Cricket... Business and Religion…. The 3 mistakes of my life….

I have thought twice before typing this blog. Mainly because books are not my core area and I was little worried about my writing style. I very well know its bad and my friends will find many mistakes while reading it. I am happy to tell you all that, I have got an editor for my blog. May be I am the first person to have an editor to blog posts ;)
I know that’s little too much…. Anyways it’s the readers who are going to suffer my English… So I welcome Rakesh and special thanks for joining me ;)

Chetan Bhagat the author of ‘Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Center’ and the recent ‘Three Mistakes of My Life’,

His third book is no different from his previous exertions. [My editor feels the three mistakes of his life are reading all 3 novels written by Chetan Bhagat]

Though the stories aren’t different, the handling and treatment of the story is good. It is targeted to a particular group of audience. This book talks about three friends and their passion in life.

Chetan’s shortcomings are blatantly obvious in this particular novel but it is quite difficult to take pot shots at Chetan who “magnanimously” accepts his pedestrian grasping of English.

Like his other books, this one too takes refuge in the first person narrative.
(My wicked Editor also prods me to mention the “co-incidence” of pre-marital “events” occurring in the life of the protagonist)

Govind, Ish and Omi are the friends with different passions in life. Govind wants to be a successful business man, Ish a cricket coach desperately tries to bring the special talents of a kid (Ali). Omi simple wants to be with his friends to avoid becoming a priest. The author describes both the brighter and darker side of his characters.

To put it short, if you had not read his other books you may find interesting to read the book. But at the same time if you had read the other books, better carry on with your work. But the guy makes you complete the story. He keeps the reader lively so you find it difficult to put it down. After you finish of course you think so what’s new in this book?

Same formula doesn’t work always. Now its time to think different!!!

Dasavatharam…..

I typed the following review of mine last weekend.. Now I am completely confused reading the reviews of several others. Probably I shouldn’t have read before finishing mine… Anyways this is my feel for the movie.



After a big struggle to get tickets I finally got it through my coll mates… Thanks to Balaji (our nattamai) who had arranged for tickets in different locations of the city and maximum people from our class managed to gathered in AVM Rajeswari for the long awaited show. As usual having fun outside the theatre we settled in our seats for the show….

For my surprise our entire bunch screamed only in the opening when Kamal on the screen for the first time. After that everyone was completely engrossed into the movie. Many of us were afraid we might miss something important even if we turn left to give a comment. The movie started with an incident happened in the 12th century. CG was the worst in this sequence. You can feel as if some sticker was pasted over the screen. They should have concentrated on the CG portion here.

Then the story moves to the main plot... Kamal a scientist finds a virus which might kill millions of people easily. His boss tries to sell it. Now Kamal decides to protect his awful invention from affecting the public. The story ends how he destroys the virus and how he uses all his ten avatars in the film. Most of these avatars are introduced just for the sake of the number 10. But I should say they have tried their best to link these characters.

I am not going to talk about the story as you might have heard so much about it. Movie could have been made simpler. I feel it attracts only few targeted audience.

I scored worst in chemistry in my class 12th. I even flunked once or twice in that subject in my school exams. I have never touched a chemistry book in my life after my 12th... you might wonder why the hell I am talking about it. I myself found out NaCl is Sodium chloride and its salt. You find such a big scientist fails to find it. All talk abt NaCl right from bush to corporation worker.

Nothing is told clear may be that is how they wanted to capture the repetitive audience.
Climax CG is good. If they had concentrated little bit on the screenplay rather than the avathars it would have been much better.

Mallika role is short and crisp. Asin irritates you with the core with her perumalae!!!!
Jayapratha just comes and goes. I would have been happy if she had a good dance in the movie.

So in brief, movie can be watched once without ant expectations and removing Kamal from your mind. May be then you might like it to a certain extent.

P.S: The chain mails talking about the movie, comments and reviews in the blogs makes me feel that the guy achieved what he wanted. Everyone should talk about/ it may be positive or negative publicity is always good. No wonder negative publicity always works for him.