The movie which tells the rags to riches story of a mumbai chaiwala is the one which is creating high tides all over the world. It has already won the Golden Globe awards for the Best Original Score for "Jai Ho" by our own A.R.Rahman and also for the best direction and screenplay. It has received 10 Nominations in Oscars, the second highest for this year, and in that 3 of them is for A.R.Rahman. All these are good enough to attract the cinegoers of our country to watch this movie in theatre, even though a few might still prefer to watch it in pirated CDs. I belong to the former category and went to theatre to watch the movie for two reasons. One is obviously for A.R and the other one is to see how the englishmen have handled an Indian Story. As you might be knowing by now, this movie is based on a Novel Q&A written by the Indian Diplomat Vikas Swaroop.
The scenes which still stay in my mind are the initial chasing of children by the Pandus-constables are called by that name in amchi mumbai- which was thoroughly enjoyable mainly due to the music of AR Rahman, the scene in which Jamal meets his old friend who was blinded was extremely emotional and the song sequence "Jai Ho" specially for A.R again!!!
As far as review of this movie is concerned, from the western perspective, it reinforces the belief that India is still a third world country where you can find slums everywhere, people even jump into shit to get a glimpse of their bollywood heros, Cheating and prostitution the main business, etc..etc..From a nationalistic perspective, the movie portrays India in a very bad light, the Hindus are shown as terrorists who attacks the muslims and also as people who doesnt allow the fellow citizen's to come up in life(Anil kapoor the actor -anchor of the show is shown in that negative shade)...
The things that has to be accepted is that India has large number of people living in slums, yeah, there is gruesome child labour like what was portrayed in the movie and also it is indeed known that poor girls are forced into prosititution..also in the same breath it has to be noted that, Indians dont play cricket in the runway of an airport, we dont jump into shit which was an over-exaggeration and also India is not only about slums, but also a country which has a fast developing economy, has lot of good things and and there are a few good men and women too!!!! the good thing what we need to take from the movie is that they have highlighted only the bad things about india ignoring the good ones!!! We, people of india, should acknowledge that what was shown in movie is real and should act fast in eradicating this!!!!Also before blaming the westerners for portraying India in a bad manner, it should be remembered that the movie is based on a Novel written by an Indian diplomat..
One strong reason i believe this movie is a big hit is because the western world is in need of lots of hope, confidence and motivation to bring themselves out from this shit called recession and what better than the movie where this child who comes out of the shit to meet his hero ends up being a Millionaire!!!
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Life in Pune - 1
One year in pune
This is something I wished to write a long time back..but due to my laziness it took such a long time before I decided to pen it down today. What I am going to write now is one of the most beautiful phases in the short span that I have lived, but the memories that I carried over from this one year has been enormous. Before writing this down, I would like to tell the reason for this one year being gr8. The main reason being unfortunately, i had a very boring and dull college life. More explanations may not be needed if I mention the name of the college where I did my mechanical engineering. Its none other than the notoriously strict Sathyabama engineering college in Chennai. I still rue the decision to study in this school(its not a college, anyway) where neither did I learn too much about mechanical engg nor I enjoyed my life as a teenager bunking classes, watching movies or flirting with babes!!! The only good thing that happenend in those four years was getting to know my good friend Isaiah Ranjith Kumar. Otherwise there is nothing much to cherish… I might write a separate blog on the life in sathyabama later, right now I ll stick to the topic on hand!! Another reason why this one year has been memorable is because, whatever I have achieved till now is because of what I have learned in that one year. Before starting to write about that one year, I would like to thank my previous employer for providing with this opportunity, my friends who stayed with me in pune for one year who made my stay memorable and also my trainers Mr. Manoj Chauhan and Mr. Siegfried Mueller. There is one more trainer whom I don’t want to thank, because he was the only villain in that whole one year(chuckles)!!!
How it all started
I was one of those unlucky fellows who completed the degree in 2002 when US was reeling under severe recession. There were not many campus interviews at that time and since me be an exceptionally average student, I couldnt go past GDs in the very few campus recruitments that I attended. After completing my college, I was happily sitting at home waiting for an opportunity to come. Preparing resumes and attending interviews were the main job for me in that whole one year!! In between I had got a job in one mannar & sons company with a pay of 1000 bucks a month. But I didn’t work there for more than a day. After almost a year, I got an opportunity to work in sundaram motors in Chennai as a trainee!!! I was asked to undergo training in Mercedes Benz Workshop. That was my first tryst with a passenger car and the association still continues. That’s where I came to know about the one year training held at the Mercedes company in pune for engineering graduates sponsored by the dealerships. The name of the course was mechatronics and the main idea of the training was the train the engineering graduates to diagnose the complex electrical and electronical faults in the Mercedes Cars. Since diagnosing a complaint required system knowledge, quantative ability and knowledge of using diagnose testers which were in English, it was not possible to train the technicians who were already working in the workshop. So the good souls in the Mercerdes plant decided to take engineering graduates from each dealership and train them in diagnosing the complaints. This is one decision which they will rue later!!
This is something I wished to write a long time back..but due to my laziness it took such a long time before I decided to pen it down today. What I am going to write now is one of the most beautiful phases in the short span that I have lived, but the memories that I carried over from this one year has been enormous. Before writing this down, I would like to tell the reason for this one year being gr8. The main reason being unfortunately, i had a very boring and dull college life. More explanations may not be needed if I mention the name of the college where I did my mechanical engineering. Its none other than the notoriously strict Sathyabama engineering college in Chennai. I still rue the decision to study in this school(its not a college, anyway) where neither did I learn too much about mechanical engg nor I enjoyed my life as a teenager bunking classes, watching movies or flirting with babes!!! The only good thing that happenend in those four years was getting to know my good friend Isaiah Ranjith Kumar. Otherwise there is nothing much to cherish… I might write a separate blog on the life in sathyabama later, right now I ll stick to the topic on hand!! Another reason why this one year has been memorable is because, whatever I have achieved till now is because of what I have learned in that one year. Before starting to write about that one year, I would like to thank my previous employer for providing with this opportunity, my friends who stayed with me in pune for one year who made my stay memorable and also my trainers Mr. Manoj Chauhan and Mr. Siegfried Mueller. There is one more trainer whom I don’t want to thank, because he was the only villain in that whole one year(chuckles)!!!
How it all started
I was one of those unlucky fellows who completed the degree in 2002 when US was reeling under severe recession. There were not many campus interviews at that time and since me be an exceptionally average student, I couldnt go past GDs in the very few campus recruitments that I attended. After completing my college, I was happily sitting at home waiting for an opportunity to come. Preparing resumes and attending interviews were the main job for me in that whole one year!! In between I had got a job in one mannar & sons company with a pay of 1000 bucks a month. But I didn’t work there for more than a day. After almost a year, I got an opportunity to work in sundaram motors in Chennai as a trainee!!! I was asked to undergo training in Mercedes Benz Workshop. That was my first tryst with a passenger car and the association still continues. That’s where I came to know about the one year training held at the Mercedes company in pune for engineering graduates sponsored by the dealerships. The name of the course was mechatronics and the main idea of the training was the train the engineering graduates to diagnose the complex electrical and electronical faults in the Mercedes Cars. Since diagnosing a complaint required system knowledge, quantative ability and knowledge of using diagnose testers which were in English, it was not possible to train the technicians who were already working in the workshop. So the good souls in the Mercerdes plant decided to take engineering graduates from each dealership and train them in diagnosing the complaints. This is one decision which they will rue later!!
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