Gambling and movies ....

I recently saw 3 movies related to gambling using blackjack. "Rounders", "21" and "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels". All the three were highly or decently rated by imdb. The best of the lot is "lock stock and two smoking barrels". The plot of the movie is amazing. Even though the end was expected, the director keeps you glued by making you think how he is going to achieve that.

21 and rounders were more of life tales. Both of them ponders more about the brilliance of the protagonist and their emotions. Matt Damon was simply brilliant in rounders. This is one of his best performances and lies next to his Oscar script "Good Will Hunting" which he won for writing the script rather than acting :( . Its a pity that this guy who emotes very subtly is yet to be on that coveted list.


My brush with gambling started pretty early. I used to play "Lotto" a lot when i was in 5 th standard. I played for some three continuous summers. I started with 25 paise lotto tickets and ended with 5 rupee stakes when i stopped playing. I even ran a lotto company then. Ran even partnerships. If i think about them now, it was an amazing ride. I picked up a lot of business sense, things about honesty etc... Having a big family and lot of family friends really helped. Every family gathering , functions always ended with playing Tambola aka Lotto late into the night...
Golden days :)