It has become quiet a habit now – watch movies between internals. There were days, when I used to mark the dates on the calendar and count the number of days remaining. Atleast, I had fear then. Now…

About the movie…

I had watched Ramesh’s previous 2 movies as director. As an actor, I had liked the versatility in him. Since I was not “impressed” with his first 2 movies (I enjoyed, though), I had no expectations. The only thing I knew was this was a suspense thriller kinda movie. In the first 15 minutes you’ll get introduced to the theme of the story – an accident, or is it?

Our hero, Ramesh is an RJ. His wife, Rekha is a school teacher. She is killed in the ‘car – train collision’. Ramesh suspects this to be a murder. She had involvements in social activities, which he thinks has led to the murder. He, along with his friends, hunt for clues. That’s all I will say. What’s the point in me telling you the story of a suspense movie!

There are a couple of songs, I felt absurd. Songs in movies – I feel – remind us that everything happening can’t be true. This movie specially, although they were OK, I didn’t enjoy. The cast, which included Rekha, Pooja Gandhi, Mohan, and Thilak, had no depth in their character. The RJs, played a “blink and you miss” part in the movie. Nothing special with the direction. The story was OK for a suspense movie. Of course, there were domains where you could say, “Hey, that’s bogus”. Especially the last quarter of the movie, you get to say this quiet a few times.

Despite these, the movie is quiet an entertainer. You’ll be at your seats for the 2 hours of the movie. The movie belongs entirely to Ramesh. He is very natural, as always. Thanks to him again, he has not given anyone a bigger role as none of them are able to don bigger characters. On the whole, the movie is worth the money you spend. You won’t be coming back feeling “I want my money back”. I’m giving this a modest 3 stars out of 5.

One thing I want to clarify. Although I haven't watched the old "Accident", from what I have heard, this has nothing to do the old one.

My Rating: * * * for 5

The week that was...

From Sunday to Sunday, perhaps it was the most eventful week ever. What more could I ask? It all stated on 30^th march. Dad had been telling about the “Chitte Park” in Bannerghatta. Chitte? There are lots of them in our college, I was thinking of telling him. I had to be alive to write this blog, so I didn’t dare.

Mom’s cousin, Manu too was enthusiastic about this picnic thing. And on 30^th, we filled our vehicle’s tank full of fuel and started off… It had been a while since I had visited, so, it was refreshing. With my little cousin, Navya, it was still refreshing. I have visited Bannerghatta 5 times now. It has become a tradition now that whenever I go there, it rains. Oh man, this time, it lashed out hard. We had shelter, and had rest for about an hour.

Tuesday came… That was the day we went to our college with...er… our uniforms. There was a mini photo session, with all the mobiles clicking everywhere in class. The class was on fire – literally. We were like, baked in an Owen. But, most of them looked descent. After all, we are professional engineers in the making…

As the week progressed, the class strength kept coming down – like a negative exponential slope. By Saturday, we were roughly only 25 in class. It happened so, that I had bunked the previous day, but present on Saturday. One subject’s internal blue book was yet to be corrected. The lecturer came on Saturday and announced that those present that day would be getting the full marks. Wow… this was too good to be happening, I thought. But the lucky fairy was in our court. There had been a change in lecturer and the new one had too little time left to do all these correction stuff. Poor girls, they never seem to bunk classes, they were absent that day! So, here is my word of advice – especially to the girls - attend classes regularly, like me (I will be beaten for that, I can sense that!)

Was that it? Wait. Again, Sunday came, it was another picnic. This time around, it was huge. Nearly 40 from my mom’s family came together. We had to get a mini bus booked for us. It was a trip to “Karighatta” - a place near Srirangapattana. With all my cousins together, place didn’t matter. We had the last seats of the bus for us. You know how it could be. Believe me, it was much noisier. We all dived into the river in the afternoon, although we were not supposed to. Then on, the elders visited the “Nimishamba” temple. What we did? We caught all those who had money to get us something to eat or drink.

Well, after all this, it was Ugadi on Monday! What better week could I ask for?

Here are a couple of links... Do check them out.

http://picasaweb.google.com/bharaths9688/BannerghattaPicnic?authkey=Wp-hkshRGO8

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/bharaths9688/1stDayInUniform?authkey=zY2v0W91fi0

http://picasaweb.google.com/ksuhasu/BigFamilyTrip

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/bharaths9688/SrirangapattanaTrip?authkey=afdcv3dzx-c

And now, the week that will be…

I’m waking up myself after this great week to face my internals. This semester, I’ve been fooling around. Don’t know how I will manage this internals, because there is a truck-load to study. Now, for all those of you reading my blog, I request you to pray for me. That’s probably the only way I could pass this test.