Ek Tha Tiger Review

I have not been the best fan of Salman Khan. I did not like Wanted, Dabangg that much. After a while I realized that I even watched these movies only because a lot of friends suggested how awesome there were. I ended up watching these with high expectations and in result disappointing myself. Sure they are fun to  watch but only if you like that kind of fun. Otherwise many things might just appear stupid to you.

I went to wish my younger brother his birthday, which incidentally coincided with the release date of Ek Tha Tiger. And well, he was excited about this movie, so we ended up purchasing ticket for the movie. Before I entered the hall I had set my expectations from the movie. I had seen few of Salman Khan's movies and I was aware what I could expect.

I did not set too much expectations from the movie myself and entered the screen. As expected movie kept on progressing on predictable lines but hey these days this happens with me with almost all movies. May be I have got secret powers of predicting future ;-). At almost all points I was able to guess what is going to happen in next 10-15 minutes. So well, not many surprises in story line.

Now lets move to acting, Salman Khan has his style and well, this time I liked it, may be because I had prepared myself for that before watching the movie. Now about Katrina, she is easily one of the prettiest girls ever to have Bollywood films. It's always a treat to watch her. Then watching her jumping and kicking the guys was a very pleasant surprise to me. I think this has been one of the best action scenes ever to have been performed by an Indian actress. Although my little brother said that in all the scenes it is so evident that stunts are being done by stunt doubles, but due to my limited ability to notice things I could not notice that.

About music, well cant comment on that as I am not a major fan of modern era music and in this movie I ended up answering my phone calls during songs.

Overall when I came back home, I felt nice. I always feel nice when movies have happy ending and don't bore me. This one satisfied both my needs.

India of my dreams

Once former President of India Abdul Kalam asked some school children "What is India of their dream". One little girl raised her hand and said very simple words "India should be more developed". Kalam was very impressed with this answer. India should be more developed, but developed in all areas be it social, economic, cultural, science, technology, defense, infrastructure, intelligence, education. Holistic development of nation is dream for my nation.

In this context I am going to write here an essay written by a class V child, which impressed me a lot. In simplest language he visualized a great India. Here it goes

My father stays in a town in Germany. Every summer vacation I go there. It is a very neat and clean place and people there are wonderful.
The best thing about the people is that they keep their home as well as their surroundings neat.

My Dream India is also a very neat and clean place with not even a small piece of paper on roads and the people of my Dream India take the responsibility of cleaning their homes as well as their surroundings and thus keeping their country clean.

In my Dream India, I don't want to see small children with their small hands out begging for a small coin. Why can't everybody go to school and study like me?

In my Dream India everybody has enough food to eat, and there is no scarcity of food.

In my Dream India I don't want to see people dying on roads through bullets from guns of cruel terrorists. I want all of us to live in peace. 

I wish my dream comes true and my country India becomes a good place to live in.

In short and sweet essay the child has  visualized a great empowered nation

Well, I could write my own thoughts in a bit more detail but may be that will be for some other day. In the this context following words written over 100 years from the greatest poet of modern world are still applicable

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection:
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action —
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.