My dignified rants - Vijay Ramalingam

Mission Impossible 5 Rogue nation - Movie review Add caption To begin with, I must say, my journey - to the theatre to watch MI5 Rogue nation – was itself an adventurous and action packed one with me having to hop into a rapidly accelerating electric train, jump off a moving bus and trust me, I am not making this up as my home is situated roughly 20 kms away from the City center. To be frank, I did not have too much expectation from this fifth installment of the MI franchise as I had felt that the originality and the freshness were lost after the brilliant and electric first part by Brian De Palma. The second part seemed to be the most different and least cerebral kind with its slow-motion  sequences resembling more of Bollywood than Hollywood let alone MI part One and  I am aware,  John Woo has a ‘ Thing’ for Slow Mos. The third part somehow tried to salvage the cerebral aspect with a brilliant villain by Phillip Seymour Hoffman. And the fourth part rather felt l

The 'Rat race' and compassion towards animals An old post of mine from October 13, 2014 Happened to witness a gruesome incident yesterday evening at the ECR near Mahabalipuram. I was traveling in an MTC bus to Mahabalipuram and I had occupied one of the the window seats. As the bus crossed Vada nemmeli, suddenly some of my co passengers were shouting to look at the right side of the road. An adult dog which was standing on the right side of the road (not in the middle of the road exactly) had just been hit by some vehicle ( I failed to notice the vehicle that hit it , it could have been a lorry or a car that was speeding on the opp side at that moment) and the dog's right eye had popped outside and was dangling on its face and the dog was screaming in pain and mortal agony, and then I noticed that its lower body (hind portion) had been severely crushed / damaged and the dog fell down dead. All this (my witnessing of the happenings) happened in just a co