Rakta Charitra2 - My Take

This post is subject to change as i might come up with many interesting points i am going to notice during each time i am going to watch this movie from now.


RC2 is a two men show with the two men being varma and surya.The best points i ve noticed in the movie.

1)Varma's tact in dealing the two characters in the balanced manner.A coherent justification for each and every act of the two opponents.
2)Suryas exceptional fluency in acting during the 2 scenes i.e one during the TV blast scene wherin suryas expressions signify the unfathomable outrage created by the blast and the second while he returns after assasinating pratap,The presentation of rapid transition in the emotions between ecstacy of having quenched his vengeance and guilt of killing a human being on his face was just inexplicable.
3)Varma is successful in making his point very clear that RC is just the presentation of his perspective of those consequences which caused two individuals to get in to an endless and outrageous feud.

The only shortcoming i noticed is RC1 and RC2 could have been made as a single movie.But all in all Rakta Charitra on the whole is a power-packed high voltage drama indian cinema has ever witnessed.

My perception of god

I know i am violating what our english teachers would have taught us during the school to use only capital 'G' while writing the word god.I followed this practice till the time I realised that there is no coherent reason behind it.With my age my perceptions of god have also been kept on changing.I remember going to temple holding my mother's hand at a time when i had just graduated from infancy to childhood and many things are often taken for granted at that age.This temple saga continued untill my inner conscience woke up to ask for the reason.But by then it was adoloscence and my doing rounds around the temple behind girls stood as an answer for it.:).Jokes apart this age forces us to seek the support of some unknown entity called god as we get tremendously pressurized at that intermediate age to take some crucial decisions of life though we are not mentally ready for it and we will not have time to think about the where,what and why questions about god.

When we reach the age of an adulthood,we would have lost almost all the minutes of fun and its the time when lot of strings get attached to us in the form of family,parents,children etc and we find ourselves piled up in a heap of responsibilities from where we try to perceive god as a wish fulfilling mechanism.We go to the temple with the hope that god will do something to our inability of bridging the gap between our wish and its becoming true in the reality.This belief system is so strong that if our wish gets fulfilled we give hundred percent credit to god and if it doesn't then we attribute that failure to ourselves.Because we fear that god will stop showering his blessings on us if we blame him for the unfulfillment of our wishes.

Actually we are oblivious of the fact that it's we who gave such color to god.I do believe that there is some unknown force which controls this world to which people attribute the name called god.if at all it is true i am sure he wouldn't appreciate the way people are perceiving him by whtsoever means it may be and he would never expect the people to pray to him(come on he can't be so mean).because he created the people and put them in the world and its for them to discover their purpose and live up to it.And its as much like demeaning him to go to the religious clubs(temples etc) to beg him or bribe him to get the things done.he is actually keeping up the responsibilty of controlling the world very diligently and expects every creature in the world to show the same diligence in being dutiful to their purposes of being here without bugging him.

PS:- God If at all you happen to read this post and find it derogatory or satirical.Please don't deprive me of rambha and urvashi when i reach you after my death :).

My day out for Impact day at Cherlapally Jail on 11th June!!!!

First of all I feel ashamed of my lethargy for postponing this post for 3 days..Before all those moments fade away from my memory...i ll have to pen down everything...Impact day in short is supposed to be the day where we deloitees go to several places like orphanages,old age homes,jails etc and make an impact on the lives of people in a positive way..As a part of it v ve several threads like swadesh,Young at heart,Happiness behind bars etc.....Initially I was skeptical about the very concept as i felt it was next to impossible to really make an impact even on a single life in 1 day..:)But the feeling at the end of the day was really overwhelming..Here goes the story of the paradigm shift in my perception...

I opted for "Happiness behind bars" as it seemed class apart from the other threads n it was clearly evident from its fast closure of registrations in the record 30 minutes of time from the receipt of the mail. It all started at 8 where we started off from E-Block in a bus...The endless songs rendered by all of us in antakshari made me loose track of time n almost 2 hrs of journey seemed to have finished in 5 minutes...Finally It was around 1130 we were let inside the gates where i noticed the bewildered expression on the faces of some of the inmates staring at us from their barracks as if we r from some unknown planet ..:)I was surprised to find the campus so green that in no way it was looking like a prison(a complete contrast to the depiction of prisons in the movies)...n ironically some of our mates brought some saplings to make it more green...:).There was an amphitheatre in the midst of those lawns where a tent was already laid across and some prisoners were already sitting there eagerly waiting for some programmes to happen on the stage.....n we were slowly made to occupy places amidst the prisoners in the amphitheatre.While everybody was busy njoying the super hit numbers being rendered by prisoners,I was busy violating the instructions given to us before boarding the bus about strictly refraining ourselves from interacting with the prisoners.:)... i happened to interact with a prisoner who was convicted for theft and sentenced three months of imprisonment...sadly he had a family...when he revealed the fact that police bring liquor to them unofficially from outside..i cudn't stop myself appreciating the humanitarian side of them..:)

The person who hosted the programme was so well-mannered n decent that anybody who was there wud ve got immersed themselves in to a deep thought thinkin about him on how such person cud ever loose his rationale and commit any crime that has landed him there....v broke for lunch n after that it was our turn to entertain them...Their excitement was so infectious that it tempted a gentleman with horrible n pathetic voice render songs n movie dialogues for them(that's me..:))I was utterly satisfied with what i did n there was not even a minute question of embarassment that arose in me for singing so pathetically..A magic show and antakshari competition between them n us were followed by it..n another matter of surprise was their spontaneouness n agility in rendering the songs without even taking a second in thinking as soon as they get their letter while we were struggling on our each turn...n obviously they won it...:):)Volleyball competetion n shuttle competition were held betweeen our team n their team n again here they won..Kudos to their physical fitness too.......

Now our event has come to the final lap i.e. a short jail tour,Decent living conditions i would say...the farm in their backyard where they cultivate almost all kinds of vegetables..i fell in love with that...jailor was so cooperative n patient in clearing all our doubts(how much ever foolish they sounded...:))That 5 hours of time has bagged me memories for life time...Finally my earlier perception about the impact day has been proven wrong.....Now I can proudly say"Yes,I made an impact!!!!!!!!"

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/lingadharduggirala/ImpactDay2010#

Rhim Zhim Gire Saawan...The Best Rain song on the Indian screen

Rhim Zhim Gire Saawan is the song rendered by my all time favourite lataji for the movie manzil which features amitabh and maushumi.This song is the culmination of beauty of mumbai rains and sensuous romance between amitabh and moushumi.I could't write much about the movie as i din watch it.But this song gives me a refreshing and romantic xperience each time i watch it.The romance of Amitabh n Moushumi with hands around each other's shoulders walking on the busy streets of Nariman point(an upmarket area in mumbai) in rain is so natural that anybody who watches would feel the warmth of his loved one's hug in rain.There are many rain songs in bollywood and the other "woods" which elicit a momentary feeling of lust in the mind, but this is the only rain song which laid an indelible mark in my heart as the song which drenches me in love and romance on its every single watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmD6GfZgKX8

Reminiscing my memorable days in Mumbai

Two-and-a-half years in mumbai was like a beautiful dream for me.Initially the buzz in the city was not at all appealing...But as i started exploring it the city became an addiction..Mumbai is known as the city that never sleeps..that's probably because of us who r notorious nocturnals..:)Roaming on the streets during the night is real fun(n with a girl walking alongside,the fun gets multiplied..:)..But poor me,i only got to see them:() n Rains in Mumbai are truly romantic..especially the waterfall formation in front of our office due to the water falling down the rocks was really sexy not only because of its beauty...but also due to all the beautiful girls coming out of their offices to watch it...:)n the true way to take the pleasure of that moment is to cut a tea in one hand with the simultaneous drags of the cigarette in the other n those booze parties on the shores of juhu beach come lively everytime i remember them(hope i m not sounding like ranbir in wake up sid in describing the beauty of mumbai rains)...I wud say this is the place for the ppl who r avid social networkers like me n i think it cud happen only in mumbai where two persons meeting anywhere by chance cud become friends for life time n i ve whole bag of friends of that kind:)..the best of that kind r srikanth n sarat who i happened to meet at a restobar n shared the room for almost an year...for us everyday was like a carnival n every minute event would lead to a huge celebration..:) n not to mention sarat bhai's endless songs which would go on for the whole night...the places like aura n hard rock cafe where v wud do a lot of headbanging...:) for the numbers of linkin park n bryan adams r extremely unforgettable...This is only one side of the story where everything seemed like an utopia...the other side of the story is quite tragic which when i go back to that leaves my eyes moist..sarat bhai's demise on feb 8 2008...from then on his dearth has been always felt..:(But overall my experience with the city was awesome n truly the city deserves the title "Maximum City"

Riding on the horse of good fortune....

Writing a blog of my own has been my dream which is due for long.Let me start it on a positive note.The events happened in the last two months have been an eye openers for me n made me realize some facts about life.Whatever you try to become,You ll ultimately end up in a position which you deserve and lucky people are those who bridges the gap between the expectation and reality.I tried for CAT last year,But it din click because of the severe backlash on my side.May be it's not the time i should be going for it or i shouldn't be going for it at all.Time will decide.Because as it was written in some book every one of us was born with a mission to accomplish on earth.That mission is almost blurred for some of the people and i am one of those poor souls...:)The only thing that people of our kind should do is to give the best shot to whatever comes our way without expecting anything from life.Then the mission becomes clear some day or the other.This is the very important lesson i ve learnt from my failure and with failure came a great oppurtunity which i call it timely as well,a job in Deloitte,Hyderabad,which most of the people dream for.I would say it just happened as it was written because hardly anybody knows that deloitte is recruiting and i could make it only with the help of my roommate who is an employee of that comp.He proved to be the lucky omen for me.This is the reason this post is titled as such.Basically i expect a lot about anything and sometimes my imaginations go wilder that they are in sharp contrast with the reality..:)In the same manner,I have huge expectations about deloitte and my future in it.The best part here is I am going to stay with my bro and whenever i feel nostalgic about mom.i can visit eluru anytime.For now,I am happy and contented with the way life is going.I myself donno how long this thought persists in my mind.Anyway my joining date is on May 3rd.Feeling like i am watching a Ramgopal Varma's movie which makes u anxious about what's going to happen next..:)