‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’

Last weekend I watched ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’

Sudhir Mishra and Vidhu Vinod Chopra were assissting the Direction and Production work in this movie… both of them went on to become well known names in Hindi cinema….

Anybody who is interested in parallel cinema should watch it…. the movie very well depicts the rampant corruption in those times and how it was so very difficult to earn a livelihood honestly….

I dont think the scene is so bad nowadays but you often encounter pieces of it everyday…

My first stint with Hercule Poirot

Vera finally managed to persuade me to read Agatha Christie’s ”Cards on the table”….. She, it appears, has read all of Agatha Christie and even used to dream of working with this short, Belgian detective….

I liked Poirot… he is not eccentric, not frantic…. he thinks…. he is logical, unorthodox and too methodical….. he has an eye for details….

As a piece of advice, the best time to read this genre of fiction is when you are in transition and are surrounded by fellow travelers who are too stupid to connect to…. and un/fortunately i meet loads of them…….

Post Script: continuing with “Exodus”….

The Bridges of Madison County

After Dr Zhivago, it was the time of Waller’s The Bridges of Madison County….. I have already finished this book and am waiting to watch the movie…. when you read the book, images of Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep keep flashing in mind….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSqW9kYl7_U   I found a video on this link….

“I’m last of the cowboys” so fits Clint Eastwood. And you discover through this book that Love really is like falling from dimension Z…..

Dr Zhivago, Exodus and Dr Zhivago…

I dont remember when i started with Dr Zhivago, when i left it in between and when i took up Exodus…. Had to dump Exodus in between only to realise that the copy which Vera had with her was already misplaced. She is going to get the other copy from home. By the time it(Exodus) arrives i had better read Dr Zhivago…. i have already started with it again from where i left it….

Updated : 17-Jan-2008

I’m about to finish Dr Zhivago….. conclusion followed by the epilogue… poetry part i’ll be taking up later…. and hopefully would watch the movie with Vera… more than me it is she who is impatient with my reading speed… but somwhow i have never checked my reading speed….

Updated: 18-Jan-2008

Yesssss. I finished it…. poetry remains to be read but that will happen slowly… in the meanwhile, i’ll watch the movie and then write a review…. And i hope Sharayu gets Exodus from her home and I can start from where I left it….

Dr Zhivago….

I’m yet to finish this book but feel like writing about it…. nothing compelling…..just a feeling…..

About Yurii and Lara…. about a love which has not found an expression yet but you know it’s there…. unsaid but so very evident…. today the weather in Pune is very gloomy… not at all bright and sunny…. reminds me of Russia… how unfortunate on their part not to know how it feels to be out on a bright and sunny day…. Vera tells me English weather is also very gloomy… cold and dark…..

Vera tells me (yes! she tells me too many things but you would not be interested in all of them) it’s a tragic story…. what could be the tragedy…. Lara and Yurii not living together…. or Revolution killing them and their spirit…. or making them numb….. or one of them sacrificing for another…. I wonder (You see it’s different from wander and be careful when you pronounce these two words!) what could be tragic?! 

I’ll be adding something to this blog every now and then….

Together…

” Your fickle-mindedness worries me.”

“Yeah. It worries me too. There are too many things on my mind.”

“Like..?”

“Like my results, my future, this relationship…. everything”

“Yesss sweety. I know. I’m with you… always. I know you are different. I just want you to be you and not someone else’ shadow. I want you to believe in yourself.”

Obsessions

“Obsessions don’t have reasons, that’s why they’re called obsessions.”

Love actually

The other day I was talking to Mayank and we talked about books, friends, business, love etc.

He always had a desire to read/learn more and more about LOVE…. what great men say/write about it…. and in the process adding another dimension to his perspective…. sometimes positive, sometimes not so positive….According to him, this thing is complex, very complex…..

What according to me is LOVE….?

You look at your parents…. they come back home from office after a day’s work…. they discuss about how their day was, what all happened in office…. it’s all mundane but still they want to share everything…. there are no questions asked… but all the answers are given….. Isn’t that love?!

Or when a child is on a merry-go-round and every time he waves at his parents they wave back….

One tear that falls so furtively
from her sweet eyes has just sprung,
as if she envied all the youths
who laughingly passed her right by.
What could I want more than this?
She loves me! I see it.
One moment just to hear her heart,
beating so close next to mine,
to hear my sighs like they were hers,
her sighings as if they were mine!
Heavens, please take me now:
All that I wanted is mine now!

  These lines were sent by Mayank… good lines…..

Someone…

There is no one but there is hope of someone…..

How would you like that someone to be…. Standing tall like a lone reed….

Death in the Afternoon

Hemingway said, “Bullfighing is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honour.”

Another good line from this book which can aptly be applied to different situations in life is “anything capable of arousing passion in its favor will surely raise as much passion against it”.