The Big Short — Life Lessons, Learnings & Why I Absolutely Loved The Film

Director & screenwriter Adam McKay made history, making a film about history, in what was an account of the biggest bet in history. The Big Short is easily one of the greatest movies ever made in the corporate/business film genre, and might I add one of the coolest.

Vulture’s short (meta) description of the movie was perfect: “For starters, it’s a comedy about deadly serious things and a leftish movie lionizing hedge-funders.”

Maybe it had an uncanny semblance to my career path — from starting a franchisee brokerage in Mumbai, to trying to beat the Indian stock market, to then finding what I was dedicating my life towards was listless & uninspiring to then a decade-long career as first a football journalist, & then a film critic to eventually picking up the guitar & piano & learning music production to venture into music immersively, with a football content startup platform/blog sandwiched in the middle; if there was any film that couldn’t be more entertaining & apt for me for various reasons it is perhaps The Big Short.

I could feel the same old feeling; that musician flow state & bursts of modest thrill I feel when I’m playing my guitar & it sounds good. Or for that matter, if the sound while I’m producing something sounds good after I master the track; I could feel…