It's been a while..(since i could say that I wasn't addicted-Staind.Hahahahah!!) But really I had been to Delhi and then was busy wasting time and not doing anything productive.
Now I have realised that I had to update my hardcore fan following of maybe 3 readers on goings-on.
Delhi was a nice place to visit.Although in India,in comparison to southern cities,it might as well be a totally different country..the way of life of it's residents,food habits, the very broad roads,traffic that moves quickly as well as a metro rail service that does not smell of Pan spittings or urine.
I had been there to write an entrance exam for admission into AIIMS,the premier medical institute of the country.Competition is cutthroat and the paper was such that the cream will definately be seperated from the rest of the students who write it. But I studied as much as I could and wrote the exam with presence of mind,something that I don't do very often.
I had also been on a plane for the first time in more than 15 years,and I was nervous as hell about it,because my paranoia has escalated post 9/11 and is still very high regarding hijacks and the like.Hence,I was quite on edge until I boarded.Then until take off it was excitement and anxiety,then post take off it was exhilarating!!The sight of a giant city looking like little squares during take off was really cool!
Now I am back in Bangalore,and have been chilling a bit post-AIIMS.I saw quite a few movies,Garden State being one of them.Zach Braff"s directorial debut is an uneven movie that is refreshing because it is different.The tale of a young man who is numb to feeling, going home for the first time in 6 years to attend his mother's funeral,to see the changes in the friends he grew up with and finding a love interest played to perfection by Natalie Portman is at times quirky,at times dark,and at times totally incomprehensible. It turns out the reason he is numb because he has been on Lithium and Anxiolytics since he was a kid!! Braff is good,but I feel he makes a better director and writer(he wrote the script too) than actor. Sadly it might be due to the fact that he has been stereotyped as John Dorian from Scrubs to such an extent that we can't imagine him in any other role.It's basically a coming-of-age tale told in a different way.
Then there was Zodiac,David Fincher's movie about the serial killer of San Francisco and the men who investigated the murders and how it got in the way of their lives. Well made,relentless,and it keeps on making you wonder what's coming up ahead,but as far as performances go it was mediocre.The story is the ultimate winner here.Mark Ruffalo is good,but Jake Gyllenhall is unconvincing as a cartoonist who is obsessed with solving the case. Robert Downey Jr. isn't given enough screen time to expand on his character.
And then finally.....(drum roll)...Om Shanti Om,or OSO. I was the victim of a family conspiracy that made me watch the movie. Let me just say that Akshay Kumar is the best thing of the movie,even though he appears for about a minute. SRK did the movie 'cos one of his best friends was directing it,and it tells you that he's a true friend!! Because the movie will roar at the Box Office just because SRK was in it,and it's sad to see a pathetic movie such as this do well,even though it had minimal substance. The only people who will go to this movie are the women to see SRK,and men to see Deepika Padukone(who is the second best thing of the movie.She is HOT!). Nobody will go to appreciate a movie well done.
I've been reading The Dilbert principle.And it is amazing.Scott Adams explains in detail why companies use complicated words to explain simple things,why people are promoted to management,and how to get ahead in the work place by doing no work and pretending as if you're doing lots of it!!It is worth a read for anybody,because it explains things as how they really happen,and not how it's supposed to happen.
Following is Chris Nolan's debut feature film and it is clever and crafty.In short,vintage Nolan.The non linear story telling and the complicated plot are all there,as is the superb cinematography,which was by Nolan himself.I only hope that Nolan does not let this become his formula,and that audiences should not be able to tell what the ending is after seeeing a couple of movies which he directed.Because this guy is the Alfred Hitchcock of our generation and he should remain so.
More later.
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