I know, it’s been long. It has been frustrating as well, having so many things to say but not getting enough time to finish off posts and put them up. And after a while, things just seem so irrelevant, like reading last month’s newspaper. But just to prove that I was trying hard, here are few of my unfinished posts.
Golmaal 3 – Movie Review
Since the last few movies that I watched, I was starting to become too cynical about myself. While the world around me was enjoying the Dabanggs and the Housefuls, I went from one movie theatre to another just to come out more and more disappointed. I thought, writing reviews has made me so objective that I cannot enjoy a senseless, light hearted movie anymore. It was becoming so disappointing that writing scathing reviews for supposedly popular movies wasn’t even fun anymore. I wanted to go back to the good old days when I got a headache after coming out of the theatre watching ‘Awara Pagal Deewana’ coz. of laughing nonstop for the entire movie; I wanted to go back to when I’d literally fallen off my chair laughing in the theatre when Arshad Warsi came out of the bathroom as Rani Mukherjee in Golmaal.
And so I went to Golmaal 3 fearing the worst. Well almost, coz. the friend of mine who almost forced me to watch the movie had already seen it just the night before. 2 shows in 2 days, I thought was certainly saying something. And then it started… The first few over the top scenes went in a flash and I feared one more debacle. The jokes took a while to get to me, but without realizing, I started enjoying the movie. I laughed, and laughed and then some more… And when Mithun and Prem Chopra have their very own funny moment, I was close to falling of the chair again… Thank you Rohit Shetty…
***
And I couldn’t really complete it but neverthless, even without my positive review, the movie is doing good 
Commonwealth Games – Even I have an Opinion!
Ever wondered that the line ‘Happily ever after…’ might have been written by an Indian? Or at least it is us Indians who take this to heart the most. No matter whatever happens, all things finally turn up right. Have you ever seen a Bollywood movie that ended sadly? I’d seen one once – it was called Sholay. And when Amitabh died at the end of it, people were angry. People were upset. When I was a kid, I even heard that the climax had been shot again wherein Amitabh lives (I never saw that version but I was dying to see it as well).
I think, Indians have confused ‘Indifference’ with what they now call ‘Spirit of Mumbai’. Be it Bollywood movies or political fights or court cases or disasters caused by government apathy or even terror attacks; at the end, we do find a reason to celebrate and put all the dark days behind us. It is a good thing, surely but the problem is we don’t address the underlying cause. Unless we do that, we are like sitting ducks waiting for the next calamity…
***
I wrote this in the early days before the games had begun… And then I never got the time to predict that after the games are over, nobody will remember anything and the very same media and people will hail the games as a great achievement forgetting to focus on what actually happened. Seems like that’s what has exactly happened.
Indian Movies – Urban subtitles!
Have you noticed how kids talk these days? They surely make me feel so old when I don’t understand half of what they say. And they’re still speaking English.
So I was wondering, what if subtitle writers were the urban hip college kids?
Gabbar: How many?
Gunda 1: Sir… th..th..three
Gabbar: WTF? #$%$#$ Bitches…
(And after some time, the subtitles show…)
Gabbar: All 3 of you are… SAFE! l..lo…lol… lol… rotfl… f***ing rotfl…
***
And then I couldn’t think of any more.
Good to see a post after ages from you
Movie review – Let me pass
Commonwealth games – Couldn’t agree more – We are very good at forgetting. Next year, this time, we would not even have a faint memory of what happened in all the scams that came out in the open this year
Young people speak – Every time I see my younger cousins in India update their FB statuses, I almost have a heart attack! They use words which shock me, so very casually!
Next year? Even I’d forgotten about the post.
And children grow up pretty fast these days. Their vocab is very colorful
Oh you shouldn’t have left it in Draft for so long!!! What perfect observations!!! ‘ Indians have confused ‘Indifference’ with what they now call ‘Spirit of Mumbai’ – how very true. And the whole drama about CWG, equally true! We just forget. Like my mum says ‘the fact remains that Indians are the happiest people in the world’. I would rather call it ‘most foolish’!
Your mom again finds a silver lining
Thats what we are best at, no? he he…
LOL, this is a nice idea for a post !
Publish all the half finished ones in one go ! smart ! 
Btw, are you happy with the number of smileys I left here ?
or do you want more ? 
Bas! After this comment, I’ve to recheck my blood sugar levels…
Don’t have anything interesting to write so letting something loose on you seemed like a good idea
Oh no… even I’ve started smiling. 
@ Vimmuuu saar! ROFL!!!! you and your smileys!
@ Rakesh: Blood sugar levels… what is the scene. I thought I’ll spare you and didn’t leave any smileys!
Oops!!!
These drafts would have made terrific posts, Rakesh..esp the the third one would have been a hilarious one!
Golmaal 3 was an absolute riot, na! R & I were in splits through the the movie! I loved it!
Commonwealth, totally agree with you. This is precisely what I feared would happen. Today no channel no newspaper is even bothered to report or update us on whats happening with those fraudsters . We clearly seem to have forgotten!
Great to have you back..finally!
Ok, you liked the 3rd one, Here’s two more from that unfinished post which I thought weren’t very good. But since you liked one, who cares…
***************
Deewar:
Amitabh: I’ve got buildings, properties, fuggin bank balance, bungalows… car, the works, you know. What you got MotherF@#$%*
***************
Any Movie – Kid meets mom after years:
Son: Mmmmoom
Mom: What, what did you say? Say it again, kid!
Son: Mooommm
***************
Yes, Golmaal 3 was awesome…
And with CWG, just like every other case, after a year, Madhur Bhandarkar might make a movie – “Khel” and that’ll be the end of it.
ROFLLL!
well golmall 3 i did not like it at all.. why its doing good i dont know
and CWG oh dont let me start on that … Had a nice debate discussion etc ec when it was there , so many people on facebook and blogosphere wrote , let it happen then we will do this and DO that .. AND NONE OF THEM WHO WROTE THEN HAS EVEN MENTIONED once the CWG got over..
Thats the basic mentality of our people, Always a new scam to look forward to our leaders will always give us that pleasure they can outdo any scam ….
And if someone said they were bad people
beleive me caue i was one of them 
he heheh and you are right no one even remebers anything about it now …
Good to see you back after ages …
Bikram’s
I loved Golmaal 3… So no comment on that comment
Yeah, everybody was speaking about CWG. Thats why I called my post – Even I have an opinion. But no one remembers now and the games were also called a big success
Movie review: Sigh… I am yet to see it Rakesh. Being more of a world cinema lover, even i had forgotten the joys of mindless movie, till BF re-introduced them!
and he genuinely has fun.
With exceptions. That movie Welcome… was pure torture. I slept on his shoulder for 10 mins or so.
CWG: So true so true!!! Like yo said in your comment, Madhur will make a movie… all scams end up as script material, media just discontinues, and ppl just stop caring.
Subtitles: ROFL!!!!!!!!
But your Deewar one in comments is ultra hilarious! hahahah!
Listen, you cannot stop reviewing movies! WAIL!! *throwing tantrum, stomping feet* NO!!!!!!!!
Al-la-kareena in JWM – Aap convince ho gaye ki aur convince karoon?
The last one should be completed! Popular request! 
Hugs!!!!!
world cinema lover? Wow, i just returned from the opening night of DIFF. Saw “The King’s Speech”… And the film festival is on all week and i’m gonna watch at least 1 movie everyday
Come to Dubai, I’ve got spare tickets.
Yeah, not all mindless comedies are fun.
And I just posted everything that I had of the third post in the comment above. Your wish already fulfilled
TC, Hugs!
Posting unfinished posts is a good idea. That way, we get to read 3 posts in 1, and even the size is of 1 post.
Keep it coming.
See ya again in 3 months!
he he, cya again in 3 months! he he… How did you guess? It is actually gonna be crazy with the year end.
boss.. you must actually think of completing the 3rd post… seriously… loooks like kick ass material !!!
F******ing ROTFL
!!!!
Happy new year
Loved the abra pic,i am missing dubai now
You’re having fun in India!!! What’s so great about Dubai
Come to Adipur (Kutch nahin dekha to kuch nahin Dekha).
Ahem ahem!!!
What? Is this HAHK?
Rakesss babua, Happy New Year!
Do you recommend Udaan and Peepli live? Didn’t see a review here.
Solilo, Kahan Ho Aap! And why is your blog private? I’m an adult, promise
Udaan – Well, few parts of Udaan are the awesomest work I’ve seen when it comes to conveying through just visuals and music… Add to that, brilliant performances.
Haven’t seen Peepli Live yet!
I’m going to watch both this weekend.
Did you catch Dhobi Ghat? Good reviews and reports on it.
Haha @adult comment. I stopped blogging.
This is what I’d written BEFORE the Commonwealth Games had begun: http://ketpan.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/commonwealth-games-will-not-be-a-dud-a-prediction/
I had read that post at that time Ketan. You are cynical about the media, I know but then I am also cynical about the way the games were hailed as a success later… At the end of the day, what in most likelihood has happened is that a lot of money has been siphoned and nothing has been done about it.
Oh there is no doubt lot of money must have been siphoned off. I was focusing on very narrow aspect of the entire issue – whether the CWG would’ve been a “dud” in terms of organization of the sporting events, quality of facilities provided, occurrence of major accidents, etc. Because before the games were to be held, the impression presented was that there would be so many goof ups that instead of the even bolstering India’s image, the whole world would be doing thoo, thoo. And it is this projection that I was countering.
Well, I think at times focusing on the narrower aspect makes you loose sight of the overall picture.
Who knows, maybe if the media wasn’t so vocal, the organisers might not have pulled up their socks and then the thoo thoo would’ve happened after the games began. So it might have been a good thing, what the media did.
Yes Rakesh, what you suggest is also a possibility. But I’m not sure if these officials really care about media scrutiny, because otherwise they would have not indulged in corruption in the first place if it is media scrutiny they would have feared.
Perhaps, what the officials feared more would have been the ire of top politicians whose images would’ve been spoiled had they done badly. Because, had something gone wrong with the games, it would have happened live, before the entire nation and the politicians in Delhi (and perhaps, elsewhere) might have suffered electorally without media needing to do anything.
And I see, you’re reading The Fountainhead. Assuming, you’re doing so for the first time, let me warn that the first 30 or so pages would be very dry, with virtually nothing happening in them. It is then that the story starts moving. But, there is virtually no murder violence. There’s only one very sedate kind of murder.
I’m actually enjoying The Fountainhead quite a bit. Have already finished 3 chapters and am at the last one about Howard Roark. I’ve loved this book, one of the best i’ve read.