Avatar- Movie Review

The macro budget movie was awaited since the release of its trailers, i.e. since past 45 days (approx.) and now is doing wonders internationally..!

James Cameron’s Avatar is a visual masterpiece, a must watch for its immaculate SFX. The fearless imagination was way beyond beautiful and spic-and-span. I loved the use of colors in the movie, which made every creature look so attractive and ravishing.

One tends to fly in a dreamland and has a dream walk with the Avatars, great work by Cameron…! The highly spectacular visual effects, overall look of the fancy land is all so thrilling that makes one’s gaze hardwired on the screen. This movie is a visual masterpiece and a sci-fi classic…!

As they say, Rewards are in direct proportion to Risk, this movie was worth the risk and undoubtedly is earning great rewards.

Check out its Imdb rating and see for yourself..!

This movie was visually insane and a great “Experience” ..Hope you’d enjoy it too :)

Rocket Singh- Movie Review

Harpreet Singh Bedi (Ranbir Kapoor) completes his B.com with 38%, and 12th and in 10th with 37%. But he feels low marks don’t mean less brains and delivers the dialogue: ‘number kam hai, dimaag nahi’..!*clap* *clap*. He’s a charming and fun loving Sardar ji (with bright colored turbans, matching his Ties).


The movie is simple and honest and doesn’t try too hard, rolls easily and shuns the glam-sham of a typical Bollywood masala movie, despite the fact the hero's the hottest property in town, with success of APKGK and Wake up Sid. This is an off-beat movie, with a good script coming from the writer of “Khosla ka Ghosla”, Jaideep Sahani, directed by Shmit Amin of ‘Chak De’, and stands up to its expectations.

The movie begins with Harpreet graduating, and then partying where the banner holds “We passed, College failed”. And declares to his friends that he wants to do a Sales job, soon gets selected as a Sales-Trainee in AYS, which sells computers. He’s like fish with sharks in the ocean, ready to be killed if he enters in anyone else’s territory. The office has a typical Boss, soft spoken in the beginning and shows shows true colour gradually. The movie flows showing an office party where people drink whiskey in transparent plastic cups with music running on Windows Media Player.

Harpreet observes false practices, but he stands up to his conscience, does not like giving/taking bribes, which turns out to be a problem in his office and the driving force for him to start his own company.

Harpreet is nicknamed as HP, a very subtle and nice way of telling the story of an entrepreneur, like a computer company formed in a garage and Harpreet later works in a store which is under the Tata Umbrella. So, our HP forms a team in AYS, from few employees of AYS to start his own company called Rocket Sales Corp. Everyone in the team have acted well and have been allotted good script. Naveen Kaushik as the sales manager with the long side-burns and the role of Nitin Rathore, is a master in getting Sales order, by hook or by crook. Mukesh Bhatt does well as Chhotelal Misra, a peon capable of assembling PCs; and Gauhar Khan is looking beautiful, performing as Koena, the ambitious receptionist. The best of all was D Santosh as Giri, a computer-assembler, who knew how to fetch money out of customers, he delivers a dialogue stating “ Customer ke to naam mein hi ‘mar’ hai..” Now that was dark humour…!!



Gradually, Sales of Rocket Sales Corp show a upward graph while that of AYS downwards, ‘coz of HP’s innate honesty, scruples and confidence in winning over clients and getting the orders promising better service, and with a dialogue : “Risk to Spiderman ko bhi lena padta hai, main to fir bhi ek Salesman hoon”.

The romantic track in the movie is handled very casually, not side-tracking the real story and he asking her out for a movie in a washroom. The movie is simple, straight forward, realistic and no razzle-dazzle. It is not a movie which will keep you glued to your seat, nor making you laugh out loud, but it’s an ardent effort to show there exists no Rocket Science behind being an entrepreneur but honesty and belief in one self.

Go Watch it.

New Moon- The Book and The Movie

"Shoot," I muttered when the paper sliced my finger; I pulled it out to examine the damage. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut.

It all happened very quickly then.

Edward threw himself at me, flinging me back across the table...

I tumbled down to the floor by the piano, with my arms thrown out instinctively to catch my fall, into the jagged shards of glass. I felt the searing, stinging pain that ran from my wrist to the crease inside my elbow.

Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm—into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.

Robert Pattinson as Edward-Kristen Stewart as Bella in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, based on Stephenie Meyer's international bestseller, was one of the most anticipated films of the year, which pulled in more than $140 million domestically in its opening weekend. The sequel is strictly for the readers of the Stephenie Meyer novels.


Playing a big role in the film is Taylor Lautner as Jacob, who has become a heartthrob of million of teen girls worldwide like Pattinson. I liked him more than Edward in this movie.

The (above) incident happened at Bella’s birthday after which Edward decided that they should separate, for her safety and so that she would lead a normal life and therefore left her alone in Forks. But she was broken, lonely and devastated. Those who have read the book will understand its all about heartache and suffering. She moves into deep depression that spirals into a nearly catatonic state of self-pity. She stays in the black position for months, shrieks during her nightmares, making her father running to her.

Jacob helps her come out of her depression with after-school sessions of building motorcycles. Unlike brooding Edward, Jake has a wicked sense of humor that adds a new element to the love tension smoldering just beneath the surface with Bella.

Jake eventually turns into a werewolf, where he has to trade his normal life with his friend Bella to protect the people of Forks and yeah with six pack abs. I’m sure girls loved him. Also, the werewolf looked hugggggeeee and strong, great picturisation.

In the end, Bella had to stop Edward from committing a suicide and then she encounters the Volturi, a vampire council of various talents. Good fight scenes and action well pictured from book to person.

Edward, a 109-year-old vampire, with the body of a teenage Magazine cover boy, has a little less role in the movie. Taylor and Kristen have shared a good on-screen chemistry.

Kristen Stewart has acted better than in Twilight, Edward was still maintaining his skill of marginal talent and lack of emotional range, especially while delivering the “it’s not you, it’s me” dailogue after Bella’s paper-cut sends the blood drinkers into delirium...! Get some acting lessons Dude..! It was Taylor Lautner who balanced the movie pretty well.

Change of Director was appreciable. Catherine Hardwicke was Ok, but Chris Weitz was very good and the movie stuck pretty close to the book. I was pleased with the New Moon movie. They left a few parts out, but it was Ok as its difficult to make a two hour movie from a 500+ page book and the missing parts did not seriously effect the overall understanding of New Moon. It was better then the first movie and did move quickly through the storyline, really quickly.

Overall, Jacob (Taylor Lautner) stole the show. One feels sorry for him when Bella tells Jacob goodbye at the end of the movie.

The book is slowest one of the 4; but the movie has done justice to it, in-fact actually made the book look better. In the middle of the book, it was so boring to read the dialogues and thoughts, but Taylor plays an amazing Jake and Chris Weitz has done a good job, and the movie is better than Twilight, good action scenes and special effects but sadly weak background music, w.r.t Twilight.

Credit goes to Team Jacob.

Request: if you haven't read the book, please don't judge the film.
Rating: 3.8/5

Strangled - Predator and the Prey

Chapter- 4



I could see a tiny helpless soul dying in front of me, killed and eaten by a Spider. This behemoth really knew how to use his numerous giant legs; he held his prey in his two feelers and stung it with his other two poison fangs, within seconds only one living creature existed on the web. Oh! I hated this goliath monster so much. If I had the power, I’d have loved to torment him to death for torturing such poor creatures and eating them. But sadly I was feeling so small and helpless, filled with mixed emotions of anger, frustration and fear!


I questioned myself that was he was MY predator as well? Will I be eaten next? If he was Argiope, even my life would end soon and I’d perish in these woods, may be next minute or next second, depends on his jumping speed, from that web to mine. I dint wish to think of his swallowing speed though. Gulp! I choked, there was a blob in my throat and I stay still on this viscid death bed. I was talking to myself again, “why am I dying so soon, what wrong had I done? Just that I was playful kid and I didn’t listen to my Mom and my friend. (That’s called being disobedient, I know) Well, I am sorry Mom, I really am and now I am scared. God help me!”


I was trying to respire without moving my nostrils and my belly, and tried to face the freak in his eyes. This monster had four eyes on the top-front of his head, big brownish-black legs on the sides of his body, scary hairs popping out and I could hear him breathe, something which I couldn’t do at this point of time. I lay numb, half dead.


I could recall, I had seen him imbibe the tissues of his “prey”, I looked at his face and he appeared quite satisfied and I wished his hunger had died and his appetite was full. He jumped down from that web for a while, then with one of his legs, started pulling a thread towards his own self, I was wondering what he was trying to do, and there were broken threads one after the other, he was destroying his own well-knitted mesh. I was trying to reckon,” what is the concept behind it. First make a shiny white web, invite poor little preys (like ME), trap us in sticky webs, lasso it with sticky bolas, mimic the prey, to avoid detection, or run it down and after all this hard work, destroy what was made. They dint kept any proof of their crime. COWARDS…!” I felt so proud for a moment, that I called his specie a Coward.


At the same time, I thought, why are the birds or wasps not eating him? And my observation clicked again, may be ‘coz he’s a little smart, as his coloration was camouflage that helped him to evade his major predators. Huh..! So my predator was a smart and coward one, I’d call that as a “Smartorward!” Which ability counted more? None, but his ability to kill me..!


And our eyes met, the predator and the prey, and my heart skipped a beat, all thoughts vanished and my mind gave a Blank signal. I was sure my heart beat must be showing a Straight line now, and my eyes were wide open, not that I was admiring the demon’s beauty, but I just couldn’t move anything, simply nothing. The smartoward enormous monster approached towards ME..!!! Gosh..!!

Strangled - With a Corpse

Chapter-3


Looking at me appearing silent for quite sometime, Miss Glitter asked me questions in the bottoms up way; “Oh, I forgot to ask your name”, I said “It’s Webbee” and I tried to stretch my lips for a smile. Ruby asked: “So tell me something about yourself, like your friends, favorite color, where is your home?” I thought rather than thinking of how I would be gulped down someone’s mouth, its better for me to mark my presence on this planet in some or the other way, simplest way at this time was by telling my name and identity. So I started, “I live in a colony, in the south-west of the forest, near the huge waterfalls, which shimmers in the bright sunlight; well, about my family they call my mommy as the Queen bee” I said with a proud smile. “I have many friends and today I was with Debbee, she is the sweetest of them all. Umm..and my favourite colour, as per my current condition, that would be anything but white, I like crimson a lot though” and smiled again, thinking of honey…ohh..! Ruby seemed satisfied, may be ‘coz I had answered her Quiz show, now I wanted a prize! A life would do..!

Later, Ruby gossiped a little more and flied somewhere, telling me to be calm and pretend like I’m dead. I dint find that job very difficult. With passage of time, I knew my family must be worried, only then I heard my name once again;”Webbeeeeee” it was them, it really was them!! I wondered what to do, to call back and tell them I was here and I had missed them so much, or to follow Ruby’s order, I decided to go with the later, and tried to hide. The voice seemed to come closer and my terror rose in direct proportion, so I tried to hide my face and moved a little; but unfortunately got more messed up in the sticky threads, so again tried to lie quietly and motionlessly. Their voice became low, I felt sad, and gradually it disappeared. I felt a little more messed up than I really was. A tear rolled down my cheeks. I could visualize my good old days at home. Now, my body was numb ‘coz of constant stability on these threads, the only thing that moved was my lips, when I was chatting with Ruby.

While I was lost in my own grief, next minute I heard a cracking sound, I started moving my eyes with curiosity and to my surprise, it was the Egg. Of three, one of them cracked and a cute little bird was breaking the shells around and came out of it; she had big brown eyes and was curiously looking at her mom, the other eggs and her nest. Her mom looked so happy, she was overwhelmed with the joy and she pecked on her baby with her beak, smiled and played with her. It all seemed so beautiful.

Moment of joy was really momentary, when I saw a four-eyed huge brown spider jumping on the rocks, a little away from ..my.. this web. I stopped breathing, may be I had forgot how to breathe, things happened so suddenly, he jumped on a small web near the rock, I wonder how I missed observing that web, it was at the corner of my eye, there was a someone on it, his prey, entangled badly into the threads, possibly dead already. He injected venom through his midgut into the prey and then sucked the liquefied tissues of the prey into his gut, eventually leaving behind the empty husk of the ……prey. I choked, I was going to be perforated and I was next.

Strangled- Now with Ruby

Chapter-2

Thinking of the little time that I had with me, nervousness pinching me from inside, I wanted to think of something else, at least to keep me distracted and breathing, so I started moving my eyes at the things around me, a bird sitting in her nest was watching me and around her laid three Eggs, yellowish and big, also I could see watermelon near the pond, butterflies were fluttering amidst the air, I felt they were mocking at me. Oh how much I missed flying now! I closed my eyes, started praying to god, to save me from dying and promised I’ll be a good Bee. I heard; “that’s a little difficult”.

I was smiling because God was speaking to me, but then I felt I shouldn’t smile, I have no reason to be happy and suddenly I opened my eyes and saw a fire-fly staring at me and said, “You are on Argiope’s web, he’s a gigantic spider, has got four eyes and eight legs, so it’s a little difficult that some one can really save you.”



Then I realized that it was the fire-fly who spoke to me and not God, though what should really make me sad at this point of time should be that I was going to be a food for someone, oh he had a name, Argiope, why did she had to tell me Mr. Spider’s details, wasn’t I looking scared enough! I asked” What should I do?” She moved her brows up and said, “Just don’t move, Argiope is a genius in sensing vibrations on his well-meshed web”

I was thinking, should I be thankful to her for sharing the genius’s exquisite details or should I be grumpy at her for scaring me more and more. I just gulped and kept mum. She asked, “Do you want me to go and call someone, from your home or so? You want to have a word with them?” I was plainly looking at her, was she here to help me, did she mean ‘last words’? Or she wanted to make me feel terribly small? Somehow, I managed to say” No, thank you. I don’t want anyone at home to know about me in such situation”.

She said” But they might be worried for you” I dint wish to prolong this
conversation, so I asked, “You dint tell me your name.”

She cracked a little smile, looking at my curiosity to know her and giving her more words to blabber. She said: “Ruby, that’s because of my color at night, I glitter you know.” Oh well, so I had a company here, who could speak as long as I wished (does that matter), who was slightly able to distract and retract me, supplying me with knowledge of my predator.

The Phone Call

Few days back, I received a call from an unknown number; let me call him Mr. Z for the time being. He called several times till the time I picked up his call, and then he claimed that my phone number is same as your phone number.

Me: What..!! That’s not possible.

Z: Madam, but your number is same as my number at home (some family member’s no.)

M: It aint possible and please don’t call me again.
Bang.

But the calls kept on coming, but I was busy in something or the other that I couldn’t receive the calls and so I thought now it’s the end, Z wont call again, but some people are unpredictable..!

This time I received his call, thinking of giving him a solid scolding.

Z: Arre Madam, my son-in-law had also given a ring to my number at home and you got it.
(Background Story: I had received another call from an unknown number x-( Damn..!!)

Z: Your number is same as my number Madam.

Me: OK. Do one thing; give me a ring from that number which you say is same as mine.

Z: Ok madam.

Later in the evening…
Tring …tring…

Z: Madam, dekha na aapka hi number hai na .!! ( Did u see its your number only!)
Yet again, this was some other number and NOT mine and he was still claiming that this is mine.!! Whoaaaaaaa..!!

Me: No, it’s a different number, now please stop bothering me and if u still have issues with you not getting your calls on this number, post a complaint in Idea office.

Z: OK madam I will do that, but if you say this is not your number, then what is your number? I need to tell in the Idea office.

Me: Grrrrrrr…you are dialing my number, how come you don’t know it, and if you don’t , then I’m sorry I’m not giving it and if you cant complain, then I will.

Z: Ok if you want to complain, I dint say anything to you, but Ok you complain.

Then I just thought that the calls are being diverted to my number and I tried calling on that number (which was claimed to be same as mine) and it said call Diverted ! Bingo..!
Then I instantly called up Mr.Z and told him your calls are being diverted to my number please cancel it.

Z: Madam mujhe phone operate karna itna nahi aata hai.

Me: Hmph.! Ok, anyone else in your family knows?

Z: Yes, my daughter knows a little, please wait.

Daughter (D): Hallo. Kya karna hai?

Me: Go to Settings-> Call-> Call Divert->All Calls-> Cancel.
She was still not able to find the “Settings” in her phone and was took a long pause.
Me: Can u see the nut-bolt waala icon?

D: Hmm….(still trying to figure it out)

Me: Ok do one thing, get a pen and a paper and note down the steps.
And once again: Go to Settings-> Call-> Call Divert->All Calls-> Cancel.
And then I confirmed with her, u got it? Right?

D: Yeah yeah. Its “SAY-Ting” and “cancel”

Me: Ok, whatever, just get it done.

I still keep on getting calls from unknown numbers but I never receive and I don’t know who and how “MY” number was in their call divert list..!!
People get something better to do..!!