After a long long holiday...

this was really long holiday in recent past... three days in a row... saturday, sunday and I-day...

my vacation started a little earlier. From friday afternoon... a sudden plan to watch Mangal Pandey was proposed by me and seconded by Rabi. We went to Huma Adlabs. Now nearest multiplex form IIT, and what a surprize, we managed to get the ticket for 3:45 show at 3:30... hmmm..... so Huma is not popular yet... Theatre is really nice and there will always be some IIT junta on any day, specially on friday.

so, how was MP?.... It is good movie, if you have not heard about it. Disappointing if you are waiting for it and dying to see Aamir after Lagaan. Songs are GREAT, obviously rahman hai na :).... but not very well connected to the story. Initially the story strays here and there without any purpose and this remains upto intervel. second half manages to present something better and you leave theatre without any regret. Rani and Amisha have noting important to do. Aamir has given a decent performance, but not his best. Sahyadri hills in a song sequence, which is in suppose be in some part of today's UP/Bihar, was a rahter uneasy thing to watch. Overall the movie is watchable once, but not kind of "all time favorite", although music certainly is.

Height of Shamelessness

Barbad-e-gulistaan karne ko bas ek hi ullu kafi hai,
Har shaakh pe ullu baitha hai anjaam-e-gulistaan kya hoga….

I remembered these two lines of a sher, which I heard long back from a school friend, when I saw a huge poster near Andheri station. The poster had a big picture, in background, of a flooded mumbai road with junta walking in west-deep water. In the foreground there were madam Sonia, Vilasrao Deshmukh (CM, Maharashtra) and some local congress MP or some other leader. The most important thing of the poster was its message. It said “We salute you all brave Mumbaikars, who put a brave face during natural disaster and helped each other” (this is a rough translation of the original Marathi message). It could have been justified to put such kind of poster by opposition party, although all politicians deserve blame for what happened in mumbai. I couldn’t stop laughing on the mentality of our leaders. But then I remember, “We get the government we deserve”.