My Visit to Bangalore Palace!

This weekend I happened to visit Bangalore palace - 4 of us - my dad, mom, saloni(my room mate) and I.
As soon as we reached the palace, the guards directed us to the ticket counter. We went there and my dad asked for 4 tickets. The lady at the counter screened me from top to bottom, then said,"Below 18, only half ticket, sir!!".
My dad asked,"So, you mean you will give us only three and a half tickets??"
The lady said,"Yes!"
Can you believe it???
I simply recalled the advertisement - "meri twacha se meri umar ka pata hi nahi chalta - santoor santoor!!"
Coming to the review about palace, it wasn't that great, as I have seen Mysore palace - which is huge and fully commercialized where as this palace was not even maintained properly.They rent out the place for weddings, approximately 1.75L per hall room and 4.5L for just the ground area.

Any takers??

BhoothNath - The Movie

Happened to watch BhoothNath yesterday in Fame Cinemas, Bangalore.

About the Multiplex:
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Multiplex seemed really promising. The sound and the video quality was excellent. The seating was very comfortable. And most importantly, it seemed like a multiplex auditorium, not just a room with a screen just bigger than 25" screen. The food court was also good, just that they were not giving the bills for the items purchased.

About the Movie:
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The movie, as the trailers clearly show, is not a horror movie - but rather a sweet movie with a child(BANKU - Born to Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla) being the center of attraction. Everyone loves him - his parents, family, friends, etc.He happens to be the naughtiest child around and with his sweet childish acts, he manages to be friendly with the BHOOTH as well.
Till here, the movie was quite as shown in the trailers. After this, the story takes a new angle, which neither the name of the movie nor the trailers reveal. The angle is 'Parental Love'. The Bhooth seems to have a story of his own with his son. That is what makes his soul wander around and not rest in peace. After a lot of melodramatic scenes, Shahrukh, Juhi, The kid and BHOOTH's son organize a POOJA for the soul's MUKTI.

I wont say A MUST WATCH. But yeah, a GOOD TIME PASS. The kid has acted really nicely.

- Nidhi Chaudhary

No Care,No education,No food,No self-respect,No dignity,No Choice,No Power!!

It was really disheartening to see a news on NDTV about the condition of women in India.The lives of these women in rural India is a struggle, right from their birth.
No Care, No education, No food, No self-respect, No dignity, No Choice, No Power, Nothing - but insults and dishonors is what they get! What is their fault?? Why .. Just Why.. is society so cruel to them..?? No Man can tolerate such a behavior with his sister, then why doesn't he understand that the girl he is torturing - mentally and physically - is also someone's sister, daughter,mother and above all - a Human! She also has the right to be HAPPY, the right to LIVE! In the Report, I watched today, they were showing the different phases of life's struggle - a woman has to go through before reaching a stage where she has to actually beg god for death.
As a child, she is not accepted in the family - No Food, No Education, Sometimes SOLD for money too!
When she grows a little up, she is either married(without her knowledge and consent, of course), or raped by someone in the village - which in turn gives others the right to call her 'BADCHALAN' (of a bad character!) and sometimes, a child too...
And the pain doesnot end here, the child for whom she has done hell lot of sacrifices, refuses to support her when she needs care and attention - he even refuses to give her food!
The story comes back to from where it started - No Food, No Care, No self-Respect,No Dignity, No Choice, No Power!
Is this why we are born as humans?? Aren't Animals much better than we are??

Keep thinking!
- Nidhi Chaudhary