Rockstar,,,,,a honest attempt,,,

        

        While ARR and Imtiaz Ali have added one more feather to their cap, Ranbir is the one who just shows what he is really capable of. 

        Imtiaz ali has created such a wonderful character, Ranbir lives through it:

as a simple normal town boy who is dreaming big,,

as a BAD BOY for media,,,the outbursts,,,

as a lover boy having found the true love in one girl,,,

as a true rockstar on stage performing with broken heart and with amazing expressions and body language,,,

the innocence or frank clean water like acting he sometimes does with the music companies or girls parents,,

The acting was just mind blowing,,,

        Hearing the songs separately, i liked them but expected some more from ARR. But, the background score in the movie and the songs with picturization showed his class. He is THE MAN to bring life to such directors movies. Without such quality music, movie will look rubbish,,,

        Imtiaz should be really appreciated for such a honest attempt without any compromises. I guess "if he had stuck to not so complex second half and the complex love story, and made a much simpler Rockstar with rags-to-riches kind of story, there are chances it would have been a massive hit.". But, he did not compromise and just went by the way his characters had taken him,,,he is just an amazing story writer and story teller,,,

Rockstar is surely a must watch movie and going to be a classic as time goes by,,

Wishing to see more such attempts by our film makers,,,

Gone with the wind,,,

 A movie about a lady named Scarlett O'Hara, set in southern states of USA(Atlanta,,etc), during the American Civil War.

It was a 3 hours 50 minutes movie. But, I never got bored except for the 5 longs minutes title and intermission screens with some music :)
You see such an amount of *Passion* in some of the movies that, you can just feel it while watching the movie. 


Scarlett O'Hara:
Seventy to Eighty percent of the screen time would have been occupied by the Film's main character Scarlett. The artist has acted so nicely during all the kind of scenes involving *blushing, flirting, jealous, sobbing, caring, stubborn, hatred, anger, innocence, love to family, love for land, love for a man, love to a friend, selfish, fear, funny, shame, sympathy and may be some more*. I had come up with above words just by recollecting the scenes from the movie without much trouble.
The character is not a great one or wicked one. It's too complex to put in some bucket. At times you hate her for some things and at times, you will love her. And that is how all(atleast most of) human beings can be. You can't just be perfect in eyes of everyone. She gets scared seeing a problem, but immediately recovers and faces it with bravery instead of running away. I just loved her character through out the movie.


Rhett Butler:
A man who knows how to live the life to the fullest. Understands the people deeply. He is *The Problem Solver*. Knows how to handle people n situations. Many at times, he is very selfish, not caring about anything more than himself. But, at time of need surely goes to any extent to help the friends.
He is in deep love for Scarlett knowing from the beginning that she loves some one else. Tries to woo her and ignore her when it does not work. But, finally gives up and marries her.
What ever he does, he gives his 100% fighting for the nation, helping the friends, having FUN(drinks n girls), loving a woman, loving his daughter. We will just feel, that is how we should be :)


Melanie Hamilton:
A perfect humanitarian. A loving wife, caring friend, caring human. 
A very simple n straight character in the movie.


Ashley Wilkes:
Starts off a great character, but doesn't end a great one. Hates war completely but joins it as it was more bad to ignore it. Little confused one in case of *love* [Probably, his confusion is the reason for the whole movie :)]. But still greatly *cares* his wife and by the end looks like completely loves her too,,,


These are the four characters the movie is all about. There are many other things that go on in the movie but all of them around the above four.


The movie is made at leisure. Never you will see any hurry. Also, never you see a scene just for the heck of it.


It feels good to see such movies made or books written with such great love n passion.

96th Day!!!!!!!!!!!

In the Engg. days, I never thought much about coming abroad or anything,,All I was thinking of was a JOB(thinking of a small town boy). Once I joined the rat race in Indian IT Hub "Bangalore" - probably after two years, I seriously started thinking of ONSITE - to earn some quick money. But due to various reasons(lottery rejection, recession, etc etc), it took me so long to fulfill that[my great luck:)].

And now, here I am Santhosh Chikurambotla spending my 96th Day in "United States of America" :)

May be due to that little waiting period, lost most of the curiosity/passion, but still having fun so far.

Been thinking of summarizing many thoughts over here from many days, and somehow, got the mood to write some words.

First thoughts after stepping in US:

Did not feel much difference in the airport except, lot of foreigners around[sorry I am the foreigner by now and they are the locals :)]. Some Pakistani cab driver came to me and took me to the hotel. Watching the city from the Windows was a great different feeling. It was as though I was watching those Hollywood movies from the window screens. After reaching the hotel and talking to receptionist, slowly it was sinking in to my brain.

I came during the end of winter over here. The temperature was around some 5  Degree Centigrade[The lowest my body has been in 28 years :)]. The trees around and whole envi around was awesome. The images r permanently flashed to my memory,,

It was by then more than 24 hours I had been mentally alone except for the fellow passengers. It was getting on my nerves. Luckily, a friend came by within 2 hours of checking in to the hotel. Went out with him for the rest of weekend. That made a huge difference. Saw couple of stores, a mall, couple of restaurants, met his friends and spent great time with them all.

With all that, the whole abroad thing got sunk into my mind.

Earlier experience of working at client locations had helped me. So, at least that part was not new to me except for the new country.

Have a big bunch of Wiproites over here. And all of them very helpful. From then, it was all cool.

Things I love here:

• -          The travel journey to and fro from apartment to office is around 20 minutes. So, suddenly I had around one and half hour more time every day[to waste J]
• -          Everyone has a car, and u always travel in car J
• -          The facilities in the apartments make life very easier(gym, kitchen with refrigerator & stoves, washing and drying machines). So, even though we cook ourselves and wash our clothes, it is not as much a pain as we do in our place.
• -          The variety of food to try. I always like to try new food items. Here there r probably endless varieties to try(Mexican, Italian, Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, Ethiopian, pancakes,,,,,). So, it’s a good place for foodies. But definitely can’t try out daily. The stomach graves for a routine of Indian food J. All the above r only once in a while to break the routine,,
• -          Everything is very properly planned over here:
•  The streets, roads, traffic, flyovers, highways, offices, stores.
• -          The Unity In Diversity principle applies even here too. There are just so many different kind of people in this country(Mexican, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Indian subcontinent, some European, middle east and native AMERICANS ). It’s just good to see such a wide variety of people all staying as a community.
• -          These were on the top of my mind. But if I think more, I may add some more. May be later.

Things I don’t like here:

• -          Not great public transportation. We can probably say NO public transportation. So, until you have a car, you are not on your own. Coming from India, with such a great n huge local and intercity public transport, this will tie your legs.
• -          Definitely miss all the friends n family. If by any chance, the Bangalore, Hyderabad n Chennai gang was here, the FUN WOULD HAVE BEEN AT PEAK. But sadly, it is not possible and that’s life. lol!!. So, again realized that, happiness just does not come with money or some other things, u need people to share with J
• -          The mobile devices are cheaper, but the carriers charges are huge. They even charge for incoming calls and even even for incoming messages J
• -          For safety reasons, can’t walk alone outside after sunset. Again, in Bangalore, I was happily walking on the roads at 1:00 AM or 3:00 AM. Never felt feared. So, have to live with it.
• -          That’s all I can think of as of now.

-Cheers
Santhosh