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The First Look!!

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

Posted by Neethu in Uncategorized

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The first look…

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She saw him walk down the road leading to the college building from the hostel. A first year medical student herself, she stood there sipping her hot tea, watching the guy walk by past her.
Oh god! What a face!! Totally bored, disinterested, unshaven face, tall, moderately physiqued, and shabbily dressed, chronic patient looking guy walking towards the main building.
She wondered, still sipping her tea, why do such people even attempt to take up medicine?!! This guy for sure must have been pressurised by his parents to become a doctor or an engineer as was the norm these days and he having no say, must have meekly agreed and here he was, making an extremely so called difficult trekking trip to the colleges second floor.
She glanced at her watch, yelped and ran towards the building for she did not want to be late for her classes, more importantly to catch hold of the last but four benches.

It was a routine sight to watch students rush past everyone, like a 100 metre race and make a dash into the classroom much to the amusement of the professor, who would be standing and watching them enter the classroom, thinking what a lively studious lot!! Sooo very interested in studies, when actually it was the opposite!! Students running in to capture the middle benches, cause that way they would not be asked to come down and be seated in the front row, which were always empty, (save, for one or two seats being occupied by the Einstein’s of the class, doing a E=MC squares even during recess) and in turn be bored to death or would not be caught falling asleep during the hour long lecture.
She ran past the.. (Lets call him the Chronic Patient dude!! ) So, she ran past the CP dude, who was still making an effort and contemplating on whether or not to attend the class.
Her friends had already reserved a place for her in the middle row. She happily hi-fived them and sat down asking them the topic for the day.
The class started and five minutes later, a drowsy,  extremely bored voice broke the monotonous drawl of the professor, “Sir may I come in??” The professor turned towards the door and so did the entire class and there stood our CP dude, with ruffled hair, stubbled bored face, shirt Half-tucked in, hands in pockets, chewing on a gum stylishly (which even a cow would  feel outrunned to while chewing  cud), with a black back pack ( hanging half way behind him, as if it was hanging off a cliff and crying for help).
He jus walked into the class, completely oblivious to the interruption he had just caused, or to the action potential class which the professor of physiology was so painstakingly explaining and that’s when the hatred started.
She wondered.. Ughhh !! Why do such people even take up medicine??!! How would  such a guy become a doctor and save human lives or mend a broken wrist or suture a wound or do a lumbar puncture( without it ending up in a spinal cord herniation ) or understand the complexities of a women in labour( let alone deliver a baby).
A loud yawn brought her back to her senses only to realise our chronic patient was seated right behind her where his friends had reserved a place for him. She seethed in anger and suddenly she realised, why was she over reacting?? Even she wasn’t any exception, she was sure half or more than half  the people in her class room did not want to be there, let alone survive an hour long class, on mechanisms of electrical potentials in the human body. She let out a biguhhh sigh and stopped her wandering mind from over-analysing stuff and tried to concentrate on the poor professors teachings, amidst constant loud yawns playing in the background by, you-know-who, and suppressing her giggles every time she heard one.
A very much of a first look she had that day, completely unaware of  more such looks coming up in the next few years.

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**A series of events to follow…;-)

” I “

04 Wednesday Feb 2015

Posted by Neethu in Movie review

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” I ” movie review and reasons why if you don’t like it, atleast don’t hate it!!

So, ok the other day after a hectic wedding schedule wanting to relax, I planned to catch up on the latest vikram flick…”Ai ” a.ka. “I” meaning ” Beauty” according to the films director Shankar.
( heard him say that on one of his interviews)

Had heard a lot about it so, I YouTubed the making and was quiet impressed with the make up and the special effects and specially the soulful renderation of A.R.Rahman’s tracks, especially a song called  “Pookkalae Sattru Oyivedungal” meaning “Hey flowers!! Just take some rest..”

I am not a bigguhh Tamil film buff, but once in a while wouldn’t mind catching up on a nice Romcom or an intense action/horror flick on Tv or download it.
So here I was at the PVR cinemas going in to watch a tamil film after maybe a span of nearly 16 years, with my best friend, just the two of us, a girls evening out ( the last Tamil film was Jeans yet another shankar movie)

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The film began and I was all awestruck by Vikrams performance, the film’s heroine Amy Jackson too did a pretty decent job, being a foreigner and trying to lip sync and act out the scenes in an alien language is quite a difficult task, given the fact that she had to adopt the South Indian body language too, Shankar has extracted most of her beauty and of course her acting skills.

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She looks ravishing in all the scenes, a visual treat to the movie goers especially the lads and her intro song LADIO..ohh was awesome..( sounded like a mix of Lady+ Radio= Ladio??!!..whatever it was a peppy number and caught on) no heroine could ask for a better intro song in a shankar movie, though I remember seeing Amy Jackson in an Arya film called Madrasipattinam, I guess this film will highlight her career in the southern film industry, her journey from Liverpool to Chennai being quite worth it.
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Now talking of the songs, simply marvellous..beautiful locations specially in China..amazing colour combos of green and yellow in a particular song not to forget the song
” Ennodu nee irundhal..” fondly called as the ” Beast song” due to Vikrams potrayal as the beast with magnificent deep blue eyes, beautifully choreographed with an amazing set and make up!! All credit to Vikram and the Weta workshop of The Lord of the rings fame.
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Enough said and done about the sets and make up, coming to Vikram, the man himself,  an amazing transformation, what dedication and discipline and not to forget his down to earth attitude in his promotional interviews.

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I guess it’s quite tough for people to do what he has tried, I mean Of course he must have had the best support in the form of gym trainers and dieticians and  make up but putting your body through the rigorous changes and actually being mentally prepared for it is quite amazing, his acting combined with Rahman’s music creates magic.

I am no professional critic, just a common movie goer and so typing my views, people who call themselves critics, criticise and scrutinise each and every aspect of the film, be it the acting or the transgender community issue all for what? Why can’t people understand that it’s just a movie dude, made for entertainment not for dissection purpose that you extract and examine each and every part of the movie and try and apply logic, it is the critics job alright, they get paid for it, but just spare a minute before you pen down rash thoughts,think of how much hard work has gone into each picture and scene, it’s not just this film even the recent Hindi release ” PK” and many such films being targeted ( sometimes I wonder if it’s just a publicity stunt) anyways I feel what has happened to the common man’s thinking…Why dissect a film in depth?? Why can’t you just sit back and enjoy the hard work someone has put for 2.5 long years just to entertain you!!
I mean ok, of course your paying for it but then it’s a movie so enjoy it like a movie and not a Nat Geo channel of  truth and discovery and keeping the logic and stats in mind, logic doesn’t work when it’s a movie, its more of a fun fiction so sit back and enjoy and not point fingers, appreciate someone’s vision brought into life, the effort and time spent, it is just costing you a minimum of 200 bucks, why apply principles and logic here, being a Doc I know that Influenza virus is logic and is existent but is there an ” I virus” as shown in the movie?? or is it just the Avian Influenza virus labelled as ” AI virus” , which is prevalent in birds and rare, almost nil in humans..I can go on and on about it but…see why break your head about it ?? It’s just for fun and entertainment so enjoy the labour of the people involved.
So anyone interested in reality and facts and logic this film isn’t for you.
Vikram fans and all the boys drooling for Amy Jackson..go watch it…

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**Psst..
*Pics courtesy Google obviously
*Was busy typing away in between seeing patients and diagnosing behcets and uveitis..will take the credit for it 😉

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