Batman vs Superman, Peanuts the Movie

Watched two movies as mentioned in the subject line. Both the movies were watched on Tata Sky Showcase HD Channel. Actually I did not pay for those.
I had subscrived for HBO Hits and HBO Defined Channels by paying approx 1000 per year. Subsequently one channel of HBO Defined was dropped by the operator and charges was 900 per year. At that time no money was refunded and adjustment was done in account. But subsequently HBO Hits HD became HBO HD and it became a "free channel" means part of the English package.
So now they refunded close to 450 rupees.
So I have ordered two movies of 120 each for two days and watched those.
Batman vs Superman
This movie is excellent. Ben Affleck and Henry Cavell did a very good potraya.
It shows how in an earlier fight when half of the city was left in ruins, Superman was not able to save all and sundry and that has given a deep resentment to Batman.
But towards the end Batman realises that Superman adopted mother has the same name as his own mother whom he was unable to save during a robbery as he was 7-8 years old.
It is shown in the movie that both Gotham City and Metropolis are side by side cities.
Villian is also good potrayal by that Eisenberg guy. I will say worth watching.
Peanuts the Movie
Well they made a comic strip into a movie what can be better than that.
This movie is also excellent and they show the Snoopy character's imaginary story as well as how he is a World War 1 pilot. It is definitely worth watching.

Travel to North India continued

It is day 6 and after checking into Bharat Seva Ashram we proceeded towards "Har-ki-pauri". It is that area of Haridwar where there the "ghats" or the "river access platforms". We had some snacks and just saw the locales which was tremendous and then before sunset grabbed seats for ourselves so that we could see the "Ganga aarti". This is basically a ritual where the river Ganga is paid obeisance with systematic movement of fire lanterns. This ritual has been done for hundreds of year if not thousands without fail. Like Ganga maa (or mother) is being paid homage when it emerges from the deep underbelly of the earth and proceeds towards the people. After wonderful evening there we returned back to Ashram where we had the dinner.
DAY 7- August 18, 2016
After breakfast at Ashram we proceeded to visit the famous temples of Haridwar namely Manasa Devi temple and Chandi devi temple. Both the temples are accessible through the use of ropeways. The view of the surrounding areas from the ropeways is great and not to be missed. There is also a shuttle service from Manasa devi temple to Chandi devi temple. Then we returned to Ashram and then evening was kept for shopping. After that we had dinner and then left the Ashram as our train to Amritsar was there.
DAY 8- August 19, 2016
We reached Amritsar and then we checked into nearby one hotel. At that hotel itself we booked a cab to take us around town and Wagah border. First he took us to a temple and then to the Golden temple. The Golden temple is a center not to be missed. I will appeal to all the people around the world regardless of your religion please at least once in your life you should go and visit the Golden temple. There we had free food what they call as "langar" where you have wonderful tasty food. After Golden temple we went to Jalianwala bagh which is not that big to be frank and is just beside the Golden temple. Then we did some shopping and then proceeded to Wagah border.
At Wagah border before 1 km they do not allow anyone and you have go by foot. I had been to Jaisalmer and could not go near the border where I wanted to seen the Pakistan flag fluttering but I could not because the tour operator said that "Military pass is required". But here I went close to the border and saw the Pakistan flag fluttering and what a sight it was. I will say every Indian should visit the Wagah border at least once in their lives. I will not say that to foreigners because they can visit Pakistan directly. I am sure many things in Pakistan would be better than India. Also foreigners should have pass yes here also if you have pass issued by military you can go real close to the border and see the parade like beating retreat parade real close. At general stands there is just too much crowd and foreigners will not like it.
Also too much of sound is being made by playing patriotic sound which makes it impossible to hear the sounds playing on the other side as well as the actual parade sounds. We Indians have grown up listening to Indian patriotic songs. Does it harm anyone if we get to listen songs from the Pakistani side? They should make people listen from the other side as well, that is what I feel.
But it is amazing that since 1965 when BSF was formed this parade is being done everyday without fail and people from both sides are there face to face and there has been no incident. It is all friendly and peaceful and that is how it should be. Neighbors should be like that. And I feel we are like that perhaps excluding Kashmir where there is high handedness by India.
After the parade we returned back to the hotel where we checked out and packed the dinner near the station to have it in the train to Delhi.
DAY 9- August 20, 2016
This day we reached Nizamuddin station where we had booked Railway retiring room. After relaxing for a bit we left for Akshardham Mandir (temple) and there we saw the sound and light show which is definitely worth watching. There is also a movie shown there. Basically what they show is the life and the times of Bhagwaan Swaminarayan who was the founder of the organisation which made the Akshardham mandir. It is not like any other temple and I believe people of all faiths and nationalities can visit. All should visit. Their main teaching is to respect all living things and be vegeterian and lead simple lives and help others and so on. After Akshardham temple we returned back to Nizamuddin station and left the room and went with our luggage to New Delhi station where at 10:15 PM our train to Bhubaneswar was there which was Purushottam express.
DAY 10- August 21, 2016
Journey from Delhi to Bhubaneswar is 1900 kms approximately and it takes 2 nights in a train like Purushottam express and one full day. This day was spent in train.
DAY 11- August 22, 2016
Early morning at 4:30 am we were back in Bhubaneswar.
Thus that ended the tour of North India.
Places covered Burnpur, Ayodhya, Faizabad, Rishikesh, Mussorie, Dehradun, Haridwar, Amritsar and finally Delhi. Total of 10 nights of which 7 nights was spent in train and 2 nights at Rishikesh and 1 night at Haridwar.

Travel to North India

Last month I had the good opportunity to travel to North India and I will try to outline it as below. It was a ten day trip when my journey began on August 12 and it ended on August 22.
DAY 1- August 12, 2016
On this day I boarded the train from Bhubaneswar towards Asansol where my brother in law stays.
DAY 2- August 13, 2016
On this day I reached Burnpur and after freshening up at my Brother in laws place proceeded in the afternoon towards Ayodhya.
DAY 3- August 14, 2016
On this day we reached Ayodhya and then after freshening up at Gujarati dharamsala proceeded towards Ram Janmabhoomi. There was tremendous crowd so we only got an outside view and then went to nearby Faizabad Jn station for the onward train towards Haridwar.
DAY 4- August 15, 2016
On this day early morning we reached Haridwar and immediately got on another train towards Rishikesh which was only 25 kms away. The view from the train is great as it goes through protected forests and so on. We had booked a vehicle plus we had room booked at Shivanand Ashram at Rishikesh. There was the "Centenary celebration" at Shivanand Ashram for their Guruji founder. It still goes on till October with various functions planned. After freshening up at ashram at Rishikesh on the same vehicle we had reserved we proceeded towards Dehradun Mussorie Kempty Falls. We were back by evening and night halt was at Rishikesh.
DAY 5- August 16, 2016
This day we got up relaxed and then had lunch at Ashram and then in the afternoon we went to Laxman Jhula and Ram Jhula. Ram Jhula was just beside the Ashram and it was a tremendous sight. In monsoon there was plenty of water in Ganga river. On the opposite side of Ram Jhula there was a Chotiwala Restaurant where a person having a "big ponytail" sits. Dinner was near the Ashram.
DAY 6- August 17, 2016
This day was reserved for a Puja which we did at 6 AM in the Ashram. People are allowed to take part in the Puja after payment of the fees beforehand. After that it was getting ready and another vehicle was booked which was to take us to Haridwar (we were to leave the Ashram) since our onward journey was from Haridwar. The vehicle took us to Gayatri Agency branch which we did not go inside and then to Bharat Mata Mandir when it began to rain heavily. So we decided to proceed from there to Patanjali Campus of Baba Ramdev. We went to Campus 1 and there we had lunch. It was actually housing a huge hospital. Later on we came to know that there was Campus 2 and more but we never went there because the cab driver did not take us there. I will say the train journey (Haridwar to Rishikesh) gave us very good scenery but I cant say the same about road journey. It is like any other highway surrounded by mountains and there is also a national park on the way. Also earlier I felt that Patanjali would be surrounded by mountains but it doesnt look like it. It could very well be a suburb of Delhi feels like it. From Patanjali campus we went and got ourselves a room at "Bharat Seva Ashram" which is located very close to Haridwar railway station.
I will continue in next...

Modern Times

Watched this Charlie Chaplin movie on Movies Now Channel.
Decades back my father had brought video cassatte of this movie along with Laurel and Hardy movie and I have watched this movie several times using VCR in my childhood.
Watching it on TV made my memories fresh.
I mean isnt this movie wonderful.
Every frame of the movie is so great every scene is so great.
This should be the best movie ever and all the citizens of the world should see it.
It shows the view of the world in 1936. Let us see at that time the world had just emerged from the Great depression. Anti communism feeling was at its peak in the world and that gave rise to Nazism.
I mean there are so many points in the movie.

• How man (and woman) spirit to improve their existence and survive against forces which try to tie them up always exist.
• How people get exploited for capitalism is shown in the movie
• Charlie Chaplin was a God compared to film makers today. He was not racist he was practical. In one scene he dreams of having steak meat and a cow comes along and he draws milk from the cow and has it along with the meat. I kinda got reminded of Kosher laws where I believe milk and meat should not be combined while eating. Well I am not aware of the same. Just gave it a passing thought.
• Charlie Chaplin knew of the problems of the world. And he painted it in the movie. The problems faced by westerners are still there today. And in any urban industrial centers the problems would be the same be it in whichever country.
• After seeing the movie we know that a world without Second World War would have been great. The Second World War was the war which changed the destiny of the world. It led to the emergence of USSR and US and decline of Great Britain and rise of the "free countries" in Asia and Africa.
• Second World War proved devastating for the world. Talent like Charlie Chaplin got supressed at the time of the "Red Scare" where people were suspected to be Communist agents.
• The Cold War did more harm than good for the World I feel.
• By watching a movie like Modern Times we get a feeling of where our world could have headed if there was no Second World War.

Olympics Further Points

I completed watching the full opening ceremony and fe additional points I am able to write as below:

• Around the day the opening ceremony happened, we also had Monday Night Raw and Enzo Amore and Sasha Banks came together for their mixed tag team match against Charlotte and Chris Jericho. In that show we found Enzo remarked that the "Boss" is actually "Bauc" and it is similar to "Sauce" i.e. hot sauce which Enzo has and Enzo would like to make a deposit with Sasha Bank as Banks usually says "you can bank on that". Now that hot sauce can also mean "seed". Thus Enzo wanted to deposit his 'seed' inside of Sasha. 
• Now we can go into the Olympics show what did they show? They had huge metal seed deposit boxes and all athletes were depositing seeds and those as was told by the commentators would be taken and planted somewhere in Brazil and made into a an Olympic Athlete forest or garden so as to speak.
• Thus in Raw we found Enzo wanted to deposit his sauce which is "seed" which is actually in blunt terms "semen" which is produced by a man and deposited into Sasha who is a woman who will take the seed/semen inside her womb and the produce is a child who will happen if the conditions are right nine months later.
• Now what is the overall meaning of this? 
• Environment in this time in 2016 is the "produce of man". We know earth is very powerful and nature is very powerful. But still man has in his power to harness the forces of nature and cultivate this environment to his benefit. Just like a baby whether boy or girl is the produce of a man with seed and a woman with womb, similarly man(or woman) can plant seed inside the earth and cultivate the greenery and the forests which are oh so important to sustain life on this planet.
• Next what I found when the Olympic torch was about to arrive, the camera panned to the entrance and I was expecting maybe a drone will bring the flame. Maybe that was too much of me. How did I forget that several years ago, they used to show one commercial in Doordarshan when a torch would be getting handed over from one person to another and will ultimately go to light the flame. Similar pattern was followed and needs to be followed. We cannot get rid of this human element of which the Olympics is a very feature of. I mean the Olympics is for human achievement in sports activities.
• We saw how unity in diversity is there in Brazil. I mean RSS Fools and BJPtards may criticize the Congress too much for scams in Commonwealth games, but the fact is that the Commonwealth Games did take place under them. Scams were used as a diversion to throw accusations on Congress and drive it out of power but the fact is the RSS Fools will never respect Unity in Diversity and hence they can never host a games like Olymics or Asiad or Commonwealth games for that matter. Their motto is divide and rule and India cannot prosper while under the grip of RSS. this PM Modi is only a mask of the RSS.
• The sculpture behind the flame was terrific. The commentator told that it represented the Sun and it truly did. The power of the flame was projected in all directions.
• The fireworks display was also too good. It appeared as the stadium was exploding and was on fire. At times it looked like a mini nuclear explosion happened but it was all good. The drone camera captured all the details and we also saw the cameras from inside the stadium and it was clear that none of the fireworks disturbed the wonderful atmosphere inside. Also very less smoke was produced compared to how much fireworks were exploded. The drone also captured the image of Christ the redeemer watching over the stadium which was also too good.

Opening Ceremony of Rio Olympics

Just was watching Opening Ceremony of Rio Olympics.
I am thoroughly enjoying it.
Since Childhood I have the fascination of watching the opening ceremony and closing ceremonies of this big time games.
This time also I have liked it. I tried watching it on Youtube and Dailymotion but I did not find it. Then I tried Hotstar and am watching it on Hotstar. Thank you Hotstar.
I saw highlights on Star Sports and it was not worth it. A 4 hour show was truncated to 40 minutes.
Some points I can write from the experience.

• We have seen the powerful countries of the world US, China, France, Great Britain and we feel where are we as a nation which is India?
• Also many countries of the world are "countries" but the individual states of India though blessed with plenty of land and people can never even come close to being a country.
• We have to realise that our country of India provides a refuge to all of the states of India.
• Individually a state is like dust.
• But when the country as a whole is seen we have our identity and that is out tricolour flag and our culture and heritage and our constitution and so on.
• We get so much safety from our nation that our state does exist.
• We need to get above our regional and narrow differences and see the country as a whole and that gives us a sense of purpose and way to achieve a respectable identity in the world.
• Out there in Olympics even a 21 sq km country has an identity but our identity is India even if we have a 250,000 sq km state as our own. 
• We need to respect our country India for that. Our India country gives us an identity no matter where we come from.
• Brazil and Rio are just great. Though people of various colours exist like white, brown and black we do not find any conflict like we see in US for example.
• Race relations are very important for a country to exist. I mean US may be developed country but if race is not respected than it would be worse than Brazil where widespread poverty will be there.
• Brazil is a country which is the perfect place for Olympics where people of various backgrounds and race can come together.
• Also we have seen the technology, beauty, party, arts, spectacle and architecture all showcased in Brazil Rio Opening ceremony and it certainly appreciable.
• Still I am watching the ceremony and more than 1 hour still left I will update more points if I find.

Kya Kool hai Hum 3, Dishoom

Watched two movies as mentioned above.
Kya Kool hai Hum 3 : This movie I watched on Netflix. Yes people I have restarted Netflix Subscription and watched this movie. This is fully enjoyable movie.
Dishoom : this movie I watched on the big screen. This movie is also okay to be watched once and fully enjoyable. Though what I did not appreciate is the live video transmission technology on the dog collar. That is simply not believable. What we can understand is the "tracking system" as we have seen in the Hollywood movies which is scientifically correct and believable. But this video transmission is simply too much.