Interesting weekend...

Atleast till now...after a long time went for a movie on weekday (technically weekend starting, as it was on Friday night). Didn't plan it as such...a friend called me out of the blue n asked if I was interested in watching Sikandar (yeah...not many ppl have heard of the movie)...he had an extra ticket.

Now let me tell you, from my vast experience, that movie watching follows the basic funda of expectation management...in this case, higher the expectations...stronger the jhatka u get after watching a crap movie. And due to the long history of jhatkas (RVG ki Aag, Krazzy 4 to name a few), I've started going to movies with absolute zero, zukk, zitch, nada expectations (and even then I'm sometimes disappointed). So anyway coming back to the weekend n the movies...went for Sikandar...from the starting it looked a coming of age movie with Kashmir violence as the backdrop...this is where I made a mistake...my expectations went up...I though it would be a good movie but nope...by the end of the movie I was scratching my head n looking at other people, just to make sure that I'm not the only one who is lost. It seems the movie was (supposedly) some kind of an intelligent thriller with too many loopholes...too many coincidences...and too many jewellery ads in the interval...clearly not a movie for me.

Now today also I went for a movie...Life partner starring Tussar Kapoor, Fardeen Khan, Govinda, Genelia. This time no expectations...with Fardeen and Tussar as main leads it is near to impossible to have any. But let me tell you frankly...I enjoyed it...Govinda was in full form...songs were passable...Genelia as always was good...and our two heroes, well all they had to do through out the movie was to have bewildered look on their faces. This is the only expression which comes naturally to them...so no worries here as well. At the end movie I came out of the theater laughing...had a good time...and never felt that have wasted time or money on the movie.

So till now (Saturday night), the score is 1-1...one crap and one entertaining movie. A lot depends on the Sunday movie now...Kaminey...this will decide whether my weekend was good or bad. I've received very mixed reactions for the movie...but because of Vishal Bharadwaj (director...Maqbool, Omkara)...I've to see this movie...that means the expectations are alerady up...so I just hope this movie is good and it doesn't end my weekend on a bad note.

But one thing which will definitely make my weekend is England winning the Ashes...which can very well happen tomorrow (if these english don't screw up)...nothing feels better then watching these arrogant aussies getting their asses kicked (esp. in Ashes).

Finally...

...made the Coorg trip...and it was better than what I expected. I had initially planned to go with couple of my office friends, but due to non-availability of reservations, the plan was getting delayed...and as always I was pretty pissed off...but on Thursday one of my friends from B'lore scrapped me that he is plannig a bike trip to coorg along with his bullet gang...I was more than happy to jump in.

I reached b'lore @ 7 am Saturday morning (bus was late due to rain/traffice)...he was waiting with his bike at the stand. We met rest of the gang outside B'lore at CCD...had breakfast and continued with the trip....there were 6 bikes (1 more joined us @ Coorg) and 8 people (2 pillions). One of the riders, Junaid, is a rally driver and knows a lot about bikes...so whenever anybody thought there is any prob. with the bike we would stop, he'll do a quick checkup of the bike...meanwhile the rest of us would be busy in tea/coffee...sutta...stretching etc...in short we had lot of pit stops.

We reached Madekeri in the afternoon (before that had a good lunch ...chicken rolls). From Madekeri to the place we were staying the distance was around 1km...the road was totally screwed...more of an off-roading track...everyone had good fun testing their bikes on the track (esp. our friend...the rally driver).

The place which was booked for us was in the middle of nowhere...loverly house with 2 rooms...double beds...fridge...tata sky. From the house we had a great view of the river below (which we visited next day morning). Inthe evening, the caretake setup the campfire and got some chicken for us...Junaid found a wire somewhere and we cooked (alright he cooked...I guess he the taleneted one) the chicken in the campfire directly...really tastely stuff.

Next morning we left for the river...again awesome place...hardly anybody comes there. After spending about an hour there we started our journey back...it was drizzing a little and the weather was perfect for the bike trip.

On the back we found pretty heavy rain at some places so it took more time than we anticipated and at the end we were having a race against time as I had a bus to catch from b'lore to chennai.

There are lots of places to visit in Coorg near Madekeri but we left as this was more of a bike trip than Coorg trip...but really had a time of my life...Now even I've started thinking about making a bike trip somewhere nearby Chennai (may be Yelagiri, 250 km).

Might be going to Coorg again with friends (that was the initial plan)...it seems there are some falls and trekking which we missed...so I see another trip in very near future.