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Gaali Pata I am afraid would have lost its Sutra !

Kannada movies have been made a mockery of in the last decade. Really shitty and no witty scripts, only love & gangster movies galore,really "fantastic" actors, directors, you feel my pulse.

MM -was what ppl called it.. mungaru male as the name suggests,its the beautiful first downpour that happens amidst the royal summer end bringing in ill health to some and a sigh of relief to the rest. This movie bought the middle class Karnataka back to theaters and the average looking, acting hero of this movie became a super star overnight. The director was revered and the whole process of MM became an urban legend (how it was made, what was the profits, what they all got as salaries et al). I will digress to some extent here about MM. I loved the music, cinematography was somewhat different from rest of the other herd, felt G(Ganesh) has some potential but did not & still do not understand why this became a super hit. It had a really badly planned story line (of course it was about love) and well an oft repeated hackneyed theme of unrequited love. But it clicked for the larger populace and well placed the movie and all its crew at the top of the heap.All thanks to people who were ditched by fair sex,that made the MM producer enter into Forbes richest Kannadiga list ..he he:)

For those doubtful about the geography of Karnataka, we are in the southern part of India where actors tend to become demi gods or Gods even based on a clichéd dialogue or a stance/walking style or even good acting. The hero of MM (Mungaru Male) was no different.,he became Golden Star Ganesh overnight and every movie of his in 2007 was a hit and most of them on the wave of MM..thanks to the wave riding community we have. The director of MM (Yograj Bhat) had after giving a zillion interviews on TV also started work on his second film Gaali Paata. This review is about this “Masterpiece”. Do read on if you have the guts & gumption. I had it because I paid good money to go see this movie late last night

The movie was no read REALLY SAME as MM and the only difference was 3 heroes instead of one. When a super duper hit is made, the crew tends to have a really big hangover of their earlier project and this is extremely evident in Gaali Paata. There are very similar shots to MM, story line tends to meander (yes, meander. There is no flow rather it looks more episodic in nature) around the same lines of MM. Some of the differences are some good ad libs that are too far and to less in the flow.

The movie is about 3 boys who seem to be obsessed with love, what else. Of course as viewers we do not really get to hear the other 2 actors opinion (Diganth & Rajesh Krishna) as they have no or extremely limited dialogues in the movie. The movie is centered on Ganesh and throughout the movie; he seems to be the only person who speaks. The 3 bored boys unaware of what to do in the city head out for the hills (Diganth’s Grandfather’s estate). There are huge references to Dil Chahtha Hai (DCH) and some to Swades also. In addition to this, there is also a camouflaged reference to Brad Pitt of Ocean’s 11. Ganesh eats food through out the movie except for the scenes where he has to cry in the rain to prove what a super star he is.

Here we are introduced to the neighboring family where there is a retired hunter (Anant Nag, what a waste of a good actor) with his 3 daughters (2 daughters & 1 DIL) & a wife. The director should have really researched on the life of a hunter before he took this characterization. There are enough books from Jim Corbett, Purna Chandra Tejaswi on this subject but I do not think they have been referred to. The 3 boys pronto fall in love with the 3 girls. There is no progress of love; rather they just fall in love. Why, why they like her and not the other one is left to your rather our imagination.

So the movie progresses along old lines of MM with song, some cute interludes between Ganesh and the rest of the crew. I as a viewer till then had no inkling of where the story would finally end. Into this movie enters a wild boar. This is the hunter’s nemesis and has rendered him a cripple when he tried to kill it the last time. The 3 boys (read only Ganesh, as he only has dialogues in the movie) goad the hunter to take on the boar again and they all go against the boar. The fun part of the movie is the last hunt for the boar. The hunter stops hunting because he sees Vishnu in a wild boar. Yes, we all laughed at Nirupa Roy getting & losing eyes in the same movie. This genre and style has been religiously maintained by our dear Kannada Directors.It reminded me of Narada Vijaya,another popular Anant Nag kannada movie

Between boars, like obelix, the heroes (not Ganesh as he is the unrequited love Star) find love in the other 2 girls conveniently and also sing songs to boot.
Diganth & Rajesh both sing songs, dance but our boy has yet to get his love. This happens in most probably the world’s worst planned climax.

Yes around this story are also other characters like Diganth’s Grand pop, Ganesh’s parents (Rangayana Raghu had limited scenes but was at some points funny & Sudha Belwadi was just the lucky mascot) who come in and go for some vague reason as they have some or none to do with the story.

I end with one line the current reigning super star of Kannada says in this film. He tells the cop who has stopped his friend as he had hit a barricade while he was drunk-driving. Ganesh tells the cops that they should go easy on boys who drink as they drink due to a love failure and cops should understand that boys can only drink. The crowd in the hall roared approval to this and made me wonder, if guys like me will ever get a break to make movie. I would never be able to uphold such a cause.
It was a good movie if you had knocked the doors of theatre without any expectation or without any idea about how our Ganesh would look like or render his "Acid mixed with Alkali" lingo that makes LFBs extremely moved and touched and hence triggering them to fire whistles at the super star.

Upendra once took the crowd for a ride with his knife razor edge lingo which was somewhat different..He bawled out at the females making the male community feel that he showed the reality of life,every female was projected as a "Kaun banega karorpati" question,with 4 options.
a)she is ready to fall in love and then ditch b)she does things that she likes but society shouldnt raise voice against her c)She is a total dumb and a sex doll d)She is always a threat to guys.

Now any of these options take you to the last question of "Kaun banega karorpati" and the question here is "Is there anything called love",the options given by Uppi are just two now a)NO b)Never

So ultimately producers, showing their cautious side after the lingo effects started to haunt film industry, cashed in profits while they debated their next move,undoubtedly the same is happening with Ganesh.

G again sidelines females and scratches his heart to the core to prove that gals are there to screw a man's life from all angles,which again isnt true.

Lets see if Uppi or G does any Pro Female movies from here on perhaps help me write a better blog in appreciation of it here.

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Alas I got into a then 3 billion dollar IT gaint !

Alas I got into a then 3 billion dollar IT gaint !what it gave me over the months...its been 9 months now in TCS as a part of its culture and breeze.TCS is a consulting company that has its history spread over nearly 2 decades,Mr Ramadorai is the company CEO.

TCS has endless number of branches in India and spread across the globe, like the poor man's umbrella! I say poor man because TCS is not a great paymaster thou I must confess ppl from TCS (in IT) are among the richest in India. Its all because of its so called onsite!!Will tell u more on that later..

Initially I got placed to TCS thru the campus in 2005 June ,to be specific on 9th .It was a special Thursday for me. I always had good things coming my way on Thursdays and this one was a value add to that list !! Hurray! was the first word I uttered from my mouth after seeing my name written in pen on the bulletin board of JNNCE college Shimoga,it was a nodal centre for the recruitment.I was the only guy from my college who had carried a tie along with.

I was confident of cracking TCS even b4 I knew what TCS was and what that pattern of questions they followed..It was the first company that came for the campus and they clubbed three colleges and almost it was a fight out. A fierce battle to survive the hottest race to get into India's No 1 (:) wink) IT Company that boasted of 3 billion dollar revenues!(man that’s a huge money believe me)..There were 1700 of them from three colleges who wrote the written test! I was alas one of the 39 students picked!

800 cleared the written test and only 39 were winners after literally a shootout in the interview. Where we were grilled like a sandwich (without even some valid vegetables stuffed into but they grilled to the core till the bread started to crack down.).. no doubt few had the bread and butter coming out after all the tossing and toppling..(Most of the restrooms were flooded!)I remember being in empty stomach for more than 13 hrs (that’s the time my interview lasted -incl waiting period staring at the HRs who seemed be REAALLY busy though in reality had nothing to do at all...

After asking a series of questions like where do u see yourself 10 yrs from now and all that u can imagine! (time pass questions) they came to business. Asked me to write codes! Almost i jotted 8 programs before being sent out saying Il need to wait for their results..I had to travel back to Harihar and they had not announced the results yet. that made me even more tensed..but mind u..I never ever had a iota of doubt of not being selected! I knew il make it (don’t know where i got all the confidence from)..hmm...

yes was ultimately in TCS...that’s June ..my first taste of the upcoming honeymoon ! (I had not married the company yet - coz no offer letter or no joining letter was issued) ...

Was it a battle or a desperation to get phew !

Battle for Offer letter and Joining letter: Once in my wildest dream I had dreamt that TCS would not issue me the offer letter ..it almost went on to become true when I did not receive any intimation from the company for many months after my selection..I was like a bird without feathers..

A BIRD WHO FEARED TO FLY HIGH! lolzzbut i preferred to walk like a penguin. not taking the risk. trust me i have never asked even once anybody for my offer letter..It went on and on..waiting...June..July..August..September..I had not even got a intimation (on papers) that I was selected by them..TCS : Totally clueless syndrome ! Had developed in me..Then the sun as usual wet his eyes on the east releasing a wave of hope to me when I found that my offer letters had come to my college..HEY ONE MORE THING..WE DINT KNOW ABOUT HOW MUCH SALARY PACKAGE TCS OFFERED US !!


it was a small package finally when i saw it. but did not regret because of the brand name this company had created in the corporate world.Now that we got a offer letter from tcs,I again became a true tcser (totally clueless syndrome)..I was patient again to wait for the so called joining letter...days passed cluelessly..My lecturers wondered why there was so much delay in the arrival of the joining letter only from this company!! I always pacified them (just to protect the shame) that big companies took much time to issue letters just to ensure that ppl are with them though they delayed the process (ya I am with them after all their torture :) just kidding )..

Finally the bell rang in the month of August 2006 !! it was a small cyber cafe where I ran to see if I was blessed with a mail from the HRs as my friends had received one!!ya there was a mail popping out of my inbox shouting at me for the delay in opening it. it could not resist itself from saying where and when I had to join,..now TCS again did something that I had not expected. Totally clueless...:)

Subject line of the mail read: "your joining @kolkata ILP on 25th Sept 2006" in the body of the mail was given Hyderabad address.!!!!!now i wondered if there is a small kolkata in hyd!HRs never gave any info abt this small Kolkata in hyd...or a big Hyd in even bigger Kolkata...no one picked my calls..HRs here are extremely intelligent when it comes to picking up calls... I tried to call them from various coin booths, std(pls dont take it as Sexually transmitted diseases :)) centres, different cell phones in vain.. They have a list of all the numbers, public phones,PCOs etc to knw that a aspiring ILPate is calling them to ask for joining details. They are just fed up and attached to the so called TCS (as i have always talked abt this syndrome).But I continued to luv this org though I dint even had first night with it !but i knew somewhere someday il get married to this big boss who pretends to be clueless..now it was the the time to test my patience when I got to know abt the place of ilp ! it was Kolkata - city of joy !!date remained same ! 25th sept 2006 but it was a place 1800 km from where i was staying(Bangalore)..and trust me I dint have a single known person to go with or in the ilp..ILP was just 20 days away.

*ILP : Initial Learning Program by TCS to groom the newbies on Softskills and Technical thingies..World Class training is offfered.It can be the most memoriable days in one's life.


I had to get so many certificates, affidavits to prove ,thousands of annexure !!..oops..
* I m not criminal,
* I am I,
*I am born !~
*Taking birth was not enough where also mattered for them !
*plan my travel..
* had to undergo medical test
* had to again wait for the joining letters..

These were classified under "Mandatory" list ! so had to get them somehow.

I was x-rayed,y-rayed,z-rayed til I became a RAY Fish 4 them

At Medical Test again my patience was tested to the peak ...

* Well springs - koramangala 8th block - Bangalore.* was out there to prove I was fit to take the beatings!! Mentally tough to take up challenges..
* As u know empty stomach makes much noise. It was hard to under go so many tests..Chest,liver,stomach,ecg,stress test,Color blindness..sugar,salt (i mean urine)thank god i did not have stool test ! (now don’t ask me for the reason)Though my liver is weak since childhood it was said alrite in the medicals...though I had some problem in seeing girls I was told my eyes are normal. Though i had difficulty to understand the life they told my senses are 100 percent pacca!

I was proud to be with such a company who compromised in so many things to retain their employees (he he)!!don’t u think they value u so much ??ok after all these tests were conducted in empty stomach,I had no strength to do anything and was experiencing Uncertainity (" Experience Certainity " is the TCS-Slogan). Then had a strange exp..a nurse came to me and took me into a room where I was all alone !! Hmm curious to know what hapnd?





Even i was ...cos I already told u I had no power even to resist if someone wanted to do sometime with me !!hmm ...hm mit was for serving breakfast - Thanks to the Alla above !!! she had taken me..after 10 min of waiting for a breakfast -


I was served 2 idlis...(now what ?) and for another gal next to mewas served dosa !!I wondered if I had passed medical test..cos I wondered if they were serving idli's to ppl who could not make it in the test(coz @ that time I hated idlies)..I was worried if I had any serious illness.....hmm god knws abt the results ..but I got my joining letter...then I booked my train from bangalore to howrah thru chennai !Here on my journey began into the unseen life...mysteries of life..I feared even if the mysteries would unfold ! Different paradigm of life..that was ILP - Initial Learning Program

My soul (sole) companion then -ILP

Journey to ILP in a sad mood: I left my home on 20th morning along with my dad to Bangalore from where I had to take the night train to Chennai and next day morning was my train from Chennai - to Kolkata..

Coramandal Express S2 (2nd tier AC) seat 28.November 28th is my day when I was hatched into this colorful world,28th November is the same day when I was asked to report in my base branch bangalore at a later point of time after ILP got over..28 has played a significant role in my life as it was seat number 28 in the train.



When I left home my mom did not cry surprisinly..I am the only kid to my parents that I have always been with them throughout my education until I got graduated, my mom isn’t that tough mentally but for the first time I was going out to a unknown place, new language, new culture... but she shed not a drop of tear !This further strengthened my mental toughness to survive!! Infact one day I had thought I wont go and attend ILP (as I was already working with Robert Bosch,Bangalore) I had no reason to go to kolkata...but..

Here is this but.

This but always shakes the butt against life...my career needed some graphical representation in God's graph theory! so I obeyed him and wanted to pave way to a exciting career in a consulting firm ..a transition from a product company to a yet to see consulting gaint...

The journey again had some TCS attached to it..(u would know the expansion if you had gone thru my earlier blog)coming to Bangalore by afternoon, I did some shopping and then boarded my train "Yeshwantpur Howrah express" to reach Chennai in the morning ! 21st morning at 6 am.My train was supposed to depart at 9 am from Chennai...my dad left me till Bangalore. Was a loner from then on!I wondered how I would travel 36 hours in train all alone!!but I had done it !!