Struggle for Existence

This is a topic that has been discussed in various forums and by millions of people. All have their own theory and logic to prove them. I am not going to indulge into the perennial debate, I am going to present my own story and leave it to you guys to decide if that is actually 'Struggle for Existence'.

 

I am presently in my hometown and I have had lots of time in leisure and have had the chance to roam in the roads that I have travelled once I was a Young kid. I passed through a lane that I am sure I had not been through for at least last decade or so. I saw an old man who was sitting under the tree with barely any clothes on him. I was surprised to see him there in the cold, I stopped to have a closer look and I was shocked when I was his face. He was the same man that I used to see, when I was in Allahabad, moving around the streets searching for food and clothes. I even remember my father giving him some old clothes. I was not sure how to react and I just moved away and walked away back home.

 

I have been sitting on that thought since then and I am still not sure how that person has managed to live with all the cruelties of life surrounding him. I did not know what to do but still I decided to give him a blanket. I took one from home and walked back to the place that I had seen him. I could not find him there, he was gone. I assumed that he must have gone in search of some food. I have not seen him since then.

 

There is nothing that I could do to help him but the mere thought that he has survived all these years without food and shelter made me think that we always struggle for existence in our life. I found this a perfect example for Struggle for Existence. I leave the rest on you guys.

SONY Entertainment Channel

I have been noticing this for the last few months and I really think that this is time when SONY guys should seriously start thinking about renaming their channel to CID. Yes there is no typo and you read it right. For the last few months it has happened that whenever I switch onto SONY channel, I only end up watching CID running. I enjoy watching serials that have a good theme such as Crime Patrol and Adalat but I must confess that I have lately started hating CID and to an extent I am becoming allergic to it.

 

I have nothing stacked against the show but I have seen anything change in the show in the last couple of years atleast. They still run on Qualis and have the same team. Though there have been a few changes to the team members but I am sure that would have been because the original team members would have opted out rather than new faces been taken in. I would have appreciated if they could have taken things few notch higher and showed some advance techniques of conquering the criminals, coming up with interesting cases and then solving them using some proper logic. I hate it when the ACP calls onto his men and ask them to collate a list of all the cars that are running on CNG and are hatchbacks and have been driven by a driver who wears sports shoe in the entire Mumbai and it hardly takes the man a couple of hours to come up with the list.

 

I am also amazed at the memory that the chai walas possess. They would ask any chai wala for an incident that would have occurred about a couple of weeks ago and the chai wala would have the entire incident just at the back of his hand. The forensic lab that they have, have equipments that could tell the DNA structure of the person scanning the image of his shadow. How unrealistic, come on give me a break. But still leaving aside any and everything that the show it kills to see it running almost round the clock. It is my humble request to the Sony entertainment network to either change their name to CID else have few more shows running.

 

'Skyfall' - Review

To summarize I must say that Skyfall is the perfect summary of the 50 illustrious years of the franchise. I would also like to warn you that if you expect to see fancy gadgets, illustrated action sequences and hot ladies, this bond flick is not the one you should be watching. This movie is much more intense and the director Sam Mendes plays with your mind throughout the film. It is a story which is heavily dependent on the psychological mind games.

 

The movie has a perfect start with the first 10 minutes setting the tempo and it all ends up with 007 being shot and eventually being declared dead. He is then forced to rise and come back from dead when the headquarters at MI6 were attacked and the internal security system of the secret service was hacked. 007 is made to go through a series of tests which he fails but still he is still sent to field to investigate the events that happened as he is the only one that M trusts. Bond then travels to Shanghai and Macao and finds Silva, a former agent, who is the mastermind behind all these attacks. He was seeking revenge for how the system had treated him.

 

The film is not just about bond and his sizzling actions, it is more about his relationship with M and the long career history of M with the secret service.It goes back in time and reminds of the vintage bond. There is a sequence where Q hands over a gun and a radio transmitter to the secret agent and says "What did you expect, an exploding pen? We don’t go in for that anymore.". It also portrays the bad guy in the film to be larger than life and the hero. He makes bond uncomfortable with his moves and ways.

 

I also loved the film being revolved around Shanghai, underground of London and a very cold countryside of Scotland. The vintage bond car and the use of hunting riffle in the climax amongst many more. It also marked the end of Judi Dench as M in the bond series. I was very moved by the movie and loved it. I would rate it as a 4/5. It was intense and it was good.