Monday, 26 January 2015

Bird People

So here I am and stopped by to pen about the movie I just finished watching. Yes like the others I have written before, this too will be my straight opinion about the movie Bird People.

We all are humans right? but the busy schedules have made our lives a bit intolerable, confined and suffocating. I guess at some point of time, we all want to breath more and more. We feel like staying alone, leaving the mess and living a healthy life with no worries and responsibilities just for a change.
We make this wish, at least once in a life to live like a bird, a vagabond and a free spirit.

This movie was slow, unrushed and a study of several lives though mainly focused on two different lives. The life of Gary - an American business man and the life of Audrey - a student cum part timer hotel maid. Both lived a life which they had to live, like everyone else. Money is the sweetest thing for survival. But a point came when these two people got bored and started feeling stuck in the monotonous lives they lived. Throughout the movie they met in some unusual ways, excluding for the last time. But only one thing was so bridged in between them and that was a wish to live life like a bird. From the beginning, various moves of sparrows have been nicely captured and especially the time when Audrey just lived a night living like a sparrow. Isn't it different and so exciting to fly high as you wish from here and there, to watch the city like Paris at night and then mostly to observe various people's lives like how they sleep, how they eat, what they do at leisure, how they talk and how they work etc. etc. Audrey just observed everything. She flew, whispered, sang songs loudly while flying and just playing out topsy-turvy. I don't know but since childhood I always wished to fly like bird and to observe others. This movies just showed this. You believe it or not, I felt it amazingly and started giggling with joy. LOL.. and at the end when Audrey woke up at morning she was relaxed and amazed by the life she just lived in her dreams and also co incidentally met the man whom she saw sketching last night apparently and also got fraction of time to get introduced with Gary and then the movie ended with a soft touch..

so I am going to paste the trailer where the scenes are included. Please do watch the trailer.

Monday, 19 January 2015

Sakhi ... Friend ...

Today I just read about this news in Times of India and really was pleased to hear about this. Famous classical singer Kaushiki Chakraborty, the daughter of Pt. Ajay Chakraborty has formed the first woman classical music band 'Sakhi' along with other famous musicians from various fields. Sakhi band is a nice step to express the fore tales of womanhood since the ancient era through music.

The members are

Kaushiki Chakraborty (vocal),

Bhakti Deshpande (dance),

Sawani Talwalkar (tabla),

Mahima Upadhyay (pakhawaj),

Nandini Shankar (violin) and Debopriya Chattetjee (flute).

Tomorrow they have their debut performance at Kolkata and I wish them all the best.

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

I stay awake

It is time to think a little more

Can anyone keep any traces about the number of soldiers we lose everyday and every moment? They are the heroes who are selflessly sacrificing their lives in the terms of duty and to serve the nation for its safety and protection. They too have families like us, they too have parents who seek them beside their end of life, and they too have their children who want their fathers to drop them at schools or hold the fingers to walk. But they sacrifice these all instincts just for the sake of us. We find pictures of politicians or any other terrorists for several continuous days if they make some unusual news, but how many pictures do we get to see of the soldiers who just breathed for the last time yesterday or the day before yesterday or the last month or in the past years? Can we remember their names too? NO… It is a big NO. It is shameful for the country residents like us, like me to write or read about this. Isn’t it thoughtful? But still they STAY AWAKE

Miles and Miles I run,

I walk, I stand

and yes the civil fun,

I abandon ...

When others sleep and dream deep,

I hold my promises to keep.

I stay awake

at the silent border of untold history

to unfold mystery ...

Hours and Hours I stand still,

when the Nation celebrates the festivals

I fight with the heavy metallic gun

and hundred of risks I kill ...

Time to Time I die,

but I never feel to cry

nor feel to shed a drop of tear,

Because I never learned to fear

Rather

I feel proud to serve better

for my nation

and to accomplish a mission ...

I might die and leave my shell of soul

but I know I will be awake

within thousands of soldiers spiritual force

The nation might forget me

and people might never talk about me

but I know I will be awake

and I will stand still

beneath those millions of flowers

at one of those WAR MEMORIALS

ON THIS ARMY DAY MY HEARTIEST GRATITUDE TOWARDS ALL ARMY PERSONNELS AND ALL VETERANS.

JAI JAWAAN
JAI HIND

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

My Freedom lies in there !!

After my last try on writing some lines based on Tagore's thought and emotion, today again I felt to write some more. "Amar Mukti Aloy Aloy Ei Akashe ♫" is the song which I have been listening more since last two days. This song inspires me a lot, a lot. I tried to express the meaning with my words. This doesn't have any intention to hurt anyone. Since childhood Tagore has been my biggest inspiration and like other Bengalis I too breathe him in. So if you find any mistake, then please have mercy on me.

Artist : Tagore

My freedom lies within the bright sky,

My freedom resides in these earthy dust

and walks along with the grasses ||

There somewhere beyond my form and soul

I lose myself,

with the tune of melody

my freedom flies up and above ||

My freedom persists among other's spirits,

among the daring and brave steps

of ignoring weakness and fear...

It is the Universe of Prayers

and let us lit the fire to sacrifice our soul

and our life

and there my Freedom comes down ||

Monday, 12 January 2015

Music and its expressions - for me

How incredible this Universe is ... It has defined the music in many different variations.. and of course the instruments which we human created a long years ago define different emotions via their chords... Few of them bring out the inner sorrows and just let us get immersed into it.. Few of them spread the color of happiness inside us.. few let us feel to fall in love.. Few grabs out the inner power and aggression to open up.... and then few put us inside the pool of soul satisfaction to loose the outer shell... It is blessing from GOD that we have been able to see music, feel music and create music.... Thus these all emotions get a true meaning of themselves .... what else should I say... I am magically concatenated with it...

I always feel that Sarangi is very "Abhimani" - "Heart saddening" but leaves a deep wound of thoughtful emotional breakdowns which are pity to feel but tremendous to listen..

On the other hand Sitar defines many moods such as the threshold of being happy, the different emotions our minds do play with ... Love, Agony, Anger and many

Flute has been always soothing since Krishna started playing it. It has a magical spell of purifying the heart, the soul. It is something which explores the Bhava of Prema and Shringar.

Tabla is as powerful as it strikes on the Dayaan or Bayaan. Same as dhols. It forces to match steps with its bols. So powerful so extrovert.

I just scribbled something here. But acknowledging that I didn't think twice while writing this up. So if something has got missed. Mercy me. I will write a tutorial someday on Indian Instruments.

Saturday, 10 January 2015

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Saturday, 3 January 2015

Can anyone be GOOD to all ?

Define good girls... Everybody has an opinion about a good girl...so whats yours?

Another Indispire topic which really poked me to write up. So who are the Good Girls ?

As this question was asked to be answered, I am going to write a brief about what I actually think about this term "Good Girl".

I believe there is nothing so symbolic meaning about the term Good Girl.. As the topic stated too, everybody has an opinion about a good girl. Let's just drop the work girl. Let's talk about GOOD person. A person may be good for someone and at the same time can be bad to someone else. It depends on totally the way other thinks about you. So it is better to ignore what others think about you, because it is never possible to please everyone's mind and it is not possible too to behave according to everyone's wish. Come on, it may lead you to become BAD for someone and then GOOD as well.

So I would call a person GOOD if that person is clear from his/her mind and yes mostly never intend to harm or hurt anyone. I would never like that. Yes because wishing for anyone's bad is so negative. This really don't define goodness according to me. Harmless person is always appreciated and whether that person is a GUY or a GIRL, that really doesn't matter.

Monday, 29 December 2014

It was all about LIFEHOOD

Watched a movie named BOYHOOD ... and truly saying this movie's imaginative hangover is still on my head and mind. What should I say now .. I mean look here..I am just scribbling something something.

Okay.. let me take a small and deep breath and start about the movie.

First of all, this kind of movie I have never watched before. I think I am not the only one to say this. Because probably this one is the first movie which has shown the real transformation of the characters. YES you heard it right.. The real transformation of the real actors. What do we usually watch in a movie ? Different people to play the different ages of any A-B-C character. But this one was a movie which captured the real changes throughout 12 years of shoot but only for 45 days out of these years. So this actually won my heart.

The evolution of Mason

Let's come to the story part. Please if you are a Have - To - Be - Unique - and - Fantastic story hunter then just stop and don't watch because this movie is not for you. This story doesn't have so called unique story where you need to think and think about the climax or keep on guessing what is next..so you may find it boring to watch 2:45 mins long yawning movie. This movie is all about a flow of life of a normal boy named Mason and how his life moves on since childhood to adulthood. With him how the circumstances change along with his mother's, sister's and father's life. We all have our own story right? Not all of them are so special but they are good for us, the individuals. Our childhood memories, teenage memories and so many times we have which all are good and simple but yes not so special for others. Boyhood's story was all about that. A small kid who has his single mother and elder sister. Then how the surrounding world changes through the subtle metamorphosis.
He meets with new friends time to time and then falls in love with a girl, then gets heart broken and then what ? Life moves on ...

Now what did I feel about this movie?

Frankly while watching this movie, I was feeling okay. Okay because to watch and feel others story is always cherishable. As the characters were growing up too with the flow it was interesting to watch but at that time also I didn't feel this much affection on this movie. As much as I was leaving each and every moments of their lives behind, I was certainly able to feel their pasts. Like I do for mine. I mean to say like recollecting my own pasts. Pasts about the situations, pasts about how I used to look at the age of 15 and so so ... kind of and when Mason became 18 and was ready to leave his mother to become self-dependent, I just thought Oh My God ... this boy was a kid when I started this movie and now this big? His mother breaks off with tears and says that every innings of her life has finished except her funeral. That will be the last innings. It suddenly knocked me and forced me to think how do our parents feel ? The same way right ? They just feel that the time passed so fast .. Phew .... (Long Sigh)

This movie catches the whole time span since childhood to adulthood so precisely and smoothly that it will mesmerize any emotional fool like me .. and especially if you like slow movies. Just let yourself float with the time, you can enjoy this movie too.. and I believe that in reality also it is good to let life be the way it likes to fly... Just be the spectator of that ...

and the last song of Family Of the Year's special edition of their song Hero is breezy and thought provoking. Perfect with the climax when Mason leaves his mother to find his own reflection.

Let me go

I don't want to be your HERO

I don't want to be your Big Man

Just wanna fight with everyone else .... ♫♫

Life just moves on and on and on !!!

P.S How can I forget talking about the Director Richard Linklater. His Before Series is still in my heart's soft corner. His way of capturing the flow is so nice ..

Mercy for Typos Please ...................... ♥♥♥
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Thursday, 25 December 2014

PK ho ka ??

No No !! I was not at all PeeKay while watching this movie.. Now here as I am writing about this movie, it may seem that this one is a Movie Review !! Unfortunately or Fortunately No.. Because I really don't think that I am fast enough to write a review... Critics and Reviewers have already posted their reviews before a week ☺ ☺

Anyways today managed to take out the time and also to book the tickets ☺☺ (25th Dec --> Houseful) and finally watched PK. In one word this one was one of the finest Hindi movies of 2014. A funny movie included with total wit and humor quotient and also a thoughtful underlying message.

I always discuss about our social system in my blog and sometime oppose too and for that I had to listen really some comments online or offline that how can I conclude something like this against the system. Few even said that by writing this I want to become Famous (OMG ... how bizarre these thoughts are) and blah blah blah. Anyways I feel so thus I write here.. This movie too spoke up about hypocrisy, our confusing system and how we make the law and then pretend that to be right and then push others to follow it.

Who was PK? An alien right ?He had only his birthday suit to wear and knew that there is only one supreme power who created us, the alive beings, the galaxy and the whole universe. But unfortunately when he landed on this earth, the first thing he found was theft... and then to find his valuable Remote he had to struggle so so much that he got confused with the concept of GOD. Who is God ? ... hmm thoughtful .. I agree that this concept was similar enough with Oh My God, but still it's not that bad to get reminded about the same thinking !!

So here I am including some scenes which I found really good [most of the sequences were good but still enlisting few of them]

1. Gandhiji is most valuable when he is over the notes !!
2. How do we react when it comes about CONDOMS that too in public !!
3. "Recharging the battery dance" - sad or depressed just DANCE like no one is watching.
4. PK's dancing cars and then stealing cloths and money :p LOL . The way he got the bizarre dresses ☺
5. PK's term - WRONG NUMBER and the concept of SECOND GOD
6. Dances of Shiva - in the toilet ( ROFL)
7. Self Defense in PK style [Sticking up God's posters on face]

****************************** ROFL *******************************

Now coming to the point about the cast...

Amir - Mindblowing as usual and I was happy to see him in his original avatar after the biggest blunder in his life. Dhoom 3.. Phew - No words more

Anoushka - She was damn good and fortunately she was not looking that bad as she did in KJO's show. Though she got a new get up with her newly dolled up lips , she did look fab and carried off JAGGU really well. Tomboyish, bubbly and chirpy smart independent girl. ( Virat my love - good choice but yes not like me LOLz !! Thumbs Up Man ♥♥ )

Sushant - ♥ My heart keeps calm when my eyes meet him. Such a lovey dovey. But he was in the movie for so less span of time.

Sanjay Dutt - Mast

Saurav Shukla - the dhongi baba !! LOL ...

Overall - after talking this much !! I would like to say, that I enjoyed this movie so much !! ☺☺

P.S
I enjoyed another thing that I forgot to mention here. There was a guy who was sitting beside me and he was probably a Bhojpuri speaking guy. The way he was laughing was really fun to listen. PK's Bhojpuri dialogues made him laugh more than others. After all mother tongue is mother tongue right ?
and also
I am not an atheist !! I believe in God and God's power. I respect religion too. Because they are the way we are praising the almighty's power. But the concept I oppose is the way we discriminate. No religion is better than the others. All are same... If our mind is opaque and clear, then everything seems positive and good. There we can find the existence of GOD.

I already posted one post before few weeks here about that supreme natural being.. and yes Mercy me for any typos mistakes !! Please ............

Loads of love ... see you in my next post.

Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Obviously the real Pages !!

Paperback editions vs eBooks.

Now will anyone tell me ? Where will I get the smell of the pages ?? Over E-books ?? Never !!

I always prefer the Paperback Edition or the real so called books where I can touch the papered pages and turn them over... then can smell the book throughout the pages. Will I get this feeling over Ebooks ??

and also Can you spot any difference between an old book and an old Ebook ?? No Never.. Where will I get to see the several touches of several unknown people who read the same book before? Where will I find the bookmarks of folded pages ?? Where will I get to see some names written on one of the pages somewhere in the book.. ?? These all do happen when you can physically touch the book ... Ebooks -- is just a way to read virtually ...

Frankly saying I do never get any feel or charm to read Ebooks ... they are so so annoying ... but due to shortage of time ... For R & D I too opt for this Ebooks ...

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