Gerald D'Cunha

Pic.: Vinita Mantri Gopal Young Murph : Dad, why did you and mom name me after something that's bad? Cooper : Well, we didn't. Young Murph : Murphy's Law? Cooper : Murphy's Law doesn't mean that something bad will happen. It means that whatever can happen, will happen. N o matter I much I write every day – yes, on being positive in life – belly-laughing doesn’t come to me easily. Tension does. Worry does. Fear does… “Come on Gerry,” I hear some of you telling me already, “don’t’ tell me that!” My friend, I am telling you exactly that… That, I write everyday this stuff – on being positive, productive, good and giving in life – just because I want to beat my own blues all the time… Not only the blues, the blacks, the grays, the greens and those reds, too… God alone knows from which land do they come to tense my muscles, numb my heart and take the laughter out of my soul… I panic easily… and, I am telling you ...

Normally, I do not decide to watch a movie, by the ratings of the critics. Because, I have been mislead by them too many times in the past. On the other hand, whenever I have sneaked into a cinema hall, without anyone having washed my brain, or just by default, I have thoroughly enjoyed that movie. After the depressing one week, last evening, I really wanted to watch a light movie. Of all the Bollywood movies currently being screened around, I chose 'OYE LUCKY ... LUCKY OYE' to ease out my pressure and bring a smile back on my face. After all, the critics had given 3 1/2 stars for it, while all other movies had never made it beyond two. So, once again, I fell prey to the critic's verdict, and, along with my wife, settled down to watch this movie. Till the interval break, neither of us could make where lay the head and where the tail of this 'Oye Lucky'. Instead of easing out my pressure and depression, it added an additional load to it. So, the moment the lights cam...

"Mind your language; what do you mean by 'aarayela hai'," Dr. Dastana, aka. Mamu, warns his ward boy. The ward boy has just tried to please his boss, so sincerely, by breaking the bizarre news: Mamu's nemesis, Munna and his sidekick Circuit have entered the hospital with a king-size bed. Munna is a man with a mission. He has dropped the desire to get married to Mamu's daughter, Chinky, and now obsessed with the desire to marry Dr. Suman. But, not before making Mamu's life miserable. "Vaat lagayega teri," he had vowed ... Like Chanakya. Long before the movie ends, the frustrated Dr. Dastana - the upright Dean of the prestigious medical college - vows behind the closed door: "Vaat main lagayega teri!" The very next moment, he beats with both his hands his melonlike head and bemoans, "What am I saying!" Mamu is unable to believe, that he, too, can succumb to such levels. From a hardcore Gandhian to a hardcore terrorist, from the...