Crash

It was one of those days when darkness dominated the moon light.There was something vicious about the air, the devilish air.One could sense the approaching chaos with that colossal momentum.There was silence all around, awaiting the inception.

Rajeev came back home from work.His parents awaited him for dinner.They all sat together in the dinning room discussing the all day events in every one's life, criticizing the government officials,mocking the zillion scams that surfaced lately, praising Sachin for his gigantic achievement, expressing disgust for Television shows like 'Rakhi ka Insaaf','Big Switch' and blah blah. Rajeev's dad, was a retired teacher.Ironically the everyday moderator to their discussions was very quite today.Rajeev noticed the irrational silence."What's the matter dad? You all right?", he asked. His dad just nodded in affirmation.But his face gave away everything.That something was bothering him from inside, that something was happening to him and that he could sense what was going to happen.Rajeev soon got the answer.His dad complained of acute chest pain and his left hand suddenly was immobile.All signs of a cardiac arrest.He panicked,asked her mother to hold him, called for an ambulance.

The time when the ambulance arrived it was already 15 long minutes gone.They shifted him into the ambulance .Rajeev was furious by the delay caused and shouted at them with an intensity that will convinced them that his blood had reached the boiling temperature.But the ward boy and nurse were used to such reactions from the kins of the patient and casually said,"Itna traffic hota hai Sir, hum kya karega ?".By this time, his dad was almost unconscious. The nurse suggested to hurry to the hospital otherwise this would go really ugly.They left the house. Rajeev was holding his mother who could not control herself and broke down."It will be all right mother, keep faith".He was really being strong at this. But somewhere deep down he feared that no one was there to back him.He asked his close friends and relatives to reach hospital directly.Every second stretched to a thousand miles and all he could hear was the dying heart beat of his father. He held his father's hand.He had hope.He was not crying.

They stopped at a huge crossroads where on a normal day you would require a minimum of 10 minutes.But then he quickly realized that this was an ambulance and they had the right to breach through.But when he looked outside, there wasn't any space.There were millions of vehicles ahead of them. The road was jam-packed and there was no scope of movement.He looked at his dad and sensed that there wasn't enough time.He got out of the ambulance."i beg you to make way, my father is dying..", he shouted out loud to every vehicle in front of the ambulance.His voice getting thicker and weaker.His desperate moves inspired a couple of people to move. But even if people wanted, they had no space to move.It was all messed up.His heart felt heavy, for the first time he had tears in his eyes.And they were blood red.He didn't give up, and somehow the ambulance reached the front where they were eventually made to halt by the traffic police.

"We cannot allow any vehicle through, the PM's convoy is on a move!", the traffic policeman said pushing Rajeev away.

"I have a dying father in that ambulance and I need to take him to the hospital right now and I don't fucking care if some damn minister is taking his family on a joy ride to attend some rich ass hole's daughter's wedding ! We are going through, you have no right over a person's life and neither does the PM!"

"I am afraid we will have to arrest you in that case ...", a senior policeman shouted.

"Fuck You!".

Rajeev signaled the ambulance to go through. But they were too many of them to stop the ambulance.Rajeev's mother came out to stop him fighting with the officials. Rajeev asked his mother to sit beside his father and not to come out.A couple of other poeple joined him is his protest.It turned out there was another ambulance way behind which had a pregnant woman with complications.And couple of people were on their way to the airport who would surely miss their flight now.Finally after 20 minutes of drama and chaos the PM passed by and the traffic was let loose.Rajeev was quite now.He eyes were red and swollen.His was angry and there was no way to vent out the same.They reached the hospital where his father was declared dead.

"You should have hurried. A couple of minutes matter a lot in such cases.We are sorry for your loss!", said the doctors.His mother completely broke down.His relatives where there to console her.Rajeev was shattered.He fell on his knees.Not saying anything.His eyes, overwhelmed with tears of bias,of unfairness, of feeling violated and exploited for being a commoner.He stood there helpless,crying and crashed.

Up, in the air !

Ladies and Gentlemen, as your safety is our utmost concern, our flight attendant Sofia will brief you on the safety features of this aircraft.

Enters Sofia.Starts the demo.Even though everyone is aware of the safety instructions, all the passengers just cannot take their eyes off her.And amidst the demo, everyone is occupied with their own mind games.Lets sneak-a-peek into their minds.

Passenger 1A : She is so damn hot. I think I am getting sun-burns.Sigh.

Passenger 2C : Man, look at the way she's staring at me. Even smiling, as if all this is just for me.Sigh.I think I should smile back. OMG, she smiled again. Dude, you are so gonna get laid tonight....woohoo!

Passenger 3D : So what is it in her that guys like? I still don't get it! (trying to hide the obvious pretension )

Passenger 6A : She is beautiful.But she looks nervous.Is it these scars? Shall i tell her how i got these scars.Why so Serious, Sofia?

Passenger 7D : Oh... Your soft hands Sofia! Yeah...Right there...Right there ! Sigh.

Passenger 9C : Oh, I wish I was a cute little kid, then she would definitely come to me, and then kiss me, pamper me... Oh, Man ! Why do we need to grow the fuck up? Sigh.

Passenger 11A : Aaja aaja, main hoon pyar tera ....
Passenger 11B : Who the hell is singing ?

Passenger 13C : My god! Wish my wife was like that.Sigh.
Passenger 13D : That bitch! She sure knows how to woo rich men like my husband. Look at him lusting for her.What is so special in her ? I still don't get it(trying to hide the obvious pretension).

And inside Sofia's head, there is just music.Loud Music,'..I am too sexy for you...main tere haath na aani ...na na na na.....'

Where is that damn white rabbit ?

Are we really living our lives by ourselves ? Are we?

We seem to be driven by something most of the time.Focus on the following lines.We take birth.Join School. Pass almost 14 years without any clue loaded with books and homework and the pressure to outperform others so that our parents can brag in the society,their offices and where ever they go. Then comes a crucial choice.AIIMS vs IIT.We slog and slog like pigs without even knowing what the fuck we are slogging for.May be for the fame. And if we don't get through, there are zillion private colleges to absorb us.In those four years, mostly people learn to use BitComet and then brag about their quotidian downloads.Then comes the choice between a job or higher studies.We just do what people around us do.Then comes IT/Govt. We just do what people around us do.Eventually to find out that no one is happy with what they are doing.

Whom to blame? It's certainly not us.The culprit is the education system.The ignorance about various unconventional opportunities.The system never gives us time to explore ourselves.We never spend time with ourselves.We never try to learn what we love.We are always in that hurry.Running after things we don't even know or want, but just because everyone else is.How do expect to be happy after achieving them? You never actually craved for them. Your purpose is something else and unless the purpose is fulfilled, you won't be happy.

But people find various other resorts. Some people drink and smoke and raise the toast to the fact that the grass is always greener on the other side.They try to convince themselves that whatever they do, this feeling of satisfaction will not come.They do succeed momentarily, but it comes back every now and then to haunt them.Some people just take off their frustration cribbing about their lives coming up with reason why they can't change the way things are.Some people drown in sadism seeking joy from failures of those who at least make an attempt.

The way things are going, one might wonder if this world is eventually a computer program. And if that is true, then where the hell is my Morpheus ? Where the fuck is Trinity? And where is that damn white rabbit?

But then we will only find the answers if we try harder.Perseverance will eventually pay off.Try out different things.Don't be scared of anything.This is the time to take chances.Because if you don't, and after like 10 years you meet someone who did, you will regret it like anything.It will kill you.Literally.

The Social Network * * *

The Social Network is a gripping drama about the youngest CEO Mark Zuckerberg who founded 'facebook' which moves in three parallel shots, a flashback and two law suits. After 'Inception', the directors have given up the practice of showing things plain and simple.And it absolutely works. That's how you tell a story. I mean it may not be so catchy and attention-seeking if shown in a simple way.

Mark studies at Harvard is into computers,hacking,sites and all that jazz.Getting insulted by a bitch(as he put it), he decides to take an e-revenge posting about that 'bitch' and then develops a page which asks the user to rate one of the two faces,hot. This pages feeds from the databases of all the houses at Harvard which Mark hacks and calls all this kid stuff.The page receives so many hits that eventually it crashes the Harvard server and Mark gets a probation.But then all legends are first notorious.

A gang of 6 foot 5 twins and a loser who also were planning something similar for the Harvard campus try to make Mark work for them. But after they meet once to discuss the idea Mark grounds himself and works on the idea himself to launch facebook. Violated by this, the gang decides to sue Mark.Meanwhile, Mark meets a guy who had done something similar in his days and ditches his best bud Eduardo, whom he had made CFO at the first place which explains the tag line of the movie.You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.After this, Eduardo also sues him.But,Mark Zuckerberg, the man who owns this firm which is now of 25 billion dollors of worth is the winner.As it was only he who went ahead and created facebook and non of his other mates who sued him.

David Fincher's direction is pretty cannot-take-yours-eyes-off awesome and the parallel portrayal just keeps us all drowned in the magic that he has created to tell a tale which will surely inspire millions.Reading about Zuckerberg on wiki is a different thing and seeing the magic right from the inception in an super-engaging flick is all together a superb experience.
May be if they had named this Facebook, it would have generated a greater revenue but what's in a name. If you make a film worth an applause then even if you name it shit(read orkut), it will get the applause.