Indian movies have finally come of age..... at last after a long hiatus, I got a feeling of paisa vasool after watching Rock On and A Wednesday..... !!! I would say "A Wednesday" is an intelligent movie where as "Rock On" is a movie about your true passion....!!! Both these movies strike the right chord, coz probably this is the first time any bollywood director attempted to make movies that deal with two of the niche and untouched subjects: passion and intelligence.... !!! Yeah.....its an intended pun, coz probably I feel majority of directors in bollywood lack the two essentials of film making , passion and intelligence... !!! WTF.... movies like Singh is Kingg which, leave alone being intelligent , do not even seem entertaining go on to become top grossers... ???

But amidst all the crap.... Rock On and A Wednesday are a must watch....this monsoon !!! Be it the stellar performance by the cast or the picture perfect direction and editing..... these movies rock and are a guaranteed paisa vasool.... !!!

Was browsing through the net and happened to see this telugu version of the tamil movie 'rojakootam'...hah know what it is called in telugu, 'rojapoolu'..... !!! wow... thats wonderful..... I would say.....mmmmm...... okay cut it....!!!

You pervert minds...... how dare you...... :-)) !!! The name obviously means Rose, the flower....nothing else.... !!!

Read in the newspaper that they have found the 24th live bomb in surat, post the bangalore and ahemdabad blasts. It need not necessarily be a failure 24 times and the terrorists' motive could have been something else altogether.... may be just to scare the daylight out of us or whatever... !!!But IF it was actually a failure... amidst such hullaboo, did anybody give a thought about what would have been done or happened to the bomb maker whose li'l screw up really screwed up so much of their planning, training, investment and what not ... :-)) !!!

Happened to see this really hilarious video about Achmed the Dead Terrorist.... which triggered me to write the above... !!!

How far can this get ,everyday you come into your office and you find that "everyday" your chair is missing and instead it is replaced by a handicapped contraption where you don't know where to place your rear....!!! Try complaining to the "concerned person".....ok lets call it the CP and the reply you get is no where related to the question you asked..... and btw this CP is pretty famous for its talent to deviate the discussion towards most irrelevant and bullshit tangents.... Still I had the perseverance to complain it to the CP after umpteen number of mails being sent and the conversation is as below:

me: Hey listen, how many times should I complain that, please use some other chair for your official purposes and let mine alone.

CP: Hey, YO man..... tumhaari beevi kya jhakaas lagthi hai.... hhaaaiiyyyynnn... !!!

(And I am like, you think I would give a similar compliment to you, hah...kill me, even a blind man wouldn't do that....!!! Frankly yeah, the next time the CP comments about the dressing sense of people in the company, I'm gonna take a picture of her and show it to her... though its like provoking suicide...!!! hey...hey..hey... no "pun" intended guys...!!! )

Ok, so me with all the patience I can gather: Can you answer me, I am asking you a serious question. I need to finish my work and do you expect me to do that standing...!!! ( I ask the question with a smile on my face, but actually I have already started folding my sleeves... )

CP: Oh praveen...!!! hah hah hah.....oh no....... !!! Hey "Jr.CP ", did you hear that, pooher praveen....Oh my gaawwd....!!! ( with that franco-italian-latino-jhopad patti english which the CP proclaims to be it's American accent, i feel like wha....whaat the #%@$, did I say I am going through labour...then.... !!!)

Somebody give me a shot gun.....!!!

Got a li'l busy with married life and yeah FYKI still everything seems alright, I am still very much the happy guy with one more beautiful soul who has joined to share my li'l piece of joy, happiness, sorrow, excitement and fun.....!!! But life seems to have come to a stand still....has the time machine stopped working...!!! I donno whether it is because of the kind of life I'm leading or because of the kind of job I'm doing. I cherish the moments I pass through, I am happy as a person, my soul is in peace, I am trying to be comfortably numb with the situations and people with whom I don't converge... all this and more, but why isn't the time running. Am I having the 'Just Married Confused Bachelor' syndrome.... nyaaaaaaah...nyah nyah.... jargons, jargons, jargons....sudhar ja saale....!!!

As she tells me, I need to do something that interests me, at least take it as a hobby.... but I really need to indulge in it..... but what is it.... why am I in this stature of life where I dont know what i want. Is it because I have already got what I wanted and I have become content in my life. What next... got a job, have a satisfactory package, got a girl, married her, what next......don't tell me kids...!!! I am a happy man.....I know there is a vacuum inside me, but where is that vacuum, what is it about..... I really donno.....!!! I feel , I'll probably waste all my time trying to figure out what is the 'it'....!!!

You know what , may be I'm jobless, may be I'm just lethargic, may be I just dont want to work.... hah crap man.... you know what I just realized that life is not a circle....life is a set of concentric circles.... !!! or may be when I'm in a sober state (no...no..no..not with 2 pegs down) I might realize that life is a straight line.... !!! or may be when I am excited I might again realize that life is a non-linear graph..... !!!

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah......cut the crap....go to work..... you are on "Merchants" from this week.... move your ass and get to work buddy.... clock's ticking....!!!

Just Married... !!!

Phewwwwww..... Got married at last...!!! 25th May 2008, bingo the BIG day in my life... !!! Me feels right now me not in a stature to comment on marriage and married life....!!! But IT IS a wonderful feeling.... !!! I know...I know... the probability of negating the statement is very high..... :-) !!!

Love you Namrata , for the person you are and for coming into my life ... !!!
Hey, did somebody say "cheers"..... hey I'm coming....I'm coming....!!!

Indhiya Tholaikatchigalil Muthal Murayaaga...!!!

Okay, the heading above when translated becomes " For the first time in Indian televeision...!!! " . Its not long before that I was pretty much amused or rather astonished looking at the frequency at which foreign language films are dubbed left and right in tamil. Just a couple of months back I happenned to watch this "so called" dubbed movie in Star Vijay..... man that was an experience in itself. No I am not going to share my experience..... rather I would want you guys to go through it, trust me, its worth it... !!! Though there are just four pre-requisites,

1) In depth knowledge of the Tamil language. The "in depth knowledge" is translated understanding the basics like kaitha, kasmalam, baudu and other such family damaging material.

2)You gotto have hell of balls to sit through the movie.

3) The perseverance within you to make sure you throw your tv remote out of the window so that you don't switch the channel, or as a better idea not to hang yourselves upside down.

4) Here comes the major one, have a bottle of quarter MC, which will make you comfortably numb.

Yeah...now comes the strange part... though it came as a crazy forward to me with some funny translations, its the nomenclature these guys follow for these movies. The genuine doubt I have is, do these movies come under the tax scanners ??? If not, then I tell you these guys are just awesome mavericks doing a helluva job...!!! So some of the names that really amused me are, though not all are duds :

1. Velaikku Avaathu - Mission Impossible
2. Karuttha Machan - Men in Black
3. Paayum puli, Padungum pambu - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
4.Oatta Machan - Hollow Man ( though the actual movie was called Mayamanidhan) and the list continues..... !!!

I really appreciate the crude humour they project, for example, there is Sean Connery speeding down a road in a fancy white car yelling, "Roada paathu cara ootu da baadu" (in "7 Dhalapathigal", also known as "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"). Man..... I tell you he really gives our "Gabdan Vijaykanth" and "dhesiavaathi Arjun" a run for their money..... !!!

Just imagine, a scene from 'Mummy' , where an improperly embalmed mummy looking more like my college staffs shouts at the audience " buhuah ha ha haaaa.....Naan unne ippo sapide poren...!!! " or our James Bond introducing himself as " Aaei.....en paeru baandu.....james baandu... ".

And in this movie called Maayamanidhan (Hollow Man), the hero goes in search of the villain and shouts with his full vengeance that can dissolve your balls, saying " Enge.....enge andha thevdiya paiyyan....!!!" Bingo, did you hear that........ Whoa....this stuff rocks man..... trust me if you are really having a bad weekend with nothing to do and you just do not want to move a single muscle of yours.... Star Vijay rrrrrocksss...... !!!