If You Love Someone, You See God In him/her

This is the punch line from the movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.

The long name of the movie is in sync with the length of the movie :)

Well, it was only 2.5 hours long, but i felt i twas close to 3 full hours..

May be , coz it was HEAVILY dragging at some points.

Two points, to be precise.. Keep these aside, and its a very nice movie.

Alright, the storyline is far from realistic.

But then not many movies of realistic story have come in these days.

If you have a hero, in hunt of his wife's killer, you dont call that a realistic movie either.

Let me not get into that :P

The movie starts off at Amritsar railway station, and the entire story happens here.

Our hero (well, he is far from a 'hero' ) is an average Indian - think of 1 litre oil on head, thick glasses, faded dress, and a super boring bag to carry your laptop. Of course, the bag has a boring print on it - that was a complement bag for sure.

In highly unfortunate (?) circumstances, our hero gets a life partner, who is on the other extreme. A jovial, flying, running, chubby, smiley thing. Now, this girl has her own problems. The hero is a decent gentleman, who doesnt bother/trouble anyone. The result - they live under one roof alright, but hero on first floor, and she in the ground floor.

The story takes not-so-believable turns from here, before ending with a few emotional sequences in the end..

The pick of the songs is "Tujh mein rab dikhta hai". Roop Kumar Rathore has sung this. There is a Shreya Ghoshal version too. Then the song "Haule Haule" which has come in promo clips. the good thing about this song, is the way it was shot.

Found the making of Haule Haule here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK60sfqn0s0

The movie has a few moments here and there.

And a few gimmicks by the hero himself.

A touch of humor here and there.

The color sense of our hero is also notable - yellow suitcase, yellow tiffin carrier, yellow car :P

The movie ended at 1.20AM, and the Plutonians had a race between them, to reach home. Gas and Rag should have become Sticker at the Koramangala Water tank signal, had that truck driver not stopped! Very dangerous! Not to be tried again...

Rating: Average
(Must Watch/Average/Dont Go)

Pluto News

1. Rat got an image make-over, of the unexpected (unwanted) sorts :P

2. Sow went to office again over the weekend, for doing laundry (what else :D )

3. Bin skipped weekend office trips due to unavoidable circumstances in Pluto !

4. Gasper went back home, disappointed and disheartened, as the chapathi

     served on Sunday night for dinner in Kairali want good :-)))

5. Jim went out to buy socks for dad, and came back with a brand new mobile for his dad.

The Good Do Exist !

Thalassery Bus Stand. 8.30PM

At that time of the day, the bus stand premises are more of interstate buses. The crowd will be of Bangalore-bound IT professionals. There is a tall neon lamp post - the umbrella type, with so many lamps on the periphery - that lights up the entire area. 

Alright, the ambience description is not going to add any beauty to the story. And well, its not a 'story' either. Its a true incident :-)

Rat reached the bus stand by 8.15PM. Collected the boarding pass from the Travel Agency. And is waiting near the bus bay for the bus to arrive. For a normal IT fellow, who doesnt have an 8GB ipod or a high end mp3-camera featured mobile phone, the only timepass will be to run the eyes through the happenings around.. It was a Tuesday evening. And not the normal Sunday rush could be seen. Just a few fellows here and there..

A gang of 3 caught my notice. Coz they were discussing the Mumbai blasts and the fall-outs from that. Obviously from the IT fraternity, well-dressed and visibly 'informed' about the global happenings..

Not far from me, and the trio gang, was spotted one of those dint-eat-for-weeks persons... Aged, shabbily dressed, he came straight to me. And I nodded him off, as I always do..

He went to the trio gang.. They are not directly in my line of sight now, as they are behind me. Couldnt really make out what they told him. I assumed, they too got rid of him. Not any sounds from there, after some time.. Curious, I looked around.. I found the old man walking towards the nearby street food vendor. He got a plate of meal. The trio paid. All this while, never sympathetic, pun-making or to best put it, not even interested in bothering what the old man is upto. 

The old man happily finished his meal, and left.

The trio still discussing global financial crisis :)

What I liked about them is that their thought-process. They could have easily shown him the door. Or rather, give him a few coins to get rid of him. But instead, they extended the right kind of help, in the right amount.

Felt like walking up to them and telling "right thing to do".

But the bus came, and I got in..

(Even otherwise, the Mr.Serious in moi wouldnt have walked up to them :D)

OPT: Movie Review Vaaranam Aayiram

For quite a few weeks, I had been referring to it as Varnam Aayiram (1000 colors).

And I thought it was silly from the part of the makers of the movie to mess up the spelling of such a hyped movie.. But then I was wrong. But the fact is , even now, I'm clueless on what 'Vaaranam' means.. The in-house language specialist, Mr Jim, has no clue either :P

About the movie..

There is a very nice write-up on the web, alongside this youtube video of the peppy song "Adiye Kolluthey" from the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hKC0qlEo2c

For those who cannot access it, I have reproduced the text, with due courtesy to the original author. Find it here .

My views on the movie:

1. Super duper hardwork by Surya

2. Very nice casting

3. Good songs.

4. A lil dragging/lengthy coz it tells the story of the hero from the time he was born (and even before he was born)

What dragged us into the movie was the song Adiye Kolluthe. The song appeared in Channel[V] even before the release of the movie. Bin saw the song, and immediately alerted me of the birth of a new hit in the list. A lil more research, and comes the 2nd hit in the list. Mundhinam Parthene. 

And then, Mr Jim was the first in our gang to go for the movie. A non-so-frequent screen-visitor, Jim came back all-high.. And went ahead to sponsor a movie for all of us :)

The trip from the theatre to home was all romantic, with all bikers doing "Mundinam Parthene" all the way :P

The pick of the songs is Mundhinam Parthene - rendered by Naresh Iyer of the "Tu Bin Bataaye" fame of RDB. Among other hits of his is "Uyirile" from Vellithirai - Prithviraj starrer. This movie, is a remake of the Malayalam flick 'Udayanaanu Thaaram'.

BTW, Mr Bin has a video made out of this song:

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=EgZkXKMc3w8

Rating: Average
(Must Watch/Average/Dont Go)

Some Interesting Lines !

Thought of writing about what happened in Mumbai, what is the gameplan behind it, what has been the result of all this and importantly, what the media had been doing all these days...

But later on decided to just stop at writing a few bulleted lines, that I came across to listening/reading in the recent days.. Of course, all with reference to the Mumbai blasts.

1. "These are non-state actors, operating within the state" - Pak

2. "To be honest, I was reluctant. But I had to listen to the call of duty" - P Chidambaram, after taking over Home Ministry

3. "Is that a hostage. No its a terrorist.. No its a hotel staff. Beg your pardon, that was a photo frame" - all news channels (pls exempt DD from that list)

4. "This is the true Mumbaikar spirit. The never-say-die spirit. Proud to be a Mumbaikar" - so many morons who live in India.

5. "After schooling, every Indian Citizen should be sent to military, for compulsory training. My son is 12 now. I'll send him to military for training, when he is grown up" - an angry Mumbaikar, who thought 'military' is a training centre somewhere near Delhi.

6."Taj should be declared a national monument" - okay, lets add Indian Railways as well.. What about Parliament ?

7. This one was interesting.. One of those talk-shows. Of course, in front of the Taj, where else. An angry political member on stage refuted to the audience cries by saying "Wake up, and cast vote! Then you can consider yourself a responsible citizen". Voice from the crowd "Give us somebody who is vote-worthy". How True ! Though an age-old excuse for no-show at polling booths, the enormous pain and mental agony and calculation that needs to be put through, to create tables listing criminal offences, and then voting for the person with a smaller number of entries is indeed a Herculean Task !

Of course, there were some in-house intelligent lines:

1. "Going to office. Need to do laundry" - Sowji, on Saturday

2. "You are not living for others, Okei?!" - Jim, undated.

3. "Need some catchy name for my cousin's college team. He is doing E&C. I suggested Jalpa" - Bin, on Dec 2

4. " :-) " - Gasper, when interrogated , Do u need some red halwa?

5. " Three Thousand Two Hundred ?? Is that for one pair of shoes ??" - Rat, at Commercial Street. Shopping for Jim

6. Dipu Jose in NY. Now Shobin Jose too, somewhere near/far San Jose. Geo christened this unique happening "Joses to Jose". (An anecdote to this, is suppressed, as it violates blogger guidelines)

7. Not very late, Gasper comes up with his creativity, when he named the Sand-Soo trip to Rajasthan - "Sand in Sand. Soo too"

8. "Strong married relations are like Dinosaurs. They dont exist" - Karan Johar :P

Need to write something on the socio-economical/political situation as well, I being a responsible citizen... ! 

There has been some strong messages sent out by pals already:

Aish - Beginning of a New End

Geo - Resignation Remedy for Mumbai Terror Attacks

The Mumbai Story

Geo wrote this. Must Read.