My lunch talks and Shaurya!

Hold on guys...before you'll get an idea that this is a review of the movie, let me clear my stand here. I don't think that movie so much as deserves a mention...forget a review. When the epilogue was playing in the soothing, celebrity voice of SRK and he was asking the audience..”Shaurya Kya hain….?” we couldn’t help but ignore his well rehearsed answer and repeat each time “yeh movie dekhna!”. If anyone was proved Brave, Valiant etc. etc. after watching this one, it was the 3 of us at home in front of our TV set.

Its just a conversation I had with a friend that made me think after the movie was over (Finally!!! we breathed). You would ask who forced or referred me to see the film at the first place. No one. I like to see all good mainstream and offbeat movies that come along. That brings me to this conversation I was having with my Lunch buddy on the way back from a very satisfying Mexican meal yesterday, ending with my favorite dessert 'Flan'. Brrrr! drifting towards food talk isn't advisable. She is a very sweet, smart and intelligent mallu buddy and wasn't in touch with our bollywood world closely off late. When it comes to movies she is not the types who demarcates between South and North India. In fact she is from M.P. But I guess after coming to US a lot of people loose touch with Indian cinema. Some are just not as crazy like me and some start dividing time between good international films and prefer to keep away from the dozens of unfiltered movies gushing out of the spout of bollywood like there was no tomorrow. My heart goes out for the less adventurous viewers, as for me I want to watch everything. I am by nature a people's person in that I don't like to criticize much. Shaurya changed me...That’s one compliment.. see!

So she started asking me what was hot on the movie front these days and I told her what was most fresh in my head. "Shaurya"...I blurted..."I am going to watch it tonight. Should be 3 hours well spent". Just a while back at the lunch table at Acapulocos, with spicy salsa verde and nacho chips, we had got into a healthy argument about copying in bollywood, whether it be stories or music. Talking about copying scripts, the quickest movie I thought of in bollywood's defence was Sarkar, what with Sarkar Raaj so close to release. After RGV ke Sholay I can never find the courage to speak of RGV and good movies in the same breath, but he is human after all. So I told them that although a few people think Sarkar was based on some so called Orange flag fluttering local party leader, I beg to differ. It is very much an adaptaion of GodFather, Puzo's novel as well as the movie. And that’s the skill. To pick up a foreign work and be able to jell it in the Indian canvas as well as that. To give it the much needed Indian appeal. And I quite succeded in making a point. With that example you can't loose. My Mexican friend Zuselle was so pacified after that, she went on to tell us her experience watching "Munnabhai MBBS". It was real heart warming to hear it from her. And now, when I am supposed to head down in less than an hour to the cafeteria and my buddies are gonna ask me how Shaurya was, all I want to do is keep myself from breaking something at hands reach. You pick up a story as sensitive and well made as "A Few Good Men" and then do such a bad job on it...cummon...

We are tired of having to stand by our cinema with such irresposible work to justify. Starting from the script to the dialogues to the performances to direction...everything was bad. The music wasn't even the USP so I won’t go there. But how much they bragged about Minisha and Rahul! They are the two who killed the movie with their bad acting. And left me with a bunch of sincere cinema lovers and their questioning eyes. So to all film makers, “Do you even proof-see before releasing the movies to the world???” I had the same reaction after krazzy4 and now this one back to back in one week. I have started distrusting Atlee due to his forgiving nature about all movies and plays, especially when he praised Mithya and many other recent duds. But I feel somewhere, we are all giving up on expecting good films because of such releases and why should he be any different. I had my favourite Thai soup for dinner and I am reading Shantaram these days...the only reason it wasn't too difficult to sleep with a pleasant feeling...:)

Happy Earth day

hey people...its Earth day today...and I didn't even know it when i wrote the previous post a few minutes back....
Let me reiterate..its completely upto us to take care of mother earth....so lets be compassionate towards everything green and blue and brown....lets not litter around...lets make sure we don't have to run to the mountains to enjoy the natural beauty...when it can be all around us
Love ...to one and all...

Global Warming and Local Warming...I despise both!!

Let me elaborate starting with local warming.....I promise the two might not have any direct relation but you will know why I thought of both... By local warming I mean the weather that is getting warmer by the day as spring is setting in and welcoming Summer at an annoyingly rapid rate. For those who dont know..I am in Boston, Massachusetts. So its natural for people to feel I would belong to the majority of Indian population here in US who curse and abuse their heads off as soon as its snowing and keep ranting about the cold right from october to April...and I just feel like saying "Get used to it fplks....your non stop complaining will change nothing"...But then I feel I am just being too rude and oversmart trying to give them advice, when americans born on this very land do the same thing tirelessly, especially in some places where it is cold round the year. They are stuck to their TV screens in the morning...every house in this part of the world tuned in to weather news. They rejoice at the dawn of every warm day with temperatures anywhere above 70 and if the Sun shines on thier head, I am sure half the lot would want to do a little tango in the middle of the freeway...Out come the convertibles and the bikes and the stylish Sunglasses. I on the other hand loveeeeee the cold, freezing, biting winter. I am just that way....And that is one of the biggest reasons I adjusted to this place so well. I was in the mid west where the weather is far worse for human survival than the North east and I never complained...But I guess I am the odd one out...I am the nut....I am the Krazzzzzy one....but I miss my winter mornings dearly....

This post is dedicated to my best mate who would be ready to drop anything at hand if given a free ticket and a stable job on hand in Texas or Arizona?...not sure about arizona...cuz he can annoy me to my wits end about Texas and his love for that state.....So when I tell him...I am feeling hot & sticky and the Sun is staring right in my face and daring me to make that call to him and tell him for the Nth time...that I hate to know I wont see the snow again for a few months...he can kill me...if I weren't I. We are such close friends but our choices have been poles apart in every aspect of life.....and sometimes just to irritate me and a few of us...he passes a dumb comment like I wish "Global Warming" would increase so that it quits being so cold in this hemisphere and I am like "STUNNED"..What is he talking about dude!!!

I just thought of his dim witted comment this morning while reading my daily doze of news from around the world and my favourite wikihows for the day :)
Go through this link ...I am going to try and take all of these seriously starting today(I can't yet afford a Hybrid car...but some day I promise).....I hope you guys can do the same.....Help reduce Global warming and save this beautiful world for the coming generations to live in.....
http://www.wikihow.com/Take-Action-to-Reduce-Global-Warming

And the lazy Neha Defeats the rarely enthu one

hey my little internet space,

I am showing up quite shamelessly, very late on the blog world as per the expectation set for me by my dear friend. Apologies are a tad bit cliche now a days...dont you agree? The trend is that even if you are a bit (read ' a lot') late for an appointment with a friend, its your fault you reached on time, and what you get instead of an apology, is a casual "EH!!" or "Whatever" accompanied by a killing, knee weakening smile, if it is someone close to you, in my case my two worthless friends and their innumerable acts that call for a written apology. But do you get any? ..HA!!...dream on. Am I digressing?...in my very first real blog! I really consider the one before this as an introduction to my temperament, my tone, my typical writing style and attitude. In short, all the crap you will read if you park your mouse at 'neha2go' blogspot. So yeah, ranting about my good for nothing friends (who I love BTW) was not going to be the central idea of this post nyways. But it saved me a lot of trouble of thinking one up [:D] . ha ha. See this is what I was talking about. Our generation is hardly ever apologetic about their indecisive nature or their digressive thoughts. Its a pity how we get away with this and take everything in life with a pinch of salt. Never really believing the seriousness of a thing till it hits you like the Titanic hit the iceberg. Think about it. And until the time you wonder how a harmless lil' thought about unapologetic youth got me to the unfortunate climax that the Titanic met...chao...and ...so long...