Kannathil Muthamittal (A peck on the cheek)

    Kannathil Muthamittal (A peck on the cheek)

    A very sweet Tamil movie made in 2002, starring P.S.Keerthana, Simran, R.Madhavan and Prakash Raj. The movie is directed by one of my favourites, Mani Ratnam, who also takes the credits for story and screenplay. Dialogues are written by a well known Tamil dialogue writer, Sujatha, whose words are used in epic films like – Guru, Shivaji - the boss, Enthiran (Robot) etc.
The story is set in the midst of Sri Lankan Civil War.

    Keeping the base of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the story, Mani Ratnam, has weaved in a superb dramatic screenplay of a 9 year old girl, notorious, lovable, sweet and smart, called Amudha (P.S.Keerthana) in a family of a dad who is strict and a writer, Indra (that’s what he writes his name as Author) (played by R. Madhavan) a very sweet mom, who is not scared of this strict dad, the real Indra (Simran) and two younger brothers. Amudha is loved by everyone and is the favourite in the school and colony. A happy family is faced with a twist when Amudha is told by her father the fact that she is not their child and she was adopted.

    Film that begins with the marriage of a couple in northern Sri Lanka, played by Nandita Das and Chakravarthy, jumps to their first night and leads to military forcing in the jungle where the couple is spending a good time. Chakravarthy tells Nandita to go home and runs into the dense jungle. Nandita das is brought to Rameshwar where the screenplay is cut at the point of her labour pain. It’s left at the audience to apply logic to know that she has given birth to Amudha.

The core film is when Amudha, starts insisting her parents to search for her biological mother. All they have is her mother’s name – Shyama. At the beginning Amudha tries her own sources which go out of hands when she does not come home from her school. One day, she goes away to Rameshwar (the family stays in Chennai) to search for her mother with her cousin. That time Madhavan commits Amudha to take her to her biological mother, about whom they are not sure if she is dead or alive.

    What is impressive is the acting of all the artists…everyone has done a fabulous job. Now since it is proved that Mani Ratnam can even make a stone shine like a diamond (taking into consideration the explicit performance by Abhishek Bachchan in Yuva, Guru and Ravaan), acting had to be over the top. Even more impressive is the cinematography – Ravi K. Chandran. Superb camera work and deliverance by this man. A 30 percent credit has to go to Ratnam for conceiving the shots. Especially in the song “Sundari”. Though shot in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry, the cinematic difference is felt between the shots of India and Sri Lanka.

    Music – Just as the film begins, the highly soothing harmony begins with the top shot, and that’s exactly where you understand (if you follow that man’s music) it is A.R. Rahman. He did just what he is good at.

    Now to the favourite factors of the movie…credited entirely to Mani Ratnam, that only he can make sequences like these look unique on paper.

    The love in the family is the nicest feature of this film. The attachment in the family, Amutha’s relation to her father, her grandfather, to her mother and her brothers, all of it is particularly defined and put into us. Every Father loves his daughter more than anyone…it is exactly portrayed likewise in this film. Though it’s difficult to give equal love to the adopted one for the mother, who she has the children of her own, Simran is shown giving Amudha, the equal love and priority (and the reason behind this is the best part of the movie, which I will discuss later). Her Grandfather (Mother’s father), loves her as she is the first child of the family. And then, the brothers, both younger, where she always fights with the immediate one and the latter one always complains.

The man has something in his presence on the sets of his films while shooting the emotional scenes. He just makes it unbelievably emoting and expressive. What he writes must be the result of what he has felt at least ones in his life. But they are amazingly captured and put through.

    The presence of Prakash Raj – For bollywood people, they have seen and loved Prakash Raj for his roles in Wanted, Singham and Dabangg2. He makes the best whimsical villain. But watch this guy in this film. His Role is as jolly and connective as the best people in our groups. He has a white collar role and a person who has a helping nature, who helps the family to search for Shyama, during the high of LTTE and Sri Lankan Military fights and shootouts, as if they are his own family. Superb role, written for and played by Prakash Raj.

    The Shootout sequence in Sri Lanka – Of course there is no comparison between the two I am going to mention, but what I am talking about is the feel – Remember the first 30 mins of Spielberg’s ‘Saving Private Ryan’? The superb shots taken and presented. The shootout sequence at a garden and the building nearby between Sri Lankan Military and LTTE fighters is made very very well and shot creatively.

    And finally the best sequence I liked, is the reason why Simran loves Amudha equally is the flashback of how Amudha was adopted. When Amudha asks – How was I adopted? R. Madhavan replies with – We did not adopt you who adopted us – taking us to the flashback at Rameshwar and the love story of Madhavan and Simran. A superb sequence, highly peppy and sticking to the characters that are placed in. No character behaves out of his nature. And giving two entirely different moods equal justice keeping the same characterization for everyone is very difficult and Mani Ratnam is one of the greatest who does it well.

    

    Finally, I would rate this movie a 6.9/10. (Mind you 8/10 are like popular’s 100/10 for me.)    

The result of SSC

Today is 17^th June.

The thing special about today is concise and confined. Some people were waiting for this day to come, must have planned this day minute by minute, and recharged their phones, the eagerness and hope and fear in their eyes. Some kids of 15-16 must be having their heartbeats reaching to the optimum intensity unless they were caught while some ill-doing by someone before. But for the rest of the people, this day would be just a normal Tuesday as it is in every week. A day following Monday and a day preceding Wednesday.

Today is the result of 10^{th standard}, SSC.

What is a 10^th Std? It is as important as the final exam of the senior year of the high school. After which, on your academic marks (score), depends which college will accept you. Better the college, better the chances of the future.

10^th in India is one of the most Hyped phenomenon in a student’s life. It is said to be the stepping stone of the kids’ career. It was different some 10 years ago. Your score decided which stream you would go for. Least score window meant Commerce, Medium score window meant Arts and Better score window meant Science. Somewhere someone might choose Diploma, which is a sugar coated face-off engineering I would say. But now things have changed. Kids go where they want to if college puts up their name, in the lists they release which contains the name of the students which the college (here, high school) is ready to accept for the year.

I agree that it is important, but people do not understand that the times have changed and there is a lot more in this world to do apart from Arts, Commerce and Science. Even though one chooses the stream of his choice, it may not be like, he is getting the exact subject he really want to study and flourish in. he has to go through something that he never wants, or something that is not going to make one bit difference to his entire life that he is going to lead.
This is not the fault of the subject. It is the fault of the system – educational system.

Unfortunately, the system cannot be changed. But what can be changed is the attitude. I have seen parents pressurizing their kids to bring good marks. I have seen them comparing their own kids with the better competitors in their class or area. Some even threaten kids. Why? Because, they should not be let down if all other kids get more marks, and the kid should get a better college.

What I have to say is, ask the kid what he wants to do and let him decide the score for him. If the kid wants to do a business, why torture the kid by making him study at IAS level? And at 16, Kids are sane and sound. If they know how to lose their virginity by 16, they know what they have to do to pamper themselves for their careers.

And it would not have been this much of problem, if the limit of “good marks” was set at something. People are just not satisfied with anything. My cousin was in 10^th, it is his result today. His mother is over ambitious with him…I mean too much. It’s a joke in our family that on the first day of my cousin’s exam, people called his mother to wish her luck and completely forgot that it’s her son who is going to give the exam. 100% is the highest one could get. “The Percent” means “of them”. And according to me 80% is a decent score. It needs hard work, dedication, talent and a lot of study to acquire this number. I had score 81.23% in my SSC, 6 years back and I knew what I went through to achieve this. I am not talented or extra-ordinary. Few are, I am not talking about them. But what about the rest of them who are compared to them and forced and tortured to be one of them? For my poor cousin, the scales of scores are marked this way –

91% - 93% = He got less marks.

93% - 95% = this is what the minimum he is supposed to get. Nothing big.

95% - 97% = the kid has put some efforts they would say.

97% and above = Yes, he has scored very well.

Though the number just grows by two, the efforts and hard work to jump to that two, is in multiples.

People claim and pretend that they are not like the parents who force their kids to get such marks. They say they have told their kid just to give his 100% and whatever marks he will obtain will be accepted and celebrated. However, what happens behind the closed doors of the study room is only known by that, unfortunate kid and his unkind parents.

Why do we do all this? To become big? I am not giving people an excuse but I want them to keep in mind these examples.

Sachin Tendulkar, Bill Gates, Charlie Chaplin, Steve Jobs…these are the few that are on top of my mind right now. If I Google, the number would just go on.

These people have put themselves above the pinnacles in their fields. Everyone was a dropout.

Good grades are not everything. The life and mentality of that kid is.

“I was born intelligent, education ruined me!” I believe this saying sometimes. Education is the framework for your vision, agreed!

However, the frame sets its limitation too.

Do not run for education, run for knowledge. Do not go for marks, go for information. Do not go for biggest college, coz what is inside you is going to make you big.

Maybe the best of the education will create an extra-ordinary person. But what is created by the knowledge and instinct is a person above the excellence of any extra-ordinary.

Where syllabus ends, a visionary is born! 

Filmistan

Its 14^th June today.

Which by default means, that it was 13^th June yesterday. And it was slightly special as a date. Because yesterday it was 13^th and the day was Friday.

So according to the modern times horror, it was an inauspicious day  - Friday the 13^th, falling in the Gregorian calendar.
Why a modern day horror? Because, no reference about this term Friday the thirteenth, was seen before 20^th century, 1907 to be precise. And the hype saw a ‘snowball effect’ after a book called - Friday the 13^th – was released by Thomas W. Lawson – which had nothing horror in it, just that the protagonist broker, used the wall of this number to spread a terror in the wall-street.

Some really believe that this is a day of bad omen and many people, professors, prefer not to begin with anything new on this day. After 1907, as the people started relating to this number and date, the references were seen in numbers and references were found going back to dates as old as 13^th century during the rule of King Philip IV.

Rest just call it inauspicious as Friday is regarded as an unlucky day by most of the Italians and 13^th an unlucky (odd to be precise) number, which is followed by the number 12 which is regarded as divine and blessed number. (12 months, 12 zodiac signs, 12 Apostles of Jesus and 12 successors of Muhammad)

References of all this were taken from the Google…! Seriously, I never ever thought of this so seriously until I wanted to write about it!

Something about news – Indo-Pak news.

When India’s current PM, Narendra modi, was to take his oath in New-Delhi, he had invited Pakistani Prime-Minister, Nawaz Shariff and had a long talk with him, in which Shariff was told by Modi to shut the terror-exporting machine and not allow Pakistani terror soil come to India. The talks of peace in the countries went well according to the news from both the sides. However, Pakistani troupes’ ceasefire violation at Rajouri, Jammu, put the peace relations talks in questions. The firing started from the other side, retaliated by us went on for about 25 minutes. Modiji is yet to comment on this.
Opposition Congress tells Modi to sort it out as when Vajpayi (former BJP PM of India, 10 years before) went to Pakistan, Kargil happened and when Shariff came to India, Rajouri happened.

However, the stupid fellows of Italian illegitimate former ruler forget that most of the terror attacks happened during their own tenure and they were unable to sort a shit out. Therefore, the one who doesn’t know that the flame cooks the food, should better not advice the chef on cooking.

We come to the review section :
As the fight between Hindustan and Pakistan is going on, I saw an awesome and above the class movie, Filmistan.

Filmistan

Released just a week before, Filmistan is a very low budget film. It is simpler than you think, It looks boring than Humshakals in the poster. It does not consist of one known actor of whom you can take the name and say, he is the one. Yet, this film is the talk of the town, it’s the David from the David and Goliath of 2014.

A ‘wana be’ actor – played by  Sharib Hashmi, gets a chance to be an assistant director to an American crew to shoot their documentary at various places of Rajasthan. The things go out of hands and fate takes a turn. No one’s fault and the next thing Sharib (film name Sunny) knows is that He is held by the typically Muslim attire people holding AK47 and he is held hostage. The film continues to tell the story of his escape back to India, his homeland.

The Film also stars – Innamulhaq, another lesser known actor, who is going to rise to fame if he holds himself doing the character roles. (Not all actors are born with Nawazuddin destiny)

This one is directed and written by Nitin Kakkar and the dialogues are written by Sharib Hashmi himself.

I would like to talk about a few things I loved about the film and the script.

Presentation of bollywood as a culture and religion. I mean, it’s true, the one who just love bollywood or the world of cinema to the core, holds it higher than his/her own religion and culture. Any of the like ones, who love Cinema, is a relative of ours, the connection the relation is built and the person belongs to us. The acceptance of Sunny, portrayed by Aftab (Innamulhaq) just by the dialogue – ‘Tujhe toh main paani bhi pilaunga’ (I will pour you some water as well) defines what I meant.

            The urge of both the nations to like each other. The film subtly shows that people from both the sides have some sort of soft corner for each other. India’s softness is narrated by Sunny, giving the example of his grandfather’s wish to go back to Lahore once after the partition, before he dies, where as Pakistan’s urge is told by the person who played the Hakim (doctor) saying…’ek dafa punjab main baithe kulche todne ka jee karta hai, par ab naseeb main sirf yahi raha hai’. (It feels to go back to Punjab and have some bread there, but this is what is left in my fate now.)
Even Aftab says one specific dialogue that hits the mind – Ab kya hai, yahape uss taraf ka kuch raha nahi hai, ek bollywood hi hai jo abhi bhi uss taraf se jude rakhta hai.

            Friendship. The friendship of Aftab and Sunny. Only with the roots of bollywood and cinema, they become friends, so much that the last conversation between them ends with the line – Jaunga toh tere sath. (If I go, it’s going to be WITH you)

            Humanity. When Aftab and Sunny both are held by the terrorists, Aftabs father pleads for the release of the kid (baccha). And he later confesses that by kid he meant Sunny and not his own Son, even though his own son not being at fault.

            Satire. Every small thing that bring up the emotions of, the stands, the roots and the attitude of all the three – Hindustan, Pakistan and Filmistan in the perfectly satirical manner. Sunny saying – Yeh Pakistan hai? Jagah vahi, khana vahi, shaklein vahi…mujhe kaise samjhega yeh Pakistan hai? (This is Pakistan? It’s the same place, the same food, the same faces, how am I suppose to know that this is Pakistan?)
The extremely funny part where the whole village is listening to India-Pakistan cricket T20 worldcup final and Sunny starts dancing when India wins.

            The superb climax, given with the voice-over of freedom speeches of Pakistan and India, spoken by Jinnah and Nehru respectively, makes it the perfect film for above the class audience.

            And my personal favourite part of the film, and my personal favourite dialogue by Sunny to Aftab– Maine kisko yeh baat batai nahi hai, kabhi khudse bhi yeh baat maine nahi kahi, aaj tujhse keh raha hu. Main jaanta hu k mujhe achi acting nahi ati, yeh mimicry yeh nautanki koi kaam ki nahi hai. Par kya karu, iske alawa jeene ka matbalb hi nahi dikhta.
(I never said this thing to anyone, never told it to myself either, I am confessing this to you today, I know that I don’t know how to act very well. This Mimicry, this dramatization is of no use. But what do I do? I don’t see a reason to live if I do not keep doing all this.)
And Aftab replies – Oye, chup reh, ab rulayega kya…mere liye toh tu sabse bada Star hi hai!! (Oh! Shut up. Are you gona make me cry now? For me you are the biggest star.)

These lines, they brought tears to my eyes, made me still for a moment. Made me think…that do I myself hide it from me that I am not a great director? Is it a thing that I know but I do not tell myself? Do I have some Aftab somewhere for whom I am the Star director? Made me shiver at that time.

But the film proceeded and so did my feelings washing away the negative thoughts. The film is Funny, the film has the best humour it can have. It has a potential to make the world know about what bollywood means to few people from both the nations.

It’s a low budget and high on value film.

Nitin Kakkar and Crew once again proved that to make the great films you do not need to have the billions costing Superstars, you do not need the best production design, you do not need to have the costliest of the Cinematographers, you do not need foreign locations and a 6K output camera, you do not need millions of dollars to be spent on visual effects…all you need is a highly dedicated group of actors and a great script. Hats off, to Sharib Hashmi, Innamulhaq and rest of the artists and to the writers.

            I won’t rate this movie. Rating is for the product. Not for the emotions. This one, Filmistan, is a hidden emotion in every Filmistani living his Filmy life out there. 

Holiday - A soldier is never off duty

Today is 12^th June.
Today Football World-cup begins with its first face-off.

You all may know a thing about me today.

I am a person who loves Shopping if it is for myself or my close friends, and only guys. There is a reason why only guys, that you will come to know as we proceed. So it is a bit irregular of a boy liking shopping. Now I have a cousin called Aakash, pursuing his Charted Accountancy a year younger to me, who doesn’t like to shop without me. And I do take some pride in that. Someone gives you some sort of importance, that’s pleasing. The clothes I have in my wardrobe (Cup-board I would say) are all branded. Not the luxurious brands like Armani, Gucci or Louis Vuitton but a common man brands – most of the clothes being, Louis Philippe, Van Heusen & Spykar.

However, there are at least a dozen of girls who just don’t care about it. And they are right not caring, coz If I own a big car, and it’s just parked because I don’t know how to drive, then there is no point buying the car at all. Likewise, what they feel is, having the cup-board full of branded shirts and jeans is futile when I do not know what to wear on what, what will suit the situation or what is right to wear where and what is correct. Even after spending a good long 20 minutes to think what combination would suit well, I get it wrong. There is a specific girl who knows me pretty well, loves me to the core but hates me even more for my zero fashion sense. ‘You just don’t understand! Leave it’ she says. One thing I get right when it comes to clothing – getting it wrong!
And these girls, they do not tell what to wear, but just criticize. They do not correct. They expect that I should understand it myself.
Now this is the reason why I never go shopping along with the girls even when they really want me to. And by chance if I am out with them and any of them start shopping, then I am the most silent person in the world. When they ask – Is this nice? I have only one reply to – Very!

However, leaving the sad story of my fashion sense behind…I would like to talk about a Film not at all related to the topic above. (See I don’t even have a sense of how to tactfully change the topic.)

This is the latest one I saw, released just 6 days before –

HOLIDAY – A soldier is never off duty

Starring Akshay Kumar this one is the remake of south Indian film – Thuppakki (2012) directed by the same director A.R.Murugadoss. It also features Sonakshi Sinha as leading lady and Govinda in special appearance, Sumeet Raghavan as the supporting actor.

It is an action thriller, which Akshay Kumar has done after a long time, when he started doing comedy – Yes Rowdy Rathore and Boss had action but was not thrilling enough. But this time, it’s A.R.Murugadoss, the person who made Ghajini whose action is his forte and thrill is his genre. I liked Holiday a lot.

The best thing about this film is its screenplay. Well written screenplay and a very well defined characterization of Akshay Kumar, Sumeet Raghavan and The villain played by this new guy – Freddy Daruwala, (played amazingly well) is the formula that keeps the film uptight and crispy.

The film is about the networking of sleeper-cells, the kind of common people, who perform their daily chores in the city, being just beside you, talking to you, shaking hands with you, doing petty business with you, however, you will have no idea, that they are the pawns of either a terrorist group or a group of organized criminals - The most difficult race of people that could be recognized and eradicated. The film talks about the eradication of these sleeping cells throughout its running time that is up to – 170mins.

Akshay Kumar is in Indian army, who has come home for his holiday. Sumeet Raghavan is his best-friend and a police officer. Akshay faces few incidents that keep him acting busy as he has made a promise to his nation to protect it. The soldier in him becomes fierce as the things start going out of the hands

Even the introduction of what sleeping cells are, is done amazingly in the movie. The balance of good and bad is kept perfectly correct. Means, you get tensed about the situation and they have it solved. Then a new tensed situation and how Akshay solves it too…all this in a progressive manner. You tend to sit at the edge of your seat, enjoy the follow up, clap for the action and relax back again. This cycle goes on for 3-4 times throughout the movie, which you enjoy a lot.

Plot Twists are in bundles. And though very small and subtle they put a smile on your face coz you didn’t see that coming. The minute details are taken care of; use of technology in the story is well utilized. And more over, leaving a few dramatic things everything can seem real if given a thought.

Maybe every bullet hit, is hit on the forehead (temple) of a person is dramatic (which looks awesome in the movie) but it is possible for army personnel to at least kill a person in real. So, if thought of the story properly it may seem feasible.

Music is done by Pritam which is stupid…except for that one song – Aaj Dil Shayrana – which is somewhat okay to hear.

Sonakshi Sinha is a torture. She doesn’t look good (I am not talking about this movie in particular; I am saying in general that she never does). The film would have got a better rating if she wasn’t there. Seriously, it hurts that she is in this industry, pulling it down in value.

I would rate this movie 7/10 - 2 for Akshay, 2 for A.R.M’s direction and rest 3 for writing of this film.

The Freedom Writers

Here I am. I wasn't sure if I'll be writing my next blog after yesterday Well I am posting.

The time is very much different than what it was when I started this blog. The biggest change is that, The government of India, which was the Indian National Congress, has now changed to the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) and so is the prime misiter of our country who is now Narendra Modi. Its not even a month old at today's date. Why it is a big change? Refer to - indiaforaliens.blogspot.com  

So with this many things will change, our lives, our country. There was a joke that was being circulated all over when Modi was elected as PM - Pakistan says, We don't want Kashmir, but we will not give Karachi. - I smiled after reading it and I also felt that people exaggerate a few things so much. Yesterday, I read a news - Karachi airport attacked. the next headline I read was - The master mind of Mumbai 26/11 attack, Hafiz Saeed, says - It is Modi's new security team who did it.
Then I felt, mazak mazak main kuch bhi bol diya! Anyways, thats not what I really want to express. After reading the news, What I felt was, sometimes even jokes behave like reality, and few things just do not match - If a student gives this excuse to the teacher for a leave that - I was bed-ridden and I had gone to a picnic, then for the teacher, these two things just wont match. Likewise -
Karachi faced a terrorist attack.

It just doesn't match. And on top of it, it wasn't America. Either you say it Karachi, or you say it Terrorist or you  do not say NOT America. I mean...who then?

But one respectable thing did impress me, the Pakistan's retaliation.

Whoever must have attacked, the Americans, the terrorists (themselves), the Taliban or whoever...
the retaliation was done very well. Though it was 13 hours, but it is nothing compared to more than 48 hours of 26/11. If a small and wana-be nation can do it, we are huge and powerful in comparison.

This is going to change, is what I am talking about. Or better, there might be no attack as Congress is not in power anymore.

Coming to what I am here for, the Review.

I am going to keep it short.

Freedom Writers.

Well you can check for the technical stuff like cast and crew and stuff like that on IMDB.

It was a movie made in 2007. I saw it now. Its about a classroom of neglected students, who were a part of or affected in some or the other way by civil racist war in 1993 in america. The film is set up in Long-Island, California in the year 1994, a year after racist war.

A group of students, who are considered to be irritating, good for nothing, arrogant and can do nothing in their lives other than violence, get a class teacher, played by Hilary Swank, who bring them together. Builds up a family feeling within themselves. After many failed attempts, she makes them like reading, make them think over their lives, explains them how important it is to be a human and brings out humanity in them.

The film has a slow pace. If you read the reviews on most of the films review sites you would find the average rating and average praises for the film. But for me it is slightly different.

I am a talkie script person. I love other genres too, love them very very much, but talkie is what i can write. And so, I have a special soft corner towards talkie scripts. and the thing I loved about this movie is the script and the use of words in the dialogues. Though this film is based on real life incidents of Erin Gruwell, who actually existed and her students in the classroom 203 at Wilson High were called Freedom Writers, The dialogue and communication by cinematic language used is well done. Handling so many stories and plots and putting it well in place giving equal importance is difficult. And they tried it doing well.

What I liked the most was, taking out emotions. The Writer-Director, Richard LaGravenese has done a brilliant job in bringing up emotions and making the viewer emotional at the same time.

Another good thing is use of music. As the film talks about the rights and under-rating of Black people in US, the music is also used in the similar manner. The Rap songs dominate the film in the beginning and as the film proceeds, the mixed music starts coming making it subtle and giving it a feel good factor.

I will rate Freedom Writers - 7.3/10. In that 7.3, there includes the bonus of  0.8 for writing and 0.2 for music.

Keep visiting! Thank you!

Return of....I am filmy Sho

Its 9th June 2014.

It took me four years to realise that I should keep blogging to keep my writing skills sharp.

Let me say Sorry!

In a few blogs before, I wrote that in 2020, Some news might remain same, in which I said - Kasab would not be hanged. Wrong I was....He is hanged. One day just out of the blue, they shifted him from Mumbai's Tihar Jail to Pune's Yeravda, and hanged him there.

Superb decision.

I had a habit of saying - Hi guys, or some greetings at the beginning of every post. I read it now and I realised, it was only for me that I did that. No one really read my posts.

Maybe the lack of response made me stop writing.

Alright...

I was on a short break of 4 years and now I am back.
4 years!!!! Am I kidding myself! I feel amazed thinking what was I doing for so many years?
Yeah, there was a post in 2012, but that was exclusively as an assignment and was not meant to read or understood by anyone but my professor. (I wonder if, even she understood it).

Well, it took me 4 years to get to know that writing about cannot write doesn't help you write, for that you have to write. Right?

You see, The slog period of my life, where I am one year old graduate and do not have any specific earning from my side or any job in hand. No assignments working out, or the ones who say might work out, are not paying.

So to capitalise this slog and sharpen my pen, here i am inking on this virtual page my new and changed (quite the same, just a few things here and there) life for you all...

By you all I mean Me, Myself. Coz that's all who reads my blog.

What you may find in it now -
I have decided to go with the name of my blog - A few lines about my opinions of the world and few personal things that i might find worth sharing, followed by few news of bollywood/hollywood and to conclude i will have a movie reviewed. My words, my opinions and my Grammar (which will be wrong).

The only thing that will remain constant in my posts is - the review. Others may vary!

Hopefully I continue doing it this time.