New Delhi World Book Fair 2014

If you visit Delhi World Book Fair 2014, remember this stall for some interesting titles. My poems are included in two of their books of Hindi poetry, named "Kasturi" and "Pagdandiyan" published in last 2 years.

Movies and moments - Feb’14

Gunday


Watching the promos the movie sounded cool. After watching it I felt happy to have gone to the theatre. Gunday shows passions of friendship between Ranveer and Arjun very well. Action scenes and stunts are also mind blowing. I liked the way Ranveer loved his friend Arjun – even if Arjun would try to hurt him, he kept his cool and looked at opportunity to explain the situation to Arjun and to make things right again. I think he should have somehow made Arjun talk to Priyanka as soon as he came back from Dhanbad, or even a telephone call would have been good. Or as soon as Priyanka made her decision, they should have immediately gone to Dhanbad if feasible. But the whole confusion happened because of communication gap. (misunderstandings due to communication gaps or failure is the single theme running in all the movies for all these years – this has been repeated so much that I wonder why characters from the world of movies don’t learn any lessons!) Anyways…. I can say that after watching Gunday I realized that so far there is no Ranveen Singh movie which I have not liked!

One by Two

We thought this movie would be ‘different’ and it indeed turned out to be. I enjoyed it and the movie was fun. I loved each character in the movie. Abhay Deol’s uncle who was an IPS officer and yet wrote and read out poems in functions is my favourite character. Next comes Abhay’s father who was leading a miserable yet funny life. Then his mother who was all protective and loving, yet not understanding what her son wanted. The concept where two people were missing some common things in life and all that they lacked was connecting of dots, was very interesting.

Chennai Express

Tired of watching typical ‘masala’ Bollywood movies, we had given it a miss when it released in the theatres. I watched it on TV now. For most part of the movie, it was just for ‘time-pass’ but when it came to the end when the story got emotional, it was really good. After spending time together and having done so much adventure, the characters played by SRK and Deepika realize that they were better to remain together. At the least it was common attachment. If I have to travel, I don’t feel like leaving the house. If I travel by train and reach my destination, I don’t feel like leaving the train too! When it happens so with trains and places, definitely it is stronger with people. Though I don’t think SRK and Deepika’s characters were showing much similarities or compatibilities in the movie; they were more like opposite ends of everything; but in that way they were indeed enjoying life better. And having gone through the turmoil together, it is understandable that they did not find courage to go separate ways. As it is said that they couple which goes through tough times together, gets their mutual bond strongest. What is a partnership which has seen only good time and never a bad time? Being untested, it is unreliable… Anyways, coming back to the movie, I also loved SRK near the end of the movie. These days he is not making many movies and hence I had lost touch with him. But even in this movie like many of his others, we find so many qualities and character traits that we can’t remain without liking him. He never meant harm to anyone in the world; he only wanted to go about his ways silently; but the world won’t allow him. Everyone created troubles for him and even though he tried to be nice to others. It was heart warming to see SRK’s role. There was a scene when SRK and Deepika were together feeling helpless and the whole village is against them and snatch them away from each other, it was very a touching scene. Also loved SRK’s dialogues when he speaks for Deepika in front of her father, asking him why he wants to force his opinion and how come he cared nothing for her own personal opinion. Surely, a lot of injustice is done to children by their parents in the name of parental guidance… Overall, full marks to this movie for emotional content. For comedy, I found those overdone, and for action and fight scenes, those were nonsense and ‘bakwas’.

Besharam

In Ranbeer Kapoor’s Besharam, there is a scene where Inspector Chulbul Chautala takes side of Ranbeer and points gun at his wife. His wife asks him if that is what she gets after so many years. Definitely Chulbul Chautala loved his wife Bulbul Chautala; but he was fed up of her ways of inviting corruption and bribery and hence loses his cool and picks up his courage for the first time and points gun at her. From her perspective, it was a very touching moment. May be corruption, money making etc were just her ways to make life some more interesting than it was for them. Also in a later episode when she also dresses up to go with her husband to the gangster’s den, putting it lightly while actual reason touched the foundations of her love for her husband, appeared very touching.

Saw Monorail in Mumbai

We saw Monorail in Mumbai today and felt good about it. In Pune we are waiting for Metro Project to come up, which has been approved. Before that Metro rail in Delhi and Sea Link in Mumbai have been very good big projects. Even in our locality in Pune, two new beautiful Flyovers have been inaugurated now for which construction had started about 1.5 year back. Certainly some good work is being done by govt which is appreciable...