Movies I watched recently

Recently I got a chance to watch 2 Hindi movies which had the same hero in both of them. 1^st movie happened by a mistake, in which I misunderstood that I was going to watch another movie whose trailer I saw a few days back, showed a comedy scene which was between the hero and a very famous heroine of  bollywood.  My concept about watching movies is that, it is only for entertainment. That is, a movie should take me a way from all the tensions and other thoughts for duration of the movie. I would never prefer to watch an art film (where I may have to break my head by thinking ‘Oh god why this guy is walking so long over the river side, smoking a ’beedi’ - a very common scene in Malayalam art movies) or a drama in which there is a triangle love story, the same soapy stuff which is a trend nowadays. Hence my preference is watching a full length comedy movie, at least 75% comedy, the rest a drama/ fight scene which I can tolerate.

So this time when I went for the 1^st movie, I sat comfortably with the hope that I am going to get some stuff so that I can laugh and enjoy. The convincing thing was the name of the movie ie ‘Wake up Sid’ in which I expected a guy who is so lazy and undisciplined and who may end up in doing foolish things and who may go for all mischievous acts. When the movie started I was happy and things were going as I expected. And in between I was searching for the heroine. As I could not find her on the screen, I asked my husband, where is Katrina!!!!!! . He just looked at me and asked “what?” I replied “I saw the trailer in which Katrina elopes with Ranbir and when he meets his mother he would utter a funny dialogue. And I was expecting to see such situations in the movie”. He gave me a look and replied, “Sorry that scene is in another movie, not this one”. I started watching with my sunken heart. 

The movie was a bit serious one. Yet I liked it even though it was not of ‘my type’ movie. The interesting thing I noticed was that unlike the usual Hindi movies, it had a moral: and thanks a lot to the director, there was not the usual masala where there is the usual hero-heroine love story, a villain, some n number of dances and n number of fight scenes. And the great relieving factor was that female actors were not ‘deprived’ of clothes. The moral of the story was, as long as u are living inside a pool of money and luxuries, you  will never ever realize its value and you will learn that life is not a bed of roses, when you start becoming independent where you have to earn on your own, make decisions yourself etc.

Same thing happened with the movie ‘Rocket Singh – Sales Man of the Year’, where I assumed the movie will be a full time comedy and my assumptions were consolidated when I saw that the genre is “Comedy’. Here I was searching for the song “Pocket Mein Rocket Hein…”which actually gave me the impression that it will be a comedy movie. Like Katrina was missing in the previous movie, here the song was missing L L . But I was happy that the movie was good and the story is exactly what is happening in the life of sales persons. It was actually touching the heart. The interesting thing I noticed was, the standard of both the movies are better compared to the usual movies. At least we can be happy that there are directors who know to make good films too which have some moral. If the film industry tries to follow this, we can again see an era similar to Malayalam movies of 1980s-90s where there were the classic movies which really brought out the talents of ‘our heroes’ who are now unfortunately portrayed as heroes with supernatural powers.

My 'Professional' Water Bottle - Which was not mine

In my office there is a custom of storing water in water bottles and keeping it on our desk so that 'developers' who are busy programming and programming may not have to walk [like Mohanlal says in a famous movie] kilometers and kilometers (actually some 100 meters away from our seats) to drink water. And most of them (including me) don't prefer to buy anywater bottle. so they adjust with used Mirinda/Ma bottles. I was also using one Ma bottle for past 1 year!!!! One day I took it home as my bottle there was missing. Again lazy to buy a new bottle... Hence adjusting with a Ma bottle at home. When I came back to office I rememberd to use the bottle which was orginally made to serve its purpse unlike Ma or Mirinida bottles. That bottle was really good lookingas it has to have some "professional" look. When persons like me use so called Ma/Mirinda bottles,big big 'heads' enjoy the privilege of using 'professional bottles' which are either brown or blue incolor, high quality and could hold 1-2 litres of water. And I noticed that one of the professional bottles was lying 'orphan' in my neighbour's desk. When I asked her whether she is using, she said NO, she is happy with her Mirinda bottle. So I thought of using it.

I became happy about geting a 'professional' bottle and was using it for the past 3 weeks. When all other big heads and small heads use proffesional bottles, I also used the same. But this morning when i came, to my dismay I could see my bottle was not there. Usually it would be there in my neighbours desk, as she may take it if she needs water. I searched all over and it was missing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was bit sad... The bottle which was serving free of cost for me for past 3 weeks is missing now!!!!!. I searched in all desks. I found one bottle which is a twin brother/sister of my bottle was lying there in admin guy's desk. I suspsected that he stole my bottle, assuming that I am illegaly using office's proffesional bottles.!!!! I couldint go and ask him, because my neighbour told me that she had seen the same bottle there in his desk. I was confused. What to do next??? Today I may have to walk kilometers and kilometers to drink 1 glass of water!!!!!!!!!! How sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I went 2 - 3 times for drinking water and I Could see all big heads and small heads were staring at me . The reason may be I was in an unusual costume , unusual in the sense, different from others... wearing a sweater in this Chennai summer!!!!!! Why am I wearing it??? Because I am held up inside a freezer from 9 to 630. My only relief is either going to rest room where cooling is less compared to other places. And the second reason why they stare at me may be because the water cooler is kept at the entrance to rest room. So when I go to that area they may think that I may have some 'problem'. Hmmmm Somehow I managed to go there.... Now my 'orphan bottle' is not there to help me escape from that shame.

I wanted to make an attempt to search for my bottle. So i sent a multicast message to my bay mates which is as follows:-

**>can anyone lend me one water bottle plz.. somebody flicked my water bottle last day

**>botle with water .. most welcome ;-)

I badly wanted to drink some water at that time. and was feeling ashamed to go to take water from cooler. No one gave a positive reply... one girl came and told, it is not ur bottle. It is the profesional bottle which no body was using. Hearing that I modified my message and sent them

**>plz ignore t he previous msge

**>some body robbed my 'adopted water bottle' which was lying as an orphan in rajani's seat. if anyone finds it plz give me a call or send me a msge

again no positive response.................
I am still thinking of a way to find out where my 'bottle which is not mine' is.