"20 million" smiles!!!

Happy ending theme is a must for Danny Boyle; that too the way it culminated in 'Trainspotting', its hard to forget. I can still picture all the hostelites who watched that movie glued to the thought 'Look at the memories this would bring after 20 years'. And now it was "Slumdog Millionaire", me and CSN(The Cake Curse hits SR again!!!) desperately waiting for a happy ending. After all that Jamal had been through, its an unwary wish in the hearts of all the SM watchers "Lathika is his girl". First it was the music then it was the worldwide praise(Well a 8. in IMDB and 94% in Rotten Tomatoes and a couple of awards is what counts, and ofcourse my review) for the movie 'Slumdog Millionaire' that made me add it to my Bucket List. 'We will watch it in PVR again', that came out in chorus after the flabbergast ride.

On one thought the entire movie balances on coincidences, but the inricasies of the movie make you hard to question that. That too if you are asking this after watching "Rab ne..", I can only wish "May Rab help you". The Music is.... I think its time we should stop rating Rahaman's music!!! Jai Ho,Liquid Dance, Riots, Oh Saaya, Ringa Ringa all just ROCK. Screenplay is expertly handled and the performances especially Dev Patel's is bound to leave a long impact.

We should actually be hating the movie for it portrays Mumbai as a poverty ridden mess and is happily doing rounds in the international circuit. After watching the recent attacks and a good watch of this movie, its clear that foreigners easily forget Mumbai.

Now the movie: A Journey of Jamal,and his brother and Lathika through various phases of separation, betrayal, brink of death, escape, love and a never ending sequence of challenging situations. Jamal enters the show "WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE" and each question he faces gives him a Deja Vu in real. The theme is how did a slumdog answer all the questions? All his answers have an interesting past and together they complete his life journey.

The movie has a lot to say, in fact at the end you feel, "That's a lot of information to digest in 3 hours"(Connect F.R.I.E.N.D.S). A wonderful movie after Dark Knight", don't afford to miss.

Office Office!!

Things about office that you Sorry me hate or like...

1. You MUST hate the cafeteria food. Liking that food is like committing the most heinous crime on earth. This is valid even when your colleague has brought a lunch which looks such that you prefer to just stay away. And for Christ's sake never go for the second fill!!!
2. You MUST hate your cube. Even if it has all the comforts of a heaven, there is something you can find. May be just look at your neighbor, he may have a hideous face or he may have worn an odd apparel or worst he may be your "teammate".
3. If someone gets a new car in office you MUST involve with others in teasing him/her about when will he drop us home, even when neither us nor him/her bothers to do it even once.
4. You MUST hate your manager and director. I do not know if this comes along with the breeze of AC in the office as a free package.
5. Treats MUST be in a so-called sophisticated restaurant. That's because most people in office care about the "ambiance and not the food". Even if you feel the food was worse than the "Shanthi Sagar" nearby your house; you MUST say the food was great and thank the person for choosing such a great place and may be go a step further saying you will surely recommend it to your friends.
6. There will be some ladies in office who ACT(actually overact) as though they are dieting. They usually do not eat any sweets, coconut items,oil( a big no!!), even though they can gorge tonnes of ice-creams and chocolates.
7. Never Never eat anything out of interest in office. A suitable analogy: Order a plate of gobi manchurian(7 pieces) for a team of ten. Out of which five people will be ladies, so the overacting rule applies and they wont touch it( I just saw a lady take a hairline of onion from it and say its too oily. The others will say, ya by looking at it only i felt that). The other dudes are also no less of a natak company, one takes one piece then the other says hes full already and cuts a piece into one third. This goes on for about half an hour until then one or two pieces will be remaining on the plate glaring your eyes. You think a lot and about to grab those then a good Samaritan takes away the plate to the wash room.
8. Always use the terms "ping", "doze", "pretext", "in the loop", "contemplate". Also when you are in office you MUST be secular.
9. You MUST hate Pj's and laugh at some recondite jokes that one may feel don't even classify as jokes. Also never have a complete laugh flashing your teeth, just put on an artificial laugh.
10. You MUST love movies like "Pursuit of happyness", "Hotel Rwanda","The pianist","Saving Private Ryan","Schindler's list","No Man's land", "Blood Diamond" and all the movies that deal with social cause and the movies about some countries called Somalia, Zimbabwe. I agree that some of the movies listed here are good, but for God's sake all these movies deal with great pain, suffering; when you are already locked in a cubicle for 9 hours, and other n number of problems haunting you, why the f*** do you want to add more.

Actually lot more points can be added but this is what i recalled just now coming back from office (Ya its a Saturday!!) and yes, some were purposefully deleted for obvious reasons. Also any resemblance to any person may NOT be entirely co-incidental. Finally its just my opinion!!!

BaDi baDi deshon mein choti choti baatein.....

I had been to my grandma's place last weekend. Its a village, but was packed with surprises. Visiting this place after about 3 years.

#My cousin asked me what kind of a mobile phone do I own? I said 2300. He told me that's not even in the market now, why don't you buy a N95 showing me his new N73. He went on explaining me all its features; about 270 songs in it, and the videos he had recorded and a movie he had saved in there. I was like wowww!!! Then gathering my left over dignity, I asked why don't you buy an ipod. To which he replied, this one already has 2 Gb memory capacity which pretty much suffices my current needs. Stumped yet again!!
#He then asked me how much do i make per month(This is the most embarrassing question). I casually picked a random value and said 25K. He replied, In Bangalore 25k is like 5k in here. And he went on about a "memory card" manufacturing unit that is going to open in that village and the trainer gets 40K. My mom hearing this was like what company do you work in again? Why don't you switch companies blah blah....
#And comes the most obvious question, why did not I get a job in Infosys, Wipro. This time I had gathered all the courage and gave a satisfactory answer. My uncle was like, whatever you say nowadays engineers don't have much value, because "US IS DOWN". I was speechless!!!
#Then my cousin told me lets watch a movie. He had just got a Raaz movie DVD. He connected most of the cables. But the sound could not be heard. I thought let me help them with the color coding. He said to me don't touch the yellow cable as the video is already proper!!!

After all this next day was watching last part of some kannada movie. Usual story; hero extremely rich, currently poisoned and unconscious, villains troubling his mother, mom calls his name twice, hero wakes up fights and kills all bad guys. His mother now calls him in a typical style "Kanda baaa kandaa ninna taayi maDiligee baa". Hero running in slow motion towards his mother collapses suddenly. Next scene hospital; doctors say an impossible case. Hero's mother is like my son had fallen once from train and has survived, a sanke bite could not do any harm, he is chiranjeevi blah blah... And then she slowly enters the hospital room. Hero lying there. At the end hero survives...Stumped!!! Just guess hows that possible now.