Yeah, that's what I feel. Simply because he makes movies which run for 4 hours. Isn't that ridiculous, had it been a Hollywood production, they would made 3 sequels out of that. That's how the Hollywood industry survives I think.
Coming to Mr. Johar. he puts all his money into one movie which runs for 4 hours, has around 5 leading actors of Bollywood and shoots in all exotic locations around the world. God knows whether he makes any profit out of it and how he manages that. Well for sure his movies run houseful. But he can also have 3 houseful movies instead, as it is Shahrukh's movies are bound to run houseful and K.J. doesn't know how to make movies without Shahrukh.
So I would advice KJ, to take Shahrukh and make 3 movies in the same budget and make more money.
The other problem with his movies, he doesn't how much problem it causes to the audiences. For once, the movie shows that start at 10 or 11 PM run into odd hours of night/morning. And when I went to a theatre to watch KANK at 11 PM I couldn't find a parking. Cannot blame the theatre owners. They cant help it. See for 11 PM show we would arrive at 10:45 at least. So at that point, we would have 4 shows running, 7,8,9 and 10 PM shows. All houseful.
And another disadvantage you cannot release a DVD version with uncut scenes. Come on, it already has 4 hours of movie. With 1 interval. He should at least give a second interval. Poor audiences.
And see Ram Gopal Verma, he makes 1.5 hr movies with all new actors. Who cares if the movie flops. The money is back.. Because some people would definitely go to see the girls and nach-gana, isn't it?
I tell you KJ had made 1/3rd of the profit, he could have made out of KANK, had he released it in sequels. You bet.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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Thursday, October 05, 2006
I love my job!
There have been numerous instances where I had been tempted to leave my job, but somewhere inside i am happy that I had not taken that decision. Because frankly this job has given me some funny moments. Well not sure if you would find them funny or not.
Like the other day my manager said that a new manager would be joining her in the projects she is handling now. Nothing funny in that but the fact that I am the only developer working under her. Now, I also get adhoc requests from other manager, some HD issues etc. But she is my manager who primarily assigns me work.
The point is if another manager would be helping her, it implies that I have to handle two managers at a time. You know taking work from both of them. So instead of a manager handling 2-3 developers, me the developer would be handling 2 managers. Seems like we have an overflow of managers and are short of people who actually do the work .
Today my manager also asked me whether she can go for lunch, as there was a production deployment scheduled. And I gave her the permission, to be specific I said "I think you can go for lunch, if you can come back soon. Otherwise also I don't see much issue here."
Like the other day my manager said that a new manager would be joining her in the projects she is handling now. Nothing funny in that but the fact that I am the only developer working under her. Now, I also get adhoc requests from other manager, some HD issues etc. But she is my manager who primarily assigns me work.
The point is if another manager would be helping her, it implies that I have to handle two managers at a time. You know taking work from both of them. So instead of a manager handling 2-3 developers, me the developer would be handling 2 managers. Seems like we have an overflow of managers and are short of people who actually do the work .
Today my manager also asked me whether she can go for lunch, as there was a production deployment scheduled. And I gave her the permission, to be specific I said "I think you can go for lunch, if you can come back soon. Otherwise also I don't see much issue here."
Friday, September 29, 2006
Difficult Times
Well 3 months has passed, but the eagerness to go back to India has gone through the changes. It reached its crest and has subdued a little after that. It's not my home I am missing, not the Indian food. It's something else, rather someone else. It's hard to define the feelings, or give them the proper name. While everyone else would name it something but I would defer. Rather I am not comfortable in accepting that I have THAT feeling for her!
Oh! Shoot me, I like talking in jumbled words, and yes I won't take names. There is no point in that. Because what I am discussing is the feeling, not the person.
Coming to the point, is it rational to leave an opportunity of a lifetime for a friend. When you know, in return you can only expect some good time of around six months. Well good time means essentially some fun moments, weekend getaways etc. All of which you can have now too but alas not With your best friend.
I don't have the answer frankly, because there seems to be another aspect to it. What if the best friend really needs you? She wont ask you to come back only because she needs somebody to talk to. As she said she didn't ask for it even to her boy-friend. Of course she wont ask me too. But the fact is she needs somebody at her side, in some way or other. The decision I have to take is this, knowing that she needs some one close besides her, knowing that once this period is over, I may not get to spend time with her, knowing that not being with her for so long cultivates the risk of her making new friends (GOD forbid even a new best friend), would I still refuse the eagerness to go back and stick to the plan of making money for the future. A future that may be good or may be regretful. Because if you ask I am a person, who always regretted his actions in past. I have held back my feelings every time and have regretted about that some way or other.
I don't know what would have been the consequences if I had chosen to go by those feelings. I might have regretted them too. But there is no way to know.
The most frightening thought is what if I take the decision emotionally and I have regret about it later. It would be a disaster, at the least. And I may start hating her for this. That's not what I want to do. I love her, and want to love her till the end.
Oh! Shoot me, I like talking in jumbled words, and yes I won't take names. There is no point in that. Because what I am discussing is the feeling, not the person.
Coming to the point, is it rational to leave an opportunity of a lifetime for a friend. When you know, in return you can only expect some good time of around six months. Well good time means essentially some fun moments, weekend getaways etc. All of which you can have now too but alas not With your best friend.
I don't have the answer frankly, because there seems to be another aspect to it. What if the best friend really needs you? She wont ask you to come back only because she needs somebody to talk to. As she said she didn't ask for it even to her boy-friend. Of course she wont ask me too. But the fact is she needs somebody at her side, in some way or other. The decision I have to take is this, knowing that she needs some one close besides her, knowing that once this period is over, I may not get to spend time with her, knowing that not being with her for so long cultivates the risk of her making new friends (GOD forbid even a new best friend), would I still refuse the eagerness to go back and stick to the plan of making money for the future. A future that may be good or may be regretful. Because if you ask I am a person, who always regretted his actions in past. I have held back my feelings every time and have regretted about that some way or other.
I don't know what would have been the consequences if I had chosen to go by those feelings. I might have regretted them too. But there is no way to know.
The most frightening thought is what if I take the decision emotionally and I have regret about it later. It would be a disaster, at the least. And I may start hating her for this. That's not what I want to do. I love her, and want to love her till the end.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Heads Or Tails!
It's quite amazing to me how your life and your wishes can change so rapidly. Not more than 1 year back, I was very much looking forward to coming to US. All that wish took a back seat around October and I was pretty much happy with it. Although the eagerness of coming here was still there, I was happy enough to postpone the date of that becoming a reality. I knew I had to come here soon.
But still those 5 months were one of the happiest times, I wish they never ended. I wished I had the guts to refuse the onsite offer. But as I said the eagerness had not died, it was still there. It was still thinking of my future, my plans. I had to succumb. One of those times when your heart and mind do not agree with each other.
And now when I am here, I wish I had refused the offer. Sometimes life gives you difficult choices. Enjoy today, let future take care of itself or work today and try for your future enjoyment. If you ask me now I would go with the first option. But I really hope the second one is better, because that's what I had to choose.
The next question on my mind is, "How far can a person go for his friendship?"
But still those 5 months were one of the happiest times, I wish they never ended. I wished I had the guts to refuse the onsite offer. But as I said the eagerness had not died, it was still there. It was still thinking of my future, my plans. I had to succumb. One of those times when your heart and mind do not agree with each other.
And now when I am here, I wish I had refused the offer. Sometimes life gives you difficult choices. Enjoy today, let future take care of itself or work today and try for your future enjoyment. If you ask me now I would go with the first option. But I really hope the second one is better, because that's what I had to choose.
The next question on my mind is, "How far can a person go for his friendship?"
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