Watched lots of movies in the flight and watched a movie in theatre after a long time..

Here are my comments:

The Proposal:

My kind of movie. The romantic kind with humour and ofcourse happy ending! I just loved it!

Hangover:

Superb stuff. Very light and again lots of humour.

Rab Ne Bana De Jodi:

Movie was good. But I did not like Shah Rukh playing this role.. Looked so old and just was not right!

Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!

This was one of those stories you watch but dont remember one bit of it! Such strong story line :). I seriously dont remember what I felt after watching this movie. I guess I just killed some time watching it!

JaiVeeru

Typical Hindi 'shtyle' movie. Liked the Veeru character for the Bindas attitude.

Unnai pol Oruvan

Tamil movie. A remake of the hindi movie 'Wednesday' which had Anupam Kher and Nasruddin Shah in the cast. Tamil version has Mohan lal in Anupam Kher's character and Kamal Hasaan in Nasruddin Shah's character. A serious theme but had right amount of seriousness and humour (if I leave out some of the over emotional dialogues that Kamal had towards the end). Liked it very much. Sruti Haasan has done the background score. Non intrusive stuff. Good! But with the amount of English dialogues may not reach the rural audience. I guess it is not meant to be. One of those where subject is serious but you dont get a headache at the end of it :), May be it is because it runs for only 2 hours.

Watched it in the Fame Adlabs in Forum value mall. Small theatre, very comfortable seats.

In San francisco, have you ever paid less than half of the taxi fare for a ride from Bay area to City ? Are you saying 'Nah, that is impossible!'? Wait till you read this incident below.

Our friend lands from India on a Saturday night for a week long meeting starting Monday. Obviously he wants to spend the Sunday usefully by visiting San francisco city. He collected all the details to go from Hyatt Summerfield suites to Pier 39. His plan was to take a taxi till Belmont and take the train, blah blah. He called for a taxi to go to Belmont. The driver asked him about why he wanted to get dropped at Belmont (Am sure that till date he is regretting asking the question :)).

Our friend tells him the need for doing this. The rest of the conversation is as follows:

Driver: Why dont I take you to the city. You can pay me 5-10$ less than the meter.
Our friend: How much will it cost?
Driver: around 80$
Our friend: No, no, I cant pay that much. my budget is very less
Driver: How much can you pay?
Our friend: Not anything more than 40$
Driver: Pay me 60 $. I will take you
Our friend: No, no... I cant
Driver: Will you pay 50$?
Our friend: Last and final, I can only pay 45$
Driver: Ok.. I will take you.

They reached the destination. Our friend gives the driver a 50$.

Driver: How much should I pay you back?
Our friend: 5$

Poor fellow! He gives the change, curses himself for offering a ride to our friend and goes away.

Is it hard to digest? I know, I know, I felt the same way when I heard it the first time.

And the story doesnot end here - Our friend comes back to the hotel and we all met for dinner. The other colleague who was with him narrated the whole incident to us and while we were all looking at him with total disbelief, this guy says "haan yaar, The driver made me spend 45$ while I would have done this trip for less. Thats why I did not give him a tip". Hah!

Are you asking me if our friend is a Gujju? You are absolutely right. Who else can manage such a thing in a foreign land???