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Lockdown  Pop culture Musings Day1 Since in India, the govt has announced a 21-day lockdown to combat COVID -19 all of us have got some extra time in hand. For me, the time saved from commuting in Banglore traffic. I am planning to use this extra time to jot down my reflections on a movie\book\tv show or a personal incident that stayed with me and made me introspect. I would try to refrain from sounding like a review as I don't think I am qualified enough to review any of these great works. Nevertheless, it may have spoilers(unintentionally) So here we go. Pop culture Element:   Movie Name:   Jallikattu(2019) Language;   Malayalam This is a fairly new movie and it has got a lot of rave reviews from critics. The plot is a simple one-liner - "A buffalo escapes from a butcher hold and runs amock in a village." Yeah, it's just a buffalo who is the protagonist of this movie ( not even taming a ferocious bull which is a sport in certain Tamiln...

Happened to see this heartwarming video of Penguins roaming in an aquarium, as no visitors because of the quarantine. This reminded me of an old movie called 12 Monkeys. The premise of the movie is set in a post-apocalyptic world in 2035 where a deadly virus has swept away 99% of the human population(in the year 1996) and the earth is reclaimed by its original inhabitants the animals and plants. The remaining 1% have gone beneath the surface and are living in seclusion as the virus is still rampant on the surface and kills only humans. There is a group of scientists underground trying to isolate the virus in its pure form to develop a vaccine for the remaining population and reclaim their space on earth, as it has mutated now and is invincible in its current form. The movie is essentially a time travel movie where they send back a scavenger hunter to the time before the outbreak to gather the virus in its pure form. The movie dwells less on science and more on the time-tr...