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 Riveting special effects, Is it enough? Spoiler Alert: Don’t read this if you want to but yet to watch this much awaited movie. I generally don’t take effort to review movies because either I see them so late that it is reviewed to death and becomes a fact or I don’t see them at all. I saw Baahubali relatively early, which is after the ticket prize for the first weekend came down to an affordable number. I did have the excitement and anticipation that everyone who saw the part 1 had. It is definitely a movie that you have to watch it in a movie theatre, much like Jurassic part or Avatar. Beautiful background, apt beautiful actors and their paraphernalia, stylish stunt sequences and wonderful imagination, again with respect to special effects. But it definitely did not move me or carry me away. I felt bored at certain points and was thinking of something else in middle of a movie and most important of all I didn’t feel surprised for anything after the
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  To go Virtual or stay real So, first of all, the preliminaries, it’s been really eons since I wrote here. Reason 1: I forgot I had this blog. Reason 2: I really was engaged with some useful, almost irreplaceable work - my kid. Reason 3: Nobody really reads my blog except for few believing and caring friends. The reasons I think I should start scribbling again. Reason 1: I remembered that I have this blog. Reason 2: Though my irreplaceable work still remains useful, my kid gets by without me for few minutes. Reason 3: Few of my faithful friends asked if I still blog. So that out of the way. I thought I should probably start with my thoughts on the most important dilemmas pertinent to a modern parent, to go virtual from infancy or not.   Almost everyone I know or see "manage" their kid's tantrums and boredom with an app, a rhyme video, TV, mobile phones, dedicated tabs and anything else on the edge of technology. This starts right