Sunday, July 20, 2008

Make sense yourself

I just saw a movie called ‘Via Darjeeling’. I recommend seeing it but do not compromise any schedule for it, but when you have nothing better to do, typically Sunday 5-7 pm, just go for it. For this blog, I will be inspired by the same movie and write so many things without really making any sense. I will touch my favorite topics: Review, News I am following, musing, women and filmy gossip all at once.

Ok, so I went for this movie the Dark Knight, people said it’s the biggest grosser till date, well I slept for the first half, but I truly give credit to the movie that I atleast woke up for the second half. Next day, I went for the long awaited ‘जाने तू ’ movie alone.Before the movie, I was eating at a local sandwich shop and suddenly a procession went outside. This is very unlikely in US I guess but a group of people, old, young and even some kids were demonstrating for ‘No war on Iran’.

Anyway, afterwards I went for the movie and though the first fifteen minutes were boring and over acting, I don’t know why and at which point I liked the movie. Even when I think now, there is no single or even multiple points which are good about the movie, but it just sailed along. Initially I thought Genelia was boring but slowly she was just unstoppable. She was too good. And her voice is exactly like Urmila. To be precise, the Urmila of ‘ एक हसीना थी ’ questioning Saif always.

After coming back from movie I was chatting with a friend and we started rating which girl u liked in the movie. And here was my order: The girl with the guitar (Sugandha Garg), Genelia and Kitu Gidwani. Yes, the old timer, the Junoon woman and the Swetlana of स्वाभिमान. She was really cool. At least I found her so.


By the way, both these movies had one thing in common. They made me feel old. In Batman, the crowd around me was all high school kids and the freshmen and sophomores. If it were kids, they would have found Batman good, but these people, like typical people of the same age group were actually cheering for joker. I was pretty impassionate and was glad that the movie was over. Similar experience with जाने तू . The movie involved an अदीति and जय

of 20-21. And they were already talking about marriage and they were surrounded by friends and friends were the most important part in their life. Well, at 25, my friends are getting married around me, and I really love my friends, but things are not they way when I was 21. I think I became more mature in these 4 years than any consecutive 4 years except transition from age 1 to age 5. may be.

Talking of old times, Bachi caught my attention (yet again), with this wonderful article on Nagpur. She mentions Nagpur as a city with permanent prefix via. Mumbai to Kolkata, via Nagpur. The Nagpur people may take offense, but if you really read deep, you will appreciate each and every word of her and you are not sure whether she is telling good or bad about Nagpur, but the fact is that she has portrayed Nagpur as clearly as I have ever seen. These are the exact things what a non-Nagpurian thinks of Nagpur and these are also the things which make Nagpur so special to my heart.

By the way, I will be going to Nagpur (most probably) after a long gap of 6 years. Hope I still find the same warmth there.

P.S: The idea of this blog, as mentioned in first paragraph, is as convoluted as ‘Via Darjeeling’ and is also inspiration from the famous Big B blog, and his mixing of daily activities with viewpoints.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

nice one! But mind u, a review in ibnlive rated 'The Dark Knight' as 'Spectacularly Intellectual' :)
Well, if nothing else, but the mere fact that it is Heath's last movie will make it a box-office hit. Atleast that is one of my main reasons to see the movie. While we are at it, let's pay our homage to one of the very few talented artists of our times "Dear Heath: RIP!"

Unknown said...

Good blog, well written and very articulate.

Anonymous said...

Hmmm.. so well, it is a nicely written blog. Dark Knight, even i had heard good reviews but not seen.. Jaane tu is kiddish but sweet.. but this was too much when they started talking of marriage for 20 yr olds :) and one thing is true.. U are uncle now.. Please, i hope this is not the middle age crisis :)
But am not happy. This isnt about me :P

Anthrax said...

Right on bro. Dark knight first half sucks but second half is awesome - o. Good write up. Keep it up.

Anonymous said...

good to see you trying new styles of writing.. via darjeeling was inspired by 'rashomon'; do chk it out in IMDB. We should watch that movie, if for nothing else then atleast for the sake of Avant Garde cinema in india..more on JTYJN & dark Knight in my blog later..
and regarding mid-life crisis..it's all in the mind :)

Jayita said...

Good.Keep it up.Well written especially,
"I think I became more mature in these 4 years".Its true Brother. :)