Rang De Basanti.... Patriotic??

A pointless but entertaining movie...i mean just entertainment and nothing else...
I have reviewd in some points and here they are the reasons why I found this movie is highly overrated and would like to listen to non-abusive impersonal comments.

RDB lovers and those who can't criticism please avoid reading this ....I warn you...

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1. Trying to bring out change in the system at accelerated pace. What I don't understand is the cause they are supposedly fighting for?

Is it for justice...
Flight Leiutenant Ajay Singh Rathore(Mahadevan)dies in plane crash. They stage a protest and charge that Minister of Defence should explain why such faulty equipments had been commissioned to fly. They are beaten black and blue in a senseless manner for such a peaceful protest which we come to know that MoD had a hand in this. But the protaganists are completely enraged and decide to kill him. Is that a proper recourse? And all because Flight Leiutnant is KILLED and they want justice for it. If that were to be the case what is this gung-ho about the film oozing out patriotism? It is a personal fight and great leaders don't fight for themselves and dont' do hasty things for personal reasons.

Is it fight against corruption...
Then film falls short. We have seen many films before and no doubt many films would be seen in the future highlighting this and the fact remains that it just can't be cleaned or brainwashed into making the minds of millions take a great rally against corruption wihtin a span of two to three hours. The proper recourse could have been trying to bring out the middlemen out something like "Tehelka Scam" and make sure no one goes scot-free. But then again whole movie would have needed a revamp. The short-sighted Film "YUVA" too tried to bring a novel change in the mindset of youth that getting into politics is a child's play and failed miserably but surprisingly this isn't.


2. Most of the movie we see the enaction of pre-freedom struggle in the making of the documentary which alternates with the reality. This takes up chunk of the time. And this is supposedly shown to make us understand that their attitude and behavioral changes in the second half of the film. That's fine but too many of the incidents is too much.For a eigth to tenth standard students (depending on the board of education)it might make a useful contribution to their Social Studies subject.

3. We needed a Foreigner(Alice Patten) to inspire us. In the guise of film making we come to see the transformation of four goal less youths.Wouldn't a Indian film maker do? Didn't Rakesh Omprakash Mehra didn't think of that?

4. Coming to the ending...: What was Soha Ali Khan doing at the end? Shouldn't she have taken the same responsibility as others in the murder as she was the one who suggesetd the crime in the first place?

Then again why were they all killed when more than thousands of people were listening in on that radio about their escapade? Doesn't it bring more pressure on the government and all. Is there a rationale for killing? I mean suppose they were caught say and we all know very well that they have nothing to support their claim that Siddarth's Father or MoD had a hand in the faulty accessories of the aeroplane, they would be destined to be hung. so why kill them?? What were they afraid of letting them lose? The film doesn't explore anywhere near this issue.

Some may say, these men who have gone to the extent of killing MoD might be so very notorious (in common man assumption...) shooting them is the best recourse. But what if these men had many other plans ? what if they were part of criminal conspiracy or some terrorist group? What if they had many more bombs and whole lot of things in place in case something should happen to upset their plans? (all this again in common man's assumption...)If common man can think this way I am sure police truly would? so what was the point in killling them. Utterly Senseless.

Overall:

Everything said and done there are some moments in this film where you can really sit back and enjoy with whole gamut of emotions flowing within. The song "Khoon Chala...khoon chala" played in background as we see protestors being beaten strikes a painful chord among us. The funniest moments were to see Sharman Joshi trying to hug the lady for saving him(even though she didn't...), the realistic potrayal of drinking and whining, and all the songs were excellent. Also the change brought about in Atul Kulkarni on knowing the other side of his "guru".

The movie seems okay in bits and put together one entertainer with great songs. But patriotic...you must be joking...

As the Time Flies By...

18th is when officially I was set free or rather I set myself free or even better when my last ties with college ended or to make it absolutely clear it is when our project viva was taken and that ended our correspondence with college.

A little diversion….

It gives me great pleasure in letting all know that for the first time after the previous 5 semesters I feel absolute confidence that I will pass this semester meaning FOURTH YEAR, SECOND SEMESTER- I WILL PASS. Big Deal eh? You might say. But the repercussions are unimaginable and the mental trauma can be enough for me to go without computer for days. To follow what I am saying please read “Confessions on the Blog floor”.

I would like to thank each and every person who have made these papers so very easy and made sure an average guy can successfully complete. I owe them a lot. The cream of the whole papers was Speech Processing for sure. Oh my god!!! I thought I would die of the uncontrollable emotions of joy erupting inside my body threatening to burst out. Then the second place goes to Java followed by Radar and lastly -.. no forget it, not even worth mentioning as only PASS is required for it.

Focusing on Java paper I would like to say that it is extremely biased paper and the setters had no clue which are important and which are not. For example, who in the right mind would give a question like: Write about the applications of PERL for freaking 10 marks? Nuts for sure. But everything said and done I did lot of writing and took an additional. Additional with my writing gives me lot of confidence even as I write this. And that exam was like roller-coaster ride, not a moment to waste enjoying and relishing the words that are flowing out of the pen for that 180 minutes beginning from 11’o clock.

Diversion ends here…Please proceed on the main road…

What does that mean…

• No going back in the college bus,
• no more proxies,
• no more fighting to sit in the last bench, or sudokus in the last bench
  
• no more bunking and spending time in canteen,
• no more endless chatter about nothing in particular,
• no more last-minute batting for internals, no more tensions of back-log ,
• no more mass-bunking (not that there were any in the last year)
• no more planned outings,
• no more money collection for parties or discos (for record, we had an excellent class with absolutely amazing co-operation in any regard.)

There are so many others that ended with that passage of the day. All those days I didn’t think it would come to haunt me so much. It always seemed like wonderful journey with ups and downs. A certain pattern has set in and it takes a lot of effort to break it free. Loitering aimlessly and lazily till the day of internal approaches, frantically reading just before exams, a lull period again and the grand finale in the form of SEM EXAMS. It is the gap in these things that one can remember, all the others are just an illusion. But it gives me great pride looking back how effectively I have utilized some of those times during the gaps starting with a paper at NIT Warangal, one at Osmania University, one small project at Wipro E Peripherals, and to end it all entering a robotics competition at IIT-Bombay. It ain’t no big deal when compared with peers like Adi or Mr.Swaminaidu who have many more reasons to cherish about but the fact that I had done something useful, something that might help in my course of life (which turned out to be one of the biggest reasons why I have gotten recruited…), something other than doing nothing is a great satisfaction.

With all that gone I feel lonely and no wonder they say graduation is the best part of anyone’s life and no matter how much we try we cannot recreate that beautiful passage of time.

Before I forget I want you all to know I am now Karthik, B.Tech (Electronics and Comm. Engineer).

First Class at the Matt...

At 6’O clock after the gym, I have gone to Ramakrishna Matt to begin my Chinese Language Training. If it were not for the anachronistic feeling I felt during the first hour i.e. from 6 to 7 wherein we had a sermon I wouldn’t even have cared to blog this.

In the huge auditorium hall with somewhere around 600 to 700 people gathered the whole thing was like the first day I stepped into my college, Little Flower Junior college. Noise all around, sweating profusely as I was not in the line of fans, I felt strange seeing the absolute orderliness with which people here conduct the proceedings. After about ten to fifteen minutes are so there came the mission head and we all rose in unison to greet him. A prayer was chanted and everybody settled down.

He began to read out some of the rules of the organization:

• Please show respect to girls. If found misbehaving direct expulsion. Hmm… interesting. With a time span of two hours max I wonder we would find anytime to have interaction at all.
• Girls have their own stairs and a separate one for boys. Please maintain queue before entering. Should that be told? I mean is it not plain enough for us to see that with more than 100 people trying to get the class there is no other way than queuing up.
• There would be 40 classes in one session spanning four months. Only 3 leaves in the whole session would be allowed. Anything more Director needs to be contacted to decide whether to expel the student or anything else. And on top of that no two leaves one after another.
• Everybody is expected to reach the premises at least 15 minutes before the class commences. A grace time of 5 to 10 minutes is allowed exceeding which DIRECTOR needs to be contacted to decide etc.
• Read two hours every day and don’t forget to do the homework. Good thing there was no mention of EXPULSION if one is found not obeying this rule.
• Please see notice board everyday for announcements and the above rules are subject to change and new rules will be added as the time progresses.

And there were lot more which I don’t remember as I didn’t find worthy of arguing. To end it all we are told all the rules are meant to develop discipline, punctuality and character. But is this the way discipline is to be enforced? Is it not known to them that all these things had been drilled to us from schools and that it is high to let the character grow by themselves? Who is the loser here if he/she doesn’t attend the classes? It’s us meaning it is those who pay who lose. What the heck does it mean that taking more than 3 leaves might lead to one getting expelled? Is it not some sort of threat? I felt like being chained. I know most of what I said sounds over the top but at some point of time that’s the truth. You can’t be all along one’s progress watching every step. You have to wait for them to make mistakes and realize on their own.

Going away from the above discussion the assortment of students in the class was very amusing. There are total of 33 students in the class. We were all told to introduce ourselves to the entire class and also the reason for joining this particular course. At the end of the exercise I felt being part of wild assortment of people who have come there for different purposes.

• More than 35% of the students there wanted to pursue MBBS in China, after completing their 10+2.
• One lady(an example of perfect shyster...) wanted to learn the language as her “would-be” is expected to stay in China after tying the nuptial knot.
• An old man of around 70 years wanted to know what their culture, diversity and language is all about as he is very much interested to know about various things.
• A project manager from Satyam computers found it very difficult to converse with the clients there in China.
• One guy (that’s me) wanted it as he expects the company he is going to join in to expand it’s branches in China.
• A bike manufacturer who is in the process of rolling out bikes which can go 60 kms at Rs.2/-, which powered by dynamo, wants it as the mode of communication between himself and the clients is becoming very difficult. He is basically importing the material from China and fixing it up and there was one more who wanted to join as he was expected to run his father’s business in China.
• Some joined because they had to meaning they wanted other foreign languages like French, Spanish or German but it turned out they had no seats except CHINESE.
• Some just for fun.

It is very interesting because it just shows you how important a language can play a role in the life and also as you come face to face with people from various strata of life. I understand this happens even during the computer language courses but you wouldn’t find such diversity there. With basics being taught in first class and some introduction on how this language has come to be, we were told there are 10,000 characters in the language and 4 tones. A particular “word” say “ma” in four tones has four different meanings and some words with same tone has different characters and different meanings. Oy!!! Take it lite, don’t worry. I can do it. The largest Chinese speaking people follow mandarin Dialect as it has been made the official language of China and also the world’s largest spoken language.

Bottom-line: A very tough language to master and to get a grip on with lots and lots of practice. ( Phew!!! Another way of making me restless for months to come…) With that I would say zai chin (see you again, good bye) to all

My First Blog...of the month :)

“No blogging…”, orkuts Swami Naidu. That’s the sort of motivation I need. I mean when I have taken up this blog I have decided to make it packed with every little that my mind feels and have it as a sort of guidance for me.

By putting my memories on web I wanted people’s opinion to the way I have felt during particular times. Even without that it would be a great help for me to know how stupid I was or how mature I was in handling something. I haven’t yet explored to the ways in which opinions can be gathered and banking on the comments. Will be doing that sometime from now?

But what bugs me is the long hiatus I have taken. Of course there are nothing new to report and not MANY GREAT things that I have done. As I have learned from the great film, Akira, human mind is capable of storing trillions of bytes as one starts growing, consisting of past, present and the future. I should be able to let my readers know at least 1/100000th of that information. To put it plainly there is whole lot of fantastic memories hidden in my 20 years it should be enough material for the whole month.

It is now I come to realize how dangerous mind can be when you are not in control. When I knew nothing about blogging I have read some articles on the net regarding it. Most of them have said that of the 100 blogs created every month say, only 10 of them go further than three months. I am at a stage to decide which group I belong to.

How it all began...
My tryst with writing began with our erstwhile website www.vasavionline.co.nr. I loved the whole concept of the site. With only fellow people around it gives a homely atmosphere, I had so much fun participating in the forums, writing some articles, getting some feedback, guessing the dialogue, etc. So many things that could have been done. I still remember the times when my mom used to get so very bugged up to find me browsing that site. Writing just means so much to me. I am not the person who would want to correspond in paragraph’s but rather in pages. That was how my mind started thinking what if I could find a place and audience who can mutually contribute and share what they think of my writing, and also their advices or their own articles.


Seeing others is what motivates me much further. There is lot of refinement is to be done in the way I write and also lot of vocabulary and matter has to spaced rightly. To borrow some lines from the movie “Sister-Act” : "If you wake up in the morning, and you can't think of nothing but writing, then you spose to be a writer."

(for those of you who are desperately in search of motivation Click Here )

That was what I exactly felt. I wanted to be a writer. So seeing me going lethargic day by day by day it gives me creeps on thinking where I will land up with this attitude. Now that I have reached end of the page I feel happy that process is starting again.

!!!Welcome back Readers!!!