Om Shanti Om

Should I write about this movie or not? Am I too late, because the movie was released a bit time ago? Is the hype of this movie over? Anyway whatever be it, I feel like writing about it. You know right! Any Shahrukh movie is hyped, advertised, spoken all over and spread over everywhere. Sometimes I feel Shahrukh Khan as more of a business man than an actor. He is too shrewd, witty and a perfect entertainer. He knows what really has to be done. You just see his interviews, he takes over the anchor, acts like humble and proves that he is the king of bollywood. A great Filmfare anchor, keeps all the right people in their good books, cracks jokes on his competitor in a intelligent way and makes everyone happy. At times he portrays his emotional side with senti senti dialogues. He has struggled and come a long way to reach here. That's why for all this I like him.

I was too much occupied in work and was waiting for this movie to release, as a break from work. So on the day of the release along with friends I went to the movie theatre here to AMC 30. Though we were looking for the night show, I don't know why because it was SRK movie all the Indians seemed to have occupied the theatre. For the first time I saw it was housefull and sold out. My previous experience with Kansas Movie theatre was different. For "Chak De" there were totally 7 people in the big theatre including us. Guess what! for "Hey Baby" the whole theatre was occupied by me and my friend Anup. I was having a feeling this theatre is a adjacent room to my hall in my house. The reel was rolling specially for us. Anyway we booked the ticket for 5:30PM show for Saturday. I was in office till 5:15PM(Yeah! even on Saturday) and then rushed around driving crazily and reached 10-15 mins late(oh! shit how can I be late again). The film had already started. After 2 and half hour the film got over. Thats all! the blog is over.

"Blog abhi khatam nahi huvi hai, blog abhibi baki hai mera dosto". Overall if you just see without really making your logic part of the brain to work, it was a good entertaining movie. I enjoyed watching it and some part of it I like watching it again and again. It looked like the whole movie was done without any tension, everyone were let free to act whatever they want to do. I think, for the first half of the movie they really thought a lot, worked a lot and have put on many things to the show. There are these few of the things which I liked the most in the movie. You know, it is so nice and easy to go back to the history & remain in that time line and tell about what that is going to happen in future. Like SRK telling to Farah Khan tu kya film ka director hai kya, some other guy telling to Om "Sirf jacket pehene se koyi hero nahi banta, kuch shakal bhi hona chahiye aur style bhi rehna chahiye(Even though it is true SRK is a great actor now), Pappu and Om at the Tea shop telling a fresher about name "to Govinda try karu, aaahhh try karo"(today Govinda is a hero, (name matters a lot)), Om telling Shanti "Dosti mein mera ek usool hai, No Saarry no Thank you"(Dialouge in Maine Pyar kiya). The set up of the oldies looked so good, the digital mixing actors in the song "Dhuun ta na na", the music has more of Dhol sound, the old type big collars, tight light colour pants, the colour of the costumes with square chux shirt, big flower sarees, those plastic baskets, the badminton style, old type cars, lightings, hair styles. It was filled with humour also filmi Maa, actions of old styles, different versions of Bhagoo, South Indian actor Omshantinatan Swami "Naa Raamba, Naa illaay, atttii pattii katti heyyh heyyh, Yenna Rascalla Myind Ittthaa". Whenever the scene turns into too sentimental type suddenly the next moment it would get a swift turn to a humour. The second part was ok dokie types, with some masala of filmfare, 31 actors entering in a song, SRK Darde Disco item song and that cool types modern bigada huva baccha.

How can I forget to write about Shanti, which forms the center of focus in the name of the film. Man! She is so beautiful. Deepika Padukone has already created waves among everybody. When she enters to the theatre out of the car, in that pink dress she looks so gorgeous. When the song Dhunn ta na tadun tanan started, my eye's pupil size enlarged(I don't have to explain this funda right!). She looks so cool in the second half of the movie. I feel beauty has an aura around it. This pervades everywhere the feeling of happiness. It is like the aroma of the frangrance that bring about a strange kind of a joy. This feeling lingers through out the film and even in the songs. Om(SRK) falling off with a hand on his heart to her smile is just so true. I would also do the same action for her smile :D.

With all this mirch masala, I feel there is some theme and philosophy in the film. It is about having a dream, chasing a dream and dream does come true. The best part I felt is, whatever dialogues in the first part of the film are repeated in the second part with the dream being realized. Even though you make call it, its after all a film, but after all in life you need to have a dream. I had read in the book "The Alchemist" about how the world conspires when you start chasing your dream leaving behind everything.

" Itni shidhatt se meine tumhe paane ki kooshis ki hai, Ke har zarre ne tumhse mila ne ki shazhis ki hai"

"Kehte hai, Agar kisi cheez ko dil se chaho, to puri kayanat usse tumhse milaneki kooshis mein lag jati hai. Aap sabne meri chahat se mila diya Thaanks I feel like I am the King of the Wooorrllldddd..."

Storm, Snow, Ice, Bore

Weather weather weather. I wonder whether weather is so important. Actually for the people like us who live just near to the Tropic of Cancer(Geography pada hai na 5th or 7th I don't know) we always have such a good weather. We just don't realize that we have a good weather untill and unless we are out of our place and see some crazy weather at the extreme north and extreme south fo the globe. Kansas being in the mid of no-where on US maps has very volatile weather, more volatile than a girls' mind(Now why girls' mind are volatile or all are not like that, I don't know; don't ask me all that. Just feel that their mind are volatile).

You know what! when any two US people meet the one think they start the conversation with is about weather. Hey! How you doing? How is the weather at your end. People tend to speak hours together about weather. Then when they see weird faces like ours they ask how about the weather in India, How is the weather in Bangalore. Then we start calculating in our mind 27 degree celsius which means F = 9/5C + 32. Are the F and C at right places? Is it 9/5 or 5/9. I think it should be plus 32 because Fahrenheit is a bigger number(wah logic), ah! 9/5 * 27 ah! too complex formula man!. Shit! I have to appear for CAT, can't I calculate such a small thing in mind. Hey! People are still waiting and watching your face expecting a answer about the temperature and weather. Oh! Forget about the formula, just guess a number we keep doing a lot of guess work at many places. Yeah! Our weather doesn't vary too much, just the people vary a lot. Somewhere from 70 degree F to 90 F. Anyway they are not going to come to India and check the weather. They say we have 60 F now, which is kind of very good. Again for my understanding how much is it in Celcius. Is it C = 5/9(F-32)? Who cares. I just feel bored to speak about weather.

Over here there is a weather channel or should I say like that every channel speaks about weather. People in office here have live Doppler Radar graphs on their screens. They have live temperature update. Any plans to any tour they first check the forcast. In fact they check the forcast everyday before coming to office. Hell! man.

Actually past a week here the weather is totally changing. I didn't check the website or watched any tv news about weather. In fact there was a snowfall here on the day just before the Thanksgiving Day. And then actually there was good amount of snowfall on last Thursday. Was it Thursday or Friday, I don't remember. Anyway so everyone in office told that there is going to be a huge snowfall today. Oh! is it? how do you know, forcast, weather update mail. Just a day before everything was green and sunny. When I got out of my office, man! Kansas looked totally different. Everything changed in a day. Even though there was no sunlight, it looked so bright everywhere. Everything was covered with snow. It was like a white bedsheet is thrown all over. Even my car with more than 3 inch of snow. Feel like this setup should be untouched to protect its beauty. Then when cars and start rolling on the roads the snows gets dirty with mud and sand and becomes the ugly grey. So last weekend it was all cold and snow, I couldn't go anywhere. I spent the whole saturday just in home. It was just good to watch from window, but was very boring to stay home. Even it happens there when it is raining heavily, you just can't go anywhere and have to stick in home. It gets really boring sometimes if you are alone.

Soon after this snow face was over, one more strange event in weather. Ice Storm! This doesn't mean that huge cones of ice are going to hit the ground with the blow of the wind. It is actually that it starts raining and temperature starts dipping down and down to the freezing point. Then the water on the trees, roads, boards, builings, cars, obviously everthing starts freezing to form ice. Water over ice freezes again and just forms the accumulation of ice. I have some pictures of it. It looks so amazing. Man! I kind of saw all kinds of weather being here. Morning when I was driving to work I was feeling like driving in the Montreal circuit, Canada. I haven't driven there, but this was a circuit in game Need for Speed.


Finally what! Nothing.
Moral of the story is Snow, Ice, Storms are just good to see, but boring weather to live.

Back!

Three months back I had written something on this blog and then on I have not scribbled much over here. I don't know what is the exact reason or there are many of them. But somehow writing something is fun! I really enjoy the feeling of some kind of accomplishment after finishing an article each time. Anyway these are not the articles that are going to be printed neither in "The Times of India" nor in "The New York Times". Well! I don't even want it to be printed there, why in the hell there, for that matter why in the hell here.

Somehow I don't know why these kinds of thoughts are popping off from my mind. Who is going to read all these, what is the use after reading all these, who is going to care me anyway, who is going to look at me, what is the use of this life, why should we live! oh ooh! hold on! where is this going. I don't want to end up either into some philosophy or psychology. I don't know why generally people don't like to enter into these fields, but inherently everybody deal or stay on these fields.

I have read few of the blogs where people write so openly and frankly on what is happening in their life and then some are like that opinions of the happenings or way of life. I don't know in what way I write. After all how much have I written till now. But so many topics came in and out of my mind. There are so many things after all. Actually there are a zillion things and everything is important. Kya bakh raha hoon....

Ah! I got the reason on why I am saying all this. Actually I am lost. I don't know what to do. I never thought I would get lost in this way. I need to find myself back. I keep saying myself, I am back, am I, really? Okay! I was finding the meaning out of everything. Meanings for the questions. Who is going to care me anyway. What difference will my life make to this world.

Well! I want to end this blog with some positive note. It is just for me to feel better from the feeling of hopelessness. So this is a short story in two lines. A woman was walking on the sands of beach barefoot on a sunny day in the evening across the shore. I love the beaches. They are so good. The whole atmosphere at the beach is so enchanting. That cool breeze on the face, the roar of the waves, the crimson blue sky after sunset, happy faces playing in the salty water, the feeling of cool sand to the feet, the touch of the water when it flows in, then the trickling feeling or submerging feeling when the water flows back to sea, aah! everything is so awesome. I wish Kansas had a beach here. Actually sometimes I feel like going out from the room to somewhere and then I stop myself with this question where should I go... If there was a beach here, then I would have gone there and sat alone. By the way coming back to my story of two lines, there was a strong wind the previous day, so due to the strong waves a lot of star fish were thrown to the sea shore. So this woman was picking up each of these star fishes and was throwing them back to the sea. After all fishes live in water you see. If you had seen around there were thousands or millions of star fishes on the shore. At the other end a man was observing on what this woman was doing. He was surprised a bit and out of curiosity he came to that woman and asked. What are you doing? The woman replied I am just giving lift to these star fishes back to their home. The man asks, there are so many of them millions of them what difference will you make anyway.

The woman picks up a star fish from the sea shore, holds it and shows that to the man and throws it back to the sea and says "I made a difference to this star fish"....