All for BoSs

When the movie ‘Pirates of Caribbean’ came to theatre here(I am a hardcore fab of Jonny Depp), I bought tickets, watched that crap, ate pop-corn and came back. I am also planning to watch Sreck 3. If I like it, I’ll applaud and write a blog entry. If not walk out in the middle of the movie and drive back home.
Watch a movie, laugh/cry, watch again/quit in middle then forget about it, that’s all… Life is to enjoy…so simple … I thought, So far.
Now, let me introduce some of Rajni’s fans, to whom watching movies is not as simple as it to me (buy tickets, eat popcorn etc). They cry, they laugh, they go hysteric, they get new hair cut, they get tattooed … pierced etc, etc.

Have a look at couple of extreme worshipers of Shivaji

I live in Chennai and life seems so different from last one week. Having Rajani movies in your town is not all that simple. This phenomenon is observed on such a large scale, the entire state seems mesmerized.

Universal soldier Balayya

After writing about our beloved Gyapten sir, I just couldn’t help myself posting about one more universal warrior. He is one dedicated professional trained in samurai, karate, Judo, yoga, kalaripet, and bubo (whatever that means), has been pain in the ass of so many bad gangstas we have around in this cruel world. You people don’t realize the reasons you are alive. Anyways, come to the point. He is Balayya, James balayya.

There is confusion between we will call Gyapten as Tamil balayya or Balayya as Telugu Gyapten. I would like to keep them keep them separate without any comparison. They both are legends in their own ways.

Let’s start. First and foremost thing reason I worship him (and also the reason you are all alive) is because of this bomb diffusion (he did it for mankind). But unfortunately I did not get video for that. But not to worry, we have vivek. He has written that for us with the help of some of the photos.

Our hero Balakrishna and his brother were captured by the baddies and they tied Balakrishna onto a chair…Those idiots didnt know that Balakrishna cannot be stopped by a simple chair…

 

Here is our hero’s brother…The baddies tied him up too and fixed a time-bomb across his stomach…The bomb looks more like a pack of sausage rolls.. The shells triggered Balakrishna’s brain (if any) and suddenly he has an idea…He throws himself onto the floor and starts moving towards the bullet shells…

Sitayana – Sita’s Epic

The story Ramayana* is his entire life journey starting from his innocent youth, his mastery over skills in winning Sita, his role as dutiful and obedient son to adhere to his father’s words while aware of the flagitious intensions of his step mother. He gives up all the worldly richness and sets away to spend 14 years in jungle. Sita being his wife accompanies him followed by Laxman, Ram’s younger brother.

They spend quite an adventurous and romantic** life in the forest. Sita finds her world in her husband Ram and experiences an unspelled love for him. Everything works fine when one day, Sita gets abducted by Ravana while Ram is away to fulfill one of her impossible wishes. Ram does everything possible to get back his love. He gathers a huge army, builds a bridge across an ocean, does all that he could. Finally, he succeeds to kill Ravana and gets her back. With this they complete 14 years of stay in jungle and they return to their kingdom after which they should have lived happily ever after.

But the story takes turmoil instead, Ram’s story ends here and Sita’s story begins. This happens when a subject of Ram’s kingdom whispers “how could Ram trust Sita, who been with Ravana for so long”. Ram wants a test now, Agni-Pareeksha – A test to check purity of a woman, by entering into fire. Exactly this part of the story becomes hard to digest. This is where so many questions arise and is left unanswered.

• Did it serve right for a person like Ram ‘the so called God’ to come down to such a cruel act?
• Is he setting example for all men or rather his followers to commit such an act?
• Or is he doing right by following well set example from his predecessors?
• Ram must have done justice to his kingdom? But why not to his wife? Had he really loved her he wouldn’t have banished her at such a crucial moment.

trapped

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Gyapten is back

Ladies and Gentlemen:, this year Captain* Vijay Kant is back , with the same crap you have seen over and over again. In and as grandson of “Sabari” (“Sabari” “Sabari”…echoes).I present to you a wonderful piece of action where from the movie “sabari- the sharp knife”.

It goes like this : A bad guy shoots at Gyapten. The bullet rushes towards Gyapten with little less than speed of light. Bullet hits Gyapten’s chest and gets reflected. The best part … it kills the guy who shot him!!!!!!!!.

Here are some more from his previous blockbusters.

I recall 500 English movies …

I can recall 500 movies now and this is my list in IMDB. I have selected my favorite among them here. Click on the images or the link to learn more about the movies.

• The movies roughly belong to those categories I have given below. Some of them are more than 10 and some of them less.
• Movies in are in no order inside the category, they are qualified to be called as my favorites. In other words I am feeling lazy to rearrange them
• Sequels and trilogies are shown as the first movie itself ( reason : lazy )

Drama

Crash (2004/I)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Finding Forrester (2000)

The Rainmaker (1997)

Schindler’s List (1993)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

The Terminal (2004)

Thank You for Smoking (2005)

12 Angry Men (1957)

A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Coach Carter (2005)

Cast Away (2000)

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

Romantic

50 First Dates (2004)

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001)

French Kiss (1995)

Indecent Proposal (1993)

Just My Luck (2006)

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

A Walk in the Clouds (1995)

The Sound of Music (1965)

A Walk to Remember (2002)

What Women Want (2000)

Animation

Antz (1998)

A Bug’s Life (1998)

Chicken Run (2000)

Finding Nemo (2003)

Madagascar (2005)

Ice Age (2002)

Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Movie review: Guru

“Guru” dint impress me much. For me it was like just another movie of Maniratnam, which was Okay kind, definitely not among the bests by him. The movie is “different” and Maniratnam is a great director for the sole reason, they made Abhishek Bacchan “Act”.

Movie supposedly based on the life history of entrepreneur Dhirubhai Ambani, and his dreams coming true. I was wondering how Abhishek fit into Aambani’s personality, while he does not have any prior experience of acting (though he did appearance in plenty of movies). Thanks to Maniratnam against. Abhishek Bacchan has done exceptionally good performance. His dialogues, gestures, giggle; attitude, body language etc are very charismatic. He is behind movie success, neither Aishwarya nor Rehman. “Guru” is good name in his resume; rest all I consider as misadventures.

Ash, she was beautiful in the movie, unlike like Dhoom2 where she is announced to be “hot”. Heard she’s going to quit acting and follow Jaya Bacchan’s career – “housewife”. One thing for sure Abhishek is far far better person compared to Sallu the monkey (Salman Khan if you don’t get it)

Mithun Chakrabotry was good, great performance from him after a long time. Last movie of him I remember was “Suraj….!!! Truck driver Suraj!!!”. Madhavan and Vidya Balan were good and made a great couple.

Now my favorite part of the reviews- flaws,

All those million bloggers forgot to mention these. So I am posting this post, even though mine is coming last in the row

• Movie is a musical. It was highly unnecessary to make a movie with this story line, a musical. May be Maniratnam did not wants to miss A R Rehman in his crew. It wasn’t even “Rehman” brand music which was played.

Movie review : Kabul Express

         I have my mind set against all Bollywood movies, which said to be shot abroad. Usually it turns out to be an over-aged college student (typically in his 30s or 40s) and his (variable entity) dancing on European footpath, with a dozen of half-naked European babes (strictly babes, no dudes). Location can be Swiss mountains with the same team dancing in Bollywood invented steps, holding mutkas (pots…. but why pots??). Movie usually has a plot of our heroes’ (ati-vinayi, parama-dayalu, sajjan) love story with heroin (sushil, soubhagyavati) and … hey you’ve seen them. I used to get vomiting sensation with all these karan johar, yash, ghai movies lately. 

           I would have missed an awesome movie, if the movie name was bit less attractive. “Kabul Express” is a rare movie. I think it is the only travelogue produced by Bollywood (if I am not wrong). I still can’t imagine a yash production finished movie without a “zara sa jhoom lon me … “in Afghani mountains, without any typical “Hindi Masala” or without any “item songs”. 

Why Kabul express is different?

• dialogues are written as natural as possible, Indian speaks Hindi/ Indian English , , American speaks English (US) , Pakistani speaks Urdu and Afghanis speak Afghani ( or pashtuni .. whatever it is ) with subtitle displayed. Typically in Indian movie whole world speaks Hindi /Tamil etc.
• No songs, no dance, Hero does not fight, heroin does not weep, Rakhi savant don’t strip etc etc so may differences.
• Excellent sense of humor (by arshad varsi.. I just love this guy). John Abraham is just OK in comparison with him (why this guy is still in industry?)
• Movie is bold. It shows/tells what actually happened (or might have happened) in Afghanistan and Pakistan politically and socially. Directors most of the time fear to present all the things they have in mind (fearing fatwa/censor)

My top ten favorite animation movies

These are my top ten favorite animation movies (actually 12).

1. Ice Age, Ice Age 2

2. Shreck, Shreck 2

3. Mulan

4. Bugs life

5. Antz

6. Finding Nemo

7. Chicken Run

8. Madagascar

9. Shark Tale

10. Monster Inc

I have watched these but did not qualify for my top ten:

101 Dalmatians, 102 Dalmatians, Garfield, The Lion King, Polar express, Jungle Book I and II, Anastasia,Dinosaurs, Cinderella, Tarzan I, II, Tarzan and Jane Robin Hood, The Incredible, Chicken Little, jimmy neuron, Final Fantasy

Yet to be watched: (planned for this weekend) Hanuman, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,South ark: Bigger Longer & Uncut (1999)

Some other place also : List of best

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Kabhi to alvida kaho ( KANK – KTAK )

Some time people make me feel I am lucky, for having ability to get biased against or for. Same thing happened when I heard of KANK

and five reasons why I dint see it.

1. Tried of watching king khan’s movie. He did the same LoverBoy_FallsInLove _SacrifisesHeroin_MakesHerCry kind of work in every recent movie lately. DDLJ, DTPH, Pardes, KKHH, KKKG, KHNH, MHN… and now KANK.

2. Karan Johar doesn’t really make movie for Indian audience. Makes for
   UK, US, AUS, SING. , And
   Fiji. Ask them; the life style supposed to be shown is may be familiar to them.

3. 3 Hrs 20 min is too precious and also 150 bucks. For this kind of movie.

4. Big B is too much around these days. Every time i see him on screen I think about the chocolate or ice cream he sells on TV. (I was watching a serious movie like “sarkar “, I dreamt. Next scene goanna be “Buy. Natraj pencils”

5. Last time when a five star movie came “kabhi khushi kabhi gum”, I had a terrible time. The headache lasted for two days.

6. These are some comments form my colleges (who are cribbing for having wasted 3 Hrs 20 Min. s and 150 Rs)

” They should put import duty on this movie.. It is not made for
India. We were made watching it ”

“… Govt needs to put 200 % non-entertainment tax on this…”

“Kya yaar… Yeh Movie bhi dekhni he paisa bhi bena he… Bahut Na insafi he …”,

“I don’t understand why he did that movie in Hindi. He could have done it in English and dubbed it giving English subtitle. Because nothing in the movie is Indian, culture, life style etc. Next expect a Karan Johar movie featuring African stories in Hindi”

Any ways… Here is a programmer’s review of the movie …(courtesy: Abraham)

A review of KANK from a Programmer’s perspective

1. The program *KANK* has not been built as per the Functionality Design Specifications (script).

2. The director should have first created a proper Design Document (screenplay) and then begun the actual coding.