Experiences of a Lifetime

It was a midnight. I cleaned my cup for my regular dose of coffee. I’ve always loved variety in Life but this time it was different, it was beyond just the regular thing. It was something that gave me a sense of special satisfaction, coffee! My heart leaped, (a minor one though) as I realized that my cupboard stored a variety of coffee powders to opt from. There was a Bru Cappucino, Nescafe Sunrise besides a bottle of the regular Bru and Nescafe each! Wow! I amaze myself! I must be quite a prize to the coffee-holic community, I decided. So I finally gave myself the much needed regard a true ‘coffee-holic’ should get by putting this up on the World Wide Web! Long Live Coffee!

Q and A was brilliantly written by Indian author, Vikas Swarup. The ingenuity of Swarup in naming the protagonist, “Ram Mohammed Thomas” and his story of Rags to Riches has totally amazed me. So when I got to seeing the much acclaimed and talked about movie Slumdog Millionaire, I decided to post my views on it out here. Why do Indian movies never really make much sense to most sane people? With the exception of ‘Salaam Bombay’, very few movies, I think, have been able to project the lurid and extreme social realism in India as was done in Slumdog. A certain Karan Johar or a Yash Chopra seems to, more often than not, wants to please not just the Punjabi audience but the Tamilian, Telegu and Mallu audience, the Bengali and the Bihari audience and ALSO win the Oscar for it!! No offences meant. I admit I myself have loved these regular ‘masala’ movies like OSO and Rab Ne… where everything is all hunky dory as the curtain drops. But the ‘famous’ Bollywood should have churned out such stuff ...