Being Cyrus

Its very natural to have some expectations from the movie you are going to watch. I try to control my expectations to avoid disappointment as many a times i feel cheated when what is promised in the trailer is not there in the movie. But this time it was not the case, Being Cyrus gives you more than is promised in the promos. Yeah its a refreshing movie, it has a story, the story is handled perfectly by the director and the performances are brilliant. Some of the dialogs are still in my mind, when Saif Ali Khan says something like, 'people make eye contacts but she makes breast contact whenever its possible'. Or the fight between Boman Irani and the neighborhood woman.

Dimple Kapadia, Naseerudin Shah, Simone Singh all look as real characters. The essence of the movie is the story which makes you ask many questions and gives enough clues and all of them are answered beautifully in the end. The movie has lots of dialogs with Parsi words and one where the old father says 'All of us used to f*** the officer's wife one by one but she had a liking for me'. The movie was made in English so it does not look that crude, may be in Hindi it would look nasty.

Whether it 15 Park Avenue or Mixed Doubles or Being Cyrus all are song free, have a duration of 2 hours, deal with a interesting theme and you dont have to make an effort to sit through them. May be with the addition of more multiplexes more such movies will come to the viewers. And more advertisements will come your way, this time PVR Hyderabad has started sending boys who come during the movie to take your orders and actually interrupt to ask if you want to order something. The big hotdogs which are shown during the break as 'special for the day' at PVR candy bar are tempting enough and there is absolutely no need to sell them during the movie.

Munnabhai MBBS

Are Hindi movies unrealistic? Some situations in the movies are difficult to accept but there is no limit to what can happen in real life. Everyday in workplace and TV i see fake people getting applause from others even though everyone knows the person is question is a fraud one. In Delhi Public School, Ranchi which is quite a reputed school in Ranchi there were teachers who taught nothing and knew nothing but still everyone loved them. Students loved him as he was not serious and gave many liberties in class. And his peers had to respect him as he was close to the principal. A friend of mine even went and complained to the principal but nothing was done. Then i got the chance to see some amazing professors at University of Roorkee(now IITR),some worse than school teachers, after lots of discussion with my friends i agreed that in India only those who don't get jobs pursue higher studies and PhD and this explains the poor quality of academicians. But this is not true for small schools only where a teacher pronounces 'canal' as 'channel' or private colleges where simple engineering graduates are teaching. This is true probably for all the professions and everywhere. In Hyderabad recently a fake doctor who got job in a Hospital showing false experience as doctor was caught. In villages illiterates can be fooled and they even agree for surgery at the hands of Pakhandi Babas. On national television(NDTV) Suhel Seth gives powerful remarks and sometimes i am also lured into believing that he will kill Jessica Lal's murders someday or the other. And can the indian multinationals be far behind, in my first job in a respected software company(partly because of its stock market performance) the person who was awarded the most valuable players of the team was the one i never saw working. He was only poking nose into other's job which was presented as if he was helping others because of which he could not do his own work and had to stay late in the night everyday. After that i had the privilege to see a person whose ability to play with words is impeccable. Without knowing anything he speaks confidently about everything and manages to get away with all his lies. Sometimes i think SAI BABA has given some special blessings to him, may be he was Sai Baba in his last life. The fact is some people get more in life than they deserve and the only reason i see behind this is Pichle Janam Ke Punya.

Hyderabad

Hyderabad once the city of Nizams is now the city of software companies/BPOs and shopping malls. The Cost of flats like the one shown in the third photograph is 40 lakhs for a 2 BHK. And not to the speak of the traffic, while the roadside trees are being cut to make the roads broader no effort has been put to create a lane system for the vehicles.

Stansfield plans 20 business schools

The Singapore-based Stansfield School of Business is contemplating a major foray with an investment of Rs 170 crore. The Stansfield Group is planning 20 business schools in the country during the next three years. The business schools will come up in Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram and Bhopal.

Good News!!!

After the mushrooming of private engineering colleges in Southern states and now all over India, its the turn for the B-Schools now. Clearly with so many engineers working all around managers are needed to manage them. And as most of the elite B-school passed outs cant be hired by the Indian Companies, they will take recruits from these very colleges. Indian Economy is booming so placement wont be a problem and Stansfield would definitely create a brand, if not as powerful as ISB then atleast better than the second grade B-Schools. We all look at International brands with respect and Chennai Business School has already started advertising for the coming session with a one MBA year course much like ISB.

In engineering the private colleges have not been able to create any powerful brand, Amity is still looked with suspicion and the entrance tests to most of private colleges are conducted by state boards which leads to doubt about the quality of the passed out grads. But in B-Schools for admission everyone asks for the CAT/GMAT score which leads to standardization. This year Chennai School of Business has asked for CAT/XAT/GMAT score, it will select a few, probably those who have a higher percentile or GMAT score and it will get a ranking based on the minimum score it takes. Next year all those applying to say MICA/TAPMI will also apply to CSB as last year people with percentile score of say 94 were selected at CSB.

What will happen is yet to be seen but India needs more of world class B-Schools and we hope to see some them coming in the next 3 years.