I know I am a bit late with this movie review. Most of you might already have caught “Jaane tu ya jaane na”. I had wanted to see it last week itself, but the shows were all house-full. So, this time I took no chances and booked online. So, what do I think of the movie. It is all right I guess. But as I walked out of the theatre I had this feeling, it could have been done better. The narrative style could have been better. Some of the characters were too kooky to be believable. But, all in all, it is worth a dekho. I would not call it the best youth movie or anything. Dil Chahta hai and Rang De Basanti still rule. Imran Khan looks cute with his huge, puppy dog eyes. He suited the role of a just-out-of college kid. But I think he will need to be a lot less gangly if he wants to be Bollywood hero material. It’s more realistic than having a 40-year-old Aamir Khan trying to pass himself off as a collegian. Genelia, well! I was kind of disappointed. The lady can’t act, saala! Her dialogue delivery is robotic. I didn’t like her at all. I liked Ratna Pathak and her role. The film has its moments and that is why I think it is doing well. A.R. Rahman’s music rocks. All in all, it’s a film for anyone who is young at heart.

So, coming back to lazy Sundays. This Sunday morning I woke up leisurely at around 11 am. I had to literally drag myself out of bed. A leisurely breakfast and coffee later, I went back to my bedroom. I decided not to watch TV, but go back to my first love, MUSIC. It’s been ages since I played music I love. I usually take the lazy way out and just listen to the radio. So, I went through all the compilation CDs I have and played a couple of them. I wonder why I don’t do it more often. Starting with Aqualung’s “Strange and Beautiful”

“Sometimes the last thing you want comes in first
Sometimes the first thing you want never does
But I know that waiting is all you can do
Sometimes

I'll put a spell on you
You fall asleep
I'll put a spell on you
And when I wake you I'll be the first thing you see
And you'll realise that you love me “

To Audioslave, with “ What you are”

“when you wanted love I cut my veins
and when you wanted love I bled myself again
now all I’ve had I still love you
I’d give you up forever
and here I go
far away
I know you
you'll find another slave”

As I curled up on my bed, with a nice book and listening to my favourite rock songs, I thought, this is what I should be doing. I have promised myself to do this more often. I know, this is another form of passive relaxation, but still, songs do create a mood. And take you to another plane.

How could the movie buff in me stay far from the big screen? So, on Sunday, I went to watch “Kung Fu Panda”. I’m not much of an animated movie person. I rarely go for animated movies, so this was an exception. The toss up was between “Hancock” and “Kung Fu Panda”. A friend of mine said that  “Hancock” wasn’t great, so I landed up for this movie. It has some clever lines and great animation. I would recommend the movie to those of you who like animated flicks. For me the experience was strictly OK.

I did promise to update you all about my experience with chatting. It has been kind of mixed. I am still not comfortable sharing my personal details like phone number and address and all that. Sometimes, I feel I am not cut out for online chatting and stuff. I hate sharing my picture. I do not want to tell anyone where I work. Somehow, I feel all this secrecy from my side can be detrimental to friendships I wish to make. But that is that. Also, I get put off when the discussion is about sex. I have stopped chatting with people who were just wanted me to be a sounding board for their opinions about X.  Another observation of mine is that chatting can be very tedious and time consuming. I am not sure I want to spend so many hours of my time doing that. It so happens that between getting disconnected “n” number of times, a single decent conversation takes a couple of hours, at least. At the end of it all, I don’t know if I have made a friend or not. I also think chatting is pretty addictive. So, I have decided to wean myself off it. I might chat once in a couple of days instead of everyday. I might even stop altogether. Lets see how things go.

Have a happy week ahead, folks.