Sunday, January 24, 2010

BYE BYE 2009

2009

An year of recession and No Hike should have something best to compensate the deeds. I am jotting down all the good things that happened to me in 2009. The year went without any resolution and failed attempts to promote myself as Handsome. Ooooppppss!! I could not put my weight back to 70's scale. Nevertheless I enjoyed a lots of Biryani in Hyderabad and Bangalore. I learnt to cook excellent biryani too, with Desi Ghee.
The Year was bad for the finances, yet I bought three gadgets/Machines that were needed and used extensively to the idea of satisafction and salvation. I became traveler Byond! (A copyrighted name), when i bought A DSLR, A HP Pavilion and A RoyalEnfield Thunderbird 350CC.
I met excellent people made excellent groups and started Facebook application. Though i created my account 4 years before but was stuck to leave Orkut. Thanks to Orkut that they changed their classic view and copied facebook, and i was forced to stuck with originals.
Here are the lists of want went good happenchance or planned:


Best movie: DevD, Gulaal
                       Inglorious Bastards,Invictus


Best Songs (Music directors/Lyricist and Singers):
From movie DevD(Amit trivedi)/ Gulaal (Piyush Mishra)/ Kaminey (Gulzar/Vishal)
Best Destination: Sharavathi River Valley trek and Sarchu
Best Ride: Lepakshi bike ride 2009


Best Food: Karimeen in Kerala, Special Chicken biryani (Meghna Biryani).
Best Place to Eat: Café Rendezvous (Pondicherry), Kakori Kebabs in Heera Panna,
Best Drink: TGIF followed by Little Italy.
Best Trip: Coorg-Madikeri 2 day Ride.
Best Book: Sam's Story, Lonely Planet
Best Dare: Paragliding and Snoring (Ya you got it right)
Best comic strip: 


Best Buy: My RE Thundebird 350CC roaring thumping Mean Machine.
Best TV find: NDTV Goodtimes- Highway on my plate.

It made me go to restaurants for 4 times just after watching it. Yummy and Down to earth.

Best Google Search: Trips to Sharavathi, Bike4sale,
Best portal: I got hooked to Facebook and Twitter like all others, but thank God still no idea about Farmville and Mafia.
Best News: Gulzar did not go personally to receive Oscars;

Pink Chaddi Campaign became a hit on 14th Feb 2009,

Best Moments:  Should I Discuss it ----Ok I got a phone call from my sister in Dec2009 and my world got empty and shattered yet it was the best. Keep Guessing You Morons!!




                    

Friday, January 8, 2010

Avatar: beyond the bandwagon

Avatar:  beyond the bandwagon

A Critical Analysis.

I was wondering why the name Avatar first, checked Wiki and got this as an explanation, In Hinduism Avatar or Avatāra (Devanagari अवतार, Sanskrit for "descent" [viz., from heaven to earth]) refers to a deliberate descent of a deity from heaven to earth, and is mostly translated into English as "incarnation", but more accurately as "appearance" or "manifestation". 1
In the movie however the Blue humans were considered as humans and Humans were like Gods from Above Earth. Hilarious but acceptable.

Then I checked Avatar on Google on its uses. The proliferation of avatar’s second meaning can be traced to Second Life, a multiplayer online virtual world, where players fashion their own online personae called avatars. Yahoo! implores instant messengers to “Express yourself with Yahoo! Avatars” (barely customizable icons) — a synonymy of online personae has emerged.2
Now here we have James Cameroon imagination coming to reality on celluloid as Avatar.
Yes most expensive film ever made, and most talked film of the decade perhaps the century.
Jim became the God. However for a movie which lacks the thrill, punch lines and above all a nice story. Anyways none of the previously released movie of Cameroon has a great story. He relied more on technology and always believed in pushing its limits. And he has done a marvelous job by doing Avatar.
Avatar is not an animated movie, as assumed by many. But its graphically made like 300,Harrypotter series and many… so what was new here, nothing even the hype was same like before a little more glorified.
The entire world crashed for Bandwagon effect.  I also read some critics saying that “Avatar” story is too simple, one Gujarati critic Jay Vasavda wrote that the story was kept intentionally simple so that the audience can be visually mesmerized instead of getting diverted with the complexity of the story. It means that he wants to convey the message that James Cameroon is not smart enough to handle a complex story with visuals as great. Either one has to take a back seat. Poor Jim.
I consider Jurassic park and Matrix for bringing cult status by technology. Avatar is just an extension with extra hype. I don’t have to visit movie theatres to see technology and no story. Jim tried to put the Navis expressions in the frame but again it was too plastic and digital that it lacked passion and yielded too many yawns. A kid will surely enjoy the movie for its action and adventure. T2 was a masterpiece and so was Titanic. Avatar is obviously better than piranha’s II, Abyss, and true lies.
Increasing heights, changing colors and decreasing few fingers can convert a human into navis. The funny part is that you have a tail and a plug-in like tentacle. The plug like is like a male multi threaded pin plug which you can plug into horses, UFB(Un identified flying birds). To tame anything even plants all u need is to pull and plug. The glowing jungle looks mesmerizing but is kept too dark and bluish.
The philosophy of transmogrification looks so insipid that you may feel a sense of easy imagination adding some extra masala off your kitchen self. Calvin’s transmorgnifier box was only better to scare Hobbes, but we are not stuffed toys.
The Human chief looks very ill and too inhuman in the actions. There was a clear antithetical between good and bad, Humans were not humans and the non-Humans were like Humans. Jake was the link between these two worlds, fevicoled by a bollywoodish love story. Guy meets gal in the jungle. With his childish calm and naughtiness win over her heart then fight with the world to win over gal’s society. DDLJ rings the bell. Not exactly; but a bell is a bell and it may sound akin.

Overall a half star for the graphics and 3D.
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