The Importance of “I Like You”…

We get so busy in our “I Love You” s that we forget the importance “I Like You” in our lives. Have you ever thought about it, that how many times do we actually use Like instead of Love in our conversations. In My Opinion, Love is a over hyped, over used, over said word which sometimes does not really convey the real meaning that we want to put forward. We use it so many times that we start saying it just for the heck of it.

We say I love you to our partner, parents, cousins, friends and many others and we say it so casually that it misses the mark many of the times. Do we actually love them all? Do we actually mean it ? Are we thinking about the actual feeling that “I Love You” will convey when its said just like that.  Food for thought.

Now comes the real question, I Like You, How many times have we ever told our partner that We like something which they did, Our Dearest friend that we Like what he/she has just done for us. Or simply that we like spending time with someone. Or a simple.. "I Like You".. Try it, It feels good, and it has a very clear meaning.

I believe that “I Like You” is much more powerful than I love you.  You might love your parents, your partner, your cousins but think about it, do you really like them too.. and do you like them all, the same way you like that one person with whom you spend most of your time. I am not even going into the relationships or marriage. It’s just the matter of conveying your message clearly.

 Try using the phrase and see the difference it brings to your life, your relationships. Again, it’s a food for thought.

This Means War – My Review

Buy your popcorns, get In the theatre, get over with a few trailers and the movie begins, and WHAM you are right in the middle of the action. The movie gets you going right from scene 1.

The story is simple however still innovative and fresh. It’s about 2 Spies, 2 Amazing friends who fall in love with a same girl and (mis)use their available spy resources to win over the girl and make sure the other does not score well. Somewhere in the middle there is the CIA angle of a killer on the loose which provides the room for all the amazing action sequences.

Now that’s where this movie is different from all the other usual RomComs, This has everything, Comedy, Romance, a lil bit of Drama, Amazing Action and you don’t feel left out even for a minute. And comedy.. OMG.. Its like.... really.. in true sense... LOL, and you will laugh your guts out at the dialogues and situations.  Yes.. It’s that good. 

 I have no clue why critics rated this movie with such a low rating, may be(Guessing) it challenged their intelligence a little bit and they just couldn’t take it ;-). Or maybe they started thinking about morals and said “Hey.. Why are these guys using Govt resources to track a girl, isn’t that illegal.. or unethical”.. Guys.. It’s supposed to be an ENTERTAINER, treat it like that. Don’t get emotional about the govt recourses. Have a lil fun, laugh out loud clear your lungs a little bit.. That’s what most movies are for. The comedy is situational and amazingly done.  

Chirs Pine (The Start Trek Guy) is an amazing actor, he is spontaneous, he is funny, he is gorgeous and adorable. Tom Hardy (The Other Guy) also has done an amazing job, Reese Witherspoon has grown old, they might have taken a younger actor in her place, nevertheless she is okay and provides the platform for these guys to fight it out:-D. The action sequences are surprisingly decent, though some of you might thing some of them are a little over done, and I would again remind you.. ENTERTAINMENT.. Just Remember.. ENTERTAINMENT.. LOL.. :-D.

Overall.. I really really enjoyed the movie. 1.5 hrs of almost nonstop LOL and the only thing I hated was the Interval.. :-D.  Go Watch it..

Parental Advisory: Inappropriate for kids mainly due to Dialogues, Sexual references/graphics and some action sequences.

Rating – 4 / 5 Stars

Happiness...What... How... When... Where!!

The Master Key

Is there a key to happiness? I keep on pondering and wondering on the thought. What is happiness? How do we achieve it? And more importantly if we achieve it how do we know we have achieved it?

In the next few paragraphs, I am just going to give you the food for your thoughts and nothing else. And may be raise more questions than actually provide answers and just give you my 2 cents on the topic.

Sleeping Doggies on a Cold Night

Let’s start with the key to happiness, personally for me; the key to my happiness is doing something which takes me away from the usual. Yupp... it’s that simple. I spend 10 - 12 hours at work doing the usual stuff, boring stuff, don’t really have a choice... Do I? So when I want to be happy, I do something different, something which I have not done before. A few weeks ago I tried Bowling, and I loved it, it was something that I never indulged into before and now that I think of it, those 2 hrs I spent in the bowling alley were actually amazing as it took my mind off whatever I was thinking. I was like a small kid who was just thrilled by that Strike and did a “High Five” after almost every good shot. For you, it might be as simple as taking a walk. My Funda... do something different and then see... Did it take your mind off off your usuals... did it provide you with something fresh to think about? Did u feel relaxed? We get so busy in our daily routines that we forget the unusuals. Try it. And see if you can come up with what your unusuals and tell me if you have your key to happiness.

 

Taking the question of "How Do I know When I am Happy" a little further. Many of us are so busy in the run-of-the-mill tasks that we don’t stop and see how that makes us feel. Have you ever thought that a simple task of walking barefoot on a beach or cracking a joke and make someone LOL makes you feel?? You might not have given it a thought at all, however the next time you do something like this. Stop and Think. I am sure you will get a different perspective. Think of the person next to you and he might get inspired by you to do the same.

Service With a Smile

Continuing on the "Stop-n-Think" strategy, I sincerely believe in it. Whenever you are doing something unusual, stop yourself after you complete the task and think. How does that make you feel, do you feel a little sense of satisfaction, a sense of self achievement, or it might just make you smile. Isn’t that happiness? And these things if done again and again, and multiplied by their sheer number of occurrences, will make you a happier person? Just look at the guy on the right. He is just giving bhuttas, on a cold winter day, and just look at his amazing smile, he looks happy from within. Again... Food for thought... and Open for discussion...

Happiness should be in oneself, it cannot be chased, or should I say, should not be chased. IMHO, Happiness is accepting your flaws and not worrying too much about what the other person thinks of you or your deeds. There are million or zillions things that can be said about happiness, what matters is, what makes you happy? What makes you click? What makes you bring that million dollar smile on your face which can simply brighten up your day as well as the day of people in your vicinity? Think about it...and then live it... and...Very Importantly.. Stay Happy!! :-)

Jodi Breakers – My Review

I don’t know where to start, the movie is wrong on so many levels. Let’s have a little background first.  The movie is about a guy - Sid (Maddy) who gets divorced and gets into the business of getting the unhappy couples out of their marriages and avoiding the alimony by putting the guilty party to test. He himself loses his prized procession (His Beloved Audi) as alimony. In the due course, he meets Sonali (Bipasha) who becomes his business partner and helps him do the same task efficiently.

Now with this background, I think that the subject provided a good masala for a 2 hr movie and the director should be able to do justice to this story-line. However, this one failed miserably.

As mentioned above, the movie suffers from a lot of wrongs. Bad editing, below average music, very very bad dialogues, below average acting coupled with some very sloppy dubbing. These things just put you off right from the beginning and you lose interest.

Bipasha still has not accepted that she cannot act; she is just good in those fitness videos and should stick to those. Maddy, though has done a decent job in acting, is looking fat and I mean really fat and does not deserve this role(Sorry Hai Jee for the Maddy’s Die Hard Fans) and the dialogues are written keeping in mind that you are a 10 year old kid who needs explaining after each and every act.

Omi has been stereotyped into the same 3 Idiot kinda role, though his jokes are somewhat funny, they get to you after sometime and start putting you off. However, he is still the saving grace as others will fail miserably at their job.

The other decent part of the movie is Milind Soman and Dipannita. Milind has done a decent job and Dipannita is looking way better then Bipasha and has done justice to her small however significant role. I really liked her in this movie.

The director thought that putting good looking women in skimpy clothes in the starting song sequences can make the movie run, Well, I am sorry Mr Director, you thought wrong. Today’s intelligent audience is looking for a mature plot with a good storyline and dialogues which gives their intellect some boost. Though, skimpy and scantily clothed women are always welcome :-D, however you can’t run  your movie based on them:-P.

The Greece sequences are picturesque and otherwise screenplay still keeps you a little bit interested and also keeps you distracted from the other non interesting stuff (Read.. Everything Else).

My Verdict – If you have nothing else to do on your weekend, are as so bored sitting at home that you would kill the neighbour's cat, I would still say that kill the cat and stay at home. Dont watch this movie. Yes. Its that bad. (Unless you want to look like the guy on the left :-P)

Rating : 1 Star (Barely)/5 Stars

A Woman in Black – My Review

A Woman In Black

First things first, it’s a horror movie, no blood, no gore, not much of zombies either it’s an old fashioned edge of the seat, jumpy, creepy horror movie. And that’s not a bad thing at all. In fact that’s brilliant.

The movie starts with the lead character Arthur Kipps (Daniel) struggling to keep his job as a solicitor and also mourning the death of his wife who died while giving birth to a boy who is now  a cute little 4 year old. Arthur has been told that if he wants to keep his job, he has to travel to a small village/town in London to sort out the property matters of a woman who died a month ago. 

The town itself brings in the mystery, the unfriendly locals(All But One Guy) who are only interested in sending this guy back as soon as they can, the stares and glares he gets from everyone around, The dying children and last but not the least, the mansion situated in the middle of nowhere (literally) gets you to the edge of your seat.

There are hardly any dialogues in the movie, in fact there is a good 20 minutes stretch where no one speaks anything, however its the director’s brilliance that keeps the audience interested.  It might be the toys coming to life, the creaky chair, the appearance of woman out of the blue and even something as simple as the lighting of the candles. Overall the direction and cinematography is brilliant and the movie keeps you interested right till the last minute.

If you talk about the acting, Daniel has come a long way from his Harry Potter role. However its not easy to picture the boy wonder as a widower and the feeling that “any time now, he will take out his wand and cast a spell to dispel all evil” will stay with you. Having said that, credit has to be given for his cool and calm performance in this stern role.  He has done a good job in playing Arthur Kipps, he stayed in the character and moves with it as the movie moves along.

Overall, this is a very well made horror movie especially for the audience who are not really interested in blood/gore. What might put you off is the climax, it gives you a feeling of incompleteness and dissatisfaction. Without revealing much, I would say that there will be people who will really like the ending and there will be people who will really hate the ending and that will make and break as to how was your overall movie watching experience.

In my opinion, if you are a Horror/Thriller fan, go and watch the movie. You will like it J

Overall Rating : 3.5/5 Stars 

Monday.. The Day !!

Get up at 11 AM (Which SUCKS when the alarm is for 3:30 PM) .. Think.. Think.. And Think Some more. What Am I going to do today.. Should I watch some The Big Bang Theory.. Or Should I finish the pending episodes of The Mentalist, Supernatural, Castle, or House.. or.. Simply lazy around in the amazing quilt and sleep some more..

The dilemma continues for a few minutes.. (Or Was it a few Hours.. dun really recall now).. But Finally.. I decide that i have a few movies which I can see.. Open the app on my mobile.. The Book My Show app.. Checked out the show timings and Bham !! I have a movie I can watch.. Women In Black .. Starring Daniel Radcliffe (The Harry Potter Guy :-D)

Got ready.. At Blazing fast speeds.. and rushed to the theater.. (In the Process of getting ready and leaving the house.. I even leave my dinner.. and got scolding for it from popsy).. Reached there on time and bought ticket and started the movie (The Review coming up soon.. In the next post).

So.. Thats how a Monday starts.. Usually.. every Monday starts like this. Its The Day. FunDu Day. I don't hate Mondays. I usually love Dem.. Unusually.. But yeah.. Thats who I am.