Pubbing ......very different meaning when you enter the US of A.
Back in India.....when I used to go with my friends....pubbing mainly referred to going to a shady smoke filled bar with lot of people jammed into a tiny space.
Go on drinking until the limits of consciousness were stretched...all the while reiterating that I was not drunk and I would not have someone say otherwise...:P
Out here in Boston, pubbing is a way to meet people socially....getting drunk and behaving like an ass is a strict no-no. The first pub night that I attended....I was lost as usual......standing on the sidelines awkwardly holding a beer I was the picture of "FOB" (Fresh of the boat).
Did try to get into a game of snooker with a couple of chinese...who played so well I wondered why they didn't take it up professionally.
There is an unspoken contract between Desis when we meet in a pub(before we had our drinks)......though we may have shared food in the same vessel.....out in the open we dare not show that we are good friends :P....
It's just a casual "How you doing man"?/....and just move on to the next chinese or american.
For us international students even pubbing is an event to be taken seriously.......every occasion is a golden knock by the elusive contact who would finally hook us up with our "dream" job.
I was told by my seniors to move around with as many people I could find....of course there are political sidelines.....there is the distinctive line between the I.T and Finance guys.....since I belong to both the families.....I am a favourite of neither party :P.....
But as it's said all facade fade when the level of alcohol in the blood increases beyond a certain point......As the glasses on the table pile up......we desis start forming small groups or cocoons I should say.......slowly the camraderie builds and then the fun begins....:P
The talk shifts from being sophisticated to "who was seen in whose room "......:P.....why certain females resemble the female counterpart of a dog...and why certain males are like serpents in the garden of eden...:P
Ahhhh....Pure joy.....I always tire quickly of appearing sophisticated and am normally the first ones to become truly desi on the pub floor....scaring away the poor americans with my loud , boisterous talk....:P.....I have been warned many times that if this continues the number of friends that I have will be limited to single digits.....
Desi girls do visit these pub's just to be part of the "In" crowd.....lot of us try our luck....:P.....surreptiously building an image that we hope the female would start to like......but the female species always in possession of their wits .......play along with us.....encouraging all our overtures.....finally to introduce us to their boyfriends....who was always in the shade laughing his ass off at us...:P.....
whatever may be the result......I am better off attending these events ...as they let me make a fool of myself...:P.....making me realize that its the fools and the irrational idiots who have all the fun....
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Enthiran...Thailavaaaaaaaaaaaa....:P
Thailavaaaa....:P......a blood curdling yell greeted me as I entered the cinema hall in Boston, wondering how "demi god" Rajni would be received by the people here....
God is truly omnipotent....nay maybe more potent in USA ...as we pay 30$ for a seat to enjoy his antics........Setting aside the fact that we may be converting Mr. Maran's Black moolah to white......Enthiran is a superb pot-broiler......
A slightly aging Aishwarya looks perfect for Rajni........As his image panned across the screen I found myself being swept in the Adrenaline-rush.....To my own chagrin I found myself standing up and hooting into the air...enjoying the rush that comes with being primeval....
That's the thing I guess.....hero-worship does work wonders.....I found my sober mindset again coming out of the mundane groove...and trying to put myself into the actor's shoes......For a couple of hours I forgot that I need to save dollars, get an internship....maybe apply to a couple of companies......living in the moment.....I was thrilled.....hair standing on end.....what mattered was whether Aishwarya is saved form the clutches of Baddie Robo Rajni......
The story if I am not wrong comes from an author who goes by the pen-name "sujatha"....a very renowned Tamil author who apparently revolutionized the thinking of the masses......
I am yet to read his works but I have been told that his writings are beautifully descriptive and I have always been fascinated by the descriptive/romantic style of Tamil language....
I think I miss out on a lot of such good authors, who write only in the regional language......if there was an "enthiram" to convert each book into english with the emotions intact......what a transfer of ideas it would be........
or maybe a Binary language/common substratum which each human could understand instinctively, could help the transfer of ideas more easily...:P
Coming back to the movie......Robo Rajni gets "corrupted" by the human baser emotions which apparently makes us different from the animals....sentience....is brutally punished .....as the baser emotions can be solely enjoyed by the one who is created by nature.....and not one created by man.....sort of the same expectation we have from men of god......
If a young man commits youthful indiscretions....he is maybe forgiven by a puritan society......but not so in the case of holy men....slight deviation from what society expects from them and they are torn apart.....because we want to see them fall....what greater joy than seeing a highly evolved person being subject to the same dilemmas that we face and succumb to it....:P
Obviously in the end..."human" Rajni triumphs,....but somewhere deep down I wanted the "Robo" Rajni to take home the bacon......He was the better guy here....he just obeyed his instincts without seeming hypocritical and says candidly "I want Sana (Aishwaryas character) DOT"......simple...I want it and I will have it.......
A better climax would have been if Robo Rajni impregnates Aishwaryas character and creates the Robo sapien.......and then finally realizes that Life is more than wanting and having ......poisoned by intellect undergo the same existential dilemma that homo sapien goes through but with the additional cross of immortality......
Irrespective...Thalaivaaa rocks...solely for his ability to create mass hysteria....for giving me a high on life......making me understand that life is enjoyed in momentous spurts and for providing me with a enjoyable time slot in the time-space curve :P:P
God is truly omnipotent....nay maybe more potent in USA ...as we pay 30$ for a seat to enjoy his antics........Setting aside the fact that we may be converting Mr. Maran's Black moolah to white......Enthiran is a superb pot-broiler......
A slightly aging Aishwarya looks perfect for Rajni........As his image panned across the screen I found myself being swept in the Adrenaline-rush.....To my own chagrin I found myself standing up and hooting into the air...enjoying the rush that comes with being primeval....
That's the thing I guess.....hero-worship does work wonders.....I found my sober mindset again coming out of the mundane groove...and trying to put myself into the actor's shoes......For a couple of hours I forgot that I need to save dollars, get an internship....maybe apply to a couple of companies......living in the moment.....I was thrilled.....hair standing on end.....what mattered was whether Aishwarya is saved form the clutches of Baddie Robo Rajni......
The story if I am not wrong comes from an author who goes by the pen-name "sujatha"....a very renowned Tamil author who apparently revolutionized the thinking of the masses......
I am yet to read his works but I have been told that his writings are beautifully descriptive and I have always been fascinated by the descriptive/romantic style of Tamil language....
I think I miss out on a lot of such good authors, who write only in the regional language......if there was an "enthiram" to convert each book into english with the emotions intact......what a transfer of ideas it would be........
or maybe a Binary language/common substratum which each human could understand instinctively, could help the transfer of ideas more easily...:P
Coming back to the movie......Robo Rajni gets "corrupted" by the human baser emotions which apparently makes us different from the animals....sentience....is brutally punished .....as the baser emotions can be solely enjoyed by the one who is created by nature.....and not one created by man.....sort of the same expectation we have from men of god......
If a young man commits youthful indiscretions....he is maybe forgiven by a puritan society......but not so in the case of holy men....slight deviation from what society expects from them and they are torn apart.....because we want to see them fall....what greater joy than seeing a highly evolved person being subject to the same dilemmas that we face and succumb to it....:P
Obviously in the end..."human" Rajni triumphs,....but somewhere deep down I wanted the "Robo" Rajni to take home the bacon......He was the better guy here....he just obeyed his instincts without seeming hypocritical and says candidly "I want Sana (Aishwaryas character) DOT"......simple...I want it and I will have it.......
A better climax would have been if Robo Rajni impregnates Aishwaryas character and creates the Robo sapien.......and then finally realizes that Life is more than wanting and having ......poisoned by intellect undergo the same existential dilemma that homo sapien goes through but with the additional cross of immortality......
Irrespective...Thalaivaaa rocks...solely for his ability to create mass hysteria....for giving me a high on life......making me understand that life is enjoyed in momentous spurts and for providing me with a enjoyable time slot in the time-space curve :P:P
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