The secret diary of Arnab Goswami

It was like worst nightmare one could ever get. I had no idea when those Asian guys came to me and told me that I’d to take interview of some senior Indian politician, that I would be taking interview of non-challenger. I was not scared as it is part of my job and I know how to make other person pee in their pants. Still those Asian guys convinced me hard that this interview will be milestone in my career. I was still eager to know about the guy.

After signing the contract, I was told that I will be interviewing some congress leaders. I was like I’d done the worst with congress after interviewing Abhijeet Mukharjee. Still my 6^th sense told me that this is not going to be the ordinary day of my life. I’d tried to contact those Asian guys again to know more about the candidate. I was shocked to hear the answer. I had no idea whether I start celebrations as I would be the first one to interview him or start praying for myself for the same reason.

Yes They told me to interview Mr. Rahul Gandhi.

Everything was perfect on the D-day and he came as calm as those Asian guys after getting the deal of Rs500 crores for makeover of Rahul Gandhi. I’d already provided the set of questions to Rahul Gandhi so that he could prepare well because he was going to face the interview against none other than me. The same person who makes a panel of 6 people cry everyday with his nation wants to know algorithm, the same person who start singing requiem everytime Sanjay Jha tries to speak something.

In start when Rahul Gandhi started saying words like RTI, Women empowerment, MNREga etc I was actually happy that dude has come prepared. Then I tried to dig further, to my surprise Rahul Gandhi was like an engineering student appearing for the first job interview . He was only prepared with those 3 topics.

I wanted to listen more when I asked direct question on Mr Modi, but unlike Modi Rahul Gandhi actually answered RTI, System and other relevant crap again. At that time I even tried to become little personal and asked direct question of Subrahmaniyam Swamy about degrees of Rahul Gandhi. Even in that case he answered me RTI, system and other thing.

I wanted to scream, I wanted to shout “nation wants to know”, I wanted to get hell out of Rahul Gandhi but those Japanese guys were smart enough. They had it in contract that I should be mild with Mr. Gandhi.

After interviewing Rahul Gandhi, all I can remember is Empowerment, RTI and system. In the 2^nd episode of the same show I am going to invite Mr. Kejriwal at least AAM AADMI sounds little better.

Good night

Lucia : real or dream, a movie worth watching.

Every one of us loves to dream. Our dream could be anything. One can dream about anything, he could be filmstar in that, he could be millionaire or in fact billionaire in the dreams. You actually have no limits for the dreams. But what happens when you mingle your dreams with your real life? Result could be anything but one thing is sure it will leads to a heavy confusion.

Lucia, a Kannada movie, is all about the dreams. Here we have a “battery-showing” attendant of “talkies” who came into the contact of drug peddlers and started taking “dream-pill : Lucia”. In the dreams he is living a life of a Film start. Incidentally all the characters in the dreams are people from his real life, with the same name. Film progresses with slow pace and then you yourself start mixing the two stories and start confusing about real or dream life. What if his dream life was real and real life was mere a dream? You will come to know about it in end.

I am a big movie fan and love to see good movies of any language provided I have subtitles for it. I read about it on some social media site and one of my friends had compared it to Inception. Yes it is not inception but it is a good and balanced movie with script as the main character of the movie.

If we look the story from another angle it is also a story of our aspirations and desires. Nikki, a “battery-showing” attendant wanted to be filmstar and loves the life of film star whereas Nikki, a film star actually wants to live a simple life probably a life of “battery-showing” attendant. It is all about our dreams. We have lots of desires which couldn’t be fulfilled in our real lives but yes no body charge a damn when we enjoy such desires in our dreams. Lucia is all about it only.

My review will be incomplete if I fail to praise director for it. I read it on wiki and other sources that Director has no fund for the movie so he went on social media sites and appealed to people to participate in contribution of this movie. This cleared my doubt of showing more than 100 names in producers, associate producers list. Later on I came to know some 110 people invested in this movie and it was 1^st movie in kannada to have done such experiment. In my knowledge it is 2^nd movie to have asked people for funds. 1^st one was “Veer Sawarkar” which was made in hindi and Marathi.

Anyways, director has done a brilliant job. He knew he was making a film on 2 different stories and he never ever tried to mix the content. In fact one part of life was showed in colors while other part of life was shown in black-n-white. In last director even tried to justify his logic of using black-n-white in one of the hospital scenes. In the end you may be confused which life was real life and which was the dream-life but it was the beauty of direction that you will end up getting all the answers by the end of movie.

It was my 3rd kannada movie till date, that’s why I do not have much knowledge about the names of actors and actresses and I am actually too lazy to check wiki for it now. Still main lead Nikki played a superb role. He actually lived 2 lives in movie.

It was a brilliant movie and yes we actually lost our chance to send it to Oscars ( it was in the list of Indian-official entry-to-oscar). 

P.S. Movie has 8.8 ratings on IMDB which is actually a rare case for any indian movie. Watch the trailor from above link.