Sreejith's Blog

Certain shows automatically go to my "To-Watch-List" the first time you see it's promotional. One of those shows was 'Decoupled', a new Netflix series written by Manu Joesph. The promotional content was very intriguing as it went from one-truth bomb to the next, bam-bam-bam and I was hooked. There is a distinct appeal to Madhavan's delivery, kind of reminds me of 'Anbe Sivam' don't know why.  But before watching it, like any self-respecting consumer of content, I went and checked the reviews, and boy was it bad! The reviews slammed this series shut, mentioning the jokes don't land and have "politically incorrect" segments. This was quite disheartening, as I really wanted to watch the show!  Guess I am not as self-respecting as I presume :(.  So, when I got the time to just chill after a couple of days of hard work I got onto watching the entire series. Then I learned my lesson, don't believe reviews  completely . The entire show w

Today was a lazy day. It was cloudy and cold, and it rained the previous night. I finished my weekly meeting with my collaborator kees weijer in the morning where I presented some interesting results on the project we are working on (Will tell y'all once its out xD ). My advisor said that he was down with the flu and won't be coming into the dept. This added to my desire to be lazy the whole day. I sort of felt that I needed a break and I took it! The next step was to figure out what I would do the whole day then I thought of the movie that I heard in the podcast interviewing Abhinandan Sekhri where he talks about working on the movie called "Monsoon Weddings". This seemed very interesting and it was also available for free on YouTube!  So I got onto watching it in the morning, after I made myself a huge cup of tea. There are some things that pop out about the movie even 10 minutes in. One, there is a weird design heuristic to the opening credits which gives me kochi