Lage Raho Munnabhai & Munnabhai MBBS

Both the movies have the ability to pierce your heart. I feel that the momentum created by the first was carried forward by the second with equal aplomb. Slight change the characters was needed to make sure that it doesn't turn out a cliched 'me-too' kind of movie and they were modified but the whole feel of the first one remains, which is the unfelt strength of the movie. Usually the second movie fizzles away, simply unable to keep the momentum - there are many like, Terminator 3 which fall flat on its face! When Terminator 2 was released, the computer graphics industry was probably in its infancy and only the super rich movie studios could afford the graphics used in the terminiator 2. Ten years on, it wasn't just the big budgeted producers who could afford snazzy graphics, what with whole animated movies like Antz, Ice Age being released with animated characters as stars!

Now comming back to the movie contrast, the second munnabhai is probably better simply because it had to live up to the enermous expectations created by the mega success of first one. The emotion charged scenes are the ones that makes it worth watching particularly the scene where jimmy shergill's conversation with his father and the request by the RJ(sanjay dutt).

I feel the relevancy of Mahatma Gandhi in the present society, aptly dubbed "gandhigiri" was well superimposed. The victory of truth over other is what seems the message of the movie. Hard to implement in the real world i guess, but i feel that it can implemented in a personal space. If you love someone, go and tell him/her honestly how you feel....hmmm , now i know how gutsy that good 'ol mahatma might have been.

I feel that saying 'sorry' for your mistakes is the hardest thing in this planet. How good it would be if we can cultivate this habit of saying sorry...yeah it is better said than done. In the scene where sanjay dutt reveals that he is not a professor, knowing fully well that she will not like, that is when you realize how much or to what extent truth hurts!

While watching that movie I remembered other movie "liar liar". Jim Carrey is a lawyer or attorney in that movie. So he is by default a lair. He gives all sorts or excuses for not keeping promises to his family. So his son wishes that his dad never lie in his life. That is when you realize how much a lie can help in your life or how much it is useful. I sometimes feel that lying to save someone or save someone's love or life is much more valuable than saying the truth and letting someone die or something!

Birthday Month Once Again!

So one more august has come and gone and I added one more birthday to my life! This was my birthday number twenty eight and I think from now on I enter the twilight of the best days of my life. Not that it was bed of roses or everything was hunky dory till now, but from this year onwards, I feel that the daily rumblings of personal and professional life would take a greater toll on my mind and body. I have my ageing parents to attend to, I have my challenged brother to attend to, I have my sister to attend to. I had my responsiblities even before but they were hidden at the back of my mind. Maybe I have mellowed a bit and the 'chalta hai' attitude towards my responsiblities seems to be fading away. Life looks a hard grind and probably, unconsciously, my mind is gearing up for the innumerable battles that lie ahead.

For the first time in my life I felt myself not part of hip and happening crowd or should I say, I felt a little old to be considered among that crowd. I was always in company of friends for whom age and things related did not matter. That was maybe becauseI was in college and we didn't have time to check things as mundane as our age, when we had many other important tasks like love and crushes to attend to! The whole 3 years of my PG life was spent like a paid holiday where we had to just enjoy overselves with examinations here and there momentarily halting the three year party.

My sister too celebrated her birthday on 14th August and for the first time in my life I gifted her somthing substantial. I gifted her a Nokia 6030 and the spark I saw in her eyes after seeing it was something worth more than the four thousand odd bucks that I paid for it. All this from my hard owned salary, which made the gifting her even more sweeter for me.