tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47137839641385635712025-08-24T08:40:38.975+05:30This is my world ; full of hot cutting chai's, warm kheema pau and chilled out friends. Subjects here can and do vary from the meaningful to the esoteric to the mundane to even the absolute inane. Whichever is your forte' whether diving in deep or doing a surface crawl...Thou art welcome herekau kau goes the crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00360899282371272875noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4713783964138563571.post-27973157342986161562022-03-05T18:30:00.002+05:302022-03-05T22:03:20.136+05:30

The 6 episode Web Series is certainly a change in normal viewing.When one is used to eating Idli –Dosai or at best upma or pongal for breakfast day in and day out and one fine day as you sit on the breakfast table sipping your kaapi, slides in a plate that contains Buttered Toast, eggs sunny side up, with a strip of bacon fried onion and sausages…some marmalade and a glass full of fresh orange

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The sparkle of refracted light caught my eye and there she was. The soft sunbeam had hit her hair. From my angle the stray droplets of water sticking to her hair seemed like dewdrops. Light through them had caused this phenomenon of refraction; one that I had studied from a Physics textbook in school long ago. Yet, this was pure Chemistry at work and not Physics at all. The subjective turn of

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There are times when one goes into a Lunch home and orders an ordinary Thali. One gets served and while the reputation of that restaurant / lunch home is good, that particular day, each item in it is made with such loving care, it is simply spectacular. One doesn’t look around but simply at ones plate and keeps eating and only after one is finished does one gazes around with a slightly dazed

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This movie is Subodh Bhave’s third attempt at a Bio-Pic after his immensely successful Bal Gandharva n Lokmanya Ek Yugpurush. His presence in the earlier filmed version of a popular staged play “Katyar Kaljat Ghusali” and now Ani…Kashinath Ghanekar, is slowly but surely pulling him towards a period era and just as gradually he may have done so many that on a very light note when it is the

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There are various different kinds of movies made under the generic heading of Cinema. They are classified under two main categories, Types & Adjectives. Commercial Cinema, Art Cinema, Short Films, Talkies, Silent Movies…then within the same category one does find small cinema like a Badhai Ho , or a big budgeted cinema like Bahubali. The Adjectives spread between Blockbuster, Hit, Flop,

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There comes a sunny phase in one’s career when one can do nothing wrong. Paulo Coelho first said it in a book and then Shahrukh Khan repeated it in some movie , that "When u want something bad, from the heart, dil se, the entire Universe (Coelho’s word) or Kaaynat (Shahrukh’s usage) conspires to give it to you". Ayushmann Khurana is going through just one such zingy time in his life. 

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Civilization is but a thin veneer and what keeps it on and functioning is the barest of a social construct. Give the power to anyone to be absolved of this and the animal in man emerges with a vengeance. Sriram Raghavan’s characters have always been these tight rope walkers, grey, dark, amoral and tautly wound. Their believable characteristics emerges from this. Right from his “Ek Haseena

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Have you been hungry over a long period of time? All that comes your way during such a time is hastily put together, spicy stuff from  a hot wok that has been hurriedly fried n tossed . Then to avoid this, one goes into a fancy labelled eating place. Here under the packaging of conditioned atmosphere, good sofa sets smartly turned out waiters, with fancy crockery and cutlery that promises

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Rambling me thinks seriously is an art form. Leave alone the fact that it is only me poor idiotic self who thinks like so. Yet rambles too have n need a construct as the free flowing verbiage requires a direction. If it does not have one, where would one go with it or what would one do with such nonsense? Junk it, of course. Let that be, here the construct is in two parts, where the spirited

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The writer of this account had a life threatening accident. He was riding home on a two wheeler and was hit on the highway. Luckily some good Samaritans picked him up and hospitalized him quickly. Here after 3 intricate surgeries and 40 odd days of being bedridden under observation he was discharged to only spend a further two months at home before he could be up and about. The blessings and

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In 2014 Shashank Khaitan made ‘Humpty Sharma ki Dulhaniya’ with Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhavan and 2017 sees the same trio have a go at it again and Humpty Sharma morphs into Badrinath Bansal from Jhansi. There is something extremely charming about the Desi hinterland that has claimed most of the cinema space in recent years. The charm lies in the fact that the Desi is hip ... this was a

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Disclaimer: This is an account and a tale entirely inspired from fact and stretched as much as could be allowed in the realm of fun. Very little is fiction. This writer was assigned box seats and an insider kin pass for close in observation.This is a closed group account and not an open read. Only those associated with the Bakhleone family in any fashion would be able to relate to this and it

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There are movies, there are scripts and in this weird rigmarole comes in an actor who simply steps in and owns it with her / his performance. The entire movie then belongs to that one person and no others in it matter. Dear Zindagi, is one such experience. In the early 70’s we had Kaka aka Rajesh Khanna, when his era ended it was Amitabh Bachchan and then the Khan zone started...yet movies

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A controversy & the furore that followed Karan Johar has taken a Pakistani actor in the film, one Fawad Khan. When Fawad Khan was asked to condemn the terrorist attack on India he kept mum.Hawwww. The censors then pass the film. The Central Government keeps its mouth closed neither assuring protection to the exhibitors and producer nor denying it. Ban this film said Raj Thakeray, who

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Why YZ ?Is that a movie ? Ohhh, a Marathi language film? Was that your first choice? To be honest, no, but what would you have me watch… a Mohenjo Daro ? Gimme a break.  So there you are, with me booking tickets for YZ… there was something zany about the title. I didn’t know anything about the movie, nor the star cast, not the director but yeah I knew fleetingly that it had Sai Tamhankar

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10,000 hours at a minimum are invested in a field of choice before one becomes a master and a champion of it. Malcolm Gladwell in his bestselling book "Öutliers" drew this out as one of the conclusions from the data he analysed to decode success.  Now why did this particular thought come to my mind as I silently walked out of the cinema hall after watching “Sultan”? Both I and my wife

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Kolkata is the new city of montages for the new age Hindi cinema. Look at the recent ones that have gone across our viewfinders and you shall get at what I am talking about. Kahani, Byomkesh Bakshy, Piku and now we have Te3n.  No other city with the exception of Bombay actively interjects itself into the cast and script so wilfully like Kolkata making it special. Te3n produced

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When a director makes a superb debut film, follows it up with a blockbuster hit road movie and has partnered on interesting projects then not only does she raise the viewing audiences expectations but also that of the producers, so what if they are family. It is like the novelist who after having come out with a spectacular first book is paid a huge advance by the publishers for the upcoming

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The Bengalis are back into Hindi Cinema and how? Dibakar Bannerjee had his Byomkesh Bakshi and now Shoojit Sircar releases Piku...the year couldn't have begun on a better note. When one looks at Narendra Modi, a closer observation shows him up more like the Prime Minister of Gujarat than the Prime minister of India. Similarly the Hindi film industry had started looking more and

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The detective template & early avatars of Byomkesh Nearly fifty years after Arthur Conan Doyle penned the most replicated detective character template in Sherlock Holmes & Watson...the Bengali writer Sharadindu Bandopadhyay created Byomkesh Bakshy and Ajit in the milieu of Calcutta. Now Byomkesh in Saradindu babus short stories never addressed himself as detective. He preferred the

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Viewers or Voyeurs? Some times, just some times, one goes into a cinema hall expecting nothing and comes out with a screen experience so stark and real, it leaves one totally gob smacked. ‘Ugly’ is one such experience where the viewer is turned into a voyeur. This is on account of the events taking place in front of his eyes are so bare one doesn't feel one is watching a

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# A picture is worth a thousand words goes the cliche, we clicked 2500+. Now even if we do ditch 90% of them, we are still  left with 250 and that would be like going through a quarter of a million words. So if I describe the experience in a few thousand words and a few photos to accompany the write up,  would it still be considered an effort in 

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When nature calls , it yells , God only help you if there is no loo ... Anonymous Srinagar-Kargil-Leh Early morning on being assigned our bus we found ourselves getting to know some of our co-passengers better. People adjustment in confined spaces is an art form and the process can have certain tough turns to negotiate before amicability is achieved. Luckily the issue did not persist and all

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Fact is stranger than fiction and nothing can endorse this more than nature ... Unknown  If we thought Chang La was high then Khardung La at 18400ft approx. was higher, in fact the highest motor able road on this planet. Fortunately the road to reach the valley was in a much better state than those at Zojilla or Chang la. Conditions though were not conducive along these mountains as

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The authentic expression of freedom and living is in the resolute confrontation of death ... Martin Heidegger Circa : 24th Aug 2014 Today was a free day and the bikers had decided to care for the bikes. Their tired pillions had decided to take it easy. Some of them had spent a large portion of the night in spiritual upliftment and there was just no chance of them waking up in time.

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