When ever I do something, just for the sake of every one else doing it, I repent. Avatar has fallen in that stake of things I repent.
I know this has come really late, and most probably Avatar craze is so 2009. But I saw Avatar only now.
The movie was greatly hyped, and there were even talks of Avatar doing to cinema what Christ has done to calendar – Pre Avatar and post Avatar era. But unfortunately, the movie sucked big time.
I know I know, the movie’s special effects were awesome, and thinking about it, that’s it.
The movie has great special effects, and that is the beginning and the end of the movie.
You feel as if you are in the forest of Venezuela or Brazil when you watch the movie, and the 3D effect is pretty awesome. The flares of fire looked pretty realistic and the forearms of the soldiers when they were firing bullets were also realistic.
But the story is a big question mark. If they have released this movie before The last Samurai, they could have definitely saved face. I, after watching the last Samurai, was not able to find anything different in this movie and the Japan based story.
And for sure, Avatar doesn’t deserve to overtake Titanic.
Definitely it has created a new avatar in 3D video making and special effects. But the special effects are way too good that you don’t even give enough credit for it.
To sum it all, Avatar is a movie which you can definitely watch one time, just for the sake of watching it.
While I was a kid, I liked this song “Ek baar Ek baar pyar se tu bol” by Saif Ali Khan. I even forgot the movie in which it was shot. But I and my sis liked that song so much that we wanted to have a audio cassette of that song.
Instead of buying that movie audio cassette, we decided to record the song in a audio cassette, and instead of having only that song in an audio cassette, we planned to record more songs in the same cassette.
We did some analysis with other cassettes we were having at that time, and realized that we can record something like 14 songs in a single cassette.
So with this list in my hand, I and my dad went from one music shop to another to get the songs recorded. Unfortunately our home town was Madurai, and not many people listen to hindi songs over there. More importantly, Madurai is considered to be the center of Tamil language, and as you might be knowing, Tamil Nadu is tweaked a bit away from Hindi.
Finally, after searching in some 5-6 music shops, we ended on a music store which agreed to record the songs for us. He asked for two days to get the songs recorded, and we readily agreed for the same.
After waiting anxiously for 48 hours, we got the tape in our hand, and I rushed back home to hear the music flowing out of it.
Side A had 7 songs as we expected, but our “Ek baar Ek baar pyar se tu bol” was not among them. Side B had the songs from the movie Barsaat, which was fine for us. But unfortunately, the last song from Barsaat ran for a whole 10 minutes instead of the expected 5 minutes and “Ek baar Ek baar pyar se tu bol” was not in Side B too.
We don’t have “Ek baar Ek baar pyar se tu bol” in the audio cassette
I tried consoling myself that only the initial verses are good, but my sister poured oil in the fire by singing the chorus too.
Now thanks to youtube, I can find the song online, and I can play it any number of times I want. Even though we have coolgoose and raaga.com to listen to the songs online, personally I prefer youtube. Youtube has helped me keep in touch with Ramstein or Ozzy. It has definitely introduced the comical skits of Shane Dawson, rumblings of SxePhil, or the sheer craziness of FLuffeeTalks.
But this is just the users in youtube. Youtube as a whole still sucks.
I seriously don’t understand why in my home page, I should be shown some crapy hindi sitcom as featured videos or the videos being watched. I came to know about RayWilliamJohnson or Nigahiga only through the most viewed column in youtube front page. Nowadays I am getting some crappy hindi movie trailer or again a crapy hindi sitcom.
The worst part is, I can in no way know what is the most happeneing thing in the rest of the world, as in youtube, I get almost all the information pertaining to India. The most viewed, or the most popular almost always points to hindi serials.
The worser part is, I dont have any option by which I can change the regional setting.
Youtube, as part of google is the master, and we have to eat what we are given. Crappy equation for sure.
Youtube has tried its level best to make the youtube experience as regional as possible. But by trying for the same, youtube has lost on its core aim – To make the whole world a single village.
PS: I found out where to change the location settings. It is in the bottom of the page than in the top where it used to be. Still I hate youtube for that
Today, I went to art exhibition in Bangalore, where artist from all over south India convene in Bangalore to sell off what they have made through out the year. This is the second time I have gone to that exhibition. This time, unlike last year, I went a bit early, and was fortunate enough to get a good deal for two drawings. The drawings were unbelievably cheap.
But the main point in this post is about the artist who are not able to make it even, even in this exhibition.
The girl from whom I bought the second painting managed to sell almost all of her paintings. Definitely you should appreciate her business sense. Her paintings where inexpensive. For example, I bought my painting for Rs 100/-. She was selling similar things for Rs 250/- when the exhibit started. While we were about to leave the premises, she was selling two paintings for Rs 100/- So definitely she knows the people’s mentality.
Another artist, who was drawing each and every of his pictures with just ballpoint pen and nothing else managed to sell only one of his painting. His paintings where comparatively in the higher side. They were about 12K+ per piece. After talking with him for some time, I came to know that he has come to Bangalore with his friend to participate in this exhibition.
Now thinking about it, you can see that he too has got a decent business model. The travel,food and accomodation expense for two can easily cross 2K. So that has left him with 10K profit from this exhibition. So to break even, he just has to sell a single painting of his. Not to mention the exposure he has got and the contacts which he has obtained by showing his talent to the whole world, or atleast to the art loving population of Bangalore.
There were some successful painters too, I saw one guy who managed to sell 3 of his paintings, each costing 70K. He was definitely a happy guy.
More famous names got to auction their paintings, with starting price for a painting being 5K.
But the face which disturbed me the most was that of a girl. From her paintings, you can see that she is not that talented painter. But the worst part was the expression in her face, which was a mixture of sadness and timidness. She was clearly embarrassed to be in that exhibition. Crowd gathering around other exhibits, but none next to hers didn’t help things either. You can not stop feeling sorry for a girl who was holding her pictures in her hand, sadness in her face and hoping to get recognition from some one in the crowd.
Definitely the art world is definitely a much competitive one.
Once there was a really old man, who had three sons.
His sons loved him very much and the old man too loved him dearly.
The old man was really old that nobody even remembered his name.
Of course his sons knew his name, but never called him with his name.
All of his friends who could call him by his name had long been dead.
We know his name and we will call him by his name Peter.
Yes he hoped to be like Peter Pan who never grew up.
Still he was happy with the way things have gone for him.
His sons are still alive, and he is sure he will die before any one of them meet their end.
The grandsons of his sons are expanding their family fortunes all over the world.
Peter really felt like a Badshaw of Persia.
Now he felt that he is becoming a burden for everyone around him.
He has enjoyed his life, got his children, and have seen their grandchildren.
There should be no reason for him to live in this world.
More than this feeling, the feeling of boredom was affecting him badly.
He was sick most of the times, and when he is fine, he can hardly walk around his big house once before resting to his cot.
It has been aeons since he has rode his bike.
His bicycle, which was the first thing he posses of his own, is just a memory in his mind.
His bicycle and bike, unlike Peter, has stood the test of time, and are still carrying his sons and grandsons and sons of grandsons, so and so forth.
Talking to his nurses and doctors day after day is tiring on him.
He wanted to end his life.
He realized that this is the worst thing that can happen to anyone.. Wanting to end your life, but not able to die.
He is not a broken hearted lover, or a stock broker during 1929.
Neither he Hitler nor a Kamakaze pilot.
His condition is just plain old boredoom and nothing else.
Television didn’t interest him, internet didn’t concern him.
He was in his very old world, and he was bored with everything he had.
He has read his fill, and with failing eyesight, even though reading books is out of question,
he has long lost his interest in books.
With nothing left other than to wait and die, he wanted to face death head on.
Of course he was not afraid to die, because, like a soldier in the charge of light brigade, he is ready to face the enemy head on.
But for him, suicide is out of question.
He never like suicide, and he never liked the people assisting others to die.
Suicide according to Peter is the coward’s way of life.
People commit suicide because they are afraid to live, but Peter on other hand, want to die not because of the fear of like, but the indifference of it.
He realized that, his mind is uttering whatever to what ever is happening around him.
He has stopped caring for anything around him, as they were boring and this stoppage in caring for stuff around him, has made him bored.
Definitely he is caught in a vicious circle, and unfortunately he was ready to go down than come around it.
Finally he decided what he thought was a good idea.
When ever I do something, just for the sake of every one else doing it, I repent. Avatar has fallen in that stake of things I repent.
