Being …what?

Saif's performance is rather meek in Being Cyrus, and I cannot understand why this is being claimed as path breaking performance of his career (His best so far was in Ek Haseena Thi). Yes, it is different from the normal fair, some characters are well developed but the direction was just OK. Dimple's character was utter chaos, not controlled at all. Irani's role was a little stretched, while Naseer's wasn't developed well.

The plot is non-existent till half way into the movie and you begin to wonder if the movie is going anywhere. I think what let the movie down is the pace of dialogue delivery and hence the storyline. You have to put them together later to figure out stuff, esp. the fact that this is a thriller/mystery. That too only when the murders happen, out of the blue.

I would call it a good attempt, but quite boring. Exact opposite to Rang De Basanti, which was quite a bad attempt, but wasn't boring. But both movies leave you with, "oh? so? what?" at the end. I would still give it a 3/5, just for the background score.

About.GIF

About me:
Did computers when it was "Oh, so hot, Sinoj", loved architecture and then went on to do master in design. Smitten by graphic design, did my bit through the rise and fall of www, got interested in usability, and that's where I am right now.

Interests:
Automobiles, Architecture, Gadgets, Home Theatre, Movies, Music, Poetry, Script writing, Typography, Watches

Movies:
Pulp Fiction, Silence of the Lambs, Shawshank Redemption, Heat, American Beauty, Memento, Thelma & Louise, Duel, Traffic, Run Lola Run, Matrix, Platoon, Terminator 2, Godfather

Music:
Scorpions, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Buddha Bar, Cafe Del Mar, Soundtracks

Books:
I dont read much, though I like works of Eliot, Plath, Dahl, Padmarajan and at some point of time, Archer and Forsyth. The only repeat read has been Catcher in the Rye

Equality

But seriously, ATMs are bringing about a revolution in society. Consider this – at ICICI’s air conditioned fancy office with English speaking help desk officers, the lower class people do not get equal treatment if at all they walk in. At an ATM, it doesn’t matter whether you are a rag picker or one who doesn’t understand English, you get the exact same treatment that is given to the saab who lands in a Merc. You are a customer and you get the same respect regardless of what you wear or talk.

As I said, there is a big revolution happening out here in how people define ATMs. For some it is a vault where they can deposit their daily wages at the end of the day. No more ‘alcoholic-husband-takes-all-the-savings’ scenario. And people are taking note — there is a move (and research) in Karnataka to pack ATMs with soiled notes, so that villagers are more comfortable and identify with it. There are studies going on about how to reduce the procedure for depositing money, so that people have to write the least number of words.

People take technology for granted, but for some it is giving a new life altogether.

Home from the sky

It used to be exciting to look out of the window when you land or take off. I still remember the red tips of the Golden Gate bridge emerging out of the thick white fog like the two horns of a holy cow on the banks of Ganges. That was a special memory, but in recent times, the generic 'from-sky-views' arent that exciting. Why bother, when one can check them out, not as a glance, but in detail on Google Earth?

Wisdom

Unni wrote: Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. This is the first lesson when you are in unfamiliar deserts so that the camel doesn't walk away when you are asleep.