Thif fuckf, ferioufly!

"Past performance may not indicate future performance" I thought this was only applicable to mutual fund industry. It breaks my heart to apply the same to my current favourite director Vishal Bharadwaj. Can't imagine the same guy who made the wonderfully refreshing & innocent "Blue Umbrella", the dark siblings "Maqbool" & "Omkara" each one of which left me mentally heavy coming out of theatre, makes a loosely put together "Kaminey".

Till the first half, this seemed like an attempt to make a run-movie where random plots come together ending in a chase, something like a "Lock, stock & two smoking barrels". But the next half reveals the story seems to revolve around the redemption of "Charlie". It surely would have been better if the director would have stuck to either of these themes.

Apart from "bhope bhau", none of the actors did anything outstanding, mostly average performances. Marketing the movie about lisping and stammering of the two lead characters seemed interesting in the promos but in the end was just plain tacky piece of generating a buzz.

Mr VB, I still haven't given up on ye', get back to doing what you do the best, which is focusing on making movies seriously than marketing them.

Face the book

I have this uncanny knack of being like a fresher. And one day, I will get a hike!!!
Currently trying to gather my feet on this nu-age thingy called facebook.

Till I conquer this beast...

"Arranged Marriage" ends with an "Affair"

Well, that's the last story in my maiden (read) novel, and maybe my own affair with books has just begun!!!

This was a collection of stories by Chitra Banerjee, all revolving around diasporic sensibilites. Though my understanding of literature is quite amateurish as of now , the stories score very well in building up emotions in a very sensitive manner. One cannot but admire the capacity of a writer to understand human sensitivity, put it in the context of a cultural sensibility and then create an imagery to which the reader can visualize and relate to.

An interesting point is how writers create the imagery; it is the seemingly unimportant detail e.g. "the waitress was wearing a light-blue dress..."; now, this helps a reader create the whole plot in his mind while she reads on, and the story is so much easier to hold on to.

Anyways, am just hoping that this habit which I had been trying to inculcate for a long time lasts for as long as possible, and I can do justice to being the son of a literature professor!!