Confused Soul

There are movies, every time you watch them and you like it more and especially when you watch it twice on consecutive days. Delhi6 is a movie which belongs to this genre. I was waiting for this movie eagerly and I have seen this movie consecutively on last Saturday and Sunday and found it equally appealing in both attempts.

I don’t want to play a spoilsport and narrate the story. In fact there is nothing you can tell about the movie and that can play the spoiler. This movie is very predictable and still doesn’t kill the curiosity. Like ‘Chak De’ and ‘Lagaan’, everyone knows about the result but still their heart pounds heavily on every Shot-Goal-Run. The concept is awesome and direction is out of words. This film shows how a Muslim can be a devotee of lord Hanuman and how the childhood friends can go after each others life when it comes to their religion. This is a movie with some of the most amazing songs and dialogues in recent past. I can’t help myself praising the dialogues of the movie every now and then... And there is nothing left to say about the songs.

Some of the dialogues, which I want to write at this point but you can relate it better when you watch the movie:

"Nal mein paani ho na ho, aankhon ka paani hamesha barasne ko taiyaar rehta hai".

"Yahan Bhagwaan bhi KURSI ka matlab jaante hai"

“Jis din Ek NOTE le leta, Do SIKKE milna band ho jaate”

“izhaar kar do barkhurdar, varna hamari tarah khali haweliyaan kharidate reh jaayoge” (don’t remember exactly)

"Main ye nahi jaanti ki mujhe kya chahiye, par ye jaanti hoon ki kya nahi chahiye."

Also I was surprised to see that “Rehna Tu” song is not for Sonam Kapoor, watch and find for whom it is...

Also like he did in ‘RDB’, Rakeysh relate every event with the events of RAMAYAN and that too not in RDB style. In RDB there was a background scene for relation with the freedom struggle but here the director chose to go with Ramlila. Ramlila is shown so beautifully that I have already made my mind to go there once in upcoming season.

This is a movie, to which every Indian (Delhite more specifically)can relate no matter if he is an absolute Indian or an NRI. The feelings have been shown beautifully and the director believed in the power of expressions more than the power of words. Sonam Kapoor is looking like totally opposite as she was in ‘Saawariyan’ and in my opinion everyone will like this new Sonam more than the ‘Saawariyan’ one. This new Sonam looks more promising and has shown that she can perform if directed well. This bubbly and cheerful girl surely deserves the accolade. Abhishek Bachchan, Om Puri, Divya Dutta, Deepak Dobriyal, Vijay Raaj and Atul Kulkarni also delivered some good performances.

On the other hand, I felt that the movie was a bit fast in first half and a bit slow in the second half. There was an extra stretch of 15-20 minute which can be omitted and can convert it in a better art. Also I didn’t like the climax, I felt that the hero should not get life-after-death. If the movie ended at the shotgun sound, it could create more impact than it did. And that is something, which keeps RDB better than this. Also I would like the album of Delhi6 more if they could include the Ramlila tracks in that.

On a final note, it's a worth watch and you should go for it:

The life has changed and so the look and feel of this blog...

I have spent some time to restructure this blog, which include:

• Change Schema, which includes change of the HEADER.
• Proper labeling of posts (Earlier I used to label a post by everything contained in the posts, now I divided the post in some categories.)
• Introduced an animated Label Cloud.
• Removing Sponsors.

I believe that the readers will like the new look :)... Also I shall try to be more regular as I was earlier. Since last few months, I was busy with some other things so I could not give much time to this blog.

Very rarely, a movie based on a book is better than its inspiration. Slumdog Millionaire belongs to this rare category. I watched the flick sometime back and then I got to read the book after it... trust me, the movie came out N times better than the book (N>1).

For those, who don’t have a background, Danny Boyle picked an Indian book named Q&A by Vikas Swaroop and created a master-piece called ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. The movie and the book convey the idea how someone grown up in slums (or you can say in the worst of conditions) won a huge amount in one of the quiz shows and became a suspect of cheating. Now he narrated about how he came to know the answers of the typical questions asked in the show in the course of his run to win the largest amount ever in a quiz show.

In Q&A, the protagonist named Ram Mohammad Thomas is alone in his journey of life. He met various people and events in his life through which he came to know about the answers of each question asked on the quiz. The protagonist was abandoned and a priest from church found him. But the stories behind each question in the show don’t seem very realistic in the book. Also the book doesn’t create the curiosity... you can easily guess what will be the next question deriving from the story and most of the time you find yourself correct.

In Slumdog Millionaire, they didn’t copy the book as it is... Took some question (3-4, which seem realistic)... And altered the story completely. Here the guy is from the slums of Mumbai who lost his mother in some communal riots. He also has an elder brother who always has a command over the protagonist. They also introduced a girl who is always in the centre and the hero (salim here) always looks for her. Eventually, he meets the events that enable him to answer the quiz questions. The storyline for both the book and the movie is less or more similar but the movie creates curiosity.

Also in the book the purpose of the protagonist of attending the quiz show was not only to catch up with big bucks but also to take revenge from the host. The same didn’t happen in the movie. The book is more into relationships but the movie is more into only one relationship LOVE.

Both are good but if you have seen the movie, I don’t think that you will like the book much. Though I met many contradictory posts, which claims the book to be better, I personally felt that in the war between the two, SLUMDOG has an edge over Q&A.

I wanted to write many things on this blog but I could not because of lack of time these days. I just want to enumerate those things which I could not write so that if I will get time in future, I will write about those. So what all I wanted to write about is:

1. The Rickshaw-waala outside Adobe building in Noida, who plays a flute almost daily. He truly enjoys life and gives pleasure to others. There was a lot he offers to learn.
2. My change of workplace.
3. The last movie I went with my friends@Adobe: DASVIDANIYA.
4. Trip to Hyderabad.
5. My farewell, which my Adobe friends organized for me.
6. The last (almost)night-out@Adobe (Bhavya's bowling style, Abhinav's baloon shaped human face and Kshitiz's MASTANASAUR).
   
7. The lad who was asking for money to have dinner and was ready for momos when I offered him the egg-role.
   
8. And many other things, I am not able to recall this time…

I shall edit this post if I recall more things later on…

I am back after a long break but still I believe that I will not be as regular as I was in the past. There are many reasons for it and I am not getting enough time for writing regularly. I hope that everything will get settled in next few weeks and I will write much regularly as I'm doing now days. Also, I am not going to list the changes with me in past few weeks but a change in the attitude of daily-earners of our society.

Foreigners always think India as a land of snack-charmers, the poor and beggars. Though I am not a supporter of this theory but it is true to some extent at least to the beggar thing. Every time you stop at a red light or coming out of a temple a hand will come towards you to beg. Sometimes the owner of that hand carries a baby in her (mostly her) lap or the owner is itself a baby. But what I saw in last few days, since I started going to work on bike riding 45 kilometres daily early in the morning in this winter, I realized that the young genre of these poor has a lot of respect in themselves. In Delhi, it is not common that you get a boy with a cloth in his hand and start clearing your car/bike on a red light. But I have seen a lad daily on a red light clearing people’s vehicle and then forward his hand. Though it is also a forced employment but much better than begging.

Though I didn’t contribute anything but I really admire the self-respect of that boy and hope that other will also get inspired form him.

I read following lines some where from Sarveshwar Dayal Saxena and liked them a lot. I found a trueness in the words of the poet and feel a new strength with in me repeating these lines again and again. I thought of sharing it with you guys and hope the readers will also find it good.

शक्ति अगर सीमित है
तो हर चीज अशक्त भी है,
भुजाएं अगर छोटी है
तो सागर भी सिमटा हुआ है,
सामर्थ्य केवल इच्छा का दूसरा नाम है,
जीवन और म्रत्यु के बीच जो भूमि है,
वो नियति की नही, मेरी है

Don't want to write much...

Just want to show you the collage, my friends presented at my last day @Adobe...


I felt so touched, it was awesome... Sharing office space with you guys made workplace a lot happier :-)

Thanks U guys, will miss U :-)

Because of space crunch, two of my friends share a cubicle in office . They developed a very good understanding sitting in the same cubicle and evolved a new concept of CUBE-CHARA (derived from bhai-chara)... Here are some definitions, 3 of us evolved...

Cube-Chara: Two buffaloes in same cubicle and happily share their food (chara) ...

Derived words:

• Cu(Kyu)-Bechara: (why 2 buffalos are living on the diet of only one)
• Cabin-chara: Ca-bin-chara: ke-bin-chara: BAKRI(hidden)-ke-bin-chara

Anti-cube-chara: I heared this word today and two meanings came in my mind:

1. Two buffaloes share cube but not share chara
2. Two buffaloes in different cubes sahre their chara

But actual meaning, I got from one of the buffaloes, was almost similar to my 1st perception: Two buffaloes share a cube but one buffalo eats all the chara (poor second buffalo na :P)

Currently, what I can see @ orkut is "The guy who reads your fortune lost his psychic powers (and his job). We hope you are feeling lucky."...

How do I suppose to react???