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Neeraj Grover Case

The judgement of Maria may be correct from legal persepective. But I feel that the insensitivity creeped in later. How can you even think of putting a murder convict accomplice on TV? What kind of message will it give to young kids? Perform a murder or help in murder and get paid for it in 3 years in crores.
A rehabilitation of convicted is absolutely necessary but it should not be a glorified process.

My boxing movies

Well its been 3 months and I need to go back to gym. To do that I needed to pump myself to shrug off the laziness. So, I search for the best sport movies. Most of the list had
Rocky - My fav. I always keep all the parts.
Million dollar baby - Excellent movie. May be one of the best ever made.
Coach Carter
Remember the titans
Cinderalla Man
The Raging Bull

Most of the lists had The Raging Bull on the top of the list. It made me curious. How can I miss the so called boxing movie?

The first thing that you expect from any sports movie is that it should inspire. And the important thing is ethics. Win, loose, team spirit, grit, determination should also be there. Expecting all these I start watching deniro's Raging Bull.
Surprisingly, it had nothing in it to even make you feel like taking a walk in the park forget about pumping weights. To me it was more like a biography of a boxer who was frustrated because he was always suspicious of his wives and took out that frustration on the opponent.
the movie cannot even be put under a sports movie category. There are bouts but only of 10-15 seconds.
Now compare it with Cinderella Man ( I am heavily biased towards Rocky so will not even discuss it). A great movie to watch. It shows the zeal towards life. It shows the importance of being honest at least with one own self. It shows you to respect and love your family. It makes you understand how we should support our friends and family in difficult times.
Each and every scene has been enacted with so much elegance.
And we have Million Dollar baby. For this I will only say that please anybody who has not seen this movie must see it at least once. You may not want to watch it next time but you will never be able to forget Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman.
In my list
Rocky will be number one
Million dollar baby number two. Rocky scores on feel good factor. Ending of MDB will either leave you speechless or make you cry.
Cinderella Man number three
There is no place for Raging Bulls

What a gap

Amazingly, it took me almost one and a half year to blog again. Was something refraining me or was it writer's blog or one and half year went without anything to move or influence me?

Learning chain

Have you noticed sometimes you read something interesting and you want to know whether its true or not. One source is not enough. You doubt the existence of the same. But you dont make any effort in searching the same. Not even google it.

And then, the same term or phrase keep appearing again and again in front of you. It only throws hint but never confirms.

The same happened with me. One day I was totally bored in office so went to library and after a long time I picked a book which had nothing to do with finance and derivatives ( my usual readings) titled How full is your bucket (Not recommended as a must read sort).

There I came to know that North Koreans had this technique of causing negativity and loneliness in its POW so that they dont care about their own existence. And without even firing a bullet in air, NKs killed many a people.

I was little apprehensive about the technique. People always find something to live for. No matter how bad is the situation. I read the book. The only thing I caught this brain washing technique.

And then next day I was watching Shutter Island ( a pretty good movie). I am all hooked up. And suddenly Leonardo comes with a dialogue explaining the same technique. It hit me like wow so this thing really exists (atleast as per America).

May be the mind gets too engaged and alert that it keeps looking for the references and words pertaining to what the mind is searching for. Mind makes it own way.

But if that is true and mind makes its own way then how can we influence it? Deliberately feeding it with opposite information it is looking for.

May be thats how NK worked.

Ego boost

guess what can be a real ego boost....... in the past one month it has happened 4 times with me.......guys younger than me coming ot me me and guessing my age less than theirs.....and then getting in real shock knowing that i am atleast as old as they are...........i just love to see that moment........wrk out really is working......need to keep going

Just a thought

Every new year brings some joy to us...and that joy may be attributed to Hope.......we all are hopeful ...and there are certain things or people that instigate hope in us..........for me these days its Adam Sandler and his movies........most of his movies are on lighter side about character with character with his own idiocyncracies but a bit dreamy and hopeful........be it Mr Deeds where he wanted not to be rich but just to save the family business and marry a girl..... or waterboy where he just wanted to have friends........or bedtime stories where he just wanted to save his father's small motel....... but to me zohan was particularly good.......it was funny offcourse....but if looked critically ... it actually indicated people who consider themselves to be sworn enemy always wants to change for betterment...........a terrorist ambition to own chain of hotels and a super commando desiring to be a hair dresser...........both considered super heroes within their group of people actually living in stress and dreaming about something.........hope comes when they actually become what they wanted.........
so keep hoping and dreaming and keep chasing dreams....

That uncanny feeling of helplessness

Wasnt it the same feeling that we all had during Mumbai attacks. You all must be thinking why such a late response. The only reason is I was not getting the right word to put in my emotions. Sometimes it was frustration, sometimes it was anger. But the real feeling was not able to do something. Not able to contribute in any way.
So the question is how I got it now?
The answer lies again in a movie. Troy. Its the same feeling that you can see in the eyes of Helen and King of Troy when Paris challenges Greek king. Like them, we could only watch the happenings on TV. Feeling weak and hands tied. May be swallowing some pride with blood. And the height of helplessness was not able to shed a tear. Couldn't even punch a glass.

Money isn't real

I picked this up from one more impressive movie I saw today. Johnny Depp starrer, "BLOW". Quite a good movie with a nice storyline and an important message which I always try to remember but I always forget.
The lesson being, " Money isnt real ". Jung, the character played by JD, got to learn this hard way after 42 years. He got to realise the importance of other things. But again the effect started to vain of me as I was typing the blog. And slowly but surely it again crept in my mind. Whether I truly believe in this statement or it one of those idealistic thoughts that keep coming back in my head. How long can I survive without cash these days.
Can someone even question the path that Jung took in the movie. Do we really feel sorry for him? Actually thats the whole paradox in the film. Even though there are strong emotions and lots of betrayal in the movie, you can't really point out a villanous character. Sometime you feel angry and sometime sorry.
But ultimately we realise we are all trying for the same thing. The Money, which again may not be real for any of us. Now, I am unable to finish off this post as I am falling short of words so if some of my friends can watch the movie and take this post to logical ending I would really appreciate that.

3:10 to Yuma

I watched 2 new movies this week. Quantum of Solace and 3:10 to Yuma. Firstly, I wanted to blog about the not so impressive Quantum of Solace. Then, dropped the idea and planned for 3:10 to Yuma.
Guys, this is a film that cannot be skipped. Can be argued that westerners are gone past their time. But this one is surely a master piece. I was already a fan of Rusell Crowe but Christian Bale is soon catching up. The movie has a tout story line with amazing acting by all characters.

The best part of the movie is the desire in every person to be a HERO atleast in he eyes of his family. People want to have there moment of glory. Some part of the movie really move you. You can't make up what kind of emotions you are experiencing (this may be attributed to my low E.Q).

I would not like to write the whole story here but would rather ask you to watch it and then may be we can have a long discussion on the same. Absolute must for film afficianados.

P.S - this blogging is taking me over.

Bye bye Dada

I never wanted to do this but with the whole of the cricket fraternity, I have to do this.
Say good bye to my icon Saurav Ganguly.
The God of offside will no longer come to the pitch. The guy who could hit the ball out of the stadium without any muscle being strained is gone. Spinners will breathe easy that elegance is gone.
And its not only about batting as he had his short comings too. But its about the non chalance and audacity with which he created a team which indulged in sledging (or mind games), can hit opponents, brought a swagger in the walk. Turned rookies into hard core cricket assasins. Backed the people he believed to the utmost point. Never hesitated in making tough calls.
And last but not the least never gave up. Each and every come back illustrates mental toughness. That hunger to prove that come on dare to take on me. I still have gun powder left to blow your analysis (wrong of course).
Hope, the mercenaries of cricket he created now create an army for this resting Maharaja. I only wish that he somehow comes back with the team or Indian cricket in any capacity.