Nothing idiotic !!

This blogger happen to see Hindi movie 3 Idiots in the theatre while I was traveling few days back. It’s been ages since I have been to theaters. Last time I went to a theatre was to watch Guru while I was in Madurai. Unfortunately the theater had bedbugs, few minutes into movie I was all scratching. Mani Ratnam’s creative world was battling ferocious bugs, and I was vacillating between vicious attacks on my sensitive self and vista of Aishwarya dancing in rain on Rehman’s incredible song. It again was the age old mind over matter situation, won decisively by the latter this time when I was startled by a rat scrambling through my legs. I did catch up with the rest of movie on TV, the only hitch being saw the first half in Tamil rest in Hindi!!. Need to add watching movie on TV is quite a bad experience, with so many dumb obnoxious ads spoiling fun. It gets really crude when you switch on for cricket match, there is lack of basic decency. I guess when you are salivating for money these small issues don’t matter. Incidentally the richest “sporting body” couldn’t even get few feet of ground ready for match that too in the capital of the country. Any other set of people would have said “we will show what it means to be the richest, we will create the best sporting facility that the world could offer. A state of art stadium the world has not seen”. But not these small timers they will clutch on to the suck and back bite, when it comes to Delhi these behavior are an art itself, it is envied. It is a matter of shame, even to watch the match in the stadium can be such a bad experience. BCCI has become a syndicate to make money by few.

Enough of crap, so I was saying I saw 3 idiots (I didn’t realize it was last day of the year, crackers later signaled it’s a new year!!. Why it has to be noisy I never could understand, and yes I always find myself on the noisy side of the world). I liked the movie the story has things we all identify with, stupendous success of the movie is a testament to it. Not denying that there are some ‘filmy’ situations…but that only makes it endearing. Rajkumar Hirani is a good director I loved the Munnabhai series. Wonder what the controversy was for, Chetan Bhagat is immensely popular writer among youngsters. Aamir Khan is an amazing actor (all other actors did well in the movie, I thought the actor who played the principal -Boman Irani, was excellent). I recall seeing 'QSQT' when it was released!. Over the years he has given some wonderful movies, I prefer his funny movies that were hugely popular like Andaz apna apna, Ishq as also others like Dil hai ki manta nahi, Rangela, Jo jeeta wohi sikander, lagaan and so on. I also caught up with Gajini few months back on TV (done well but found it bit too violent). And yes Tare Zameen Par was a great movie with some amazing songs, one of the best. I also find innovative ways he market his movies interesting.