Choodo Kal ki Baatein

We are obsessed with aiming for the sky, setting goals, achieving them, setting higher ones………….a vicious circle of desire and achievement encloses the mind and leads to a tunnel vision where sight is fixed only at the other end, …..caught in such a web of desire and achievement is the lead character of this movie Chodo Kal ki Batein (CKKB) Aditya Pradhan (AP) played by Sachin Khedakar.  I loved the concept of this movie, although I don’t know whether it has been lifted from somewhere. 

AP is a very successful and hard working professional, who wins a career boosting 20 crore contract for his company on Saturday at the expense of missing his daughter’s Arangetram.  Come Monday, and his dreams will be realized by signing on the contract, but there lies the problem.........Monday is not coming!  His Sunday keeps on repeating and he is the only one who realizes this.  The situation is funny and thought provoking at the same time and then there is this mysterious man wearing dark glasses (Anupam Kher) who keeps appearing in front of AP. 

The message of the movie is very good, although I felt it was a little cliched towards the end.  Nevertheless a movie to be watched by all the hardworking guys n gals…………

The pursuit of happyness

You dream big, you want to succeed, but then everything else seems to be conspiring against you, your investment has turned dud, your family life is at a cross road for some time now, you have bills piling up everywhere and wait.....you have got a 5-year-old son too......won't you give up?


................No....never.....because the "you" here is Chris Gardner enacted superbly on screen by Will Smith and his real life son (Jaden Smith) enacts the role of Gardner's son. This is his (Gardner's) real life story.


The movie shows the early part of Gardner's life as a medical equipment salesman
when he was struggling to make both ends meet, and could not even afford a home at one point and ends at the juncture where he gets his first break.


In the end, which is also the climax, both Deekay and Will Smith were trying hard to control their emotions ;-).


So, if you ever feel low on motivation and depressed about things not going your way, this is the movie to watch.


The script is by Steven Conrad and director is Gabrielle Muccino and Will Smith also won an Academy Award nomination for best actor.