Sunday, 21 January 2018

Fredrick, Haathi Ka Anda

Watched two more movies.
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Fredrick
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV Miniplex HD Channel after recording in pen drive.
Movie is okay for a one time watch
  • The hero looks like Prabhas of Bahubali fame.
  • The heroine looks like any other Kannada actress.
  • Movie is technically okay but not mentally.
  • I could watch and enjoy it but I doubt if any other person can enjoy it even 1%.
  • Movie deals with human i.e. girl trafficking.
  • Movie does not show what happens to the business in the end because our hero has committed suicide after heroine is killed.
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Haathi Ka Anda
This 2002 movie got downloaded into Tata Sky box when pen drive was attached.
In other words it is part of Tata Sky gift to its customers through Video on Demand service.
  • Movie is a gem and great for communal harmony.
  • In a perfect country all religions will co exist and people from one religion can easily visit the homes and be friends with people from other communities.
  • In this movie, there is a Chacha who looks after a makeshift bookshop.
  • And the child actor who is hero is from another community.
  • The book which assumes prominence is Alif-Laila or Arabian Nights.
  • I remember even we had that book in childhood and it is full of stories.
  • 101 stories or perhaps 1001 stories.
  • That book guided us through the better part of our childhood in addition to Tinkle, Amar Chitra Katha, target magazine and Encyclopedias.
  • This movie is a must watch.
  • A bit like the earlier Nederlands movie I was talking about i.e. Fidgety Bram.
  • Should be seen to be enjoyed.
  • In what way similar in the sense that the story is punctuated with small small stories in animation mode.
  • And the title proves that Haathi is not made to give Anda i.e. elephant may be majestic but they are not made to lay eggs.
  • However good we may be, there is always something where we may be lacking. That is the essence.

Ponyo, Fidgety Bram, Risen, Tum Bin 2, Heropanti

Watched five movies as mentioned above.
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Ponyo
This movie was watched on Tata Sky Video on Demand Service where we leave pen drive overnight and movie gets downloaded.
I would like to say that and mention Game of Thrones here. And quote Tyrion Lannister that "Lannister always pay their debts" similarly Tata Sky always pay their debts.
We take a package from Tata Sky it could be any package, Mega pack or Dhamaal Mix. In the process Tata Sky gets indebted to us. They don't have to. But it is a matter of principle. We are their customer or client. And they repay their debts royally. My respect for Tata Sky has only increased inspite of the fact the no porn channels are available due to the culture present in Asia and South East Asia and Middle East. But that is a different issue.
  • This movie is an animation movie from Japan and a must watch.
  • It deals with a sea Goddess and her husband who was once a human.
  • They have several children who are fish with human faces.
  • One of them is Ponyo.
  • Actually her name is different but when she ends up in land the human boy names her so.
  • And they fall in love.
  • So the Goddess and her husband decide that if her love is true she must give up her magical powers and stay as a girl.
  • So it is must for the equilibrium between land and sea.
  • One cannot stay at both the places.
Overall a good movie and I must thank Tata Sky for showing it to me.
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Fidgety Bram
This movie was watched on Tata Sky Video on Demand Service where we leave pen drive overnight and movie gets downloaded.
  • This is Nederlands movie with English subtitles. 
  • More I see Dutch movies I feel Nederlands and England will be having more in common then let us say German and English or French and English.
  • Wonderful movie.
  • The child is bright a bit like "Taare Zameen par" kid.
  • And the school teacher gets injured and a new teacher comes along and everything is just fine towards the end.
  • Must watch movie.
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Risen
This movie was watched on Amazon prime Video.
  • A Roman general is assigned to bring closure to Yeshua case.
  • And what we see in the movie, he reaches the site when Yeshua is in the cross.
  • And he personally inserts the sword into the right side chest of Yeshua and looks him in the eye to see that he is dead.
  • And then the body is kept in a cave where there are two guards gaurding.
  • Then the body disappears.
  • The stone is such huge that a dozen men could only move it slowly.
  • But later a guard confesses that the stone was thrown away like a small pebble and there was a flash of light unlike he had seen in this life.
  • After that our hero finds Yeshua in a gathering and they were told to go to Sea of Gallilee where he would revisit them.
  • There he shows himself again and tells them where to find the fish and cures lepers as well.
  • Overall a very good movie and one cannot but eyes fill with tears when Yeshua is shown on screen.
  • Yeshua makes us believe that Yahweh exists.
  • Must watch movie.
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Tum Bin 2
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV by recording on pen drive.
Unlike Tata Sky where the movies get downloaded automatically. In Airtel HD+ box we get to decide what to record.
Tata Sky + box is also available but it is too costly i.e. 10000 INR and to get the full benefit in Tata Sky + box you need to have the costliest package.
But I believe you can record all the content in the world but what is the use if you cannot watch it.
  • This movie deals with a heroine who loses her lover in a ski accident.
  • Subsequently another person comes along and she falls for him.
  • later it is known that the original hero is alive.
  • Then it is known that the second hero actually is the cause of the first hero accident.
  • And so due to confusion, the movie goes around in circle till the first hero prevails.
  • It can be watched if you have a lot of time to spend and relax.
  • Movie is shot in Glasgow and that makes it worth while. If it would had been shot in and around Alibag it might have ended up as a B-grade or C-Grade movie
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Heropanti
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV by recording on pen drive.
  • I had seen the movie earlier but I had forgotten a bit.
  • Movie deals with the honour killing aspect where people who marry without the parents wishes or outside the caste are hunted down and killed.
  • In addition to female infanticide where girl children are killed either through abortion or after birth this honour killing is blot on our society and human race.
  • In the movie there are two daughters of a "Chaudhary" uncle.
  • One of them runs off at her wedding.
  • I will say if you have to run off why to choose wedding day. Surely there are a lot of days before that.
  • Running off on wedding day is an insult to parents and guests and then grooms party that is what I feel.
  • Next is towards the second half when the couple is caught it not shown what happens to them only the uncle tells that the daughter is "dead to him". 
  • But it like a split second when the first daughter tells that she is pregnant that the shooting is stopped. 
  • Else the person of the Uncle was getting ready to shoot him.
  • A little delay and the gun would have gone off and human internal matter would have got decorated on the street.
  • What if the gun would have shot the lover of the first daughter?
  • In the end then the second daughter who has fallen for our hero gets married to the hero.
  • And who decides it? It is a duel between the arranged groom and hero and the hero prevails and so Chaudhary uncle decides for the hero.
  • I will say that is crude way to decide the hero.
  • It is akin to honour killing and the like.
  • A duel will decide who gets the girl.
  • Then in the last frame we get to know that the earlier daughter and her lover are alive when the hero asks Chaudhary uncle for forgiveness for them.
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Monday, 15 January 2018

Google Translate for News Part 3 (concluded)

  • Now I had Chrome installed both in PC and Android Phone.
  • My phone had Samsung browser and so I replaced it with Chrome.
  • Then I could access the Google News China version, Bangla version, Brasil version, Arabic version, Russian version, etc.
  • But what I saw that the translation was not upto the mark.
  • I mean Chrome did a job but there was no parallel in Firefox where there was no add on for the same. 
  • It was like stepping into the future.
  • It was like a peek into the future.
  • By translating a page we could get a view from the other side.
  • Language is the key to open many doors.
  • And we could get a view of the perspective from the other side.
  • Let us face it with English there is little space to maneuver.
  • I mean we see the news channels on TV there is not much difference unless it goes from business channel to politics channel.
  • But Google translate had its drawbacks.
  • You could get the gist of what the news was but when you read it properly you find that the grammar has gone for a toss.
  • If you keep reading such kind of bad English the way the Google translate does the job you may lose whatever you have learnt from childhood.
  • Your entire schooling, college and material read over the years you will forget.
  • You will know an English which is horrible and "out of this world".
  • In the end you may have to get admitted to a mental institution or mad hospital.
  • you don't want that do you.
  • It is like the TLC song, "Don't go chasing waterfalls listen to the rivers and lakes we're used to"
  • Or the Embrace song "Come back to what you know"
  • There are so many differences in the world and we need to acknowledge the differences.
  • Our knowledge limited through the medium of English.
  • Without English language we are nothing.
  • Sorry Google translate, due to the job you did I took a peek to the future and then came back to the present.
  • It is like "Back to the Present" and not "Back to the Future".
  • We need to celebrate what we have and know and that is through the medium of English and not try to venture into other languages using Google Translate where the English Grammar goes for a toss.

Google Translate for News Part 2

  • Such activation, deactivation, reactivation, deactivation seems alright on paper.
  • But the truth is it is like a countdown which is just intolerable.
  • I mean why you need to have an account when you have to wait for full four weeks for activation and deactivation. It is madness.
  • Better to not have account at all.
  • Or better still have an account but don't follow any one and don't use it.
  • Only when you have Twitter installed on phone you will use it.
  • Else you will use it when you follow certain people and Twitter sends you mail.
  • Yes Twitter does that.
  • When you follow some people, Twitter sends email with "highlights" of what they have been been posting on twitter.
  • Then you can click those links and read on twitter.
  • But when you do not follow anyone Twitter will send no email and when you do not have Twitter on your phone you do not read anything.
  • And you have still the ID which you want and nobody can take it.
  • Now I was relying on Twitter for News when I unfollowed the porn accounts.
  • When I do not follow anyone how do I get the News?
  • The answer is Google News.
  • I have been getting news through Google since 2010 end.
  • In 2013-14, I did not have Twitter and used to type news.google.co.in
  • There all the News was there, I had to just change the edition and get the news of that region. 
  • Since my language is English I could only access and enjoy the feeds from limited countries like Australia, US, UK, Nigeria, Malaysia, Pakistan and some more apart from India.
  • The feed of "other languages" were out of the question.
  • Now subsequently over the years, Google Chrome has managed to build a tool where entire webpage is translated.
  • So I re-installed Chrome.
  • Yes I had removed Chrome because I had observed when Firefox Quantum came in, it was not working fast enough but web reports mentioned it otherwise.
  • So I suspected that "Chrome" was slowing down "Quantum".
  • Let us face it in an alternate universe all people would be wearing the same clothes and using the same operating system and/or browser.
  • But this the world we live in.
  • And Google Chrome is jealous when we use Firefox Quantum and wants to tracke what we do with it and hence slows it down.
  • If we use Chrome there is no slowing down as the tracking happens by default.
  • So the solution was that to Reset my PC which has Windows 10 and that option is available and so begin fresh with Firefox Quantum.
  • Microsoft Edge is there anyway by default.
  • I will continue in part 3.

Google Translate for News Part 1

  • I have done quite a few things over the past few weeks.
  • Initially I had a Twitter account which was opened in Sep 2017 and I had other two accounts which were opened in Oct and Nov 2017.
  • So I had total of three Twitter accounts.
  • Incidentally for opening a Twitter Account all you need is an Email.
  • Telephone is optional.
  • So I had three Email accounts for three Twitter accounts.
  • One of those Email Accounts no longer exists ( I deleted).
  • Before that I went ahead and deleted one Twitter Account.
  • After that I had two Twitter accounts.
  • One was the "good me" and the other "evil me".
  • Evil me followed a hell lot of Porn Accounts on twitter and it enabled an endless supply of porn in the Twitter feed for free.
  • Hell why do you need to pay for porn. Just follow few accounts on twitter and voila you get all the porn in the world.
  • Now in December I felt what is the need to hide.
  • Surely when it is available on Twitter I am free to do what I like and then deleted another Twitter.
  • And I merged the accounts by following all the people in just one account.
  • Earlier I used to work with lists but creating a list on twitter is a pain and so I decided to follow all without any lists.
  • Also the rate in which I delete Twitter account and reopen is stupendous and lists go when I delete a particular account which created the list.
  • Now I decided to leave it to Twitter to decide what to show to me.
  • Incidentally that is what Google and Facebook also do. I have known that since 2011.
  • The "feed" which I see is unique to me and that is what they do.
  • Around Christmas, I got a post on twitter in which a model had the crucifix i.e. the cross up her ass. I tolerated it and then came a post in which the model was pissing on the cross.
  • That was too much.
  • To put it simply that was sacrilege.
  • Now how do I tackle it.
  • Surely I cannot keep on watching it because lord will punish me on Judgement day.
  • I thought why I did not die before watching such a sacrilege.
  • I felt it is the work of the devil.
  • I may not be Christian but on that day I knew I could not work or think against Christianity or any religion for that matter.
  • After that I decided to begin afresh and deleted the Twitter account and opened a new one with limited following on my side.
  • Mainly I was following news sources from Pakistan and China like CCTV, Business recorder, Dawn etc.
  • Then out of the blue Trump pounced on Pakistan. And that was too much for me to handle.
  • Then I decided that I will leave Twitter for ever.
  • Surely before 2014 when Modi got elected I did not have Twitter and was using Blogspot to air my views.
  • But then I felt that I will lose my ID i.e. @anupsabat on twitter.
  • So I decided to log in before the mandatory 30 days period got over and reactivate Twitter and then deactivate it once more.
  • I will continue in the next post (kindly bear).

Thursday, 11 January 2018

The Goal, Nono the ZigZag Kid, Christmoose Story

Watched three movies as mentioned above.
Incidentally all three movies were watched on Tata Sky Video on Demand Service
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The Goal
This Irfan Khan 1999 movie was watched again and realised that it is just too good.
Few more points were noted in the second watch.
  • Irfan gets injured and so he becomes a coach due to love for the game.
  • The class mentality is more prominent in football and when the "class is eliminated" in football it is the ultimate elimination. 
  • In cricket "class mentality" can creep in less as it is "gentleman's game" and anyone who dons the cricket gear is another league altogether.
  • Significant injury resulting in loss of play will be lesser in cricket I feel.
  • Irfan joins as a coach due to his friends calling and towards the end it is shown that his friend is not pleased when the team loses and so he walks away and returns the money offered to him as advance.
  • We are inclined to believe that the money returned by Irfan is "less expenses" as the bundle appears a bit smaller than 50 100 rupee notes. But the truth is we will never know.
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Nono the ZigZag Kid
This is Nederlands movie so I assume it would be in Dutch language with English subtitles.
Thoroughly enjoyable movie. I liked it.
It is like a fairy tale movie and many decades are merged like 60's 70's 80's 90's that is whhat I felt.
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Christmoose Story
This is Nederlands movie so I assume it would be in Dutch language with English subtitles.
Thoroughly enjoyable movie. I liked it.
It is like a fairy tale movie and the moose is actually the one who pulls Santa's cart to deliver gifts.
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Monday, 1 January 2018

Alliegant, My Friend Totoro

Watched two movies as mentioned above.
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Alliegant
This movie was watched on Amazon Prime Video.
This is the third and final installment of the Divergent series (for now).
Movie is left in a stage where there can be sequel.
But what I saw on the net there was few box office number and so they are not bringing a fourth installment.
But few unanswered questions could have been answered if there was a fourth installment.
I guess the movie got to complex for ordinary people to understand.
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My Friend Totoro
This movie was watched on Tata Sky Video on Demand service where we leave a pen drive and movie downloads automatically.
This is an excellent Japanese animation movie.
It can verily be an European movie.
It is like a fairy tale movie set in Temperate lands.
Plus it has Asian elements like paddy fields and mountains like Vietnam or Philippines.
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