The fourth dimension to Avatar.

Became one of the contributors to the billion dollars that Avatar grossed when I watched the movie with a school boyish enthusiasm in the company of my 8 yr old daughter in an IMAX. To be honest I spent almost an amount equivalent to my first pay check in India on tickets for the family and exceeded my post probation salary when I bought 3 cups of popcorn and 2 Cokes. That was the fourth dimension to Avatar which I saw – The Movie of the decade they called it, unfortunately it shot into limelight in the first year of the new decade or did they just call it that because it arrived in the last month of the previous decade, whatever!! but by 2019 a lot many movies would have outshone and out grossed it.

A few days later I was surprised to see a program on a regional (Malayalam) channel, an interview with the father of 3D in India, Navodya Appachan of the 'My Dear Kuttychathan' fame. Pardon me for bringing in the Malayalee connection once again. We Malayalees keep doing it…

In fact the channel was commemorating the Silver Jubilee of the making of My Dear Kuttychathan. They revisited the sets, and interviewed the octogenarian producer of the film. A movie I saw when I was 12, and my daughter saw her first 3D when she was 8. Both used special spectacles just that this time I needed 2, one just to get to see the 'D' and the other to triple the 'D', while she just needed one.

Lazy Lever!!!

I was recently in the market for a tricycle for my almost 2 year old daughter and was surprised I could not find a conventional tricycle and all I could find was a tricycle with what I call a ‘Lazy lever’ attachment. A lever which enables an entire generation of lazy toddlers to be moved around by an equally lazy generation of parents like me in all comfort. No pedalling for the toddlers and no bending for the parents…what a lazy innovation… A Tricycle with a lazy lever!!!