Thought of the day

¨You are what you love, not what loves you.¨
-Donald Kaufman (in movie Adaptation)

Adaptation

Adaptation is a unique story, in the sense, it is a story about the development of a story. Movie show in a very interesting manner how story actually grows. Nobody writes it, there are no moments of deliberate twists and turns, but it evolves from the situation. It adapts itself to the environment and comes [...]

Filmfare´s ¨Black¨ Episode

When Black was released, I read somewhere that- it´s first half is almost scene to scene copied from an English movie. I thought- it doesn´t matter, if film turned out to be good. I watched it, liked it. But I could not digest it, getting so many awards, while other very good movies were just [...]

Thought of the day

¨I never went to film school; I went to films¨

-Quentin Tarantino

Intro to Ghalib

-Ghalib

I was reading some of the Ghalib´s gazals and I came across very beautiful ´sher´. This was my first proper reading as I finally got a book which has given English translation along with some selected gazals.
Here is my first list of my favourites[PDF] . These are fun to read, even if you just [...]

RDB Revisited

I saw the movie again and to my own surprise, I found it equally enjoyable. The more you read a poem more you understand new hidden meanings and same happened with me and RDB. I Watched it again and now I was able to concentrate more on minor details than I could do the first [...]

Kohli´s Engagement

On 10th of this month, around 10 ´O´ clock in the night. I got a message (SMS) from Kohli saying-
¨Hi. My engagement has been fixed. This month 30th. I never expectd this 2 happen so soon. It was al of a sudden..it is in lko iĺl snd formal Invitation.¨
My first reaction was obviously full of [...]

Mixed Doubles

It is really an adult comedy, but I don´t want to call it that. It is much much more. However, it is a very unconventional story, but still seems close to real life and real people. Dialogues are particularly very convincing. Situations are depicted very well.
It takes you through the life of a married couple. [...]

Learning SLR Basics

Do you always wonder- what these photographers do by rotating some rings on their dumb cameras, on the other hand you have a portable and smart one? and also why do these poor chaps need to put so much of effort when you can take brilliant snaps with your ´point and shoot´ camera? If answer [...]

An Unexpected Birthday

When I was a child, I used to wait for my birthday. I do it now too but, it is just that I don´t make it very apparent. I was born on 31st October 1984, the very day Indira Gandhi was shot dead by her bodyguard. I was born two or three hours before that [...]