Wake Up Sid ...

Have started writing this on 2nd October the day I watched Wake Up Sid but some how din't complete it.

So that day Me, Dev and Innocent Devil went to watch Wake Up Sid. Well as most of you might have already seen it so not much to say about it.

It’s nice movie, one time watch types but could have been much better.

The reason I wanted to write about it is the incident that happened while we were watching the film. The film has one or two touching scenes between Ranbir Kapoor and Supriya Pathak who plays his Mom in the movie.

First when Ranbir is at his home all frustrated and shocked knowing that he has failed his exams and his Mom starts saying that how could you fail so he shouts that “What you know about passing and failing when you yourself have never been to school”

Then after a fight with his Dad on that he leaves home.

Then when he is shooting( clicking photos) his next door neighbor and her child he remembers his mother and goes back to meet her. Her mother has a habit of trying to talk to him in English and since she doesn’t know a word of it she generally sounds very funny and weird. So at that time he tells her Mom why you try to talk to me in English when you don’t know it. Then his mother says that its because as she feels that then only she has a chance of becoming his friend and it seriously makes you feel so bad thinking all the time when your parents try to do things which they don’t know how to do but they still try just for the sake of their child. For example like your mother trying to eat in a restaurant with a fork and spoon just not to embarrass you (My mom was the only person in my family who used to eat Dosa so elegantly and easily with fork and spoon and it was we who used to embarrass her by eating with our hand), so this example is more from a TV Advertisement in which the Mom who is around 60 years old sitting in a 5 star hotel looks so confused seeing all the people around her eating with fork and spoon, so on noticing that her son puts his fork and spoon down and starts eating with his hands and signals his mom to start eating, ending her confusion.

Well coming back to the incident that happened. So after this scene made me emotional, wanting to talk to my Mom and in general the atmosphere touchy, the movie continued. After 10-15 minutes of that scene the phone of the person who was sitting behind me ranged and it was his Mom. I just happened to listen to the conversation as he was sitting so close. His Mom was inquiring about his health and whether he has taken his medicines or not but he very abruptly hanged the phone telling her that he was in a meeting and will talk later.

Ok now I am not commenting whether what the guy did was right or wrong but I just felt bad. I don’t know may be I have lied to my Mom a hell lot of times when I was a kid but now I know one person with whom I can be honest is My Mom. Anyways she is “Mother” so no matter how hard you try you can never lie to her, she understands you so well that she will at once catch you lying or will understand the thing without the need to give an excuse or lie.

I don’t have to tell her that I was out with my friends watching a movie she will get it anyway so what’s the need to lie?

Anyways I guess the scene before and the incident that followed made me just little upset with people in general.

The movie again highlights how important it is for people to understand their responsibilities, to value their parents who have sacrificed and tried so much for their children. And of course the fact that friends are always there and forever and if you have any such friend just hold them tightly.

Nevertheless a time pass movie especially watching with two most eligible bachelors :- p.

PS: I might have goofed up with the exact wordings of the dialogue I cited as its been long since I watched it.

Hit by Recession...

The whole world since last few months have been hit by grave economic recession which has rendered so many people jobless, have shutdown so many factories, even forced people to kill themselves and their families. Anyways I am not going to write about that in this post although last week I had a direct impact of that at my work place...but anyways.

This recession is the recession of the hair line...Although I should have written about this when this thing was brought to our group’s notice by Mr NRI, but at that time it was more of something that amused me than causing any unwanted concern.

When guys are growing up, actually have never heard from any of the girl about this, so I am not generalizing it for both the sexes, so I was saying that when guys are growing up they generally worry about having a girlfriend which according to me, as I have understood now with age, is more of a desire to have a companion with whom you can share yourself, which again for me can be refined as something independent of the sex of the person, I mean now I feel that the companion can be a guy or a girl but just someone close and now since we all are on the verge of completing our silver jubilee in this world and most of us are either still Single and Available or in some cases Single and (Un)Available so that factor of concern has lost some of its desperation. So as pointed by Mr NRI, we have a new concern for this age that is concern for our receding hair line.

When he came to India last Diwali, he was always spotted wearing a cap. So after some successful persuasion we were able to see what lied beneath that and to my astonishment all the free flowing long strands of hair that he used to sport in college was now replaced by a growth of tiny hairs which resembled a freshly mowed lawn.
Initially we thought that as he has become half Chinki, so he is sporting a hairstyle like those people but then with a heavy heart he told us that the water of abroad has not suited him and because of that he is having a very rapid hair loss. Each day he is scared to look at the bathroom floor after having a bath as instead of water the whole floor gets covered with his hair. He has been losing sleep over that and had been asking people who once sported long hair to get some remedy. This all amused me , as I thought what’s the big deal. Anyways its hereditary in my family, so anyhow I am going to be bald like my Dad and my uncles, so it didn’t concern me much. But I always knew that Mr NRI will be over cautious about such things. It was quite amusing to see him literally count the hair of every male friend he met and it was fun to see him give a sigh of relieve saying “Iske mujhse kam hai :)”.

So he decided that before going back he will see a Hair specialist and will get some medicine. He also decided to get bald before he leaves, so that he can grow it from start :) and will also be able to find the spots which have become barren, so that he can treat those areas.

So every time we met, he used to wear a cap, even when he cooked dinner for all of us so that none of his hairs can make their way to the delicious food they cooked for us. Even Innocent Devil shared his experience about hair loss, which was very evident at last holi when these guys smeared his scalp with colours. He shared the info from the doctor he met, what remedies he mentioned etc. Even Chuck Norris mentioned about the treatment he is undergoing. He told us to use a mild shampoo everyday and not to apply oil.

Overall it was an entertaining experience for me to see them change with age :)

Now I think the next area of concern for them is marriage. Already all of them are fighting not to be the first among the group to get married. And hopefully one of them will succumb to pressure :)

Something Cheesy - I

I watched Ghajini this weekend...And as most have already seen or at least heard it’s really a nice movie.
And to put it in Mr. Innocent Devil’s word “The way the sequence of action and romance was shown in the movie, makes it stand out from the rest”. Completely agree. The mixture and the way it was mixed were good.
In fact I did not find it that action packed and I will call it more of tragic love story. (Did someone shout Eureka :)...Ya I know that is what it is and I did not observe anything new :) )
There was a very interesting scene when the Girl Kalpana (As-In) says yes to Sanjay's proposal was quite amusing. It goes like this... (I might have forgotten the words)
Kalpana – Maine 1 baje tak socha ki main tumse pyar kyun karun
Phir Maine 2 baje tak socha karne me kya burai hai
Phir maine 3 baje socha chalo try karke hi dekhte hai
I love you.........
He he he he..... you need to see the scene to know what I am talking about. It was like dude is Love so simple :)
The characterisation of the girl is awesome, a real “fall in love when you meet” kind of character.

There is a song in the movie “Kaise mujhe tum mil gae...” When I first heard and saw this song, I thought why a guy is saying “Kaise mujhe tum mil gae” in such a, I won’t say sad or depressing, but a very low sounding way...it got to have been a happy moment or song for him...that’s why I didn’t like this song earlier and even when Mr Dev recommended me this song I did not like it much. But now after seeing the movie I feel it is the most strategically placed song I have seen (May be all the songs are done in that way only but again a Eureka moment for me :) ). The situations and scenes around that song is so perfectly placed that you heart cry out with the hero “Kaise mujhe tum mil gae, kismet pe aae na Yakeen”...So another song to my “He Sings “list. :)

After that I watched “Get Smart”...I HAD to watch it :) :) :)
Well the movie is, as mentioned to me “supposedly comic” and has Khali as one of the characterisation, and “He does not have a small role, he does have a substantial role” :) :) :) :)
I liked it for sure.
And it’s about a Detective who worked as an analyst and always dreamt of becoming a field agent one day and because of some lack of resource situation is provided an opportunity and then embarks on an unintentional funny adventure along with his beautiful partner Agent 99 in quest of the terrorists and nuclear weapons and that’s what makes it such a nice watch. It’s somewhat similar to “Jhony English” ...Pardon me if the description is bit lousy.
In this movie the first encounter of the hero “Max” with agent 99 is quite cheesy.
The heroine is jogging on the street when she collides with the hero. And he starts flirting with her. Then she asks him
Agent 99 - “Are you flirting with me?”
Max – “It depends .....Is it working?”
Agent 99 – “Not at all...”
Max (very calmly) – “Then I am not...”

Now a tough job... Have to name this post...Can’t name it “Kaise mujhe tum miloge”, already named some other post that :)

I think the main reason I started writing this was because of two amusing incidents in both the movies and there have been many such scenes in various movies that amuses me for their cheesy nature..so I will name it as “Something cheesy - I” (Yes I, as there will be many sequels to this :) )