De-Sizzling Summer!!!

It is the summer time that every movie buff anticipates eagerly as it is the time when most of the "supposed-to-be-blockbusters" movies and the "actual" blockbusters release. It is that part of the year where everyone is pissed off with the climate and of course with the boring time spent at home(With exception of certain guys/gals!!), and movies are expected to be the "boredom-busters".

The Summer of 2009 in Chennai is no different, the climate is at its scorching best. The temperatures are topping the previous day's numbers, the stock market can be a volatile one in this economic crisis but the temperature seems to be exponentially increasing. There were the other events which kept the minds of the people distracted from the woes of the scorching heat, they were the EPL and UCL for the football fans; IPL for the Indian People(Cricket is our Religion Remember!!!) and of course the eventful General Elections which kept us glued to the televisions for the best part of 3 days( Major distraction from the IPL itself!!!).

Now that the EPL's fate having been decided in the penultimate weekend with The Red Devils retaining the trophy and leaving the Scousers with nothing to chew on, the final weekend has its share of climax attached to it as the relegation battle is fought on May 24. After that it’s the UCL finals on the 27th May. And that is the end of interesting football quota for the summer and I have to wait till mid-august for the next season to kick off, till such time it’s a big bore.

The IPL gets over by May 24th, this season's cricket show was spiced up with the posts from FIP, now that he is RIP there will be no more spicy touch to the IPL. The World T20 kicks off in the first week of June, for me it would be a heavy dosage of back-to-back 20-20 cricket tournaments and it sucks big time. There is no fun till July when the Ashes kicks off.

So there is a consistent boredom injected to my life at regular intervals, for busting out that boredom I need to watch movies. But WHERE ARE THE MOVIES??????

It is one of those most forgetful summers I have ever had in Chennai(For Sure I will forget this Summer). There has been no quota of new movies being released in Chennai, I think the film distributors have forgotten that there is a metropolitan city in the South of India called as Chennai. Where the hell are the newly released English movies.

The English movies were having a simultaneous worldwide release for quite sometime in the recent past. But when there are major blockbusters lined up for the summer, why the hell can't they have a simultaneous release. We movie buffs from Chennai eagerly await for movies such as Angels & Demons, Watchmen, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Terminator Salvation and we have to wait for another month or two before the actual "censored" one comes out.

The political honchos are to be blamed to some extent, they are like hungry hyenas, waiting for some English movie to be released and in the name of "Defaming God" try to ban the movie from being released . Instead of concentrating on banning movies please stop the "in-party-crap" of propagating ill across the nation. Do your duty first and later concentrate on these petty matters. Everything in this country is ruled by the concept of bureaucracy even for movies it is the case. It is not that the people of India eagerly wait for Disney to release a newly animated movie, we even love the other movies being filmed in Hollywood, so for God's sake please release the movies in time and unshackle us from our boredom. I cannot figure out the problem with simultaneous releases. Now that its in our fate to wait till the movies release, nothing can be done.

Coming to regional movies, whoa!!!! What a summer, filth-filled movies aka hyped movies being released every now and then. These movies are no different from B-Grade movies, the difference is that these hyped movies have highly-paid actors and actresses but the only commonality is the budget on costumes, it is very minimal citing the recession. Common we are not that illiterate to get fooled with such movies, but still we watch it for escaping boredom .We cannot survive for any longer with this filth!!!

I do not know how far I can go watching these ill scripted movies, I have resorted to watching movies on my DVDs till the next good movie(s) release. Hope you guys find other ways to kill your boredom!!