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3 idiots – Part I

This is not a movie review, just my instant reactions. This post may also not be well written, as are my other posts. All characters are represented by their real life names. (Viz. AK will mean Amir Khan) As most of the movie starring AK that goes along well with a narration or rewinding the past, 3 idiots also started in the present, collating traces from past and knitting them well to keep the audience guessing. What is new this time? AK who is 44, already looks 22 in the promo, what now? The movie tries to focus on the morale that routine style of teaching will not help face struggle in life. Scoring high marks neither. It also seemed to carry forward the dialogue from TZP, “ Race hi jeetna hai to ghode paida karo insaan nahi ”. It contained good sense of humor as well but sometimes the humor got carried away with silly and unrealistic act. The plot to get RM out of the plane seemed purely Bollywood- ish . BI was a hit again. Great body language as always with some similarity in...

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Toronto: 2nd July 2017 - Sunday The coffee cup was holding my attention. I was in the revolving restaurant on the 21st floor, sipping coffee. My regular hangout, when I am alone. The layout and the theme of that part of the restaurant were changed. But again, the coffee cup was interesting. Not the shape, I was interested in. But the curved text which seemed to me like some calligrapher had written, made me wind back. Zooming in the memory lane, I was rewinding fast. It’s been almost 7 years I left Nepal. And the reason for leaving my country may seem trifling. But for me, it had hit my inner self hard. I will never forget that day. It is embossed in my grey matters. It was the day when I was walking to my office when it happened. It was day one, 20 December 2009, of the three day strike. The then opposition party, the Unified Nepal Communist Party had called a three day strike ( bandh ) all over Nepal, for establishing the so called “Civil Supremacy” in the country, against the re...