Off Late

The annual cake show hosted by Nilgiris this year, greatly hyped by me was sorely disappointing! When I first saw the hoarding advertising the show, I was quite excited. The cake show turned out to be one big hall with a massive Taj Mahal (very nicely done) and a destroyer. On the sidelines were 10 nicely designed cakes! But the main drawback to this was the exhibition which was twice the size of the cake show itself. Loads and loads and loads of sales guys selling unwanted stuff at bloated prices which pissed me off! Sad to see the cake show in this state!

I’ve been on a movie spree of sorts! Watched Avatar in 3D which certainly turned out to be a very different and brilliant experience. James Cameron’s Jake Sully and the mildly erotic Na’avi female create magic on screen and entertain a person thoroughly! At a time when Global Warming is gaining importance, the reverence with which the aliens treat their world is refreshing and gives one hope that one day we might realize how important ours is! I remember a dialogue by Agent Smith in The Matrix which denounces humans and the way we suffocate life around us. Pandora’s landscape is truly mesmerizing!

The second experience was not all that great. I went and watched Vettaikaran, a Tamil movie which starred Vijay and Anushka Shetty. A child born out of wedlock between a brain dead Godzilla and a Cocaine addicted Marlin Manson could not have enjoyed this movie! It involved the hero flying and smashing people at varying angles in a world with lesser gravitational pull than the Earth. Newton would have shot the director, rushed him to a hospital, saved him and then shoot him again after watching this movie. The heroine is bloody hot and there is hardly any comedy. The songs are the usual thump thump thump numbers with the side artists dressed in the worst of attires. All I was left with after the movie was a mild headache and a strong sense of satisfaction when I used the loo after the movie!

P.S: it also involves the hero riding a horse once or twice as a cowboy! Brrrrr