300 ways to....

I saw 300! A little belatedly - but I saw it. I saw 3000 men on 300 kgs of testosterone kill 30000 men in 30000 ways! In slow motion....where you could see the entrails coming out of men. Brains splattering on people and rocks. Heads being severed and flying in the air like footballs at a crucial moment in the game. Where you can feel the disgust at semi-human abominations. Where you can feel the fear and smell the sweat on the men. Where you can get swept away by heroism and you can get an idea of what pride in your country feels like.

A little bit like the indian freedom struggle. But on a much much much smaller scale. Made bigger by cinematography! Melodrama in its modern avatar! IN SLOW MOTION!

Black Valentine!

Yesterday was Valentine's day. During Muharram the red spectrum of colours is not supposed to be used. Black on the other hand, is encouraged...so it was a Black Valentine for me! It turned even darker when I went to see the darker than dark film - Black Friday..

It had never occured to me that there is so much potential evil in our world. Where one man, just because his office was burned down during civil unrest, is capable of stoking the fire till kills thousands of people. People whom he wasn't even sure were Hindu, or Muslim, or Christian or Martian! And the fact that these kinds of people live just beneath the fabric of society. They are visible but not recognized. And that any of us has the potential of becoming a Memon if stoked properly. Creepy!

Earlier I thought the only way to stop most of the evil going on in the world is to smudge the boundary between Muslims and the rest of the world. Now I don't think that way anymore. I think there will be evil in the world, till there are disparities and people so intolerant of those disparities, that this difference in their minds can be used to accomplish anything! It is Muslim and the rest of the world today, it could be digital and non-digital tomorrow. Who knows?

So the only way to eradicate evil from the world is not to remove disparities, because that is a law of nature. But to create tolerance levels in people. Tolerance for other religions. Tolerance of other types of people. Tolerance for 'The grass is greener on the other side'.

And groupism where one group thinks they are better than the other should be eralicated. But that's meat for another blog post!

Star wars - Episode II - The return of George Lucas

Star Wars Attack of the clones was an experience to relive again and again. Fantasy on the verge of reality. Love on the verge of war. Childhood on the verge of maturity. Good on the verge of evil. Past on the verge of the future. There was even an instant where I thought I saw New York on the verge of Star wars! When Master Vindoo said 'The party's over!' to Count Dukoo and gang!

It gave you a sense of expectation because you know what's going to happen in the future. Hell I even know what's gonna happen in their children's children's future. But fun anyway...

I saw it on TV. I couldn't believe as a genuine Star Wars fan (I have 59 books out of 84) that I hadn't seen it earlier. Now I'm dying to see it on a large screen - Anyone know of where I can catch it?

Old man saves boy on bike!

Just when you think this guy has just gone and dunit...he surprises you with a glimpse of what he can be if given the chance! Abhishek Bachchan in Dhoom had dunnit ... But when I saw Guru I opened my eyes in true fimly ishtyle!

I thought he had taken off too much weight to be trendy in dhoom..but he lost weight to portray a sick old man in Guru! I thought his stance in Dhoom was too much like his dad. But hey in Guru it looked perfect. Like Abhishek!

I thought Guru was fantastic because I saw in Abhishek just a small shadow of his father in Agnipath! If he can do this at his age imagine all that he can do when he is his dad's age. I love the man. I named my brother Amit for Amitabh...wondering what I will name my son?