Monday, 11 January 2016

Youngistaan, Friends with Benefits

Watched the above mentioned two movies today.
Youngistan was watched on Miniplex HD Channel on Airtel Digital TV+ after recording on Pen drive.
"Youngistaan is India". The country of India has been named as "Youngistaan" in the movie.
Some crazy things are shown in the movie. Like 28 year old man becoming PM. In India, 45 year old Rahul Gandhi is being referred to as 'young boy' by several people then what to make of a 28 year old PM.
I feel this movie was released in Feb 2014 before 2014 elections made a 64 year old man PM which is Modi. What is shown in the movie worked for 60+ year old man. So India may be "Youngistan" but the PM can never be 'young'. This is an empty dream which will never get fulfilled in Indian democracy.
Neha Sharma actress is great performer and needs to be appreciated. Jacky Bhagnani is also good no doubt about it.
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Friends with Benefits was watched on Netflix. As usual this is great way to watch movies. But you may not be able to watch the very latest movies. But it is okay several old movies over the years you may not have watched. They got missed and you could not go to theatre due to whatever reason, job, family commitment or lack of free funds (as cinema tickets cost a lot these days), you can do a catch up with Netflix.
You don't get the time to download and watch. But since you have Netflix you may watch it 'compulsorily' and hence it is good.This movie was okay and no harm watching it once.

Real world vs Virtual World

People I must outline that I have reopened Facebook and Twitter Account.
Now, why did I do that? You may ask.
  • I will say the reason is that there is no point hiding and running away from reality. These sites have come to be a part of our lives.
  • If I can use Youtube or Blogspot or email or Netflix what is the harm in using Facebook and Twitter. I don't think there is any harm.
  • I do not appreciate the free basics which is on offer by Facebook alongwith Big business like Airtel or Reliance. This is only a way to con people to use Internet the way they i.e. Facebook and Reliance want the user to use it.The purpose of the Internet evolution in the history of mankind will be defeated if Freebasics is implemented. PM Modi being a stooge of the Jew owned business like Facebook will try to "impose" it on "ignorant Indian people". People need to resist it.
  • There is purpose in being with them and using it to the minimum. There is no doubt that there is a lot of information available on the net. And so is the case with these micro-sites like Facebook and Twitter inside the big world of Internet. They are quite vast by themselves. There is no way that we can swallow all the information that is available through them. Hell even the Newsfeed will go bigger and bigger, the more we follow or make friends with on Twitter and Facebook to the extent that it would become incomprehensible for a ordinary human being to go through all of them. And hence the relevant thing becomes to be inside them and not to swallow them. Thus your mere existence inside them does not mean that you have to use them to the max. Use them as much less as possible. You know when I was in Facebook earlier I was like an addict. Posting and liking all and sundry. Now I have decided simply to have an account and not do anything more.
  • There is always a chance that someone may go into Facebook or Twitter and assume your identity. this fear was there with me even earlier. Thus it is but logical to have your own account and prove that it is the only account you own.
  • Also what happens in the real world can very well happen in the virtual world. What happens in the real world? In the real world you exist and then you are exposed to people and situations and then you react to them. In real world like in a social gathering or the same if you have nothing good to say, you keep quiet, it is the logical thing to do. You do not harm anyone in a social gathering else there will be consequences. You keep your behavior in check. In virtual world also, the same thing can happen. if you have nothing good to say you need to keep quiet. It is not that difficult is it. You just emasculate what you are doing in the real world and you will do just fine. In real world you do not assume any other identity do you. Unless you are a Cheat or "420" as they say, you do all genuine things in the real world. Same needs to be done in the virtual world as well to keep you life going and I'm sure everything will be just fine.

Charfutiya Chokre, Anatomy of a Love Seen, Faster

Watched the above three movies recently.
Charfutiye Chokre watched on Airtel Digital TV Miniplex HD Channel after recording on pen drive. I will say I liked the movie. Soha Ali Khan along with other actors have done a wonderful job. I will say no ordinary actress could have done Soha Ali's job. She shows her 'royal lineage' through the role.
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'Anatomy of Love Seen' movie was watched on Netflix. Thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Though the movie is about lesbians I enjoyed it. I must confess that I saw open titties in a feature film after several years. I must congratulate the heroines who must have felt total freedom when going for the 'top freedom'. True equality between men and women cannot come if women don't get 'top freedom' like men I will say.
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Faster was also seen on Netflix. I must say I had seen the movie on internet several years ago. But on Netflix totally enjoyed the movie. And understood it completely. Very good movie and definite must watch. Dwayne Johnson has done amazingly.

Friday, 8 January 2016

Netflix

Became a member of Netflix and as I said earlier, this is a "world changing" event when Netflix is available around the world. I will try to outline all points as below. Kindly note that I may forget some and then I may be excused.
  • First movie I watched today was Unknown. Way back I had seen the movie on Internet but it was a "Hall Print" and movie was not very comprehensible. Now I could see ever bit of the movie due to DVD like quality on Netflix.
  • We are sick and tired of watching movie on TV channels where everything is censored. Why? Just Why? People watching in the privacy of their homes cannot watch a little bit of adult content just why? Also small expletives like ass, bitch and fuck get censored. Tell me the director has made the movie in a certain way. Why do we try to impose changes on the same? People should get to enjoy the movie the way the director made it for the people to enjoy. Same is with Music Videos on VH1 and 9XO channel (only two channels available in India which show International Music). Why the censorship?
  • I have already been watching movies through streaming since 2007. I only began downloading movies in 2011. Recently since past two or three years, what I have seen is that you can download a hell lot of stuff but if you cannot watch them then what is the use of downloading. It is like keeping newspapers in the house for several months hoping that you will get the time one day to read all of them only that the time will never come. So watching in streaming even 1 movie is better than downloading and not watching 100's of movies.
  • Netflix feels like a cinema theater. I have earlier pleasure of using Real Network and Movieflix where we could become member through credit card and watch movies but no way their library would be as vast as Netflix. I have earlier tried to use Netflix to become member but it did not work as people from outside US could not. I have also tried watching through Hulu and BBC programs and ABC.net.au programs but same could only be used by the people in their respective countries. It is here when Netflix has arrived around the world that the boundaries between the worlds have melted away. It should be encouraged and Hindu Extremists like Riot Sevak Sangh (RSS) and BJP/Modi should not try to ban Netflix.
  • Earlier we went to Cinema theater and the Curtain used to rise and movie used to start. During the interval curtain used to come down and then go up and then go down again at the end of the show. This is the modern age and there is no curtain. The curtain is our laptop or desktop or tablet and this the way to watch movies in the present age and time. 
  • Netflix is offering free membership for the first month and then it is 500 rupees (starting). I became a member but was charged rupees 70. They will say 500 will be charged after one month. I will say 500 is not a huge amount because these days even a single show-one ticket in a multiplex can go upto 500 for a single show-single sitting. So 500 per month for unlimited viewing is just peanuts I would say.
  • Sometimes dialogues are not very comprehensible and just like original DVD's where we have the subtitle on-off feature in Netflix also there is subtitle on-off feature. It is simply just great. The print is also great DVD quality. You can download the movies from various sources legally or illegally but no way I will say they can match Netflix.
  • I was also member of DVD library club whose names I have forgotten but this is way better I will say. I think one name was "Cinema Paradiso" shop and the other was "Seventymm". Cinema Paradiso was where you had to go personally. Seventymm had a very good website where you could order titles and queue them much like what Netflix was initially offering in the US. I watched several movies through them but I could not utilise their services fully as I was gainfully employed and working at that time. And so I closed the memberships. Subsequently they too shut shop and they are not there anymore. Maybe their business model did not work out. Way to go ahead according to me is DTH and Netflix. Surely they should offer good very good stuff or they also might go the DVD rental way.

Minions, Unknown

Watched Minions on Airtel-Order-a-movie channel. It cost Rs 65.
I will say that channel is where you order a movie and money gets deducted from your account.
I will say that is the way I watched the Star Wars Movies on Tata Sky Showcase Channel.
But I could not watch the two parts of Star Wars movies because Tata Sky removed those movies. And Tata Sky got the movies "Pan", "He Called Me Malala" and "The man form U.N.C.L.E" in its place.
And that is when I realised that this Tata Sky is overpriced cheat.
I mean he offers good stuff but charges heavily for it.
Just for watching "He named me Malala", Tata Sky is charging 150 rupees. Tell me does he think we are fools that he will charge as much as he wants and we keep dishing out that money. Thus I decided not to order any more movie on Tata Sky Showcase Channel unless he reduces the figure.
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In situation like this there has been a major development and that is Netfix has arrived in India. And not just in India but in 130 additional countries to the original 60 where it was available. So practically, excluding China it is available everywhere.
I mean this is a very major development and is definitely a "wold-changing" event.
I have become a member today and watched the first movie "Unknown".
I will write about this in next post.

Ab Tak Chappan 2

Watched the above movie on Miniplex HD Channel on Airtel Digital TV after recording it on pen drive.
I liked the movie. The movie is about how politician-undeworld-police nexus exists.
Politicians use police to eliminate members of underword.
They also use the underworld to eliminate their rivals.
Thus politicians are true culprits and if there is threat to their "Seat" then they do all sorts of illegal things to keep themselves in power.

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

"No Moustache" No

I am writing this post to inform that I have made a U-Turn with regard to "No Moustache" and shaving the upper portion of lip daily.
I have turned 180 degree.
People have misconception that when they do u-turn they do 360 degree. Like I recollect in the movie "Last Action Hero", the villain will be having a henchman in one scene he will be in pool and tell that how come his henchman turned 360 degree on him. Then he would say "Fool if I would have done a 360 degree I would have turned around and ended exactly the way I was". And hence it is 180 degree.
Today I have trimmed the beard and made it to 2mm. I still have decided never to shave. Actually 5 days of shaving the upper lip was enough for me. Few points I would like to outline as below:
  • Thing is you touch your area above the upper lip and feel something is missing and that is your moustache and you cannot grow a moustache in one day. It takes several days and perhaps weeks.
  • I had told about parasites can enter the body through the moustache and the nose. I guess we have to have faith in those parasites. If there are bad bacteria there are also good bacteria. Recently I read how a glass of water may contain 10 million bacteria. Not all of them are harmful else human race would not be alive on this earth. So we have to faith in the good parasites/organisms/bacteria and they will protect us from the bad ones. If they fail we anyway have the body's own immune system which would protect us. We need to have faith and trust the good forces to keep us safe from harm.
  • Like I have said earlier shaving is a violent act and no good will come from a violent action. Even if we do the violence on a small portion of our face i.e. the moustache area we still cannot guarantee we would be safe.
  • The act of shaving is useless unless done everyday. It is monotonous act. We are also doing something like preventing a natural thing to happen. The beard and moustache will grow. So why resist? Shaving is the act of resistance against nature. Man seeks to assert himself that he is all powerful. No need for that. We need to realise that resistance to nature is futile.
Thus how long one decides to keep beard and moustache is ones personal decision which he can do with the help of trimmer. It could be 2mm, or 4mm or 1 cm or even fist length it is personal decision of a man. But shaving should be avoided and no change in my line of suggestion.