whats in the name

"Gurukanth Desai . Tha nahi . hain aur rahega .." Thats what caught my attention in Guru. Until then I wasn't really watching the movie with much interest ( not like it was not good till then ! ) .
There's something abt these name dailogues that i like - it could be the way it is said ( which btw was awesome .. abhishek bachan rocks :)) .. or maybe just gives a more stronger foundation to the character itself. Same thing with the "my name is not anderson .. my name is neo" in matrix 1 . Can't really define the effect that the scene produces , it's just powerful ! .
Talking abt Guru , it's a must watch movie . I thought there were shades of Amitabh in Abhisheks action in this movie - the court scene ( when he just raises his hand ! ) .. that stupid song ( ek lo ek muft ) . The end is quite argumentative - i guess it's more of an urge to make the hero not lose than anything else. He makes Madhavans work look stupid at the end.
In certain sense the end is good becoz the fact is that this character did have good intentions in his actions . I believe that are three aspects to anything we do - intentions , thoughts and actions . Your intentions are something which are innate ( can't be changed , you could "pretend" at best ) .
Your thoughts are based on the way your brought up, cultural aspects , educations , etc.. ( so .. u could have potentially screwed up thought process inspite of having the truest of intentions ! )
Your actions are dependent on the situation, past actions ( causal system ? ;) ) , ability , etc..
Anyway , what i was getting at was that Guru's actions may have been wrong legally , but his intentions were true and judging one by his actions alone is wrong ( my personal opinion ) .
You could watch the movie & judge for yourself..

on the time line

This is probably the appropriate time for this article ( it's on the time line ?? ;) ). Time & agian I've told people that i dont like the time line. Why should we try to fit everything into the time line ? When ur 16 should have done this this and that and when ur 25 ....
I've been reading R K Narayans awefully a lot these days .. in one of his books ( the English Teacher) he talks about the concept of time for the departed souls. He talks about his wife ( she is dead) & that for them there is no concept of time- in the sense that there is no gap between thought & action. Actually , thats pretty vague stuff , especially from Narayan . Anyway , I digress ( i've been sitting through a lot of lectures of Dr Sair ;) ) .
Life we be a lot simpler and less presurizing if we did not try to fit in everyhting we do / want to do into the time line . After all time is something we invented ourself , how do you know that one second is one second after all ? It's been defined so.
Hope everybody has a good year ahead and is able to fit in all their wishes,hopes and desires into the time line 2007 ( i dont mean to be sarcastic .. it's just that i find the whole idea very graphically appealing ). Amen :)