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Lessons…

March 11, 2009 by Haas

Never ever pass up an opportunity to celebrate anything.

Lessons…

March 5, 2009 by Haas

The two things you should never delay telling someone are “Thank you” and “Sorry”

A lot of people warned me about watching Delhi 6, the reviews weren’t entirely flattering and a lot of my friends simply refused to watch the movie. Despite all that I was determined to watch the movie and judge it for myself. One of the best decisions I have made off late :)

Delhi 6 is possibly the best encore Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra could have made after Rang De Basanti. The two movies deep down endured the same villains and told beautiful narratives yet the fact that Rang De Basanti was such a huge success, I think has more to do the subtle difference in the message between the two movies.

Understanding Friends…

February 28, 2009 by Haas

A couple of days back while discussing with my friends we hit upon an interesting subject. The point of focus was one of us and the argument was mostly directed at the person. The gist of the idea was what struck me the most. The premise was that most of my friends shared their ideas, problems and daily events to one of my friends who is an amazing listener. What they felt was that it was unfair that they never got the opportunity to return the favor. This person felt that the idea of bothering someone with his/her problems would simply waste their time (and would not interest them).

I wont go into where the argument swayed and what we learned about ourselves but rather I will use this opportunity to tell you a story from my life that is pretty similar, which I have been waiting for a while to narrate…

How could a ‘Slumdog’ win so much?

February 24, 2009 by Haas

That seems to be the question on the minds of a lot of people. I have heard people calling the movie “overrated”, saying that “Rehman has made better music”, “there weren’t enough nominees”, “would it have won the oscar if an Indian had done it” and questioning the “depiction of India”.

Honestly I am not normally bothered by opinions. I accept that its just another opinion and as important as mine and move on. But in this case I find the arguments ‘unconvincing'(I am putting it mildly to avoid insulting anyone). Now lets examine each of the arguments…