A Movie Script

Camera pans into an interrogation room, a cop questioning a girl in late twenties. The girl shouts back and says she loved her man too much and there was no reason to kill him. Camera moves to outside the interrogation room where the commissioner and the psychologist are having a look. The cop who is questioning is a 20 something sub inspector, a clean shaven with a clean record and still single.

The cop starts to ask where she met her guy and when it went sour. The girl says that it all happened 5 years ago when she visited mumbai. The camera goes 5 years down the timeline back into the past. Its mumbai railway station, a train arrives from Allahabad. A man in late 20's is frantically looking for someone in the train. Inadvertently he runs into the girl while looking for someone, a small argument starts which is quickly doused by the guy who apologizes and asks her if he came across an old woman who was partially blind. Luckily that oldwoman was a fellow passenger of the girl and the girl replies in affirmative and shows him the woman. The guy thanks her profusely and is happy to have found his mom. His mom sings praises of the girl and narrates as to how she kept her company. Slowly the guy and the girl gets closer. The girl is in mumbai to try her luck in the movies and the guy is a struggling director. They get closer and the guy narrates his script to the girl and girl is eager to play the lead role. Now the main problem is getting a producer for this movie, the guy tries his luck and the girl also tries through different sources and cannot find anyone to finance it. They then think of doing "cast for couch" where the girl seduces a big producer to fund their movie.

Everything is cleared and the shooting begins, the movie is completed in 3 months. The movie is declared a super hit with its innovative plot. They pair up for a dozen movies and all the movies are lapped up by the audience. The guy and the girl get closer and think of getting married. As the movies are raking in lots of money, the underworld starts calling them up and demanding ransom. At first they are scared and pay up the ransom either in terms of cash or in terms of distributing rights. The girl complains to the cops and a rift grows between the guy and the girl. The girl's argument is that they cannot be blackmailed forever, but the guy's argument is that its ok to pay up and get protected. Police protection is given to the girl and she is always with security. The cop who is questioning the girl is the same person providing her cover and he is deputed to put an end to the underworld menace.

The cop starts to eliminate the goons who target film stars for ransom. One day , all TV channels beam out a shocking news that the famous director (that guy) is shot dead in his house along with his mom. The girl runs to his home and sees him in a pool of blood. There is a big message scratched on the wall "We will eliminate all those who do not pay the ransom" . All fingers point to the underworld. The camera goes back in time to the current situation. The girl is being questioned in the interrogation room by the same cop.

Everywhere the media is focusing on the menace of underworld and the death of the great director. A relatively unknown newspaper splashes on its front page that it has the proof and the identity of the guy who killed the director. The police start to focus their attention on this newspaper and the cop goes there to investigate. He find out that the newspaper had published the news without any proof and starts the proceedings for the closure of the file and to document the fact that the underworld was responsible for the death. The cop gets summons from the court regarding this case. The attorney starts questioning the cop about the case and accuses him of murder, everyone in the court is taken aback. The public prosecutor defends the cop and tells the court that for publicity this defence attorney can do anything.

The arguments continue and the cop refuses all these things. The attorney then produces a trump card. He produces a person who is a repeated offender and who is a thief. This guy points the finger at the cop and the girl of orchestering this murder. The public prosecutor calls it a bunch of lies and laughs at the fact that the time has come when thieves accuse cops. The thief then produces an MMS that contains a content for the next big hit movie. Everyone waits to watch that MMS. Its a 20-minute clip that shows a couple along with that dead director discussing their next movie. There is an argument when the director accuses the girl of betraying him and congrajulates her on finding a new bf. The girl retorts back and taunts him of being a coward and being a paper tiger and doling out cashes to the underworld. It gets ugly when director narrates the history and that he wants to make a reality movie based on her life and it would make justice to have her in the main role. The fight gets nastier and the new bf who is that cop shoots down the director, his mom who is partially blind comes out after hearing this commotion and she is shot dead by that gurl. They slowly clean up their traces and slip out. The thief is too scared and tries to scout around the house to find some incriminating evidence. He gets hold of a invitation that is on the floor. The camera now zooms onto the thief who produces that invitation addressed to that cop. The cop refuses all these things. But he is nailed when the commissioner comes up to the witness box and gives the proof that the invitation is that of his son's wedding and he personally had given it to the cop on that fateful day. That girl also confesses and said that she did love that director but hated him for being a coward and that she still loves the cop for protecting her and taking care of her.

ah the morons are everywhere

I have this habit of reading a whole spectrum of articles .. be it politics or technology or weird news. Something caught my attention and i couldnt help but feel sorry for the morons who fail to cultivate commonsense :D

The article which made me fume in anger is this one
"At issue is a Playstation 2 game called "Hanuman: Boy Warrior", reportedly the first console game developed entirely in India. It allows its players to control Hanuman, a key figure in Hindu mythology, and that's riled up the president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, Rajan Zed, who said in a press release: "Controlling and manipulating Lord Hanuman with a joystick/button/keyboard/mouse was denigration. Lord Hanuman was not meant to be reduced to just a 'character' in a video game to solidify company/products base in the growing economy of India."

Damn this guy and countless religious cops who have no other work but to stir up some crap. I dont see anything wrong in this game. Its a game O stupid guy!! He cannot understand the new generation gadgets, this helplessness is causing a lot of frustration. But again who appointed him as a religious police and who gave him right to be the champion of Hindu cause? Well i never saw him stand in the election to become an Hindu leader..nor have i voted for this guy. As long as such morons exist, its rather amusing to live longer :P

ah i am back

The mood to blog is back .... dont know how long it will be around, so before it vanishes/changes i better start blogging about something.

Solution to Housing Mess & Economic Problems

I dont know but this is my 2 cents game plan to get the economy back on track...First thing the government would need to do is open up those battered places for commercial purpose...redraw the city plan and spur up growth by giving tax incentives to open up new companies, so that the land value goes up and people would start settling down in these places. Either the bank can give the spaces on rent and who says that IT companies cannot be run from within houses when great companies started from garages. When things start rolling fine, all these bad debts may be wiped out as things will look rosy. When jobs sprout up, people feel safer and will loosen their purse to buy more things which in turn crank up money flow into other industries which in turn will keep and create jobs. If only someone comes up with better ideas to stem the rot and reverse the falling economy

India attempts to reach Moon but indians are still bickering

Its interesting as to how people think and how the environment around one shapes one's viewpoint and perspective. ISRO, the premier indian space agency has one more feather in its cap when it launched Chandrayan today (10/21/2008). Its bettering the art of space technology by gradually moving from one orbital to the next with ease. Its GSLV, PSLV, the commercial launch of satellites of many other countries and carrying multi-payloads and deploying them successfully into space. I still remember when we used to launch INSAT satellites from Kourou in French Guyana and feel a sense of happiness when things went as planned. Dr Vikram Sarabhai would be a happy man today to see ISRO propel itself into space looking for bettering the art of space technology. He was the father of space technology in India and saw the usefulness of going the space way by launching Aryabhatta and successfully sending India's first satellite in space.

Bettering the space technology is the key to understanding our galaxy and probing the space for alternative fuels, reaching out to lands which could be future human settlements. But this is one side of the story and now if you watch the comments from some other lay people whose contribution is Zilch to the nation, one can see the irony of how people are... and have an idea of how weird people are, how weird are their thinking, how ungrateful one is to one's country

Read their comments below
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Succeed ? What has India succeeded at ? To show the world we are late by nearly 4 decades for the moon race ? For a country that has almost a third of its population below the poverty line, is this expense of billions of rupees justified ? We consistently rank close to the bottom on infant mortality, poverty, illitracy and corruption indices. Can India afford missions to the moon ? Could this money have benefitted a much more deserving population of millions ?

Where have our priorities gone ? The rest of world hasn't even batted an eyelid on this apparent "success". What they do look at are images of the starving millions, people ravaged by floods and disease, a nation under siege by its own people. Shouldn't the government be looking to remedy those images, rather than glorify a moon mission that has no palpable benefits ?
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nothing more than to say that we too ran the race!

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The moon was the aam aadmi's roof till date. Now they are going to check out if it is solid or not..... I agree with the sentiments of people expressing their views here. There is no benefit in this 'me too' philosophy. Ground realities must find real solutions. But how??

The 20 to 50 year olds have to start talking solutions -- on cleanliness, sanitation, drainage systems, clean villages, towns and cities, healthy transportation, civic behaviour, work ethics, employment, food, SECURITY and trust of the citizen in the system we seem to have been sucked into. But again, HOW???

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Financial meltdown?

There is a lot of panic around and i still dont understand as to why one needs to panic. The financial cruch or financial meltdown whatever it is called seems to be virtual and its all in the mind. The herd mentality is killing everything and plunging things into a blackhole. There was a mortgage mess, now a credit crunch situation and finally will lead to recession and finally leading to great depression. There are few things one can do to keep yourself afloat....
1) Just dont assume things and act foolishly
2) Start saving things..small cents add up to a dollar and dollars add up to a million
3) Save on gas...start walking around when you can..use public transport if there is one or car pool
4) Clip coupons and start saving those small cents
5) Buy essential things and spend a tad more than normal to stay healthy.. else your medical bill will creep up.
6) Pay bills on time and keep up your financial health
7) Unemployed? Start something and keep profit margin low so as to make some money and help others cut down their cost.

Perils of being a democratic country

Democracy is a beautiful thing where in people come to a consensus and is a win-win situation for all. But there is a hidden flaw in this system which can make it a mockery. Consider the present situation where in everyone knows that India will collapse in a few years if drastic steps arent taken to set up power stations to pump in electricity for millions of home and industries. I dont like congress but in this case, they are doing the right thing in signing off a nuclear deal that could help the power situation after 10 to 20 years. But with some senseless people, this deal may not go through and there is every possibility that the government could be toppled. Look at the power equation that is looming large, who is devegowda? who is mayawathi, who are those darn communists to decide on the country's future. These small parties with as less than 5 MPs are calling the shots. Even the sensible BJP is trying to pull down the govt just for the heck of it thus forcing the country to go for another elections and another hung parliament...with the inflation hitting 11% + and oil prices hitting the roof, this election will push up prices and create a sort of hell for the common man. Its high time that an extra constitutional authority is created and they have powers to pass the deal or bills thus subverting these bunch of fools who always take an opposite stand.