Scraps Stuffs - Random musings from apun ka desh

This was one nice movie which I enjoyed quite a bit. I would have enjoyed it even more if I didn't have to concentrate so damned hard to ensure I didn't miss any of the nuances. Leonardo D'Caprio acted the best, I felt. Jack Nickholson second best. There wasn't any incompetent acting on display at all. The violence wasn't too much considering the type of movie it is but it felt a little too brutal for my tastes which makes me realize that I'm growing older.

The one thing that strikes me when I watch most Hollywood movies is that the acting seems so natural. The actors just are the characters and not merely play it. In stark contrast to most Bollywood movies but things are getting better here.

Watched Don recently. The new one. A good effort by Farhan Akhtar, handicapped, as he would have been, by thoughts of the inevitable comparison with the old one.

The new Don is slicker, more suave and more effeminate that the old one. AB was raw magnetism personified, SRK is merely the metrosexual. AB was far more menacing than SRK. But the new movies looks much better and the two twists make the story more interesting and leave open the possibility of a sequel although Farhan denies it.

I was impressed by Priyanka, she performed very competently. Boman Irani was good as well, but he's really in his element in comic roles, not serious ones like this. Om Puri was wasted and Kareena will never be a patch on Helen who is the best dancer (by far) to have ever graced the Indian screen.

Good timepass as we like to say.

The Chinese envoy to India recently made a comment that the whole of Arunachal Pradesh belonged to China. This is in line with boorish Chinese behaviour - making inappropriate comments in the host country not minding the sensitivities of diplomatic behaviour, trying to show up guests from what they consider lesser nations by displaying what they think is macho behaviour, etc. And as usual the pusillanimous Indian diplomatic response trotted out the same old tired response of Arunachal Pradesh being an integral part of India. Guess I shouldn't have been too surprised at this response coming as it does from an utterly cowardly Indian party - the same party that agrees with people responsible for mass murder of Indian citizens purely because it plays well with their fifth columnist votebanks.

As usual the Chinese Puppets in India (Morons) didn't see it fit to atleast protest these remarks. Guess those bastards have given up any pretence of being Indians.

We should have told the Chinese that they were in illegal occupation of Aksai Chin and other areas in J&K, that we didn't recognize areas in J&K ceded to them illegally by Pakistan as being Chinese territory, that we don't recognize the illegal occupation of Tibet by the Chinese as a fait accompli and that while we may presently lack the strength to wrest these areas back, as and when we get it, we will take these areas back by force and it doesn't matter if things turn nuclear. But I guess balls is one area of anatomy severly lacking in the typical Indian politician and babu.

A truly disgusting state of affairs.