OM KARA
Went to the movie on the shortest possible notice, again precariously perched on the auto. And once in the theatre, found a patient guy who can help me with my hindi comprehension and sat near him. Saif Ali Khan plays the role of a sniper (without a scope though) in the gang. The movie opens with Saif marking a baarath bus’ tire, thus stopping Kareena’s wedding. Prior to it Kareena falls in love with Ajay because he has injured his shoulder. I am not kidding. Kareena plays a very optimistic role. Once when Ajay comes to her home, she gives him a cup of coffee with her engagement ring in it. Kareena’s positive intuition and the hot coffee prevents Ajay from swallowing it.
As Ajay is shifting to politics, he is forced to find a successor for his gang. Vivek Oberoi gets picked up inspite of Saif’s seniority. This forms the crux of the movie. As there is no legal way in which Saif can snatch the leadership which he feels he deserves, he resorts to artifice. He spins an affair between Kareena and Vivek and makes Ajay believe it. Bipasha Basu’s role has been woven into the main story to have two item numbers. Also Konkana Sen plays the role of a village belle. As there are six stars in the movie, the director has made use of a simple means to identify the couple combinations. If two people of the opposite sex have an ornate hip bracelet with them when together, it means they are a couple and you can guess what will happen next. Now between all this entertainment, the gang goes on with its job increasing its frag count. At a stage of the movie when you start to feel that the cops have been significantly absent, guess who turns up as cops. Our own Ajay and Saif and still more fragging.
Finally Saif is given a deadline for proving la affair. I first misunderstood the deadline to be the morning of the marriage. But it turned out to be just before first night. Saif finally cooks up some crazy call in which it seems like Vivek’s reading of a paper written by Saif. Our gullible Ajay believes it. Now starts the killing spree. Whatever ways you think people can die, they do here. Kareena is smothered to death with a pillow by Ajay. Konkana confesses that she had stolen the ornate bracelet. So now Ajay turns on Saif. Then loses interest and chases them away. Then comes the sudden revelation that he is a necrophile. Later Konkana surprises Saif with a sickle and slits his throat. Now with too many confusions about who was right and who wasn’t, the director chose to end the movie allowing Ajay to kill himself thus saving our time and the reels

MY NEW LIFE

Finding time to blog when in a b-school is not that difficult once the professors allow us to use laptops in the class. But till situations become that idealistic, I have got to exploit innocent faculty teaching refresher courses like mathematics.

First let me begin with my college. Though a startup and people being skeptical about it, the institute is in the hands of dedicated people who don’t show the slackness often associated with government employees. Also the investment on the temporary campus is enormous and shows the resolve to make IIFT-K a success.

About Kolkata now. Salt lake city is the poshest area in Kolkata and is in everyway opposite to how people usually picture Kolkata. Folklore here says Salt lake is actually land that has been reclaimed from a lake. That’s hard to believe as salt lake is as wide as 5 Km in diameter. As Dominique Lapierre narrates, non motorized rickshaws are still aplenty here. And surely I have to mention about the ‘ultadangas’. That’s how motorized autos here are called. With every passing day we are setting records for maximum capacity of an auto and surpassing them promptly the next day. As of now it stands at 7. In the evening people usually queue up at important junctions to hire autos. And believe me, the queue can be longer than in a busy ATM. Buses here are also weird. The seats are like 4 inches wide and only along the periphery and so are the tickets (5cm*1cm). Yellow colored taxis are also ubiquitous. And hiring them is very much like asking for a lift. You can only go to the location the driver intends. Long live communism.

About b-school life. The course is designed to be very rigorous. But that is only applicable if you don’t understand how the system works. No different from management books, the professors too are verbose and convey little. So it is up to you to separate the grains from the chaff. The most important benefit of being in a b-school is having a wi-fi enabled laptop. As long as orkut and ym are around, life is going to rock. And everything connected with the course is usually done using powerpoint. And this is the most exciting part of it. Most of the exams have only MCQs. Now why are you showing your teeth??