Where it all leads unto? or Fcuked up!

I am like fuckin bored with life.I don't even know why I am writng this post.I know its because I am bored.No, no its not because I am bored.Its because I am frustrated with life.There is just no satisfaction, no joy, no nothing whatsoever.It all seems as though the world is a big farce.Even blogging has become bloody boring.I don't know why I even live.But I guess, may be it is to say all this, watch a movie occasionally, chat with friends, go to the net, chat up with friends there, blog on some event or on something you've gotta say about or say nothing about.

All that is bullshit for sure.I know it.I know I am not here to do that.Its something else.But whats that something else thats dying for me to lay my hands on it is what is troubling.I wanted to study lots about astrophysics, space and its vageries and all the mind-boggling theories.I wanted to go to NASA and I was so very much interested into all that.It was the sole reason of me opting for ECE at SSN.There at SSN I have done a commendable job, that I should be awarded the highest civilian award for enduring 3 years of meaninglessness.Then I thought about going to the management side, but realised that I haven't matured enough to take that pressure.I probably will do something on that side later in life.Sometimes I just feel 'to hell with space and all that' and that I just wanna become an astronaut right away and fly into empty space, even if it means to losing my breath there.But reality hits me, when I know that I haven't done or worked in any way.Worked in the sense as to put a paper or do some research.I have become fuckin lazy and I dream like an idiot.My thinking in the metaphysical direction is no longer as intense as it used to be during my school days.I feel like I am losing direction.I don't know where I am being lead.I don't know many things.Sometimes I don't want to know.

For all people at this stage you are probably FCUKED up with life.Don't worry, time doesn't stop and change runs hand in hand.May Orkut save you from your status quo.

PS:This post was written in a moment of frustration and madness.It might not express the feeling of the writer anymore or probably it can be much worse than what has been portrayed, right now.

Anniyan - no usual onion

Two days ago I went along with Ananth to watch Anniyan at Satyam cinemas.We went pretty early, say around 5 minutes before the show started and found to our utter dismay that the tickets were sold out!!! So we, being the bad guys we are, tried for the black ones and got them at Rs.100/- each.

By the by this is my first tamil movie review.

Basic Story: This movie is a mixture of 'Tell me your dreams' - a book by Sidney Sheldon, Identity and Seven(which I haven't watched as of yet, but know the story) + five really good songs by Harris Jayaraj + Shanker's giant-size portrayal of things + Vikram's bulky body.

When you enter the movie hall, to watch this movie, you don't want to miss anything thats going on-screen mainly because of Shanker's overwhelming nature of portrayal.Vikram plays the role of a down-to-earth, innocent, prim, well-disciplined, obviously single iyengar boy named 'Ramanujam'.But throughout the movie people find it easy to address him as 'Ambi'.So from now I too shall refer to this character as Ambi(since its extremely cumbresome to type out the other name).But somehow in the movie some people amusingly find it very covenient to refer to Ambi as 'Rules Ramanujam', which by some untold rule I won't be referring to hereafter.Sada, who as 'always' fails to form an impression on my mind as a babe, plays the character of 'Nandini', plays obviously Vikram's love interest.Ooops! Ambi's love interest.The most interesting of characters is Vivek, who plays Chari - a CB-CID cop who assists Prakashraj, his senior, obviously.Prakashraj is referred to as 'Sir' in the movie, so I don't know his character's name or may be I have failed to notice.The other characters I will tell you as we move.

The first few minutes try to make the viewer understand that Ambi is a very naive lawyer, who adheres to rules, is a well-conditioned boy from the neighbourhood of agraharam-like set up.Here Vikram's acting is good, but there is a little too much of deliberation on the way of talking, not the accent.But one must not say its bad; he has done better than all his predecessors in the iyengar's role.He somehow falls for his neighbour and childhood friend Nandini(Sada), who not so surprisngly is single till then.Somehow, as a sensible male, one feels sad for Ambi falling for Nandini.Then there is Kumari - a song that forms a lasting impression on the mind of the viewer, mainly for its melodious tune and Shankar Mahadevan's renderring of it and of course Harris Jeyaraj's music.After this however, the movie goes to show how Ambi is helplessly frustrated with the absence of decorum in the city.One cannot resist , but laugh when coming to think of Ambi's IQ as he realizes this obviousness when he's of say twenty six or so.He then finds a website, titled Anniyan.com, desperately trying to bring the movie title to significance.This website takes in complaints from people regarding the absence of righteousness in some particular person, solely on the basis of description of the user.The mysterious creator of the website, promises to see to it that the problem is solved by lynching the concerned person in a highly unusual way.

The first victim is found dead in some god-forsaken place by bulls.The murder is obviously done by Anniyan.com's creator Anniyan - the stranger in black.Immediately Sir and Chari rush to the place, dressed up as locals(probably to get a pulse of what people think, none of which is shown in the movie).There, they find a place where our Anniyan manages to write in tamil, the form of punishment he has given.God knows why he wants to write.Probably to end the movie as quick as possible, but all his efforts go in vain, as the movie takes a cool 3 and 1/2 hours.The words written are intriguing at first, as they aren't usual tamil words.The same thing happens to some two other victims.This is where Chari tries to dilute the seriousness with his one-liners.You can't help laughing, its really funny.The apparently confusing words are solved by Ambi, who solves them for Chari on his request.Ambi and Chari, by the way, are very close friends and many of their interludes are hilarious.


Ambi professes his love for Nandini by writing a very funny love letter, and she rejects it.Dumb girl.Has no sense of humour probably.She then explains that she doesn't love for his straight manners.She then meets a ramp model, Remo, who looks amazingly like Ambi.But at no point does Nandini's bloodshot brains tell her this similarity.She falls for his obvious whiz and charm.During all this time, Anniyan goes about murdering people, for their unpardonable lack of properness.Anniyan, too amazingly looks like Ambi and Remo.All three of them bear close semblance to actor Vikram.Somehow the director tries to confuse and promotes intrigue into our minds.

Very soon the director gives up and goes public about Ambi's split personality problem.Ambi has no knowledge about his two other alters.Sadly his two alters have knowledge about him.By this time Nadini understands the problem, somehow, and realizes that she can actually understand concepts, plus 5 songs are over and its about 3 hours.She now falls for Ambi in all entirety.By now the court takes notice of this case, and leaves this guy out as he is diagnosed with MPD.He is then sent to a hospital where he is treated for two years and comes out completely cured, apparently.

Alright I am tired of writing anymore of this, as you are of reading this post.The movie keeps you entertained, but fails to keep you glued, if you have knowledge of 'Tell me your Dreams' or 'Identity'.The songs are really good.Vivek's comedy is quite funny.For all the base the story had, Shanker has not made good use of the 26 Cr. budget.He could have completed it for less.But somehow, its a good entertainer for a tamil movie's class and quite understandably will be a hit as it caters to needs of the masses.The following is a justification why the movie will be a hit.

Movie Blues

Anniyan(in a characeristic hoarse voice): Dei Baadu..

Audience:aaaayyyy.... whistles blow and everyone's elated at having heard a 'bad word'.

Me:All most falls of the chair laughing, watching both.

Placed!

I am yet to recover from what has happened today.I have narrated the incident more than some ten times now.So I'll keep shut.The news is that I've got placed in HCL COMNET.One hell of a day, I still am pinching myself every two seconds to check if this has happened for real.As a result of my pinching I am finding it extremely difficult to write this post.Plus most of my friends are asking me if its a BPO.Once and for all it is not a BPO.I just went through three rounds and here I am.I have an arrear, and it was a dream for me to see placements happen.Today like a magic, like how Krishna lifted a mountain as a small boy, he for no doubt has played a small trick today in my impertinent life and has given me this happiness, which for sure is ephemeral(No offence meant to Krishna).So I'll shut my butt, but not right away.

I'll be erring greatly if I don't mention and thank these people.So here goes.A big thanks to Janani, Mani, Mental(aka Saamu), Bhargav, Sridhar(the tourist taxi driver), Vigu(ECE-B placement co-ordinator), Rama(CSE placement co-ordinator), Praveen(another CSE placement co-ordinator), Hari(IT placement co-ordinator), George(another IT placement co-ordinator), Shyam and all my well-wishers.

With the way I have done my exams, this has come as something more than a respite.It just happened.Just like that!(This in no way tries to promotes the writer's unreadable Jus like that post).

Enjoy & Think!

Jus like that - 3 aka Humerrr.. sense

I am currently suffering from writer's block, so much so that I just want to get out of this condition by writing something.So I have decided that you will bear the brunt of reading this post and not kill me for what I am going to write.Wait a second, even I don't know what I am going to write.Anyways lets see what comes out of this post.

The tradition of the 'Jus like that' posts have been such that only the writer has ever read them completely and people whom he persuaded into reading just starting throwing curses by reading the first paragraph of those posts.So don't pin much of your hopes onto this one either.I know this statement, and why even this post and this whole blog is a product of my soliloquy.So there is no need for the writer to worry, its just for the typist to continue typing what the material inside my cranium suggets.Thats now what - three personalities? I still don't know what Arun R and Arun Narayan think about it.

Just today when I was talking about The Motorcycle Diaries with Ananth the ingenuity within me created an instant joke based on punning the name of the main character of the movie - Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.With so much of a build-up I guess the joke has lost half its already impotent ability to stir the laughter.Anyways one must try his best.So here i go -

Fidel Castro and his infidelity(hope Castro doesn't castrate me for this!)


Interviewer(to Fidel Castro):Do you like USA?

Fidel Castro(in Spanish):'Che'!!

Okay I know that wasn't anywhere near a joke, but its something that crossed my brain abd so I thought I might bug you as well.Besides a recent mail I received that was posted to our class group ended with this - 'Don't keep the Laughter to yourself'.

I don't know whats happening to my sense of humour these days.I am failing awfully even in scrapping at Orkut, and most of my friends give me a stare for anything hinted as a joke.I know it must be tough times for people around me, but what to do, one man's pleasure is another man's sadness.

With thats apophthegm I guess we can coclude this vettiest post.Will try and write a sequel to this.I have lots to say about humour sense.Besides I wrote three testis(short-form for 'testimonial'; pun unintended) for Beta and he still isn't satisfied.My sense of humour is what irked him the most I guess.I guess now you know why.

What's smokin'??

Just recently our Union Minister for Health Dr.Anbumani Ramadoss, declared that smoking scenes in future cinemas to be produced should not show any smoking scenes.The ban just doesn't stop with that and extends also into the television arena.It says that any smoking scene shown should be blurred and that smoking scenes from old movies should be shown with a statutor warning at the bottom.I, for one am a non-smoker and it doesn't affect me in any way.But it sure does affect my viewing pleasure.Just think:

(The following is a scene from the movie Baasha)

Marc Antony(Raguvaran):Hey Baasha, nee intha business kku oru bachcha.Innum enni yezhe naalla nee close...hahaha.

Baasha(Thalaivar Rajni):(Lights his cigarette and screen blurs immediately) Nee innthaa Baasha oda valayaadathey..venaa.....
The writer wishes to apologise to all Rajini fans for not being able to remember any punch dialogue from the movie as and when he smokes.



Just an important scene in the movie Baasha would go blurred.The scene would lose the aesthetic value and I would lose the kick-assness that the scene would generate for me.Just think, how many such scenes will have to be blurred.Just think!!All this would make people not to smoke? Smokers will still be smokers, according to me.Somehow its all just a farce played by the central government in just making the public feel they are doing something good for them.Do all channels show sex all the time or is there one particular channel that promotes just sex? But still lots of people in India have AIDS.Why? I am not saying that screening sexual content on the screen from now on would have no impact on society.The youth is bound to go beserk.I remember guys used to stay tuned into the ZEE MGM channel every Saturday night, where 'A' movies used to be screned, to catch a glimpse of a woman's breasts.But hey, I can tell you that it surely didn't result in spread of AIDS or anything.Anyways thats different.

The film industry ofcourse has taken it badly for it curbs their imagination and creativity and restricts them of space in this already hackneyed way of making movies.The ban has come as a blow particularly to Bollywood.Many Bollywood actors and filmmakers have reacted in different ways.

Devanand, for instance says:If a person wants to smoke and die let him to do it...why affect the film industry by announcing such laws?..If you want ban smoking ban the sale of tobaccos instead.

Totally in agreement with you Devanand saab.But then filmmakers do also have some social responsibility, in that they mustn't take movies that can influence the vulnerable youth into taking drugs, smoking, drinking or stalking a girl and so on.The subject can't be of such sort, but one or two scenes where it is required to portray a negative character will demand him/her to smoke, drink or take drugs.Then what will the director do? How will he portray that emotion? Anyways thats none of my business.I am not here to speak for the film fraternity.But I sure do enjoy movies and can understand how such a baseless rule, rooted from idiocy will worry the filmmakers and disturb audience with blurs and subtitles.

And this how probably a scene in our future Indian movie would look:

Villain:Haaahahahhahahhehehehehehhaahahahh........(picks up a cigarette and puts it in his mouth and lights it and scene goes blur)...enna inthaaa cigarette pudikiriyaa?(offers cigarette to the hero).

Hero:Che....(gestures like hell he cares).

Villain:Enna bhayamaa?? hhehehehehahahahhahhahaa.............ithu nalla international brandu paa..(asks whether Hero is scared and says that the cigarette is of international quality).

Hero:Che...international branda iruntha enakku enna...ennaku onna maathri screen la blur aaga vendaam....hehehhehhahahahahh..(says he cares balls about its quality and that he doesn't take the cigarette cos he doesn't wants to get blurred on screen and laughs like the villain).

Villain:(takes off the cigarette immediately and looks like hes lost it all..with eyes protruding).