It’s been a long time since I have written a post about ‘how my weekend was?’ There were lame weekends or I was just lazy to write about them (Lazy is synonymous to me!) Weekends come and go away before I recount anyy details about it. This weekend was no different apart from the ‘Aerosmith’ concert that I have written about in previous post. Three rock-concerts old and I couldn’t be happier. DNA people please get ‘U2’ and ‘Linkin Park’ to Bangalore before I get old to jump in the concerts or lose interest in Rock music (who knows!). On the second thought, I wouldn’t mind listening to ‘GnR’, ‘Goo Goo Dolls’, ‘Metallica’ and ‘Bon Jovi’ live :-) (Human mind is greedy you see)
Though the weekend went insignificantly there was happening week for a change! Three movies watched in a week. It’s been a while since I watched movies during weekdays though my office is in the heart of the city and there are at least 3 theatres within 10 mins reach from here. It is always laziness plus too much of work and I can’t sit at a place for such a long time ;-). This week was definite change with three movies being watched.
Shrek 3:- For a change my company did this good deed of giving away free tickets for the movie it has provided technology for. How proud I feel to tell this!! If you are animation fan and you happen to watch Shrek series you will definitely appreciate the animation created by DreamWorks and rendered on servers provided by my dear company. Rendering for animation of this kind requires high end servers and we provide them! Moral of the story is, there was a contest to win free tickets for the movie and a colleague of mine got 4 tickets to the show in PVR cinema Europa screen. Can you beat that? First day show tickets that too in the most hep theatre of Bangalore! How can I miss such a golden chance? The tickets were collected bunking group wide meeting! The story is not that great, they have tried to add too much of senti-aap touch and made Shrek behave more human like. I adored him more in first two parts. But the animation is awesome! The new character Arthur looks damn cute!
Life… in a Metro :- ‘I didn’t like the movie because it is too realistic’ was the first review I got in this movie and it made more that curious to watch it. It was running houseful for a while and finally we managed to get tickets for Wed 10 pm show. Getting ticket episode itself will make topic for another post! The movie is too realistic for sure. It feels like we are peeping into our neighbor’s life and sometimes our own too! The stories of love, betrayal, infidelity run parallel crossing each other every now and then. The movie handles a good topic but does not disturb you or make you think about the degrading morality in our modern lives. In the end, it goes the ‘happily ever after’ way. What disturbed me more was the writer didn’t allow the married women (Shilpa), to follow her heart and go against her cheating husband. Instead she became typical ‘Bhartiya Naari’ who sacrifices her love and self-respect for the sake of family. What nonsense!!! Do watch it for Irrfan Khan. He is not used much but he sure makes his presence felt in the movie.
I was telling my mother about this movie. I said I don’t think you would like to watch this movie; it would shatter the typical Indian mind like it did for my friend. She plainly says, ‘you know what these things have been there in our society since long. Aren’t there stories of infidelity even in our purana’s? It’s just that these days we have advanced media so the things are being discussed openly and women are getting strong to oppose/expose them’. Mom, you surprise me as always!
Cheeni Kum :- I liked this one more from previous two. Nice subject, good direction and cinematography and amazing actors made the movie worth watching. One dialogue that I remember right now is when Amitabh is trying to convince Tabu’s father about their relationship. He says “Why should you have problem when you daughter is not marrying someone younger than her?” It is generally said that women mature before guys do. They should marry guys at least couple of years older than them so they are on same page. We Indians go little overboard in this theory and consider it immoral when a woman marries a man younger than her. I say why we should have problem in that if two people are ready to spend their lives with each other and fine with the age difference. On the other hand, there are lot of girls who search for security, comfort in their husbands just like they received from their fathers. Just as a guy likes to compare his wife with his mother and expect her to cook, care like his mother did what is wrong if a girl searches for her father in terms of maturity and understanding.
What is your take on this?
And I should not forget to mention ‘Rum Ice Roy’, you are right it is name of ice cream which has rum in it and lot of rum for that matter. Sunday night was ‘Corner House’ time after a long time. I thought of trying this one as name sounded interesting and hoping it will have unrecognizable traces of liquor. But my-o-my, it lives up its name, had the rum taste for real (Don’t ask me how I know taste of Rum ;-))
… I am too bored with work today, hence all this blabbering!
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7 comments:
Oh yes, Rum Ice Roy rocks! that reminds me its been long since i went to corner house!
Hmm, u r right abt that, we constantly hunt for traces of our dads in our life partners, as women. In fact we want our relationship w our partners to be like our mom and dad had!
"We Indians go little overboard in this theory and consider it immoral when a woman marries a man younger than her." Really? this is news to me!does it say anything abt marrying a man shorter? :)
'Rum Ice Roy' is good but not when we are with uncle-aunties. I had to keep the cup away from them so that they won't notice the pungent smell... Talk of image building :-D
And we all want relationships like our mom and dad. That is like gold standard, isn't it ?
For the last sentence do try to see the 'arranged marriage' market sometime and you will know! People have crazy specifications about age, height, skin color, weight, setting of nose and eyes and what not!
shrek , ahh me not much into animation stuff , so lesser I talk about it,the better :) .
and I loved Life in metro...awesome movie that be ..everyone did their bit but Irfan rocked big time :) ...and music of the movie is awesome !!
Cheeni kum , err direction and dialogues cud have been better. I wud anyway have watched it for sake of Tabu though :) ...and yea ,will try this Rum Ice Roy when I visit B`lore next time :D
btw,your laziness is compelling you to weite things in one post which cud have benn written across 2-3 posts :)
I know I know... it has become a looong post but there was so much to write :-P
Metro is good movie but I wanted it to be more disturbing or raising questions... it just goes the 'happily ever after way'. But yeah the music is awsome!
'Coner House' the place that serves 'Rum Ice Roy' is addictive, must visit when you are in B'lore.
corner house mast hai !!! :)
btw shrek 3 , havent seen it
saw cheeni kum and it was exactly as u mentioned at the blah meet, the end was really cheeni kum but the frst half was awesome
although corner house not synonymous with cheeni kum :)
Miss my Rum Ice Roy :( Used to stay near Corner House, opposite Diamond District, n go thr almost every fri evening to gulp down those raisins n rum on vanilla... man do i long for the taste of heaven!!!
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