7 Khoon Maaf - Different .Loved it !

Vishal Bharadwaj is known as a director for his brilliant adaptation of classics...A lot of people have not read them ( my roomie has ) , but still , they seem to like em, simply because of the earnest ferocity in the plot of such movies....

Othello aka Omkara , is one of his noticeable hits , and well ,no one can mistake Saif Ali Khans performance nor Ajay Devgans for bad acting.It was simply one helluva multi-starrer with the characters blending in magnificently with the star charisma.

Then came along Kaminey ,with some very snazzy ( i dunno wat else to call it) cinematography and some surrealist ,if not Quentin Tarantinoish , but yet still western stylish narration and a very stylish actor in Shahid Kapoor along with a very earthy yet glamorous priyanka chopra.No one hated that movie either.Prolly coz the music was good and all was forgivable as long as there was some love interest in teh background and some manly action in the foreground (and plenty of horse riding.no pun intended.)

It was yet another turn for Vishal Bharadwaj to do something different...And he chose fiction/fantasy or whatever you call it.So much fantasy, so dark in ways that can either make you feel some kind of sympathy for the protagonist or hate her for her lack of respect for human life.Well whatever it might be, it was one bold move.Suzanna is one hell of a character.You cant explain what she does.She couldnt be real.Even if you do try to portray her with the most complicated state machine diagrams (cause->effect), you are going to fail incredibly....

Unless..

You start believing that it is possible for a person to sincerely love someone and believe that they have all rights on that person.Treachery is a sin and any sinner needs punishment. This reminds me of a line from the movie itself, where the protagonist is said to have been someone " who kills mad dogs rather than leave them alone" . This virtue( i dont think i should call it that.But in the context of the movie , it is definitely forgivable to call it so), that the protagonist has , has been so wonderfully portrayed in every way possible.The camera work in this movie is slightly on the darker side.Why not , no one is here to see the faces.! Priyanka chopra expresses herself beautifully.Not once does she look to be falling out of her character at any point of time.The make up is brilliant (and odd at times) , and the score is haunting..Im not much of a man who can judge the direction of the movie , but i thought that this was awfully well put together, though the sequential treatment of the timeline could have been avoided to reduce the boredom factor.Only someone incredibly absorbed in the depth of the characters would ideally be pleased in watching this.

PS : This is not a movie that everyone will like.So in a popular ratiing system ( call it the TOI rating), the movie is a 3 starrer.This is just because most people like movies with the oomph factor/ an entertainment quotient.This movie needs to be treated with respect ..If you start empathizing with the character in the movie, you might end up liking it , otherwise i would kinda feel sorry for you :D .


-- 7 khoon maaf.Waiting for more movies like this .

Photograph-her ! (2)

My sis takes insane pics sometimes.This time she has taken one helluva black and white.Daarn ! Shez good ...


- Rock on sissy ! :P

insane swings.

Lately, i have been working a little overtime with myself. a  little too critical about everything i do and of course that involves a lot of re-examinations.Not a great fan of doing it , but the people around me make me feel like i should stop and look at whatever it is that i am about to do .

Freedoms taken on a whole new meaning for me. People are creepy at times.Not that i am complaining.Its just that college was awesomer :) .

And god , thank you for John bonham.and no thank you for making him die in his own puke.

When we love.

There was a time , when i had some questions regarding what real love was , or what real selfless love was.It obviously , is a real dicey topic to talk about.But however my senior Milind took it up with some real seriousness, instead of giving me a condescending smirk,along with a "why the hell do you sound doped".He told me a story of a girl and a boy which went like this .

The boy was given 10 chocolates by the girl and in return he gave her back 10 marbles. The girl told the boy that "if i really love you , i would never open the box of marbles ,and if it is the same with you , you will never open it either.Lets see how long we can keep the marbles until we know its true " .

The boy gets excited and he says Ok.

In the night , he starts to fear if the girl really loves him / was fooling around with him. He suspects that she might eat all his chocolates and fool him the next day.He goes and checks with her and sees that she was speaking the truth.

The next day the girl shows up crying , and asks him " i saw you at the window peeking...what the hell were you doing ! " ...


Love is the same..


Brood on... :)

Fwd: As you saw,so shall you perceive

A human mind is so freaking vast that it can either interpret this statement to be the "futile attempt of a defunct brain to show off its linguistic capabilities","an attempt to accentuate nothingness" or infact "attempt to accentuate the bizzare nature of the topic , and how surprised the author is with it".Interpret it your way.

Before i go into self recursive,mildly (hugely) digressing explanations within explanation,lemme tell you what i am trying to talk about.We all have perceptions and we all have our own ways of defining what each and everything in this world is , and our own opinions about how it actually should be..Sometimes , even the most usual of circumstances seem strange to us , and the most unusual extremely mundane and boring.Thats what makes WE,the world - so united in diversity ,and so fucking volatile at the same time.

Gandhiji once said that (i dont remember the exact quote from his book - "My experiments with truth") - "I will forgive a man who hurts and hits me , and hope that god will forgive him for his narrow mindness,because he sincerely belives that what he is doing is right and only so because of lack of understanding " .

It seems so unfair that something you sincerely believe in,gets bashed up by your best friend sometimes....Makes you question everything around you.Its no mean thing to understand each other is it ? Think again ...

 -- I am definitely bedazzled by the wide array of opinions that people have, and sometimes , it makes me doubt mine or may be , redefine mine.Men are confusing..Women are more confusing ofcourse :P

Love/Friendship

There is no love , no friendship.One heart talking to another.And they decide to talk forever.

Unwind

Life it is ,
Life it was
Never saw it change
blank canvas
I let myself out
Spilled myself on it
Let people watch,
Scorn and scowl upon it
Could have been ugly,
this projection of me,
its me nevertheless,
it was for you to see
watch it if you like,
else please leave,
this is my life,
let me live.