Monday, June 24, 2019

The ✅DONE GROUP - physical well-being contribution

Important to contribute at least 30 min daily ( min) to your own physical well-being

I started this as a small exercise in micro what’s app groups with family / cousins / friends and office colleagues  called  “ Done” groups

You do a physical exercise Everyday be it walking or Swimming or yoga daily and then put a “DONE” on the group.  (It is not really about doing 21 km marathons every six months  which is good of course, but more about a more sustained health commitment.)

That way others who read and their families will get charged up and the talk and act of wellness spreads and contribute to better health and positive thinking. Nowadays people focus more on ‘Dones’ than useless forwards 🙂

Do what the doctor advises as per your personal health condition of course . Everyone need not do heavy duty exercising in competition but custom designed to one’s own capabilities and health conditions.

But do something everyday .😊👍

Sunday, June 23, 2019

The magic of the slums ...lured Hollywood again

Just exited from a show of the extraordinary ‘story’ of the legendary fakir...

I was like “ duh” . The story  is anything but extraordinary. Wonder what a sincere Dhanush saw in this pathetic excuse of a story that continues in true Hollywood style pandering to that worn out lazy slum dog millionaire environ to stage a story that seems to have been written on half a full scape paper

The white actors none of who seem recognisable appear overawed to appear in the magical orient eastern movie sensing a possible Oscar purely for the poverty oozing sets that the academies so lusts for.

The directions story telling is so patchy and jerky that you never get to know the characters or feel for them. A French Father, am hard working Indian Mother ( incidentally the more sincere effort of the actor) some nonsense of going to the TOP of the Eiffel Tower and then sending a paper plane down , magic which seems to be used randomly to establish the main characters background, something about illegal immigrants , some dry English humour , a sudden musical launches by a British immigration officer ( the second character who tries to make something out of nothing ), unknown poor white actors spread across the landscape lazily mouthing dialogues without any feeling, Loy or poor people thrown in for good measure so that the west can savor. Absolutely No coherent script
A wasted opportunity really. I liked that small boy though who plays dhanush’s younger version .
One positive is that Indians don’t speak English in some whacked out way and are not mocked at and it is interesting to watch propah English in the slums of Mumbai.

When the slums do disappear from Mumbai as they will in the next three years , Hollywood will have an empty feeling.

An absolute waste of a perfect Sunday evening