Ripples on the brain

I guess I needed some sort of a change as things were getting a bit mundane. What a better way to do that than a new project, change of location and opportunity for direct interaction. After about half a dozen flip flops that threatened to throw plans out of gear, I finally landed in the US last night.

I think I was in one of my longest flights between Dubai and JFK, NY (something between 13 and 16 hours). I watched three movies on the flight (and actually one movie thrice - didn’t realize that I had slept as the movie made one full run) each of average length 2 hours and still had so much time to kill. Towards the end, it became too difficult to endure. I don’t know how people manage direct flights from Mumbai to JFK. I landed pretty late at the hotel. Emirates has a good in-flight entertainment system. I got to watch 2 Hrishida’s movies - Chupke Chupke and Golmaal. I also watched Billu, Santosh Subramaniam and Mugavari. I wish they had some more new Tamil movies. Clubbing Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu along with Hindi movies in the Bolllywood category was not a good idea.

I liked Billu (remake of Kuselan or Kathaparayumbol) except for those forced songs, all of which sounded the same. The climax was not very realistic - they could have tweaked that a little bit. Irrfan, as usual, made us get into his character, Lara Dutta wasn’t so convincing with her starched and colourful sarees and designer blouses in the midst of poverty. Overall, I was surprised the movie ran so badly in Hindi. In Tamil, I can understand why - P Vasu killed the nice storyline.

This morning I’m excited about the new assignment. I have lot of things to complete, both on the job and personally, this week. Hopefully, jet lag will not linger long and come in the way. Looking forward to a busy next 3 weeks. I also hope to keep my blog updated with a lot of personal stuff. Who reads it anyway!