Roots

Roots

My Life
Is like a
Beautiful KITE
Who’s string is held firmly by a warm Hand.

I glow
In the bright sun.
I dance
In the Gentle breeze.

My Life
Is like a
Beuatiful KITE

But when I realise
That the string is stuck to a pole instead?

Will I glow
When the sun shines?
Will I dance
when the breeze comes?

My Life
Is like a
Beautiful KITE
Searching for its roots !

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Three Letters to my Younger Brother — the Gist of DHOBI GHAT —

Usually when someone’s cooking, the intention is to mix things, fry them up, add flavours and finally give a final delicious product in the end. Dhobi Ghat gives you them separately, you can see them, smell them and feel them but they would not give a final product in the end. They just part their own ways, that’s the beauty of Randomness !

When you walk out of the theatre, you are happy that you watched a motive-less, message-less, advise-less movie. And for god’s sake its a realistic movie, so entertainment seekers please stay away!

Casting is tailor-made, partly english – partly hindi, there’s a slight touch of co-incidences also running through in the script.

The sucker as well as the savior of the movie is the video recording done by the character Yasmin Noor, which initially is a little immature / childish, but towards the end it attains great depth. The intensity shakes off Arun (Mr. Aamir Khan) !

–Varun.

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Mirapakay

Ok so if you go to the plot straight forward, yet another “under-cover cop story with a stupid twist in the end” template. I wonder why the entire T-wood is still obsessed with the Super Hit movie POKIRI (Lets call this as STANDARD going forward in all my future Telugu movie reviews, guessing the directors would still be inspired by the concept of undercover cop for future movies too in the years to come.) Guessing even Mr.Prakash Raj would once ask the director if it’s the “Ali Bhai” role, and then he would decide his lines and costume all by himself. Please stop doing this sir !!

So now coming to how different this movie is (from the STANDARD) …

Mass Maharaja Ravi Teja, that’s a nice Screen Title and he lives up to the expectation. Does best what he is famous for, the trade-mark naughty one-liners and funny expressions. Fits the role well, especially that of a cop!

Block-buster songs and two hot heroines are a double-plus, should woo the audiences to the theatre and keep them glued, even though the plot is inspired from the STANDARD.

Deeksha Seth fits her role better in the movie than Richa (who still seems to have stage fright, evident in dialogue delivery and songs)

Overall, watch the movie if you want to have fun, a few sequences are damn hilarious and fresh.

–Varun’s Word

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Rakhta Charitiram (Tamil)

Vengeance is not a new word for Surya. We all saw his performance in Ghajini. However a revenge thirsty Surya through the eyes of Ram Gopal Verma is a visual treat. His eyes speak most of the time, he has down-played yet conveyed his anger and pain. 

 

So the story goes that Surya, who wants to take revenge on Pratap Ravi (Vivek Oberoi) was actually a peace seeking and career oriented person. However when Pratap’s action team brutally murders Surya’s family members, thats when Surya wants revenge. And he gets it in Broad-Daylight !!

 

I was more excited watching the first part, since Pratap’s purpose was larger and interesting. Surya’s not connected to politics and deals with no unexpected twists except for the attempt on his life by Pratap’s failing goons, which makes it a routine revenge story.

 

Ramu’s brand only gets stronger with these series of movies, and the Signature element being "ultra-slow-motion" violence / torture sequences. Reality hurts – visually too !!

 

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The Social Network – my review

Movies that inspire always stand out of the crowd. Watch this movie if you are one of those who aspire to take the road less travelled, especially the creation of Facebook prefixed with "The". This movie is about the Genius of current times, whos changed the way how people keep in touch, whos changed the way how people express themselves, how people show their attitude, and even to the extent of how people market/ hire.
 
The story of the Youngest Billionaire was not all meadows and daisies,but still that did not deter him.
 
Crisp narration going back and forth from the parallel lawsuits that the protagonist is facing, unravelling the events that led to the launch of Facebook and the controversies, betrayals post the launch makes you never feel bored, limited characters revolving the protagonist keep the plot intact. The movie opens with the break-up with his girlfriend and ends with his desire to patch up by sending her a Friend Request. His girlfriend being on Facebook is a victory in itself though.
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Nothingness!!

Nothingness !!
 
As I opened a new page
to write a few words,
 
Looking at the blue sky
for some inspiration.
 
The vast expanse of
Nothingness!!
 
The sky with its blank depiction
readily accepts,
 
The beautiful and light clouds
which give extreme joy.
 
Also the dark and heavy clouds
which bring down tears.
 
It hosts the flying high moments
and also the rainbow moments.
 
Life, in a way could be
compared to the Sky,
 
The vast expanse of
Nothingness!!
 
Ready to accept the
cloud and rainbow moments.
 
–Varun.
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Rakta Chraritra (Hindi)

Indian Cinema is fast reforming. Gone are the inspirations from the West, we now have our very own local/ regional figures whose biographies have become the protagonists of the "Rakta Chraritra" series of Movies. Ram Gopal Varma "ANNA" has gone far ahead of other sequel makers and has given the date of next movie series release at the end of this movie.
 
The movie is very intense from the beginning till the end, as the title mentions, history of blood. Definitely not for the faint hearted.
 
Plot is set up in Anandpur district of AP, how the turn of events in Pratap Ravi’s (Vivek Oberoi) personal life, became benefical for a political party (role of Andhra Politician enacted by Shatrugan sinha) and how he enters politics to vanquish his final enemy. The protagonists’ life initially is all blood and gory. Portrayal of these incidents comes easy to RGV, as he tries to portray them as true to life and as torturing as possible.
 
50% of the characters in the Hindi movie are telugu character artists, Kota Srinivas Rao does a great job, Tanikal Bharani fits the role. There is even Subhalekha Sudhakar. This again is a new trend in Original Hindi movies. The final twist is the RAKTA CHARITRA 2 title in the end of where SURYA is the protagonist and Vivek Oberoi becomes his target. Seems very promising – may be national award for SURYA ??
 
Back-ground score is awesome and indulging, few scenes of the movie are so gory that they naturally increase your heart rate and create profuse breathing, so definitely not a family entertainer movie…. best elevation scene for Vivek Oberoi being " Pratap ANNA, mujhe maaf kar do! "
 
— Varun.
 
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Endhiran – My Review and observations

Endhiran / Robo – has started commanding respect for its logic, visual effects, hi-tech science fiction content. This was missing all along Rajni’s career for his anti-gravity stunts. So when his fans from Tamilnadu worshipped him for his anti-gravity stunts, rest of the world laughed away. I would have done the same thing if i was not in Tamilnadu for his previous movies. This movie has swallowed all his previous draw-backs on the anti-gravity stunts front!
 
Now coming to the movie, its an awesome entertainer, very futuristic and has Rajni’s villainy mannerisms which was missing for years ! Fans would love to see any variety and in this movies there are loads.
 
The entire movie focuses on the robo which is rightfully the bread-winner for the producers, especailly when it  turns bad and villainy. Aishwarya rai looks gorgeous. Back-ground score from Rahman makes the plot deeper. Rasool pookutty’s sound makes robo sound life like.
 
Above all there’s a 30 second jubiliation when SUPERSTAR RAJNI title is screened on First day First show, which can be experienced only in theatres.
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NYC’ed – from 20090717 till 20091016

I know its been a year now.. but still wanted to capture & share the emotions of my first overseas trip.. i still remember every minute of my time in New York City!!
 
It was the most optimistic period of my 26 year life-cycle. I had completed 3 years in my firm on 20090515 and was hoping for something good..but what happened to me was awesome..there i was standing infront of my colleagues and bosses in a conf room, where my higher boss informed that i would travel to NEW YORK CITY in July for 3 months…
 
I had taken off on D day.. i.e. 20090717, could’nt take the anxiety. I am very scared when good things happen to me, scared because the memories of those good things may not last long. Learnt quite a lot of things the harder way.. been literally down on the streets and raised back. Roller-coasters are the main dish on my Menu.. 
 
Informed my Godfatherly-figure, my ex-boss, the owner of the multiplex where i was working while in college, that I was going overseas for a project for 3 months. Got a reply instantly from him wishing me best of luck.
 
My parents and bro wished me off in the Shamshabad Airport. It was the proudest moment for my father, he actually mentioned that to me. It boosted my confidence and I was ready to accept any challenge for the next 3 months. When I entered the business-class of the Qatar airlines flight there were many moments from my painful past that were getting offset !! The days when I was cycling many kilometers to deliver newspapers for a living, the days when I was pleading my well wishers to finance my college admission fees, the days when there used to be nothing to eat unless some household item was sold to the scrap for a few rupees… never felt ashamed since it was the most righteous approach to fight your fate but these moments left an everlasting pain.. all these moments were getting offset, the moment I entered this flight.. The moments of extreme happyness were curing the wounds of extreme pain..
 
 So here I was, feeling extremely proud as the flight took-off from Hyderabad Airport, who was not just a happy-go-lucky guy but rightfully earned the position where he was in.. My fellow traveller was a person from my firm, boosted my level of confidence. I was going to an alien place and this thought chilled my spine. Quick learner to the facilities available in the Business class, alcohol was never ordered by me though! New geographic location, new time zone, it was time to practically implement the learnings from Geography class while in school.
 
Doha was a beautiful sight from the top, it was as-though some-one freshly drew lines on a desert to help the cars move. Oil tanks in the sea, xerophytic adaptations were quite evidently observed. xerophytes are the plants that grow in deserts. Here comes an interesting story that freaked me and the yankies equally. The business class lounge in Qatar retains the passport from US bound passengers. God knows why !! here I was in an alien country’s Lounge, without any passport, what if they did not return the passport ?? Thankfully they did return the passport while boarding the NYC bound flight.. I learnt the lesson for life.. never leave your passport in any-one else’s custody in a foriegn nation.. post tihs incident, I never had any issue with my only Identification document for the next 3 months stay.
 
Fatigue driving in now.. would write more in the days to come !!!
 
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