Jaane tu, maan gaye Mughal-E-Singh is King… Rock On!! – A review of sorts…

Against my better judgment I have been exposed to the Bollywood side of life in Mumbai! Over the past couple of months I have seen a few Hindi movies which have left me wondering if I could get back the lost time of my life!! Though the last movie was good and I thoroughly enjoyed it! :-)

Jaane Tu – a college romance, way too sweet for my cup of tea left me wondering why oh why they made a movie where there was a funeral for a pet and a song to make the owner smile after the funeral!! I mean hello!! Is anyone listening? If you needed an excuse to have a song (which Hindi movies rarely do!) just make the heroine sad and get the hero to sing to her anyways! The only commendable performance was of Prateik Patil and that gave me the much needed oxygen to sit through the movie!

Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam – a really really really stupid movie!! The movie had the saddest dialogues that I have ever heard BUT if you are in the mood to watch some real stupid Hindi flick by keeping your brains out at the door then maybe just maybe you will be able to sit through this weird contraption. Though I must say that Mallika Sherawat has worked on toning her body and is looking really good in all the songs!

Singh is King – the only thing that kept me alive through this movie is that I watched it at home (and could do other stuff) and that it had fun Punjabi dialogues in it. Akshay Kumar as a sardar – not awesome acting but his turbans were tied very well!! Katrina – well the less said about her the better… and it had the usual hindi movie ending and the usual girl going back to the hero.. Well, whatever appeals to the masses!

Rock On – 4 guys, out of which two were HUNKS ;-) one was a cutie and the fourth looked like he was on drugs! The music rocked and kept me humming the whole day long, so much so that the main song of the movie is my phone’s ringtone! The story wasn’t fantastic; the acting was decent, though the female roles in the movie made me wonder what were they doing??!! All in all a decent movie, with good music is what kept me wanting for more…

Chalo Police Station…

How many times have you wanted to say this to the “intentionally” deaf and irritating rickshaw and taxi drivers? How many times do you think – I should report him? If you are like me who travels everyday via the local transport in amchi Mumbai then I bet you have definitely thought of this once a month at the least!!! :-)

And the day dawned that I made up my mind to do just that! Today!! As usual I was “begging” the passing rickshaw drivers to stop and take me to my destination – a regular morning exercise, when I realised that there were suddenly a number of them refusing to go to the same destination not only to me but to other stranded passengers too. Turning to my colleague, I stated that we should just get into and sit inside one of the black and yellow coloured beetle shaped contractions without informing them of our destination.

As one of them approached I jumped into the auto and stated my destination to which the driver turned and said “Nahi jayega! (will not go)”. By then I had reached the last strand of my patience and I told him that if he didn’t want to take me to my destination then to take me to the nearest Police Station where I could make a complaint against him. With sarcasm he said, sure, he would take me to the police station. As he started his vehicle, he began to give me an explanation about why he would not be going to my destination – apparently the clutch of his auto was giving him trouble. I replied that if that was the case then, why was his meter showing “For Hire”? To this he replied that the meter had no connection whatsoever to the situation. If this dialogue had happened in a calm manner maybe I would have stepped off and looked for another rickshaw, but the driver thought that he could get away by speaking arrogantly to a female and that is something that I would not accept!!

So, I proceeded to the Police Station, wherein when I went in to register a complaint I was received with politeness and a ready helping hand. At the moment I was registering my complaint, the haughtiness vanished from the driver’s demeanor and his tone dripped with sugar as he tried explaining his point of view to the police inspector who was kindly ignoring him till the formalities with me were completed. After my complaint was registered the police officer went a step ahead and being a complete gentleman stopped another rickshaw for me to continue to office. With a smile and a huge thank you I stepped in and made my way to work.

As I made my way towards office, I felt a sense of pride that I had stood up for my rights and was not reduced to dancing to the whims and fancies of the rickshaw drivers! So don’t get trodden over by the uncaring and rude drivers, just go ahead and assert yourself and say “Chalo Police Station!!” :-)