Movies I watched this weekend

Guru:

A real class of Mani Ratnam. Whoever says that Abhishek Or Aishwarya can't act, please go and watch the movie. You are surely going to change your opinion. And now Abhi-Ash wedding bells are ringing, if you really want to see the chemistry, which was lagging in previous movies like Dhai Akshar prem ke, kuch na kaho or Umrao Jaan, here is the chemistry :). Anyone should watch this movie for the genius of Mani Ratnam. What a great director can do? He can make a plastic face(!!) do the real acting. A movie based on Dhirubhai Ambani, where Dhirubhai becomes Gurubhai. Really nice plot, great characters, fabulous acting and above all splendid music. You can expect this when two genius meet each other(ARR and MR). I was a fan of Mani before this movie but after watching each of his movie, I'm just getting addicted to him. I think I will have to learn tamil to watch his tamil movies ;). Don't want to tell much here as it is better to go and experience the magic.

Woh Lamhe:

I wanted to watch this movie since some time. The major reason was Shiney Ahuja, Kangana Ranaut and awesome music. Both the actors made a very good impression on me in their previous movies (Gangster). Well it was coming on cable and the print was really nice so I started watching it. In some corner of my mind, I was feeling that I'm going to get bored soon (Mahesh bhatt calling) but as I started watching it I was just getting in to it. First half of the movie was really pacy. With some good performance of both the leading actors. And as I told above, melodious music was just adding spice to it. But I found second half too be quite slow and little bit loud. Mahesh Bhatt could've made this much better. The movie was based on Parveen Babi's story, If it was her real story, I really feel sad for her. And it just shows that the glamorous life brings quite sad and pettier life with it. Overall an average movie. Once watch kinda, on DVD of course:)

Resources

I was thinking about this some time now. Why do we waste any kind of resources?Government is trying so hard to let people know that all the resources are very important. We are still a developing country and most of our country still lives below poverty line. In this kind of situation how can we afford to waste any resources?

Think about food. Our elders taught us when we were kids that never leave anything in your dishes. But are we following it? I have seen horrible pictures of a kid, dying because of hungers somewhere in Somalia, shouldn't we think about them before wasting any of the food items. In our lunch/dinner parties, we order so much and then when people don't turn up we just throw it. Shouldn't we be taking uttermost care before ordering for the food? While eating on buffet also we normally take so much food in our dishes that we hardly able to finish it and all that food we dump in the dustbins. Now next time onwards before throwing the food just look at some picture below and think about it.

About the picture: The photo is "Pulitzer Prize" winner in 1994, during sudane famine. Picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards UN food camp located kms away. The vulture is waiting for child to die so that it can eat it. Three months later, the photographer Kevin Carter, committed suicide due to depression!

Another big example is water. The thought of water scarcity really scares me. Just think what will be the future without water. The water levels in all our rivers are coming down. Most of the villages in Africa don't get water even to drink forget about bathing/washing. Forget about Africa in our country also there are thousands of villages where people have to walk for more than 10 kms many times to get the drinking water. In this kind of situations how can we waste water? Why should our taps leak? why should we waste hell lot of water in our bathing and even our toilets!!!

Take another example, say electricity, people tell anyways we are paying for it. We have enough money then why should we worry about that. But my question is why shouldn't we switch off our tube light/bulb when we don't need it? I know it is not going to affect much to your electricity bills, but if we save electricity, it might be possible for the government to supply those electricity to the villages where still people don't know what electricity is? At least they will able to see light in their life! We do spend so much in decorating our houses, shops, malls with electric bulbs. Shouldn't we be spending lesser electricity there and spend more on development? I'm not telling we all should start living in darkness but wherever possible we can reduce the usage.

If we really want to follow Gandhigiri, from Munnabhai, these are the must principles we should follow. Never waste any resources. However silly it might look.

Thoughts about Ashley

Recently I heard the news of parents of a girl named Ashley, who was mentally disabled, used medical science to prevent the growth of the child. The reason they gave was it is lot easier to handle and take care of the girl if she stays young!!! I am really confused about this situation. At one place it is perfectly unethical to prevent the growth of any human being. But I was just Thinking from her parents’ perspective also. What they should've done? There are many cases we see in our neighborhood that many parents just don't care about the specially-abled child; they live in very pathetic situation. Just move around in the local trains or even any places of worship. So have Ashley’s parents have done something wrong, if they feel they can take care of their child better way if she stays younger as it will be less embarrassing for them.

But just putting more thoughts, credit to CNN-IBN where they had discussion on this. I felt that yes parents don't have any rights to prevent growth of their child. By giving birth, they don't have any rights on the body and life of their child. If you are ready to give a birth to child, it’s
your responsibility to take care of a child even though child is specially-abled. And as one lady concluded on that discussion, how can you leave hope on science. And miracles do happen. Children should be taken as blessings of God. And blessings can come in any form!