Movie 3 Idiots review - A different movie from what was sold

It was called the most awaited movie of the year. And why? Amir Khan was at work. Everyone knows him as perfectionist. In last ten years he had acted brilliantly in almost each movie. When the movie is said to be based on the best selling novel, Five point someone, it was deemed to be good. Except when I saw this movie I was disappointed and I am going to tell you why. Many of you might not agree with me, you can leave your comments below.

The fundamental problem of the film was that the director did not know how to tell a story - a story that is different from Munnabhai. Movie was supposed to be a attack, criticism, of the Indian education system needed to be realistic when it was dealing with a real subject. This did not happen even in the first scene. Madhavan aka Farhan Quereshi stopped flight by enacting a heart attack. Is it real? This scene needed? Answer to both the questions is NO. No engineering graduate, in fact anyone with sensible head, would do anything like. And if does, airlines and other security authorities would arrest immediately for the damage or as a suspected terrorist. Second, why this all needed? Why Farhan had to behave like circuit of Munnabhai? Why not show a simple scene where Farhan was in the queue and he got the call and rest of the thing follows. or something else but more realistic and pragmatic. A scene should tell the story. Story need not be told by shouting at full volume.

Where does the movie criticize the education system? Movie was all about criticizing a professor ViruS, Boman Irani. He was the villain in the movie. All the evils, suicides were happening because of him. What was the message in this scene where a student commit suicide? It was not the system that does not extension to project submission rather a professor. In any university there are deadlines, if someone misses the deadline, there is no chance of getting degree in time. It is as simple as that.

On contrary, I found that the system was shown as functioning very well. Rancho was forced to leave the classes and all the time thinking different from the university system was getting the highest marks. A student, Chatur Ramalingham, who was relying on the bookish knowledge was punished and came second. This simply indicates there was no fault in the system. It was the lazy students, who were offering extra prayers and milk to God, who were getting less marks.

The whole problem of the current education system is that is suppresses holistic development of the students and make them machine who cannot imagine but only reproduce. In the movie it was opposite. Rancho who was having fun was rewarded by university as well.

The most disturbing and disgusting scene of the movie was the baby delivery by a vacuum cleaner. Where on earth, vacuum cleaner can be used for this purpose? It is a dirty non-hygienic thing. How can someone think of pushing the vacuum cleaner's pipe in a pregnant woman's private part? Is this laughable? Definitely not. Woman are not a machine. Baby delivery is neither fun nor so easy as they showed. Director should watch "Nine month" movie to learn how to show delivery scene with humor. India, a country full of superstitions and mad men, cannot afford if someone learn baby delivery from this movie and tries something similar. Will they take any responsibility for that?

Indian engineering colleges are already suffering from the ragging. There have been suicide in the colleges. This movie was glorifying ragging. Movie should have shown how the new students feel terrified and psychological pressure rather than so many students with their trousers down and Amir Khan acting as a Hero. It should have been shown as a bad thing rather than a fun. Movie failed to raise any awareness about ragging.

Biggest disappointment was Amir Khan himself in this movie. I admired him in Lagaan, Rang de basanti, Tare Zameen par because he allowed everyone to play their roles. He was one of the artists in the movie and the artist in the movie. This movie was about one guy only. Farhan and Raju were behaving like gays. One stopped the plane and the other was without his trouser on the street to meet their friend Rancho. I am sure even gay would not behave like this crazy.

It was an average entertainer with all the scenes copied from Munnabhai - part 3 and less humor. One should not watch this movie with great expectation because it fails on almost pre-release marketing promises.

Will court allow a woman to die?

People all over the world are still busy fighting for the right to life, life with dignity. But some people can think beyond that. They are fighting for the right to death, Euthanasia. Social activist Pinki Virani is one of them. She has taken the fight for death of Aruna who is in hospital for last 36 years. She was assaulted and attacked by a fellow worker in the same hospital where she is admitted now. She has no one to visit her. She cannot feed herself, she cannot understand anything or react. She is no human being. She is a dead body and should not be fed meshed vegetable and let die. That is what the petition says to Supreme court of India.

Is it not a contradiction in itself? When she is no human being, a dead body, then why she should have right to die? Dead bodies do not have right. Who we are to decide who should live and not? In any country of the world this topic has not been yet decided. In fact, it is not discussed widely. On one hand we, the educated people, messiah of the world, applaud movies like Tare Zameen Par and Paa because it is about the people who have some sort of disability. They are not normal, as we consider normal. They need support. One other hand if someone, who is not in coma, but cannot led life like us, we want to kill. Why we have mental hospitals then? Many people with mental disorders cannot led their life as "normal". Just kill them or use more posh language, provide them euthanasia facility.

I believe there are so many other issue (of life) India is suffering from that we can concentrate on them and make life better for the people (including disabled) than kill them. There are very few people in the world who demand euthanasia for themselves. People are suffering from something so wants to run away as the world cannot provide them cure. Farmers commit suicide because they do not have money, rather than using their right-to-die. We do not need to fight for the farmers to have right-to-die we should concentrate our energy on issue that can bring the farmers out of poverty and do not commit suicide.

Telangana Hero or luck by chance

Media has undoubtedly become the most powerful instrument in achieving one's target. This has been proved by recent Die-Unto-Death fast of Mr. K Chandrasekhar Rao. He formed a party seeking the opportunity that there was no one actively supporting the cause of Telangana statehood however without gaining any significant success on the ballot box. He joined NDA in 2009 general election assuming that NDA will come to power this time when the lost, KCR found himself neglected, marginalized.

He decided to go on fast. He knew in Indian history only two people have died of hunger strikes. He was sure that he, an MP, though not important in forming government but having enough support, would not be allowed to die of hunger strike. It was planned. Well, many of the fasts are planned so it was not unusual. What is unusual is the success of his fast. A fast for only eleven days gave him, or the people of Telangana, assurance that they will have their separate state. The kind of support he got for his fast was unprecedented. If he really had such a huge support then why his party won only two seats in general elections 2009? If he was Telangana Hero he could have wiped out all other parties from Telangana region. It did not happen.

Success of his fast lies in two factors. First, there was no effective government in Andhra. After the unfortunate death of YSR, Andhra Congress, ruling party in the state is divided and many of them were not supporting the K Rosaiah as chief minister of the state. In fact, he himself must feel obliged to the central congress leadership for the post. He has been a politician for so long in the state, he must know that if the situation not handled properly, it might become law and order situation. But he did, could, not stop this. He failed and KCR become too big for him to touch after a few days.

Second is the media. Media supported KCR immensely. He became darling of the media. All the day, 24X7, media was projecting his pictures. People and students, who already feel they are discriminated against Telugu people, only need little ignition to turn state into fire zone. That is what happened.

Fast in itself is useless if the other party is not weak or ready to listen. That is what happening with Irom Sharmila. She is never shown on any national TV or even regional TV channels. She is fasting for last nine years and no one listen to her because Manipur is a tiny Indian state. It is not important for national politics. It does not give many MPs, why care? Is this how a democracy is suppose to run? There are question marks, only time will answer if non-violence is always effective tool. or there will be one Jatindra Nath Das or Potti Sreeramulu.

Switch to XP from fedora

Last week I spent my all free time in installing Microsoft XP service pack 2. I thought it should be easy task and should not take more than three to four hours in whole installation (including all drivers and software I need for my work). But I was wrong. I spent hours in pressing F12, F2 and Fwhatevernumber to enter the boot menu and change setting to factory default so that the machine can boot from CD and I can install XP. This was the beginning of my long struggle.

After searching some forums and online tutorials, I became quite knowledgeable. I felt enlightened. I came to know "grub loader", how to add windows to grub loader. I added a couple of lines into the "grub.conf" file but no success yet. I will still get black screen after I pressing any key when the windows asks me press any key. "Windows is inspecting hardware configuration for installation". My question was so what? Let me please install XP over Fedora. I was ready to lose all data as I had already copied everything to external hard drive.

I also came to know that I should change the ext3 format to ntfs, repartition and make free space for XP. My system will not ready to listen to me. Fedora takes first 512 bits to start the loader so I was suggested to write 00000 manually so that there is no loader. I believe I did everything possible to reinstall XP over Fedora but I lost. I surrendered.

In the end, I downloaded ubuntu9.1 and install this over Fedora. Surprising Fedora let me installed Ubuntu. And the next step was to install XP over ubuntu. I got the fabulous blue screen. Hmm.. and I was ready to install XP.

To cut long story short. Get rid of Fedora first by installing ubuntu and than install XP. It works smoothly and takes less than half a day in whole setup.

Hope you enjoy your XP experience.