Just another post

Aloha !!!

Past few days have been quite uneventful for me, thus there was nothing to write about. This post is an attempt to capture the nothingness over the last few days. Reader discretion is advised

Work : This is perhaps the only thing in this world that I am not interested to do, yet I have to do it. Well there has been some changes at work, work schedule has changed from 2×2 shifts to 4×4 shifts, so now I get to work for 4 days and do nothing for the next 4 days. Well most people would raise an eyebrow with the thought of ” 4 days off “, but believe me thats what is causing the emptiness. The sudden silence after 4 days of hectic work, is like braking your life from 100 – 0 in 3 secs. Just to kill time I am planning for an Agra tour sometime this month.

Home : Well there isn’t any for the “unmarried” kind, anyways there has been no change to the lair except for a routine clean-up session.

Food : Aha this is the best part of life since the last few days. It’s always a treat for the taste buds during Ramzan in HYD, coz its Haleem time then. On a quest to find the best haleem in HYD, till now Pista house rocks !!!

Read : Started off with a fiction “The girl with the Dragon tattoo – by Stieg Larsson ”, a day later “Above average – by Amitabha Bagchi” joined in. Both reads are good can’t comment much on the books as I have just started them.

Movies : Have been watching a lot of movies since a few days, liked some, “Perfume, the story of a murderer” , ” Offside” and “Divided we fall” are some of them.

World around me : On cloud 9 to see Mayawati pushed to the corner by SC for the statue farce, woohoo !!! Don’t know whats the problem with indian media if Shashi Tharoor wants to stay in a 5 star hotel, or if Congress wants it MPs to cut down on costs, all they want is a topic for debate at 9 PM. RIP YSR. Did you notice Indian media has forgotten the BJP episode, since a few days, guess its all well with BJP now

Time to go now, hope the next few days will be a lot more happening — Amen

Jodhaa Akbar – Much ado about nothing !

On Feb 15th 2008, film-maker Ashutosh Gowarikar released his new flick ‘Jodhaa Akbar’. The movie was shrouded with controversies much before its release. The movie made headlines on News channels and was on the cover of most magazines and dailies.

Last Saturday we decided to watch the movie ourselves and find out “What’s all the controversy?”. Getting the tickets was the easy part, watching the movie was not. I am glad that we were 10 minutes late !!!

As expected the movie was lavish, with great outdoor shots, lots of characters and magnificent cinematography. The movie is definitely an ‘eye-pleaser’.  The story line is average, once you see the movie and dig-up wikipedia for its historical accuracy the storyline becomes poor. I personally felt the story line to be scattered all over.

Although I have never met Akbar, I didn’t find Hrithik any close to Akbar’s personality. The mental perception I had of Akbar for years just didn’t fit for Hrithik. His acting though was appreciable.  Aishwarya Rai however was good, here there is no concept of mental perception, jodhaa bai never existed in there. The movie however was quite long and it was not interesting enough to make you ‘glued to the seat’. This restlessness makes the 3hr 30 min saga feel even longer.

If you watch the first half of the movie, its quite easy to guess the climax and the ending of the movie.  Characters other than leads (Hrithik and Aish) were not that appealing. 

The final verdict: The movie is average but the controversy hooked all.

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