Tare Zameen Pe

Every body who is anybody seems to be raving and talking about Aamir Khan's maiden directorial Tare Zameen Pe. So I tried catching a bit of this movie the other day. Firstly I must admit about watching the movie on the pirated CD :(. But then nowdays with ticket price being quite steep and the quality of movie coming out being quite pathetic (especially the hindi movie scene) I think its better watching films on pirated copies than spending money in theater.

Anyway this blog is not about me watching pirated DVDs. Well didn't exactly watch the entire movie as I was trying to catch some sleep after spending the night at the hospital. My first impresion about the movie (and also could be the my prior openion) that the movie was too slow for my liking. It did throw light on plight of students and so called rat race we are trained for right from the beginning.

In a way could identify with the world Eshan created for himself. His universe, the things he liked to do. I can in a way realted to his feeling when he was threatened to be put in a boarding school. For a person who had to face threat from family I can understand what the child must be going through. Watching these scene were like reliving all these emmotion again. Reliving the days use felt that your family didn't want you. Well then boarding life changed a lot of things for me and in way made who I am right now.

But onething I didn't like about the movie was the way teachers were portrayed. Teachers are not necessarily the kind of people as portrayed in the feelings. There maybe teachers who are like the ones in the film but they are not all the time like that. This seems like a stereotypical view of a teacher.

Also somehow beside the boarding bit couldn't quite relate to Eshaan. Maybe because I am not dyslexic I wouldn't understand what he must be going through. But yes seenighis fights with the neighbourhood boys and then parent coming to complain about it so reminded me about my childhood days :)

Anyway didn't watch the end of the movie as I had to run to the gym for my workout so didn't watch the entire movie. Heard Aamir's charcter get's all preachy with the parents in the end.

well hope this movie does suceed in throwing light on the plight that we grown upsput on our children (though I have none as of yet).

Mixed Feeling

I don't know how many of you out there have faced such a situation in your life. You care for some one. You like someone very much. You even go out of your way to meet, message and call this person not only because you care about them but also because you like them. But then you feel that your the only one making all the efforts. The other person though interested in you seem to be quite lazy, whether it comes to calling back or messaging or even meeting up. You wonder if all the effort that you are investing is in a onesided relationship. But then deep down in your you got this feeling that this person genuinely cares about you. Even when you talk and spend time with them you d get that feeling. You want to be angry with them but you can't get angry.

An then you have this person who likes you and really cares about you. Doesn't do what the other person do. Actually makes the effort. Likes you and make you feel special. Someone who you share a great friendship with. A person with whom your bonds goes stronger by the day. Who actually expresses feeling honestly.

Sometime I wonder why life gets so complicated. A simple thing about caring for someone and liking someone can make your life complicated.

First Blog of 2008

Well this is my first blog of 2008 and it coming at an unearthly hour of 3:16 in the morning. Well not exactly getting any sleep and the mosquitoes aren't making it too easy to sleep so the best thing is to start my account of blogging for the year 2008. :)

Hope everyones who actually pathetic enough to read what I blog has a had away better start to the year than I have.

So here's wishing you a Happy New Year and a Happy Blogging :)

Dandiya - And the Stories Continue...

In less than 24 hours I'll be part of a group performing Dandiya and Garba for the office, for the first time in my life. Hopefully it's not the last. worried of forgetting my steps and getting into a mess. worried that my partner may forget her steps. Already got blisters on my feet from the all the practice. But heart is willing and hey I am having fun. Doing something I would do, though not normally. But what the heck. Life's all about taking the plunge and taking the risks. So tomorrow I am going to go out there and enjoy myself. Who care if I make mistake...I had the guts to go up there and dance in the first place :)

Dandiya

I have learnt Salsa... Have Jiving in my blood...Played Dandiya a couple of times...Never before have I been part of a group performing any of these dance forms :)

But all that's going to change this Friday night when for the first time I'll be performing Dandiya/Garba as a part of a group for the office. Really how the final product going to look like???

Have played Dandiya a couple of times before and know a bit of Garba :) Been practicing a lot...at least or the last of couple of days. Now just hoping everything falls in place properly... But no one falls :)

So let see what we can do on the 19th of October :)

The World Through the Pages of a Book

For a person who reads a lot, very often I find myself transported in to the world created within the pages of a book. Be it Laila and Mariam's war torn Afghanistan or the kite flying competition in the Kite Runner. Whether it's Lyra's Oxford or Harry's Hogwarts or even Frodo's Shire. And yes even the magical world of Narnia with the mighty Aslan.

Very often you find yourself on a journey with Bilbo Baggins or Frodo and Sam in their quest to destroy the one ring. Not forgetting Harry, Hermione and Ron's quest to find and destroy Voldemort's Hocrux. You travel through different universes with Lyra and Will, even cutting through the fabric of time. You are transported to era when you were not even born. You travel through life with Amir and Gogol. Through cities and places, that you haven't been to and may never go to.

But not all these worlds are magical and enchanted. There is pain and suffering in many of these of world. Invariably there is loss and death. Tragedy and grieving. Heinous events like rape, murder, death, massacre, savagery and war.

You live in the world created within each page. You share the character's sorrow and pain, joys and frustration.

Feelings & Emotions

Feelings & Emotions are something that everyone goes through. Whether it's being happy, elated, excited to being sad, depressed, scared. There whole gamut of these things that one experiences everyday. But at times emotions makes you feel weird and contradictory things. On a Friday when you are heading home you are all excited about it. However once your home, and you have to confront all the idiotic issues, you wish you were back at work. Again when your back at work, after the weekend, you start having the Returning back home blues, along with the Monday morning blues. You go through all these contradictory feelings.

There are times when you are surrounded with friends and all of a sudden you feel lonely and depressed and you just want to be alone. The idea of hanging about with friends is to get rid of these emotions and feelings. But all of the sudden all you want is to be alone. And you actually can't recollect what triggered this reaction, when you asked for an explanation from irritated friends.

Then when you meet up with someone. You go to the trouble of messaging the person, trying to co-ordinate everything, even willing to travel. And all this person does is say they are lazy and don't like travelling. They also don't reply to messages promptly or pick up your calls. All this leaves you irritated, fuming, angry, and you swear you will never call them again. But the next thing you know you are calling up this person, because you really want to.

Sometime I really wonder what my emotion & feelings get me to do :(