Super Cop Super Con

Well this is the story weaved from different stories and its about Super Cops and Super Cons.

Scene 1.

Super Con on his mobile phone, driving his car to glory. Super Cop spots the prey, chases the prey till his home. Super con realizes there is no escape. He has been caught red-handed. He looks at the Super cop, smiles, gives him a I-am-no-super-con looks. He adds you look like a real Superstar from Kannada films. Super Cop happy, gleams and gloats. Super con walks away free.

Scene 2.

Super con coming wrong way, against the traffic. Super cop, is alert, quickly gets into action. Super con has local advantage, knows the local language. She points out to her friend waiting for her. Luckily she was waiting in front of a hospital. Her story makes her friend completely unwell, and needs to be rushed to hospital. Super cop’s humane part melts, let the super con leave. Super con and her friend get on her way to the next nearest mall.

Scene 3

Super cop stopping all vehicles for routine checks for documents and license. Super con, w/o any proper documents is caught. Super con pleads, begs and asks for mercy. Super cop, agrees to let him off at subsidized fine. Now the bargain begins. Super con convinces that he does not have money to eat food, and all the shopping bags he has are for his friend. He is so poor, he cannot even think of eating three meals a day. Super cop take super subsidized fine. How much - 30 bucks!!!! Because the con does have only 30 buck to spare and 20 buck for three meals.

Scene 4

Super cop waiting behind a tree. Two super cons, good looking and handsome, working as executives in MNCs in their night Chaddis, caught by super cops for riding w/o head light and West Bengal registration vehicle in Karnataka. Now hear the super con story. They are security guards!!! Super cops believe the story ask for subsidized fine of 100 bucks. Super cons not willing to pay more than 30 bucks. Big heavy bargaining, threats to seize the vehicle also of no help to resolve. Finally the deal is struck at 50 bucks. Super cons are dejected after one hour duel that they could not get off for 30 bucks.

Everjoy & Co - Footsteps in Time

Neatly tucked on the first floor of a building on the busy Commercial Street is Everyjoy and Co which deals in watch repairs for all international watch brands. It has stairs leading to the store just adjacent to a posh jewelry shop in town. When you climb up the narrow stairs you come to a well lit store with leather couches for customers to wait. There is a small counter, behind which I have seen an old lady, probably in her late 70’s dressed in an impeccable manner, and usually draped in a silk sari. Its so happens that is the only store which does this kind of work, and all the other retailers of the international brands would direct you here for any repairs.

Once when I had gone to get a original leather strap for my Swatch, the person who was there at there at the counter was in his late 70’s or early 80’s. The old lady was also there at the counter and their son, who himself was in his late 30’s. Astonishingly not only did the person advanced in age, know which was the black strap for Swatch and where it was kept but also himself in front of me removed my old strap gingerly with his instruments and replaced it with the new one. He is a person with humorous temperament and as you would have guessed, an eye for detail. When my card did not get swiped, he jokingly said its because its not signed on the hind side. I mean someone with such a zest for life and precision at work at that age was indeed a moment of inspiration for me. He also knew that the model which I had taken for a leather strap originally does not come in leather strap version. He shared this information with his son, who was all ears to what he had to say.

Today when I went to get there again, to put a new battery in the watch; the son attended me very politely. Quickly took the watch inside, (you can see what goes on through the glass door) and himself replaced the battery. Father like son, he too knew his job, and did not expect the other people employed at his store to do it. As no one was there, he himself did and with so much panache

New York I Love You

There are some things I check when I step out of the house. My wallet in my back pocket, check 1. My wrist watch, check 2. My mobile phone, check 3. My handkerchief and bunch of keys check 4. So three taps on my trouser pockets, and I am ready to go. While inside the auditorium, I knew I was lighter, and after three taps and I realized my keys were missing. I decided to look for it during the interval. Well, to my luck, like before I had left it in the parking lot and had to go to the security in the basement to collect it.

I had a pretty amusing bunch of people around me for watching the movie. Some could not figure out the movie got over, some were in awe for the movie to see the directors name roll over…blah blah

One thing I realized was some times it is better not to speak and put into words what you feel after, say, watching a movie. What you liked and the sorts, and to just savor the feeling within yourself. Some times when you speak or write you may not find all that means to express what you feel and you may trivialize the whole thing. Like what I felt after watching New York I love you, I prefer to be silent and savor it.

Confidence

Cast : Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Giammatti, Edward Burns

Clever Plot, the Hollywood way.

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

I watched this movie with friend of mine, whom I met after two years. He had mentioned during lunch, that for the last six months he had not watched TV or any movies; as he always had someone or the other dropping by at his place. When we started watching the movie, I was not sure how would he take the movie. This being the intense kind of movie, not all are cut for it. The other thing was the complication of watching a movie with someone. Inadvertently, when a watching movie of your choice, there is need that the movie should match the requisite standards, meet the expectations of the accompanying viewer. However, when watching the movie alone, there is no need to please/meet the expectations of anyone. It helps me relish the movie more and I am free to my judgment.

Strangely, my friend got hooked to the movie and was quite content in the end. He appreciated the movie.

Watch it for the Academy award winning performance of Daniel Day Lewis.

Sherlock Holmes

Fast paced, edgy, witty, humorous, action packed, classic, intricate….Robert Downey steals the show, hands down. And the duo of Jude Law and Robert Downey, makes it even more deadly. I had watched a couple BBC series on Sherlock Holmes, and Guy Ritchie’s version supersedes all, for a film, that I must add.

Lunatic in my head

The novel is very visual. Though I have never been Shillong, I have created a visual imagery of the place and the people. There are many characters, each with their own myriad subtleties and psyches. All this together weave the fabric of the novel. You start developing a liking for the characters, you know sometimes how they would react. There are times when you want sit near them and talk to them, console them, understand what going on in their mind, help them and be a part of their lives.