The Director's Cut

A director's role for the success of a movie need no mention.  However wonderfully the artistes play their role to perfection, it is only when the story is good and the taking is good, does the movie becomes a success.

One of the director's whom I admire is Ram Gopal Varma.  This guy has given some of the best movies and also some of the most infamously famous duds of the decade.  I admire this guy not only for his direction, aesthetic sense towards movies but also for his blatant truth and outspokenness. Good or bad, if there is one person whom I would want to emulate it would be RGV.  For someone who has been so blatantly rude to most of his colleagues in the movie industry, he is still being regarded high.  For those who follow him on twitter, you must be very well knowing the way he takes a dig at Karan Johar.

Well, now to those who are not aware of RGV's latest movie, it is Katha, Screenplay, darshakathvam-Appal Raju.  It is his straight telugu movie after a long hiatus.  The movie stars one of the happening telugu comedian Sunil.  There is this one song which people have been updating in their social networking sites and in this song he ridicules most of the directors in telugu film industry and their working style.  Of course he never escapes a chance of self dethronement.  Yes!! He does humiliate himself too and all this done in a subtle way.  What is surprising is that RGV invites most of the directors whom he has taken a dig in this song to this movie's opening ceremony.  No wonder he loves to be hated.

The To-Do List

The to-do lists are quite common in everyone's lives. While some like to do things impromptu some make a list and plan things accordingly.  I've been used to this "to-do list" from when I was a kid. My grandfather always used to have this "to-do" list when he used to make these n-trips a week to Secunderabad and I used to admire him for his perfection. Well, hell-no. I never used to think it was good. For me it was insanely insane. "To-do " list?? Jeez go get a life folks.

However, when gmail introduced the tasks option, I became insane too, making a "to-do" list.  Not because  I wanted to be a perfectionist or because I thought it was super-cool or something but because of my amnesia solely attributed to my ignorance.  Now now enough of this humbug.  Why did I start about this "to-do" list?  I did because it had something to do with a post written on the white board hanging in our meeting room.  Friday mornings are no fun especially when you have this weekly status meeting to let your boss know what you do. Grrrr!!!! I hate those meetings.  The "to-do" list on the board was way too hilarious and 'A' who had recently joined our group became a victim of some brutally  hilarious onslaught.  People who sat beside her cubicle started pulling her leg and making fun of the "to-do" lists she makes.  One of them was "Eat when you are hungry"!!  I guess she needs someone inception. Someone to implant ideas into her head rather than this "to-do" list.

Anyways, I know that this post comes nowhere close to making sense but I wanted to post this picture which I found it a little bit geeky too.  To all those saaaftwaare engineers, does this not represent to some 'C' programming?

An emotional band

Raksha Bandhan, a Hindu festival which celebrates the relationship between brothers and sisters.  It is celebrated on the full moon of the Sharvaana Masam.  This festival marks the tying of a rakhi on the wrist of the brother by the sister (not necessarily blood relations).

Being the only child, I never had someone tying a rakhi to me.  As a kid, I always used to feel bad when my friends came to school with rakhi on their wrists and I used to go back home pestering my mom as to why I did not have a sister.  Unable to bear my tantrums, my parents also posted a rakhi on my cousin's name when I was in 3rd grade only to see a glowing smile on my face.  But as I grew up, I began to cherish my loneliness and no longer craved for people or attention.

As they say 'Change is the only constant'  and this change found it's destiny several years later in Uncle Sam's humble abode in Connecticut. As I opened my mail box, I as usual found some bunch of junk mails lying but among them was this mail from my best friend Soumya Rampally.  I did not even have the slightest clue that Rakhi was fast approaching this year and when I opened the mail, I was pleasantly surprised to have received Rakhi from Soumya.

Thanks Soumya!! You have been the most wonderful and the best sister I could have ever asked for. I wish we could meet personally on this day if not for the miles apart that we stay :)

Religious Trauma?

A picture of an Indian Goddess-Yes!! An Indian Goddess. I do not want to get religion into picture. I am not an atheist and neither am I a staunch believer but this picture hurts.  India is a country which is multi-cultured, multi-religious and we worship so many Gods (right from Gods with elephant heads to people hanging on from a cross sign) but we never resort to such lame promotional methods.  We give due respect and that's it-period.

A shoe store in Balboa Island, Irvine which depicts the picture of an Indian Goddess Lakshmi whose head has been replaced by some blonde female with slippers in each of her hand.  Care to ignore the plight?