Shiv Shastri Balboa and a person behind it
This post is more about a person than about the movie. I feel so happy as I write this. Happy for the person and for the movie being such a wonderful watch. It is like I have waited for a long time to write this post. 24-25 years back while working in Bangalore during my visits to Kochi we used to have our drinking sessions … Continue reading Shiv Shastri Balboa and a person behind it
Valentine’s day From India to America.
I grew up in Kerala, India without really knowing about Valentine’s day. In fact the only things being celebrated in the west that I was aware of was Christmas and New Year and Easter. None of the other days were known to me. You could call it my lack of reading. Now it looks like everything has a day for itself. The first time I … Continue reading Valentine’s day From India to America.
Women Talking – Don’t Disturb
We watched Sarah Polley’s Women talking last week. It has the Oscar nominations for the best screenplay and best picture and I wish it also wins the same. I think this is a movie you should watch with your whole family. If you think you don’t want your kids to watch I understand. But do talk to them. If you are married or have a … Continue reading Women Talking – Don’t Disturb
Books, Movies, OTT, theaters and my Sunday Times in Four Acts.
2023 started more than a month ago and I have not read any book. Sometimes that fact reflects and haunts you pretty quickly. For me it is in the form of a restlessness. Not the restlessness of not having read anything. But the restlessness of not having spent enough time calmly going deep into something. Without reading regularly everything for me seems superficial. I start … Continue reading Books, Movies, OTT, theaters and my Sunday Times in Four Acts.
My Guiding principles for 2023
In my earlier post I wrote about the 6 lenses through which I plan to look at 2023 and also live by. Find a way that the important actions I want to take could pass through these lenses and tradeoffs better understood before I take them. That is the plan. That said there are seven guiding principles I have for 2023 that might help me … Continue reading My Guiding principles for 2023
The 6 Lenses I will use to view my actions in 2023
I just realized that I did not write anything about the New Year. Not before it started nor after it started. I figured that it is a result of too much focus on videos and less on written words. This is one thing I plan to change this year. More writing than Videos. Only Writing and Podcasts can help us go deeper and wider and … Continue reading The 6 Lenses I will use to view my actions in 2023
I loved Double XL on Netflix
I loved Satram Ramani’s Double XL… for a lot of reasons which you would agree or not. May be the reasons was But will you agree is not what matters. Did I like the movies is what matters to me. And I loved it. When I watch a movie and if it brings tears in my eyes I love it. You might think why does … Continue reading I loved Double XL on Netflix
My first Experience booking with Airbnb and it was not good.
The post is not just about Airbnb but more about a booking I did and how the host treated me even before checking in. But I say Airbnb because I think only they can do anything about it. So that in the future no one has a similar experience. I don’t know if I am the first or this experience happens to others. Anyway here … Continue reading My first Experience booking with Airbnb and it was not good.
The Whale
There are two parts to the movie. One is about how good the movie is and the other is the controversy surrounding the casting and the whole question if the movie is Fatphobic. I would like to look at each of them here. What an amazing performance by Brendan Fraser. Fraser plays an 600 pound recluse Gay English teacher who is trying to connect with … Continue reading The Whale
So I will Write… again….
Yesterday I went over some of my old posts and I felt they were not that honest as I expected them to be. Or I could not see myself in them. Even a bit of dishonesty in some of them. Why is that? May be I have changed since I wrote them. May be I felt that way back then. May be that was me … Continue reading So I will Write… again….
Vinod Narayan 