With Golmaal 3 Rohit Shetty manages successfully to tickle those bones which were dead after watching this year's horrible zombie comedies like Khatta Meetha. Relying heavily on the chemistry of its ensemble cast with a virtually non-existent script the movie is a real treat to watch. If the first ten minutes is left to the fore gang led by Ajay Devgn, the last ten minutes proves why Johnny Lever is still the king of comedy. Adorned by PJs, brainless dialogues and some really funny scenes the movie scores in the first 15 minutes itself. Ajay Devgn is good as a short tempered man who has his lid off when he sees someone pointing a finger, he s accompanied by his brother Shreyas Talpade, who has a stammer. This family is headed by their single mom whose love for Mithun reinvigorates after meeting him since long. Mithun plays a bus driver character a single father who has adopted Arshad, Kunal and Tusshar the mute. Kareena plays the character in helping the love interests but the bigger trouble is to merge the 2 sets of siblings which sparks of a series of hilarious events. But this is the latter half which apparently is bogged down with an emotional scene in between which literally kills the fun part (a big mistake), else the first part is really funny when Ajay and Shreyas along with Kareena try to sabotage Kunal, Arshad and Tusshar's business and vice versa. In between are really funny scenes of Johnny Lever and his gang ie Vrajesh and Sanjay Mishra. Johnny has this character of a don who suffers from amnesia like Ghajini and his transition into different persona are out of the world. Meanwhile Mukesh Tiwari reprises his role of Vasooli bhai and gets cheated around as usual. The movie is absolute fun in the first half but gets a sudden break with a not so required emotional scene. The ending could have been more boring had Johnny Lever not shown his antics. Mithun packs a punch in his role, is funny in short bursts but good ones, one of his dialogues or rather spate of killer dialogues with Prem Chopra (as his love interest's rich dad) is as follows "jiske ghar seeshe ke hote hain woh basement main jaakar kapde change karte hain". Another scene worth mentioning is a mock/mute enacting of pushing up various stuffs up the other sibling gangs arse. Rohit's direction is good because of the fact he had no script weight, he was able to get some really good scenes, including a retro altercation scene of the wannabe husband and a rich dad with the music of those times.
Overall the movie is a total brainless must watch with a gang of friends.
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After watching this movie I couldn't believe that this came from the same team who got the absolutely amazing hilarious movie The Hangover. The movie is an ok watch but does it leave the impression that Hangover left you with? Nay, the movie doesn't even come close to the epic predecessor. Although it borrows a lot of scenes from its predecessor like the scene of jerking, getting high on drugs, the gang is replaced by the border police and the kid replaced by a dog here.
The movie is hilarious in bouts and some scenes does tickle laughs but overall its an okay ride. The movie seems like heavily inspired from a Steve Martin classic
Planes, Trains and Automobiles which shows a road trip of a man eager to reach his home and who meets a nerd on the way and a series of hilarious unfortunate events. Many scenes look like inspired by this movie. For e.g. the latter movie starts with protagonists meeting on the plane, ending their journey on the automobiles, the automobile getting destroyed totally, and before that the one of the characters searching for the rented automobile in the stop. While Steve Martin plays the sophisticated sort of smart fellow in planes, trains and automobiles, which here is played by Robert Downey, the role of an irritant ass played by John here is done by Zach. The movie has few memorable totally laughable scenes which include Zach and his dog jerking off, Zach Downey and Jamie drinking the ashes of Zach's father as coffee, Zach impersonating Marlon Brando as GodFather and Zach is given a series of roles to play by Downey who believes he is shit as an actor. Apart from these the movie is forgettable and atleast for me doesn't figure as my personal fav. The movie has got average ratings on
Rotten Tomatoes and good ratings on
imdb which is bound to come down as the more ratings come.
As actors the movie is completed Zach's pudding. He pulls off a really good role as a irritating stupid aspiring actor who plans to make it big in Hollywood. He does total justice to his character and his character overshadows everyone. He has a bigger role than what he had in Hangover and is good. Robert Downey seems a misfit, is unable to do justice to his part and is nowhere compared to Steve Martin's frustrated, tormented soul in P,T&A. Jamie Foxx comes as shadow and leaves as one.
Not a great watch but yes definitely a try for Zach's show.
2010,
Due Date,
Due Date 2010,
Hangover,
Jamie Foxx,
Planes,
Robert Downey,
Robert Downey Jr,
The Hangover,
Todd Phillips,
Trains and Automobile,
Zach
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Story recap
A mystery person namely a friend had just turned my world upside down, a world in which I had got myself engaged in the most filmy manner, facing all the likely troubles like in a movie. But all was a lie and I was impervious to the dangers likely to hit me. My family got to know about it, even the church folks, my dream palace had just been hit by a tsunami.
It so happened that a far far friend of mine, who I now address to as red signal for singlehandedly planning my downfall, was traveling to his new hometown, a breakjourney at my current and his previous native. He had a window of 3 hours before he alighted into his train but this guy couldn't help but go to my house to spend the 2 hours. Till that day I had braved on the fact that my house was within walking distance from the station. So enters this gentleman into my house
Red signal: Namasthe auntiji
mom: aao aao beta, bahut din ho gye
Red signal: haan auntiji, ab to yehan se dusri jagah shift kar diye na, 5 saal ho gye ab yehan nahi aate
In 5 years this guy never turned up to his old native, why in god's name did this bloody friend of mine turn up and that too to out of all the places he found my house to drop in.
Red signal: auntiji, mithaai to khilaaiye
mom: q beta aisa kya hua
Red signal: arre hero ki shaadi ho gyi na, bhabhi kidhar hain
now I had spread the rumor of getting engaged, our man goes to my place and has the audacity of changing my engagement into marriage and upon that where in the earth was my wife
mom: kya!!!!!!!!!!!!
Red signal: arre aap to aise bol rhi hain jaise aapko pata hi nahi
Imagining the whole situation in itself was sending shivers down my spine, I could only imagine what my mom was going through in real life
mom: kya bakwaas kar rhe ho
Red signal: sorry auntiji, par logon ne kaha ki uski to shaadi ho gyi hain kisi dusre religion ki bandi se, gharwaale aur church waalon ne bahut pareshaan kiya for the marriage, to bhaag kar shaadi kar lii
Years back in my mba they had taught me in a very practical session how communication changes from one person to other, so much that this goes an entire 360 degree in the end. I never realized I would be at the receiving end and would be witnessing a cataclysmic turnaround which I would live to tell the tell.
If you had read my previous blogs you would have known that my bluff was simple and the core message which I sent out was this.
I had been engaged (and not married as this person conveyed), the girl was from another religion and there were some impediments (I never said the church was involved, this guy was hell bent on getting me ostracized from church as well, dont know what wrong had I done to him, and that we were planning to get married with both the families consenting (now rumor does follow a opposite route to the fact, so that it maintains its spiciness, so here, families consenting would have spoiled the taste of the rumorist and their clans, so it was tweaked to gharwaale pareshaan kar rhe the and to top the spice we were assumed to have run away and got married. His 10 seconds rumor speech upturned my entire world and opened up a huge black hole. People I say are the real innovators and not companies like Apple who would fall behind if these people were nominated for innovation awards.
So back to the story. Whatever happened to the conversation between Mom and Red signal is passe, what happened next to me was nothing less than facing a guillotine. So the very evening after my supposed downfall and me knowing nothing about it, I was called upon. Dad joined mom and I wouldn't want to risk my so called repute which I have built before you (kidding, I don't want to tell that it was bad really bad so bad that you can totally sympathize with me)
My dad retorted with his usual signature dialogue
da kazhiv illatha magane
which essentially means “hey you worthless son” or naalayak to be precise
For once this dialogue made me shift my concentration into my past and not think of the immense danger that was standing in front. Now this mother tongue is a slight complex one, I mistook the dialogue in my good old childhood days for "kayde da magne" which means “son of a donkey” and my child brain could never fathom why my dad called himself a donkey.
Anyways I was momentarily distracted by my father’s signature dialogue, I came back to my senses soon. Next I knew I was summoned a gag order and was informed about their arrival in Bangalore (the second coming). I thought this was some kind of a quarantine program in order to contain the epidemic that had spread, they would come here make me understand the nuances of such stupidity and wait for the storm to calm and then go back. But as usual I was wrong about their ulterior motives, the bigger good was something I missed. On a mundane Sunday afternoon I was asked to accompany them somewhere, Uncle Thomas was the person whom we had to meet, to which I was surprised, cause I knew all other important relatives down here who would get the appointment much before than Uncle Thomas.
On more pestering I was told......
mom: we are going to see a girl for you
WTH
I was stunned with this non considerate, non sympathetic act of theirs. I was instinctively reminded of a old friend who apparently was engaged to a girl whose face he had never seen. I still remember my conversation with him.
sad friend: I m sad
me: why
sad friend: I have to buy a saree for my fiance
me: so why are you so sad, is it because you don't know her taste
sad friend: nahi be i have to buy saree 2 mtr more than normal sareee
me: whaaaat, how does it have to do anything with your being sad
sad friend: you won’t understand,
Can you believe that I had no choice but to get engaged with a girl whose face I have never seen; that extra piece of saari is for her ghunghat, so whatever chances I had of getting to know how she looks is also marred.
I couldn’t say how big a loser he was nor could I emphasize with him for today I was the loser all thanks to a masterplan which went the other way. I was about to see a girl and perhaps get hitched to her for life and that too without any opinion from me.
me: but mom I don’t want to get married
mom: poda, first you make us all ashamed before the community and then you want your way to go. I tell you we have had enough of your stupidity, you are coming with us, somehow Uncle Thomas found a really good girl for you, if the girl likes you, you have to get married to her.
me: but mom m just 25 and I don’t even know what the girl is doing
dad: shuuut up dint we tell you no arguments, the girl is a teacher and comes from a good family we like her and so do you
zabardasti
me: but she is a teacher what about the future
dad: good future only, she ‘s in a job, you are in a job, you are marrying at a ripe age (please someone define ripe) of 25, by 45 your son / daughter will grow up and start working, what else do you need, we are ensuring a stable future for you.
I was astounded for some time given their arguments, I couldn’t argue and all my dreams of choosing a very fair girl, with the perfect figure, who had a dimplicious smile and straight flowing hair was about to be buried into deep earth. I was helpless. My insides were churning and my feet were becoming heavier than metal but then having no choice but to go. Back somewhere in my head I could hear my friends muttering,
Suna Joseph ki shaadi ho gyi hain
Haan suna maine khush hu main bahut aakhir Mere Yaar ki Shaadi hain
So that my friends was my first rendezvous of meeting a girl for marriage and all that happened next was history and shall be narrated later, mail me or call me if you want further details. I didnt succeed in finding the results of the research but instead was staring at putting a real similar status. Siggggh
Signing off
Yours Truly,
These 4 pieces of horrendous literature are part fiction and part reality, mostly a figment of my imagination inspired by real events and real people. Would like to thank esp those who involuntarily were a part of this 4 piece journey. And yes thanks to the people who volunteered.
Being my first shot at fiction with full of sentimental emotions I thank all my friends and readers.
Adieu fiction(tears and more tears) I won’t bug you any more
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The story till now
Upon seeing the comments on a friends Facebook relationship status and upon deciphering the possible deeper meanings I decided to unearth the mystery myself. I created a lie and let my friends do the rest. Wishes started flowing on social media sites and more friends who had no idea about what was happening too started wishing me through mails and online. Meanwhile friend 3 was over the moon on my engagement plans and was spreading the good news as a true BBC correspondent. I was happy that things were going my way or were they.........????
Happy with my ongoing conquests into people's so called joy over others relationships I was enjoying life which was as usual in its usual flow. My friends at office were inquisitive about my latest research which was indeed quite strange for all. So speaks my good friend and a great advisor, who was aware of my bluff.
Advisor friend: buddy u ll land up in deep S@#$t
me: with what
Advisor friend: with whatever you are doing
me: u mean the fake engagement
Advisor friend: yes
me: I know man but this s epic, I call it the epic bluff (I stated with a wide flashed grin)
Advisor friend: hmmm thats what I m trying to warn you, dont call it a bluff before your over excited friend friend 3, tell her that your engagement is off
I took that as an offence and made a wry face
me: common man, this bluff s like a diamond and you want me to call it off, I want to see their faces once I call this a bluff. Superb it would be.
Advisor friend: yea but dont you think you stand a good chance of getting that face on yourselves in case everything gets topsy turvy
me: nay my plan is foolproof, dont have a loophole in that, and BTW this lady I have already spoofed before
Advisor friend: you mean you have already bluffed her and yet she believes in your second bluff and that too without any evidences
me: yes sir (and I tried to give my advisor friend a piece of my own advice)
so after readjusting my collar like all people who are in their moment of success, I took a deep breath and started off
me: the point is you cant bluff a person two times in a row that too in a space of a few months
Advisor friend: and???
me: so you need to device a plan, a foolproof plan
Advisor friend: so how was yours done
Braving on my achievement that my Advisor friend was indeed taking advice from me I continued
me: mine simple, I routed the bluff through another person whom I knew had a weak stomach
Advisor friend: weak stomach?
me: arre baba weak stomach bole to cant keep secrets
Advisor friend: ok continue continue
me: cant you see here it is, the perfect formula to bluff an already bluffed person twice in a space of few months, you never reach the same person twice, you divert your bluff via a third person
Advisor friend: you will get into trouble bro, I m warning you
me: nay I have full faith in my plan
So giving a deaf ear to my Advisor friend's advice I carried on with my usual life, but one day something happened for which I and only I was responsible. The following sequence of events came as a self created earthquake which shattered every dream house that I had built over the years (in time you shall understand what dream houses I m talking about). you can prevent a fool from breaking into your foolproof plan but you cant help prevent a fool from creating a intelligentproof plan.
So it goes on a particular Tuesday, date 10th September (dates are something I dont remember whatever happens, but this date was the worst omen day, I cant forget this day for sure). I got a call from home, what surprised me a bit was that I got a call in the afternoon from home. They never call me while I m at office and especially on a Tuesday, we follow routines, twice a week I have to call them, Sunday or Wednesday were the scheduled mandatory call days, start of the week and end of the week, process based you see, unless its very urgent. I picked up the call fearing the worst and the worst did I witness that day. Below are the snippets of that call, the call that would just leave my beautiful world upturned.
me: hello
family: what the hell is going on there
For a moment I was taken aback from what I heard, so I reiterated, I knew the flood gates were about to open, but was trying to be innocent as the government people when the floods arrive.
me: sorry
family: we are asking you what the hell is going on there
The fact dawned on me that I was certainly under a huge deluge and the only respite from this was death
me: what happened
family: you tell me
me: what did I do
family: (in malayalam) eda eda nee ngyangale ella naadil naatu aa elle
for the readers ease I shall translate this into English though I cant guarantee if all the words would be correctly represented as they are in the above dialogue for known fears
here it goes
family: you are putting us to shame before the entire community
I couldnt think of anything else but my previous dialogue
me: what did I do
family: we have heard that you got engaged
I WAS STUMPED, to the extent I could see the wickets being broken into pieces (virtually i mean)
me: nooooooooooooooo
family: your friend told us
I was STUNNED I was taken aback, my foolproof plan had indeed been cracked as told by my Advisor friend. But how in the earth did this friend tell my parents; my home tele number had been changed so no chances of him/her getting the new number, they are not into technology nor was the place I live in, internet was still a deficient item, emails were limited to single words in newspapers. Could a friend been to home, but there was none who was at my native, all had migrated along with me during graduation to some corners along with their families and I was the only forsaken among the entire lot still cooling my heels there. So how did my plan fail. I questioned them and what I present now is dramatic representation of the sequence of events that happened on that fateful day.
To be continued
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The story till now
Upon seeing the comments on a friends Facebook relationship status and upon deciphering the possible deeper meanings I decided to unearth the mystery myself. I created a lie and let my friends do the rest. The spark was beginning to turn into a widespread flame and I had absolutely no idea what I was going to end up in.
Here s the next chapter.
friend 3 is still over the moon on my engagement, apparently very inquisitive about my new innings. So she pings me
friend 3: hi hope everything is good at your end. So what plans of Onam.
me: nothing much
friend 3: what nothing much arent you going to your future inlaws house for Onam
ah thank you friend 3 for helping me create another bigger lie so grateful, here you go
me: oh yes I m how did you know?
friend 3: lo ye bhi koi poochne waali baat hain, its logical man
who the hell calls this a logic
me: ah yes how did I forget to reason
friend 3: so when are you declaring the news to all our friends
me: m waiting for my inlaws to give me a green signal, since there are those religious impediments
friend 3: I m dying to tell others, if you dont tell dem soon I ll
me: arre wait wait dont tell others, let me personally tell them, people dont take it nicely when they hear such news from a 3rd party rather than directly, you know relations can be spoiled
friend 3: but can I tell atleast x, y, z about this engagement
me: no, I ll personally tell them
friend 3: when
me: depends
friend 3: so please let me tell them then, I ll make sure that they dont feel bad
me: no
friend 3: please
me: noooooooo
friend 3: please please please
me: ok
friend 3: dont worry I have already told them :) :)
voilà the lie worked
me: why did you tell them even when I asked you to caution
friend 3: ah that is because I m sooo happy for you I wanted to share with everyone
Yea right, "happy for me", I would ve rather accepted the real logic (now imagining
me: why did you tell them even when I asked you to caution
friend 3: ah that is because I cant keep anything in my stomach, I have to blurt it out)
friend 3: so your church thing still an impediment
me: somethings cant be helped you see, especially with inter-religious marriages there are bound to be issues and church is very staunch on such issues.
friend 3: oh yes I know
friend 3: I heard your parents were in Bangalore some time back
me: yes who told you
friend 3: ofcourse friend 1
me: awesome
now this awesome was a sarcastic one, one to highlight the communication network between same gender individuals, in appreciation of how a gossip actually builds and how small innocuous developments in life are interpreted to have deeper meanings when they are not at all. Anyways back to the discussion
friend 3: so that is the reason why there were here
me: what reason
friend 3: duhhhhhh, for your engagement man, where's your logic
me: awesome
now this awesome was a really appreciative one, for creating something out of nothing, I had actually never thought I should have got this angle right, the parents one. How did I miss this? Anyways thanks to friend 3 now even my parents are part of this. Sorry dad, sorry mom. Thank you friend 3 for enlightening me to this insight and now that you have led me to this enlightenment I shall make most of it.
me: yea they came down for engagement
friend 3: so where the snaps
me: madam it takes time to develop it, create an album and courier it, where's your logic (friend 3: style)
friend 3: oh yes :) sorry but do send me one
me: ofcourse yes, you will be the first to get it
and after a lot of blah blah
friend 3: me going take care, have a great Onam at your fiancée s place
me: thanks, Happy Onam to you too
I was happy that my plan was working perfectly and I knew I had the right person doing the job for me. Would my experiment be a success, would I be able to unearth the true meaning behind my friends' happiness or would I end up like 2012 oblivious to the dangers but sitting on a sure shot disaster, this only time will tell. But for the time being I was enjoying the pseudo relationship status. Thanks friends you have made "a friend in deed is a friend indeed" hold true.
To be continued.........
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A: suna joseph ki shaadi ho rhi hain
B: aisa kya mujhe to nahi pata
A: haan mujhe bhi nahi pata tha lekin pukki khabar hain
Once I stumbled upon what I saw was a friends status message on Facebook, mr xyz is in a relationship. The fact that caught my attention was the number of comments I saw on this status message. It was humungous, from congrats to who is the lucky girl, whats she doing. Just then another fact dawned on me this guy never managed to get more than 3 comments ever before on whatever he used to post on FB. Not that I had the free time to scrutinize the number of comments on his post or others but twas far too irrestible to ignore. So I sat down to think why are people so interested in your relationship status. Is it the feeling, hey look the looser got one too, or one is really happy that another is hitched, or is it the precursor of a gossip chain a vicious circle of events where the subject is in true trouble and the original story (here the marriage gossip) gets a 180 degree. One another benefit the chain gives is open up the closed conversation between 2 individuals who havent spoken in ages.
So now after setting the context I decided to get my piece of attention, not that my posts on FB dont attract comments, they do and much more than the number of comments mentioned above. But a topic like this needs to be explored for the fun and risks involved (which I ll expln later). So it happened one day when my friend calls up on friendship day
frnd: Happy frndship day
me: u too
blah blah
blah blah
me: did I tell u tht tht I got engaged
frnd: wht????? (I cud literally hear the question marks, and yes absolutely the same number of them as shown here)
frnd: bt u din tell me
me: yes it happened so soon
frnd: ok
frnd: so whats her name
now u need to be aware while playing a prank that u never give out the imaginary person's name, cause in this technologically advanced generation finding key details are so easy leave alone the name. The case here would be: I would tell an imaginary name, the first thing the friend wud do is go to a social media site check the name in friends list, and if the friend finds it, soon there would be additional researches, any recent scraps, any recent congrats in mine or the fake fiancees page, any testimonials one wud ve written for the other (now this isnt my illusion, believe me its real, the research goes much much deeper than you can imagine)
me: ermmm naam jaankar kya karogi (filmy style)
frnd: phir bhi
me: rehne do
frnd: bt itni jaldi engagement, na koi khabar na kuch
me: haan yaar complications thi so jaldi karni padi, "plz dnt discuss with anyone"
I stressed upon the last quoted words with as much strength I had.
So I finally I did manage to end the conversation without giving friend the name
I told another mutual friend about this prank. Now here starts the real fun, the very nxt day I get a mail from another friend (friend 3 here)
"kya yaar sirf friend 1 and friend 2 hi tumaare dost hain, kidding ('I understand what kidding means in this context'), anyways congrats."
Voila the fake news just needed 2 days to travel from central India to South India and that too after stressing on those key words: plz dont discuss with anyone. Scientific fact is light travels faster than sound, but when its a rumor the fact does take a deviation for sound always does travel faster than light in this case. So starts my second round of more sophisticated lies, only this time I had to play it more safely.
friend 3: so man congrats
me: thanks
friend 3: kya yaar bataya bhi nahi
me: pehle ye batao aapko kisne bataya
friend 3: friend 1 ne
sigh these girls can never keep something in their stomach
me: oh, haan yaar things got complicated so had to
friend 3: accha aisa kya
me: yep the girl is a hindu and u c intereligion marriages r such a problem, the girls side wanted to make it a private function attended by just family members and they dont want to announce it until things are sorted out at the temple and church level
I was patting myself for such a brave and outrageous lie and just about then friend 3 drops a bombshell. Friend 3 doesn't ask for a name but something which was very very logical.
friend 3: to phir engagement pics kahan hain
phans gya
me: ermmm haan haan engagement pics abhi develop hone gyi hain. ll get it in some days. u c the photographers dont give the digital copy of the pics
To my surprise she bought my lie
friend 3: oh ok mujhe bhi ek bhejna
Within 2 days I had pulled off another stunt, to convince a girl that too within no time, either she was not interested in what was happening or I was good or whatever.
To be continued.........
All characters mentioned in this post are not fictional at all and are very much part of the real life of this blogger, though the blogger is not to be believed at all for his posts. Lies are incorporated highly into this blog to keep the fun part intact.
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Inception leaves a lot of questions to b answered, given the brains of Nolan I dont think its a simple script. there are many versions of the story floating around. I shall represent the different possibilities with the overall story.
a) The movie is as simple as its shown. I mean he is in reality he does Saito’s job and in the end Saito fulfills his promise. Some facts. The scene where we c Cobb entering the hotel room opposite to where Mal jumps, we c the totem lying down. Mal could have checked the totem and it didn’t spin but since she was infected with the idea she abandons her totem and jumps off. We c many times Cobb trying to spin it n it stopping n falling stating tht its all a reality. In the end whn he meets his children do the children wear the same clothes, technically yes but a bit different also they are a bit old. So Cobb does really meet them in reality. U mite say the scenery was the same but tht is coz of his memories wid dem. The way Cobb wakes up in the plane is coz since he was in limbo he thot he ws in a big dream for quite some time and when he wakes up he gives that expression n so does Saito. Then in this case only concern what is the significance of inception. Nolan doesn’t make such insignificant endings. Memento meant Guy Pearce was the memento, here inception has to do something with Cobb’s mind and shud ve some significance.
b) That brings me to the second possibility that the entire movie is a dream and the idea incepted is for Cobb to meet his children and live happily. Precisely the same reason why v don’t c Cobb’s totem, why we have Saito and Mal speaking the same line “take a leap of faith” which should have been just inclusive for Mal Saito has never heard what Mal has said, why Mal though Cobb’s projection says “u r being chased by unknown agents and sorts”, why Fischer doesn’t recognize his last standing competitor Saito (very strange) and why every1 keeps on saying come back to reality. The very reason that even Ariadne (her name is of particular significance some greek mythology relating to labyrinth and that’s the reason she always wears a red even when suited up) is there. Here comes ur theory what if Miles Cobbs dad has significance. Mal has been created as an anti Cobb dream so even if she has come up from reality and is trying to get into his dream to wake him up he doesn’t want her to do so and doesn’t believe her. So Miles has created a dream within dream wherein he has tried to get him reunited with his children and his guilt is far more extensive than Cobb because of the repercussions. (I ve doubts here)
c) The movie is a dream post to the plane scene I don’t ve facts to support it. The best possible fact is the last scene where he finally meets his children, his dad and his children r wearing te same clothes somewhat, which is not perfect.
I m also gonna copy paste basically a 3rd person storyline / theory courtesy imdb discussions, the guys name is DeAd_MiKe_187 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/board/nest/167024711.
i too was left befuddled with plenty of questions ringing my head and during the course of me finding a solution to these i stumbled upon this which is way too good for an explanation so m sharing with all. Let me know what u think.
The idea of 'Inception' is to be a story crafted in the architecture of the mind - Cobb's mind. What people perceive to be real isn't necessarily so, because the mind can make things appear to be as real as ever. An important thing to remember is the start of the film. Dom Cobb wakes up in a place that we later find out to be limbo – more importantly, Saito's limbo.
What happens next is something that is meaningless the first time a viewer watches the film. Saito is seen handling Cobb's totem (which was a top that he took from Mal while in limbo). At first, this is meaningless. Upon a second viewing, the viewer should realize that everything that happens after this scene (the jump cut to Cobb's attempt at extracting information from Saito, and so on) is something much deeper.
Saito promises to give Cobb the one thing that he wants, and that's to find the way back home. How does he convince Cobb to do this? He tells him to "take a leap of faith." This is another line that goes unnoticed at first. On a second viewing, the viewer should remember that line as something that Mal told Cobb when she jumped off of the building. Is the picture becoming clearer yet?
While in Mombasa, Cobb gets chased by anonymous agents (which he perceives to be Cobol agents) through a fantastic action sequence where Cobb escapes the dream-like narrow tunnel and is rescued by none other than Saito. A bit later, Cobb and Saito visit Yusef who brings them into a basement with various figures connected to the dream machine. The idea was for Cobb to experiment with the deep sedative. He does, and when he "wakes up," he tries to use his totem only to be interrupted by Saito. Cobb never does find out if he is in the real world or not. In fact, he hasn’t been yet. He’s been in limbo ever since he got there with Mal. Ever since then, he's been going deeper and deeper to the point where he created Saito as a projection to help him "get back home" - Did you really think Saito can just pick up the phone and make murder charges disappear? No. But, Cobb believes it and thus Saito is used to thrust Cobb further and further into a state of limbo – where at the end of the journey, Cobb truly believes he is with his children after confronting and getting over his projection of Mal.
While in the limbo, Cobb, using Mal's totem, put the idea in her head that she was in the dream world. She was, she just hadn’t realized it yet. What the viewer forgets is that all knowledge of limbo comes from Cobb's character. To think that Cobb is 100% accurate about it is absolutely wrong. He wouldn't know dream from reality – not in the limbo that he describes to people – and definitely not if inception were performed on him to believe that limbo truly was the real world.
Mal and Cobb never really left limbo at least, not that layer of it. When Mal jumped off the building, she gave herself the very same "kick" that Ariadne improvised later on in the movie. Mal was right about still being in the dream world. Cobb was still engulfed in limbo and didn't realize it. When Cobb and Mal had killed themselves with the train, they simply moved one layer deeper just like Saito did when he was killed, Fischer did when he was killed, and so on (this happens again at the end of the film when Saito picks up the gun in front of Cobb).
Cobb, deep in limbo, unknowingly uses the projections of his team to keep going deeper and deeper until the idea of inception is performed on his mind, and he truly believes he was able to find a way back home. Saito's promise to Cobb was kept - in the form of Saito (a projection from Cobb) making sure that Cobb ended up in limbo, so that he could live his "life" with his kids (who are in the same position as they were all throughout the film).
The team were projections in Cobb's mind the entire time. It's how he was able to go to Miles in Paris and find an architect named Ariadne (a name which comes from a Greek mythology story about a labyrinth) who improvised the "kick" at the end of the movie the same way that Cobb had seen (but not accepted as a dream) Mal do previously when she jumped off the building. It's how Eames happened to know of Yusef, and so on and so forth. Everything Cobb needed to make this inception work happened to work out for him. It's even how Cobb's lawyer knew so quickly that Mal had gone to 3 different shrinks to be declared "sane" and how he happened to have a ticket for Cobb to be able to get out of the country before the police would have arrested him.
The movie ends with Cobb appearing from place to place, going from limbo with Saito, to the plane where Saito magically makes one phone call to free Cobb from his problems, to walking through the airport, to meeting Miles who is with Cobb's children. Cobb spins his totem and it spins just like it was a dream. He fixes his eyes on his children and the totem begins to lose speed – this is because inception has worked – Cobb truly believes he is in the real world. His totem will not spin like it did in the dream, not as long as he has his kids. The title of the film is now shown to us, making complete sense because the title was really Cobb's journey through his own mind: INCEPTION
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yadA yadA hi dharmasya gLAnirbhavati bhArata |
abhyutthAnamadharmasya tathAtmAnam s.rjAmyaham ||
As most of you would be aware about above phrase from Geeta, which in fact summarizes the jist of Mahabharatha. Now the reason I put this here is not because it is what Rajneeti tries to forcefit into its script, the actual reason is coz this movie forced me out of my slumber. So basically pissed with the Kauravas (here the movie Rajneeti), I (Krishna, forgive me to brand myself a God) m here to kill a movie which has literally stolen my peace for 3 hours. Its fun to critique a movie which has been rated high by critics all over and has become the blockbuster of this year. I usually write reviews on movies which have moved me. Rajneeti moved me cause I saw the death of the potential of so many stars, complete slander of logic and many other things. Rajneeti was a big rollercoaster ride for me (3 hours of tight sequence of events, some of which were totally irrelevant).
The movie starts off with Naseeruddin Shah and the One Night Stand between the then CMs daughter with Nasseruddin Shah who s fighting against the government.Now just to show the parallel btw Surya bhagwaan and Kuntis love and their alleged offspring Karna, Prakash Jha has to insert this scene of ONS. WHAAAAT!! Naseeruddins role is lmtd to this only ONS common gmme a break. What follows after that is a series of I m CM, m marrying my daughter to the younger brother of another political family to increase my political career, the young brother has 2 sons, one goes to US the other takes care of the family politics (he s a true brat takin advantage of a woman- totally deranged who slips her saree every microsec for a party ticket), the elder brother who s head of the party has a son who acts deranged. U mst b wondering whr our dear Katrina is, wait for te moment ppl, m sorry to disappoint u but she s der only for sm few mins. Sad but its ok so moving to next important character of Nana. This entire family is supported by a smart modern age Krishna i.e. Nana Patekar. It took me approx half an hour to understand who's who and incase u think m a bit slow, there were others in te theatre who voiced te same, so every1 cant b tht dumb.
So the sequence of events goes on and u c Ranbir (modern Arjun) returning back to India for his Tauji's bday celeb whn things go awry. Tauji (aka modern Dhritrastra) suffers a major heartattack, passes his legacy to his younger bro (modern Pandava father of Ranbir and Arjun Rampaal), son of Tauji Manoj Bajpai gets irritated on not being cast as the leader, merges with Ajay Devgan (modern Karna), kills his chacha (dad of Ranbir and blah), frames Arjun as rapist (that demented brain dead lady u remember I introduced at the beginning), Ranbir thinks like Arjun gets brother to sign the resignation papers of Party secretary, convinces Manoj Bajpai that they r leaving to U.S., Manoj drops charges, Ranbir ullu banaying him, they stay back, project Arjun Rampaal as the head, blah blah blah, Katrina marrying Arjun, Ranbirs asli pyaar phorener coming to India, they making out, Ranbir knows that Ajay has killed his dad, but Ajay kills Arjun Rampaal and the phoren maam who s carrying Ranbirs kid (another Karna in the making, but thanks to the bomb no second Mahabharatha), then blah blah blah, Katrina is the CM candidate now, she gets sympathy votes (her campaign speech is nothing but horrible, I m sure if she delivers the speech as she does in the movie she wont even garner one vote), meanwhile Ranbir and Nana manage to kill Manoj and Ajay. Uff the first half save the first 15 mins is good to watch, will keep u tied to ur seats, not boring without any songs, but falls horribly in its second half. The movie treats you to serious logic errors, I mean u r showing a political rivalry but no role of opposition party WTH (ok I understand its a family's political rivalry but no opposition party s totally blah), bomb blasts, killing a SP, CM candidate is all child's play, and upon that I ll marry u, no no wait I ll get u married to my brother because ur father wants his daughter to get married to the future CM, and then there s this scene whr a sad Nana gets into the Operation Theater where actually one s going on WHATTTT!!!!
The saving grace is the twits and turns (which are overdone a bit), Ranbir's acting, a cool Nana Patekar and the best acting by the paralyzed modern Drithrastra (kidding). There are a lot of negatives to this movie but I wish not to hurt my fingers writing it.
Rajneeti watch it (if u r too adventurous) expecting no logic. U can actually predict the plot and the subsequent scenes and would come out wondering whether u were too clever for the movie. With this I (future Krishna) sign off, I ve killed the movie, hopefully
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Though m not a gr8 fan of Chetan Bhagat, his speech at Symbiosis, Pune for the new batch of MBA students is one of my favs. Why I like this piece than most of his works is cause he touches upon certain facts of life which are unconventional in a conventional India. I have seen people struggle with their lives at the cost of simple happinesses which they sacrifice to get something bigger, to achieve some larger goals. I have seen many fail meeting the irrational humongous expectations set for them. Idea of this post is all about Joie de vivre and Carpe diem (for those who dont know this term should watch "dead poets society"). Life s not so petty to be spent on such trivial things, its all about enjoying every bit of it.
Most of us are from middle class families. To us, having material landmarks is success and rightly so. When you have grown up where money constraints force everyday choices, financial freedom is a big achievement. But it isn’t the purpose of life. If that was the case, Mr. Ambani would not show up for work. Shah Rukh Khan would stay at home and not dance anymore. Steve Jobs won’t be working hard to make a better iPhone, as he sold Pixar for billions of dollars already. Why do they do it? What makes them come to work everyday? They do it because it makes them happy. They do it because it makes them feel alive Just getting better from current levels feels good. If you study hard, you can improve your rank. If you make an effort to interact with people, you will do better in interviews. If you practice, your cricket will get better. You may also know that you cannot become Tendulkar, yet. But you can get to the next level. Striving for that next level is important.
Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature’s design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.
"There is no point of getting a promotion on the day of your breakup. There is no fun in driving a car if your back hurts. Shopping is not enjoyable if your mind is full of tensions."
You must have read some quotes – Life is a tough race, it is a marathon or whatever. No, from what I have seen so far, life is one of those races in nursery school, where you have to run with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls, there is no point coming first. Same with life, where health and relationships are the marble. Your striving is only worth it if there is harmony in your life. Else, you may achieve the success, but this spark, this feeling of being excited and alive, will start to die.
One last thing about nurturing the spark – don’t take life seriously. One of my yoga teachers used to make students laugh during classes. One student asked him if these jokes would take away something from the yoga practice. The teacher said – don’t be serious, be sincere. This quote has defined my work ever since. Whether its my writing, my job, my relationships or any of my goals. I get thousands of opinions on my writing everyday. There is heaps of praise, there is intense criticism. If I take it all seriously, how will I write? Or rather, how will I live? Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. "We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity". If we are lucky, we may last another 50 years. And 50 years is just 2,500 weekends. Do we really need to get so worked up? It’s ok, bunk a few classes, goof up a few interviews, fall in love. We are people, not programmed devices.
What did this failure teach me? is the question you will need to ask. You will feel miserable. You will want to quit, like I wanted to when nine publishers rejected my first book. Some IITians kill themselves over low grades – how silly is that? But that is how much failure can hurt you. But it’s life. If challenges could always be overcome, they would cease to be a challenge. And remember – if you are failing at something, that means you are at your limit or potential. And that’s where you want to be.
Have you ever been frustrated? It happens when things are stuck. This is especially relevant in India. From traffic jams to getting that job you deserve, sometimes things take so long that you don’t know if you chose the right goal. After books, I set the goal of writing for Bollywood, as I thought they needed writers. I am called extremely lucky, but it took me five years to get close to a release. Frustration saps excitement, and turns your initial energy into something negative, making you a bitter person. How did I deal with it? A realistic assessment of the time involved – movies take a long time to make even though they are watched quickly, seeking a certain enjoyment in the process rather than the end result – at least I was learning how to write scripts, having a side plan – I had my third book to write and even something as simple as pleasurable distractions in your life – friends, food, travel can help you overcome it. Remember, nothing is to be taken seriously. Frustration is a sign somewhere, you took it too seriously.
People with connections, rich dads, beautiful faces, pedigree find it easier to make it – not just in Bollywood, but everywhere. And sometimes it is just plain luck. There are so few opportunities in India, so many stars need to be aligned for you to make it happen. Merit and hard work is not always linked to achievement in the short term, but the long term correlation is high, and ultimately things do work out. But realize, there will be some people luckier than you. In fact, to have an opportunity to go to college and understand this speech in English means you are pretty damm lucky by Indian standards. Let’s be grateful for what we have and get the strength to accept what we don’t.
Chetan Bhagat
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