Since the day I saw trailers being aired, I started counting days. Fever simply grew and my anticipation was running wild. We were expecting an opulent saga drawn in love. Eight years gap added on to our conviction. I behaved with audacity in putting up a blog dedicated especially to Mr. Adi’s earlier flicks.
Music was good. I liked it. But sadly, from the start itself, I just liked it. It wasn’t the stuff I expected lacking that versatility and soul. I didn’t have any options rather than being optimistic about the whole thing and hence I just gave the feeling a passé holding on to hope that it has got to be the movie which will be the real trick. What with the music? But what a disappointment it was. It was real looser. I liked the way it started and everything I saw; I felt it certainly will stand up to my expectations. It was moving fast, scenes had that extra magic specially added, and I felt that I was in for something quite different. Another thirty minutes and the real drama started. They expected me to believe that a man with trimmed hairs and moustache can pass on that easily as a separate existence itself. They expected me to believe that a girl, all set to marry her love, doesn’t even care to think of him once after his death. They expected me to forget that here is a lady who has just suffered a loss which sums up her father too. They expected me to believe that god certainly exits in a form in that someone special and that can happen like the way it happened out there…..close your eyes, pray to god and ask him to show you the same…and ooppss!!!….just open up and see that someone in front. They expected me to believe that love happened for the leading lady without a hint for us as to how it happened and that to an extent that she agrees to flee. They expected me to believe that the other SRK was real cool(he seemed more pathetic and boring than Suri itself…with all those put ons…hope the spiky look could have all been that is needed…….at least I felt so). I must say that my expectations from the movie were killed due to so many expectations that the movie maker had from the viewers.
Critics said that the movie was contrived. I go by the same. It doesn’t look like an honest effort at all except for the start. The lead actors were awesome in their acts but still, the poor scripting and the second supposed to be cool spiky SRK……ah….I just can’t express what I went through whenever I used to hear “Taani partner”…..on screen. It was an experience which will certainly be hard to forget. Might be true that some of the greatest of movies you love were never made, they just happened. Just that they happened twice with Mr. Adi and I mistook it for something called talent. I just pray….that if ever again Adi comes up with another release……..may god give me the power too, to withstand the movie all through coz the way he have started putting things on screen, he has become a real killer of time, expectations and presentation.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
A Proactive Text
I hate inspirational and self-help books. My affair with reading started from Sheldon and after having made a complete go for around seven to eight authors, am totally a fiction lover with my heart always rating Rowling as the best. A day back in my life, I got a chance to peek into one of those boring, dreamy, faith restoring books of self improvement and came across a word as the first chapter which I can never ignore in life. That word is “proactive” taught to me by someone I can never forgive in my life but still, just to have a look and to get the picture; I read on and ended up at page sixty-nine. Quite surprisingly, the text put up some questions which i still don’t have answers for. Let me share the thing. Hope every one turns out wiser than me. :))
As per the text, every one has his/her own internal freedom. Good or bad or best or worse, but every mortal has that freedom inside to project his perceptions in the way he likes and choose his/her own response. That freedom of choosing one’s own behavior to a situation or a scene is always with that oneself. No one can curb or take it. It’s totally at one’s own command. As a scene, I might want to react to someone’s saying in an instant in front of that very face or I might prefer terming it. So baseline, I have that freedom to choose my response. One might consider all these scenes stimuli for us to act. They are certainly which do trigger the cells in us. And as every stimulus has a reaction, and since every response is with us to decide, logically it gets proved that me, as an individual is responsible for all that I have and all that I have faced and done. On the road ahead, text has to say that responsibility can be split up as response and ability. One has two circles, circle of influence and circle of concern. Circle of concern has all that one can never do anything about and the other that of influence has got all that one can do. And to have yourself got counted in being proactive, you need to understand that proactive people are those who can subdue their stimuli and choose their reactions. There in lies their power and certainly can lead to increase of circle of influence. Phewwww!!!!!!
What is stated above is my version of points I remember after a night’s sleep and a day’s work. But there are questions to answer. If I certainly can choose my own response at my will to a situation, have I done that ever correctly? I can answer that……..I haven’t. What’s at stake if I start now? I can answer that too………nothing. So finally, did I try it for at least a day? I can answer that too…..yes I did and I already know the difference. What is it that can put me off-track? I can answer that……………….my heart.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power…….the freedom to choose.
I carry on with a little change to certain things, to see how it fares. If hours can count, then it did well for the last twenty two hours. But, what I wonder is, can one certainly choose that inner freedom in a complete sense? Feel free to answer them for yourself. I have already answered them for myself and I know yours too. :))
As per the text, every one has his/her own internal freedom. Good or bad or best or worse, but every mortal has that freedom inside to project his perceptions in the way he likes and choose his/her own response. That freedom of choosing one’s own behavior to a situation or a scene is always with that oneself. No one can curb or take it. It’s totally at one’s own command. As a scene, I might want to react to someone’s saying in an instant in front of that very face or I might prefer terming it. So baseline, I have that freedom to choose my response. One might consider all these scenes stimuli for us to act. They are certainly which do trigger the cells in us. And as every stimulus has a reaction, and since every response is with us to decide, logically it gets proved that me, as an individual is responsible for all that I have and all that I have faced and done. On the road ahead, text has to say that responsibility can be split up as response and ability. One has two circles, circle of influence and circle of concern. Circle of concern has all that one can never do anything about and the other that of influence has got all that one can do. And to have yourself got counted in being proactive, you need to understand that proactive people are those who can subdue their stimuli and choose their reactions. There in lies their power and certainly can lead to increase of circle of influence. Phewwww!!!!!!
What is stated above is my version of points I remember after a night’s sleep and a day’s work. But there are questions to answer. If I certainly can choose my own response at my will to a situation, have I done that ever correctly? I can answer that……..I haven’t. What’s at stake if I start now? I can answer that too………nothing. So finally, did I try it for at least a day? I can answer that too…..yes I did and I already know the difference. What is it that can put me off-track? I can answer that……………….my heart.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power…….the freedom to choose.
I carry on with a little change to certain things, to see how it fares. If hours can count, then it did well for the last twenty two hours. But, what I wonder is, can one certainly choose that inner freedom in a complete sense? Feel free to answer them for yourself. I have already answered them for myself and I know yours too. :))
Sunday, November 9, 2008
My second Love..
I never like putting in something regarding something I love, for public display. But still, just to have it as a part of my page, let me put in a few words about my second love. It’s a DELL XPS 1530. Her persona includes 4GB of RAM with an Intel Core-2 Duo 2.4GHz processor having 250GB of space and a NVIDIA 8600 graphics card.
Choosing her was tough. I was confused changing attributes every hour. After a lot, I settled for three configurations for a start. Google days and nights followed with me sneaking into forums in between my work. The hardest part to decide was how long I wanted it to be there for me. I had read somewhere that 2GB works wonders. I read somewhere that NVIDIA 8400 rocks. I read somewhere that 2.1 GHz of processing is cool. Initially, I had a mix of all these in my mind. But I made a mistake I guess…..i took time. But as love is blind and nothing really matters and everything has to fall in place, I went in for a grade more in almost every section that mattered when it comes to computers. What followed is out here.
I might be crazy and might be behaving in an unsocial manner but movies and games, they rule my day. I thrive on them and they are my necessities of existence as my life becomes more and more parameterized. Friendship is something which is too much to ask for from anyone. Things have changed a lot since I landed up at Hyderabad. The city is special to me in its own way. I am self made. I believe in doing what I like and mistakes are something which I never repent for. I still think that given the same life, same people around, and same circumstances and with the same frame that I am, I will go on the same way all over again. I don’t have anything to repent for, till date. Hyderabad taught me what loneliness is. How it feels and what it takes to deal with it. I had to take refuge. Not that I didn’t had prior exposure to it, but that I was normal in my behavior when it came to computers. I had a desktop, but there was little that I could do with it. It started going bad and one day, it was time to let it go. I had it for five years with me. But as they say, and as I had already become a computer lover, my dependencies on movies and games became huge with time. Three movies and four hours of gaming on a holiday was all I looked up to after 5 days of work and boredom. And that’s how it all happened.
It was a Tuesday, I came back from work to find it right there in my bedroom. It was one of a kind of feeling. Maybe another four years or so, and it will be gone and I shall be looking out for another make, but still, first love is first love. Nothing ever replaces the same.
Choosing her was tough. I was confused changing attributes every hour. After a lot, I settled for three configurations for a start. Google days and nights followed with me sneaking into forums in between my work. The hardest part to decide was how long I wanted it to be there for me. I had read somewhere that 2GB works wonders. I read somewhere that NVIDIA 8400 rocks. I read somewhere that 2.1 GHz of processing is cool. Initially, I had a mix of all these in my mind. But I made a mistake I guess…..i took time. But as love is blind and nothing really matters and everything has to fall in place, I went in for a grade more in almost every section that mattered when it comes to computers. What followed is out here.
I might be crazy and might be behaving in an unsocial manner but movies and games, they rule my day. I thrive on them and they are my necessities of existence as my life becomes more and more parameterized. Friendship is something which is too much to ask for from anyone. Things have changed a lot since I landed up at Hyderabad. The city is special to me in its own way. I am self made. I believe in doing what I like and mistakes are something which I never repent for. I still think that given the same life, same people around, and same circumstances and with the same frame that I am, I will go on the same way all over again. I don’t have anything to repent for, till date. Hyderabad taught me what loneliness is. How it feels and what it takes to deal with it. I had to take refuge. Not that I didn’t had prior exposure to it, but that I was normal in my behavior when it came to computers. I had a desktop, but there was little that I could do with it. It started going bad and one day, it was time to let it go. I had it for five years with me. But as they say, and as I had already become a computer lover, my dependencies on movies and games became huge with time. Three movies and four hours of gaming on a holiday was all I looked up to after 5 days of work and boredom. And that’s how it all happened.
It was a Tuesday, I came back from work to find it right there in my bedroom. It was one of a kind of feeling. Maybe another four years or so, and it will be gone and I shall be looking out for another make, but still, first love is first love. Nothing ever replaces the same.
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