Smart Pandian

This blog is my personal experience which is going to be based on the moral of this blog “Are we Thinking out of the Box”.

In many ways, People are like the buzzard, the bat and the bumblebee. We struggle about with all our problems and frustrations, never realizing that all we have to do is look up.

It’s all about Lakshmi Theatre. The One of the famous cinema theatre in Madivala (bangalore) that is near to my home. This theatre is special for me, as, it reminds me the above moral.

A year back, I got a transfer from Trivandrum to Bangalore. Being a movie (theatre) freak and new to the city, I want to fullfill my appetite in both. I want to watch new movies releasing in city and also roam around the city. The solution or strategy I have followed is that, if a new movie was released in the city, I would watch the movie in a theatre for which i havent been before.

For everything, there is a starting point. Starting point for this exploration was began with the search of theatre “Aruna” for the movie “Pattiyal”. I dont want to go into the movie details, however, it is a good movie, almost pithamagan remade.

After almost one month, I was still living there in Madivala(Bangalore). I have watched a movie in Forum. I felt that I was getting narrowed down. The initial aspiration was not there anymore, anyway, I wouldnot let my ignition switch off. It was at those time, I came to know about Lakshmi Theatre in Tavarakere near Madivala. I dont remember what was my first movie in Lakshmi Theatre.

We took the Auto and we memorised the route all the way to the theatre. After Reaching there, We estimated the distance from home and as per our calculations, the movie theatre was not so far, jus 20 min walk. Thanks to the Auto for showing the way. After watching the movie, we were back home by the same route on walk.

Almost three months have gone. By this time, we have watched the some three to four movies Don , Superman Returns, Dhoom etc in the same theatre. All the time, we have taken the same route.

But that is not all. One fine day, when I was returning from Taverekere, I find a narrow street going straight just before the usual route. I have decided to try that street. voila. You wont believe me. It takes me directly to the back of my house. Its just five minutes walk..
This is one such small event that happened to me. But after that I came across lots of similar incidents however, this is significant compared to others as the impact of this incident was quite long i.e, three months.

written by Pandian \\ tags: explore, Lakshmi Theatre, Mind, Movies

Before watching the movie “The Last Legion”, I was in a dilemma whether I have to watch the movie or not. Its because of my unknown dizziness that builds up while watching this genre of Movies.Even for the most popular movies like braveheart, I was never been able to completely watch the movie.

But this sluggishness was not there, a day before, for the movie Elizabeth : the Golden Age. Its not that the movie is so good, Its just another average movie and it was all about the Virgin Queen Elizabeth ruled Britain on 1564. The movie was a unique experience in feeling the real effect of Dolby surround sound and the music was scored by the lady who was sitting next to me. Though I get irritated with those echoes, sad sounds that she made for each twists and turns of movie (twists were absolutely dumb), it adds beauty to movie watching experience.

Not only the background music, that makes me sit till the end of the movie, the real reason is that I was in a Cinemas. Guys, Its not like in DVD, where if you get bored, you can switch it off & play it sometimes later.

So, Fancied by the Elizabeth movie, I have decided to watch the Last Legion.
The movie takes us back to 564 AD, but the director was not successful in making the movie historically consistent. The Movie has become a complete fiction that connects the hereditary of Roman Empire with the Beginning of British Empire.
i.e., The story says that the last king of Rome, went to Brittania and founds a new empire.
The story was simple. But to tell this story, we need a Hero and Heroin. Hero is obviously we can guess, the commander of Roman Empire and the Heroin is from India, Mira (Aishwarya Rai). The Mira is (just ABCD) that she introduce herself as she was an kalari payattu expert(Seventh Grade) from Kerala, South India

I have to appreciate that the director has put the fact that Kalari payattu , the famous Martial Arts that is practised in the regions of Kerala from those olden days.
but both the terms, “Kerala” & “India” were part of 20th century and no worries, its just a fictional addition to the movie. The movie uses usual commercial formula of a normal movie and so, there was lots of holes in the screenplay.

The Final Verdict is that there was no real substance in the movie and also, its true that the movie is good for one who has never watched any history based movies.

written by Pandian \\ tags: elizabeth, India, kerala, Movies, the last legion