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Before I'm off to sleep....some inspiration to get started tomorrow

Don't ask if it is allowed,
Don't ask if it is possible,
MAKE IT.....!!!!!

wolfgang weingart

SDM studio, NID, 6th Nov.2006

DOOM-2 to DOOM-3

Well, the cliched title of "DOOM" says it all.
Anyway I was dhoomed the moment I made up my mind to watch this movie.......falling for the trailers and its decent predecessor.

 

Thank God for making Hrithik Roshan the way he is. The only saving grace of the movie. He's the only one who comes out unscathed and manages to weave his own aura on screen. Plus he can act too....what more can one ask for.

Abhishek Bachchan, ACP Jay Dixit.....hardly seen without his retro shirts, the"oh-so-cool stubble" and worn out jeans throughout the movie, for once, is completely overshadowed by Mr.A, as Hrithik Roshan is called in the film. Mr.A leaves behind a very funny looking metal "symbol" at every crime scene which he claims to be an 'A' (which hardly looks like one......typography man....can't help it ;)

Aishwarya Rai looks "tempting" up until the moment she opens her mouth. Her dialogues "like" are very very sad and she fails miserably especially in her first encounter with Mr.A struggling to show off attitude and the "golden cool look"....whatever........

Abhishek Bachchan
Sadly, hardly lives up to expectations (poor fans......the girls) and looks almost funny dancing around the perfect Mr.Cool moves...Hrithik. ACP Jay Dixit could have been rendered a lot better I must say. He seems to have lost this one to Hrithik. Abhishek can do a lot better.....I will certainly not forget him in Yuva....awesome.............
Well well, that was the past.........back to DOOM-2

Bipasha Basu
(Shonali/Monali), well, just an add on....again....only eye candy. The "second half version" of Bipasha is the biggest mistake and blooper of Doom-2, I guess.

Uday Chopra......Aali (like Monali calls him)......do I "have to" write about him. Pathetic. If you thought he was funny in Dhoom, forget about him being even 1 percent of that here. Another disaster element.

Is there anything left....oh yeah...he plot, editing, cinematography, music......you can't make a film without all that, can you?....Well they've actually gone ahead and made one!!!
A disconnected plot, very "Hindi movie" looking robberies (Dhoom 1 atleast tried to be slick) Editing is nothing great to write home about. Cinematography, is plain to say the least. Only Rio adds a bit of colour and freshness to the overall setting which cannot actually be credited to the cinematographer. A huge number of frames are spent in slow motion when the characters are shown doing simple things like leaving airports or walking on a street (though Mr.A looks the best in that scene on Marine Drive). All of them have seem to have been given the same set of instructions.........
"Walk 4 steps...now ever so slowly...look towards your right, walk two steps, now turn to the camera....four steps more.......and please loads of attitude......right...." Good shot.

Music....except for the title track, the rest is not even close to hummable. I don't understand why people curse and blame only Himesh Reshammiya.
Action is simply unexciting.

All in all, DHOOM2 tries way too hard to pass off as this cool flick with lots of attitude and slick stuff. The characters look stale and the plot is very loose that hardly generates any excitiement or build-up to the climax.

DOOM 3 on its way....any takers??

ROUND 4 LAP 1

The first lap...like in F1 was the warm up lap with nothing exciting happening the whole day.
Well there are 4x30, say 120 laps (roughly)more to go....
I hate getting down to numbers, but have to sometimes, coz otherwise it just remains a "concept".

With the engine revved up now, I'm expecting to clock some really faster laps. Let's see how it goes. It's no longer about "C"s and "A+"s (as if it was)......yeah...but its now about the bigger picture where you are just about to be introduced, rather thrown into.

The usual buzz around NID is back with familiar faces bright with beaming smiles, highlighting the "just returned from home" look.....and thankfully the mess has also re-opened now.
You sometimes tend to understand true worth, only when things are not around anymore and treasure them once they are back.........

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 I'm sittin here in my boring room(not really)
Just another lazy Sunday afternoon.......

India is playing South Africa in Cape Town, ID has gone for training, most of VC is yet to be seen on campus, the autumn leaves are all over the place, the lawn looks tender and fresh and I'm sitting in the NID amphitheatre and writing this. Thanx to technology....Wi-fi and all that. I have grown fond of this place which harldy figures in anybody's list. It's nice and peaceful, no irriating voices around you, nor people moving around you, almost like a cutoff but still within NID. I call it a place for reflections and projections.

Tomorrow, I begin my last semester at NID. Already..... seems not so long ago that I had come to this place, with hardly any expectations, unlike most others for whom NID had fallen short of their imagination and sky high 
expectations. I say this from all the CRIB talk that I've been subjected to, over the past three semesters, and, what's more, it cuts across all disciplines.

Well, the last semester; one last chance to freak out, one last chance to run wild with your imagination, feel the winter here (of whatever little happens), one last chance to have a ball, 
one last chance to play along, literally one last chance.....coz whatever happens after this will just be a measured and calculated move for most....even for me maybe.
So before I take the plunge this is my "pause || " and a look at what lies ahead of me....though as I've said earlier, one should not plan too much. So, I'll take it as it comes, one day at a time....

| L | I | N | E | S |

from the Tata Safari ad
"The only thing stopping you....is YOU"

from "Feel" by Robbie Williams
"I sit and talk to God.....and he just laughs at my plans"

from "Teach your children" by csny
"The past is just a goodbye"

from "Happy together" by The Turtles
"Me and you, and you and me...
no matter how they tossed the dice.....it had to be"

and the latest Sony Ericsson ad (i think it's the coolest ones of late)
"I (the SE logo) the rain"
"I (the SE logo) long queues"
"I (the SE logo) losing myself"
"I (the SE logo) being the substitute"
"I (the SE logo) missing the last bus home......."

a few of their print ads...down there   >

Too cool huh!!

 

WHY ?

Why: sometimes you have to do it?
Why: sometimes all reasoning betrays you?
Why: sometimes you feel so compelled to say something,
you wouldn't otherwise say, even in the wildest of your dreams?
What's more, you actually go and say it...!

Why: sometimes everything just seems to be in harmony?
Everything seems there for you and right in front of your eyes,
yet your instinct says no, not now!
There seems to be a perfect union of your inner self and someone else's
without even exchanging words.
You strike a chord...that perfect harmony....magic

Why: sometimes words aren't sufficient to say what the heart wants to?
Time isn't ample to say the words one wants to, and listen to the others say.
Yet amidst all this chaos there is that moment where
time seems to stand still, you hear the unspoken words and go
"Huh"...only to realise nothing was said.

PLEASE TICK ONE

CHOICES!!!
Someone said, "You always have a choice at every stage in your life"
Yeah we sure do...but the way I look at people who make choices that they actually don't intend to, is something like this....

There is an exam where only one question is asked to every person present. Each guy/girl gets the question paper with the question.
Now, everyone is given four alternatives to the answer, out of which they have to tick one.
Fair enough. Now there is this guy who gets his, which has only one option as an answer and the line after the question reads : please tick one

This is something that happens to many people, but we look at them and say...well, he had a choice and look what he has chosen,he could have easily done xyz and gone there and done blah bla blah....without realizing what he's been through.
Maybe he got a question paper like the one i just described...too bad for him...isn't it? So the next time you judge a person's decision,(which one isn't supposed to anyway)think of this please tick one" situation.

Bravado....!

Well all that Bravado, more than anything else to stretch my own limits and check how far I can take loneliness....seems to be fading out all very quickly.
I'm talking about staying back in the hostel; and it's not even been a day since everyone left for different destinations with different aspirations, different emotions, apprehensions and dreams in their hearts.
I feel like a by-stander watching people come and go without having much of a say myself wondering when will my turn come.

But I guess the fact that man is a social animal...never felt so true before.
I think I'm strong, hell I am; to take on anything, take on the world all by myself....then why am I doubting myself now? I think I'll still stretch myself a little more just to be sure. I am not buckling yet.

Just like another saying (this was one of the lines I had chosen out of 9 others for our typography assignment, I thought it was ME).....
Walk a little farther than you usually do, there's something exciting over that hill

NO RAIN

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
I like watchin the puddles gather rain
And all I can do is just pour some tea for two, and speak my point of view
but it's not sane...it's not sa-ane....its not sa-a-ane

I just want someone to say to me,
I'll always be there when you wake,
Ya know I'd like to keep my cheeks dry today
So stay with me and I'll have it made

And I don't understand why I sleep all day
And I start to complain that there's no ra-in
And all I can do is read a book to stay awake,
And it rips my life away...it's a great escape
es-ca-ape....es-ca-pe..es-caa-ape

All I can say is that my life is pretty plain,
Ya don't like my point of view
Ya think I'm insane
It's not sa-ane, it's not sa-a-ane

Well it's been the song I identify with, the most, since the past few years (2.5 years to be precise)...and not surprisingly this was the song i chose for one of our projects called VISUAL NARRATIVE....where we had to visually interpret a song or a poem or a piece of prose.
I thought what else could be better than this. Though there was a period where I had started hating the lyrics and the song itself because the project was going nowhere.
I did end up doing pretty decent stuff I think.......it's so stupid how some things feel good when someone else tells you that it is good.
And now when I'm listening to the song again....I feel....I've done something nice and still continue to relate to "no rain" like before.

I'm here in campus trying to WORK; yeah, work.....that's why I intended to stay back during the vacations. But I relaise that post Friday, I'll be the only one left on the entire 2nd floor of the hostel. The project that had to be completed at a frantic pace (atleast that's what I had decided while going to Pushkar in the bus the other night)is not even finding space on my computer screen. It's become like lost love. I guess I'll have to "rekindle the fire" and create magic. Talk about creating magic...the jury was one such...hehe...wonder how it happened.

Add to it the cough and cold...thanx to the adventurous bike rides under the moonlit skies and on abandoned roads, flirting with the prospects of being caught by the police....
Nonetheless...the spirit still prevails....2 more nights to go....I'm not letting this go so easily....wot say Sumin??
Though I feel a lot better today.....why not...got up at 11 and slept again in the afternoon...haha
One thing I've realised is ....one should not plan too much....in fact one should not plan at all. Sounds frivolous...but at certain times yes....you just have to act on instincts.
There I go again...I don't want to repeat myself!

THE EXODUS

Hey.....agreed Genesis (my first post) was a long time back.....but in the Holy Bible too there is big lapse of time between genesis and exodus :)
Even otherwise....i think my exodus has already begun......it began with me leaving (well almost) home at the age of 17....in a quest to find myself...a quest to achieve something what my heart believed, no matter what the world said.
A quest to LIVE life, not just exist.

The heart speaks, it does. It's something which I believe happens to us every moment, but we are so caught up trying to rationalize it, that we end up not hearing the muffled voices and signs and cues that are all around us. The little connections here, a song there, a voice here, a word there, a sudden gesture of kindness and concern from someone you hardly know, an uncalled blessing, a feeling of lightness in the heart.
The heart never lies. The mind tries to rationalize what the heart says, but the heart doesn't think twice. Somewhere, I think, we try to strike a perfect balance which i believe one should never try......well, being a libran that should be second nature, but I don't think it's ever possible to strike a balance between the heart and the mind.......
I always end up going with the heart :)

It's been amazing....!!
When I look back at the 25 years of my life, I think I've done nothing worthwhile, then I close my eyes and look back again; this time I see everything clearly. I've done so much.....from being a good kid who would never have to be told even once (forget twice) to study, to the prankster who would go around climbing all the possible trees within the campus, chasing kites, making wickets out of wood, sawing wooden planks to make bats, dreaming(and actually trying)about manually making a flowing stream in which water flows, with all the rocks and beautiful looking trees, thinking about "What if I fly a kite and attach rolls of strings after strings....where would it end up?"

So much has happened......
Home, school, Ahmednagar, Architecture, Pune, Training, Kolhapur, Work, Pune,
Graphic design, NID, Ahmedabad.......heart all over it.....not one decision was taken with the mind over ruling the heart.

Anyway....here I am...trying to vomit out as many words as possible from my mind, heart and soul....i've tried doing that through my mouth but doesn't work!!

Well, a lot has happened over the past week....indeed a lot
A good jury....an awesome trip to Pushkar near Ajmer in Rajasthan, back to NID Ahmedabad. The same night...a trek to pavagadh near Baroda.Returned the next day afternoon and the night...a bike ride (my first driving experience in the maddening streets of Ahmedabad...though I was glad it was night...) to the Indira bridge, airport road.........isn't it nothing but AWESOME!!