Few Movies

Been watching lots of movies lately. Few of them were decent.

1. Green Street Hooligans

Its a man's movie to be very straight. It involves football and fighting. You support a football club and support it, even if it takes your life.
There is this kid Matt Buckner, who is studying Journalism in Harvard and is thrown out because they find drugs in his room. The drugs belong to his room mate but he doesn't defend and fight back. He leaves Harvard and comes to London to stay with his sister.
Matt makes friends who are supporters of WestHam United Football Club. The supporters drink watch matches and then they fight with the opponent team's supporters. Don't ask me why? Its just like that always !!!
Truth not part of the film: WestHam was in a lot of controversy in 2005-2006 season and got out of it pretty easily. Simply, because it has a very old tradition of football and the club owners have very deep pockets. FA couldn't throw them out of premier league because for FA to survive they want WestHam and such clubs to play in the premier league.
Back to the movie, now this Matt kid gets pretty friendly with the WestHam supporters and gets a very high place in the West Ham Firm. They start calling him "Yankee with a funny accent".
Finally there is a FA Cup Match to be held between MillWall and WestHam, and before the match a fight breaks out and his best friend dies in it.
Matt does learn a lot of things from his stay in London, one if them is that "Sometimes it is very important to hold your ground (Being a student he should have defended himself at Harvard) but sometimes it is important to let it go (being a west Ham supporter you need not fight with the rivals every single time)"
People who understand football and have a little knowledge on how the English Clubs have their fans in gang supporting their teams, would love this movie. Not recommended for girls !!!

2. Bridge to Terabithia

Bridge on Terabithia is a really nice movie about two kids and their lovely imagination.
There is this boy in school and he has four sisters and its a happy family. The kid has problems in school, everyone bully's him and all that stuff. One day a new girl joins school and turns out to be his neighbour. Then one day they decide to just go into the woods near their house and cross the river, they name the land across the river as their Kingdom - Terabithia. :-)
The girl's parents are writers and ask the kids to think larger than life, think out of the box, imagination should run wild. The movie shows the boy's crush on his music teacher and how he tries to impress her, help her and gather affection for the teacher.
Then an incident happens and things change. Watch the movie. Its really cool. :-)

3. American Gangster

Bloody Brilliant film I should say. Its set around the time of Viet-Freaking-Nam War (Stolen from Forest-Freaking-Gump). The time when everyone in US were going high on dope and Pink Floyd and everyone loved being called Junky. Well thats got no context to the story.
Its about how a black man gets into the business of drug trafficking and runs it for years without even getting noticed. The main reason he doesn't get noticed is because he is a black man and the business of smuggling and drug trafficking is run by the Whites.
What he does is really cool, he gets the drugs from Thiland, transports on the military aircrafts and gets the drugs of highest quality into US. He has friends in the military, police department, administration, etc etc. He doesn't employ many people, instead he asks his cousins (which he has in millions) to join him and help in his business. He now has people around him whom he can trust and has the best quality product in the market, sells it at a nominal price and not a single person notices him because he is black. Brilliant!!!
Management Skills to the maximum. Excellent Operation's Management, Excellent Marketing, Excellent Sales, Excellent Human Resources, Excellent Pricing Strategy and excellent product, but he has one problem He deals in the wrong product.
He is then followed by the cops and is evetually caught. Denzel Washington acts as the drug lord Frank Lucas and Russell Crowe acts as Detective Richie Roberts.

I also saw Taare Zameen Par. I think the movie is nice not great. I have seen better movies or I would say some other movies were considered better w.r.t TZP by me. But who am I? Paintings were good. :-)
Chalo ji... Abbb Bus !!!

Back on Turf

There was a match organised by the passing out IIT hockey team. We all played on Saturday morning and had great fun. IIT present team VS IIT passing out + IIT alumni. It was fun. Lot of junta had come down from B'lore to play the match.

Check out the photos here.

Posing before the start of the game

Me and Mani Sir

Teams Together

Crack

Spriklers

My superrrrrr Biwi also showed her skills on the field

More than the match it was great to be back on field after a long gap. :-)

On saturday me and my biwi went to watch "The Namesake". Either the movie was bad or I didnt understand anything of that movie. Infact I didnt understand what Jhumpa Laheri wanted to say through the novel.

There is some guy who has name Gogol. He doesnt like his name. He changes it to Nikhil. His father passes away and then he knows why his father gave the name Gogol and so he changes it back to Gogol. Ok dude whats yopur problem? Name doesnt matter. If names really matter then Atal THE BIHARI Vajpaeee would never had been the PM of India.

Anyways there are some things I really didnt understand.

• Why did Gogol (or whatever his name) break up with his Gori girlfriend? She was putting so much effort to be part of his family.
• Why did he marry some bengali chick after meeting her just once? She really looked like aunty in the movie.
• Why did Mira Nair show that in their 90 days of visit to India, they saw just Taj Mahal? Did she run out of cash or ideas? Just asking. May be she was running of of time.
• Why did Ashima go back to Calcutta and start her Robindro Sangeet? She could have done thousands of other things.
• Why was Gogol cool abt his wife having an affair? He even told his mom , "I feel as if I am free"
  

Well I really didnt understand the movie. Thats it.

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The Pursuit of Happyness

We watched The Pursuit of Happyness few days back and it was a marvelous movie. One of the best movies I have ever seen on human emotions.

Story about a guy, Chris Gardner, who wants to join a stock broker company.
The movie starts with how Chris is struggling with a small business he has. He is not able to run the house and his wife has to do double shifts to run the house. His kid stays in day care center because both are working. Lots of chaos.

Amidst all this he wants to join a Stock Brokerage firm which his wife says is a step back in his career because this brokerage firm would hire him as a intern for six months and would not pay him anything. Its a very big decision and his wife doesn't accept it and moves out of the house.

But he never allows his dream to go away from him. he takes charge of the son and wants to keep him happy. Also he wants to work on his business to support himself and his kid.

On the day before interview for internship he is in jail for not paying the parking ticket for a year. So the next day, for the interview he reaches the office in a sports jacket and jeans, without a shirt. The interview goes fantastic and the boss asks him, "Chris tell me what would you say if I had to hire a person who came for the interview with a shirt." Superb answer he gave "May be he was wearing nice pants" The whole theater burst into laughter.

He tries to do things quicker than other people as he has to pick his kid from the day care and then he also had the small business to run for food. Amidst all this going fine at the brokerage firm he is thrown out of his house, then thrown out of the motel and also sleeps in the bathroom of an underground train station. Superb struggle. And one day when he is able to make few sales and make money out of his business he gets a letter from the Income Tax department saying, "As he was not able to pay his taxes in time, the government too a lot of money from his bank account and he is left with $21.00 in his wallet" (something like that) With no money, zero salary job, kid to feed he has to give blood to meet his need of food. Very senti scene. Too much ii was.

The movie ends with he being promoted to a permanent employee from an intern and the boss saying, "Chris wear a shirt tomorrow!!!" :-)

Too much movie man too much movie.

Read more about Chris Gardner here. Btw this Chris Gardner now sits on millions. Read more about him in the Mastermind Trader.

Sometimes we forget how much some people struggle everyday to have just one meal and we complain about, fooking cable not coming, modafoka internet provider should be killed, why is the autodriver driving so slow, so much pollution, etc etc. We sometimes just forget how lucky we are to have everything we have, including a happy family. :-) We should thank HIM sometimes.

Its a must watch movie and inspires everyone to believe in their dreams. Mast movie it was yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar !!!!

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Russel Peters Here We Come

We got first row tickets for the Russel Peters Show happening in Bangalore. Tooooooooooooo much. Jaloon Saalon Jaloo. Russel Aa Raha Hoon Main....... Chakk Chakk Chakk Chakk !!!!

We watch, "Eklavya" in INOX. I have never seen a theater better than this in my life. Satyam sucks infront of INOX. There is bloody carpet everywhere. Beautiful lighting. Sound is lovely. Some Tvs showing how many tickets left in ever theater for everyshow. Super food. Naachos are just too much. Suddenly everyone speaks Hindi. :D I think the Madrasis suddenly thought of speaking the lauguage they read in school. Way to go Madrasis.

Eklavya is a very different movie. Not a hindi movie types at all. Just one song and a two hour movie. Excellent acting by everyone. Specially Saif and Big B. Saif really looks like a prince. But one person who really worked hard on his acting was Jimmy Shergill. He did a decent role. Direction was tooooooo much. Locations are too much. Colors and everything looks very very royal.

The story is the part which bring the reality happening in the existing royal families. Wifes need to have babies to chalao the "Vansh". Brothers fighting and jelaousy for money. People who work in the Maharaja's palace, have their families working there since generations. Vidhu Vinod Chopra made this movie for himself and I think he is not bothered about the reviews. Mast movie hai.

But for people who want to see dhishum dhisum this is not a movie. Planning to see Black Friday today. Too many movies :-) Mast mazaaaaaaa. khi khi khi khi khi

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GURU

We watched Guru few days back and it was very very very classy movie. Everything in the movie looked perfect. The direction, Mithun, Abhishek, Aishwarya, even Dhirubhai errr I mean Gurubhai looked a smart ass crook.

Well the movie is completely based on Dhirubhai Ambani's life story. It shows how Dhirubhai went out of India to earn money in the 1960s, then came back and started Reliance.

In real life Dhirubhai was a very hardworking man. But more than hardwork he was extra smart. He bribed the government official, found loop hole in the indian business functioning, tried arm twisting he government when needed to get his work done. Look at the CDMA and GSM case where CDMA was launched in India as a service to be provided only as Wireless in Local Loop, but today Reliance provides the best connectivity and cheapest price in India. If anyone is travelling from Madras to Banglore the Relaince signal is never weak.

One of my friends who used to work in customs in Bombay used to tell, "When ever any machines from abroad come to the dock and the machine is to be delived to Relaince group, I get phone calls from some ministry in Delhi." He also said these kids fo things never happen in case of Godrej or Tatas.

COming back to the movie. Abhishek Bachchan has really come of age and acts with a lot of dignity. He put on weight for the character and looks very focused in the movie. Maniratnam as usual was very perfect. We cant find a flaw in his direction but sometime I felt there were songs which were really not needed in the movie. Aishwarya Rai after billions year looked pretty. May be its loveeee ;-)

Above all was the performance of Mithun Chakraborty as the owner of the newspaper who takes up the challenge to rip apart Gurubhai. This guy comes up with some or the other movie after some 10 years and makes others feel "Mithun Da is Tooo Maaaach" In one of the scenes he is shouting at his editors and barks at them as if he might eat them alive. Bahut Aacha Hai!!! Bahut Aacha Hai !!!

Guru is a must watch according to me. Some of my friends didnt like it because they say "what is Maniratnam trying to prove" Infact nothing, he is just telling us the story of Dhiru Bhai Ambani and how he made the Reliance Empire.

Cheers

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Kabul Express - Aacha Film. I-Like is Stupid

Kabul Express is a laugh riot.

Arshad Warsi is too good. He had these oneliners with weird faces that made me laugh a lot. He has one scene where he and a Taliban fighter argue about who is the best all rounder?? Kapil Paaji or Imran Khan. With a gun on his head and trigger in the Taliban fighter's hand, he has the balls to talk and even argue, how Kapil was better than Imran Khan. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.

They ask for a taxi and they get a ride on a tank. They ask for breakfast or lunch or dinner or a snack, they always get "Kebabs". Arshad carrys a pack of cigarettes and everyone in Afghanistan love Indian cigarettes and he hates sharing them. The movie is fun. :-))

Story is too good. Its more related to international politics and how Afghanistan has become a victim of it. How the children are suffering. How reporters can do nothing but hope, hope that one day the world would look at the cold desert of Afghanistan and be bold enough to say "yes we have brought misery to the people of Afghanistan". The photography is pretty good and would really appreciate the crew as they had the guts to make a movie in the war torn country.

There are no songs. Thankfully. Back ground music is by some new guy.

John Abraham should do a lot of stage dramas to improve his acting. He looks like a tree stujmp being paid Rs 3.0 crore for traveling to Afghanistan. Expressions man exprssions. Girls love you because of your looks but start acting now. Please.

The movie has emotional touches. The Taliban fighters emotional bondage with his daughter. Its also talks about the emotions of a non Indian muslim (with an AK 56 with him) telling an Indian muslim "you people don't understand Islam!!" Dont want to tell the story, unlike Babul this is pretty good. :-) The movie is a must watch.

Arzoon told me abt a website where I can download some mp3 songs and mp4 videos for free. Just wanted to discuss that. The site is I-Like.com. It has an exe file which when downloaded, adds a side bar to your I-Tunes.

You need to make a profile in I-like and then you will have things like; profile, playlist, friends, related, etc etc. If you get a new msg from I-Like or friem friends you can read them by logging in I-Like. You can add friends and then exchange music. Also once you are on the site you can download few songs which are free. You can listen to a lot of songs online. Like they are all stored in the database of I-Like. You can find people who have the same choice of songs as you have. If you are playing a Pink Floyd song it will tell you that you can also listen to Doors, Eagles, Deep Purple, Rolling Stones, etc.

If the song being played has a video you can view it through YouTube. You can't download songs for I-Pod.

Observation: It is a site good for people who have less songs, who want to exchange songs with fellow listeners on I-Like. I have tried it for two months and doesnt seem to test my grey cells. If you have a wide choice of music then it might be very helpful for you to exchange songs. People with a niche music following would not be of much help.

Conclusion: Not really of great help, I would prefer asking freinds in office for mp3 and mp4.

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Babul Sucks, Indian Hockey Federation Sucks Even More

We watched Babul on Saturday night. Its about widow remarriage.

Salman Khan dies, wife Rani Mukherjee becomes sad, she has a friend and the friend is asked to marry her by Rani's father in law.

Review

• After watching Babul, Mujhe mere Babul ki yaad aa gayi. I started crying, "Papa Papa, please take me out of this movie theater. "
• John Abraham needs a mask. He is expressionless. He needs a director who says, "John please close your mouth when you are not saying any dialog" His mouth was always open.
• My view on John, "John start learning dance. John close your mouth. John cut your hair. John close your mouth. John stop doing movies and walk the ramp. John will you close your mouth now??"
• Story writer needs to be creative and has to be sent to 5th Grade first. He should be asked to write an essay on "MY FAVOURTITE ANIMAL". He literally seems to be living in 1980s and has written a movie which is in Rishi Kapooor and Jitender era.
• Very poor direction. Salman Khan is shaking himself and director doesnt even notice that. After watching a flawless direction in movies like, DON and Omkara, I was getting irritated.
• Someone please tell Amitabh Bachchan should stop acting in crappy movies. He has enough money now. His son is acting well and is earning well too.
• Salman Khan was so horrible that director didnt know what to do with him. He put a oxygen mask on his face and killed him.
• The father-in-law wanted his daughter-in-law to remarry so he forces the friend-of-daugher-in-law to marry her. The friend sings songs about the female even after 5 years of staying away from her. He sings hindi songs in Europe though. Poor friend. Poor europeans.
• The dialogs which Salman Khan says in 1st half, are repeated by John Abraham in second half. The movie looks so faltu.
• Rani Mukherjee needs a fashion designer.
• Amitabh Bachchan needs rest.
• Plus points of the movie. Cool Audi Car, Cool Merc Car and Hema Malini. All three look beautiful.

No need to see Babul.

Indians drew their final match in field hockey competitions in Asian Games. It means that they are not playing the semifinals. It means we are not in top four teams in Asia anymore. It means someone is not taking up the responcibility and saying, "WE NEED TO CHANGE THE STRUCTURE OF INDIAN HOCKEY!!" It means I am going to protest against KPS Gill when PHL starts in Chennai. Anyone who wants to join me please mail me. I am dead serious.

One minute silence on the death of Indian Hockey.

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Death In Gaza

Watched "Death In Gaza" few days back. Its a documentary about a western film maker James Miller who was killed by Israelis in Rafah.

Rafah is in the southern Gaza strip (Palestine) and bordering Egypt, so there is loads of arms being smuggled into Palestine for the Hizbullah militia who are fighting against the Israelis. The Palestinian government doesn't stop Hizbullah as they are fighting the gorilla war against Israeli army. Palestinian government thinks its a war against oppression and imperialistic US and Israel.

Initially the documentary was to be made keeping in mind the kids of Palestine. What they want to do today? Why the kids are ready to die today for the country? Why do they all want to become martyrs? Why they think being a martyr is more than anything today? How the kids help Hizbullah in the gorilla war? But the movie ends when James Miller is shot by a Israeli bullet (not by accident I say).

Its a very thought provoking and a very sad movie.

The movie shows how Israeli army tries to flush out the militants from the hideouts and during the shootings kids are killed. Focuses on how mothers are crying in front of their 10 year sons to not talk about being martyrs. Focuses on how kids play games keeping in mind that the Israelis are bastards and they should be killed.



I always had a soft corner for Israel because they have been struggling since dark ages. But after this movie I think Israelis are getting a treat of the fruit of hatred they are growing in small towns of Gaza. Don't know - cant say, but Israel is an imperialistic country which is trying to bring pain to the next generation of kids in Palestine.

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Arre Dewano Mujhe Pehchano... Main Hoon Don...

DON is coming. Watch the promo here.



Everything looks so cool. Like ekdum stud types. I think Farhan Akhtar can make people act. He made the career of Saif work and now he wil make the stammering SRK act for a change.

Way to go Farhan. Music's been released in India and few sites from Pakistan have already given you the opportunity to download this album for free. Click here for download.

Langda Tyagi is a Pirate

Watched two movies this weekend, "Omkara" & "Pirates of the Caribbean" Both are amazing movies.

Set in the political war lord driven area of UP, Omkara is through and through a Saif Ali Khan movie. He steals the show. I remember I watched some shit movie of Saif on Zee TV few months back. He wears a blue coat a tie and jeans and those pointed toe shoes, his hair longer than the female lead of the movie, and comes running to his grand ma, "Dadi ma main aa gaya!!!" Worshhhhhhtttttt !!! Here he acts as a conspirer, Langda Tyagi. "Langda Tyagi Bahu Bali"
Bloody kameena he is in the movie.

Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Naseeruddin Shah are good in the movie. Konkona is very good and infact she curses like those villager's wives and is pretty vulgar at times. I guess thats what the movie demands. Naseer is a pakka politician and ruins his politics from the jail cell. What happens in the end may be known to the Shakesper fans, but for a change looks like Kareena can act. (she did act in Chameli). Vivek Oberoi is a waste in the movie.

Jack Sparrow, ooops sorry I mean Captain Jack Sparrow, is rocking in the movie. Lots of surprises in the movie. Everyone after the "Heart" of a pirate. Pirates figting huge sea monsters. Pirates fighting canibals in the Caribbean. Pirates more ugly than ever. Loads of fun and pirates coming back from dead. I really dont want to tell the story and kill the fun. :-)

Both the movies are awesome. Thats it.

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"Da Vinci Code" Sucks, "Munich" Rocks

I saw the movie Da Vinci Code and Munich today.

Well something about Da Vinci Code looked very similar to the worst type of story telling ever seen on Indian Cinema. Ok Da Vinci Code is not Indian movie but we have made a very similar movie called Suryavanshi in 1992.

Something about Suryavanshi.

There is a guy who wants to find out what lies in the secrets of some valley, where there was a cult and finally he finds that he is the last surviving descendent of that cult. He is Suryavanshi himself, blah blah blah. Bad story writing, bad performance. Salman Khan trying to act with Sheeba. Yes there was some heroine called Sheeba also. Salman Khan has lang hair. He is an archeologist. Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah. I was a kid in 1992 thought it was a good dhishum dhishum movie.

Anyways about Da Vinci Code, first thing you notice is that Tom Hanks as Dr. Robert Langdonlooks ugly with lang hair and Audrey Tautou as French Secret Agent Sophie Neveuis trying very hard to put a french accent. In the movie they both are trying to find something related to history and they find that Sophie is directly linked to what they are trying to find. Amazing isnt it??? Bloody Dan Brown is a cheat. He saw Suryvanshi in Bombay goes back to US and then tries to find some facts from here there on Christianity, jumbles the facts and writes a book. And then some idiot named Ron Howard tries to make a movie out of it and fails.

Seriously I found "Da Vinci Code" pretty boring and slow. I would recomend people to watch "Munich". Its about a Avner, who is a Mossad agent and how he and his gang are hired to kill the Arabs and Palestinians directly linked to the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of Israelie Atheletes.

Its a lovely movie. Like a documentary. The best scene is where there is a discussion between Avner and a Arab terrorist. The Arab tries to convince Avner that one day Palestinians will have their own country, every child wouyld have their own home and they would live very happily. Avner tries to convince the terrorist that it is not freedom struggle and the terrorists will gain nothing by killing Israelie people or atheletes. Beautiful scene it is.

ALso one of the scenes where they show how the Israelie atheletes were killed was very dramatic.

Well a little viewer discreation is recomended. Sometimes the shooting is too cold blooded and nudity has been shown in the movie.

Munich is a must watch.

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Watched Krrish

Watched Krrish yesterday. It’s a two hour movie, errr I mean two R movie. Like K-R-R-I-S-H. Khi Khi Khi Khi

He is not the first Indian Super Human. Mithun and rajnikant have been doing th same tricks since decades. The movie starts where this Krrish fellow is studying in the same school where his dad studied. Now he is super duper intelligent. And Rekha is his grand mom who is over protective. He is stud. Runs faster than hourse, climbs faters than monkeys, catches fish with his hand, and hits the ball so hard that it breaks the rock (but the ball doesn't burst), also he is super intelligent and does the homework of 3rd grade students, although he is in 1st grade.

In comes the love of his life from a parachute. And he falls in love with her. Like she falls from the tree and he falls for her. Apparently she lives in Singapore. Director sahib one question, why Singapore??? She could have been from Bombay also. No, why Singapore??

Anyways, 1st half is all fun where Krrish has a lot of fun with his kiddo friends and animals. And then this girl, Priyanka Chopra meet him and he falls in love with her and she falls from a tree. He acts as a BHOOT and its funny. I would say kids would love it.

Then Miss Chopra goes back to Singapore, and then she is five days late to come back to office and to save her job she makes the stupid superman of India to come to Singapore. Yaaaaawwwwwwwwnnnnnn… No if u and your company have so much money that u can call someone from India just to see how cool he is then why kick out someone. Anyways in second half the movie becomes very personal. He is after his love and the love is after her career and to prove the world that Krrish is a superman. YYYaaaaaawwwwwwnnn again. Then he thrashed some guys who touched his girl. Ok. Then he comes to know that there is a villain. Ok. The villain has his father in some jail. WHAT??? Yeh sala mera baap aabhi tak jinda hai??? Then he follows the villain to his secret island, the villain is on a helicopter and he is following it by running on streets and flying from tall buildings. Yyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwnnnnnn again.

Paak gaya tha main, and I wanted to movie to get over soon. Ok come kick some ass. In come Rajnikant. OK not Rajinikant but his alter ego Krrish. The villain shoots two bullets, Krissh flies. Throws something towards one bullet and throws himself on the other bullet and BINGO both are saved. This was done by Rajnikant and Mithun in 1980s. So this is not the first Indian super Human movie. Super Human movies were made long back.

Anyways Krrish saves his papa, his love, kills the villain, destroys his stupid machine, brings everyone home. And then his papa talks to Jadoo again. No Nahiiiiiiii. Yeh nahi ho sakta.

Anyways watch Koi Mil Gaya again with your little cousins and have fun with them. No need to watch Krrish. Yaaaaaawwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnn. Went for a late night show and I am still sleepy.

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