3-D on IMAX

Watched Into the Deep today, a 3-D movie on the giant IMAX screen. It is a 35 minute documentary on the sea life in the under-water kelp forest off the coast of California. This was my first 3-D film and the experience, quadrupled by the IMAX effect, is just wow! Had the theater authorities supplied pink top-hats too along with those huge plastic goggles, more people would understand the humiliation the circus elephants were made to undergo to satisfy our perverse thirst for entertainment.

On an entirely different note, a report in Indiatimes says that a law exists in Pakistan banning any India-bashing in its movies!! That's really surprising, when our moviemakers fail to make note of few qualities like 'prudence' and 'judgement' while making movies involving our western neighbour. Agreed that we fought three and a half wars between us and are no great buddies, but is that reason enough to feed the flame of hatred in the people, some of whom lack the basic mental faculties to distinguish a nation from a religion! One has only to look at the apparent tiff over a small change at a railway station in Gujarat that left in its wake thousands physically dead and millions mentally scarred. Having said that, I don't see much reason in Pakistan's law either, especially when other and more powerful media like textbooks and madrassas are doing a pretty good job at 'enlightening' the young Pakistani minds.