Master Oogway quotes

Source: http://www.mensxp.com/special-features/today/25450-10-quotes-that-prove-master-oogway-from-kung-fu-panda-is-the-greatest-teacher-ever.html

1. You are too concerned with what was and what will be.
2. One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.  
3. Oh, Shifu. There is just news. There is no good or bad.
4. You will never fulfill your destiny until you let go of illusion of control.
5. When the path you walk leads back to yourself, you never get anywhere.
6. No matter what you do that seed is going to be a peach tree. You may wish for apple or an orange but you will always get a peach.
7. Your mind is like a water, my friend. When it becomes agitated it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clearer.

Couple of dialogues from Before Sunset

Memories are wonderful thing if we don’t have to deal with the past – Before sunset (movie)

If you don’t believe in any kind of mystery , magic you are equal to dead – Albert Einstein quote coming from Before Sunset (movie)

what am I reading and watching

What am I reading since last week (diwali)

Hot commodities - completed
Adventure capitalist - currently reading
Revolution 2020 - Completed
Norwegian Woods - Currently reading
The Great Gatsby - Have to start

Which movies I saw
Shaitan
Mere Brother Ki Dulhan

It seems that I am relaxing too much. Not working at all and indulging in books and movies...

Good morning mumbai dialogue. Lage Raho Munnabhai (Vidya Balan)

Shaher ki is daud me daud ke karna kya hai?
Jab yehi jeena hai dosto to phir marna kya hai?
Paheli barish me train late hone ki fikr hai
Bhul gaye bhigte hue tahelna kya hai?
Serials ke kirdaaro ka saara haal hai malum
par maa ka haal puchhne ki fursat kaha hai?
Ab ret pe nange pao tahelte kyu nahi?
108 hai chanel phir dil bahelte kyu nahi?
Internet se duniya ke to touch me hai,
lekin pados me kon raheta hai jaante tak nahi.
Mobile, Landline sab ki bharmaar hai,
Lekin jigri dost tak pahuche aise taar kaha hai?
Kab dubte hue suraj ko dekha tha, yaad hai?
Kab jaana tha shaam ka guzarna kya hai?
To Dosto Shaher ki is daud me daud ke karna kya hai
Jab yahi jeena hai to phir Marna kya hai?

Delhi Belly **** should be negative starred

Can film reviews be compared to the hyped growth stock? Undoubtedly, I would like to compare Delhi Belly as a tech stock of 2000’s. Absolutely no value and all hype!

It was the first movie in my life where I wanted to just leave in the interval (there was no interval, so after 45 mins. I felt I had to just move out of the movie hall). What is Aamir Khan trying to show in this movie, I still can’t figure out...

Yes, he has become a master salesman who can sell any lame movie with all the Peppery words to the public. All Ivy league B-school grads should call him as a guest lecturer. After all we do need to train these chaps in becoming big shots in insidious firms like Lehman and Bear Stearns. Well, he will be a best prof to guide that, especially when he can get 4 Stars in all the major newspapers for this crappy movie.

All major newspapers said it’s the best youth movie which is gonna be a cult movie. Now I can understand Dil Chahta Hai and even Rang De Basanti being a cult movie, but Delhi Belly – not even in my wildest dreams!

There is hardly any story line. It is just one of the stereotype movies where the smuggled diamonds are misplaced by the protagonists, and there is complete chaos for getting the diamonds back by goons and them. I would have been okay with stuff too but this is just one part of it. The movie begins with an abuse (all words BC, MC, G, C, etc. etc….) and ends with an abuse and there is nothing except this. Yes, there is farting too in this one (bad Belly you see :)).

Now come to the worst part, people were laughing whenever these words were spoken! or some farting scene was shown. This was supposed to be a funny movie….but we have stooped so low in making such movies or we fell so low in our standards, that we are calling this funny stuff. Farting will be enjoyed once….not in every other scene. Even kiddos will laugh for 5-6 times max. but we adults weren’t tired of laughing….

Does youthfulness means using abusive language as fad and showing off? Well I am still a youth (I assume :P) and I sparingly use any of the above words but I have friends who use them, but occasionally, definitely not in every sentence….and I presume that this would be applicable to most of us!

So was just wondering, how does this movie get 4 stars. Hats off to Aamir! You are truly a RocketSingh...

Music albums - where are they now?

It’s been a long time since I have come across the music videos like the old days of early 2000’s. Most of the songs were crap, but there were few lovely numbers from Falguni Pathak, Silk route, and Euphoria. The gems like Bally Sagoo, Biddu, Anaida, etc. seem to have been lost in time.

Yes, times change and so do we. But songs are songs, and we can listen to good songs be it in movies or albums – so why the silent death for the albums? I was trying to contemplate the reasons of their decline!

Too many movies – too many songs – who wants to listen to the music albums?
The company making these videos making losses – Overall music videos making losses. Who buys music now a days? Piracy rules!

Eventually all boils down to the economics and people making money from the venture. If demand outstrips supply, the album makers will make money and vice versa. Though that is the case I long for Yesterday Once More!

shrek - Hallelujah

Listening to this song - good composition
of course I liked the movie but this song is one of my best
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAmzHO06_c0

Lyrics go like this
Source: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/shrek/hallelujah.htm

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty
in the moonlight
overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne,
she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe I've been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you'd let me know
What's real and going on below
But now you never show it to me do you?
Remember when I moved in you?
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
It's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Good Dialogue in Ghajini

Description:
Confidence - "I can do it"
Arrogance - "Only, I can do it"

RIO movie

Trailer can be watched here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_8Pf8klXDU

I watched RIO this weekend. It is a wonderful movie. Watching with 3-D effects is a must. RIO city, especially Christ – The Redeemer was too good to be missed. The story line was simple; something similar to our Hindi love stories with Happy ending. Same was the case here.

Rating – 3 /5

My favorite movies

Below is the list of movies - Must watch according to me! Will add to this list if I recollect other good ones...

Hindi

1. Lamhe
2. Sahib Biwi Ghulam
3. Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na
4. Dil Hai ke manta nahi
5. Jab We Met
6. Namaste London
7. Golmal
8. Chupke chupke
9. Choti si baat
10. Swades
11. Jane Do Bhi Yaaro
12. Sparsh
13. Masoom
14. Parichay
15. Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar
16. Dil Chatha Hai
17. Anand
18. Jewel Thief
19. Khushboo
20. Swami
21. Angoor
22. Ek Doctor Ki Maut
23. Abhiman

English

1. My Girl
2. The pursuit of Happyness
3. Pretty Woman
4. 12 Angry Men
5. As good as it gets
6. Shrek 1
7. Finding Nemo
8. Lion King
9. A Few Good Men
10. LOTR
11. Scent of a woman
12. UP
13. Cast Away
14. Forrest Gump
15. Serendipity

Marathi

1. Ashi Hi Banva Banvi
2. Uttarayan

Namaste London

Yesterday saw Namaste London - Decent movie, KK was superb, Akshay was his usual best
One dialogue which struck me the most

"ishq de meree mitra pehchaan kee
mit javay jadoon zid apnan dee"

English Version:
Being In True Love Means-You Do Not Need To Posses It (explanation taken from http://wogma.com/movie/namastey-london-review/)

What is the identification of love ?
When you are no longer obsessed with the feeling to possess it.

This is quite old dialogue but I just loved it.

3 idiots

Yesterday I went to one of the biggest blockbuster movie of the decade-The 3 idiots. it was definitely a well made movie with Aamir Khan despite being 44 looked a collegian.

what I liked
-Boman Irani's acting
-Great scenic shots
-Aamir Khan's attitude
-some dialogues

what pissed me off
-more than 80% of the movie was from the book. I totally agree with Chetan Bhagat (http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_160-of-170-pages-of-3-idiots-script-were-mine-abhijat-joshi_1331436).

I didn't expect such response from good film-makers of the Munnabhai fame to get embroiled in such stupid controversy. If it was for a cheap publicity, then both film-makers Vinod Chopra and the author Chetan Bhagat should be blamed. And if we believe Chetan bhagat, which I feel is true after watching the movie, then he surely deserves credit due as well as good royalty payment. Film is the top grosser on the bourses.

-Madhvan no way looked like he was doing engineering. "All is well" song showed his plumpness. If he wanted to be shown as engineer, then directors should have shown him that he has repeated each engg. year

-Crowd in the theater-went for really cheap tickets (Rs. 40 wonly!!! as we sat in the stalls-for Y-generation-please run through the dictionary for what it means), and got high pitched whistling for free

But still all is well :)