“Loo”natics…

I had been to the Forum mall recently to watch a movie and during the intermission had a need to visit the men’s restroom which was needless to say, crowded and all the vestibules were occupied (not sure if vestibule is the right word to use, comments and suggestions are welcome!!). So, here I am standing in the queue with my turn being the next and a mobile phone started ringing.

Now it turns out that the ringing phone belonged to the hero in front of me who was still in the process of relieving himself. Most sane or sensible men would have continued to ignore the phone in such a situation and continued with whatever the business they were doing there, then wash the hands and then return back the missed call. But our hero, clearly not belonging to sane category decided to take the call. Now we had a guy who had been relieving himself for a little too long and also was speaking on the mobile phone. Then a funny thing happened. When he was done with his relieving, he needed to use both his hands to zip up and he was still talking on the phone. So he keeps the phone between his shoulders and tilts his head to support the phone. The phone starts to slip and he is still zipping up. The phone eventually does fall down. Thank god it fell on to the floor and not into the vestibule.

Why do men decide to have lengthy conversation in the restroom while taking a leak and when there are a lot of people in the queue? As much as I am a huge fan of the Argentina football team, I would prefer to talk about them before or after I am done using the restroom and not while I am using it. So this discussion about the Argentine football went on for about 3 minutes before some people in the queue (not me, by the way) who were in an emergency situation politely told the peeing Argentine fans to carry their animated discussion outside.

Among other important news, there exists a Sherlock Holmes Bar in Fraser town in Bangalore and so does a road called Cleveland Road. This was an important find for me since I am practically clueless about the eastern side of Bangalore.

Tirupathi……

This blog has nothing to do with temples. This is a new movie who’s poster I happened to see on my way to Majestic. More specifically, I didn’t happen to see it, Chilli told me where to look for it. The movie has a tagline that goes

“When GOD is silent, he is VOILENT”. Notice the spelling of voilent. At the bottom of the movie name there was a second tag line which was “MASS POLICE”.

With a tagline like this, the curiosity of a potential viewer is definitely aroused. This movie shall be the next one to be seen. While I am still yet to see Da Vinci code or MI3, Tirupathi definitely deserves a higher priority. Kannada movies are now competing neck to neck with English ones with catchy movie names like Miss California. If I ask a guy, what movie he would like to see, Miss California or MI3, most likely he is going to say Miss California.!!

I will also take this opportunity to make the people aware of another upcoming Mahesh Bhatt Sleaze factory movie called the Killer. This movie is an exact remake (inspiration as the director would like to call) of Collateral except that the soundtrack is annoying to say the least and probably has more skin show compared to the original. If the educated reader has had a chance to look at some of my earlier blogs he will no doubt realise who the hero of the movie is. Once the movie is released, I will definitely do some community service by writing a detailed review of this movie.

Gangster – The Review….

This is my first attempt as writing a movie review. The gentle reader is told to proceed further at his or her own risk. Of course, the review contains SPOILERS. People yet to see this movie should refrain from reading any further.

This is another of those movies that come from the sleaze factory of Mahesh Bhatt. But this movie has two distinct plus points, namely that it’s just 2 hours long which is quite rare in Hindi movies and secondly the fact that is relatively quite a clean movie compared to other movies from this director. Songs aren’t bad for one thing.

Now coming on to the strongly and an intricately drawn plot which has a heroine who is pretty much drinking through out the entire movie and sounds drunk even when she isn’t drinking. This particular lady is apparently hiding in Seoul from the Indian Police since she loves a gangster called Daya Shankar (an ironic name). Shooting a movie in Seoul is also the first for an Indian movie. The director calls this as one of the hallmarks of the movie as well. The next character is Mr. Emraan Hashmi aka serial kisser (which he is also in this movie) who plays an Indian singer but who in reality is an Indian Police officer. This lends more credibility to the whole plot. His aim is to woo the heroine in order to capture the gangster which he does (obviously!!!). Now, the gangster hero is a man of few words. He hardly has any dialogues through the entire movie. He is seen only crying and shooting through the entire movie. Also his attempts at crying leave a lot to be desired. The movie ends with all of them dying. A special mention goes to the character of a Mr.Raghavan in this movie. He appears only when some shooting is required and is instrumental in the death of all the three protagonists. He is the saviour of the movie and I am betting that he will be nominated for the best newcomer in a silent role in the next year’s filmfare awards.

The movie brings extremely important and pertinent questions to my mind like
a) Are people with death sentences hanged by the beach as happens to our hero? Like Achuth said, the gangster’s last wish might have been to be hanged in Goa.
b) Are people from the Indian embassy allowed to carry guns and shoot away to glory on foreign soil like Korea?
c) Do Koreans appreciate and understand Hindi music? Looks like they do since they give our singing hero a standing ovation after his song.

To top it all, the movie has two taglines, namely
a) Gangster – a love story
b) She began to love him the day she betrayed him.

As you can see, the first tag line is very creative and required a very artistic mind to come up with that one. Overall, this movie is extremely watchable, family oriented and suited for general public viewing. I say this because the night show on a Wednesday was nearly house full inspite of some incessant rains.

On an ending note, quote of this week comes from Chilli and I agree wholeheartedly with him on this one. He says “Our ships are yet to sail”. A very profound statement there.