Traffic

I got back home for this weekend, actually for 6 days starting on 26th, Republic day. Which seemed a far better idea than waiting in Chennai hoping that the RMG guy will call us for a project some time soon. Work has become so idiotic at TCS. Your training got over more than a month ago, the recession seems to be over all over the world and still we are looking for projects to work in. The biggest irony is that they are recruiting another 50000 freshers by the end of this academic year. I wonder how they manage together all this as a cost effective organization. Must be the 40-60 ratio one hears now and then. The client pays 100 bucks for the work and the guy who actually did all the work in the company's name gets only 40 or lesser than that. Very argumentative..

Well, this post is not about TCS or the work anyway. Home for the weekend, a movie out seemed to be in order and hearing the good opinion about it, we all went for 'Traffic'. The movie was a far better attempt at film making than the usual low grade stuff you see in malayalam films these days. The treatment of the subject is very well done. You can feel throughout the movie that you ought to expect the unexpected. The cliched scenes have all been reworked into more pleasant and intriguing takes.

The basic plot of the movie is the seemingly impossible attempt at transferring a heart from a donor to a patient who is 150 km away in under 2 hours by road. However incidents surrounding all this and how the director chose to use them is all what makes this movie a money-well-spent-on. Its how the various people who are going to be a part of this journey in someway or another reached that particular part of their lives. The scenes have been creatively shot though a little over dramatization could be seen at places. Good actors like Roma have been under utilized too. Srinivasan, as usual, gets into his role with his usual nonchalantness and does a wonderful job playing the good cop gone bad under circumstances and who wants to make up in his life for that.

The climax is truly the best part of the movie. All the often used operation theatre drama where you are put into suspense about whether the heart will work or not has been all cut out. The films glides into the climax where each of those characters feeling satisfied that they have done something good with their lives or as in the case of some others relieved at having got over a bad day.

It has been a very good attempt of a film and the director Rajesh is someone to watch out for.

Back in kollam,  you are getting unusual nostalgic feelings for this old home. Went to all the usual hangouts in this city again and the memories start to flood back in. Its going to be a loooong journey back to that second home called Chennai.

On other news the cigaratte addiction is on full flow now and if I dont get a laptop to work back there in chennai soon I am going to be a chain smoker soon. I want something to concentrate my mind on so as not to think about anything else. Ideas are starting to cloud up... will post back sooon...

[Edit on 8th July]: i am a chain smoker even though i have a laptop now!