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Memories in March...

Full 3 Dhamaal...

Mod...

In an attempt to watch movies of a different kind , last week I chanced upon these 3 movies , courtesy Youtube.

Memories in march is all about real life. On its face, the movie has no great song or dance sequence to it. There is drama....of course, real drama. Only two things happen in the movie- A mother is coming to terms with her only son's death and second, accepting the fact that he was gay. There are some movies that draw you into the scenes, and this was one for me. Nothing too sentimental or nothing too melodramatic! It was refreshing to see a mother come to accept her son's gay partner as a friend, much like how she would treat her bahu-to-be. The subtleties in relationships and how the people in the ad world reveal or rather conceal their emotions is quite neatly shown. Rituparno Ghosh is a strong writer and definitely knows to act too. 

Many could pass this off as a silly or not-so-great movie. I would say, look at its concept, the characters and the acting. Rest is just there!

Full 3 dhamaal is a marathi movie by Mahesh Kothare about three wonderful women ( as the director chose to call them) tormented by their saas and gharelu kit-kit. They meet by chance and revive the college-ke-din and the fun by planning a secret outing for the New year's eve. I liked a few dialogues...and the funny comical way it was enacted. Half way though, I knew where it was going and exactly, it doomed in the end. Was it even worth watching? That was the feeling I got after I finished it...yeah, I forced myself to watch it completely.

Since I know marathi , say 85% well, the comedy and certain lingo from this movie certainly amused me. overall I'd give it a 5/10. It could have been much better knowing that Marathi cinema is no short of amazing stuff. Anyway, my purpose was served. I needed to revise my Marathi, now that I am outta jai-Maharashtra!

Mod. I 'd say Nagesh kukunoor hume kiss mod pe le aaye? He wants us to think that his movies are really good. yeah, some of them were good. Now c'mon Nagesh you want us to pass you on every damn movie you make? And for heavens..you seem to have a life long contract with Ayesha Takia post Rockford days. Tasveer 8X10 was wierd too. But you had something to work it out-some suspense. Talking about this movie, which person (fool) is going to wait for 10 years to give a gift to his crush? Ok even further, this fool jumps to his death because his best friend prompted him to and eventually this best friend has a dual personality!!! you kiddin me? And the age old bollywood doctor (Anant Mahadevan) offered his services at the mental asyllum only to let Ayesha Takia cure his patient with the TLC in the end. What did you want to show in the movie? The daughter whose mom left - with her dad had to have some completion , the father was trying to quit drinking and start teaching music, this daughter repairs watches and daily repairs the one that the dual-personalitied person brings along...(oh what patience in today's world). You made it an 'and -they-lived-happily-ever-after' movie.....why? 

Only things worth appreciation- the Ganga station, the train and the scenary! A very tranquil atmosphere in all. (Kudos)Kukunoor....you took science to a whole new level! I wonder if this is you or your alter ego?

Net-working

My view on networking is as popular as an unknown belief. Too much to think about huh?!

In the last 5-7 years, so many forms of social networking have been nurtured to affect the public in different areas of their lives. A Facebook for general gossip and keeping tab on friends, A Google + for 'select or restricted' gossiping, a LinkedIn for being nice to professionals, a Twitter to jab out your second by second updates, a Flickr for those who talk through photographs, a Tumblr, a Posterous for an effortless blogging, and blogger for this kind of deep thought! Each of these is a way of telling people.." I am here". 

People are here either to seek approval and acceptance or to market themselves with or without any takers for their say.Many may think or some do think I am weird. Although I am seen on these sites, I honestly am not a fan.Look at Linkedin...Holy recommendations! Whoever is going to be honest about your work and your attitude  in public. Show me a negative recco and I will become active on Linkedin that moment. Simple correlation I have come to establish- The new way of knowing if people are looking for new openings or are in between jobs, you see these 'will you recommend me' things in your inbox. The guy may have prepared just one estranged report for me at work, and I am supposed to recommend him. For what? ya ya..That's another thing that I even accepted his request to connect online...'to-be-nice-professionally'. Bullcrap...500 connections, 235 connections or say even 10. I say, all fake list of adjectives being put to test!!

Every single soul is selfish. They connect for a reason they foresee a benefit. I may be networking incorrectly, but the world understands it better this way alone. A vendor meeting and a cup of coffee at Starbucks, business talks and few casual lines..that's all it takes. Next moment this vendor is on someone's Facebook peeping into personal life, on LinkedIn trying to literally hack into other connections ( to build his business of course)! Its no longer networking because I know this person and I want to be in touch, its more of 'how can I extract the maximum out of this relationship/connection' socially or professionally. To those who are mere participants to the networking activity, the aim is to enslave a person (profile)so as to get filled with timely news/updates in a way that encourages one to speak at length about that person. Don't you quote a silly status update by your friend while you are discussing something similar with a third person. You add a flavor to your talks and will never go out of bull crap stock. On a positive side, a YouTube video lecture posted on FB helps you pep your client meeting with a new idea! See, you ought to benefit in some way. In all, Zuckerberg's tainted relationship with his girl back then has made him rich now and us-his slaves! Even more, FB selectively puts in updates that you get to see, and think that is what you are meant to know. What a pity!

A few weeks back I saw a CNN news report on a teenage guy who got rid of his cellphone, his FB page and everything to do with online networking realizing just how insane we all have become. I would say he went a little too extreme delivering notes and letters to his girlfriend on bike. A basic phone call is all that is needed to keep in touch, genuinely. Every time I decide to quit these social media of staying in touch. But I am selfish after all. I need my daily share of gossip (which I later on classify as being a bad habit), I want the job market to know me and my qualifications and give me a million dollar offer someday, I got to tell people which places I visited and give them a vicarious visit. And since I am human, I will continue to do this and bicker about it too!

Orange with an O

Funny that I even thought of writing about an orange of the zillion things in the world!Of late the new fond love for this fruit or maybe its abundance at home is making me eat it, of course with a  liking.

There are a plenty of objects and phenomenon that explain the beauty of nature, the beauty in creation. Most often, these pass off as the daily day things which hardly anybody would care to notice.Have you looked at an orange? Meaning beyond its color and that it is an edible item. I observed that each of the segments of this fruit binds itself so well to eventually form a spherical shape.I saw the tiniest of segments just give up growing to be big- just to conform to this norm. If they have taken shape, they fit themselves into this mould. That's the nature of orange and that's nature for you.

You may think what relevance could a fruit have to a person. Historically, traditionally, socially, geographically and even biologically we are designed to function within a norm- knowingly or unknowingly. This will be seen majorly in our interactions with the society and with ourselves. Restricted or modified, as you choose to call it! We are all Oranges in our place- or better, we are the segments within a fruit. At one time,we can be present in only one of the spheres (fruit). We may be big or small within, but as a fruit we become whole. But mother nature, thanks to today's science, has a mastery in DNA dynamics. So we can still say that we exist in other oranges from the same tree, the same farm etc. In our world we live in many spheres- school, office, family, gym etc. In some, we may take full form as a segment, in some we may just get squeezed trying to grow up, or show our prominence .But that's not saying you compromised or you succumbed. The big picture is important, the sphere is. Doing what one is supposed to do will fetch results, no matter how big or small that work is.
Trying to follow a norm wherever we go will make us complete and happy- that we are able to conduct and serve ourselves the way the world wants us to be. A sweet juicy fruit (here)!Imagine the other way where each segment is trying to just grow fully and causing an internal chaos within the fruit. Will the orange still remain an O? Maybe not. So far, nature hasn't shown me any deformed oranges.
I wish, eating an orange could melt away people's ego and let go for the big O(range)!