Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Saw long time back and Remembered now

I saw the movie, "The Pursuit of Happyness" long time back.(rather this movie debuted on my iPod and I found a better way of commuting to office)

I never paid attention to something very significant. Why was "Happyness" misspelt? offcourse it was intentional.

Wikipedia has a long story to say on the same about Thomas Jefferson and United States declaration of independence.

Well I found something while surfing that appealed to me a lot.

"There is no Y(why) in Happyness, only I".

Interesting musing.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Very aptly expressed

Found in one of the Rediff's discussion forum.

"If this movie had shown Indians as slum dwellers, poverty ridden, racist, corrupt and had shown Westerners as compassionate and our saviors, this would have topped the charts and won a few Oscars.
The hypocrisy of the Western scoundrels is mind blowing.
I'm not saying these things dont exist in India but to relentlessly portray only the negative side of our country in virtually every movie amounts to racial stereotyping. And frankly I'm tired of the BS."

Thanks Mr. Vijay M for echoing the same sentiments which was brewing in my mind since I saw this movie. Couldnt get words for it.