Main Hoon Na and the Bengal Tigers

I am normally very skeptical about the "popular" bollywood movies. I normally prefer to watch the Ram Gopal Verma types than the maudlin,artifical SRK/Karan Johar / Aditya Chopra ones. However, at the urging of a friend I agreed to see "Main Hoon Na" , which was telecast on Central TV Channel on Sunday night. Even with infinite patience I couldn't sit through the movie for more than an hour. SRK's Cycle rickshaw chase of a Jeep and the college where everyone is a "walking fashion parade" was too much to take. There is a fine line between "no logic" and "absurdity" ..... Its a shame that this movie was a super-hit last year .

Thankfully I switched channels. Animal Planet Channel had a very interesting program on the "Royal Bengal Tigers". The Bengal tigers are very unique because they share their ecosystem with a variety of animals like Crocs,dolphins,turtles,sharks and fishes. The Tigers swim between the islands in search of prey. Also the Sunderban tigers have been accused of being man eaters. It showed how the humans have forced these wonderful animals to become man-eaters.

Also of great interest was how the humans protect themselves from tigers . They often wear masks with human face on their back side (since the tiger attacks from rear) and how human dummies fitted with electric wires from car batteries are rampant (they administer a shock when touched by a tiger, training tigers not to attack humans).

I have never been to the Sunderbans. Got to plan a trip to Sunderbans and Chilka(in Orissa) to see the Bengal Tigers and the rare Olive Ridley turtles.