The drudgeries of life
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Finally!
For once, after what seemed like ages, a weekend which lived up to its name!
Three movies, two yummy Ti-Amo icecreams, lots and lots of sleep, one very depressing cricket match, more sleep, long walks, sms chats wih depressing jokes, bakar with friends, good food... now that's what weekends are all about!
Anyway, watched The Holiday, Blood Diamond and Parzania! I didn't expect much from the first movie but it was high on chick content, and Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet did a great job! The Holiday is quite a light-hearted romance movie and leaves you in a feel good frame of mind! The same doesn't apply to the other 2 movies... Blood Diamond and Parzania deal with grave issues and I must say that the scenes from both are gruesome and touching, but splendid movies the two! The former is a story of 2 men, one a mercenary cum smuggler, and the other an ordinary fisherman, who come together in Sierra Leone to get their hands on a rare pink diamond on which their fates depend... they are helped along the way by a beautiful journalist, and all this is set against the backdrop of mayhem and civil war! A really good movie Blood Diamond is! Am I sounding cliched?!
Parzania is a story focusing on the plight of a Parsi family in riot-stricken Gujarat who lose their son when a mob of hudlums attacks their society! The movie is well made and has dealt with the horrors faced by the classified "non-Hindus" in post-Godhra Gujarat splendidly... The acting is superb and the plight of the people shown is heart-wrenching... no wonder I found my eyes welling up with tears... a first after eons! Man!! After all I've read about these happenings, it seemed so realistic that had someone told me I was witnessing the actual events, I'd have fallen for it! This movie is a must watch for everyone... let the world know how low can some people stoop! No wonder it has been banned in Gujarat... it's sure to dig up buried feelings and might lead to a backlash too!
Well depressions apart, I seem to have consumed 7-8 packs of Polo in the last 5 days:o! Gosh! Somebody stop me...
Three movies, two yummy Ti-Amo icecreams, lots and lots of sleep, one very depressing cricket match, more sleep, long walks, sms chats wih depressing jokes, bakar with friends, good food... now that's what weekends are all about!
Anyway, watched The Holiday, Blood Diamond and Parzania! I didn't expect much from the first movie but it was high on chick content, and Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet did a great job! The Holiday is quite a light-hearted romance movie and leaves you in a feel good frame of mind! The same doesn't apply to the other 2 movies... Blood Diamond and Parzania deal with grave issues and I must say that the scenes from both are gruesome and touching, but splendid movies the two! The former is a story of 2 men, one a mercenary cum smuggler, and the other an ordinary fisherman, who come together in Sierra Leone to get their hands on a rare pink diamond on which their fates depend... they are helped along the way by a beautiful journalist, and all this is set against the backdrop of mayhem and civil war! A really good movie Blood Diamond is! Am I sounding cliched?!
Parzania is a story focusing on the plight of a Parsi family in riot-stricken Gujarat who lose their son when a mob of hudlums attacks their society! The movie is well made and has dealt with the horrors faced by the classified "non-Hindus" in post-Godhra Gujarat splendidly... The acting is superb and the plight of the people shown is heart-wrenching... no wonder I found my eyes welling up with tears... a first after eons! Man!! After all I've read about these happenings, it seemed so realistic that had someone told me I was witnessing the actual events, I'd have fallen for it! This movie is a must watch for everyone... let the world know how low can some people stoop! No wonder it has been banned in Gujarat... it's sure to dig up buried feelings and might lead to a backlash too!
Well depressions apart, I seem to have consumed 7-8 packs of Polo in the last 5 days:o! Gosh! Somebody stop me...
2 Comments:
son of a gun...and i thot i've seen it all..
dude...4 posts in such a short span..:o
good read man..
keep posting
thanks vk!
will keep posting:)
u better start too ;)
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