movie watching ...

I saw National Treasure, which is very intelligently made, and big budget fantasy, but it showed how to make an intelligent, CLEAN, movie that will appeal to everyone.

Then I saw Assault on Precinct 13. That showed that cursing and violence has a strange beauty about it. Very, very good for stress relief!! A sure fire way to please the masses, use violence and cursing, plenty of it!

I saw Spanglish. This was a really good movie about complex relations and characters yet with a comic undertone. Adam Sandler is a good actor and the interplay among the roles in the movie is a great learning tool for future projects.

Among the Indian movies, I saw My Brother Nikhil. As much as the critics had said they liked this one, I think this was a very, very poorly made film. The story was dull, predictable, and moved along at a snail's pace. The film was set in the late 80s and appeared as if it was made then too. Overly dramatic and almost unreal. It was supposed to tug at your heartstrings but only gave me a bit of nausea.

Lucky-No Time for Love was a sweet film. Sneha Ullal, the Aishwarya Rai-clone delivered a great performance, and the movie on the whole had a very fresh, colorful, and refreshing feel to it. Shot entirely in St. Petersburg, Russia, the film moved along well and had GREAT music to keep it from being monotonous. Many critics said Salman Khan did a good job but I wouldn't go so far as to say that. I think some other actor would have been a better shoe-in. The movie was a touch over 2 hours long so it was manageable to watch in one sitting. I would recommend it but probably for DVD, or as a date flick.

The surprise movie of the weekend for me was Socha Na Tha, with Abhay Deol, Dharmendra's nephew.I was very biased before watching this film. I pretty much knew the story and like 90% of Indian films it was predictable, but its the way the story moved along that will have you so engrossed !!! Ayesha Takia, the leading lady, is very, very likeable and plays her role very naturally. Her accent in the film is subtle, like the girl next door. Apoorva Jha, the other lady is good to look at, though somewhat irritating in her role. Abhay Deol looks like a nutmeg basically and his acting isn't very polished, but it seemed really natural. It almost seems as if he will be or is a great stage actor. The music was good and as predictable as it was it was entertaining and very funny. This was probably a better date flick. It was longer than Lucky though, and not as gaudy and bright.

The Plight of Someone Bored

Oh the plight of someone bored.

It's so indescribable that it's sad.

It's hard to pretend to be interested in something you are not.

I don't know personally but it just might be easier to fake an orgasm.

Can I trade a real orgasm to be relieved of this suffering?

No? I guess I have to fake interest.

Monotony is a curse but it can be somewhat liberating.

Isn't it parallel, maybe synchronous to detachment?

Twin brothers, monotony and detachment, opposite in nature.

But they have different fathers, how? Go figure.

Detachment is sought, it's gratifying, it's a state.

Monotony is enforced, it grows on you like a leech, it's captivating, but for the wrong reason.

If I wasn't so bored I would have talked about brother detachment.

But oh the plight of someone bored, it's so indescribable that it's sad.

Monotony is dangerous; it usually leads to something destructive.

But one can tame this misleading feeling and try to be constructive.

Giving credit where it is due though, one good thing monotony does lead to is that it lets your mind wander.

If your mind is lazy and not a wanderer then you might as well get buried, cremated, or eaten by vultures.

Or sleep and let your soul run wild.

If your mind is a wanderer then the world becomes your playground.

Monotony lets me be an athlete, it lets me have sex with every girl I want over and over, it lets me eat all I want and I don't get fat, and the playground gets more and more toys!

But let's not go overboard here, fantastical and imaginative thinking need not be fathered by monotony alone.

Hell, monotony doesn't let one be vivid, the latter is a flush to rid the shit that monotony is.

I look around and some are asleep, some are faking interest, some are nymphomaniacs and monotony doesn't affect them.

Today I was able to get something good out of monotony, other times I am destructive, or is it the other way around?

All that said and done monotony burns out, it's exhaustive and that's a good thing.It keeps us fresh and mobile. Atleast our mind should be grateful.

Monotony is kicking in as I write, time to end.

So is monotony indescribable?

Piece of it yes, maybe all of it.

But it's a great vehicle.

It got me from hollowness to my imagination, it didn't charge very much except some time.

Now I am bored of being bored.

Oh the plight of someone bored.

It's so interesting that I just might want to be always bored.

Written by Dr. Shobhit Maruti on November 4th, 2004 while sitting in a lecture being absolutely, you guessed it, bored!!