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It was a Friday, yet another lazy Friday at office. There was no reason to remain cheerful. I had loads of work to complete and yes I wasn’t expecting much of fun in the weekend too.

Lazing my day at office and acting responsible about completing work, I managed to fool around until 3 in the afternoon.

After a tea break, I got a notification, an e-mail from Chetan Bhagat. Yes, you read that right, it’s the author of Five Point Someone.

Totally lost in thoughts, I managed to open to the e-mail, to check if it was an automated reply for a comment I had posted on his Website a couple of days ago.

I had read about his new book 'Revolution 2020' somewhere, and navigated to his Website to check the release date and if pre-booking was open. The pre-booking wasn’t open though. I just managed to read an excerpt from the forth-coming release. The excerpt increased my inquisitiveness about the story-line. I was thrilled about another Chetan Bhagat book and posted a comment on his web page, wishing the author for his new release.

After a few minutes, I got back to the daily routine work at office. Nothing stayed on my mind about the book or the comment I had posted. In fact, I didn’t even have a second thought about the comment I had posted.

Now, I get a reply (a personalized thank you note) from the author. It’s amazing that the author had actually managed to write a personalized mail thanking me for the comment I had posted. I was almost flying by the time I finished reading the e-mail. My day is made.

Chetan Bhagat..I salute thee..Awaiting the release of Revolution 2020!

Kannathil Muthamittal

I have taken a long break from blogging. The long hours at office have given me very less time to do anything other than work.

The trigger to write a blog and the fact that I even own a blog was non-existent.

Yesterday, I was watching a movie, which is very close to my heart – Kannathil Muthamittal, which centers on child adoption. The movie deals with the effluences of an adopted child.

Directed by Mani Ratnam, this movie sets an exemplary for the kind of dialogues that can be used in an emotional subject line. The two word dialogues, for which the director has won acute reviews, from various critics, stand out to emphasize that minimal dialogues with supporting actors can etch the right kind of attitude whilst conveying the appropriate message.

The cinematography of the movie adds more ethnicity to the kind of theme being dealt with. The movie gradually moves from the lifestyle in a developed city to the refugees of Sri Lanka.

The topic of adoption being sensitive in its very nature and the storyline moving forward to the tense situation and the pathetic state of life in a country, which is being bombed, conveys the very essence with which a director can handle two concentric yet dissimilar subjects.

I personally cherish the movie for the personal connotation that I posses with the subject line and the kind of memories that it helps me recollect.