Swades..visited..

Saw SWADES yesterday..No words..Amazing comes close..Fantabulous comes closer....but no single word to describe it.. My roomie used something that came closest-"Hilaa ke rakh diyaa bey..." So true..

To the junta who havent watched it yet...category-wise:

1.Ppl who goto a movie to just have a good time..enjoy Karan Johar..Sooraj Barjatya..Sanjay Leela Bhansaali..yash chopra-ish movies...where everything is one big wedding..everybody is draped in pink and is a punjabi with some deft moves to the bhangra-rap in a phoren country...THIS MOVIE IS NOT FOR U !!IT INVOLVES GREY MATTER USAGE !! and is therefore a bit of a bore for u..

2.Ppl who goto a movie to watch ppl shooting each other and acting non-chalant about it..enjoy Ramgopal Verma..Disgusting Tarantino re-makes in hindi(tarantino is fantastic..the remakes are..NOT !!!) ..D-company..encounter killings..Sanjay dutt...Sunny deol.."Pakistan murdaabad" and "Kashmir hamaara hai"..Item numbers..and such blood and gore..(I mean the "item"s in "gore" also :-)..THERE IS NO BLOOD/HOMICIDE/MURDERS IN THIS MOVIE..It will not entertain ur pyschotic,mentally deranged object that some people call brain..SO DONT EVEN GO...Goto a mumbai dance bar..much better value for "YOUR" money..

3.People who goto a movie to...think...before,during and after the movie..This movie is for you..If this doesn't awaken you rudely out of your slumber...Nothing else will...Ever...

Shahrukh khan gives the performance of his life..The track "Yeh Tara" will probably haunt me for a long time..

Great performance once again from Raj Vivek of Lagaan's Guran fame...

Ashutosh Gowariker is GOD..for having had the guts to make one more truly "hatke" movie..and giving something even better than "Lagaan"

NOTE:Word of advice to all junta who are going..DONOT go for a night show..I did..and couldnt sleep between 2 AM and 6 AM..Thinking abt the message the movie is trying to suggest..Woke up at 8 AM..

And to the junta..who either...havent seen the movie,hear some extra-smart movie-critic slander it (one said..."looks like the movie is not made for the masses..Ashu seems to have made it for an Oscar Nomination" !!!) and therefore dont have plans of going...or saw the movie and said "Kya bakwaas kar raha hai !! " ..Well..Tum logon ka kuch nahi hoga..Go ahead..Have a great time with your 5 figure salaries and remain disconnected from the rest of India for the rest of your soul-less life..

And to the rest..Go find your "bijli".........

and ur "gitli"...

ritz

PS: Plan to watch it again this weekend...I think I have a direction and some answers now..

What makes my Day tolerable..

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So what do i do to break the monotony all day..Mails to and fro with my batchmates from IITM(bunch of around 10 guys and girl !)..
It's fun... and so Thanks guys..

A transcript of the conversation today..

Introduction:Started with Surd sending a alcoholhorscopes.doc which predicts ur drinking habits based on ur Zodiac sign..

Indrajeet's repartee:

K(as in Kini)
"A squiffy Taurus will get, er, gregarious (full of loudmouth soup, some would say) and is extremely amusing to drag to a karaoke bar when intoxicated"I Had this experience with the Taurus. Yeah and he really is a bull in the china shop what with breaking glasses in my room while going out to take a leak. Spilling all the chakhna etc. Catching hold of his nose and standing on one leg, bending down. Walking on a straight crooked line etc............Hey K
Enjoy
Adios
Indrajeet

My reply:

BASTARDS !! I WILL NEVER FORGIVE U !!! EVER !!For that "Catching hold of his nose and standing on one leg, bending down. Walking on a straight crooked line etc............"LOL...I couldnt control my laughter and the guys around me started loooking at me in an odd way..Those were the good days macha..
kini

Arun's reply:

Kini what about that drunken fit when you guys decided to bash up another guy....The episode when you borrowed from virdee to buy cake for the dog!!!!!I am sure many can testify for your cases... look at mine... nursing drinks... thank god they left out the getting sloshed part!!!!Hey Virdee.. how about me coming down for New Year?? Any plans so far... ( with people other than Ashwin....) I do not know Ashwin ... might go out with his babe.. I am sure he prefers his babe to you!!!!and you are not to be left out either!!! So tell me guys , I have a couple of friends to meet ( Other than MBA .. my college mates) so if nothing is planned We could get something going!!! whatta you say??For all you know Mike may be in Chennai ( He is ... every weekend anyway)

Surd's reply:

think of daru and arun was water in his mouth........
sudep is going to his "mera gaon mera desh " this weekend...
deoghar is rocking in the new year time....
major disco and pubs and people all over the globe comedown to deoghar for
partying....
anything which comes next to deoghar in newyear bash is Sao Paulo...

K's reply:

What machas fully silent after arun proposed the new year plan ?Arun..dei..get the picture..they dont want to spend their new year with a drunk aquarian da..MAybe D and P wil be better company..u can all whine ur new year in..with P leading from the front..ashwin would be with his babe..she's finally stopped mailing me..i think ashwin gave her the ultimatum"either kini or me !! ".she seems to have made the choice..rite or wrong..only time wil tell...surd with his babe...he's taaking a crash course in tam-speak..he mustave learnt a lotta things by now..in tamspeak i mean..not perversions !!sudeep wil be at deogarh's most happening pub..stags are allowed there..so he'll be alone..they are getting some foreign intellectual types there thsi year..so mite get lucky..sudeep i mean..not the the foreigners...urdu shaayari is tough to understand even when drunk..Krishna wil be game if there's booze flowing..the urdu shaayari clause holds good here too though..Kelkar of course mite be interested in hosting u...but then i'm not sure if he has the time..get it ?Dhagala goes home at the first given opportunity..so no chance of meeting him..D,d and p should be free..i think u should go..to humour them atleast..

k
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Surd gets back:

baki sab kuch is great.........yeh sala p kutta beeech mein kahan se aa gaya............bhavani..... u remeber 24th april?? p is shouting........ where is mybhavani?? where is my bhavani?? i will go in the same van where there isbhavani....... hey bhavani marry him da..... all the bong girls in Chennaiare over......... according to D........ he has seen unmarried bonggirls in chennai from age 21 to 35....... and didn't like even one......some hazar criteria....i don't know if he is mentally ill.......

Sudeep add his dime's worth..

kini .. seems u r tottally jobless .... pay some attention to the job assigned .. tcs revenues have already started declining ..and what a thot .. deoghar and pub .... i guess 90% of junta there wont know what a pub is .... but daaru and shayari always go together .... and virdee saab aap bhavani ke baare me baat kar rahe hain aur usi ko distribution me add karna bhool gaye .... anyways i hav forwarded ur mail to her ..

Indrajeet explains why he didnt get back for so long(25 mins !!)

Hi Silence due to lunch break.I can host you guys. No issues. Bought a TV on Sunday. Samsung plano 21 inch blah blah blah etc...... still to get CAS though. Will get that this weekend. Banglore guys. Get the booze. Don’t want to drink mgm vodka....Who else is coming from banglore apart from dei arun.Dhagala is welcome. P a strict no no...Virdi when you send a message to db make sure her address is in the to or cc textbox.
Adios
Indrajeet

The only sane one amongst us..DB gets back..

Wish I will be able to make it there. but then am going to spend my new year in Mumbai. Thanks for the offer.This is the last mail from me in this year. Its holiday from tomorrow.If Michael is reading the mail - Merry ChristmasWish you all a Happy new Year
Cheers

And Finally Ashwin alias BFIC(Big F#$% I care) replies:

while v r at it..
merry christmas n happy new year to al...
anyway al u single ppl.. check this out..
Link
statistical proof for sad single lonely lives...

And so I have a nice time all day..
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Mood Indigo...

Mood Indigo.. IIT Bombay's Cul-fest is here !!

Calling all ye creatures of the nite..to IITB's campus in Powai !!Between 2oth-24th December...

Ofcourse,Saarang IITM's Culfest rulez...Simply bcos I'm an IITM Alumnus ;-}

Ahem...Just one Question..to the organisers at Mood Indigo..The core group so to say..Whoever thot of a cul-fest in the middle of the week !!!

Most Cul-fests end on Sunday nite with the rockshow..but this one's ending on Thursday nite !!!

Go figure !!!

ritz

An Approach to solve Problems..

The last few years have made me realise that I have the unique ability to give "Gyaan"...
And convincingly at that..
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No..I have not transformed into a neo-buddha..But i am getting close(and by the looks of it..around 30 ppl who visit this place daily think so too !!!)

Well lets get to the point..shall we..

There are 2 approaches to solve problems..Works for both Problems/issues in Life/Profession..

Situation:
You are faced with 'X' No. of problems...

Approach 1:

Zigzag your way through Problem A to Problem B to Problem C to Problem D and so on until you get stuck at Problem H(lets say) and then move back to Problem B and Problem D and then Problem Z and so on...Random..unpredictable and therefore fun at most times..

+ves:It mite not give you all the answers but is guarenteed to keep you interested enuf in the whole thing to be wasting your time trying to figure it all out..

-ves:
1.Indicates Lack of professionalism(And thats even if u got it all rite.."didnt follow PROCESSES" i think is the phrase your superiors would use)..
2.If the Problems are fairly similar..u can get stuck at pretty much the same place at each problem.. and worse..not know how to go further ! But then what would the phrase "burning the midnight oil" mean then...

Approach 2:Slightly more methodical

1.Understand all Problems
2.Analyse all problems
3.Start at Problem A
4.Understand Problem A throughly
5.Understand Problem A more throughly
6.Analyse Problem A throughly
7.Solve Problem A completely (!!! Easier said than done I know ;-)
8.Now move to problem B
9.Follow steps 4-6 until problem Z
10.Go through All solutions and reconfirm that you have got it rite..

+ves:Well...None actually that I can think of.. ;-0
Oh sorry !! forgot the "Followed Processes effectively" advantage..But then...who cares..

-ves: Where should I start..

1.BORING !!! (atleast for me...)
2.BORING !!!!!! (again..thats the irritation factor multiplying the "boring" part ;-)
3.We are born-rebels..If Our PL says Use Approach 2.."WHY in Dear GOD's name should I not use Approach 1 ???" is ur emphatic reply !!!
4.I said this to somebody a long time back..If life were ordered and symmetric why would we ever be interested in the opposite sex ? cars would've been our first and only love,rite...(The analogy is borrowed, by the author, in this scenario, in a vague and kinda kinky way ;-)

Now the big question..Why the hell did i come up with this post ??

Well..my dear reader..

If I had all the answers I would not sitting in office and writing it on my blog..
I would be relaxing on a Goa beach(with a belle,i mite add) and writing it as a book for frustrated souls...Woudn't I ???

Amen!!!!
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ritz