I am Pinnochio

You scored as Pinocchio. Your alter ego is Pinocchio! All you want is for everthing to be real, no fake dreams or things that can't be achieved. Ironic that you are quite the liar. Pinocchio 69% Sleeping Beauty 63% Peter Pan 63% Goofy 56% The Beast 56% Donald Duck 50% Cinderella 44% Cruella De Ville 38% Snow White 25% Ariel 19% Which Disney Character is your Alter Ego? created with QuizFarm.com

Kelly's Heroes

This is starting to become a movie blog, reason being the fast approaching exams and it is this period when I see a lot of movies as every other activity on campus comes to a halt and I, for one don't like studying.

Coming to the movie, this is a 1970 war flick....no caper is the right word. lifting lines from a comment on imdb...this is Ocean's Eleven made in a battlefield or was Ocean's Eleven kelly's Heroes done in casinoes.

Anyways, the film is set in WW II after the Normandy Landing when the Americans are moving into the German occupied France. Pvt. Kelly (Clint Eastwood...yeah this is a Clint Eastwood flick) is a part of a platoon who captures a german Colonel. Kelly comes to know of German gold worth 16 million dollars locked in a bank some 20 miles behind enemy lines. Just at that time, his platoon gets orders to fall back due to incessant German bombing.

Kelly confides his secret with a few of his platoon members and they decide to go ahead with the greatest robbery of all time. Surprisingly Easwood's character is overshadowed by David Sutherland's "Oddball" who plays a hippyish officer with great one-liners.

Check out the movie for the rest. The movie has a great Soundtrack and the theme song "Burning Bridges" is now in my all time favorites.

Ran: Kurosawa's best

It's been quite sometime since I last came here. Not that I've been busy, but just too lazy. O.K. the answer to the question in the last post was One O'Clock at the Water Works means "Your Fly is Open"...no one got it right.

Saw Kurosawa's "Ran" (pronounced raan) screened yesterday in the college Open Air Theatre. I am not a great fan of Kurosawa. Had seen 3 of his movies before this one. The very very famous and path-breaking Rashomon (which I lost patience with, too slow a movie and the subtitles were bad), Seven Samurai (was a great watch but Sholay is better any day) and Ikiru(I liked this one, was a tale very warmly told).

After these movies, Kurosawa became to me a director who only the "intellectuals" could admire. I saw nothing great in those movies.

But Ran changed my impression of me altogether. I haven't seen a more visually powerful movie than this one. Said to be an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear (I haven't read that, so can't comment) the film is based in medieval Japan in the era of warlords.

Ran is the japanese for chaos, riot, dissension.
Hidetora, is the Great Lord of the plain and is now very old. He decides to transfer the power to his eldest of three sons-Taro. All of his men welcome the decision but for the youngest son Saburo. He wants his father to keep his position and being short tempered ridicules him for the decision. The Great Lord banishes him from his territory.

Thus begins the story of revenge and very very dark characters. Taro's wife(Lady Kaede) is the daughter of the Lord whom Hidetora had killed during his days as the warrior. She decides to avenge his death by asking her husband to pressurize Hidetora to almost live like a virtual prisoner in his own castle.

Hidetora leaves the castle and goes to his second son who treats him the same way. Having faced shock he leaves with his escort of 30 samurais for the third castle which belonged to his youngest son but was now deserted.

The two brothers decide to kill their father and send a huge army to fight the samurais who were the best in the land.

The battle between the samurais and the army is the best I've seen on screen., yes better than the Normandy Landing in Saving Private Ryan.

What happens next, I leave it to you to find out.
The cinematography is mind-blowing. Colors very apt for the film in which every character is as dark as it can be. And the background score haunting. Superb acting performances by the great lord (Tatsuya Nakadai) and his eldest daughter in law (Mieko Harada) backed with a stron message in the end.
All in all a great epic, one which took ten years in the making (Kurosawa made the paintings for the storyboards himself).

The only film that comes as close in terms of darkness is Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool based on Macbeth.

This film now ranks in my personal favorite. Go get your hands on this one. You won't regret it.

Prize

One Free Appy to the person who gives me the meaning of the my blog title....."its one o' clock at the water works"

Bakar

Man's greatest achievement? Perhaps not, but can you afford not to read on when I am about to tell you about bakar? Many an afternoon has been enjoyed by a family, bonding over the discussion of bakar. Cited by many as the single most important influence on post modern micro eco compartmentalism, bakar is featuring more and more in the ideals of the young and upwardly mobile. The juxtapositioning of bakar with fundamental economic, social and political strategic conflict draws criticism from the over 50, who form the last great hope for our civilzation. Keeping all of this in mind, in this essay I will examine the major issues.

Social Factors

Interweaving social trends form a strong net in which we are all trapped. Back when Vealinger reamarked ‘the power struggle will continue while the great tale of humanity remains untold’ [1] he, contrary to my learned colleague Sir George Allen’s recent publication ‘Into the eye of , could not have been referring to eighteenth century beliefs regarding society. No symbol is more potent than bakar in society today. It irons out misconceptions from our consciousness.

Nothing represents every day life better than bakar, and I mean nothing. It breaks the mould, shattering man's misunderstanding of man.

Economic Factors

The dictionary defines economics as 'the social science concerned with the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services'. We will primarily be focusing on the Lead-a-Duck-to-Water model, a complex but ultimately rewarding system.

National Debt
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There are a number of reasons which may be attributed to this unquestionable correlation. Of course the national debt has always depended upon bakar to a certain extent, but now more that ever. Many analysts fear a subsequent depression.

Political Factors

Posturing as concerned patriarchs, many politicians guide the electorate herd to the inevitable cattle shed of 'equal opportunity.' Looking at the spectrum represented by a single political party can be reminiscent of comparing the two, equally popular approaches to bakar. If the reader is unaware of these, they need only to turn on the television, or pick up a newspaper or popular magazine.

To quote the uncompromising Noah Woodpecker 'I don't believe in ghosts, but I do believe in democracy.' [2] Considered by many to be one of the 'Founding Fathers' of bakar, his words cannot be over-looked. It is a well known 'secret' that what prompted many politicians to first strive for power was bakar.

The question which we must each ask ourselves is, will we allow bakar to win our vote?

Conclusion

To reiterate, bakar has, and will continue to be a major building block for the world in which we live. It enriches, brings glamour to an unglamorous time and never hides.

I'll leave you with this quote from Christina Travolta: 'It's been nice educating you.' [3]

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"The Achcha Bachcha Syndrome"

The syndrome has been given name by my brother. I am mainly penning down his thoughts along with a few additions of mine.

Since the day we take control of our senses.....distinctions are made between what is good and bad....Achche Bachche badon ka kehna maante hain.....u'll get a chocolate if u behave like a good boy....bad kids play in the slush...and all that crap.

The child's never given the chance to grow and experience things himself. Here I would like to mention that I don't mean to be preachy...just writing down the observations. This kills the creativity within and he becomes dependent on others to make decisions for him about good n bad.

The very sense of adventure which makes life worth living is lost.

My request to everyone reading this post....please get rid of these syndromes and live life your own way.

I missed the lecture

Yeah...It's 1000 and I've slept through the lecture. Won't make this one boring as the last one though.


Wonder what sadistic pleasure the profs get by making attendance compulsory. Is it for our good? But how do they define good for others and what if people don't want the goodness of others.


So far so good.

Take the example of this prof we have who has made submissions of a problem at the end of the lecture compulsory. This way, he says he can keep a check on attendance as well as make sure that we study. But what for people like me who really don't wan to study, we copy the submissions. So, essentialy the prof is encouraging cheating.


Have been thinking the last few days over the purpose of my existence, it has come down to attending lectures, giving one exam after the other and then forgetting about it all. not that it meant much before but when I think of it, feel the tremendous purposelessnes and predictability of it all.


Two years on, I'll be a grad. take a shot at the MBA, if I get through, spend two more years there and take a fat paying job, get a green card, advertise myself in the newspapers- Punjabi Brahmin, 25 MBA Engineer Green Card holder looking for a big breasted babe, age no bar, caste no bar sex baar baar (old school joke). If she has some brains, I may not ask for dowry else will live off her father's money.


Fat aunts would say, "Munda life vich sattle ho gaya".


If I don't have kids in the first two years of my marriage, relatives, doodhwala, grocery store-owner, everyone would start advising about the neem hakeem they know thinking me to be impotent.


Finally, will have two kids and if both of them are females, the same aunts would say in the most sarcastic of tones, "Mushkilan te hondiyan ne, par kudiyan vi mata di kirpa han"


If they are both boys, everyone will be happy except me, because I'll know that they will grow upto be me. Enter the aunts again, "bahu te lachchmi da avtar hai".


I guess enough of my mindless blabbering. Next up: My experiences with the RSS.

My first Blog

Won elections for the college council yesterday. People are congratulating me on the record margin. Think that means that gives greater number to kick my ass throughout the year.

It's one in the morning. Am listening to Nusrat Fateh and thinking of my reason of existence.

Have spent the last two years of my life in an engineering college (dream of every young Indian) offering a degree in some mumbo-jumbo technology I am least interested in. There's a lecture at 0830 of the course I am sure to flunk.

Whoof!! It's tough job writing 'bout myself. If you read this, please do come back, I'm not always this depressing and boring.