"Homer says and I speak"

A quote from Simpsons,
"The problem in the world today is communication. Too much communication."-Homer...

Precisely....
If you are a follower of Simpson's, you'd definitely know how SMART he really is... but for this one statement he made... though the context was completely different... I somehow do have to give the credit to him... ( by him, I mean MAT GROENING)...



Have you ever given a serious thought about this? What is really wrong with the world... is actually not you and me... it is the media... it is the communication... don't get me wrong... even write now, through this blog... M trying to communicate... M a big fan of communication...



but, what upsets me... are a few of the channels... few media sources... few magazines... the newspapers... everything which is limiting its own self and hence limiting our knowledge on the subject to mere interpretation of what they want to see... how they want us to see...


And yes the overkill they do on each every thing... just to make sure they hang on to the hype of "SENSATIONALISM"...



HAVEN'T YOU EVER HEARD 'TOO MUCH OF ANYTHING IS BAD'...
A few recent examples of what we hear in the name of 'Sensation'...
-a full day coverage on Pigeons who suffered coz of the 26-11 on India TV...
-a boy falling in a pit "the prince story"... oh cummon... haven't you fallen in a pit as a kid... and considering INDIA... this might as well be the story of every ten blocks... three days of national coverage... the boy's entire life (education etc.) is sponsored cause of the media hype... coz all everyone wanted to latch on to it in someway or another... ONE LUCKY FALL, I must say...
-Amitabh Bachchan falling sick and being admitted... god he's a 63+... Guys... no one guarantees a 100% health for a 25 yr old these days.... to bother so much about him...
beat this, a news flash reading, "Amitabh suffering from COLD"... who cares... man... really who cares... for all this crap...
-Aishwarya Rai spotted in a Temple... what the heck wass that... and Why should I know of it, when she visits the temple... when she goes for her honeymoon... how many times did she say I Love You on a V-day to Abhishek... or if she does a strip dance in public... (OK... about last one I need to know... but other than that... don't give a sh*t abt it/her)...
-Oh just remembered... there was a news coverage on a 'CAT' being stuck on a window roof... GOD...
-We have interviews of chai-wallas, rickshawwallas... anything and everything goes...

And these are just a few Top of Mind recalls... there are more of these... infact if u visit the recent archives of any news channel... or newspaper house... it is loaded with only these... and everyone who follows news would know... I hate the way they keep dumping us with more and more of this crap... on a daily basis... and we never get chance to react to the old ones...

For instance... we are still to take action against the 26-11... we are still to take action on the margao blasts... where is the corrective action for the train collisions...


Where is the news on... NORTH EAST INDIA... have we totally forgotten these places... specially when survival is next to impossible in these regions... CHINA is eating up on the entire north east... and we bloody don't care... army men dying on hourly basis... that doesn't get reported... Sikkim is a lost state... for most parts we need permission to move from the neighbouring country to visit... and we don't report of all this... I mean... wtf...


We are fed with absolute crap on a daily basis... an overdose... of every other thing, but of what is important in real...



We even have an entire day dedicated to who is dating Katrina Kaif... or why did Kareena leave whoever it was... and if Saif tatooed her name or not... I mean... giving us absolute bull shit to read... to view... I mean...


I remeber, about 15-20 years back... we had doordarshan... and the news then was so bland... with pure reporting of whatever is happening in plain terms.... with a follow up on what happened on what was reported the day before... I agree it was dead boring... but News is supposed to be boring... we had more streamlined process... u wanted to read about film world... pick up filmfare or glamour... and now... with all the technological upgrade... weren't we supposed to grow better...



With an overdose... on each topic... I think we are forcefully subjected to think in a manner... that they want us to... instead of letting us have/form an opinion on our own... we are being tamed to their beliefs... their ideas... and to react in a way they want us too...



Anyways... to THINK of it...
"we have 'TOO MUCH' of the 'TOO LITTLE' of what we ought to know"

Where is all this leading to?

just a thought... with every other media channel becoming more and more active in terms of... the Jaagore campaign... getting viewers to vote and all... making sure that everyone does use his vote in a righful manner...

Just one question... Y... when end of the day... the options to choose from is a bunch, loaded of suckers... show me a single righteous man... and even if there are a few left... they are never heard of... Non-Existant... unless we change the entire system... we hold each of these F****** accountable... and not just bother of it during elections... nothings going to change...

"the change we need is not in the number of people who turned in to vote... but in the people from whom we can choose to vote for..."

"I love working on a weekend"

Call me a maniac for saying it aloud... but...

Seems like "March" for the year has just begun... historically speaking... I tend to be always overloaded with work in the month of March... and until now it was all going good... for the last two weeks, it all started again... I've started to end up working late hours every day and the weekend attendance at office is back too... but I've started liking it for once...

I carry couple of movies in my pen drive... and watch them courtesy a stand alone VLC player... (which allows me to watch any format and the best it needn't be installed onto the comp... so no admin rights required).... so while I'm working the movie continues to play in the background... so though I end up spending an hour or a little more at work... but atleast I don't get bored sitting alone at work... and staring at all those weird documents...
:)

So y'day I carried with me Gulal & Twilight... I had already seen thoda thoda sa of both ...

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GULAL
*******



*ing: Kay Kay Menon, Jesse Randhawa, Mahie Gill, Abhimanyu Singh... and quite a few other people don't remember the names...
Directed by: Anurag Kashyap...

Gulaal is a story of a Rajput boy losing his innocence in the murky world of politics and betrayal, much like any other film by Mr. Kashyap, Gulaal makes you want to think... although, there is no definite ending for this movie.

Gulaal is exactly opposite of the way any other bollywood bubblegum movie is... a hardcore of a movie... a brilliant story... revolving around absolute politics... one word 'REALISM'
Each and every character is carved brilliantly and the situations were so true and brilliantly portrayed, that it actually felt as if I'm witnessing the entire thing live.

The ragging episodes... the college politics... I especially liked a few characters...
"Ransa"- a Righteous Rajput boy... who does everything... drink, smokes, dopes, womaniser... when it comes to pride... he stands firm to his beliefs... played by Abhimanyu Singh... his dialogues... absolutely mind blowing .... performance to perfection...
"bana the singer"- I just loved the character... though portrayed as a crazy fella... but if you listen to him carefully... every word he utters is so true... his songs were so powerful... and yet no one ever bothers to listen to him... he wears this round shaped glasses... and somewhere in the middle of the movie he quotes," the round glassed men are all those the world thinks of as fanatics... we all should live together for we are the true ones"... the comparison here was with the likes of Gandhi, Lenon and all...
"dukey bana"... Kay Kay Menon... I don't have words for this guy... he's absolute perfectionist... a directors delight... absolutely amazing performance...

Though, my favourite for this movie would still be, Abhimanyu Singh.



My view: must must watch...
Rating: 9/10

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Twilight
*******

EXTREMELY OVERRATED

I did enjoy the movie, just like any other movie... but completely disapprove of how media has placed this... to begin with there is nothing scary about the movie... extremely ordinary cinematography... absolutely crappy (read as kiddish) dialogues... more like a school going kid had written the screenplay... the actors looked as if each of them were dipped in a make up pool before bringing them on screen ...

I really don't understand what the hype is all about...

May be I didn't like it as this was a follow up post... "Gulal"... but then again... this is my opinion... ain't it...

My take: can do without it

Rating :3/10

"DEV.D"

Director: Anurag Kashyap

Also famed as the "Modern Day Devdas"

A true masala movie for the serious cine-lovers... though is completely off beat in the topics it showcases... it is a tale of lust, love, lust, obsession, lust, psychedelia and lust.

Finally Indian Cinema grows up, a country full of hypocrites.... the land where Kamasutra was scipted... and using the three letter word S*X is a taboo... can someone... please explain the 1 billion + population....

Anywaz... why 'Modern Day Devdas', Devdas Mukherjee had always been an epitome of self pity, drunkenness and failed love in Indian cinema similarly, Dev Dhillon though an absolute b**tard, who fondles every other women, but cracks up at rumors of Paro kissing someone else... DEV D is though similar to that of Devdas, but, yet so very different. He drinks... nopes he drowns... himself in vodka, breathes on air filtered by coke, calls up Paro's house at 4 in the morning, yet he sees Chanda's face when he closes his eyes...

The commonalities of Devdas and Dev D, is drawn by the self centeredness of both these characters...

What I really liked about the movie was the way in which Mr.Kashyap had portrayed all the three characters... especially that of Paro and Chanda (Lenny)... the way Mr.Kashyap builds both these characters from various shades of gray and turns them into such strong characters... is absolutely brilliant...

Abhay Deol is fantastic as Dev.

I read this somewhere that there were a total of 18 songs in this movie... and funnily I only remember one... the 'emosional atyachar' one...

My take on the movie... a definite delicay for not so regular appetite...

Rating: 7/10

"Deep Purple"

a LOUDER performance - by critically acclaimed rock band Deep Purple...

an eventful friday evening...

First half of the evening was loaded with those magnificent pairs of wheels... the harley's, the triumph, the victory, the boss hoss, orange county choppers, the Yamaha's, the suzuki's, the Kawasaki's, the Ducati's the Aprilias and many more... these were just the highlight of what was to begin...

the bike show was absolutely amazing... exhausted... already... I just placed myself on one of those bean bags... lying around the park area... and started to mentally prepare myself for what was to follow...

Once listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the "world's loudest band"

the quintet comprises of- Ian Gillan(Frontman), Roger Glover(bassist), Ian Paice (drummer), Don Airey(on the keyboard) and of course... of course Steve Morse (the man on the sexy strings)...

To begin with... we were lucky enough to manage to squeeze ourselves to be at around four to five rows away from the stage... standing there, it felt like, as if they were playing for us...

The first one to take on the stage was Ian... I admit at this moment... I was at my foolish best... though I'd been speaking of this to everyone around... that these guys would now be old... and I'm not sure of what to expect... as in... they were the loudest band in the world... they been around for more than 40 years... they belong to the era of Led Zep, Black Sabbath and the likes... and imagine still being the loudest band... what to expect.... but when I entered the arena... I still imagined them to be younger... still be in the same madness... like the ones I'd seen in the countless videos... but Ian's entry was a reality check... following him onto the stage was Roger... he still looked in his crazy best... following him was Airey... he quitely snuggled to his keyboards... arranged in the back of the stage... then the strumming began... Steve Morris...

and the magic began...
couple songs later... I closed my eyes to listen... to feel it... it felt as I was standing in a arena of a 100,000 people or more...... with DP performing... only difference... it was 1979... yes... they still had the power.... they still had what it needed in the performance... in plain words... THEY ROCKED

I mean they lasted more than two hours on the stage... though there were solo's being performed... for cpla minutes... every now and then... by each of the band members... and the others took the well deserved break...

One thing I've noticed from all the recent rock concerts that I've been attending... you don't get rubbish crowd... as in if it was a shakira or a Kylie.... u'd just see about say atleast 50 times the crowd...; there aren't many asians who spend that kinda money... to view them... there are mostly westerners... though there is a clear share of the arabs (more like wannabes, who wouldn't understand a thing... but the minute there is a band would pack their kanduras and drag themselves to these....) and most important of all... it's an experience that one can't deny.... it's one thing to listen to them on ur Music System.... and another to see them for real...

Deep Purple... the experience UNREAL...

Few songs they played, not necessarily in that order:

I want you, I need you, I gotta be near you
I spent my money as I took my turn
I want you, I need you, I gotta be near you
Ooh, I got a strange kind of woman, yes I have

I love it and I need it, I feed it
Yeah, it turns me on
Alright, hold tight
I'm a highway star, yeah

Come on, come on, come on
Let's go Space truckin'
Come on, come on, come on

Hush, hush,
I thought I heard her calling my name now.
Hush, she took my heart,but I love her just the same now.

Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky

Black night is not right,
I don't feel so bright,
I don't care to sit tight.
Maybe I'll find on the way down the line
That I'm free, free to be me.

Qoute-unquote

However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

random ramblings

"I have to believe in a world outside my own mind.
I have to believe that my actions still have meaning. Even if I can't remember them.
I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still here.
Do I believe the world's still here? Is it still out there?"

Read it somewhere

"There's a little bit of hooker in every woman...
a little bit of a hooker and a little bit of God"
-Saras Miles, noted English actress

'fuzon'

Aankhon ke saagar

hothon ke saagar

Le doobe Hame

Le Doobe Hame

sabhi dooriyaan

woh majbooriyaan

sabhi dooriyaan

woh majbooriyaan

bhulado unhe

ke main hoon yahaan...

Lyrics of Song: Aakhon Ke Sagar : Band Name: Fuzon

About Fuzon:

This is a Paki Band... singing style : pop/rock... with a touch of classical...

A fusion of eastern and western styles of music... in my opinion, amongst the few band with something significant with balance and mix of both styles...

I've been listening to the band for a while now... but today, after a really long time... the song just played on my blog... and felt so refreshing... so writing on my blog...

I love the riffs.... (the guitar riffs)... the vocals...

On a friends FB pic...

"Giving someone all your love is never an assurance, that they'll love you back!
Don't expect love in return, just wait for it grow in their heart, but if it doesn't, be sure it grew in yours"

the movies over the weekend

1.pink panther 2:
waste of time...
one Question though... what were u doing in the movie... Mrs. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

2. Teeth:
this has to be made by some psycho... please don't watch this... I really have no words to describe this movie... except that don't watch it