Watching something perfect

I got a chance to watch this movie "Seducing Mr.Perfect" on my way from Hong Kong to Singapore while coming back from US. Somehow, I was switching channels and I glued on to this movie, may be because it had an Indian feel to it. My 3 hrs 15 mins flight went away in a flash with this movie.

The plot and treatment were very Indian, though it was a Korean movie with English subtitles. Can be an interesting watch for those who like Indian-senti-romantic movies. Below is a brief plot of the movie which I suttufied from net.

Starring: Uhm Jung Hwa as Kim Min-june and Daniel Phillip Henney as Robin Heiden

Min-june, an absolute believer in true love, dedicates herself to the men she dates, but each time it results in a painful breakup. Today, she's going through the most disastrous heartbreak ever -- being dumped on her birthday! The confident professional Min-june can be so clueless when it comes to love. Distracted from this unpleasant surprise, she bumps into an exotic foreign car. A very handsome young man steps out of the car angrily. To escape from the scene, Min-june pretends not to understand English, but when Min-june arrives at work, she finds out that the foreigner, Robin Heiden, is none other than her newly appointed boss...

Heiden has very clear ideas about a relationship and love: both are a game of power and Min-Joon seeks advice from him, as she doesn't want to get dumped again. However, when she starts to treat men like Heiden treats women, she realizes that she prefers her older behaviour, even if that means that she gets dumped again; she doesn't see love as a game of power and never will.

Heiden, who has to deal with his own heartbreak, as he loved a woman so much that she had to shoot him to get the message across that she wasn't interested in him, starts to soften at Min-joon's attitude towards life. He eventually falls in love with her and both get into a real relationship and a happy ending of their own.

Sivaji -The Boss : A Review

Cast: Rajinikanth, Shriya, Suman, Vivek
Direction: Shankar
Music: A. R. RahmanI know it’s quite very late for writing a Sivaji Review. Though I had watched the movie 2 weeks back itself, my offline status from blogging has permitted to write a review after so many days. And as I always say, better late than never :P

I watched the movie in San Jose, in Camera 3 cinemas. It is right in center of San Jose downtown, in quite a nice place. I was on time for the show and there was a long queue waiting to get inside the theatre. (Though it was nothing when compared to India) The show started at 1.10 PM. (It was scheduled at 1 PM ;-))

The movie was quite good, a good entertainer for a time pass, though I would say from the expectations that I had built up on a Shankar and Rajini combo, it fell little short. Mainly for two reasons:

1. There were not much of Shankar's thoughtful ideas seen in the film. Getting the knots undone was simply a matter of super heroism.
2. The theme was on similar lines of Shankar's old social themes. Nothing fresh or unseen about the theme.

Having said that, if we leave all expectations aside and sit for 3 hours free minded, we can really enjoy the movie to the fullest. There is surely guaranteed fun unlimited.

Rajini was at his full fledged action, be it comedy or stunts or styles. But the fact that he has grown very older is too very evident in many scenes, the blitzkrieg style action was really missing. For an actor if his age, he had done a very good job.

Shreya has atlast got a chance to prove her critics wrong, and has displayed equal good amount of skin and skills :P Supporting cast had done a good job, especially, Vivek was seen back in good form. The villain Suman was just okay. I couldn't get the feel of a powerful villain in him pitted against Rajini, like Raghuvaran in Baasha and Ramya Krishnan in Padayappa.

The "motta boss" climax fight was no good either as everyone claimed, except for Rajini's get up, I felt it was the worst climax in any Shankar film. Not impressive atleast for me!

Songs are main strengths of the film, especially Vaaji vaaji and Sahara Pookal. The other good one was Adhiradi kaaran by Lawrence. Style song was good only for Prabhudeva's excellent choreography. The intro song is a big big let down, brickbats to Brindha was totally messing up with a crappy choreography inspite of having a sexy Nayanthara and beautiful locales and properties. Even Rajini's steps were like making evident of the fact that he has become old. Very bad attempt of an intro song for a super star!

Stunts on the other hand were also good and executed well. Comedy by Vivek and Rajini was good in the first half, but a lot of scenes introduced in the name of comedy were ultimate mokkais. There were unintentional comedies too. For instance, the whole theatre laughed for Rajini's dialogues like "Give me a break yeah" and "Software system Architect" :P

The movie has very good production values and star values and its undoubtedly the biggest movie of the year. Still, I felt that it was like idly-vada eaten with tomato sauce. Everything is great, but still, something missing on the whole :))

To end it all: Sivaji - Sooperji!!! :D

From April to July....

It’s been a long time since I blogged.. So just thought of posting a comprehensive report of whatever I have been doing all this while :)

My last blog post says April 12th, almost 3 months back. I am just surprised to see how much I have been kept busy not even to post a single blog post all these days!!! Yup, I had quite a tough time with job meeting up some deadlines and deliveries. Then came the news by the end of April that I had to travel to the Sunnyvale, California, US of A for short term project assignment. I was not very keen on any onsite trip, neither was I prepared for it. But at the same time I was not ready to let the chance go off (I don't know if I had any option of letting it go off :P)

So again busy with Visa procedures, Interview, shopping, packing and all that. That left me no time for my online activities for quite some time. Finally on 18th of May I was all set to leave. It was my first flight and first trip outside India. Thankfully, everything went smooth and had no issues anywhere on the way.

Hong Kong Airport

From setting foot in the US on 19th May till today, it has been quite a delightful experience and I had lots of fun that cannot be explained in words. I can write a separate blog of my US experiences. :P My Orkut albums and the photos I have shared have spoken enough of my experiences. To make it all short, I will list down everything I had enjoyed till date here from Sunnyvale:

Places Visited: San Jose, Great America Amusement park, Sunnyvale Downtown, Intel Museum, Stanford University, San Francisco(Travelogue following soon)

Intel Tech Museum

Shopping places visited: Walmart, Target, Macy's, Bestbuy, Fry's Electronics, Circuit City, Safeway, Albertsons, Big Lots, Great Mall of Bay Area, Longs Drugs

Indian shops: India Cash and Carry, Namaste Plaza, Coconut Hill

Hotels stayed in: Bestwestern Silicon Valley Inn, The Vagabonds Inn

Films watched:

English: School of Rock, Punisher, Behind Enemy Lines, Men on Fire, Fools Rush In, Pursuit of Happiness

Hindi: Life in a Metro, Chandini Bar, Namastey london, Ta Ra Rum Pum, Bheja Fry, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Shootout at Lokhandwala, Laage Raho Munnabhai

Tamil: Unnale Unnale, Sivaji(Review in next post)

Revisited movies: Ghilli, Sachien, Pokkiri, Bommarillu, Boys, Ghajini

Eat outs tried: Komala Vilas, Udupi Palace, Passage To India, Lovely snacks, Dasaprakash, Swathi Tiffins, Bombay Gardens

Sunnyvale Railway Station

There are so much things to say, so much to crib about but this blogpost is not enough for all that. But one thing what I can say is, instead of bringing in the American culture and accent back to India, the US returned Indians can bring in some amount of patriotism and respect that the US citizens have towards their country. I really admire the way they follow the rules set here.. so strictly that even the uncivilized desi buggers are made to follow them. If they or we had done it all these years in India, our country would have become a much better place to live in.

San Jose Downtown

Anyways, carrying a lot of good memories and happy days, I am leaving USA next weekend back to India. Whatever heaven US is like, the very thought of going back to India is really exciting. Afterall, "Sorgame endraalum adhu nammoora pola varuma?" :D:D