Here's my poem on a blotting paper.. I wrote it during my college days.. When I was less cynical!! I titled it blotting paper as I couldnt find a suitable tamil word for the same..
Blotting paper..
Two posts in a day!!!
Here's my poem on a blotting paper.. I wrote it during my college days.. When I was less cynical!! I titled it blotting paper as I couldnt find a suitable tamil word for the same..
Here's my poem on a blotting paper.. I wrote it during my college days.. When I was less cynical!! I titled it blotting paper as I couldnt find a suitable tamil word for the same..
The RDB-ian effects!!
Contrived?? maybe.. Cliched?? In some places.. Jingoistic??.. Definitely not!! Inspiring?? In parts.. So what word sums up Rang De Basanti.. Different!!
Different enough to make me write a post!! Believe me people.. Though I have an opinion on every issue.. Though I am fond of writing.. Though I am concerned about getting heard (one reason I speak aloud!! :) ).. Writing or Rather keeping on writing a post has been a big task!! I mean.... my blog is not the most happening.. Its not like the next Rajini movie that everybody has pinned their expectations on.. It does have a decent brain and mind behind it. Now I am straying away from the whole point.. This is the problem.. Streamlining my train of thoughts, which often derails, into a readable form has always been difficult for me... So when I am awake at 11.30 (PM!!!), putting my circadian rhythm off track, it must be for a good cause.. I don't mean the blog.. But the cause for the post!!!
When was the last time a movie had an effect!! any kind of effect?? I am a self confessed movie fanatic and with all this netflix dvds available, my daily routine has included watching a movie every single day if I could help it. I thought I had gotten to a point where I could watch a movie without crying when the lovers unite after their evil father creates all obstacles and when the good character artiste gets killed.. Where I can enjoy the effect without getting involved.. Well, This movie just proved to me that I still had some way to go.. I was hunting for the kerchief in the second half.. It just stirred me!!
This post isn't a review of this movie.. And why would I write a review!! Each person interprets a movie according to his whims.. or hers.. Some believe that movies are for entertainment.. others believe in purpose.. some stick to formula.. others want to do it the arty way.. for some its a passion.. for some its business.. for a normal movie goer like me.. Its a hobby.. I happen to like it.. I want to see the best and the worst of it.. Not exactly judge it but try to figure out whether I have gotten my money's worth..
This movie was worth every penny I spent in it.. I loved the way the characters were built.. how they stayed true to their way till the very end.. The flashbacks intertwined with the story made it very interesting.. especially in the Khalbali song ... (Its not exaclty a song where I expected scenes of revolutionaries fighting for ur country on hearing it) I certainly did not watch the Bagath Singh movies or The Rising.. and if anyone had asked me whether I was interested in a movie with all freedom fighters.. I would have said no.. When was the last time one saw a good movie about freedom fighters.. Lagaan wasn't about them.. but what about the slew of movies which came out on Bagath Singh.. where they any close to inspiring people..?? Believe me, the closest I got to watch patriotism was in Arjun and Vijayakanth movies.. and now Ajith's.. (forget Sunny Deol.. I don't watch those) But did it make me feel any closer to anyone playing the martyr..?? In those movies.. you had to be a superman to bash the baddies and fight for ur country.. which I am definitely not.. apart from watching it for timepass I never felt connected with the movie at any leved (If I had to write about those movies then it would have to be a separate blog.. Patriotism in movies.. perhaps!!!)
You would have read the story by now.. so I am not going to write about that.. Though the movie was Aamir's, Siddharth was gr8 from the word go!! After nvnv in telugu.. you dont need an astrologer to foretell that he has a bright future playing lover boy.. He has a good role in this movie and he has carried it off brilliantly.. In fact I was surprised!! (Pleasantly, as he was one of the main reasons I wanted to see this movie.. Had this movie been bad, I would have anyway watched it :) ) considering that this is his first venture in Hindi. The cast did a good job and the screenplay backed it up.. The movie did have a 'okay' sort of ending.. but how else could they end it!!! Lettting them live a happy life ever after would spoil the effect.. It would have been like the Kaakah Kaakha ending with Jo alive!!!
Well.. why did I write this blog.. hmmm... its not often that I get a feeling that I should be doing something!!! So here I am.. If I still don't feel like I done something, I would probably do some arranging and cleaning!! Till this feeling goes away..
Patriotic?? maybe.. Stirred?? In some places.. ??Depressed.. Definitely not!! Emotional?? In parts.. So what word sums up my mood tonight.. Different!!
Different enough to make me write a post!! Believe me people.. Though I have an opinion on every issue.. Though I am fond of writing.. Though I am concerned about getting heard (one reason I speak aloud!! :) ).. Writing or Rather keeping on writing a post has been a big task!! I mean.... my blog is not the most happening.. Its not like the next Rajini movie that everybody has pinned their expectations on.. It does have a decent brain and mind behind it. Now I am straying away from the whole point.. This is the problem.. Streamlining my train of thoughts, which often derails, into a readable form has always been difficult for me... So when I am awake at 11.30 (PM!!!), putting my circadian rhythm off track, it must be for a good cause.. I don't mean the blog.. But the cause for the post!!!
When was the last time a movie had an effect!! any kind of effect?? I am a self confessed movie fanatic and with all this netflix dvds available, my daily routine has included watching a movie every single day if I could help it. I thought I had gotten to a point where I could watch a movie without crying when the lovers unite after their evil father creates all obstacles and when the good character artiste gets killed.. Where I can enjoy the effect without getting involved.. Well, This movie just proved to me that I still had some way to go.. I was hunting for the kerchief in the second half.. It just stirred me!!
This post isn't a review of this movie.. And why would I write a review!! Each person interprets a movie according to his whims.. or hers.. Some believe that movies are for entertainment.. others believe in purpose.. some stick to formula.. others want to do it the arty way.. for some its a passion.. for some its business.. for a normal movie goer like me.. Its a hobby.. I happen to like it.. I want to see the best and the worst of it.. Not exactly judge it but try to figure out whether I have gotten my money's worth..
This movie was worth every penny I spent in it.. I loved the way the characters were built.. how they stayed true to their way till the very end.. The flashbacks intertwined with the story made it very interesting.. especially in the Khalbali song ... (Its not exaclty a song where I expected scenes of revolutionaries fighting for ur country on hearing it) I certainly did not watch the Bagath Singh movies or The Rising.. and if anyone had asked me whether I was interested in a movie with all freedom fighters.. I would have said no.. When was the last time one saw a good movie about freedom fighters.. Lagaan wasn't about them.. but what about the slew of movies which came out on Bagath Singh.. where they any close to inspiring people..?? Believe me, the closest I got to watch patriotism was in Arjun and Vijayakanth movies.. and now Ajith's.. (forget Sunny Deol.. I don't watch those) But did it make me feel any closer to anyone playing the martyr..?? In those movies.. you had to be a superman to bash the baddies and fight for ur country.. which I am definitely not.. apart from watching it for timepass I never felt connected with the movie at any leved (If I had to write about those movies then it would have to be a separate blog.. Patriotism in movies.. perhaps!!!)
You would have read the story by now.. so I am not going to write about that.. Though the movie was Aamir's, Siddharth was gr8 from the word go!! After nvnv in telugu.. you dont need an astrologer to foretell that he has a bright future playing lover boy.. He has a good role in this movie and he has carried it off brilliantly.. In fact I was surprised!! (Pleasantly, as he was one of the main reasons I wanted to see this movie.. Had this movie been bad, I would have anyway watched it :) ) considering that this is his first venture in Hindi. The cast did a good job and the screenplay backed it up.. The movie did have a 'okay' sort of ending.. but how else could they end it!!! Lettting them live a happy life ever after would spoil the effect.. It would have been like the Kaakah Kaakha ending with Jo alive!!!
Well.. why did I write this blog.. hmmm... its not often that I get a feeling that I should be doing something!!! So here I am.. If I still don't feel like I done something, I would probably do some arranging and cleaning!! Till this feeling goes away..
Patriotic?? maybe.. Stirred?? In some places.. ??Depressed.. Definitely not!! Emotional?? In parts.. So what word sums up my mood tonight.. Different!!
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