ThoughtfulChaos

I finally managed to see Rang De Basanti day before yesterday with Roshan, a friend of mine from office. What with all the rave reviews from friends, many of whom resolved to the see the movie a second time (or third time or Nth time)... Of course I skipped all the reviews on the Net and newspaper... after all knowing the story beforehand takes away half the fun, doesn't it? Unless its a really dense movie where knowing the story beforehand might actually aid the viewing experience, but I digress.

I found it to be a decent enough movie. A feel-good go-with-the-flow kind of movie that makes you feel nice but is not all that deep. Maybe I was expecting too much and was disappointed when it turned out to be just another reasonably good Hindi movie. Hmmm... does this mean that I should skip movies that _everybody_ likes? Maybe not but then I shouldn't have high expectations either.

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I came back to Pune early morning yesterday. I thoroughly enjoyed the trip home and I wish I could stay there for a few more days.

The bus ride to Ahmedabad was more comfortable than I had expected and wonder of wonders the bus arrived in Ahmedabad on schedule. This made the entire experience less painless and I arrived home hale and hearty. Saturday was spent lazing around at home. Saw TV for many hours (we have a brand new widescreen TV!).

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I am currently reading Freakonomics and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Freakonomics is an interesting book authored Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. They take seemingly disparate events and draw causal relationships or parallels between them. The authors 'explore the hidden side of everything' by finding patterns in the data associated with some phenomenon and arrive at unexpected often startling conclusions. However towards the end I got a little bored and I have kept the book on hold for now. Meanwhile I started reading Pride and Prejudice (P&P).

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Unexpected holiday
I love holidays. I love holidays in the middle of the week even more. I actually did not know that office was closed on the 7th (Wednesday) due to Ganesh Chaturthi. It was a pleasant surprise, akin to unexpectedly finding a 50 rupee note in your pockets. Mini SMSed me on Monday (or was it Tuesday?) and we decided to meet up and catch some movie at Inox or E-Square. I called up Suchitra and fortunately she too didn't have anything planned for Wednesday so she also joined us. Its been a long time since we had met. I think last I met Suchitra was more than an year ago and even Mini I met only many months back.

After a lot of poring over newspapers and calls among ourselves to reach a consensus we decided to see Mangal Pandey: the Rising at E-Square.

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Watched the movie Stealth with Dad yesterday.

Stealth is a boring movie overall. The story is an oft-repeated one, patchy and inconsistent, the acting is mediocre (actually there is not much scope of good acting), the action sequences are so so and the visual effects are nothing exceptional. The only good thing in the entire movie are the cool fighter jets but obviously you require a lot of other things to make a movie interesting. I am not going to repeat the story because it is way too boring, predictable and not worth any kind on dissection, debate or analysis.

Short and sweet advice: Watch Stealth if you are ultra bored, do not want to sleep and have nothing else to do.

Note to geeks: This movie is especially painful to geeks. You have been warned.