Sunday, June 6, 2010
Rajneeti lives up to its hype
The film begins with a political family which falls apart due to sibling rivalry, differences in oppinions and hunger for power. It is about stepping over one another for the ultimate status and power. The first half is very gripping with some interesting twists and a very promising break into the interval. But the second half does not quite live up to the expectations. It becomes a little dragged and repetative. One can clearly see influences and parts from the Mahabharata and the Godfather.The climax was quite silly and unbelievable. But overall it makes for a good film.Ranbir Kapoor does a great job with a very controlled and mature performance. All the hype around Katrina's Performance was just a gimmick. Her act was very incompetent.When Katrina comes on the dias to give her first speech I couldn't help but compare it to the speech given by Raveena Tandon in Satta. Raveena's powerful voice and dialogue delivery hit our hearts and inspired us while Katrina's was like a primary student in a story telling competition. Arjun Rampal was a surprise package, he did a fairly good job with his role which was very powerful. Manoj Bajpaee delivers yet another powerful performance. Ajay Devgan with his immense screen presence is always a pleasure to watch. Nana Patekar was calm and controlled. Shruti Seth stands apart even in a short cameo and Nasrudeen Shah leaves a mark with his few words.Overall except for a few glitches it is a must watch. It has successfully shown lot of realities of politics. It is one of the very good movies in recen times.
Monday, January 4, 2010
A Reminder of my Engineering days
I watched 3 idiots (based on Five Point Someone) the other day with my engineering friends in Thakur to bring back all the memories from those four years and I did succeed. I remember reading the book Five Point Someone during my engineering days and getting inspired. Both the book and the Movie have helped me live those days again as they have portrayed our lives so well.
The movie as the book gives a picture of the classes, the exams, the projects, the assignments and the various aspects related to engineering. I agree the movie shows the loopholes in our education system and how much pressure it exerts on the students. But we cannot deny the fact that it also helps to produce the brightest minds in the world. The numbers are increasing and so is the competition intensifying, a mark costs a student his/her dream college and in such a scenario becoming a Rancho is difficult for everybody. For that either you have to be gifted like him or a rich father who can take care of your future. If you don’t belong to one of these categories and try to make a change, the system lashes out at you. It doesn’t end as well in real life as it did for Raju (Sharman Joshi) in the movie.
I also went through a lot of hardships during my engineering. But they have been one of the most memorable days of my life. We had to sit through lectures to keep up our 75% attendance. So we had to come up with innovative ideas to survive the lectures. That’s when I learned games like cows & bulls and also the art of reading Novels during lectures. These four years also taught me the real function of COPY and PASTE . It was used to by everyone to copy the assignment from a single master copy in the class and paste it in our respective sheets like a machine without using our brains. Then came the exams where for the entire three hours we would be busy calculating our precious 40 marks. Half the time was spent in writing the paper and the remaining half in calculating our attempted marks. During results no one cared about the marks scored or who topped, everybody cared if they had the golden letter P with their names. Final project used to be fun. Everybody used to start with enthusiasm to do something new and innovative. But by the middle of the semester either they lost all their interest or were unable to finish it. So that would be the time when everybody went out searching for secondary solutions for their projects. All for a few who already had faith in them of being unable to finish the project went hunting for these secondary solutions in the beginning itself. Thus in the end almost everybody beg, borrow, steal and commit all kinds of sin to complete their projects.
These things over the four years bring people together and so we end up making some really good friends. I have been through a lot during these years right from reading novels in lectures to fighting with professors for being unfair to finishing 200 pages of journal files in a day. Every engineer has a story to tell. I have also done and learnt a lot of things in these years which I wouldn’t have otherwise. I have some good memories of these years which I will cherish all my life.
The movie as the book gives a picture of the classes, the exams, the projects, the assignments and the various aspects related to engineering. I agree the movie shows the loopholes in our education system and how much pressure it exerts on the students. But we cannot deny the fact that it also helps to produce the brightest minds in the world. The numbers are increasing and so is the competition intensifying, a mark costs a student his/her dream college and in such a scenario becoming a Rancho is difficult for everybody. For that either you have to be gifted like him or a rich father who can take care of your future. If you don’t belong to one of these categories and try to make a change, the system lashes out at you. It doesn’t end as well in real life as it did for Raju (Sharman Joshi) in the movie.
I also went through a lot of hardships during my engineering. But they have been one of the most memorable days of my life. We had to sit through lectures to keep up our 75% attendance. So we had to come up with innovative ideas to survive the lectures. That’s when I learned games like cows & bulls and also the art of reading Novels during lectures. These four years also taught me the real function of COPY and PASTE . It was used to by everyone to copy the assignment from a single master copy in the class and paste it in our respective sheets like a machine without using our brains. Then came the exams where for the entire three hours we would be busy calculating our precious 40 marks. Half the time was spent in writing the paper and the remaining half in calculating our attempted marks. During results no one cared about the marks scored or who topped, everybody cared if they had the golden letter P with their names. Final project used to be fun. Everybody used to start with enthusiasm to do something new and innovative. But by the middle of the semester either they lost all their interest or were unable to finish it. So that would be the time when everybody went out searching for secondary solutions for their projects. All for a few who already had faith in them of being unable to finish the project went hunting for these secondary solutions in the beginning itself. Thus in the end almost everybody beg, borrow, steal and commit all kinds of sin to complete their projects.
These things over the four years bring people together and so we end up making some really good friends. I have been through a lot during these years right from reading novels in lectures to fighting with professors for being unfair to finishing 200 pages of journal files in a day. Every engineer has a story to tell. I have also done and learnt a lot of things in these years which I wouldn’t have otherwise. I have some good memories of these years which I will cherish all my life.
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