History ...

Couple of days back, one of my colleagues asked me, "Do you know why they teach us history in school??". I replied promptly, "Of course, so that we do not repeat the mistakes made in history!!!". The discussion went on, after all we needed something to discuss, to take our mind of the just about ok food we were eating for lunch. The topic went on, with both of us putting across some or the other anecdotes, details of which I would put across, some other day.

When I was sleeping later that night, I was again struck by that question.

Indeed, if we look around us, we don't really seem to have learnt our history well enough. Or maybe, we think that we are intelligent enough, to not repeat the mistakes and end up overlooking the steps that we take, which result in us repeating mistakes from history. I don't have the patience or the energy to fill up this space with different events. But if every one of us ponders over their past, they would see a lot of mistakes they have repeated.

No wonder there goes a saying that "History repeats itself!!!"

Om Shanti Om!!!

What a load of crap!!!

Farah Khan could have done better!!! The only promising part about the movie is "Deepika Padukone".

The movie is a useless rehash of the countless reincarnation movies available in Bollywood. Though it has a stark resemblance to the classic "Karz". 

I am not gonna waste my time and effort in writing about this movie. Agreed I njoyed some parts of the movie, the songs etc. But after half time the movie goes into a downward spiral. The nuisance value just increases!!!

An interesting aspect I want to share is this. The title song "Om Shanti Om" which has lots of stars coming in for a guest appearance was quite good. And in this song, I almost blacked out SRK. From my perspective He just dint exist in any frame of the song. I was just too busy looking at the other actors/actresses. Ditto for the song, Dard-e-Disco. Wasn't looking at SRK at all, was looking at the other dancers. Almost all the songs, that's precisely what I was doing!!!

Catch it on a DVD later sometime, when you have absolutely nothing to do....

Times rated it as 3.5/5 I say 2.5 would suffice!!!