Last Day!!!

It is the last day of the week and the last day of the last month and as if that is not enough it is the last day of the year and as if even that is not good enough it is the last day of the decade. This is one such day when most people who don't have to worry about going to work next day so that they can feed themselves, stop worrying  and start celebrating the arrival of a new year.

Although it does not make any difference and it is going to be just another day tomorrow, it is often good to take a break from the mechanical routine that we go through the entire year , meet with friends and families to celebrate and reflect on the year that has been.

So here I am wishing anybody who is reading this post a very Happy New Year and would like to remind that  it is our life and it is up to us to make it the way we want it to be. I hope you will work your way through your life to make it better and happier. 

Let this day be the last day you will be subject to negative emotions and destroy your life based on them. Let this be the last day for all the hatred in your heart and start filling it with love and compassion. Let this be the last day for all the thoughtless actions that you have done and in the process hurt people. Let this be the last day you will frown and complain and start accepting life as it comes with a broad smile and open arms. Let this be the last day for all the worries and understand that life is too good to be wasting time on them.

Wait what am i doing.... I didn't plan to write all that... I don't even remember what I intended to write.. hmmm..  Well since i can't remember you are stuck with what I already wrote...yes I am talking to you , Have a Good Time

Everything is Illuminated

While we are talking about movies and entertaining ourselves I would like to mention the movie that entertained me to the core. I wrote that last sentence 20 days back and didn't get a chance to continue until today.
It was one of those movies where you know from the very beginning that you are in for some quality entertainment. The movie is based on a novel of the same title written by Jonathan Safron Foer
The movie had no major cast except for Elijah Wood playing the lead role of a young Jewish American and his endeavor to find the woman who saved his grand father from Nazis during World War II. He travels to Ukraine where he is accompanied by an eccentric native translator "Alex" who studied English at university and is "premium" in his knowledge of the language, along with his grumpy grand father who claims he is blind and his deranged seeing eye bitch named "Sammy Davis Jr Jr" after "Sammy Davis Jr".
Although one would consider it to be a very serious movie based on the plot there are ample doses of humour all the way as the movie progresses with Alex's narrative notable for its broken English and improper usage of synonyms and  that makes the movie thoroughly enjoyable.
The whole movie runs around these three people along with the dog and the strongest element of the movie is the dialogue that is carried out between them. Which means most of the movie contains close shots and as the camera is in your face all the time you can't get away with sloppy acting. The three play their roles with such finesse, one would not be able to make a difference between the role and the actor. There are no exaggerated emotions or senseless violence or forced humour, to sum it all no elements of a commercial entertainer and yet a great entertainer. A simple movie that is naturally beautiful and rich in dialogue with its subtle humour, that would leave you with a sense of elated happiness long after you have watched it. This one is definitely a master piece and I would watch it any time any day just to lift up my mood.
There is so much one could talk about the movie but it is best enjoyed when you watch it and by the time end credits roll, you will see that "Everything Is Illuminated".  

Of Movies and Entertainment

For those of you who did not notice, on the left hand side, now there is a copy right notice which says you are allowed to copy the content as long as you are willing to give credit to me. One might ask why? Well one of the readers felt that the content is good and people copying it should give me credit for my work. I, being a man who is always fair in considering the considerations of my readers, considered the consideration and put up that Copy Right thingy.
 Even after I mentioned I don't have anything against SRK there are people who got offended by my last post. So this one is a more detailed explanation on the last one. Did I ever mention that I am a movie fanatic. I watched a movie 4 times all alone bunking college on 4 consecutive days. That is how much I love the movies.  It is the best form of legal entertainment that a guy could get in 80s and 90s. There are a variety of movies of various genres that I watched ranging from comedy, war, historic, western, action, crime, thriller, noir, horror, independent you name it I watched it. I have my best movies in each of those genres. Movies gave my crippled imagination, wings to soar and fly.
Those were the days when movies were made for the sole purpose of entertaining the masses . Then came the movies that carried social messages that inspired the intellects, most of them flopped commercially because they failed to attract the masses. Then there were commercial movies  with a very subtle social message (usually the message shies away from showing itself, overshadowed by the commercial element). All these movies attracted me and I loved them all equally for what they were. 
I mean an action movie gave you lots of raw power and destruction, comedies were outright funny, horror movies showed horrors that would haunt you in the nights, thrillers thrilled you, serious movies made you think.
Then came the era of those movies that claim to be works of art or inspirational or message oriented, to put them in one word "master piece" but all they give is the routine run of the mill, mindless entertainment, now here, I have a problem. No my problem is not with mindless entertainment, i would prefer that any day and that is why I love "Om Shanti Om" for what it provides, mindless entertainment, with all the hindi movie cliches that can be pulled together into one movie. That is no easy job and I loved SRK in that movie. 
Now the problem is when people make these commercial entertainers and try to pass them as work of art or master piece grossly undermining the value of those terms. Movies like "Chak De India" although have a different theme, are still commercial entertainers for various reasons and can't be termed as a master piece. When someone tries to convince me otherwise, I get the same reaction one gets when undead people or zombies in a horror flick start doing an item dance for Madhuri Dixit's "Dhak Dhak karne laga". Again this is nothing against Madhuri I still think none of the bollywood babes dance as gracefully as she does.
All I am saying is that when you expect to eat biryani your mind  sets your senses  to eat biryani, the colour, the texture, the taste, the aroma and everything related to that. When you actually eat some crap that people try to pass as biryani (like that hotel in Coorg, where biryani tasted sweet and there was no meat) your mind would go ...What The Duck!! This is no biryani!!!