I cant understand people!!

Alternative title - People are just Dumb!!
This is a post from a while back.. i just dumped it in the drafts. but i think it should be published... just to let everybody know what i think..


I know you shouldnt expect people to think and behave in the same manner that you would but is it wrong to expect that when you are working hard for essentially their benefit, they would try not to make your life difficult? Why do they have to complain and demand favours as a right when it is their own fault that things are such.. It has made me not care about what happens.. I am in general a very impatient person and get tired of a thing after a while so I would have stopped caring eventually but thanx to such people that time has been come sooner.



GO TO HELL ALL OF YOU!!! I DONT CARE!!

The reason of it all

I am no storyteller.. Fair warning!

This is a story of a neglected child who finally decided to strike back.

There she was.. locked out of the room again. They always did that to her. Brushing her away so they could discuss 'grown up' stuff. 'You are too young' they told her. 'Only two and half years younger' she wanted to yell. But she couldnt. And now she was stuck alone with no one to play. Why couldnt they include her in their games? She knew they were just pretending to be all grown up, trying to compete with the other gang in the family. They were doing to her what this other gang did to them. They wanted to feel like adults and that they could do only if they made her feel small. Why did she even come to her aunt's house? At her home, there was the grandmother who loved her and would never tire of playing with her! She was her grandmother's favourite..

Finally they let her play with them. After being coerced, undoubtedly. Well.. its about time they learnt she wasnt all that young. But she couldnt win against them. They had picked a difficult game. How could she get back at them if she couldnt win against them? bulb flash as the grandmother enters. She started to cry. Now they would understand whats its like to be punished for no reason.

Epilogue: They all grew up and despite the scars which left their mark on their personalities, they didnt kill each other and in fact are still on talking terms.

Subtle Entertainment?

I love hindi movies. Cant say the same about Hindi serials. But both have something in common. they lack something that English movies and serials have. And I have firgured it out. SUBTLETY!! Most Hindi serials have to spell everything out...twice!!! they are in your face and most often crude. They treat the audience as if they are 5 year olds and in this day and age, even 5 year olds would be smarter. Undercurrent emotions are almost unknown. I wonder how a 'good' person is so blind not to see the other person making all kinds of faces which clearly indicate his/her 'evilness'. There is rarely any subtext nor any link to previous episodes. Characters change behaviour without any reason and while i know that the very idea of soaps is twists and turns without explanation and without reason just to keep the story going but there has to be some coherence. I have caught some episodes of American soaps and yes, they change plots, spouses, stories, behaviour with unpredictable or rather predictable regularity but atleast there is an appearance of coherence. Comedies are far behind. They all lack punchlines and have to resort to crudeness to get any laughs.
While I enjoy the sheer madness of hindi movies without any regard to why anything happens, I realised that very few Hindi movies have conversation between the actors. I liked Jab We Met precisely because there was a real connection between these two characters independent of the fact that since they were the main characters, they had to fall in love. The dialogue between Shah Rukh Khan and Vinay Pathak in Rab ne is another example. But there are very few movies which express emotions without having to resort to over the top drama. And that can be found in the English movies... atleast in many of them that I have seen.
I wish that our movies could imbibe that.. atleast in part..