Okay, I just returned from the movie, Via Darjeeling. I am not sure how this review gonna turn up but the movie is surely not worth those Rs. 200.
Let’s jump to the movie’s story.. Well, it looked like a copied version of some English thriller. But let’s assume that it is an original story. A couple goes to Darjeeling for honeymoon, suddenly the husband disappears, the police comes in the picture, wife explains the story to the police guy.. CUT, next scene, the same police guy is actually narrating the story to his friends.. everyone tries their luck in finishing the story.. and that’s it.
We get to see same things almost 3-4 times. (Afterall, every friend in the room has right to make their own stories)
And in the end you find that, the actual story is not something you have been watching for past 1 and half hour. (or may be there is no actual story, it was all imagination) – Yea, I know it’s more like WTF like situation, but can’t really help it.
Ok, I am done with the story I guess.. now let’s talk about the acting.
Vinay Pathak, well, he was good but I am not sure why did he act in this movie? Just for the sake of helping someone make a “movie”? Same applies to Kay Kay Menon, Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh.. infact every actor except Sonali Kulkarni. Coz I am sure Sonali must be looking for a change (getting into something other than TV shows).
Let me take this Sonali thing bit further. I am really not sure what happened to her acting skills. I mean, come’ on, what the hell she was doing? Was she trying to act? Trying to cry? Trying to make “cute” faces? Pathetic.
Okay, I am done with this too.. anything else left? I guess nothing.. Oh, Yea… the warning.
Okay, here I go. If you wish to watch this movie, please watch it at your own risk. I have tried (and still trying) my best to stop you from watching this movie. But in the end, it’s your call.
Oh Yes, there are couple of songs too.. (Look, I am still trying..)
Stars? Are you still bothered about them?
Currently on my way to Mumbai, had gone to Goa for a short trip with friends. Left Mumbai on Thursday night, reached Goa on wonderful Friday morning. Did early check in at Marriott. (They were kind enough to let us check in early, their check in time is 4 PM). 3 nights, 4 days stay. Enjoyed there a lot. So let’s start with Day 1.
Day 1: Friday around 1 PM, reached Marriott Goa. Had great food there. Checked in the room, fantastic ocean view and finally got chance to SLEEP on the SUPER COZY bed. To be frank, after spending a night at Renaissance, Powai (One of the Marriott group hotels), We were actually waiting for this kind of bed, I just jumped onto the bed as I saw it. I mean, it was like heaven, I didn’t want anything else, just that bed, COZY bed on which I could sleep for whole day..damn good. Friends asked us to come over with them for a walk but we decided to enjoy the sleep.
On the same day, a kind of very bad incident happened with few tourists (females mainly) staying at Marriott. Some guys were clicking their photos, they caught the guys, deleted all the photographs and called the police but then decided to handover the guy and not lodge the complaint. This had happened outside the Marriott, but one of the members explained the incident to Marriott staff and they finally got convinced to lodge the complaint.
We were watching this right there sitting the lobby area of Marriott. I never expected any hotel guys to be so helpful. Marriott guys called their security people, arranged a car and all went to the police station and with the help of Marriott staff, finally all those culprits were caught and put behind the bar.
We were really impressed by the support staff of Marriott. A very strong positive mark.
Ok, so now what? There was lovely beach connecting to our hotel, just needed to step down from the hotel lobby and you are at the beach. 
. I strolled there with Megha for sometime. Sat at the poolside and headed for the Dinner.
We then went to the Casino, won some, lost some.. but we were winners in the hand with some decent amount of winning money in the hand. The day finally reaches the end.
Day 2: Started with late morning around 10 AM, that’s when we woke up. Had breakfast and jumped into the pool. It was super fun. A hot sexy babe in Bikini but Megha and 3 of my friends blocked the way.. so I was kind of kin soup but still got good amount of glimpse of that babe, haha..
At around 4.30 PM, we left to visit a 400 year old church and Baga beach. I regret going to those places. I do not mean to say that those places were bad but I prefer going to the places with less crowd. Baga beach was full of not so good crowd, felt like I am at Juhu beach. Have heard that beaches in South Goa are much better than North Goa. (We were at North Goa)
I prefer a clean beach with very decent crowd Yea, I do not like people playing around on the beach and blocking the way, I do not like tattoo females banging the head to get the Tattoo done from them and all.. I just like a clean beach with lots of peace and no nuisance.
We returned at around 7.30 PM, started with the lunch bit early, at around 8.30 PM, enjoyed each and everything at Dinner, specially Hummus and those yummy dessert and yea, my “customized” mango ice cream with chocolate chips and some more toppings.
Again, we hit the Casino. I again won some money, joined my friends for the Jackpot game. Won some amount and the winners headed towards the room but stopped at the Cafe / Lounge near the reception area. A sea facing cafe, cool breeze all the time (even if it’s afternoon) Spent around half an hour there and finally landed in the room and the day ends here.
Day 3: This one was the best day. Again, a late morning, had breakfast at around 11 AM. Directly jumped into the pool after that, we just loved floating around on those floating beds. Left for the lunch at around 2 PM, after Jacuzzi and quick shower. Slept for sometime and again jumped into the pool at around 6.30 PM, left for the dinner at 10 PM. (Again, had quick shower and Jacuzzi before the dinner)
Casino had become our daily routine, so we bumped into the Casino. But this time, for a change, lost good amount of money but those coin based games gave me profit of around Rs. 400. But in the end, we were not the winners. But enjoyed it.
At the end of the day, there was bit sadness coz we had to leave on the next day, none of us wanted to leave so soon but we had to..
Day 4: The last day. We left the hotel at around 11 AM, bought some Cashew Nuts and reached the Thvim station. The bad phase starts now. The train was late by approximately 1 and half hour. We waited in the waiting room. The place did not give us good feeling. We were getting frustrated, the place was not at all clean. The train finally arrived at 1.30 PM.
OK, now let’s talk in the present tense as I am currently in the train. (The post will be posted as I reach home though)
We are in the A/C compartment but it is more like a 2nd class compartment. Some guys with kids got in, bribed the TC and making noise all around. The food is pathetic. Tea / Coffee almost without the milk, Sandwich without the butter and stale vegetables. (The food is prepared in the railway department’s pantry car). I am hearing 3 different songs from 3 different places, some kid is showing off his Sony Erriccson walkman phone by playing new phones, other guys is showing off his radio. Damn, it totally sucks.
We are just waiting to reach Mumbai and have decided will never travel by Train for longer journeys.
Yea, Yea, I have become more like Amitabh Bachchan (He is known to blog very long posts) But for all those lazy readers like me, here is the summary.
The Goods:
- Marriott Hotel at Goa. Very good place, reasonable rates, excellent service and very polite and helping staff members.
- Mini bar in Marriott room. They had a small fridge with all the common stuff like Cold drinks, Beers, Pringles, Cashew Nuts and chocolates. We just need to pick the ones we need, they will bill us in the end for it. (The rates were very reasonable, e.g. Rs. 20 for the diet Pepsi can)
- Pool, enjoyed the pool. You should not miss the pool whenever you go to any hotel. And specially if you are at Marriott Goa, pool is real cool. (It is ocean facing)
- The food, though they had few items repeated but the quality of food was very good. Desserts were very good.
- Live performance at Marriott. They had a live / karaoke performance on Sunday noon for the lunch. It was really amazing, all the guests enjoyed and many of them came forward and sang the songs too.
The Bads:
- The beaches, I personally did not like roaming around at the beaches. Like mentioned earlier, I prefer cleaner ones.
- Bathroom at Marriott, they should have had a bath tub.
- The Butlets aka Cutlets in Jan Shatabdi Express. It was so pathetic, it was full of potato and tasteless, so we ended up naming it Butlet.
- Jan Shatabdi Express. NEVER EVER GO BY THIS TRAIN. It sucks like hell. I would prefer flight rather than train.
I guess, that’s it. I will be reaching Mumbai in approximately 5 hours (hopefully).
Will be posting the pics within couple of days.
In the morning around 11 AM you are driving your car in the city, suddenly someone calls you up and asks to meet at friend’s garage, you meet the person and you are asked to take that person to some place.. and you follow the instructions..
Other day, you are asked to date Michelle and you do not miss the opportunity, take her for bowling and finally try your luck.. you get success after trying out couple of times..
Okay, now you are back to your city drive, kill few guys to get some “extra” money, call 911 for urgent help, kill ambulance driver and drive away with it just for the free dose of meds. You have free fun with hookers (who gives 3-4 choices lol)
Well, that’s GTA IV all about.. fun, pure fun, you are walking on the road, take any car you want, pull the driver out and run away with it.. be it a limousine (Sucks at handling) or any cab or may be a bus or a bike, sports bike.
I have been glued to my XBOX 360 for last few days and I have never found so interesting game till now. Just amazing game. Love driving around the city, playing with the cops and running away..
Now GTA is becoming more interesting, my very good friend John has been giving me daily tips on GTA over the messenger, I try new things daily and have fun.
Trust me, if you do not have this game, go and GET IT.. 100% paisa vasool
A friend calls on Friday, orders Megha and Me to come for the play, “Class of 84″ with them.. I was like.. no yaar, I am not much into plays.. but all those excuses doesn’t work.. tickets for Sunday are already booked..
Sunday..We decide to leave at around 4.30 PM for the play.. (Starting at 6.30 PM), at 4, it started raining heavily.. I don’t lose hope, I got one more excuse but all in vain..finally we leave at around 4.45 PM.. we reach the NCPA at around 6.40 PM, I was thankful that we missed first 10 minutes of the play..
The play finally started..I started involving myself in the play and believe me.. I totally enjoyed it.. it was a total fun play.. great actors like Rajit Kapur made the play more special.. (Infact all the actors were good)
And now, I regret that we could not reach for the play at time.. we shouldn’t have missed those 10 minutes..
A great play.. if you like watching plays then this is a must watch..
Check the review on Mouthshut
Okay, so the play is over.. now what? We rushed to Koyla at Colaba, we had reserved a table at 8.30 PM but we were already late by 15 minutes.. our table was given to someone else (as we were late).. we reached Koyla at around 9 PM, waited for 15 minutes.. and got the table.. enjoyed my favorite, Chana Chaat Trust me, it tastes damn damn good.. around 11 PM, it started raining heavily.. we finished our dinner in hurry, left the place.. and.. suddenly the rain stopped.. lol
We finally reached home at 12 in the midnight. Enjoyed the whole day.. though we were running all the time.. (late show, late restaurant and rains..) haha but it was fun..
I just want to see you
When you’re all alone
I just want to catch you if I can
I just want to be there
When the morning light explodes
On your face it radiates
I can’t escape
I love you ’till the end
I just want to tell you nothing
You don’t want to hear
All I want is for you to say
Why don’t you just take me
Where I’ve never been before
I know you want to hear me
Catch my breath
I love you ’till the end
I just want to be there
When we’re caught in the rain
I just want to see you laugh not cry
I just want to feel you
When the night puts on its cloak
I’m lost for words don’t tell me
All I can say
I love you ’till the end
The Pogues – Love You till The End
