My Name Is Khan !!

What a farce it was? With so much of hype all around for this movie (apparently for right reasons given the ugly political face it has to see), it was a sheer disappointment in the end! Yes, it was SRK and Kajol together after eight long years and a lovely chemistry they shared once again; but still the film falls flat on its face. Very well shot movie and merely appreciable performances shall be the last good words I can talk about this movie. Songs just come and go and you realize, perhaps, a little later.

The treatment of this movie was neither raw, which was required for such a plot, nor larger than life for which the Bollywood is known all over and is indeed the quintessential characteristic of the Indian cinema. Story of an Asperger Syndrome affected protagonist who traveled across the continent to tell "My Name Is Khan and I am not a terrorist" to the US President. At the face of it, it does look like addressing a grave issue. Grave indeed, but it was never built as grave in the movie. Traditionally you go to a KJo movie with a ransack full of tissue papers but this time it was not the case. Perhaps, a gallon of Navratan mint oil would have helped to cool down the head. I can't resist recollecting how Tom Hanks portrayed his disillusioned self in "Forrest Gump" many many years ago and such a nice detached narrative that the movie is still called a cult and a classic. Here protagonist's narration just didn't touch at all. I didn't mean to compare chalk and cheese nevertheless as I said "I can't resist". The film does have a noble message and the lengths granted for that makes it look preachy at times. Just like the melodrama of national anthem in K3G, KJo has gone a step ahead to make the lead pair and Katrina hurricane terrorized blacks back in Georgia hymn this in Hindi as well as line to line English transcript. It was simply awkward!

I came out of the theater a little misled and confused. I neither felt happy nor dejected, rather confused. May be actors aced to their abilities but the "brave" director Mr. KJo had perhaps a bad stomach directing it. Not to forget that I have lost all my respect for the critics who I am sure can be bought by big banners.

Shopping bonanza!!

Shopping is a damn tiring exercise ... just walking around in big malls and worse still ... hopping from one to another. Yeah yeah ... the sale season is just starting and the civilization demands some "human" disguise to be maintained in the 21st century ... and well, that requires to go shopping. While I gaze on so many shelves around me with abundance of clothes on it; why the hell on earth does it happen that whichever I pick so lovingly either doesn't fit me or my wallet just goes hiding seeing the price tag. Perhaps, Mr. Murphy cursed me in some forgone age.

And the bonanza it became when I got my hands on few classics from Bollywood, of that old age Guru Dutt's era. Movies, shoes, flip-flop, apparel ... oh my! ... am I on song? May be not, but de-stressed to some extent and now all set to face another week at work :)

2010 !!

The New Year 2010 beckons us ... and I am sitting with dreamy wide eyes looking at it with all earnestness as I could gather. Incidentally the second day of the year brings my birthday and the loss of pepper is making salt stronger with the advent of time. Is that making me wiser ... ahem! ... well the time will tell its own story!

So with this event the most talked about things are about the "New Year Resolutions". Interesting it is ... So what are mine? Doing good at work has remained at the top for few years now, rather for many years irrespective of how it has been. But it will be wiser to just not run the goose chase and think smart and start choosing. I should be more careful with my choices and remain objective. Emotion and passion are quintessential for anything anywhere but not while making choices. Start preparing for the next leap and reach another level this year. Basic idea is to remain bullish about the growth.

Go buy a shining new car, preferably a sedan or an SUV :D Money matter has always baffled me, so I will educate myself about it. Earn more, invest well and regularly, and make it grow. Make more use of my brain and do things outside the purview of what my work demands. I was damn active during my studying days and there is no reason it can't come back. Watch a lot of movies, come out of only Bollywood music and expand the horizons. Start reading and writing literary things more and more. Travel is big on my list. How charming the idea itself is to visit places within and outside the country. Nothing can beat to bring back the envied fitness levels and that requires big discipline and correct state of mind. And I must do it for the sake of myself and none else.

Besides, it will be nice to settle down in a marriage this year. So looking out for a companion this year will be another interesting thing in life. Resolutions are usually made to be broken, but the life gets changed and you get charge if you manage the bull's eye for all the targets. Time isn't short if the determination is iron-clad. Happy New Year!!