And now, after years of solitude you will enter the crowd… the walls to which you spoke your misery will be broken down forever, your footsteps will gain a life of its own and experience sand, grass and water…. your hands will again learn to spread like wings and your caged mind will now be able to fly you are now free… Continue reading And Now…
I know that you have started governing Delhi and at the same time preparing for the elections…. I can also understand that many of the fingers raised at you are by people who don’t like you…. but there is a small problem…. As I write this I understand that the CM of delhi Kejriwal is having a protest against the central government demanding action on … Continue reading Hi AAP – We have a small problem
A small movie with an important story to tell…..in 2010 the director Avie Luthra brought us this story of ‘Lucky’ (played by Sihle Dlamini) a 10 year old orphaned boy.. After his mother’s death from Aids he moves from his zulu village to big city so he could attend a school, learn and make a life of his own… As was instructed by his mother … Continue reading Lucky – 2010 South African Film by Avie Luthra
Death is a sad affair… always…. and it is even more sad to see the world both media and other standing on the sides to find an entertainment scoop when it happens to a celebrity…. The news of Sunanda Pushkar’s death came in as a shock to me because I too was part of the crowd who eagerly followed the recent twitter news… but when … Continue reading Death is always a sad affair – Sunanda Pushkar no more
“Do you know that the earth is all about friendship?…” Our first grader asked me the other day as I was driving him to school… Last year I used to drop our teenage daughter to her school and was abreast to the spicy teen news… but my wife took that route this year … so now I get more informed on the first graders problems… … Continue reading “Do you have a gun?” Asked our First Grader
Before his death Mikhail Kalashnikov was tormented by guilt…. In April last year he had written a letter to the Patriarch Kirill and the letter was published in a newspaper Izvestia this Monday…. He asks a question that has been bothering him…. if his invention 60 years ago has caused untold deaths is he guilty for those deaths?….. The Kalashnikov or more popularly the AK … Continue reading When an inventor broke down before his death….
Dedh Ishqiya proved one thing which many people knew but did not make obvious… Vidya balan is leagues ahead of Madhuri when it comes to becoming a character….. Madhuri Dixit is still probably a crowd puller with her fan following… but the silver screen will not lie…. What Vidya brought to Ishqiya Madhuri has not been able to bring to Dedh Ishqiya…. Now what is … Continue reading Dedh Ishqiya – Movie Review
Don’t be duped by the star in the movie…. This was probably a mistake Ben Kingsley made…No idea why Neeraj Pandey allowed Chandran Rutnam to make such a movie on his original story…. And this is probably the first time I am writing a review for a movie after unable to see it beyond 20 minutes… When I read about the movie….. the first thing … Continue reading A Common Man – Remake of Hindi Thriller “A Wednesday” – ATROCIOUS – UNWATCHABLE
“Pedro Bala will follow his Destiny…. There is no one he won’t try to help… He will be like his father…. He will organize all the boys in Bahia… And everyone will listen to him….He is going to fight for what is most important in life…..Freedom!” These are the closing words from the professor in the 2011 Brazilian portuguese movie Capitães da Areia (Captain of the … Continue reading Capitães da Areia (Captains of the Sands) 2011 Movie by Cecília Amado
“Drishyam” to malayalam cinema in my opinion is like what “Wednesday” was to Hindi cinema….. The only difference is that Wednesday keeps you held on to the seat from the very start but Drishyam takes it slow till the interval and then takes off with a pace quite unknown to malayalam movies….. While Wednesday made the hindi movie goes speechless…. Drishyam made the malayalee movie … Continue reading Watching the malayalam movie Drishyam was like attending a carnival
