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. 😀

Ajab Din Ki Ghazab Kahani…

I can be sure now that there is actually someone who cares to read my blog posts! The reason being, as I was bragging about Chennai being like an oven in  my last post…. the rains have finally arrived here and it has become really cooler now! 🙂  Google is showing that the current tmperature in Chennai is 24 degree Celsius… I am thinking its lower than that though… but still… after being used to the normal weather conditions over here… 24 is really very cool! 🙂

 

Ok, so to start with my adventures for the day…. I will just give a prelude to the upcoming events! 🙂 I haven’t watched any latest movie in a theatre since Kaminey and it has been more than 2 months now…. and yes! 2 months is really a long time for me to stay away from a  theatre! 🙂 So, finally a new movie ‘Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani’ (APKGK) was releasing on this friday and as it was raining and my college server has gone down, I can’t sit in college 😦 and sitting in my room is very boring too! One of my friends, Varun was with me yesterday so I asked him whether we go to the movie, but taking a ticket costing Rs.120 was a bad idea, so we cancelled the idea.

 

And just for the information, in Chennai, there is this very wierd rule about movie tickets… its like, if you go for the ticket early morning somewhere from 6am-9am, in any theatre, the first row seats can be booked for Rs.10 only! ….YES!!…Rs.10!… considering the fact that even a Samosa-Pav costs Rs.7 these days (fact contributed by one of my friends named Punit Shenoy!), a movie for Rs.10 is a frickin-great deal! 😀

 

Thinking about this, we later planned of going to INOX at Chennai Citi Centre early morning the next day and get ourselves tickets for Rs.10! By the way, its not always necessary to stay in line early morning for Rs.10, if you have some contacts, you can get the same tickets later during the day at a bit higher price of Rs.30-50 per ticket! 😉 But, as I lost my ‘contacts’ recently after not being there much often, we thought of rather going early morning and getting ourselves the tickets ‘legally!’ 😛 And later Saurabh also agreed on joining us for the morning trip. So everything was planned and I have very good experiences with most of my recent plans being uber-flop! 🙂  Anyways, I was waiting for this one now!

 

Saturday, 7th Nov ’09 morning 5:15am:

Varun calls me to wake me up and I somehow manage to get up and recieve the call (big achievement as I had slept at nearly about 3am being busy playing Audiosurf! 😉 ) I later call Saurabh and unbelievably he too gets up! 😀 (yeah, and FYI, Saurabh has a reputation of usually getting up after 12pm!) After waking him up, I go back to sleep again! 😛

About 5.45am:

Varun comes and rings my doorbell at 5.30 and is finally successfull in waking me up. I brush my teeth and we leave.

Outside, its raining from past afternoon and everything is damn wet and cool outside. Equipped with our raincoats, we both need a coffee first and wait for Saurabh to come. Saurabh arrives at our meeting spot (without any kind of protection against rain! 🙂 ) And we start walking from Triplicane to Citi Centre in continuous drizzle!

About 6.15am:

Reached Citi Centre with our hands shivering in cold water! 🙂 The queue has already started for the tickets and we go and join in. Waiting for our turn, thinking….“Humara number kab aayega!” There is some crowd at that place and mostly it can be seen clearly the crowd is mainly of the ‘contacts’ I was talking about! 😉

As our turn comes, we were opting for a 12.30pm show but as all the tickets were already gone, we had to opt for a 9.10am show instead. Finally got the tickets for 9.10am show for APKGK! 🙂

About 7.15am:

We succeeded in getting the tickets for the early morning show and now had a question of where to go to pass the time. Thought of going back to our respective rooms and coming back but then we would have to run back in a hurry so we decided to stay there and pass time.

About 8.45am:

Waiting in the lobby for the movie to start. We were actually surprised at the number of people who had turned up for the morning show. I would rather be sleeping than attending a early morning 9am movie show for a ticket worth Rs.120! So here we were, amidst a group of movie goers who had turned up all ready and fresh and we were there without having a bath, in our raincoats! (and Saurabh was all wet in the rain!) 😀

About 9.15am:

The movie starts. Sat throughout the movie with my windcheater on as it was very cold in there in the AC and we had just come back from roaming around in rain. 🙂

About the movie, yeah.. it was sort of time pass. Some  places were very boring and extended for no reason and a few of the gags and jokes were fun to watch. Anyways, whatever the case, KATRINA KAIF was looking gorgeous than ever… and that was enough reason for me to watch the movie! 😀 🙂

About 12pm:

Come out from the movie hall and Citi Centre finally after feeling all-out-of-place over there. 😉

We were waiting some time for a bus but later thought of going back walking as we were already wet in the rain and didn’t care much about clothes getting dirty or anything else! 😉 So started walking back to Triplicane from Citi Centre.

Reached the Marina Beach and thought of going to the beach now! 😀

About 12.45pm:

On Marina Beach, Varun and Saurabh were having fun in the waves and I was the carry-bag for their valuables as I opted to stay out of the waves!

The best thing was that even though it was about 1.00pm in afternoon, the weather seemed like it was just early morning 7am or so! 🙂

About 1.30pm:

Finally after this long trip, we were back to our respective rooms….. all drenched! 🙂 Super-tired from the long walk from morning 5.30am, we finally come back.

 

So, this was it..!! 🙂

Our early morning crazy trip to the movie was over at last.

It would surely be one of my most memorable movie-going experiences for sure!! 😀

 

PS: And yeah, by the way, the total money spent on this adventure was only Rs.15 per head!

 

Moral of the story:

Just like the beautiful Asin says in every Mirinda advertisement, “Life mein thodi pagalpanti bhi jaruri hai!!”

\m/ 😀 \m/

 

What is a blog?

Well, thats the question that I might be asking myself if I forget this blog any longer….  This has been the longest break between any two posts on my blog…

I have been thinking of writing something over here for a long time as usual but never actually tried to log-in even 😉 So, finally I am here first time after February 2009! 🙂

In about five months that I have forgot blogging, many things happened like for instance, Deccan Chargers winning the IPL and India getting out of the T20 World Cup before the semi finals! 😦 Manchester United won the Barclays Premier League but lost to Barcelona in the Champions League finals! 😦

Leaving aside the winnings and losings in the world sport, many other things were going on at my side too.. like being busy in my college as usual, either playing or completing some work! ( and yeah, btw, our college lab has improved by leaps and bounds since then… we have got 14, yes 14 new computers with a Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT graphic card! 😀 Thats kool huh?? 😉 )  Yeah and one more thing new is that I have recently completed a short ad film which was given to us as an assignment for our editing module.. 🙂 Would be uploading it soon, once the final submission is done! To list out more about my college and works, recently started animation and animated my own characters for some specific cycles.. I am thinking of uploading those videos too.. 🙂

And yes, before I sound as if I am so much busy in studies all this time, I would be stopping here on my college and studies part…. 😉 Now, as my last post was on movies, I would get back to that topic now. But the sad thing is no new movies have been releasing recently due to some stupid rift going on in the industry with the multiplex owners 😦 So the recent one movie that released and I did see it was 99. Well, to tell about it, I felt the movie was quite interesting one. I didn’t hear any good reviews on it but personally I felt it was a nice story that was merged with the match fixing scandal. Well, about Hollywood,  I saw Fast and Furious 4 and liked it also. But I would anytime rate the first movie on top of any other in that series! One more recent one was The Pink Panther 2. This one was not as entertaining as the first one but still it was nice one. One time watch for sure! 🙂

Ok, and one more thing recently I am on Flickr. So, I have been uploading some of my explorations with a camera over there. Actually the reason behing me logging in to my blog today was the same as I was checking out some options on Flickr and came to know that they have some photoblog thingy. Even I exactly dont know what it is but thought of checking it out and I finally logged in to my blog! 🙂

Neways, I don’t have anything else useful to write about here so I would be stopping it here.. 🙂 Hope I get back to my blog soon! 🙂

PS: Taking into consideration the fact that Deccan Chargers and Bangalore Royal Challengers were the teams that came up from bottom of the table in IPL’08 to the top of the table in IPL’09, I am keeping high expectations for Mumbai Indians in the next season!! 🙂 GO MUMBAI!! 😀