After a hiatus of four months, I finally watched a movie. When I say, "I watched a movie", I mean watching a movie in a theatre. When you watch a movie from a CD, you don't actually see or understand what the director wants to put forth, instead its what you interpret from the hazy images and a speech lag of 15 mins. (See, I am paid by film producers to protest against piracy)
Anyways, lets come to the point. Last week I watched 'Jaane Tu....Ya Jaane Naa', and it made me feel better. Although, the movie does not have any new story to say, but the fresh look and innocence of Aditi and Jay Singh Rathore, impressed me. The supporting characters, specially Amit (Aditi's brother), have also put on a good show. The movie is well paced, smooth and has got the right songs at right places. Full marks to Abbas Tyrewalla. But one thing, which I think needs mention is that, had it not been for Aamir Khan, I don't think the movie would have done what it has done. The very mention of Aamir Khan doubles the chances of a movie to make it big. This is what branding means and I think we have a good case at our hands for the B-School marketing folks. Anyways, let me not divulge into business but coming back to the movie, I think Imraan Khan deserves a pat on his back for his potrayal of a non-violent Rajput.
All in all a good chilled out flick.
Coming up next is "Rock On"....
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Friday, April 18, 2008
Now......
Hi all..By looking at the frequency of my posts I guess all of you must have guessed by now what kind of a blogger or for that matter how shallow a person I am. After numerous attempts of starting to write something, today I am determined to post something. Not that I have come across something great which I want to discuss, but today I not going back for lunch (no, I am not busy with my work, just don't want to move my ass out of this ac room), so I decided to exercise my fingers.
It has been over a year and half now since I have been working. And gradually, I am starting to realize what great transition I have been through and what all changes I will have to bring in my behaviour to succeed in this corporate jungle. It was not long ago when I was in college and invariably I used to reach late for my classes. When the teacher used to ask for the reason, I would give a smart excuse and enter the class, walking to my seat looking towards every corner of the room, telling myself ,"man u r something!". Unable to answer a question asked by the teacher used to reaffirm our status as cool guys. We used to call our professors by funny names and in some cases, even had serious quarrels which led to suspension of classes for a couple of days. Even when in school, I used to lie my parents, bunk tutions and go out to watch movies. I used to think I was smart enough to do all these under their nose and not giving them the faintest of hints of what I was upto. But then, we had never done all this to hurt anybody or to embarrass anyone. We just enjoyed ourselves and continued doing all this because at the bottom of our heart we had this feeling that no one would take these things to heart as we were "KIDS" and instead would simply laugh at our childishness.
After joining Tata Steel, though I stopped all these mischievous acts but I did not get out of that kiddish phase. I took up my work very seriously, but on days when I did not have any work (which is 3 out of 6 days in a week) I used to reach half an hour late or on days when I had worked the whole night, I would not come the next day. I would log on to orkut thrice a day and would spend a lot of time reading blogs. Most of my colleagues are more than twice my age and I used to take these liberties, expecting them not to mind as I was only half their age. I work in a steel industry where working conditions are very harsh. When I used to work non-stop for 6-7 hours in the shop floor or solve a problem, I used to think that they would come and pat me, saying "good job done, boy". But I never received any such pats or words of praise from my colleagues. Instead, I overheard people calling me "a bit irresponsible".
And now, I am realizing that though I see myself as a 23 year old guy, expecting some liberties because of my age, but the others look at me as a colleague or to be more specific, as their competitor. To my parents I am a kid, to my teachers I am kid but in the office I am another officer. Not that I complain, its just that this transition is becoming a bit difficult for me because I had never expected things to change so rapidly. I may sound a bit stupid, like someone shying away from his duties but the fact is that I have not yet been able to fathom the fact that I am working.
It has been over a year and half now since I have been working. And gradually, I am starting to realize what great transition I have been through and what all changes I will have to bring in my behaviour to succeed in this corporate jungle. It was not long ago when I was in college and invariably I used to reach late for my classes. When the teacher used to ask for the reason, I would give a smart excuse and enter the class, walking to my seat looking towards every corner of the room, telling myself ,"man u r something!". Unable to answer a question asked by the teacher used to reaffirm our status as cool guys. We used to call our professors by funny names and in some cases, even had serious quarrels which led to suspension of classes for a couple of days. Even when in school, I used to lie my parents, bunk tutions and go out to watch movies. I used to think I was smart enough to do all these under their nose and not giving them the faintest of hints of what I was upto. But then, we had never done all this to hurt anybody or to embarrass anyone. We just enjoyed ourselves and continued doing all this because at the bottom of our heart we had this feeling that no one would take these things to heart as we were "KIDS" and instead would simply laugh at our childishness.
After joining Tata Steel, though I stopped all these mischievous acts but I did not get out of that kiddish phase. I took up my work very seriously, but on days when I did not have any work (which is 3 out of 6 days in a week) I used to reach half an hour late or on days when I had worked the whole night, I would not come the next day. I would log on to orkut thrice a day and would spend a lot of time reading blogs. Most of my colleagues are more than twice my age and I used to take these liberties, expecting them not to mind as I was only half their age. I work in a steel industry where working conditions are very harsh. When I used to work non-stop for 6-7 hours in the shop floor or solve a problem, I used to think that they would come and pat me, saying "good job done, boy". But I never received any such pats or words of praise from my colleagues. Instead, I overheard people calling me "a bit irresponsible".
And now, I am realizing that though I see myself as a 23 year old guy, expecting some liberties because of my age, but the others look at me as a colleague or to be more specific, as their competitor. To my parents I am a kid, to my teachers I am kid but in the office I am another officer. Not that I complain, its just that this transition is becoming a bit difficult for me because I had never expected things to change so rapidly. I may sound a bit stupid, like someone shying away from his duties but the fact is that I have not yet been able to fathom the fact that I am working.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Taare Zameen Par: Darsheel Safary
One man who has ben the bastion of perfection in Bollywood is Aamir Khan. Be it QSQT, Lagaan, DCH, RDB or Taare Zameen Par Aamir Khan has always impressed the classes as well masses by his excellent performance and approach to movie making. And hats off to him for making a movie like Taare Zameen Par.
But this time around it is someone else who has stolen the show. Yes, the kid, Darsheel Safary. What a performance!! I think his performance was a far better performance than ShahRukh's in Chak De or any other actor this year. But kudos to Aamir Khan for directing the movie so brilliantly. Though he had an excellent script written by Amol Gupte, but there have been umpteen examples of great stories transforming into ordinary movies in Bollywood, only because of the director's "wish" to make it his way and not the way the story demands.
I was going through an article published in "The Hindu" from where I got to know some interesting facts about the movie. Amole Gupte and Reeta Bhatia, the duo who concieved the story, had worked on it for seven long years. It all started from a small one page story by Kurusowa, a Japanese movie-maker who could never develop an interest towards studies and thus started concentrating on art. Though he was not dyslexic, but it gave Amole and Reeta some food for thought and they started looking out for answers to the question, "Why some kids simply cannot concentrate on studies whereas they are brilliant in some other fields?" Dyslexia, was one of the reasons and they started building a story keeping that as the central theme. Even after finalising the story, it took them one and a half years to find the kid ( Darsheel), who would play the role of Ishaan. Amole, Reeta and Aamir conducted numerous workshops and they studied the behaviour of around four to five hundred nine to ten year olds. This is how they found our new "superstar", Darsheel. Hope, by now you guys must have understood, how a great movie is made and how much of devotion it takes.
The theme of the movie was so pertinent, I think every parent can relate to it. Today everyone wants a winner in his/her family and this in turn leads to burdenising the children with their own unfulfilled dreams. But what if a kid buckles under the load?? What if his dreams and his parents' dreams don't match??
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