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When a blind sheep falls into a pit, it is believed that the other sheep behind the blind one would also fall into the same fate though they are not necessarily blind. The entire idea of overrating would aptly fit into this dumb sheep analogy.
Consider the scenario:
Person 1 watches a movie and likes it very much. He would now pass the information of his liking towards the movie to person 2!!
Person 2 to Person 3: Person 1 has watched the movie and "I heard" it is good.
Person 3 to a few more : The movie is good!!! (Sources man! Sources??? )
Person 4,5,6 to a lot more : The movie was "awesome"! (overrating-1 , reality-0)
This habit passes on and people subtly start developing positive perceptions on an entity even though they wouldn't have personally experienced it, consequently spinning a blanket of cliche over the stuff!! And that blanket is what we term "overrating"! Basically, it is like being inside a Matrix! You don't know what is real !
There are always three sides of a story. The first side,second side and the truth. Sometimes,when you get to experience the truth about these overrated, hyped entities you would be hit with waves of disappointment and doubts as they could be ugly and undeserving. In this context I would like to air the most overrated stuffs thriving around me in my environment!
5. Sachin 10dulkar:
Fans of the master blaster, bite your teeth and scroll down! Without any doubt, he is a great cricketer, professional, talented and you know the rest. But still I would say "Sachin is the hero which the India team deserves but not the one it has needed always." To my consciousness, I have never seen him carrying the team to victory single handed in a very important "do or die" matches or at least contributing on field to his team in immense pressure situations. Being a highly respected and rated player one should at least expect that much from him . But instead, there went times when India had to play for the sole purpose of making the master bridge the history with his 100th century, which purely does not add to the image of a colossus. I do not wish to stay on this topic more as it could fetch me brickbats and flaks. But I do have many who feel the same.
4. The Shawshank Redemption and its IMDB 9.3:
Are you kidding me? What could get better than Morgan's Freeman narrating the life of an innocent trapped man sloging two complete decades in his life to escape out of his prison ? Highly emotional, interestingly narrative, terrifically realistic, yeah! Undoubtedly a great movie but not the one deserving to get a 9.3 rating in IMDB and the top most spot in its "Top 250 movies of all time" list! I could guarantee a dozen other movies which are more qualified for that position than its current placeholder.
3. City of Bengaluru, India:
Refreshing weather, hot damn chicks (sorry damn hot chicks) and people tend to keep this outsourcing factory on the oblivion. Seriously, no one cares about the narrow roads (yes the streets and the main roads in Bangalore are more or less of the same width) the endless pollution, people driving and turning crazy at the T-junctions which are unfortunately in a large number in Bengaluru. And, yeah, the high cost of living adds to everything. Not to forget the city's airport which is freaking 50 Kms away from the main city. What is wrong with you people??
2.Hotel Saravana Bhavan (HSB):
Those who have no idea about it,HSB is a chain of vegetarian restaurants across the globe.
The olden Madras had uber respect for the Vada-Sambar and the full course afternoon meal it offered. Things aren't the same anymore. Two things about the food seem to shoot up every time I go there, the amount of oil the food items contain and the other more obvious factor being the food prices, which keeps gnawing at me very much.
The very fact that the franchise was invincible in its quality for decades has helped them maintain the same name and fame inspite of the deteriorating taste. And it is being over rated for the very reason too.
1. Salman Khan
100,150,200,250...
It is not an Arithmetic progression sequence with a common difference of 50 but the amount in crores that Salman Khan's recent movies bagged in the market. And when you decide to study on what factors led to such a jackpot, you will hardly find some substance. In fact all his movies have been rebuked by critics throughout. He uses some set of muscles to hit the bad asses in a scene. And uses the same set of muscles in the holy name of "dance" by the very next scene.
Step 1: Move your mouth left and right
Step 2: Try vibrating your biceps at constant beats
Step 3: Ease your hand into your pockets and try moving them
" There you go!Congratulations!! You have successfully completed the jackpot winning dance movements" !
Probably, the icon had been the only instance known for defying fundamental movienomics by showing that he could fetch more profit from a relatively bad movie than the better ones("So called") ! My heart aches and brain implodes when I get to hear the celebrated news of the net gross of his movies. I find a hard time figuring out reasons. Cause and Effect? Where did you go now??
As time flies by, I keep hoping if the over rating phenomena of these entities could be wiped off. On a micro scale I do keep wondering if my taste on all these substances are just weird, and actually very different from the other folks. Conflict of opinions it is !! (NOT ON THE SALMAN KHAN PART THOUGH!)
When a blind sheep falls into a pit, it is believed that the other sheep behind the blind one would also fall into the same fate though they are not necessarily blind. The entire idea of overrating would aptly fit into this dumb sheep analogy.
Consider the scenario:
Person 1 watches a movie and likes it very much. He would now pass the information of his liking towards the movie to person 2!!
Person 2 to Person 3: Person 1 has watched the movie and "I heard" it is good.
Person 3 to a few more : The movie is good!!! (Sources man! Sources??? )
Person 4,5,6 to a lot more : The movie was "awesome"! (overrating-1 , reality-0)
This habit passes on and people subtly start developing positive perceptions on an entity even though they wouldn't have personally experienced it, consequently spinning a blanket of cliche over the stuff!! And that blanket is what we term "overrating"! Basically, it is like being inside a Matrix! You don't know what is real !
There are always three sides of a story. The first side,second side and the truth. Sometimes,when you get to experience the truth about these overrated, hyped entities you would be hit with waves of disappointment and doubts as they could be ugly and undeserving. In this context I would like to air the most overrated stuffs thriving around me in my environment!
5. Sachin 10dulkar:
Fans of the master blaster, bite your teeth and scroll down! Without any doubt, he is a great cricketer, professional, talented and you know the rest. But still I would say "Sachin is the hero which the India team deserves but not the one it has needed always." To my consciousness, I have never seen him carrying the team to victory single handed in a very important "do or die" matches or at least contributing on field to his team in immense pressure situations. Being a highly respected and rated player one should at least expect that much from him . But instead, there went times when India had to play for the sole purpose of making the master bridge the history with his 100th century, which purely does not add to the image of a colossus. I do not wish to stay on this topic more as it could fetch me brickbats and flaks. But I do have many who feel the same.
4. The Shawshank Redemption and its IMDB 9.3:
Are you kidding me? What could get better than Morgan's Freeman narrating the life of an innocent trapped man sloging two complete decades in his life to escape out of his prison ? Highly emotional, interestingly narrative, terrifically realistic, yeah! Undoubtedly a great movie but not the one deserving to get a 9.3 rating in IMDB and the top most spot in its "Top 250 movies of all time" list! I could guarantee a dozen other movies which are more qualified for that position than its current placeholder.
3. City of Bengaluru, India:
Refreshing weather, hot damn chicks (sorry damn hot chicks) and people tend to keep this outsourcing factory on the oblivion. Seriously, no one cares about the narrow roads (yes the streets and the main roads in Bangalore are more or less of the same width) the endless pollution, people driving and turning crazy at the T-junctions which are unfortunately in a large number in Bengaluru. And, yeah, the high cost of living adds to everything. Not to forget the city's airport which is freaking 50 Kms away from the main city. What is wrong with you people??
2.Hotel Saravana Bhavan (HSB):
Those who have no idea about it,HSB is a chain of vegetarian restaurants across the globe.
The olden Madras had uber respect for the Vada-Sambar and the full course afternoon meal it offered. Things aren't the same anymore. Two things about the food seem to shoot up every time I go there, the amount of oil the food items contain and the other more obvious factor being the food prices, which keeps gnawing at me very much.
The very fact that the franchise was invincible in its quality for decades has helped them maintain the same name and fame inspite of the deteriorating taste. And it is being over rated for the very reason too.
1. Salman Khan
100,150,200,250...
It is not an Arithmetic progression sequence with a common difference of 50 but the amount in crores that Salman Khan's recent movies bagged in the market. And when you decide to study on what factors led to such a jackpot, you will hardly find some substance. In fact all his movies have been rebuked by critics throughout. He uses some set of muscles to hit the bad asses in a scene. And uses the same set of muscles in the holy name of "dance" by the very next scene.
Step 1: Move your mouth left and right
Step 2: Try vibrating your biceps at constant beats
Step 3: Ease your hand into your pockets and try moving them
" There you go!Congratulations!! You have successfully completed the jackpot winning dance movements" !
Probably, the icon had been the only instance known for defying fundamental movienomics by showing that he could fetch more profit from a relatively bad movie than the better ones("So called") ! My heart aches and brain implodes when I get to hear the celebrated news of the net gross of his movies. I find a hard time figuring out reasons. Cause and Effect? Where did you go now??
As time flies by, I keep hoping if the over rating phenomena of these entities could be wiped off. On a micro scale I do keep wondering if my taste on all these substances are just weird, and actually very different from the other folks. Conflict of opinions it is !! (NOT ON THE SALMAN KHAN PART THOUGH!)
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