Tees Maar Khan - Review

On Friday, 24th of Dec, 2010.. as soon as my kid came back from school, he pleaded to book tickets for the movie, Tees Maar Khan. I had gone through the preview in the morning newspaper, which was not very encouraging but his insistance was much aggressive. Finally, after much yes and no, we finally decided to go for a late evening show and booked the tickets for 8pm at PVR Cinemas, Vikas Puri.

The advent of Internet, really gives you at least this facility of looking down all different theatres and choose your seats and book the one, which suits your timings. Even while booking the tickets, it was clear that theatres are booked reasonably well. Thanks to the magic of advertisements and the songs of the TMK, mainly the item number - Shiela kee Jawaani. This is the age of advertisement and the way things are projected, at least they create a hype and create a pull among the common man, to just try the product at least for once. Our country is so big that even once means a lot of money, so producers do get a lot back, just by using the good and lucrative parts of the product to their advantage.

The movie started with a bang, Akshay Kumar getting exchanged between police of different countries and 2 officiers of Indian agency bringing back him to India. As imagined, he tricks the public and manages to fool the 2 CBI officiers ard walks free easily. The first scene really gave the impressions of the complete story of the movie. Its going to be only cheap gimmicks and nothing else. Akhshay had been doing such movies from last few years with very limited success. As he reaches his home, enters Katrina Kaif, bang on with "Shiela Kee Jawani". A good lip catching item number, with great moves by the Kashmiri lass. The movie picks up some pace and Katrina really shows that she is also capable to doing something different. She is shown as a desperate B-Grade Movie actress, who is ready to get mileage out of anything, she wants to make it big in the Bollywood. Although, her role is limited but she did left an impact with the role she portrayed. Her dialogues were also limited but some punch lines were repeated with good effect. Apart from Katrina, one actor that made an impact of some kind is Akshay Khanna. He played an establised actor but always wishing for an Oscar.. He is seen ready to do anything for an Oscar. The film has absolutely no storyline or no message to spread, its just comical satires of few actors. The first half is fast paced, with 2 good catchy numbers, one - Shiela kee jawani and other a quwwali which even includes Salman Khan - Aadaab Arj Hai.. Second half has absoulutely nothing, just time pass to make it look like an Indian Movie, even after so much of time pass, the movie ended almost in 2 hrs. Not worth the money spent, its almost a 1000 bucks for a movie outing for a family and its not well spent on a Christmas pre- evening. Better to go to Big Mall, do some window shopping, look at the glitch, play some games n enjoy the variety of Food Court. I really enjoy sitting at the Food Court rather than having a Dinner at a Restaurant. Its like being casual or dressed formally. I like the freedom of Food Courts, choose ur food, fill your plate and move around to check seats,,,its fun.

I tried writing about the Movie but ended up writing more about my taste, which clearly shows the content available in the movie, absolutely nothing apart from few gyrating moves of Katrina, which easily can be seen in every promo..

Enjoy the promos n promos..only.

Consistency

Just few days back, Indian Cricket Team lost their first match by an innings and 25 runs at Centurion Park, South Africa. It must be an eye-opener for them, after they routed New-Zealand 5-0 in ODI series at home. More such similar incidences will soon follow as the series progresses at South Africa, where the pitches help fast bowlers and Indians takes time to adjust to the pace and bounce of the cricket ball. Cricket World Cup is coming up soon and Indian Team is always rated highly to win the same due to their few sizable wins and good performances but somehow in the recent past few world cups, they fared very badly and even failed to reach finals, many a times. The main issue is their consistency, despite the fact that IPL has produced so many young faces but no one is ready to be the next Sachin or Sehwag or Rahul. For this reason only people like Saurav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and VVV Laxman are still playing active cricket.

Life is like that, first impression is just a start up and give more chances to prove but the first impression cannot carry a person all along his or her Life. He or She has to prove, time and again his or her mettle, to survive in this cruel world. So, please do not leave anything to chance and be ready to put your best foot forward, to achieve 100% success. Gone are the days, when 90% is suppossed to be one of the Best. Nowadays, scores of 99% are easily achieveable and people getting scores of 90+ fight hard to get the cream. Its hard but its achievable..

Visualize things, plan each step and put your best effort to get success. After getting success, do not leave the time and tested process of achieveing success on the back burner. Keep on following the same and try to add more success in your bucket n enjoy the Life!!!

Love YourSelf

A few days back, while flying from Delhi to Chennai, I read an article regarding Human Happiness Index. As per the article the human's delight is not related to the money they earn, it simply is related to the difference in the amount of money they earn with respect to their neighbours. Quite amusing...but true. The example given is of India and China, the two countries growing aggressively in terms of Money Power and Infrastructure, but the happiness Index of its citizens are not increasing just because everyone's salary is growing. So, the difference between neighbours salaries is still intact and so the discontent..

In my opinion, everyone should focus on his needs and focus on his own goals for the future instead of looking at his or her neighbour's pocket and trying to outperform them in every little thing. The moment you weigh in just your basic needs, you will have a hugh chunk of your salary left with you to plan for luxuries. Start by differentiating between basic Needs and Luxuries of Life. Your Kitchen Items, Kids School Fee, Electricity Bills, Telephone Bills are some of the basic Necesseties but Movies, Vacations, New Clothes, Jewellary, Dinning out should be considered as Luxuries and people should plan these things based on money left after paying for the basic Needs. Credit Card Bills and EMI payments should be the first priority but always make judicial decisions while purchasing something on Credit or on EMIs. Only buy things on Credit, if and only if you have the capacity to pay 100% payment easily, even without using a Credit Card. Similarly, EMI option should be used only if its for something Big, like a House or a Car and monthly EMI should not pinch your pockets. EMI should not be more than 50% of your pay. Also, plan to pay back your loan partly in case you get any Incentive or Bonus payment. It will reduce your burden.

This way you can stay happy by just focussing on yourself. Try to love yourself , your integrity and even your decision making. Never take a car just because your neighbour has one. Take one, if you need one, take two if you need two, irrespective of what your neighbour has.. Love your choice, love your senses, love your own fashion style.

Create your own priorities in Life and try to achieve those priorities, your self -respect and peace of mind is much more important than the competetion n envy with neighbours.

Love yourself and love your neighbours, Be a good neighbour, don't be a competetor n Enjoy the Life!!!

Life Begins at Forty..

Today is my Birthday, I am 43 yr old now and the mind is reminding me of an old saying "Life Begins at forty". Strange thought at the start of the day but this is the reality. I am wondering, is it true or just an idom or phrase used by people to put enthusiam in the older persons to be more happier and more content with Life and start taking things easily rather than being stressed with everyday chores, official or personal.
I just browsed Google to search for this phrase and clicked on the first result, its an interesting n knowlegable reading, url is pasted below, try if u r interested -
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/life-begins-at-forty.html
In the words of a German Philospher,
"The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary."
By my understanding, the above sentence is true, we do go through many a learning phases and shape our lives with aggression to reach some kind of heights in our careers during the first forty yrs and then start mellowing down, settling more for a peaceful life routines.
Even if I look back now and evaluate, "what happenned during last 3 yrs, after I crossed the 40 mark in 2007, it really shows similar results.

• I started writing this Blog during Dec 2007
• I created an account at Orkut, which I rarely used.
• I created an account at Linkedin, which really started the way forward to reconnect with all of my old buddies, besides the present day ones. This is the only Networking acct, I regularly visit and update.
• In Jun 2007, I moved out of my Gurgaon House and moved to Delhi, looking for a change, somehow resulting in buying n moving to another apartment in 2010.
• In April 2007, I bought my first sedan after driving hatchbacks for 12 yrs.
• Last 2 yrs even resulted in vacations abroad with family.
• Even profesionally, from being a Technical front end, I started moving to a more backend role, with handling operations or service delivery, pushing people to perform.
• Started loving being a trainer, educating people, mentoring them, motivating them to make a splash in their fields and leave behind a name and impression to remember.

Many more such things did happenned in my life after forty and it surely happenns with almost everyone of us. I am really enjoying the Life and waiting for the next move. Really speaking, even at this moment, I am not sure what will be my next move or target to achieve in Life. Normally, I always take one target at a time in my personal Life and achieve them within the desired set time frame. This is just the relaxation phase until I can think of my next move,,until then,,,chill n enjoy the day, I am enjoying my own Birthday, alone, working from Home, already answered mails recd during last night and waiting for others to wake up and bombard me with more queries..by then I have to get up and fetch a Cake for my small family..Bye..take care.