3 idiots

Yes, thats the latest movie by Rajkumar Hirani which has become the sensation all around. According to recent reports that I read, it has made a business of a whooping 93crore in its first few days! And thats a huge sum of money for sure!

As everyone around might have by now, I too have checked out this movie, not once but twice!! And for all those who still haven’t watched it, I have one ‘free-advice’ for you…

” Do yourself a favour, and go watch it now!”

Well, about the movie, as you might have read it everywhere, its absolutely brilliant! Just the kind of movie which is required that would try to change the outlook of people towards education! And sure it is a must watch for all the parents rather than their children alone. So, I would stop with that much praise for the movie as I can go on and on. And after watching the movie twice in the theatre, anyone can be pretty sure that I am in love with the movie!

But still, as every other movie, there should be some goof-ups in this one too.. And this is my post to spot out the goof-ups that I have observed by watching it the second time..

Thus, for all those who haven’t checked out the movie…

SPOILER ALERT!

The movie is no doubt brilliant as I have already told before, but there are some goof-ups which I found out. And considering the fact that Aamir Khan being called “The Perfectionist” in bollywood, its pretty rare to find such flaws with the facts!

So to start with, in the beginning of the narration part, Farhan Qureshi (R. Madhavan) states that his birth was in the year 1978 (or somewhere in late 70′s). So, that means considering the fact that the characters are excellent in their studies, they have entered the engineering college somewhere in the late 90′s. Thus, the college part of the movie is set in that time.

To show the correct settings of that time period which is around 10yrs back, the movie correctly shows the number plates of the vehicles in the format of ‘white numbers on black background’. This has been taken care of in the movie but the main big flaw which I spotted and which drives some scenes in the movie is that….. The mobile phone wasn’t a common accessory at that time! It was very rare to see a person with a mobile phone as the charges used to be more than Rs.10/min for an outgoing as well as an incomming call!

To add on to the above flaws, considering the same time frame of the movie, we didn’t have an easy access to an online video chat at that time as broadband internet came much late and the wireless one that was used in the movie was recently introduced. Moreover, Youtube was created in February 2005 and it is impossible to access a youtube video then

Again one more flaw to add on to the date problems in the movie, Virus (Boman Irani) states that his Space pen was gifted to him some 30 years back. Thus, according to my calculations, it should have been with him somewhere in 1960′s. But, according to this page, these pens were put to use by NASA itself in 1967 and I think it is very difficult to get a gift of the same pen at that time..

Anyways, this was just the result of me looking at the movie in much more detail and these are just my observations which I pointed out

I have no grudge against this movie and I consider it as one of the greatest movies made this year and Rajkumar Hiran FTW!

Please feel free to comment if you agree or disagree with any of the observations.

I m lovin’ it

Its been a long time since I wanted to add this thing to my blog so this is quiet a stale topic right now but still I would like to put it up over here as I have nothing else to blabber about.

So, as I have kept telling some of my outings and adventures in Chennai, this is one more of the EUREKA! moments that I recently had.

To start with, Arindam Nath, who is my batchmate, ex-room mate, current project partner and a good friend recently has turned completely into a Chennai-waasi as his family has shifted over here. He stays in some place which is some where Nungambakkam and me and Saurabh are always being invited by him and his parents to his place. But, as we are lazy as well as the place is pretty far (so what if we have a direct bus service from our place, it still seems far to me! ), we have rarely been there. So finally, as I had some work at his place, I had finally gone there somewhere around 2nd-last week of last month. most probably I guess it was 22nd Nov. Saurabh was with me that day so it was like an ex-room mate reunion

So we were finally at Arindam’s place and he told us that some new mall has opened nearby and it has a McDonald’s in it. Considering the fact that this is only the 3rd McDonald’s outlet in whole Chennai yet (as per my knowledge), we should be going there.  Moreover, after getting used to the McDonald’s crowded city like Mumbai, its a very much home-like feeling for me when I go there.

Thus, we were out to go to that new place. We reached in some time as it was not too far away. There I saw that it was a new mall that has opened and its called “AMPA Skywalk”. We entered the mall and I was like… ” WOW! Finally I am in a mall in Chennai which actually looks like a mall!” (yeah..because till now its just Citi Centre and Spencer Plaza that are well known ‘malls’ over here and they are not so mall-like! )

Getting inside, we first checked out  the whole place and were pretty impressed by its size and appeal as it was surely a rare seen in this city for us. Later we also came to know that it has a pretty cool food court and a big gaming area is coming up. Looking at the under-construction part above us, I guess some multiplex is also coming up there. Watching all this, me and Saurabh were like… ” We should be more often visitors at Arindam’s place from now on! “

After checking out the mall, we finally went to the the place for which we actually came there for. Yeah, we went to the McDonald’s restaurant there and it felt so homely to me ( ghar ki yaad aa gayi! )   Had a nice time there with the burger as well as watching Saurabh trying to fit the Chicken Maharaja Mac in his mouth without making a mess! Arindam didn’t have a problem with it as I guess it was the Maharaja Mac that was feeling shy this time!!

The mall

I m lovin’ it

** the above pics were taken by my mobile’s VGA camera as I forgot to take my cam along and could wait to show-off to others that I went to such a place

So, a nice place was discovered and after all this we were back to Arindam’s place where we had more fun that night with our cricket match and ghost stories and next day me and Saurabh were back to our respective rooms