did you come with?” comes a quick question from a person who I know I bump into him at an event

I look back and see around and my reply goes “I am here alone?”

The answer changes his looks and he says “Ok!”

Then we bid goodbye and lead our own way….

There are times when you have to go to places and check out the deal but no one is coming with you…and in the end you miss the whole thing as you were supposed to go there alone. I have now changed that philosophy…will ask few friends of mine for an event which I have to go to and if they turn up good and if they don’t........I have myself for my company.

I have gone to numerous movies alone, numerous hotels alone just coz nobody was gonna watch that movie why should I miss it. Friends do come and say how can you go alone….well I have being doing that for a long time and still continue to do that if I have to visit a place which I like.

If you go alone you are at your own…can do whatever you wish at the last moment and not being reliant on the other person or group.

So if you like something and no one is willing to go with you….just go there and enjoy or you might miss something and might regret it later.