Amritsar Rail Tragedy

• I will say that Amritsar rail tragedy is a man made tragedy made and done by the Indian railways.
• I will say it was done deliberately and with malicious intent.
• In this age of technology it is fool hardy to think that Railways will not know about a huge gathering on the tracks.
• The main thing was the trains to slow down to perhaps 20 or 30 kms per hour.
• What was the need to rush at 160 kms per hour.
• What is the use of signalling system if it cannot detect such a thing.
• I feel the driver should be sacked.
• Enquiry should be able to find out who gave the "Green Signal".
• Ideally the signal should have been orange and the train should have slowed down completely and should have blown the horn prominently allowing the people to move away.
• But when the train is coming at such high speed exceeding 120 kms/hr, people will have no time to react.
• There should be magisterial level enquiry to find out what happened.
• I will say since Railways which is owned by the Center and BJP is refusing enquiry is all the more glaring.
• BJP has done it deliberately to discredit the Congress Govt in Punjab.
• BJP kills Indian citizens for votes and power.
• Since election is there in 2019, BJP wants to make a issue out of a massacre by Railways and point it to Congress Govt.
• BJP has systematically destroyed Indian institutions over the last four years.
• Railways is just one of those institutions.
• I have seen in a railway crossing when people did not move fast enough, the trains from both directions stopped.
• This happened in Lingaraj Temple Road crossing when I was going by Talcher-Puri passenger and in opposite side from Khurda Road was coming Duranto express.
• I got down at Lingaraj station and was crossing the overhead bridge to exit the platform when I witnessed this.
• If trains can stop at such a case, why they go at 150 kms per hour at Amritsar.
• What is the rush?
• The rush is to kill the people and discredit Congress and Sidhu and Captain Govt.
• Shame on BJP.
• If Congress had been in power then BJP would have led massive protests and heads would have rolled.
• But in BJP no one is accountable or will ever be held accountable.
• BJP will blame the Congress Govt in Punjab while the Railways is owned by Center.
• I was refraining to post anything on Blogspot on politics.
• I was expecting things to sort out themselves.
• But this BJP-RSS Govt is making things from bad to worse and I just cannot take it.
• This tragedy of monumental proportions has jerked me off from my seat.
• In situations like this silence is not golden.
• Being silent is actually being complicit in the crime. Crime of murder.
• Where state institutions have been used as a weapon. Weapon against the people to massacre people.

Fury, Full Metal Jacket

Joined Netflix yesterday and have watched two movies as mentioned above.
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Fury (2014)

• What a movie. As the name suggests it shows the "Fury", fury of man against man.
• Or the fury against Nazi Germany
• It is worth watching if one has the stomach for it.
• I must say that I liked the movie and it is highly recommended

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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

• This is also an excellent movie.
• I feel this movie can divide the people of the world into two halves.
• Those who have seen Full Metal Jacket and those who have not seen Full Metal Jacket
• Stanley Kubrick is excellent filmmaker
• I just realised he also made Eyes Wide Shut.
• This movie is worth working.
• Thank God that such movies exist.
• It captures human race in its moments.
• Moments like the Vietnam War.
• Else the events would get lost in history.
• Basically underlying message in Fury and Full Metal Jacket is the futility of war.
• But Fury makes the war heroes out of victims and Full Metal Jacket shows the victims as victims and not heroes.
• Even if the belligerents belong to the opposing party they are still heroes.
• I mean even the winners are victims because of the fact of PTSD (post traumatic Stress Disorder) which is the outcome of horrifying incidents people faced in war.

Passengers

Passengers

• Watched the above movie on Amazon Prime Video.
• I liked the movie.
• Definite good way to pass time.
• But I felt that there is big flaw in the movie and that is that both the players ( hero and heroine) could have survived.
• I have made the below table:

• Particulars	Years	Hero	Heroine
  Age When they Came out of Pod		30	25
  When they saved the ship	2	32	27
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	35	27
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	35	30
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	38	30
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	38	33
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	41	33
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	41	36
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	44	36
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	44	39
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	47	39
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	47	42
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	50	42
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	50	45
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	53	45
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	53	48
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	56	48
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	56	51
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	59	51
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	59	54
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	62	54
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	62	57
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	65	57
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	65	60
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	68	60
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	68	63
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	71	63
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	71	66
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	74	66
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	74	69
  Final 2 years	2	76	69
  Arriving at planet destination	88

• As is visible from the above table, when they arrive at destination planet 88 years later, the hero would be 76 and heroine would be 69 and surviving.
• The trick was to use the pod and taking turns three years at a time.
•  Since there was only one pod, only one would be inside and preserve his/her life by going to sleep.
• Then the other.
• Like this taking turns they would have survived.

Love Sonia, The Predator, Mitron

Watched three more movies even more recently
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Love Sonia
This movie was watched at Inox, Inorbit Mall, Malad (West)
I liked the movie.
The movie deals with human trafficking.
What shown in the movie may not exactly happen the way it is shown but happens nevertheless.
I will like to say that any person entering the employment system is like the profession shown in the movie to some extent or the other.
Someone will dominate them and want to get the work done and use them and so on.
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The Predator
This movie was watched at Cinepolis, Viviana Mall, Thane.
I liked the movie.
Toned down version of the first Predator.
The first Predator was a classic.
These movies are "spin offs" and want to lead the story to "somewhere new".
The "super suit" shown in the end of the movie is just great.
Maybe more to come ahead in the sequel.
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Mitron
This movie was watched at PVR, Phoenix Mall, Kurla (West)
I liked the movie but I felt they wasted two good songs.
Two very good songs are there in the movie and those are wasted in the end credits.
I feel teh actor, director and producer should have squeezed the songs inside the movie.
Preferable one song before interval and one song afterwards.
Indian people are such taht they would have gone to see the songs only and business would have been better even if to certain extent, better is still better.
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Satyameva Jayate, Gold, Vishwaroop 2, Nishijapon

Watched the above four movies recently 
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Satyameva Jayate
This movie was watched at Maharaja Talkies.
Okay movie to be watched once.
Amazing how a villian is made as hero in the movie.
That is the magic of cinema.
We can say that even in a movie like Rambo the hero inspite of being a victim is actually a villian but audience never feel so.
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Gold
This movie was watched at Keshari talkies.
Ok movie to be watched once.
I don't know what is missing in the movie but feels something is lacking.
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Vishwaroop 2
This movie was watched at Stutee Cinema.
This is simply a waste of a movie.
Half of this movie is dedicated showing clips from Vishwaroopam part 1.
Maybe Kamal Haasan thinks there is nothing else to show in the second part.
Part 1 is such a "masterpiece" that it is enough as a message.
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Nishijapon
This Bengali award winning 2005 movie was watched on Lok Sabha TV of DD.
Movie is okay to be watched once no doubt about it.
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Mulk

Watched "Mulk" movie at Maharaja Talkies

• I liked the movie.
• The essence of the movie is that those who divide the people into "us vs them" need to be shunned completely.
• The are doing irreparable damage to Indian society.
• They have no place in India.
• The have to be expelled from India.
• There is no difference between violent terrorist who acts alone and group of people who indulge in violence and aim to create fear in another group.

Mama Mia : Here We go Again, Karwaan, Fanney Khan, Dhadak

Watched four movies as mentioned in the subject line.
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Mama Mia : Here We go Again
This movie was watched at Inox Bhavani Mall

• Definitely this movie is worth watching
• Full of emotions.
• How a lady pursued a dream to begin a life at remote corner at the edge of the Western Civilisation
• Lily James(I swear I thought it was Brie Larsson then looked it up) for the role is too good.
• The dream was carried forwarded by her daughter.
• Though it is a sequel it can verily be a standalone movie as well.

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Karwaan
This movie was watched at Inox Bhavani Mall

• This movie is full of emotions.
• Basically there are four groups of generations of people shown in the movie.
• One is old and very old like the one going to Gangotri trip (60-70).
• Second is the category of Irfan Khan (40-50)
• Third is the category of Dulqueer Salman(25-35)
• and fourth is the student heroine category (15-22).
• If you cannot understand you have to watch the movie.
• Thoroughly enjoyable, this movie can be set in any part of the country.
• The appeal would be universal.

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Fanney Khan
This movie was watched at Maharaja Talkies.

• I don't know about others but I liked the movie.
• This movie shows how emotional parents are for their kids and they will go any lengths to make their kids successful
• The way the movie turned out can only happen in a movie.
• Anil Kapoor was lucky that there was a guy like Rajkumar and Aishwarya happened to fall in love with the guy else his plans would have tumbled.
• Also the fact that his daughter was super talented cannot be ignored. It was the daughter who made Anil Kapoor successful in the end.
• If during the live performance the performance would have failed then the story would have turned out to be quite different.

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Dhadak
This movie was watched at Ekamra Talkies

• I had read the story before watching the movie and I know that in original Dhadak the son survives while the hero heroine are killed. 
• In this movie the heroine survives while hero and son are killed.
• And I felt this is flawed ending.
• Original ending was better.
• The child should have lived.
• They are demonising people in this movie.
• I feel people are not that bad that they will kill children for honour.
• That is not just being Indian.
• And honour first task is to get rid of the "kalank" or bad spot and the heroine happens to be the prime one.
• Heroine fault is Heroine has "betrayed" her own clan.
• Hero fault is The hero had the guts to take "one of their own".
• The child has no fault of his own.
• And no matter how "demonous" the villain he or they will never hurt an innocent life.
• And that is the "flawed ending".
• Also Jhanvi Kapoor could have scored "brownie points" if she would had died like audience sympathy she could have gained.
• Maybe since Jhanvi is a star daughter it was though that her life was too precious to be expended.

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